IDMS'97 Program
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European Workshop on Interactive
Distributed Multimedia Systems
and Telecommunication Services
10.- 12. September 1997
Darmstadt, Germany
In Cooperation with
ACM SIGMM
Gesellschaft fuer Informatik
GMD
IEEE Germany Section
ITG/VDE
Technical Co-Sponsorship by
IEEE Communications Society
Supported/Sponsored by
Deutsche Telekom AG
Digital Equipment
Ericsson
IBM
NEC
o.tel.o
Panasonic
Registration and further Information:
http://www.th-darmstadt.de/idms97
>From the CFP:
This Fourth International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia
Systems and Telecommunication Services follows the successful IDMS workshop
held 1996 in Berlin. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for
the presentation, exploration, and discussion of technologies and their
advancements in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia
systems - from basic system technologies such as networking and operating
system support to all kinds of multimedia applications.
Program Committee
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B. Butscher, DeTeBerkom, Germany
A. Danthine, U. Liege, Belgium
L. Delgrossi, U. Cattolica, Italy
J. Eberspaecher, TU Munich, Germany
W. Effelsberg, U. Mannheim, Germany
J. Encarnacao, FhG-IGD, Germany
D. Ferrari, U. Cattolica, Italy
B. Furht, Florida Atlantic U., USA
N. Georganas, U. Ottawa, Canada
S. Gibbs, GMD, Germany
W. Hall, U. Southampton, UK
R.G. Herrtwich, RWE, Germany
A. Hopper, U. Cambridge / ORL, UK
J.P. Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland
D. Hutchison, Lancaster U., UK
Y. Ip, Siemens AG, Germany
W. Kalfa, TU Chemnitz, Germany
T.D.C. Little, Boston U., USA
F. Mattern, Darmstadt U., Germany
E. Moeller, GMD FOKUS, Germany
K. Nahrstedt, U. Illinois, USA
E. Neuhold, GMD IPSI, Germany
M. Paterok, IBM, Germany
S. Pink, SICS, Sweden
T. Plagemann, UNIK, Norway
R. Popescu-Zeletin, TU Berlin, Germany
V. Rangan, U. California, USA
K. Rothermel, U. Stuttgart, Germany
J. Schweitzer, Siemens AG, Germany
H. Tokuda, Keio U., Japan
M. Weber, U. Ulm, Germany
F. Williams, Ericsson, Germany
L. Wolf, Darmstadt U., Germany (Chair)
Program Chair:
Lars Wolf, Darmstadt U., Germany (Lars.Wolf@KOM.th-darmstadt.de)
General Chair:
Ralf Steinmetz, GMD IPSI, Germany (Ralf.Steinmetz@darmstadt.gmd.de)
Local Organization Chair
Martin Karsten, Darmstadt U., Germany (Martin.Karsten@KOM.th-darmstadt.de)
Electronic Information
Email: idms97@KOM.th-darmstadt.de
WWW: http://www.th-darmstadt.de/idms97
Address:
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inform. Techn.
Darmstadt University of Technology
Merckstr.25, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Fax: +49-6151-166152
Features
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Invited Talk: Ken Haase, MIT Media Lab & European Media Lab
"Thick Media"
Invited Talk: Brian Smith, Cornell University
"A Toolkit for Multimedia Programming"
Panel: organized by Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA
"QoS and Mobility: Fact or Fiction?"
Panelists:
Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, England
Hakan Mitts, Nokia, Finland
Suresh Singh, University of South Carolina, USA
Tutorial (3 hours): Tom Little, Boston University
"Video on Demand Architectures and Concepts"
Tutorial (3 hours): Heinrich J. Stuettgen, NEC Europe Ltd.,
C&C Research Labs Heidelberg and
Torsten Braun, IBM ENC Heidelberg
"Multimedia Networking"
Tutorial handouts include a book covering the tutorial's topic.
