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Multimedia Systems publishes original research articles and serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, emerging technologies, state-of-the-art methods and tools in all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, storage, and applications among researchers, engineers, and practitioners. Theoretical, experimental, and survey articles are all appropriate to the journal.
Specific areas of interest include:
1. Integration of digital video and audio capabilities in computer systems
2. Multimedia information encoding and data interchange formats
3. Operating system mechanisms for digital multimedia
4. Digital video and audio networking and communication
5. Storage models and structures
6. Methodologies, paradigms, tools, and software architectures for supporting multimedia applications
7. Multimedia applications and application program interfaces, and multimedia endsystem architectures

Editor-in-Chief
Thomas Plagemann
University of Oslo
Department of Informatics
Postbox 1080 Blindern
0316 Oslo, Norway
Tel. (47) 22-85-27-43
Fax (47) 22-85-24-01
plageman@ifi.uio.no
Editorial Board
Bingkun Bao, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
Benoît Huet, Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan
Björn Þór Jónsson, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore
Marie Katsurai, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada
Andreas Mauthe, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Niall Murray, Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland
Pietro Pala, University of Florence, Italy
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Elisa Ricci, University of Trento & Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Yong Man Ro, KAIST, South Korea
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Vivek Singh, RutgersUniversity, USA
Lea Skorin-Kapov, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Arijit Sur, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Qi Tian, Huawei, Shenzhen, China
Fei Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Changsheng Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Xin Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Ting Yao, Microsoft Research, Beijing, China
Lei Zhang, Microsoft Corp., Bellevue, WA, USA
Yong Dong Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Liang Zhou, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China