Timetable

Monday, November 11, 1996

7:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 12:30 Tutorial B

Virtual Reality and Multimedia Applications in a Networked Environment
D. Gracanin, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

Coffee break: 10:30 -11:00

11:00 - 12:00 Special Presentation

Towards an European Information Infrastructure
(The Role of the EU "ACTS" Programme) Martin Potts
Association Swiss Telecom PTT / Ascom, Bern, Switzerland

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Registration

14:00 - 17:30 Tutorial A

Custom Wavelet Packet Image Compression for Multimedia
M. V. Wickerhauser, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

Coffee break: 15:30 -16:00

14:00 - 18:30 Tutorial C

Access Networks for Broadband Services
K. Amborski, Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Warszawa, Poland

Coffee break: 16:00 -16:30

19:30 - 23:00 Workshop Banquet

Tuesday, November 12, 1996

7:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:30 Opening Ceremony

Chairman's Address

9:30 - 11:00 General Topics - Invited Papers

Civil Society and Internetworking
Lee Felsenstein, Interval Research Corp., Palo Alto, CA, USA

Towards User-Centered Multimedia Systems for Distance Education
Thomas Plagemann and Vera Goebel, UNIK - Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo, Norway

A Visual Monitoring System: A Virtual Reality and Multimedia Perspective
Kimon P. Valavanis and Denis Gracanin, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Network Design - Invited Papers

On Heuristic Solvability of the Congestion Minimization Problem in Optical Networks: A Tabu Search Approach
Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Jean-Francois Labourdette, AT&T Laboratories, Holmdel, USA

On Some Cost Allocation Issues in Hub Networks
Darko Skorin-Kapov, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 ATM Network, Traffic and Performance

Call Queueing: The Design and Performance Analysis of a New ATM Signalling Functionality
S. Blaabjerg, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
G. Fodor and S. Szekely, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Real Time Traffic Over Wide Area ATM Network A.A. Belhaj, L. Pap and T.V. Do, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Network Performance Issues in ATM Networks
I. Svinnset, Telenor R&D, Kjeller, Norway
R. Venturin, Telenor R&D, Kjeller, Norway & University of Zagreb, Croatia

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Broadband and Multimedia Applications

Multipurpose Middleware for Broadband Multimedia Applications
I. Cselenyi, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
C. Gisgard, Telia AB, Sweden
P. Haraszti, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
A. Latour-Henner, Telia AB, Sweden
I. Szabo, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
G. Zaruba, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Hyperaudio - A Service for the Visually Impaired
J. Juric, University of Zagreb, Croatia

17:00 - 18:00 DSP Applications

Design of the Optimized VLSI Architecture for Discrete Cosine Transform Used in Image Compression
M. Kovac , M. Zagar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
N. Ranganathan, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

DSP Techniques for the Efficient Traffic Control in High-speed Networks
A. Bazant, University of Zagreb, Croatia

17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session

18:00 - 19:00 Outrageous Opinions Session (tent.)

Closing Keynote & Farewell Addresses

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