From: Serge Abiteboul <Serge.Abiteboul@inria.fr>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 09:58:43 +0200
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 07:39:33 +0200
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                   Effective Abstractions in Multimedia
                   Layout, Presentation, and Interaction
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                     Workshop to be held in conjunction
                          with ACM Multimedia '95
                             November 4, 1995
                         San Francisco, California
                           

Workshop description
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The topic of this one-day workshop is the study of abstract representations
and methods for the structuring of multimedia/hypermedia documents and
interactions.  While multimedia/hypermedia has enjoyed marketing
success and benefited from substantial work on the underlying
engineering and systems mechanisms, there has been less emphasis on
principled approaches at the application level. The focus here is on
concepts and techniques that are useful for structuring and organizing
heterogeneous information in multimedia/hypermedia applications from
the perspective of both end-user delivery and authoring.

While we hope to attract participants with experience in an eclectic
mix of multimedia/hypermedia applications, the common thread will be
the organization and abstraction of information.  With such an
emphasis, we hope to facilitate idea sharing and mutual understanding
between researchers and developers in diverse areas (e.g., electronic
publishing, video conferencing, digital libraries, command & control,
etc.) that are all related to multimedia/hypermedia, but that have
been, for the most part, isolated from each other.

Problems likely to be discussed at the workshop include:

	* Spatial layout for visual information presentation

	* Temporal layout for information presentation using animation
          and audio

	* Determination of page content, linking structure and index
          structure for hypermedia documents

	* Filtering, generalization, and customization of information
	  in multimedia/hypermedia applications

	* Synergistic combination of media in multimedia/hypermedia
	  applications


A representative set of techniques that are relevant to such problems include:

	* Constraint-based methods

	* Grammar-based methods

	* Heuristic search and optimization

	* Graph-based data structures and algorithms

	* Data modeling, query languages, and ontology development

	* Pattern-matching methods for (a)synchronous media streams

Due to space limitations, attendance will be by invitation only.

Submission details 
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Submit an extended abstract (not more than five pages, single-spaced)
describing previous work, recently completed work, or work in progress
that is relevant to the workshop topic.  Submissions should be
submitted via e-mail: send ASCII text or PostScript files to
kentw@bellcore.com.  


A subset of invited participants will be selected to give a presentation 
on their research and to compose a WWW page comprised of a final version
of their submission, pointers to their own related papers and
technical reports, and other relevant material (presentation slides,
video segments, interactive demos, sample multimedia/hypermedia
documents, etc.).  Participants' Web nodes will be aggregated to form
an on-line workshop proceedings.

Due dates
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Receipt of submissions: July 15, 1995
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 1995
Completion of WWW-page materials: October 20, 1995

Organizing committee
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Isabel Cruz, Tufts University (isabel@cs.tufts.edu)
Joe Marks, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (marks@merl.com)
Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore (kentw@bellcore.com)

Program committee
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Elisabeth Andre, German Research Center of A.I. GmbH
Michael Christel, Carnegie Mellon University
Isabel Cruz, Tufts University
George Furnas, University of Michigan
Ramesh Jain, University of California San Diego 
Fillia Makedon, Dartmouth College
Joe Marks, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Linn Marks, IBM Watson Research Labs 
Stuart Shieber, Harvard University 
David Stotts, University of North Carolina 
Dirk Van Gucht, Indiana University
Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore

WWW URL
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http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~isabel/mmws.html