Chapter 1 The Uarc Web-Based Collaboratory -- chapter 2 IP Service Architectures for Converging Networks -- chapter 3 The MPEG-4 Standard for Internet-Based Multimedia Applications -- chapter 4 Internet Architectures for Application Service Providers -- chapter 5 Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval on the Internet -- chapter 6 Component Technologies -- chapter 7 Building Internet-Based Collaborative Multimedia Applications with Plug-and-Play Components -- chapter 8 Component Web Search Engines -- chapter 9 Web-Based Mediaspace -- chapter 10 FreeWalk -- chapter 11 Capturing and Using Design Experience in Web Information Systems -- chapter 12 A Collaborative Virtual Reality System on the Web -- chapter 13 Accessing Legacy Databases from the Web Using Corba -- chapter 14 Multimedia Applications on the Internet -- chapter 15 Multimedia Broadcasting Over the Internet -- chapter 16 Internet-Based Unified Messaging Systems -- chapter 17 Distributed Geographic Information Systems on the Web -- chapter 18 Design and Implementation of Digital Libraries -- chapter 19 Videoconferencing Systems and Applications -- chapter 20 Internet-Based Distance Learning -- chapter 21 Multimedia News Systems.