… about multimedia data, the … multimedia database systems is only about 5 years old, it is
rapidly becoming a focus for much excitement and research effort. Multimedia database systems …

… Abstract: Our research into multimedia information management and storage focuses on
enabling database systems to deal with multimedia content at a high level of abstraction …

… A structured multimedia database system imposes a certain … We show how a media-presentation …
We describe the architecture of a prototype multimedia database system based on the …

… of distributed heterogeneous multimedia database systems. In this paper, … multimedia server
considering database management, object synchronization and integration, and multimedia …

… , behavioral, and distributed multimedia systems to classify them. We emphasize the current
issues in the area of multimedia database research. Multimedia data modeling, content-…

… for multimedia database systems and to explain the function of the layers. In Section 1.2 we
review several aspects of multimedia … application of a multimedia database system to support …

… of a media-instance, we de ne a multimedia system to be a set of such media-instances. …
de ned a logical query language for multimedia databases, an indexing structure that can be …

… For example, a multimedia database might deal with pictures … multimedia queries and standard
relational database queries… an atomic query in a multimedia database. Here we are often …

… In this edition of Multimedia Database Systems, we concentrate on the issues related to
storage, query language design, presentation, search and retrieval (including indexing), and the …

… systems. In this paper, we elaborate on issues pertaining to multimedia database … -purpose
multimedia DBMS. We can view these issues as specification requirements for this …