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ACTS97
- Preparation of Project Contributions
The Annual Report of our Programme, ACTS96, has attained new heights in quality and usefulness and we are very grateful to InfoWin and indeed to all projects for their contributions and their achievement.
It is now time to build and consolidate on this and to prepare the 1997 report to be ready for publication at the end of May. To this end I would invite you (i.e. the ACTS Project Managers) to use the information collected for the Audit to update your 2-page project summary, and to submit this to your project officer in the European Commission, before February 14, 1996. The format of your contribution should follow the model layout provided by InfoWin and may for your convenience be based on the finalised version of your project summary used in the ACTS'96 report, also provided back to you by InfoWin.
I would like to add a second request.
By this stage of your project's work, we would generally expect you to have a much clearer idea of how you will perform the practical experimentation that may be included in your workplan. On this basis therefore, I would ask you to prepare a description of your planned experimentation (2 pages max.) under the following headings and again using InfoWin's rules for the Format of your contribution:
In anticipation that this description may take a little longer to prepare, we have arranged a later deadline of March 14,1997, by which this description should be submitted to your Project Officer at the Commission.
Should you have any queries of a general nature concerning this procedure,
these may be addressed to Nick
Heenan or indeed your project Officer at the Commission, or to InfoWin
at acts96.help@infowin.org
Spyros Konidaris, Director
ai, European Commission DGXIII-B,
12.12.1996
Consumer
Protection Aspects in Advanced Service Trials
You will no doubt be aware of the growing interest from consumer protection organisations in interactive services and electronic commerce.
A new DGXXIV in the European Commission is responsible for consumer protection policies and has provided us with the attached list of consumer protection organisations. Their early involvement in advanced service trials may provide a different perspective on innovative services, and we have therefore invited them to contact those ACTS projects with trials in their geographical areas of responsibility. I would be grateful for your co-operation with them.
Peter Johnston, European Commission DGXIII-B, 11.12.1996
LOAD
Tool Enhances InfoWin's WWW-Power
The Web is the Web, is the Web...? Dream on! In Europe there are currently three different large networks (EBone covering France and Austria, EuropaNet covering Germany and most of Europe's academic networks and EUNet covering the UK and most of the commercial networks) co-existing. Since traffic is jamming on the WWW like at rush hour in Los Angeles these days (and these three different data highways are being connected via access ramps resembling more the equivalent of a dirt-road than anything else), InfoWin has installed WWW-servers in each network.
Three InfoWin servers located in Cambridge (UK), Salzburg (Austria) and Stuttgart (Germany) hold identical data and are updated automatically and frequently (usually once day. ed.). They form a unique, consistent WWW-server cluster in Europe which has been designed to provide best possible connectivity regardless of where in Europe's Internetwork you are located. Usually a network-internal connection between client and server in the sense of not leaving one of the subnets performs better than if one had to connect to another net.
Unfortunately the networks are not clearly defined by geographical areas. This makes it virtually impossible to find out a client's or server's subnetwork by simply pinpointing it on a map. Believe it or not - somebody in the same building as you might actually be surfing a completely different highway than you are! In order to figure out the individual optimum in connection performance, a client should 'try out' all of the InfoWin servers. In order to hide the complexity of the cluster architecture and increase the simplicity of its effective use, InfoWin has developed a tool to test the connections between a www-client (browser) and the server respectively several servers.
LOAD is a tool designed to run on hosts in a cluster of mirroring WWW-servers. This server-based program is called via the standardised cgi-interface, and tests the network connection between a www-client (browser) and the server(s). If several servers are tested, the results can be used to pinpoint the server that provides the best connection.
LOAD is based purely on http and does not use other network protocols (except protocols wrapped in http). It therefore provides a high level of platform-independence which allows easy porting to different operating systems. The cgi-program is called by simply clicking on a link which can be placed on any page in the webspace. When called, the program generates a result page that displays the time it took to enable the connection and transmit the test-data. The results are shown as figures (seconds) combined with a bar-graph (figure 1) and contain a link to the corresponding server. The colour palette of the graphs ranges from bright green via bright yellow to bright red. It is also an indicator for the quality of the connection.
