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*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to JUNE 9, 2003 ***

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

MIPS 2003 International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems Formerly IDMS/PROMS

November 18-21, 2003 University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy In cooperation with ACM SIGMM and SIGCOMM

http://mips2003.idms-proms.org/ ================================================================

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.

MIPS 2003 will be held November 18-21, 2003, in Napoli (Italy). The workshop will consist of a two and a half day technical program, plus a full day of tutorials. 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.

TOPICS OF INTEREST 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 - 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 - Multimedia encoding and compression - Standards (e.g. MPEG) and related issues

PAPER SUBMISSION 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 must 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 Springer's instructions (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 (tc03@idms-proms.org) and must include an extended abstract containing a description of the topic, the intended audience, and a short bio of the speaker.

SPONSORS MIPS 2003 is in cooperation with ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCOMM. MIPS 2003 is supported by the E-NET Thematic Network of the IST European Research Programme.

IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: June 9th, 2003 *NOTE: Deadline extended !* Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2003 Camera ready version: September 5th, 2003

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Program Chair: Giorgio Ventre, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy (giorgio.ventre@unina.it)

Program Co-Chair: Roberto Canonico, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy (roberto.canonico@unina.it)

CONTACTS Web site: http://mips2003.idms-proms.org/ E-mail: mips2003@idms-proms.org