New trends in multimedia systems

Multimedia applications involve storing and delivering large volumes of data. Traditional server architectures usually result in bottlenecks and the scalability becomes an issue. This minitrack brings together researchers on multimedia systems to discuss new trends in multimedia server technologies and multimedia applications.Of interest to the minitrack are the following topics: New architectures for multimedia storage and delivery systems, Network support for distributed multimedia systems, Network attached storage devices (NASD), Active storage devices (intelligent disks), Distributed multimedia databases, Multimedia object retrieval by content, Multimedia database indexing, Distributed real-time file systems, OS support for distributed multimedia systems, modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems, multimedia digital libraries, multimedia human-computer interaction.