The world is inherently complex and multimedia in nature. The development of computer systems to tackle real-world problems is an extremely difficult task. As c

Since the beginning of human history we have had a communication network that is identical with the physical distribution network. In the late 19th century we e

Multimedia systems result from the merging of the computing, communications and broadcasting industries. This merging has been made possible today by the techni

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2007. It covers wor

This volume covers: hypermedia; image and video retrieval; video-based multimedia applications; authoring and visualization of multimedia information; networked