CFP: 6th International Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems - PROMS, 200117-19 October, Enschede, The Netherlands

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

                                 First Call for Papers

                           6th International Conference on
                   Protocols for Multimedia Systems - PROMS 2001

                   17-19 October, Enschede, The Netherlands

   Organised by Center for Telematics and Information Technology
                           at the University of Twente

Emerging broadband interactive applications along with a development
of different networking technologies should draw telecom operators'
and service providers' attention to protocols supporting multimedia
systems as an interface between these two environments that has to
be still investigated and modified.

The PROMS 2001 conference is intended to contribute to a scientific,
strategic and practical cooperation between research institutes and
industrial companies in the area of distributed multimedia applications,

protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their
provision over broadband networks.

PROMS 2001 will cover papers and demonstrations on research
and achievements related to the following topics:

· design and implementation of multimedia protocols for public switched
  telephony networks, mobile networks, data networks, and satellite
  networks using IP, ATM or other connectivity techniques;
· application, media, and protocol integration: synchronization of
  media streams;
· multiparty and group communication protocols;
· mobile networking and routing: multimedia communication
  architectures for mobile networks;
· multimedia applications: video-on-demand, digital video libraries,
  video games, virtual community, teleworking, teleteaching,
  e-commerce, telemeeting, virtual reality simulations;
· content based searching and querying;
· techniques for the specification of communication services
  required by multimedia applications;
· methods for real-time testing and analysis of service
  implementations;
· integration of media storage and communication mechanisms,
  operating system and high-performance issues;
· experiences with service provisioning using distributed multimedia
  applications;
· performance of protocols and applications: modelling, simulation
  and optimization in different networks;
· multimedia traffic engineering;
· applications and platforms for service management and
  provisioning;
· definition, provisioning, and supervision of QoS parameters for
  networked applications and services;
· intelligent management tools pertaining to costs and QoS,
  network access, accounting, security, and system resilience;
· service access - security, authentication, privacy;
· accounting and tariff policing for multimedia teleservices.

SUBMISSION
Submit a full manuscript to the PROMS chair in an electronic form
(PDF); editorial requirements can be found at
http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/news/proms_2001.

IMPORTANT DATES
· Full papers due                       15 May 2001
· Authors notified                      15 June 2001
· Full paper camera ready due   15 July 2001

Conference Chairmen
        Marten van Sinderen (chair), University of Twente, The
Netherlands,
        sinderen@ctit.utwente.nl
        Lambert Nieuwenhuis (co-chair), KPN Research and University of
        Twente, The Netherlands, bart@cs.utwente.nl

 Further information
        email: castaned@ctit.utwente.nl
        phone: +31-53-4893779
        fax: +31-53-4894524
        postal address:
                PROMS 2001, CTIT, University of Twente
                PO BOX 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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