CONFERENCE PROGRAMME


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PUBLIC LECTURES AND INVITED SPEAKERS


Public Lectures

11th April 1995 (AM)

Here is the News, Past, Present and Future. Trevor McDonald, ITN, London, United Kingdom

11th April 1995 (PM)

Multimedia and the Impact on Education. Carl Chapman, CRT, United Kingdom.

12 April 1995 (AM)

The Education Superhighway: From Workshop of the World to Teleworkshop of the World. Geoff Vincent, Online Media, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

12 April 1995 (PM)

Entertainment on Demand Mary Callaghan, Oracle UK, United Kingdom.

Opening Conference Address

Multimedia - Myth, Magic or Money Maker Dr.Geoff Robinson, Director, IBM Laboratories, Hursley, United Kingdom.


Keynote Speakers

11th April 1995 (AM)

Delay in Removing Delay. Prof. Peter Cochrane, Head of Advanced Applications & Technologies, BT Research Laboratories, Ipswich, United Kingdom.

US Information Superhighway. Dr.Hanafy Meleis, Director of Advanced Technology, NIST, DoC, USA.


11th of April 1995 (PM)

The Impact of Cable Television in the 1990's. Roger Wilson, Cable Midlands, Brierley Hall, United Kingdom.

Interactive Television and the Impact on the Viewer. Simon Cornwell, TwoWay TV, London, United Kingdom.


12th April 1995 (AM)

From News Room to Board Room -Television Arrives at the Workstation. Gary Mitchell, Corporate Television Networks, London, United Kingdom.

What makes Children Click? Mike Howarth, BBC, United Kingdom.


12th April 1995 (PM)

The Reality of Virtual Reality. Dr. Bob Stone, Managing Director, Intelligent Systems Solutions, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Multimedia Databases. Prof.Wendy Hall, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom.


MEDIACOMM'95 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Page numbers in the Proceedings are indicated.

Monday, April 10

5.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m. Registration


Tuesday, April 11

from 8.00 a.m. Registration

9.00 a.m- 9.10 a.m. Mayflower Suite Conference Welcome Prof.Sa'ad Medhat

9.10 a.m- 9.30 a.m. Mayflower Suite

Multimedia- Myth, Magic or Money Maker
Opening Conference Address, Dr.Geoff Robinson

9.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. Mayflower Suite

Delay in Removing Delay.
Invited Presentation Prof. Peter Cochrane

10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Mayflower Suite

US Information Superhighway.
Invited Presentation Dr.Hanafy Meleis

10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK


11.00 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Winslow Suite

Session:. MULTIMEDIA ENGINEERING Session Chair: Bill Aitkin

Multimedia at The Point of Sale: Beyond The Shop Window Adrian Irwin 61

ATM and Video: A Look at Networked Digital Media in ATM LANs Marc P.Pfeiffer 218

An Engineering Platform for Multimedia Services P L Reynolds & P W Sanders

Electronic Information for the Building Sector: Recent Developments and Future Trends Benoit Vinot, Marc Bourdeau and Patrick Morand 65

Educating SME's in The Use of World Wide Networked Information Sources. M.J.Warren, C.Adler, P.Hill, D.J.Loomes and H.Smith 70


11.00 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Bradford Suite

Session: MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION & TRAINING .Session Chair: Alan Cawson

Using Distributed Multimedia Information Resources for Teaching and Learning in Universities. Alan Cawson 43

Long Life Learning - Making the Concept a Reality Malcolm Napier

A Multimedia Programme for Training in Statistical Process Control. R.Thomas, A.G.Herbert and Multimedia Courses of Moscow University. Yu.Ph.Golubev, J.N.Ionova and V.E.Pavlovsky

Multimedia Applications for Training Programs in Factory Information Systems. Christian-Andreas Schumann, Frank Rabiger and Brigitte Seifert 53


10.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Standish Suite

Session: MULTIMEDIA STANDARDS .Session Chair: Peter Saunders

New Trends on the Standardization of Multimedia Information. Fernando Pereira and Rob Koenen 121