Fig.1: Example of a server generated image showing figures and a bar-graph.
At present, ACTS NewsClips are available on the Austrian and German server. If it took a long time to load ACTS NewsClips, click on the link below. The results will be presented as images with a link to the corresponding server to the left. In order to display them, you will have to (temporarily) turn on the 'Auto Load Images'-mode of your browser. If one of the images shows as a broken icon, the transmission of the result ran into a time-out which means you had a very bad connection to this server. You should not use this server to browse InfoWin. Please note that locally cached pages are usually loaded much faster than pages from remote sites. LOAD does not take into account the pages that are cached on your system or a nearby proxy server. The program gives you an overview on the connections from your browser to each of the InfoWin servers.
The LOAD tool in action - check your web access by clicking here
LOAD is vital to the InfoWin server cluster. It enables clients to use the full power of its distributed concept by pinpointing the server that provides the best performing connection. Since InfoWin's objectives cover the supply of information on ACTS to clients spread all over Europe, the easy use of LOAD and the resulting benefit of better performance represent a cardinal improvemet of InfoWin services.
By Oliver Goebel, RUS, Rechenzentrum der Unversität Stuttgart, 14.01.1997
InfoWin
Bulletin 3 - Let us know!
InfoWin Bulletin No. 3 is due out in March 1997. It will be printed by March 4, and will also be available on the Web simultaneously with the printed version. Printed copies will be distributed at the ACTS Concertation meeting in Brussels on March 4 and 5.
The lead article in the APPWIN series will focus on the latest developments in UMTS in and around the ACTS programme. This will be the second part of the series on UMTS started with the introduction to UMTS in Bulletin 2.
The NETWIN series will contain Part 3 of our series on communications technologies - "Cable modems". We have collected a lot of information on cable modem technology and trials, but it is dominated by US experience (because that is well documented on the WWW), whereas European material in this area hardly exists on the WWW. (See the Editorial in Bulletin No. 2 for more on this issue of dominance of the WWW by US sources of information.) We want to hear from European projects in this area, inside and outside of ACTS. Let us know your experiences, send us your research papers, and details of your WWW sites and email lists. Please contact your RegRep with such information, but in case of difficulty you can email us directly.
In WORLDWIN we shall focus on East Asia again. We hope to include a paper from the UK-funded "Asia Pacific" project on the relevance of Korean models to European industrial R&D. We also would like to hear from any ACTS projects which have liaison with East Asian companies, in particular in Korea and Singapore.
The Project Window PROJWIN will contain an article on the ACTS Renaissance project. Who wants to be featured for InfoWin Bulletin No. 4? Let us know!
The Domain focus will be on Multimedia Services (Domain 1).
Each issue we would like to reprint an article from one of the other Newsletters circulating in the ACTS community. Will it be yours this time? Get in touch!
We shall also have extracts from articles to appear in forthcoming Thematic Issues. As usual we shall include versions of some of the recent NewsClips. (Note that you can request NewsClips to be emailed directly to you - just contact the Newsclips editor, or better yet, check the subscription form.)
And keep these letters coming. Indeed, why not email us now!
By Paul Bacsich, Open University, 13.01.1997
Information
for National Host Users
National Hosts, a unique opportunity for broadband R&D applications is the title of a document recently published by the National Host Forum describing
The document is available on the WWW in HTML version and on the National Host Forum pages in RTF format. It is intended to promote the usage of NH facilities by potential users:
Each NH is equipped with state of the art information technology facilities,
connected to a variety of different networks, including Internet, together
with a set of software and telecommunications tools which have been standardised
throughout the family of NHs.
The NH initiative provides a unique opportunity to link together advanced
communications research organisations on a pan European basis.
The NHs initially provided facilities for support of ACTS projects, but
in practice the facilities are open for almost any organisation which plans
to develop or enhance broadband oriented applications, providing such usage
is not for short-term commercial gain. This development work can be carried
out under the umbrella of one of the EU funded 4th framework programmes,
or under a national research programme. The spectrum of possible applications
should be regarded as being as large as possible, including applications
and services in the fields of high speed networks, multimedia, teleactivities
(e.g. tele-medicine, teleshopping, video-conferences, tele-presence, interactive
TV, etc.), and enhancement of network and service management tools.
