Subject: IDMS'99 : call for papers

From: pierre de saqui sannes DFR/MI <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 21:13:02 +0100

C a l l    f o r    p a p e r

				  IDMS'99
		  6th International Workshop on Interactive
		     Distributed Multimedia Systems and 
		         Telecommunication Services

		    12-15 October 1999, Toulouse, France

                                Organized by
                            LAAS-CNRS and ENSICA
                         http://www.ensica.fr/idms99
                          email : [email-masked]

The Sixth International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia 
Systems and Telecommunication Services will be held in 1999 at ENSICA, 
Toulouse, France. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together 
researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry. 
The workshop serves as a forum for discussion, presentation, and 
exploration of technologies and their 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. Case studies and papers describing experimental 
work are especially welcome. 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 
* Development tools for distributed multimedia applications 
* Distributed multimedia database systems
* 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'99 will consist of a three day 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 form of full papers and 
position papers. Full papers are expected to describe innovative and 
significant work. The purpose of position papers is to provide a seed 
for debate and discussion. Position papers enable researchers to 
present exciting ongoing work in early stages, suggestions for 
future directions, and concerns about current developments. Both types 
of papers will be reviewed by the program committee and printed in the 
workshop proceedings edited by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science series.

Information for authors: Authors are invited to submit full papers and 
position papers for review. Submitted manuscripts must describe original 
work (not submitted or published 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. 
The submission process of papers will be handled electronically. Detailed 
description of the electronic submission procedures is available on the 
IDMS'99 web page: http://www.ensica.fr/idms99/. Authors without web 
access may email to [email-masked] for requesting electronic submission 
information. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to 
send 5 copies of their contribution to Dr Philippe Owezarski.

Important Dates
Submission due:			March 8, 1999
Notification acceptance:	April 30, 1999
Camera ready version:		June 14, 1999
Workshop:			October 12 - 15, 1999

Co-chairs: Michel Diaz, Philippe Owezarski, Patrick Sénac

LAAS-CNRS, 7 Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse cedex 4, France
e-mail: {diaz, [email-masked], Phone: +33 5 61 33 63 17, Fax: +33 5 61 33 64 11

ENSICA, 1 Place Emile Blouin, 31056 Toulouse cedex, France
e-mail: [email-masked], Phone: +33 5 61 61 86 81, Fax: +33 5 61 61 86 86

Program Committee Chairmen:		Michel Diaz, Philippe Owezarski
Organization Chairman:			Patrick Sénac
Tutorial Chairman: 			Laurent Dairaine
Publicity and Demonstration Chairman: 	Pierre de Saqui-Sannes
Conference electronic support Chairman:	Marc Boyer

Program Committee

H. Affifi, ENST Bretagne, France
P.D. Amer, U. Delaware, USA
E. Biersack, Institut Eurécom, France
G. v. Bochmann, U. Ottawa, Canada
B. Butscher, GMD FOKUS, Germany
A.T. Campbell, Columbia U., USA
T.S. Chua, U. Singapore, SG
J.-P. Courtiat, LAAS-CNRS, France
J. Crowcroft, UCL, UK
L. Delgrossi, U. Piacenza, Italy
C. Diot, Sprint ATL, USA
R. Dssouli, U. Montréal, Canada
M. Dudet, CNET France Télécom, France
W. Effelsberg, U. Mannheim, Germany
F. Eliassen, U. Tromsø, Norway
S. Fdida, LIP6, France
D. Ferrari, U. Piacenza, Italy
V. Goebel, UNIK, Norway
T. Helbig, Philips, Germany
J.-P. Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland
D. Hutchison, Lancaster U., UK
W. Kalfa, TU Chemnitz, Germany
T.D.C. Little, Boston U., USA
E. Moeller, GMD FOKUS, Germany
K. Nahrstedt, U. Illinois, USA
G. Neufeld, UBC Vancouver, Canada
B. Pehrson, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
T. Plagemann, UNIK, Norway
B. Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
L.A. Rowe, U. California Berkeley, USA
H. Scholten, U. Twente, Netherlands
A. Seneviratne, UTS, Australia
R. Steinmetz, GMD, Germany
J.B. Stéfani, CNET France Télécom, France
L. Wolf, TU Darmstadt, Germany
M. Zitterbart, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Pierre de Saqui-Sannes		[email-masked]
ENSICA				http://www.ensica.fr/~pdss
1 Place Emile Blouin		tel. +33 5 61.61.86.81
31056 Toulouse Cedex 5		fax. +33 5 61.61.86.86