Teleworking and Telecommunication. Johan Opsommer and Pierre-Andre Rulmont 126

Participational Management and the Implementation of Multimedia Systems. M J Warren, P W Sanders and P.N.Gaunt 131

A Comparison of Multimedia Server Architecture Dimitrios N.Serpanos and Anastasios Bouloutas

Video Servers Manoj Kumar 136


12.45 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

LUNCH


2.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Mayflower Suite

The Impact of Cable Television in the 1990's.
Invited Presentation Roger Wilson

2.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Mayflower Suite

Interactive Television and the Impact on the Viewer.
Invited Presentation Simon Cornwell

3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Winslow Suite

Session: BROADCASTING & COMMS TECHNOLOGY Session Chair:John Elfes

Video Standards in the Use of Multimedia Applications. Adge Hawes

High Band Servers for Video on Demand. Nik Sargeant

Personal Conferencing on a PC. Tony Hart and Amanda McGonigle


3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Bradford Suite

Session: MULTIMEDIA DESIGN I Session Chair:Tony Ruiz

Smart Networks and Intelligent Agents. Colin G.Harrison 157

Global Media Services- The Case for Independent Service Operators. Ian Nairn and Paul Chaplin

A Multimedia Planning and Design System for Work, Residential and Recreational Areas Michael Pocher and Juergen Sieck 167


3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Standish Suite

Session VIDEO TECHNOLOGY Session Chair: Colin Hicks

Multimedia at Work. Colin Edwards

Packetisation of Speech and Video Signals for Multimedia Communications. A H Sadka, F Eryurtlu, AM Kondoz and B G Evans 233

The IBM Research Multimedia Gateway. William J.Anzick, Chatschik Bisdikian, Stephen H.Boesch, Jose R.Brunheroto, Colin G.Harrison, Louis Herzberg, Kung-Shiuh Huang, James P.Janniello, Hai-Yong Liang, Magda Mourad, Tam M.Nguyen, Jean-Paul Nussbaumer, Baiju V.Patel, Antonio Ruiz, Frank A.Schaffa, David I.Seidman, Gerald L.Sweeney, Ahmed N.Tantawy, Michael S.Yang and Jih-Shyr Yih 237


4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK


4.30 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. Winslow Suite

Session: MULTIMEDIA SECURITY Session Chair:Willem Jaap Zwart

The Use of Keystroke Analysis for Continuous User Identity Verification and Supervision Steven M Furnell, Peter W Sanders and Colin T. Stockel 189

Integration of Cryptographic Security into Multimedia Applications Frank Jorissen and Frank Overhand 194


4.30 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. Bradford Suite

Session: ATM . Session Chair:Djamel Ait-Boudaoud

Modelling Asynchronous Transfer Mode Systems with DASE. Oryal Tanir, V K Agarwal and P C P Bhatt 213

A Priority and Reservation TDMA Protocol for High Speed LANs. J M Senior and G N Higginbottom


4.30 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. Standish Suite

Session: MOBILE COMMS & WIRELESS .Session Chair: John Senior

Mobile Communications. T.b.a., GPT

Performance Analysis of Wireless Data Communications for Multimedia Applications Alan L Lewis and Chris G Guy 225


7.00 p.m.

CONFERENCE BANQUET


Wednesday April 12


8.00 am. Registration

9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Welcome: Dr.Tony Ruiz


9.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. Mayflower Suite Invited Presentation Gary Mithcell
From News Room to Board Room. Gary Mitchell 3


10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Mayflower Suite Invited Presentation Mike Howarth
What makes Children Click? Mike Howarth 7


10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK


11.00 A.M. - 12.30 P.M. Winslow Suite

Session: NETWORKS Session Chair: Peter Sanders

Effectiveness of the Source Policing Schemes for Video Traffic in ATM Networks. Edward Chan, J.M.Ng and B.Ho 24

Spectral Performance Modelling for Optical Access Networks. J M Senior, D E Asumu and T Finegan

Networking for Cartoonists. John Davies and David Edgar Booth

The Role of a Level 1 Gateway in Broadband Networks. M.Van Ackere, J.Peeters, F.Verboven, M.Jadoui and Z.Sarilar. 17