The NH services will particularly facilitate the involvement in research
programmes by Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
A separate document encouraging SME participation is expected to be published later this month.
More information about recent NH activities can be found in ACTS NewsClips No. 14. The NH Forum was chaired by Ireland until the end of 1996. This year's chairs are the Netherlands (until mid 1997), and Belgium (in the second half of 1997).
By Enrique Vázquez Gallo, DIT-UPM, 10.01.1997
National
Host - Consensus and Validation
At the National Host Forum meeting in Stockholm, November 28-29, 1996, CONVAIR has presented a questionnaire to support National Host trials. The evaluation of this questionnaire, which is supported by InfoWin, will provide an overview of state-of-the-art interconnection trials and will give a picture of the high-speed networks in Europe. Results, additional information on National Hosts and trial scenarios will be publicly available on the National Host Forum pages and in the ACTS 97 publications.
The main objective of the questionnaire is gathering information on:
The CONVAIR project will establish European telecom evolution strategies which may be used as strategic guidelines for the implementation of advanced communications. Major European sector actors, such as telecommunication operators (British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Belgacom, France Telecom, Telecom Italia and Telefonica), industry (ETIC) and user organisations are heavily involved at various technical, marketing and strategic levels.
The main tasks of CONVAIR are to:
In ACTS, CONVAIR will co-operate with National Hosts and ACTS projects. A close co-operation with the ACTS concertation mechanism is foreseen by co-operation with Chains and Domains and other horizontal projects. The concertation process will be monitored as well as the exploitation of the ACTS Programme. The evaluation of the impact of the ACTS programme will provide input for the 5th Framework Programme. Outside ACTS, user organisations, such as Eurescom, ETSI, or ITU-T will be contacted by CONVAIR.
For more information please send an email to Manfred Horbat at DeTeBerkom.
By Peter Christ, DeTeBerkom, 10.01.1997
Private
Radio Systems Converge to GSM
According to a press announcement of December 6, 1996, Smith System Engineering have been chosen by Railtrack - the UK Railway Authority - as the Project Engineers to lead the new DART (Digital Advanced Radio for Trains) project, based on GSM technology. The objective is that the DART system will eventually supersede Railtrack's existing radio systems, namely Cab Secure Radio (CSR) and the National Radio Network (NRN).
Smith will be responsible for the design, specification, procurement strategy and implementation planning for the train radio system. The Railtrack DART project aims to provide communications services for the railway community, including driver-to-signaller communications and future mobile data communications requirements, such as on-train passenger information systems and real-time train diagnostic systems.
Smith's role includes analysing the performance required by DART in order to meet Railtrack's safety requirements. The performance and safety requirements, together with the user requirements are key inputs into the technical specification which Smith is producing with the assistance of a Design Forum of communications companies. In addition, Smith is also supporting Railtrack in developing the procurement strategy for the DART system in order to provide Railtrack with a flexible, cost-effective strategy that will allow the rapid implementation of DART.
Smith has undertaken many projects for its rail customers throughout Europe in the fields of telecommunications and signalling, safety and risk analysis, operational and performance analysis and information systems.
Contact Phil Moody at Smith System Engineering for further information.
As part of their general area of applications of mobile radio to railways, Smith are the project managers of the ACTS MOSTRAIN project. MOSTRAIN addresses the need for high-integrity communications services for safety-critical applications in train control. MOSTRAIN is working on ensuring that the architecture of new technologies such as UMTS can be configured to deliver mobile communications to and from high-speed trains. This includes such aspects as high-speed handover, cell geometry (both ground-train and in-train), and other characteristics of the high-speed railway radio channel.
As demonstrated in their work on DART, Smith have a powerful vision of the future converging use of radio communications, and of the tensions between commercial applications and R&D. In a paper first published in GSM Quarterly (Issue 3, July 1996), William Webb of Smith argues cogently that there are two opposing views of third-generation mobile systems, but that some reconciliation between these views is possible. With grateful thanks to Smith Systems, we use two diagrams from his work in our review.
