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: Integration of digital video and audio capabilities in computer systems Multimedia information encoding and data interchange formats Operating system mechanisms for digital multimedia Digital video and audio networking and communication Storage models and structures Methodologies paradigms tools and software architectures for supporting multimedia applications Multimedia applications and application program interfaces and multimedia endsystem architectures