11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Bradford Suite

Session: BROADCASTING COMMS USERS Session Chair: Gary Mitchell

Broadcast Multimedia Services. Gary Mitchell

Teletext in Multimedia Applications. Simon Wegerif and David Tarrant 31

A Broader Aspect for the Notion "Teleworking". Fernand C.M.Broeckx 36

The Information Superhighway or Super Hype-Way David Giddings


11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Standish Suite

Session: MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS Session Chair:James Hall

A Multimedia Interactive Learning Delivery System Using Simlation and Hypermedia. Y.Monsef, D.Djamei and M.-A.Nachi 141

Use of Multimedia Tools to Simulate a Workplace Environment for Distance Learning by Disabled Students. G.K.Blackwell, A.P.Jagodzinski and M.Phillips 146

Teaching Computer Simulation with Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications. Istvan Molnar 151


12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

LUNCH


2.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Mayflower Suite

The Reality of Virtual Reality.
Invited Presentation Dr. Bob Stone

2.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Mayflower Suite

Multimedia Databases
Invited Presentation Prof.Wendy Hall

3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Winslow Suite

Session: MULTIMEDIA DATABASES Session Chair: Steve Goodwin

A Scaleable Distributed Multimedia Information Environment. David C.De Roure, Gary J.Hill, Wendy Hall and Les A.Carr 77

Support for Multimedia Co-Operative Sessions over Distributed Environments. Antonio Carlos C.M.Almeida and Carlos A.C.Belo 81

Content Based Retrieval and Navigation with Images in Microcosm Model. Paul H Lewis, Hugh C Davies, Steve R Griffiths, Wendy Hall and Rob J Wilkins 86

Development of PAMPA: A Distributed Object-Oriented Multimedia Environment. B.A.Kroes, E.J.H.Kerckhoffs and L.J.M.Rothkrantz 91


3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Bradford Suite

Session: MULTIMEDIA CONSUMER APPLICATIONS .Session Chair: Tony Ruiz

Secure Multimedia Systems in Healthcare and Medicine. Steven M Furnell, Nicola J Salmons, Peter W Sanders, Colin T Stockel and Matthew J Warren 103

Multimedia in The UK Pub Retail Market. Gareth S.Phillips and David Hughes 99

Prototypes of Multimedial Stress Assessment Subject to Laboratory Experiments. R.J.van Vark, L.J.M.Rothkrantz and E.J.H.Kerckhoffs 108

General Set Up of Stress Assessment Through Multimedia (SAM) System. L.J.M.Rothkrantz, R.J.van Vark, E.J.H.Kerckhoffs 113


3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Standish Suite

Session: ELECTRONICS Session Chair: Sa'ad Medhat

An Adaptive Fuzzy Equaliser for Teletext Information Reception Over Multipath Fading Channels S Holloway and D Ait-Boudaoud 199

Beyond MPC2: The Next Step in High Performance CD-ROM Drives. Christopher Lewis and Mike James 202

Free Space Infrared Optical Links - Eye Safety Issues. A C Boucouvalas 205

Modelling and Simulating Real-Time Distributed (Information Systems). Nasreddine Aoumeur


4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK


5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Winslow Suite

Session:MULTIMEDIA DESIGN II Session Chair: Simon Hughes

EduSof: The Framework for Intelligent Tutoring System Design Process. Ljubomir Jerinic 162

Speech Technology as The Most Natural Man/Machine Interface to access Information. Jo Lernaut 242

TRNSFR: A Compiler to Translate Latex Document to Hypertext. Manton Matthews and Kamal V.Gella


5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Bradford Suite

Session: IMAGE COMPRESSION Session Chair: Fernand Broeckx

A Single Chip Video-CD Decoder for Consumer CD Players. George Fleming 182

Matrix to Vectors Decomposition for Image Compression. Djamel Ait-Boudaoud 173

Assessment of Multiresolution Analysis and Wavelets for Still Image Encoding G Parlea-Visalon, D Ait-Boudaoud and S Medhat 177


6.00 p.m.

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