The conventional view is that the multiple standards available today for mobile systems converge to UMTS in the future.
Webb argues that this view is held by the European Commission, by those manufacturers who wish to be at the forefront of development, and by regulators.
The evolutionary view is that many of the standards available today converge into GSM, which then moves forwards to UMTS.
This view is broadly supported by existing operators who envisage running their GSM networks for another 15 years or so. Webb feels that this view is also implicitly supported by users - whose requirement for such a service is causing the GSM Phase 2+ development to occur.
He concludes his article by saying:
The widely held opinion at present is that a new third generation system will be standardised which will achieve all the goals of the UMTS vision. In this paper, an alternative approach to achieve the UMTS vision was outlined based on the development of GSM through the Phase 2+ standardisation programme. This programme, which is underway at present, would seem likely to achieve many of the goals of UMTS by around 1999. However, the new standard required for the third generation system envisaged would seem to require substantially longer, resulting in third generation product between 2005 and 2010.
The means to reconcile these differing approaches would seem to accept that UMTS and third generation systems are not necessarily the same things. GSM will achieve most of the goals of UMTS around the timescales initially envisaged for UMTS. Third generation systems will allow these goals to be achieved in a more flexible manner and should be available to take over from GSM as the networks reach their lifetime around 2015. Such an approach, however, leaves regulators with some difficulties surrounding the proposed UMTS spectrum. These require some careful thought in the next few years.
No doubt ACTS projects in the Mobility Domain have their own views on this topic of the timescales for convergence. It may be possible to publish these in a future InfoWin Bulletin. As a quick response (which would make the deadline for the next Bulletin) you can send a letter to the editor on this topic by the end of January.
By Paul Bacsich, Open University, 13.01.1997
Teleteaching
Seminars over the MBONE
Many European projects are working in teleteaching and distance learning, which is expected to become an important area for multimedia applications in high-speed networks. To gain practical experience in this field, the COST 237 project on Multimedia Telecommunication Services has decided to conduct a series of online seminars over the MBONE, the multicast backbone of the Internet.
The seminars will be called COST 237 Euroseminars. Topics will center around multimedia aspects of teleteaching and distance learning, both at universities and in the industry. First seminars will be announced later this January. MBONE tools are available on the Internet for many different platforms. For more information about MBONE see the MBONE Frequently Asked Questions or the MBONE pages at GMD.
Multimedia Telecommunications and Applications was the topic of the third international COST 237 workshop held in Barcelona from November 25 - 27, 1996. For information about the workshop programme and proceedings see ACTS NewsClips No. 15.
By Enrique Vázquez Gallo,
DIT-UPM, 10.01.1997
DAB
Joint Venture for SwitzerlandFor the first time, Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio technique, allowing for simultaneous transmission of audio programmes in CD quality and accompanying data like text and graphics, is now being implemented in Switzerland.
This has been made possible by MMC (Media Clearing Centre), a joint venture of Swiss Telecom PTT and the Radio Basilisk group. Since October of 1996, MMC is providing the region of Basle with DAB broadcasts, the new digital standard for mobile, portable and stationary reception of audio, but also other data signals, developed in the Eureka project number 147.
In order to provide such a service, which is currently being introduced in many other countries, three DAB stations were set up in the region. Presently, the frequencies used are in the VHF (Very High Frequency) range. Programmes include a weather service (Meteo Media AG), a traffic information service (Traffix), as well as the international services of the BBC.
By Jaume Llardén Prieto, Swiss Telecom PTT, 07.01.1997
Portable
Phone Numbers in the U.K.
Portable telephone numbers are to become a reality in the U.K. In March, Mercury Communications will offer their portable number scheme (first reported in ACTS NewsClips No. 4). It will enable companies to move to an alternative telecom service provider without having to change their telephone number. This means that such companies will not have to change their advertising material and letter head should they choose to switch to another network supplier.
