Annotation This year's proceedings features a wide variety of papers focusing on cutting edge topics that prove to be an excellent catalyst for further research and collaboration. Topics range from multimedia applications, enabled web services, algorithms, software engineering and development, communication, storage, and retrieval, to e-Learning and Bioinformatics. These topics are playing very important roles for creating next generation multimedia architectures, solutions and applications in the areas of content creation, distribution, authentication, presentation, and, e-learning and Bioinformatics.