Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia: Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems, IDMS/PROMS 2002, Coimbra, Portugal, November 26-29, 2002, Proceedings

Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) and Prools for Mul- media Systems (PROMS) have been two successful series of international events bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry in all areas of multimedia systems. In 2002, for the—rst time, these two workshops were held jointly, in what we hope was the—rst of a new series of challenging and topical international workshops. IDMS/PROMS 2002 contributed to scientific, strategic, and pra...