What may seem like a small and unimportant detail to telecom watchers is in fact a significant advance in the area of liberalisation. The "ownership" of telephone numbers - traditionally in the hands of the state-run PTT - has been an issue for many years. It constitutes a "covert" monopoly, which the U.K. regulator, Oftel, has removed only recently. The ruling removes one of the barriers to changing network suppliers - the (consequential) cost(s) of updating their telephone number.
A particularly lucrative block of numbers is the 0-800 group, the so-called non-geographic charge-free (a.k.a toll-free) numbers. Until recently, these had been "owned" by British Telecom, but now companies such as AT&T and ACC can enter the market and bring about competition. The word is that anyone contemplating an 0-800 service should make sure that they are not locked into a long-term contract. This promises to be a very dynamic area, and prices are set to fall in the near future.
By Adrian Rawlings, Open University, 12.1.1997
European
Contestants in the Web Browser WarUntil quite recently, general consensus had it that Netscape is holding around 50 to 60 percent share of the traffic on the World Wide Web, with browser pioneer NCSA Mosaic falling behind and Microsoft's Internet Explorer steadily gaining ground. Maybe due to superior marketing on the U.S. side (and the fact that most big access providers have struck deals with Netscape and/or Microsoft), it has gone almost unnoticed that there are actually some European companies aiming to be more than just runners up in the race. German gonet communication, a spin off of P.INK Software Engineering, in the DTP community known for their P.INK PRESS professional publishing system, is targeting the Macintosh market with their GoLive family of WWW products. And then there is another European browser which is definitely worth looking into, says our Scandinavian correspondent.
Norwegian start-up company Opera Software has just announced a new version of their Internet browser which proves that an advanced computer programme does not necessarily require the latest and most expensive computers. Opera 2.1 offers high performance even for owners of small computers with little memory. Minimum requirements are a 386 SX with 4 MB RAM. "We appreciate that corporate and home users are not content when their one or two year old computers are said to be out of date", says Jon von Tetzchner, managing director of Opera Software. "One main goal for us has been to counteract this trend (of built-in obsolescence) by offering users an advanced programme for their small and low priced computers".
Ever since the programme has been available (in the summer of 1996), "feedback from all over the world has been extraordinary", says v. Tetzchner. The browser is currently available in English, Norwegian, Latin-Spanish and Swedish for Windows. German, Italian, Icelandic, Afrikaans and European-Spanish versions should be on the market soon. An OS/2 version is in the works, Mac users might have to wait a little longer.
What catches the eye is Opera's speed. A lot of effort has been put in optimising the programme. Another interesting feature is the possibility of downloading documents in different windows at the same time. This comes in handy when retrieving information from far away sources or if documents are very big.
The browser is also focusing on security aspects. It is the only browser which has integrated support for the advanced smart card security system. This allows to put encrypted information on the net, thus preventing unauthorised access. The information can only be accessed by the holder of the right smart card, additional password protection is also possible. "The use of this smart card - which can be programmed to expire after a certain period or be 'clip-card' based - gives far more security compared to what today's passwords in the internet offer", says v. Tetzchner. In addition of being an interesting tool for corporate Intranets, Opera with Smart Cards can also be used for business transactions over the net.
By Thorbjorn Thorbjornsen, Telenor, 15.01.1997
Enjoy
the Internet Before the Litigation Starts
It seems sad to start the New Year on a downbeat note, but the days of the Internet as a 'free' and unregulated domain are coming to an end. In years to come, children will sit on their grandparent's knee and ask, 'Was the Internet really that free in the 1990s?'. They will be referring to that happy epoch, in the days before lawyers set up camp and colonised the Internet . Here are some observations that cast a shadow over the future of the Internet as we know it.
The editor of the Shetland Times newspaper (Shetland is the most Northerly province of the United Kingdom) has complained to the Court of Session (Scotland's supreme civil court) that a web-based publication, called the Shetland News has been making direct links to the Shetland Times on-line pages.
An interim injunction has been granted, which forbids the web-based Shetland News from quoting, or making hyperlinks to, the long-established Shetland Times. Robert Wishart, Managing Director of The Shetland Times is claiming breach of copyright. In a statement he said
'My view is that by incorporating our copyright material into his [Dr Jonathan Wills, editor of Shetland News] news service he infringes our copyright. The technical process by which this is achieved is irrelevant.'
