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*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
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*** Call for Demonstrations and Poster session ***
IDMS 2001 8th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems
September 4-7, 2001, Lancaster, UK http://www.idms2001.org
in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMM
Sponsors: Agilent Laboratories BTexact Technologies Hewlett Packard Laboratories Microsoft Research Orange Sony Electronics
The aim of the IDMS series of workshops is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry to provide a forum for discussion, presentation and exploration of technologies and advances in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia systems.
IDMS 2001 has a balanced programme with
- one day of tutorials on
* IP telephony by Ralf Steinmetz and Ralf Ackermann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
* IPv6 trials (deployment and transitioning) by, among others, speakers from the IPv6 Forum, BT, Cisco and academia
* Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) for Consumer Electronics by Andras Montvay, Peter van der Stock and Rob Udink Philips Research Laboratories (Germany and The Netherlands)
* Mobile IPv6 by Joe Finney, Lancaster University, UK and Greg O'Shea, Microsoft Research, UK
followed by two and a half days of technical sessions, comprising
- 3 invited talks:
* QoS for Multimedia -- What is going to make it pay? by Dr. Derek McAuley, Marconi Labs, UK
* Enabling the Internet to provide Multimedia Services by Dr. Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
* MPEG-21 Standard: Why an Open Multimedia Framework? by Prof. Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal
and sessions on * Media Distribution * QoS Issues in Multimedia * Multimedia Middleware * Congestion Control and Adaptation * Control of Multimedia Networks * 2 short/position paper sessions
without forgetting a complete social programme designed for maximum interaction amongst participants, including * the workshop Banquet in Leighton Hall, a somptuous historic stately house and gardens, set in the majestic Northwestern English hills * organised lunches and evening meals * organised accomodation
We are also interested in receiving information about proto- type multimedia systems relevant to IDMS which could be demonstrated at the workshop. Furthermore, poster sessions will also be organised to allow delegates to disseminate their research ideas and results in a more interactive way. For more information or to submit a demonstration or poster proposal, please contact, as soon as possible, the local organising committee at local@idms2001.org.
Detailed information of the workshop, including programme, registration and accommodation, is available at:
The workshop is being organised by the Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK.
Prof. Doug Shepherd, Programme Chair