6th International Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems 
                                  PROMS 2001 


                            Second Call for Papers 

                   17-19 October, Enschede, The Netherlands 

   Organised by the Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) 
                          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. 

PROMS 2001 will consist of a two days technical program, a full day 
of tutorials, and demonstrations during the conference. We encourage 
contributions in the form of full papers and position papers. Full 
papers should describe innovative and significant work. Position 
papers are meant to enable researchers to present exciting ongoing 
work in early stages, opinions about current developments, and 
suggestions for future directions. The purpose of position papers 
is to provide a seed for debate and discussion. Both types of papers 
will be reviewed by the program committee and included in the 
workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be published by 
Springer-Verlag as a Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS 
Authors are invited to submit full papers and position papers in PDF 
through our Web site http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/news/proms_2001.htm. 
Submitted manuscripts must describe original work (not submitted 
elsewhere). Full papers must not be longer than 12 single spaced 
pages and position papers must not be longer than 6 single spaced 
pages. Both types of papers should contain an abstract of approximately 
300 words, and include title, authors and affiliations. Final 
versions of accepted papers must be structured according to the 
instructions of Springer-Verlag. For further information, please 
contact a member of the organising committee (proms2001@ctit.utwente.nl). 

IMPORTANT DATES 
- Full papers due 31 May 2001 
- Authors notified 30 June 2001 
- Full paper camera ready due 27 July 2001 

CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN 
Marten van Sinderen (chair), Univ. of Twente, NL, 
     sinderen@ctit.utwente.nl 
Lambert Nieuwenhuis (co-chair), KPN Research and Univ. of 
     Twente, NL, bart@cs.utwente.nl 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
A. Azcorra, Carlos III Univ., Spain 
J.L. van den Berg, KPN Research / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands 
A. Campbell, Colombia University, USA 
M. Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France 
H. Eertink, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands 
F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway 
L. Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, Netherlands 
F. Fontes, Portugal Telecom Inovagco, SA, Portugal 
G. Heijenk, Ericsson Eurolab, Netherlands 
U. Hofmann, Univ. Salzburg, Germany 
D. Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK 
W. Jonker, KPN Research / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands 
D. Konstantas, Univ. of Twente, NL / Univ. of Geneva, Switserland 
C. Linnhoff-Popien, Institut fuer Informatik, Germany 
L. Mathy, Lancaster Univ., UK 
L. Nieuwenhuis, KPN Research / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands 
S. Pallazzo, Univ. of Catania, Italy 
Z. Papir, Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland 
T. Plagemann, University of Oslo, UniK, Norway 
R. Popescu-Zeletin, GMD-FOKUS, Germany 
D. Quartel, University of Twente, Netherlands 
J.-L. Raffy, Institut National des Telecommunications, France 
J. Schot, Lucent Technologies, Netherlands 
M. van Sinderen, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands 
J. Zuidweg, Tecsidel, Spain 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE 
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Univ. of Twente, guizzard@cs.utwente.nl 
Christian Tzolov, Univ. of Twente, tzolov@cs.utwente.nl 
Marloes Castaneda Schlie, Univ. of Twente, castaned@ctit.utwente.nl 
Annelies Klos, Univ. of Twente, Klos@cs.utwente.nl