The Court's ruling has been contested by a number of bodies, including the UK National Union of Journalists.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO - a U.N. agency) has adopted treaties regarding copyrights in the digital age. The treaties cover a wide-range of copyright issues, including:
By Adrian Rawlings, Open University, 12.1.1997
NICE
Workshop Connects Around the World
On January 21, several sites around the world, from Canada to Russia, will be connected in an experimental distributed workshop organised by the ACTS project NICE. The CEE/NIS NICE workshop will provide an opportunity to experiment with interactive multimedia applications over terrestrial and satellite ATM connections spanning a worldwide area.
The workshop presentations (see preliminary programme below) will be given from several sites in Italy, Spain, Canada, Greece, and Russia. These sites will be interconnected at 2 Mb/s using a platform based on the ISABEL CSCW application . (ISABEL is described in the InfoWin thematic issue on successful multimedia applications.) Additionally, MBONE technology will be used to reach other sites in Central and Eastern European countries.
The contents of the workshop will be based mainly on the research activities carried out in NICE work package 2. The talks will address the following topics:
11:00 Opening from Madrid, Spain
11:20 Workshop network and platform, from Madrid
12:00 Presentation from Athens, Greece
14:00 Guidelines for event network design, from Torino, Italy
14:30 The ATMA based network node, from Madrid
15:00 Presentation from Yaroslava, Russia
16:00 Presentation from Ottawa, Canada
16:30 Architecture of ISABEL, from Madrid
17:00 Closure, from all interactive sites
For additional information about the workshop, contact DIT-UPM or Telefonica I+D in Spain, or CSELT in Italy.
By Enrique Vázquez Gallo,
DIT-UPM, 11.01.1997
IEEE
ATM'97 Workshop
Call for papers
The third IEEE ATM Workshop sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from May 26-28, 1997. Its objective is to foster the exchange of information among those working in the diverse areas of ATM. Original contributions from researchers and developers in academia, industry and government are invited on topics such as: ATM switch architectures, implementation and performance, ATM LAN switches, ATM traffic modelling, video/image coding and transmission over ATM, ATM standards, broadband signalling, traffic management functions and procedures, admission control and routing, ATM internetworking, telephony over ATM, multicasting over ATM and more.
The extended abstracts (5 pages) should be submitted within January 31 to Jim Roberts. For registration and general information, please contact Augusto Casaca.
By Vera Franz, Techno-Z
FH F&E, 14.01.1997
Workshop
on Systems, Signals and Image Processing
Call for papers
After workshops in Budapest and Manchester, the 4th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP-97, will be jointly organised by Poznan University of Technology / Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication, Polish Society for Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering, European Association for Signal Processing, their Poland Section and European Circuit Society. The event takes place May 28-30 in Poznan, Poland. Papers and researchers from all over the world, and especially from Central Europe, are welcome.
Scope:
Extended summaries are due by January 22, 1997. For information contact Prof. Marek Domanski at Politechnika Poznanska.
By Reinhard Geiger, Techno-Z FH F&E, 15.01.1997
4th Outlook
for the Mobile Communications Industry Conference
22.-23.01.1997, Dallas, TX
ENTER 97 @ edinburg - 4th Int'l.
Congress on Information and Communiations Technologies in Tourism
22.-24.01.1997, Edinburgh, UK
Tele-Course
on Computer Vision
24.01.-28.02.1997 (see ACTS NewsClips No.
