chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Architectures for Multimedia Database Systems -- chapter 3 Multimedia Data and Information Models -- chapter 4 Metadata for Multimedia Databases -- chapter 5 Multimedia Query Processing -- chapter 6 Multimedia Storage Management -- chapter 7 Distributed Multimedia Database Systems -- chapter 8 Technologies and Techniques for Multimedia Data Mining -- chapter 9 Mining Text, Image, Video, and Audio Data -- chapter 10 Multimedia for the Weband E-Commerce -- chapter 11 Multimedia for Collaboration, Knowledge Management, and Training for the Web -- chapter 12 Security and Privacy Considerations for Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases -- chapter 13 Standards, Prototypes, and Products for Multimedia Data Management and Mining -- chapter 14 Summary and Directions.