For now, however, there has been little information available on providing a complete set of services for multimedia databases, including their management, mining, and integration on the Web for electronic enterprises.Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases fill the gap. Focus on managing and mining multimedia databases for electronic commerce and business, it explores database management system techniques for text, images, audio, and video databases. It discusses the problems and challenges of mining multimedia databases to extract information, and discuss the direction and challenges associated with integrating multimedia databases for the Web, especially for e-business.This book provides a comprehensive overview of multimedia data management and mining technology, from underlying concepts, architecture and data model for multimedia database systems to the technologies that support multimedia data management on the Web, privacy issues, and standards emerge, prototypes, and products.