Third International Conference on MULTIMEDIA MODELING

Toulouse, France, November 12-15, 1996

ADVANCE PROGRAM

November 12, 1996

Tutorials (program to be announced)

November 13, 1996

9h-9h30            Opening Session

9h30 - 10h30     Invited Speaker I

10h30 - 11h       Break

11h - 12h30        Session I: Multimedia-Hypermedia I

Intelligent multimedia presentation systems
M. Bordegoni (ITIA, Milan, Italy), G. Faconti (CNUCE, Pisa, Italy), T. Rist (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany), S. Ruggieri (U. di Pisa, Italy), P. Trahanias (FORTH-CIS, Crete, Greece), M. Wilson (Rutherford APpleton Lab. UK)

Anchors and links for nested composite nodes
L.F. Gomes Soares (PUC do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Marco Antonio Casanova (IBM, Brazil), Guido L. de Souza Filho (UFRN, Brazil)

Conceptual modelling for information filtering in broadcast interactive video applications
Yamina Abiza (CCETT, Cesson-Sevigne, France)

12h30 - 14h Lunch

14h - 15h30 Session II: Multimedia Applications

TeleSHOP: a multimedia communication shopping system
E. Kyoung Paik (Korea Telecom, Seoul, Korea), Myeong-Won Lee (University of Suwon, Kyunggi-do, Korea), Young-Whan Kim (Korea Telecom, Seoul, Korea)

Multimedia integration in a distance learning environment
H. Abdel-Wahab, K. Maly, E. Stoica (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA)

Models for enforcing multimedia synchronization in visioconference applications
P. Owezarski, M. Diaz (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France)

15h30 - 16h Break

16h - 18h Session III: Formal Approaches

Set-based hypermedia modeling
E.Duval, K. Hendrikx, H. Olivie (K.U. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium)

Spatial reasoning rules in multimedia management systems
John Z.Li, M. Tamer Ozsu, Duane Szafron (University of Alberta, Canada)

Formal model of temporal properties underlying multimedia presentation
Timothy K.Shih, Jich-Yan Tsai (Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan)

Hypermedia document design using the HTSPN model
R. Willrich (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France), P. de Saqui-Sannes, P. Senac (ENSICA, Toulouse, France), M. Diaz (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France)

18h30 -> Coktail

November 14, 1996

9h - 10h Invited Speaker II

10h - 10h30 Break

10h30 - 12h30 Session IV: Networking Issues

A leaves initiated resource reservation multicast service for group delivery of scaleable multimedia data over ATM networks
Hongyi Li, Hing Keng Pung, Lek Heng Ngoh, Yongquan Liang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Optimizing partially ordered transport services for multimedia applications
Rahmi Marasli, Paul D. Amer, Phillip T. Conrad (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)

Synchronization model in a multimedia conference system
Anna Hac, Cindy X. Xue (University of Hawai at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai)

A model for the analysis of intramedia synchronization in a multimedia data stream served by an ATM multiplexer
A. La Corte, A. Lombardo, G. Schembra (University di Catania, Italy)

12h30 - 14h Lunch

14h - 15h30 Session V: Multimedia-Hypermedia II

Synchronization of distributed multimedia systems with user interactions
Wanjiun Liao, Victor O.K. Li (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)

Tree-based data structure for content-based composition and synchronization of multimedia presentations
J.P. Thomas (University of Reading, United Kingdom)

MATILDA data model and its implication
David Lowe, Athula Ginige, Mark Sifer (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), John Potter (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

15h30 - 16h Break

15h30 - 16h30 Session VI: Information Retrieval I

A multimedia information object model for information disclosure
Daan Veltausz, Rene Bal, Henk Eertink (Telematics Research Center, Enschede, The Nederlands)

The roles and views of multimedia objects
Raymond K. Wong, H. Lewis Chau, Frederick H. Lochovsky (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

17h - 19h Reception by the Mayor of Toulouse at the "Capitole"

20h -> Banquet

November 15, 1996

9h - 10h Invited Speaker III

10h - 10h30 Break

10h30 - 12h30 Session VII: Information Retrieval II

Conceptual title abstractions: modeling and querying very large interactive multimedia repositories
Elina Megalou, Thanasis Hadzilacos, Nikos Mamoulis (University of Patras, Greece)

Using domain knowledge in querying image databases
Tat-Seng Chua, Kah-Choo Teo, Beng-Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Automatic model building from images for multimedia systems
Arcot Sowmya, Maziar Palhang (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

A new shape distance for content based image retrieval
Giancarlo Iannizzotto, Lorenzo Vita, Antonio Puliafito (University di Catania, Italy)

12h30 - 14h Lunch

14h - 15h30 Session VIII: Real-Time and Video Servers

IITB-VOD: A video on demand system for general purpose workstations
Nirapama Kulshreshtha, S.L. Mehndiratta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)

Evaluations of soft real-time handling methods in a real-time framework
Changpeng Fan (GMD-FOKUS, Berlin, Germany)

Statistical admission control in video servers with variable bit rate streams and constant data length retrieval
Ernst Biersak, Frederic Thiesse (Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France)

15h30 - 16h Break

16h - 17h Session IX: New Directions

Holographic images in multimedia information systems
Lucilla Croce Ferri (Fraunhoffer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany)

Autonomous entities in distributed virtual environments
Olivier Ballet (CISI, Toulouse, France), Patrice Torguet, Veronique Gaildrat, Rene Caubet (IRIT, Toulouse, France)

17h - 17h30 Closing Session