This two-volume set contains the proceedings of the June 1999 conference devoted to presenting and exploring scientific and technological advancements, innovations, opportunities, and solutions in Multimedia applications. Among other topics, the 318 contributions cover quality of service, network management and distributed multimedia systems, video compression, web and video servers, virtual and augmented reality, computer graphics and animation, multimodal interaction and usability, content-based retrieval from image and video databases, authoring tools, software engineering technologies for multimedia, electronic commerce, and educational, cultural heritage and medical applications. Contains an author index but no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com).