Databases Reference
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Selected Bibliography
There is a rich bibliography related to MM-DBMSs. We recommend the fol-
lowing readings.
ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 3, No. 5/6, 1995.
This special issue on multimedia database management systems (with
guest editor Arif Ghafoor) contains a panoramic view spanning a variety of
issues being researched in the multimedia DB community. It gives an idea of
the scope and directions of future research in this important and promising
field of study.
Narashimalu, D., Multimedia Databases, ACM Multimedia Systems Jour-
nal, Vol. 4, 1996.
This tutorial on the topic contains an overview of MM-DBMS research
issues, challenges, methods, models, and architectures.
Subrahmanian, V. S., Principles of Multimedia Database Management Sys-
tems, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
This comprehensive presentation of tools and methodologies in the field
covers the major issues of multimedia DB design, with a strong focus on dis-
tributed multimedia DBs. It also discusses important topics such as organiza-
tion of the many data types, storage and retrieval, and creation and delivery
of distributed multimedia presentations.
IEEE-MM-DBMS workshop proceedings series.
The IEEE MM-DBMS workshop has been organized since 1995 and pro-
vides the latest research results on the topic.
IEEEMultimedia, Vol. 4, No. 3, JulySept. 1997.
This special issue on MM-DBMSs looks into issues such as the nature of
multimedia data, the need for MM-DBMSs, requirements and issues neces-
sary for developing such systems, and an object database management sys-
tems suitability for developing multimedia applications.
IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, Jan./Feb.
1999.
This special issue on multimedia contains very interesting articles on mul-
timedia content-based retrieval.
