chapter no. name of topic no. of lectures ref. books 1 introduction to multimedia 1.1 what is multimedia? 1.2 history of multimedia systems 1.3 components of multimedia systems 1.4 applications of multimedia system 6 book 1 2 multimedia application development 2.1 introduction 2.2 story, flowline and script 2.3 storyboard 2.4 guidelines 2.4.1 … In chapter 10, the authors discuss the design issues for distributed multimedia systems. The chapter starts by presenting the components of multimedia systems and the concepts of client/server architecture. Object servers and network topologies are reviewed. This chapter concludes with an extensive discussion of multimedia databases and the Prabhat K. Andleigh Kiran Thakrar From the Back Cover. Informative as well as tutorial, this book explores the design of advanced multimedia systems in depth -- the characteristics of multimedia systems, the design challenges, the emerging technologies that support advanced multimedia systems, design methodologies, and implementation techniques