IDMS'2000: call for papers

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Announcement and Call for papers

IDMS'2000 7th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

CTIT/Univ. of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, October 17-20, 2000 http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/Docs/news/idms_2000.htm

The goal of the IDMS series of workshops is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry; and to provide a forum for discussion, presentation, and exploration of technologies and advances in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia systems and telecommunication services, ranging from basic system technologies such as networking and operating system support to all kinds of teleservices and distributed multimedia applications.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• High-speed/ATM networks;
• Mobile multimedia systems;
• Multimedia over satellite;
• Multimedia middleware;
• Quality of service issues;
• Media scaling;
• Resource management;
• Protocol design and implementation;
• Distributed multimedia database systems;
• Development tools for distributed multimedia applications;
• Multimedia-specific intelligent agents;
• Computer supported collaborative work;
• Distributed virtual reality systems;
• Distance education;
• Conferencing;
• Digital libraries;
• Interactive television;
• Video-on-demand systems;
• Compression algorithms.

IDMS 2000 will consist of a three days technical program, a full day of tutorials, and demonstrations during the workshop. In order to keep the flavor of a workshop, the number of participants will be restricted. Furthermore, 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 (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:
Authors are invited to submit full papers and position papers in electronic form (RTF, Latex, Postscript or PDF) to idms2000_at_ctit.utwente.nl. Submitted manuscripts must describe original work (not submitted elsewhere). Full papers must not be longer than 20 double spaced pages and position papers must not be longer than 8 double spaced pages.

Both types of papers should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words, and include title, authors and affiliations. Further instructions can be found on http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission due: March 15, 2000

• Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2000
• Camera ready version: June 15, 2000

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
 Marten van Sinderen and Hans Scholten
 CTIT - Centre for Telematics and Information Technology,  University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands  E-mail: {sinderen; scholten}_at_cs.utwente.nl,  Phone: +31/53.489.3677, Fax: +31/53.4894524

PROGRAM COMMITTEE::

 H. Batteram, Lucent Techn., NL
 G. v. Bochmann, Univ. Montreal, CDN
 P. Bosch, CWI, NL
 B. Butscher, GMD-FOKUS, GER
 A. Campbell, Colombia Univ., USA
 L. Delgrossi, Univ. Piacenza, I
 M. Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, Fr
 H. Eertink, Telematica Instituut, NL
 W. Effelsberg, Univ. Mannheim, GER
 F. Eliassen, Univ. Oslo, No
 L. Ferreira Pires, Univ. Twente, NL
 V. Goebel, Univ. Oslo - UniK, No
 T. Helbig, Philips, GER
 D. Hutchison, Lancaster Univ., GB
 P. Jansen, Univ. Twente, NL
 W. Kalfa, TU Chemnitz, GER
 E. Moeller, GMD-FOKUS, GER
 K. Nahrstedt, Univ. Illinois, USA
 P. Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, Fr
 S. Pink, SICS, SDN
 T. Plagemann, Univ. Oslo - UniK, No
 D. Quartel, Univ. Twente, NL
 G. Smit, Univ. Twente, NL
 R. Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt / GMD, GER
 L. Wolf, Univ. Karlsruhe, GER

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

 N. Diakov, Univ. Twente, NL
 C.R. Guareis de Farias, Univ. Twente, NL
 J. Kunnen, Univ. Twente, NL