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This volume collects the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, MIS 2005, which was held during September 19–21, 2005 in the beautiful town of Sorrento, Italy. The MIS series of workshops started in 1995 with the

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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K. Selçuk Candan Augusto Celentano (Eds.)

Advances in Multimedia Information Systems 11th International Workshop, MIS 2005 Sorrento, Italy, September 19-21, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors K. Selçuk Candan Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA E-mail: [email protected] Augusto Celentano Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Informatica via Torino 155, 30172 Mestre (VE), Italy E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005931596 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5.1, H.4, H.5, I.7, C.2, I.4 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume collects the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, MIS 2005, which was held during September 19–21, 2005 in the beautiful town of Sorrento, Italy. The MIS series of workshops started in 1995 with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of multimedia information systems, in all their diversity. Since then, in MIS workshops, issues ranging from fundamental multimedia information management research to advanced applications in multimedia systems related fields have been discussed, new systems ha