Download or read book Advances In Multimedia & Databases For The New Century - A Swiss/japanese Perspective written by Yoshifumi Masunaga and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Switzerland-Japan Joint Seminar on Multimedia and Databases was held to achieve at least three goals. First, it enabled us to present and discuss our recent research results and exchange our ideas for further promotion of science and technology. The second goal was to establish a friendly relationship between the Swiss and the Japanese. The last, but not least, aim was to disseminate information about our plans by publishing the proceedings of this seminar. We thought that publishing the outcome of the seminar would be essential in order not to store the treasure — the seminar results — secretly.