CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on
Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems
MIPS 2003
Formerly IDMS-PROMS
Napoli, Italy
18-21 November, 2003
Past history and scope of the Workshop
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. After a first common event in Coimbra last year, in 2003 these
two workshops have definitively merged in what is expected to become more
and more a new series of challenging and topical international workshops.
MIPS 2003 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 novel network architectures. Along with tutorials, invited
papers and technical demonstrations, MIPS 2003 is seeking high quality
original work.
MIPS 2003 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 are encouraged. Papers
should describe innovative and significant work. All 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.
Conference Venue
MIPS 2003 will be held in Napoli, Italy. The workshop venue will be
Castel dell'Ovo, an ancient castle built on the small island of Megaris,
the place where the old city of Napoli was founded during the 6th century
BC. Castel dell'Ovo is located in the city centre, right across the Hotel
area.
Topics of Interest
Relevant topics to MIPS 2003 include, but are not limited to:
* Mobile & wireless multimedia systems
* Multimedia middleware
* Multimedia communication protocols
* Quality of service issues
* Resource management for multimedia services
* Active and programmable networking for multimedia applications
* Multimedia-specific mobile agents
* Multimedia distribution and transport
* Multimedia traffic engineering
* Multimedia service engineering
* Multimedia encoding and compression
* Ubiquitous computing
* Networked audio-video devices
* Development tools for distributed multimedia applications
* Multimedia applications: video-on-demand, digital video libraries, video
games, virtual community, teleworking, teleteaching, e-commerce, virtual
reality simulations
* Performance of protocols and applications: modeling, 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
Paper Submissions
Authors are invited to submit full papers after March 1st, 2003 in PDF or
Postscript formats through the workshop website
http://mips2003.idms-proms.org/. Submitted papers must describe original
work not submitted elsewhere. Papers mu st not be longer than 12
single-spaced pages. 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
A jury will select the best paper, on the basis of both the quality of
the written paper and of the presentation at the workshop. The winner
will be awarded a prize donated by one of the workshop sponsors.
Tutorials
MIPS 2003 will feature one day of half-day tutorials covering
single topics in detail. Proposals should be sent to the Tutorial Chair
and must include an extended abstract containing both a description of
the topic and the in tended audience, a short bio of the speaker.
Committees
Program Chair:
Giorgio Ventre
Universitá di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Program Co-Chair:
Roberto Canonico
Universitá di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Tutorial Chair:
Steering Committee:
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
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Local Organizing Committee:
Stefano Avallone, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Carla Biraghi, Consorzio CINI, Italy
Salvatore D'Antonio, Consorzio CINI, Italy
Maurizio D'Arienzo, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Francesco Delfino, Consorzio CINI, Italy
Marcello Esposito, Consorzio CINI, Italy
Massimo Ficco, Consorzio CINI, Italy
Mauro Gargiulo, Consorzio CINI, Italy
Antonio Pescapč, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Program Committee:
General Information
For more information visit http://mips2003.idms-proms.org/ or mail to
mips2003@idms-proms.org (Fax.: +39 081 7682950). See also the webpages
of previous IDMS and PROMS events: IDMS / PROMS 2002 -
http://ip2002.dei.uc.pt/ IDMS'2001 - http://www.idms2001.org/ PROMS'2001
- http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/news/proms_2001
Sponsorship
MIPS 2003 is in cooperation with the ACM SIGMM and SIGCOMM and CINI,
Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica. MIPS 2003 is
supported by the E-NET European Project (IST-2001-37814) and the Emerging
Networking Technologies Network of Excellence.
Important dates
Paper submissions due: May 31st, 2003
Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2003
Camera ready version due: September 5th, 2003
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