Networks of today are going through rapid evolution. In the last few years, we have observed an explosive growth of multimedia computing, multimedia networking and applications. Multimedia technologies have broaden software applications. With the growing popularity of wired and wireless Internet, multimedia network systems and applications are changing our daily life and social activity. Also, the development of useful and attractive applications, such as Multimedia Web Service, Collaborative Systems, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Community Tools is becoming very important. This symposium started in 1999 and has been held in USA, Taiwan, Austria, Japan, Portugal, Canada, China, and Italy in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS conference.

The symposium provides an international forum for researcher and participants to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges and present original ideas in all aspects of multimedia systems. We welcome research papers which deal with multimedia applications, middleware for constructing multimedia applications, information networking, commercial systems and tools.