Multimedia ’96

This volume represents the proceedings from the 4th Eurographic Workshop on Multimedia, May 28-30, 1996, held in Rostock, Germany. The 15 contributions selected for the book treat topics of particular interest in current research, and address actual problems of the use of multimedia in distributed applications over the network. Concepts for handling multimedia data, still and motion pictures on the Net, WWW and multimedia, collaborative multimedia, and multimedia and education, are dealt with. The book provides up-to-date trends in multimedia/hypermedia services and applications in open distributed environments. Theoretical concepts are treated, as well as specific applications.