설명
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, MIS'98, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 1998.The book presents 13 revised full papers together with six short papers and two abstracts of invited talks. Among the topics addressed are multimedia storage system design, image storage and retrieval, quality of service considerations, networking support for multimedia information systems, distributed virtual environments, and multimedia system architecture issues.