See: http://PROMS2000.kt.agh.edu.pl/ 
and: http://PROMS2000.kt.agh.edu.pl/PROMS_CfP.pdf

Due to numerous requests for deadline extension 
we will keep accepting papers until 7th July 2000. 

Piotr Pacyna OC Chair 

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                  PROTOCOLS FOR MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS - PROMS2000 
                            DEADLINE EXTENDED 

                       Cracow, Poland, October 22-25, 2000 
Sponsored by IEEE Poland Sect. and Cracow Communications Soc. Chap. 
Lucent Technologies, ZWUT a Siemens Company, 
                         http://PROMS2000.kt.agh.edu.pl/ 

After past successful PROMS conferences held in Berlin, Salzburg, 
Madrid, and Santiago de Chile now we cordially invite you to 
Cracow/Poland, a lovely university city, with a 1000 year history, today 
one of cultural capitals of Europe. 

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 PROMS2000 conference is intended to contribute to a scientific, 
strategical 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. 

PROMS2000 will cover papers and demonstrations on research and 
achievements related to the following topics: 

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, eg. voice over IP; 
* performance of protocols, such as TCP, and applications: modeling, simulation and optimization in different networks; 
* definition, provisioning, and supervision of QoS parameters for 
  networked applications and services, eg. in IntServ/DiffServ networks; 
* multimedia traffic engineering; 
* applications and platforms for service management and provisioning; 
* intelligent management tools pertaining to costs and quality of 
  service, network access, accounting, security, and system resilience; 
* service access - security, authentication, privacy; 
* accounting and tariff policing for multimedia teleservices. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
* Full papers due July 7, 2000 
* Authors notified July 24, 2000 
* Full paper camera ready due September 25, 2000 

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE 
* 1st day October 22 full-day sightseeing tour (optional) 
* 2nd day October 23 tutorials, welcome reception 
* 3rd day October 24 invited talks, sessions, panel, banquet 
* 4th day October 25 invited talks, sessions 

VENUE 
Its history rooted deep in the Middle Ages, Cracow, is the most 
celebrated city in Poland. UNESCO has added its architectural complex to 
the World Heritage List. Cracow's appeal today, however, is no longer 
attributable solely to the beauty of its medieval architecture, but to 
its strong scientific potential for applied research and development. 

The PROMS2000 Conference will be held on the modern premises of the 
Department of Telecommunications within walking distance of both the 
downtown area and hotels. Direct flights to Cracow are available to and 
from Chicago, Copenhagen, New York, Toronto, Frankfurt, London, Paris, 
Rome, Tel Aviv, Vienna and Zurich. 

SUBMISSION 
Submit a full manuscript to the PROMS chair in an electronic form 
(MSWord, Postscript or pdf file); editorial requirements can be found at 
http://PROMS2000.kt.agh.edu.pl/. 

PROCEEDINGS 
1. Each participant will receive Proceedings from the conference. 
2. Two best papers will be considered for publication in the IEEE Communications 
   Magazine (March 2001 issue) in a feature topic "Protocols for Multimedia 
   Systems". 

CONFERENCE CHAIR 
Zdzislaw PAPIR 
Department of Telecommunications 
University of Mining and Metallurgy 
Al. Mickiewicza 30 
30-059 Cracow, Poland 
E-mail: papir@kt.agh.edu.pl 
Phone: +48 12 634 55 82 
Fax: +48 12 634 23 72 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Koichi Asatani, Univ. Kogakuin, asatani@sin.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp 
William Atwood, Univ. Concordia, Bill@cs.Concordia.ca 
Arturo Azcorra, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, azcorra@it.uc3m.es 
Stanislaw Budkowski, INT-Evry, stan@int-evry.fr 
Andrew Campbell, Univ. Columbia, campbell@ctr.columbia.edu 
Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, diaz@laas.fr 
Wolfgang Effelsberg, Univ. Mannheim, 
effelsberg@informatik.uni-mannheim.de 
Paolo Fasano, CSELT, Paolo.Fasano@cselt.it 
Francisco Fontes, Portugal Telecom, fontes@ptinovacao.pt 
Nicolas D. Georganas, Univ. Ottawa, georgana@mcrlab.uottawa.ca 
Per Gunningberg, Univ. Uppsala, Per.Gunningberg@docs.uu.se 
Ibrahim Habib, Univ. New York 
Ulrich Hofmann, Univ. Salzburg, ulrich.hofmann@fh-sbg.ac.at 
David Hutchison, Univ. Lancaster, dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk 
Yuji Inoue, NTT, yuji@rd.nttdata.co.jp 
Andrzej Jajszczyk, Univ. Mining and Metallurgy, jajszcz@kt.agh.edu.pl 
Pedro Lizcano, Telefonica Labs, lizcano@tid.es 
John C. S. Lui, Chinese Univ. Hong Kong, cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk 
Andrzej R. Pach, Univ. Mining & Metallurgy, pach@kt.agh.edu.pl 
Sergio Palazzo, Univ. Catania, palazzo@iit.unict.it 
Thomas Plagemann, Center for Technology, plageman@unik.no 
Radia Perlman, SUN, radia.perlman@sun.com 
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD, zeletin@fokus.gmd.de 
Marten J. van Sinderen, Univ. Twente, sinderen@cs.utwente.nl 
Kazem Sohraby, Lucent, sohraby@lucent.com 
Joan I. Solana, Nokia Telecom R & D, juan.solana@nokia.com 
Eduardo Vera, Univ. of Chile, evera@accessnova.cl 
Johan Zuidweg, Tecsidel, johan.zuidweg@ieee.org 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE 
Chair: Piotr PACYNA, proms@kt.agh.edu.pl 
K. Juszkiewicz, juszkiew@kt.agh.edu.pl 
J. Gozdecki, gozdecki@kt.agh.edu.pl 
J. Roman, roman@kt.agh.edu.pl