------------------------------------------------------------------- [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message] ******************************************************************** ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006 TOPIC 11: Distributed and High-Performance Multimedia EURO-PAR 2006 August 29 - September 1, 2006 Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/ Email: europar@zih.tu-dresden.de ******************************************************************** TOPIC 11 - DESCRIPTION This is the time in which information - be it scientific, industrial, or otherwise - is more and more commonly composed of multimedia items, i.e. a combination of pictorial, linguistic, and auditory data. As digital video may produce over 100 Mbytes of data per second, and image sets routinely require Terabytes of storage space, traditional resource utilization is rapidly becoming a persistent bottleneck. Moreover, in emerging multimedia applications, generation, processing, storage, indexing, querying, retrieval, delivery, shielding, and visualization of multimedia content are integrated issues, all taking place at the same time and - potentially - at different administrative domains. As a result of these trends, a number of novel and hard research questions arise, which can be answered only by applying techniques of parallel, distributed, and Grid computing. The scope of this topic embraces issues from high-performance processing, coding, indexing, and retrieval of multimedia data over parallel architectures for multimedia servers, databases and information systems, up to highly distributed architectures in heterogeneous, wired and wireless networks. "Proof of concept" implementations, case studies, and performance evaluations are particularly solicited. Focus - Mapping multimedia applications to high-performance architectures - Architectures and algorithms for multimedia servers, databases and information systems - Parallel and distributed algorithms for fast coding, indexing and retrieval of multimedia data and metadata - System interfaces and programming tools to support multimedia applications on parallel processing systems - Multimedia content creation, processing, and management using parallel architectures - Multimedia agent technology and parallel processing - Resource management for high-performance multimedia - Architectures and algorithms for QoS- and context-awareness in heterogeneous (wired and wireless) networks. - Distributed Architectures related to MPEG, including novel ideas regarding MPEG-21 "Universal Media Access". - Multimedia Grid computing - "proof of concept" implementations and case studies ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEY DATES December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due January 31, 2006: Full papers due May 3, 2006: Notification of acceptance May 30, 2006: Camera-ready papers and author registration due ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS style) to this topic, by using the online submission site: http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1 Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005. (When submitting, please indicate this topic.) All accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Verlag LNCS series. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPIC 11 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE Global Chair Prof. Dr. Geoff Coulson Lancaster University Computing Department Lancaster, UK geoff@comp.lancs.ac.uk Local Chair Prof. Dr. Harald Kosch University Klagenfurth Institute of Information Technology Klagenfurth, Austria harald.kosch@itec.uni-klu.ac.at Vice Chair Dr. Frank Seinstra University of Amsterdam Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam ISLA Amsterdam, The Netherlands fjseins@science.uva.nl Vice Chair Prof. Dr. Odej Kao University Paderborn Dept. of Computer Science Paderborn, Germany odej@uni-paderborn.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Each year, the conference normally attracts more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres and industry. Euro-Par 2006 will represent 18 topics (http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=3) in the categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications, and will also include tutorials, invited talks, and co-located workshops. Besides, the planed Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstration and hands on experiences. -----------------------------------------------------------------------