-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP Eurmicro 2003 - MM Telecommunications Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:48:43 +0100 From: Andreas Mauthe andreas.mauthe@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de Organization: KOM TU-Darmstadt To: mauthe@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de

!!!! Apologies for any duplicates !!!! ============================================================== Call for Papers

EuroMicro 2003 Track on "Multimedia Telecommunications: Multimedia Content Management and Distribution"

Antalya, Turkey September 3-5, 2003 =============================================================

Multimedia systems have been investigated for a number of years. In recent times multimedia content management and distribution was identified as area with a high research and commercial potential. Content in this context reveres to the actual media (viz. video, audio, images and graphics) and metadata. Processes and tools classifying and handling content are part of a wider infrastructure dealing with the management and distribution of content. Within this area broadcast and computer technology converge. Further, alongside technical and computing aspects user requirements and application characteristics have to be considered.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Content Delivery Networks and Content Delivery Internetworking - Overlay network for the support of content exchange and distribution - Peer-to-Peer content distribution systems - Peer-to-Peer mechanisms and technology for complex large scale multimedia systems - Video on Demand (VoD) and near VoD, and network television broadcast services - Media streaming and transmission technologies - Content processing, analysis and indexing systems - Content management and content exchange systems including collaboration support for content creation - Content description and documentation schemes - Content search, location and retrieval mechanisms - Content and rights protection - eCommerce and content sales system

We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new approaches by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data.

Submission of papers Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF or Word version of their paper to sppi2003@sea.uni-linz.ac.at.

Papers should not exceed 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt, single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and include an abstract of up to 150 words. A cover page should clearly show the name, mailing address, e-mail address and fax number of the author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. In order to conduct a blind review by peers, no indication of authors of the submitted paper should appear in the rest of the paper, including bibliographical references (there, author names should be substituted by a dash).

The following signed statement should be included on the cover page: "Neither this paper nor any version close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for publication. All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the paper will be made available in Camera-ready forms by June 16th 2003, and it will be personally presented at the EUROMICRO 2003 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author(s) will pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2003 before the due date of the Camera-ready paper." ================================================================= Important dates Submission of papers: March 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2003 Camera-ready paper due: June 16, 2003 Program Chairs: ================================================================ Andreas Mauthe Darmstadt University of Technology E-Mail: andreas.mauthe@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de Phone +49 6151 16 6156

Ralf Steinmetz Darmstadt University of Technology E-mail: ralf.steinmetz@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de Phone +49 6151 16 6151

Program Committee: Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Michel Diaz, LAAS, France Wolfgang Effelsberg, Mannheim University, Germany Serge Fdida, University Paris VI, France Nicolas Georganas, University of Ottawa, Canada Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway Pål Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Norway David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada Adam Lindsey, Lancaster University, UK Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, UK Harald. Müller, Siemens, Germany Paul Müller, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Frank Nack, CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands Giorgio Ventre, University of Federico II, Naples, Italy Jonathan Walpole, OGI, USA Horst Wedde, University of Dortmund, Germany Lars Wolf, University of Braunschweig, Germany Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA

Updated information http://www.euromicro.org

General information This track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO 2003 conference. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.