Program
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Day 1: Wednesday 10. September 1997
Tutorials
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08:00 Registration
09:00 Tutorials Part I (2 Tutorials in Parallel)
11:00 Break (Lunch / Sandwiches)
11:30 Tutorials Part II
12:30 End of Tutorials
Workshop
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12:00 Registration
13:30 Welcome
14:00 Invited Talk
Thick Media
Ken Haase (MIT Media Lab, USA)
15:00 Break
15:30 Session 1: Media Coding and Content Processing
Embedding Data in 3D Models
R. Obuchi, H. Masuda, M. Aono (IBM Japan Tokyo Research Lab)
Estimation of Motion Parameters of a Rigid Body from a Monocular Image
Sequence for MPEG-4 Applications
A. Smolic (HHI/RTL plus, Germany), B. Makai (HHI, Germany),
G. Lin (Xiamen University, PR China), T. Sikora (HHI, Germany)
System for Screening Objectionable Images Using Daubechies' Wavelets
and Color Histograms
J.Z. Wang, G. Wiederhold, O. Firschein (Stanford University, USA)
17:00 Break
17:30 Session A1: Development and Interoperability
MUSIC: An Interactive MUltimedia ServIce Composition Environment
for Distributed Systems
P. Bosco, G. Martini, G. Reteuna (CSELT, Italy)
Achieving Networked Virtual Environments Interoperability
M. Soto, H. Le Van Gong (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
17:30 Session A2: On Demand Systems
A Redundant Hierachical Structure for a Distributed Continuous Media Server
C. Shahabi, M.H. Alshayeji, S. Wang (University of Southern California, USA)
Program Caching and Multicasting Techniques in VoD Networks
G. Dammicco, U. Mocci (Fondazione Udo Bordoni, Italy)
PENGUIN: DAVIC and the WWW in Coexistence
R. Baier, C. Gran, P. Hoepner, K. Hofrichter, A. Scheller (GMD FOKUS, Germany)
17:30 Session A3: Multicast and FEC
mTunnel: A Multicast Tunneling System with a User Based Quality-of-Service
Model
P. Parnes, M. Mattson, K. Synnes, D. Schefstroem (Lulea Uni. of Tech., Sweden)
A Distributed Delay-Constrained Dynamic Multicast Routing Algorithm
Q. Sun, H. Langendoerfer (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
An Efficient Software Implementation of a FEC Code
J.-C. Henrion (University of Liege, Belgium)
19:00 End of First Day
Day 2: Thursday 11. September 1997
08:30 Session 2: Video Server and Systems
Disk Scheduling for Variable-Rate Data Streams
J. Korst, V. Pronk (Philips Research Labs, Netherlands),
P. Coumans (Philips/Eindhoven University, Netherlands)
A Novel Data Placement Scheme on Optical Discs for Near-VOD Servers
S.-L. Tsao, C.-C. Lin, S.-C. Liou, Y.-M. Huang (National Cheng-Kung
University, Taiwan), C.-W. Huang (Inst. for Information Industry, Taiwan)
A Priority Feedback Mechanism for Distributed MPEG Video Player Systems
K.-Y. Lam, C. Ngan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong),
J. Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
A Soft Real Time Scheduling Server in UNIX Operating System
H.-H. Chu, K. Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
10:30 Break
11:00 Session B1: Video Transmission
Stored Video Transmission across ATM Networks: RVBR versus RCBR Service
for Interactive Applications
S. Gumbrich, J. Heller (IBM ENC, Germany)
Improving Clock Synchronization for MPEG-2 Services over ATMM Networks
R. Noro, J.P. Hubaux, S. Koppenhofer (EPFL, Switzerland)
VoR: A Network System Framework for VBR over Reserved Bandwidth
Y. Matsui, H. Tokuda (Keio University, Japan)
11:00 Session B2: Production and Authoring
EPK-fix: Methods and Tools for Engineering Electronic Product Catalogues
A. Knapp, N. Koch, M. Wirsing (U. of Munich), J. Duckeck, R. Lutze (Mediatec),
H. Fritzsche, D. Timm (Dresden U. of Tech., Germany), P. Closhen, M. Frisch,
H.-J. Hoffmann (Darmstadt U. of Tech.), B. Gaede, J. Schneeberger, H. Stoyan,
A. Turk (FORWISS) (all Germany)
CHEOPS: Adaptive Hypermedia on World Wide Web
S. Ferrandino (XCom, Italy), A. Negro, V. Scarano (Univ. of Salerno, Italy)
Application Output Recording for Instant Authoring in a Distributed
Multimedia Annotation Environment
H. Benz, S. Fischer, R. Mecklenburg, A. Wenger (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)
11:00 Session B3: Multimedia Applications
Video Data Management in Media Controller: a Distributed Multimedia
Serveillance System
A. Tsukada, T. Hata, F. Matsuda, K. Sato, M. Ozaki (Mitsubishi, Japan)
HyNoDe: Hyper News on Demand
HyNode Consortium
Broadband Video Conference Customer Premises Equipment
H. Brandt, C. Tittel, P. Todorova, J.J. Tchouto, M. Welk (GMD FOKUS, Germany)
12:30 Break
13:30 Invited Talk
A Toolkit for Multimedia Programming
Brian Smith (Cornell University)
