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Current developments in the cross-media domain require innovative and new technologies to meet the challenges of the market. The AXMEDIS conference aims to promote discussions and interactions among researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts, and project managers, to bring together a variety of participants from the academic, business and industrial domains in order to address all relevant technical and commercial issues. The proceedings papers present concepts, prototypes, research ideas, industrial experiences and other results. AXMEDIS 2005 focuses on the challenges in the cross-media domain (which include production, protection, management, representation, formats, aggregation, workflow, distribution, business and transaction models), and the integration of content management systems and distribution chains, with particular emphasis on cost reduction and effective solutions for complex cross-domain problems.