Interactive Multimedia On Next Generation Networks First International Workshop

Multimedia Interactive Protocols And Systems (mips) Is The Brand Name Of A Workshop That Has Been Successfully Held For The?rst Time In 2002 In Coimbra, As The?rst Joint Edition Of Two Well Established Series Of Workshops: Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (idms) And Protocols For Multimedia Systems (proms). The Area Covered By Multimedia Interactive Protocols And Systems Is Indeed Broad, Since It Includes Technical And Practical Issues Related To D- Tributed Multimedia Technologies, Applications And Services, With Emphasis On Their Deployment Over Next Generation Networks. The Topics Set For Mips 2003 Were: Mobile And Wireless Multimedia Systems; Multimedia Middleware And Communication Protocols; Quality Of Service Issues; Resource Management For Multimedia Services; Active And Programmable Netw- King For Multimedia Applications; Mobile Agents For Multimedia; Multimedia D- Tribution And Transport; Tra?c Engineering And Service Engineering; Ubiquitous Computing; Networked Audio-video Devices; Development Tools For Distributed Multimedia Applications; Multimedia Applications Such As Video-on-demand, - Gital Video Libraries, Video Games, Virtual Community, Teleworking, Teleteaching, E-commerce, Virtual Reality Simulations; Performance Of Protocols And Applica- Ons;contentmanagement;serviceaccess;security,authentication,privacy,wat- Marking; Accounting And Tari?