Call for Papers
The 6th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 96)
April 23 - 26, 1996
Shonan Village International Conference Center, Zushi, Japan
Objectives
The 6th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems
Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 96) is the international workshop
among active researchers and practitioners who are building innovative
multimedia systems, networks and applications.
While we will focus on the state of the art technology
in networking and operating system support for multimedia systems,
we will also seek for practitioners' papers from a variety of
area, including media toolkit, mobile communications, VR, real-time systems,
software agents, digital library, and distributed computing systems.
It is also intended to provide extensive discussion periods during
the workshop to discuss the important issues which may require future
research.
Relevant topics for the workshop include:
- High-speed/ATM networks
- Multimedia-oriented desk, local and wide area networks
- Workstation and PDA architectures for multimedia
- Multimedia network interfaces
- Cell-based system architectures
- Mobile systems for multimeida
- Communication protocols for multimedia
- Multicast protocols and media scaling
- Micro-kernel and OS support for real-time communications
- Resource management and reservation in the OS and network
- End-to-end admission control
- Quality of service and synchronization frameworks
- Multimedia storage, server, and I/O architectures
- Distributed multimedia systems
- APIs and CM programming abstractions for multimedia
- TV set-top device communication
- VOD system architecture
- Software agents for multimedia systems
- VR systems
Submissions
Two types of submissions are solicited: position papers and research
papers. For the purpose of paper review, position papers are
restricted to three single-spaced ASCII pages. Research papers are
restricted to an extended abstract no longer than five formatted
postscript pages. Papers should be electronically mailed to
nossdav96@sfc.keio.ac.jp.
Only if electronic submission is impossible, papers may be
sent to the following e-mail address.
- Prof. Hideyuki Tokuda
- Keio University, 5322 Endoh, Fujisawa, Japan 252
- Phone: +81-466-47-5000 (wait for 2 sec. then 3129)
- Fax: +81-466-47-0835
- E-mail: hxt@sfc.keio.ac.jp
The proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer-Verlag
and the best papers will be forwarded to selected journals for
publication.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline 1/5/96
- Acceptance Notification 2/12/96
- Final Paper Due 3/18/96
- Workshop: 4/23/96-4/26/96
Program Chair:
Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University/Carnegie Mellon University
Program Committee:
Domenico Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley
Simon Gibbs, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Riccardo Gusella, HP Labs
Ralf Herrtwich, IBM Creative Multimedia Studios
Jung-kook Hong, IBM, Japan
Andy Hopper, Olivetti & University of Cambridge
Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Aurel Lazar, Columbia University
T.D.C. Little, Boston University
Derek McAuley, Cambridge University
Duane Northcutt, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Guru Parulkar, Washington University
Steve Pink, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD-FOKUS
Ragunathan Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
P. Venkat Rangan, University of California, San Diego
Jon Rosenberg, Bell Communications Research
Doug Shepherd, Lancaster University
Cormac Sreenan, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Jean-Bernard Stefani, France Telecom/CNET
Jay Strosnider, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Swinehart, Xerox PARC
Jon Walpole, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
Hiroshi Yasuda, NTT, Japan
Publicity Chair
Tatsuo Nakajima, JAIST, Japan
Publishing Chair
Shuich Oikawa, Keio University, Japan
Local Arrangement Chair and Finance Chair
Akira Nambu, NTT, Japan
nossdav96@sfc.keio.ac.jp