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The journal is intended for academics, practitioners, scientists and engineers who are involved in multimedia system research, design and applications. All papers are peer reviewed. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to :. Multimedia Tools: - Multimedia application enabling software - System software support for multimedia - Hypermedia - Performance measurement tools for multimedia - Multimedia authoring tools - System hardware support for multimedia - Multimedia databases and retrieval - Web tools and applications.
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