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Dagstuhl Seminar 9427

Fundamentals and Perspectives of Multimedia Systems

( Jul 04 – Jul 08, 1994 )

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Organizers
  • J. Encarnação
  • J. Foley
  • R.G. Herrtwich



Summary

In July 1994, leading international multimedia researchers met in the International Computer Science Research Center at Dagstuhl Castle to discuss the fundamentals and perspectives of their field. The purpose of the seminar was twofold: to arrive at a common understanding of basic technologies of the field as they have evolved over the last decade and to decide on the most important issues for multimedia research in the years to come.

This report provides a summary of the presentations and discussions at Dagstuhl. It covers a broad range of topics: multimedia encoding methods, operating system support, network and communication technology, storage and databases, mailing, conferencing, and human-computer interfaces. The seminar devoted one session to each of these topics. A so-called white paper presentation introduced the state of the art in each area and provided the basis for a round of discussions that were initiated by position statements from selected speakers. At the end of each ­ session, a research agenda was compiled to collect questions that the seminar participants believed to be of particular importance to the advancement of the field.

At the end of the seminar, a spontaneous poll identified three items as the most pressing issues of multimedia research:

  • How to adapt multimedia applications dynamically and continuously to their environment to make them deliver the best possible service under any given set of conditions?
  • How to derive and utilize content information within multimedia streams so that query operations can access not only textual indices, but the multimedia information directly?
  • How to define scalable mechanisms that can cope with the large volume of multimedia traffic in environments with large numbers of users, all with heterogeneous requirements and capabilities?

But many more research questions have been raised during the seminar and are compiled in the session reports.

It is a pleasant duty to thank all people who have been involved in making this Dagstuhl seminar a success. Thanks go to all seminar participants for lively and at times heated discussions as well as to the session reporters who have captured these discussions for this report. We are particularly grateful to Don's Meschzan who assisted us with the seminar arrangements in every possible way from the first invitations to the final report publication.

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Participants
  • J. Encarnação
  • J. Foley
  • R.G. Herrtwich