1 Introduction. - 1. 1 Types of Multimedia Information. - 1. 2 Multimedia Database Applications. - 1. 3 Multimedia Objects: Characteristics. - 1. 4 Multimedia Database Management System: Components. - 1. 5 Concluding Remarks. - 2 Multimedia Storage and Retrieval. - 2. 1 Multimedia Object Storage. - 2. 2 File Retrieval Structures. - 2. 3 Disk Scheduling. - 2. 4 Server Admission Control. - 2. 5 Concluding Remarks. - 3 Metadata for Multimedia. - 3. 1 Metadata: Classification. - 3. 2 Metadata for Text. - 3. 3 Metadata for Speech. - 3. 4 Metadata for Images. - 3. 5 Metadata for Video. - 3. 6 Concluding Remarks. - 4 Multimedia Data Access. - 4. 1 Access to Text Data. - 4. 2 Access to Speech Data. - 4. 3 Access to Image Data. - 4. 4 Access to Video Data. - 4. 5 Concluding Remarks. - 5 Multimedia Information Modeling. - 5. 1 Object-Oriented Modeling. - 5. 2 Temporal Models. - 5. 3 Spatial Models. - 5. 4 Multimedia Authoring. - 5. 5 Concluding Remarks. - 6 Querying Multimedia Databases. - 6. 1 Query Processing. - 6. 2 Query Languages. - 6. 3 Concluding Remarks. - 7 Multimedia Communication. - 7. 1 Retrieval Schedule Generation. - 7. 2 Multimedia Server-Client Interaction. - 7. 3 Network Support for Multimedia Communication. - 7. 4 Concluding Remarks. - 8 MMDBMS Architecture. - 8. 1 Distributed MMDBMS Architecture. - 8. 2 Implementation Considerations. - 8. 3 Concluding Remarks. - References. Language: English