This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference organized by the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. Discussion focused on object technologies, in particular object-oriented programming, object-oriented databases and software object bases.

This volume is the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing (AMCP 98). With the remarkable advances made in computer and communication hardware/software system technologies, we can now easily obtain large volumes of multimedia data through advanced computer networks and store and handle them in our own personal hardware. Sophisticated and integrated multimedia content processing technologies, which are essential to building a highly advanced information based society, are attracting ever increasing attention in various service areas,...