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Second Call for Papers
6th International Conference on
Protocols for Multimedia Systems - PROMS 2001
17-19 October, Enschede, The Netherlands
Organised by the Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
at the University of Twente
Emerging broadband interactive applications along with a development
of different networking technologies should draw telecom operators'
and service providers' attention to protocols supporting multimedia
systems as an interface between these two environments that has to
be still investigated and modified.
The PROMS 2001 conference is intended to contribute to a scientific,
strategic and practical cooperation between research institutes and
industrial companies in the area of distributed multimedia applications,
protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their
provision over broadband networks.
PROMS 2001 will cover papers and demonstrations on research
and achievements related to the following topics:
· design and implementation of multimedia protocols for public switched
telephony networks, mobile networks, data networks, and satellite
networks using IP, ATM or other connectivity techniques;
· application, media, and protocol integration: synchronization of
media streams;
· multiparty and group communication protocols;
· mobile networking and routing: multimedia communication
architectures for mobile networks;
· multimedia applications: video-on-demand, digital video libraries,
video games, virtual community, teleworking, teleteaching,
e-commerce, telemeeting, virtual reality simulations;
· content based searching and querying;
· techniques for the specification of communication services
required by multimedia applications;
· methods for real-time testing and analysis of service
implementations;
· integration of media storage and communication mechanisms,
operating system and high-performance issues;
· experiences with service provisioning using distributed multimedia
applications;
· performance of protocols and applications: modelling, simulation
and optimization in different networks;
· multimedia traffic engineering;
· applications and platforms for service management and
provisioning;
· definition, provisioning, and supervision of QoS parameters for
networked applications and services;
· intelligent management tools pertaining to costs and QoS,
network access, accounting, security, and system resilience;
· service access - security, authentication, privacy;
· accounting and tariff policing for multimedia teleservices.
PROMS 2001 will consist of a two days technical program, a full day
of tutorials, and demonstrations during the conference. We encourage
contributions in the form of full papers and position papers. Full
papers should describe innovative and significant work. Position
papers are meant to enable researchers to present exciting ongoing
work in early stages, opinions about current developments, and
suggestions for future directions. The purpose of position papers
is to provide a seed for debate and discussion. Both types of papers
will be reviewed by the program committee and included in the
workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag as a Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Authors are invited to submit full papers and position papers in PDF
through our Web site http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/news/proms_2001.htm.
Submitted manuscripts must describe original work (not submitted
elsewhere). Full papers must not be longer than 12 single spaced
pages and position papers must not be longer than 6 single spaced
pages. Both types of papers should contain an abstract of approximately
300 words, and include title, authors and affiliations. Final
versions of accepted papers must be structured according to the
instructions of Springer-Verlag. For further information, please
contact a member of the organising committee
(proms2001(_at_)ctit(_dot_)utwente(_dot_)nl).
IMPORTANT DATES
· Full papers due 31 May 2001
· Authors notified 30 June 2001
· Full paper camera ready due 27 July 2001
CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN
Marten van Sinderen (chair), Univ. of Twente, NL,
sinderen(_at_)ctit(_dot_)utwente(_dot_)nl
Lambert Nieuwenhuis (co-chair), KPN Research and Univ. of
Twente, NL, bart(_at_)cs(_dot_)utwente(_dot_)nl
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
A. Azcorra, Carlos III Univ., Spain
J.L. van den Berg, KPN Research / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
A. Campbell, Colombia University, USA
M. Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France
H. Eertink, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands
F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Netherlands
L. Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, Netherlands
F. Fontes, Portugal Telecom Inovação, SA, Portugal
G. Heijenk, Ericsson Eurolab, Netherlands
U. Hofmann, Univ. Salzburg, Germany
D. Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK
W. Jonker, KPN Research / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
D. Konstantas, Univ. of Twente, NL / Univ. of Geneva, Switserland
C. Linnhoff-Popien, Institut für Informatik, Germany
L. Mathy, Lancaster Univ., UK
L. Nieuwenhuis, KPN Research / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
S. Pallazzo, Univ. of Catania, Italy
Z. Papir, Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland
T. Plagemann, University of Oslo, UniK, Norway
R. Popescu-Zeletin, GMD-FOKUS, Germany
D. Quartel, University of Twente, Netherlands
J.-L. Raffy, Institut National des Telecommunications, France
J. Schot, Lucent Technologies, Netherlands
M. van Sinderen, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
J. Zuidweg, Tecsidel, Spain
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Univ. of Twente, guizzard(_at_)cs(_dot_)utwente(_dot_)nl
Christian Tzolov, Univ. of Twente, tzolov(_at_)cs(_dot_)utwente(_dot_)nl
Marloes Castaneda Schlie, Univ. of Twente,
castaned(_at_)ctit(_dot_)utwente(_dot_)nl
Annelies Klos, Univ. of Twente, Klos(_at_)cs(_dot_)utwente(_dot_)nl