Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types-including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others-applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at warp speed. The is presents new challend ges and obstacles to those in the multimedia industry. Multimedeia Information Storage and Retrieval: Techniques and Technologies offers solutions to those challenges, providing data placement techniques, scheduling methods, caching techniques and emerging characteristics of multimedia information. Academicians, students , professionals, and practitioners in them multimedia industry will benefit from this ground-breaking publication. | Multimedia Information Storage and Retrieval by Tse, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters