Second International Workshop on
Query Processing and Multimedia Issues in Distributed Systems
(QPMIDS)
http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~andres/qpmids98.html
August 26-27th 1998
in conjunction with 9th International Conference DEXA98
Vienna, Austria
1 Description
The QPMIDS workshop seeks to bring together distributed multimedia
information systems researchers and developers from these fields to
assess the state of the art and practice in solving real-time multimedia
query processing problems, to identify solution techniques and
algorithms, and to introduce promising future research directions.
The topics of the workshop cover advanced multimedia computing
technologies where new approaches to support on-line accesses to
information are needed.
The explosion in volume and complexity of digital information that
people want to access and analyse influences the evolution of the
multimedia distributed systems.
The kinds of data referred to by 'multimedia data' expand. Still images,
texts, and books were included in this category, several years ago.
Recently, moving pictures, especially video, audio, as well as 3D
objects in virtual realities are added in the list. Client-server
architecture is a practical approach to support heterogeneous data
management (video clips, audio, images, and books). Several issues still
need to be tackled in order to meet the challenge of the multimedia As a
first issue, modeling these kinds of data is necessary for storing,
retrieving, and editing these data adequately.
The second issue is concerned with quality of transfer of these
data through networks. The data and users are distributed over computer
networks and real-time data transfer is required. So good quality
transfer of data among them is needed. The integration of emerging
standards such as CORBA or OLE2 may provide new communication
capabilities in order to increase QoS inside distributed multimedia
systems.
The third issue is the system architecture issue (distributed shared
memory, load balancing algorithm, ...). Current systems are insufficient
to support the management of multimedia data owning to their
time-sampled nature. Problems such as data placement, buffer management,
admission control and load balancing still exist. The extension of the
database systems to support distributed multimedia applications thus
require new mechanisms to ensure the synchronized presentation of
multimedia data exchanges.
2. Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
. Modeling of multimedia and tempospatial data
. Multimedia database architecture
. Distributed multimedia information/database systems
. Distributed and parallel multimedia query processing
. QoS in multimedia information system
. Applications of multimedia database
. Applications of multimedia information system
. Geographic information systems
. Database for virtual realities
. Load balancing and data placement management Issues
. Query language for multimedia information/database systems
. Optimization of multimedia query processing
. Benchmarking of distributed multimedia systems
3. Submissions
Short original contributions regarding the problem solving and/or aims
for further research activities in the workshop topics are welcome.
Detailed abstract papers or position papers should be in English and not
exceed 5 double spaced pages or 1000 words. The cover page should
include the title, name and affiliation of the author(s), contact,
address,
email, fax and telephone. Final paper should not exceed 10 single spaced
pages.
Papers should be sent electronically (postscript) not later than
February 28 1998 to the following address: qpmids@rd.nacsis.ac.jp
The contribution of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press.
4. Timetable
Submission deadline February 28 1998
Notification of acceptance May 20 1998
Final paper due June 15 1998
5. Organization Committee
F.Andres (NACSIS, JAPAN) andres@rd.nacsis.ac.jp
B.Folliot (Paris VI University/LIP6-MASI, FRANCE) Bertil.Folliot@lip6.fr
A.Makinouchi (Kyushu University, JAPAN) akifumi@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp
6. Coordination Committee
K. Ono (NACSIS, JAPAN)
7. Program Committee
K. Aberer (GMD, GERMANY)
H. Arisawa (Yokohama National Univ., JAPAN)
C. Bac (INT, FRANCE)
J. Bufford (Massachusset-Lowell, USA)
B. Folliot (Paris VII/LIP6, FRANCE)
D. Che (GMD, GERMANY)
P. Faudemay (Paris VI/LIP6, FRANCE)
G. Gardarin (Univ. of St Quentin-Versailles,FRANCE)
C. Girault (Paris VI/LIP6, FRANCE, RICE, USA)
A. Hameurlain (IRIT,Univ P. Sabatier, FRANCE)
Y. Kanamori (Univ. of Gunma, JAPAN)
A. Kitamoto (NACSIS, JAPAN)
H. Ishikawa (Fujitsu Labs., JAPAN)
Y. Masunaga (Univ. of Library and Information Science, JAPAN)
S. Nishida (Osaka Univ., JAPAN)
K. Ono (NACSIS, JAPAN)
J. Robertson (CSIRO, AUSTRALIA)
D. C. Schmidt (Washington Univ, USA)
S. Shimada (Hitachi, JAPAN)
K. Tanaka (Kobe Univ., JAPAN)
K. Tsuruoka (NEC, JAPAN)
M. Yoshikawa (AIST-NARA, JAPAN)
A. Zhang (Buffalo Univ, USA)
8. Further Information
DEXA Workshop Chairperson
Prof. R.R. Wagner
Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) University of
Linz
A-4040 Linz Austria
Phone: 43 732 244962 Fax: 43 732 243989 emal: rrw@faw.uni-linz.ac.at
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