Mining Multimedia and Complex Data: KDD Workshop MDM/KDD 2002, PAKDD Workshop KDMCD 2002, Revised Papers

1 WorkshopTheme Digital multimedia difiers from previous forms of combined media in that the bits that represent text, images, animations, and audio, video and other signals can be treated as data by computer programs. One facet of this diverse data in terms of underlying models and formats is that it is synchronized and integrated, hence it can be treated as integral data records. Such records can be found in a number of areas of human endeavour. Modern medicine generates huge amounts of s...