15)
Technical Audit for all ACTS projects
27.-31.01.1997, Brussels, Belgium
DECT'97 - Towards full commercialisation
27.-29.01.1997, London, UK
Workshop:
Towards the Virtual Manufacturing Enterprise - Tools, Technologies
and Models
30.-31.01.1997 Rovereto, Italy
G7 GIBN Workshop
02.02.1997, Brussels, Belgium
Creating the Value @dded Internet
Conference
03-04.02.1997, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
1st International Conference
on Autonomous Agents
05.-08.02.1997, Marina del Rey, California
Photonics West '97
Optoelectronics '97, High Power Lasers (LASE) '97, International Biomedical
Optics (BiOS '97), Electronic Imaging Science and Technology (EI '97)
08.-14.02.1997, San Jose, CA
MILIA'97 - Digital media's premier international business forum 09-12.02.1997, Cannes, France
5th Int'l.Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualisation 97 10.-14.02.1997, Plzen, Czech Republic
Evolving to Global Multimedia Networks 11.-12.02.02.1997, London, UK
Broadcast@Internet Exploiting Convergence12.-14.02.1997, London, UK
Optical Fibre Conference
16-21.02.1997, Dallas, TX
contact: Andy Houghton
1997 EPPA Congress Innovative Applications for Paging17.-18.02.1997, Nice, France
GSM World Congress - Strategies
& Solutions for Operator Profitability
19-21.02.1997, Cannes, France
IMAGINA Conferences on
Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Special Effects, Cyberspace
19-21.02.1997, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Optical Networks Workshop (at Optical Fibre Conference)
22.02.1997, Dallas, TX
PAKDD'97
1st Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
23.-24.02.1997, Singapore
WI 97 Int'l. Conference on
Business Informatics
26.-28.02.1977, Berlin, Germany
Euroform Conference
Achieving Successful migration to ATM
26.-27.02.1997, London, UK (see ACTS NewsClips
No. 15)
Conference on Cultural Heritage in the Information Society World
February 1997, Rome, Italy
SME Workshop 03.03.1997, Brussels, Belgium
contact: Jean Millar
Consumer Online Services 03.-05.03.1997, New York, NY
ACTS Concertation Meeting
04.-05.03.1997, Brussels, Belgium
contact: Paul Verrept
Photonic Technologies Domain Workshop
05.03.1997, Brussels, Belgium
contact: Andy Houghton
Seminar on Launch Scenarios for Advanced Communications Services
05.03.1997, Brussels, Belgium
contact: Jean Millar
Mobile Broadband Conference
06.- 07.03.1997, London, UK (see ACTS NewsClips
No. 14)
USINACTS Interactive
Distributed Seminar SERVICES, TRIALS AND USERS
06.03.1997, Brussels, Belgium; Madrid, Spain; Berlin, Germany and Tampere,
Finland
(see ACTS NewsClips No. 14)
contact: Jean Millar,
Anne Clarke of USINACTS
10th International
Unicode Conference and Global Computing Showcase
10.-12.03.1997, Mainz, Germany
ACTS Demonstrations and Exhibits at Craftsmen and SMEs in the Information
Society
10.-17.03.1997, Munich, Germany
contact: Nick Heenan
7th International Conference
on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
11.-14.03.1997, Burlingame, CA
Intelligent Agents Enabling Personalised Services 11.-12.03.1997, London, UK
AVBPA - Audio-
and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication
12.-14.03.1997, Crans-Montana, Switzerland
EBIC 97 - European Business
Iinformation Conference
18.-21.03.1997, Berlin, Germany
National Host Forum Meeting
19.-20.03.1997, Netherlands
Mobile Internet 97 Bringing Mobility to the Information Society 19.-21.03.1997, London, UK
Second European
Telework Festival
20.-22.03.1997, Serre Chevalier, France (see
ACTS NewsClips No. 14)
CHI
'97 Looking to the Future Conference on Human Factors in Computer
Systems
22.-27.03.1997 Atlanta, GA
EURO CPR'97 Annual Conference in European Communications Policy Research 23.-25.03.1997, Venice, Italy
Open NI Chain Workshop on Broadband Network Deployment
25.03.1997, Rennes, France
contact: Paulo de Sousa, Renaud
di Francesco
ATM'97
25.03.1997, Rennes, France
4th ACM Conference
on Computer and Communications Security
02.-04.04.1997, Zurich, Switzerland
First Euro-Chinese Conference on the Information Society
02.-04.04.1997, Beijing, PR China (see
ACTS NewsClips No. 14)
MA
97: Workshop on Mobile Agents
07.-08.04.1997, Berlin, