Subject: CFP International Workshop on Multimedia Middleware (M3W'01)

From: Tom Kristensen <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Mar 2001 15:03:02 +0100

M3W'01
International Workshop on Multimedia Middleware

       October 5th, 2001, Ottawa, Canada
    in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2001
          http://www.ifi.uio.no/~m3w

Middleware technologies like the Common Object Request
Broker (CORBA) implementations,  Microsoft's Distributed
Component Object Model (DCOM), and Java RMI have
proved their suitability for "standard" client-server applications.
Middleware abstracts from particular network services and
allows application developers to focus on the application.
However, it is well known in the research community, that today's
middleware solutions are not suited for distributed multimedia
systems, and do not provide the required levels of adaptation
and configurability that is needed to accommodate the diversity
of modern distributed multimedia applications. The goal of the
workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and
industry to identify why today's middleware technologies and
standards fail to appropriately support multimedia applications
and especially to discuss new requirements, approaches, and
solutions.

Areas of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited
to) the following topics:
- Experiences with middleware platforms in multimedia
   application domains
- The design and implementation of multimedia middleware platforms
- Performance analysis of multimedia middleware platforms
- Quality of Service and Realtime support in middleware platforms
- Stream support in middleware platforms
- Support for persistent multimedia objects
- Resolving heterogeneity in multimedia middleware platforms
- Services and APIs for multimedia application development (incl.
security and management)

Format of the workshop:
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To  enable  a  highly interactive  workshop,  attendance  will be
limited to about 50 participants.   Participants will be invited based
on the originality,  technical  merit
and  topical  relevance  of  their submissions,  as  well  as  the
likelihood that the
ideas expressed in their submissions will lead to insightful technical
discussions at the
workshop.

Proceedings and submission guidelines:
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We seek short paper submissions describing original and unpublished
work. The
page limit for submissions is four pages. All accepted papers will be
published in
a proceeding printed by ACM.  We strongly encurage electronic
submissions via
the workshop's web page (http://www.ifi.uio.no/~m3w).

Important dates:
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Submission Deadline:  May 15th
Notification:   June 15th
Final version:   July 15th

Workshop Co-Chairs:
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T. Plagemann, U of Oslo
F. Eliassen, Simula RL

Publicity Chair:
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T. Kristensen, U of Oslo

Program Committee:
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G. Blair, Lancaster U
V. Cahill, Trinity C. Dublin
A. Campbell, Columbia U
R. Campbell, U of Illinois at UC
V. Goebel, U of Oslo
D. Ionescu, U of Ottawa
D. Karr, BBN
D. Schmidt, DARPA
M. v. Sinderen, U of Enschede
B. Thuraisingham, MITRE
W. Yu, U of Tromsø

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