14:30 Break
15:00 Session 3: Mobility
Radio Webs - Support Architecture for Mobile Web Access
R. Ludwid, N. Niebert, R. Quinet (Ericsson Eurolab, Germany)
An Approach for an Adaptive Visualization in a Mobile Environment
L. Neumann (ZGDV, Germany), A.B. Raposo (UNICAMP, ?)
Multimedia Client Implementation on Personal Digital Assistants
M. Lauff, H.-W. Gellersen (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
16:30 Break
17:00 Panel Discussion: QOS and Mobility: Fact or Fiction?
Organizer: Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia U., USA
Panelist: Nigel Davies, Lancaster U., England
Hakan Mitts, Nokia, Finland
Suresh Singh, U. of South Carolina, USA
Gerald Maguire, KTH, Sweden
18:00 Break
19:30 Workshop Dinner
Day 3: Friday 12. September 1997
08:30 Session 4: CSCW & System Performance
Combining CORBA and ITU-T.120
T. Helbig, S. Tretter (Philips Research Labs, Germany),
D. Trossen (Technical University of Aachen, Germany)
Supportive Environments for Executing Multimedia Applications
M. Bochicchio (University of Lecce, Italy),
P. Paolini (University of Lecce/Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Patterns for Constructing CSCW Applications in TINA
E. Koerner (University of Liege, Belgium)
10:30 Break
11:00 Session C1: Multimedia Communication over ATM Networks
Performance Evaluation of the Fuzzy Policing Mechanism for Still Picture
in ATM Networks
L. Barolli, K. Tanno, A. Greca (Yamagata University, Japan)
Implementation of an Audio/Video Conferencing Application over Native ATM
T. Braun (IBM ENC, Germany), A. Reisenauer (IBM PS Telecomm. & Media, Germany)
A Native ATM API Suited for Multimedia Communication
S. Dresler, M. Hofmann, C. Schmidt, H. Wiltfang (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
11:00 Session C2: CSCW & Teleteaching
A Model for Collaborative Services in Distributed Learning Environments
W. Geyer, V. Hilt (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Using Distributed Multimedia Infrastructures for Advanced Teleteaching
Applications
O. Neumann (TU Dresden, Germany), S. Rennecke (TU Freiberg, Germany),
A. Schill (TU Dresden, Germany)
11:00 Session C3: QoS for Media Presentation
A Scalable Access Scheme (SAS) to Multimedia Documents with QoS Guarantees
A. Hafid and R. Boutaba (CRIM, McGill College, Canada)
A Client-Controlled Adaptation Framework for Multimedia Database Systems
S. Hollfelder (GMD IPSI, Germany), A. Kraiss (Univ. of the Saarland, Germany),
T.C. Rakow (Springer Verlag, Germany)
Interactive Multimedia Communications at the Presentation Layer
C.-M. Huang and C. Wang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
12:30 Break
13:30 Session 5: QoS and Scaling
Modeling of Adaptive Multimedia Documents
S. Wirag (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
QoS Aware Browsing in Distributed Multimedia Systems
G. Michelitsch, M. Ott, D. Reininger, G. Welling (C&C Research Labs NEC, USA)
An Object-Oriented Client/Server Architecture for Video-on-Demand Applications
J. Deicke, U. Mayer, M. Glesner (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
15:00 Best Paper Session
Interactive Remote Recording and Playback of Multicast Videoconferences
Wieland Holfelder (University of Mannheim)
15:30 Closing Session
16:00 End of Workshop & Transfer to Lab
16:00 Tour to 'Future Lab' of Deutsche Telekom in Darmstadt
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