[FYI] ECMAST'99: Event announcement and call for papers

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

CORDIS RTD-NEWS/c European Communities, 1998 

 Record Control Number : 11591 
                             Date : 1998-11-17 


Category : Event

General Information : 

ECMAST'99, the fourth European conference on multimedia applications,
services and techniques, will be held in Madrid, Spain, from 26 to 28
May 1999. The event will be sponsored by the European Commission
within the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS)
programme and the European cooperation programme in the field of
scientific and technical research (COST). 

The overall aim of the event is to disseminate the results of research
and development projects on multimedia issues and related activities
being carried out in Europe and elsewhere. The conference will be the
first worldwide forum on the new multimedia era of technologies,
services and applications which will present the global results of the
Fourth RTD Framework Programme. 

The conference organisers are currently seeking the submission of
papers for presentation during the conference. Topics include, but are
not limited to, the following: 

- Multimedia trials and services; 
- New access technologies/infrastructures for multimedia services; -
Applications of mobile agents technology; - Next generation Internet:
services and protocols; - Coded representation of images, sound and
data; - Multimedia servers and storage architecture; - Advanced
satellite multimedia terminals; - User mobility and multimedia
terminals; - IP and ATM networks integration; - Standards and
specifications; - Multimedia infrastructures. 

Remarks : 

The final date for the submission of abstracts is 20 December 1998.

Data Source Provider : European Commission, DG XIII

Document Reference : ECMAST'99: Event announcement and call for
papers.

Programme Acronym : FRAMEWORK 4C; COST; ACTS

Subject Index Codes : Telecommunications; Information Processing,
Information Systems

Contact Person : 

For further information, please contact: 

HISPASAT SA 
Apdo. 95000 
E-28080 Madrid 
Tel. +34-91-3729000; Fax +34-91-3728941 
E-mail: ecmast99@hispasat.es 
URL: http://www.hispasat.com/ECMAST99/