Distributed Systems and Distributed Multimedia

Topic 16

Description

Euro-Par intends to provide a forum for researchers from academia and industry interested in distributed systems, including communication and operating systems aspects.

For the first time at Euro-Par we want to lay a special emphasis on the questions of distributed multimedia systems. We believe that multimedia is one of the most important challenges of the next decade and therefore it is worth to set such a focus. We are especially interested in the questions of digital items in distributed multimedia systems as defined in MPEG-21.

Focus

Techniques and formal models for the design and analysis of distributed (multimedia) systems
Architectures and structuring mechanisms for parallel and distributed (multimedia) systems
Distributed (multimedia) operating systems
Concurrency, performance and scalability in distributed (multimedia) systems
Fault tolerance of distributed (multimedia) systems
Transparency in distributed (multimedia) systems
Media-, system- and application-level adaptation in distributed multimedia systems
Streaming and quality of service in distributed multimedia systems
Technologies and applications related to MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 multimedia representation standards
Technologies and applications relying on the notion of digital item as defined in the MPEG-21 standard