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                      IDMS/PROMS'2002
              Joint International Workshop on 
         Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems / 
             Protocols for Multimedia Systems
                http:// ip2002.dei.uc.pt/

                  November 26-29, 2002
           University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) and Protocols for 
Multimedia Systems (PROMS) have been two successful series of international 
events bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from 
academia and industry in all areas of multimedia systems. In 2002, for 
the first time, these two workshops will be held jointly, in what is 
expected to be the first of a new series of challenging and topical 
international workshops.

IDMS/PROMS'2002 is intended to contribute to scientific, strategic and 
practical advances in the area of distributed multimedia applications, 
protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their 
provision over broadband networks. Along with tutorials, invited papers 
and technical demonstrations, IDMS/PROMS'2002 is seeking first quality 
original work. 

Relevant topics to IDMS/PROMS'2002 include, but are not limited to:
 
        Mobile multimedia systems
        Multimedia middleware
        Multimedia communication protocols
        Quality of service issues
        Resource management
        Next generation Internet
        Active and programmable networking for multimedia applications
        Multimedia-specific mobile agents
        Multimedia distribution and transport
        Multimedia traffic engineering
        Multimedia encoding and compression
        Ubiquitous computing
        Development tools for distributed multimedia applications
        Multimedia applications: video-on-demand, digital video libraries, 
           video games, virtual community, teleworking, teleteaching, 
           e-commerce, telemeeting, multimedia conferencing, virtual 
           reality simulations
        Performance of protocols and applications: modelling, simulation 
           and optimisation in different networks
        Multimedia content management
        Service access - security, authentication, privacy, watermarking
        Accounting and tariff policing for multimedia teleservices
        Standards (e.g., MPEG) and related issues

IDMS/PROMS'2002 will consist of a two and a half day technical program, 
plus a full day of tutorials, and demonstrations during the workshop. 
Contributions in the form of full papers and position papers are encouraged. 
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, which will 
be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science series. 

Information for authors
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Authors are invited to submit full papers and position papers in PDF 
or Postscript formats through the workshop website http://ip2002.dei.uc.pt/. 
Submitted papers 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 
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)

Best paper award
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A jury will select the best paper, based on the quality of the written 
paper. The winner will be awarded a prize donated by one of the workshop 
sponsors.

General information 
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For more information visit http://ip2002.dei.uc.pt/ or mail to 
ip2002@dei.uc.pt 
(Fax.: +351 239 701266).
See also the webpages of previous IDMS and PROMS events:
IDMS'2001 - http://www.idms2001.org/
PROMS'2001 - http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/news/proms_2001/

Important dates
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Paper submissions due:          May 15th, 2002          
Notification of acceptance:     June 30th, 2002 
Camera ready version due:       September 10th, 2002            


Program Chair
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Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal


Tutorial Chair
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Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal


Steering Committee
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Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, UniK, Norway              
Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France
Hans Scholten, Twente University, The Netherlands
Marten van Sinderen, Twente University, The Netherlands
Joe Finney, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Zdzislaw Papir, AGH University of Technology, Poland
Arturo Azcorra, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain 

Program Committee
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Alexandre Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Arnaldo Martins, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Arturo Azcorra, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain 
Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal
Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
David Hutchison, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Francisco Fontes, Portugal Telecom Inovação, SA, Portugal
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Fred Stentiford, BTexaCT Research, United Kingdom
Giorgio Ventre, University Frederico II, Napoli, Italy
Greg O'Shea, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Gregor v. Bochmann, University of Otawa, Canada
Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium
Hans Scholten, Twente University, The Netherlands
Henk Eertink, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
Jan Bormans, IMEC, Belgium
Jason Nieh, Columbia University, USA
Jean-Luc Raffy, Institut National des Telecommunications, France  
Joao Orvalho, ESEC/CISUC, Portugal
Joe Finney, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina, USA
Lars Wolf, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany
Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France
Nick Race, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France
Paul D. Amer, University of Delaware, USA
Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD-FOKUS, Germany 
Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Roberto Canonico, University Frederico II, Napoli, Italy
Serge Fdida, LiP6, France
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy
Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Unik, Norway
Tim Chown, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Timothy Roscoe, Sprint Labs, USA
Tobias Helbig, Philips Research Laboratories, Germany
Ulrich Hofmann, University of Salzburg, Austria
Vera Goebel, University of Oslo, Norway
Winfried Kalfa, TU Chemnitz, Germany
Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany   
Zdzislaw Papir, AGH University of Technology, Poland 

Local Organising Committee
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João Orvalho (Chair), ESEC/CISUC, Portugal
Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Marília Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Paulo Simões, University of Coimbra, Portugal