Subject: *** IDMS 2001: Call for Participation ***

From: "Doug Shepherd" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:09:55 +0100

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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 [email-masked].

Detailed information of the workshop, including programme, registration
and accommodation, is available at:

http://www.idms2001.org

The workshop is being organised by the
Distributed Multimedia Research Group,
Computing Department,
Lancaster University, UK.

Prof. Doug Shepherd, Programme Chair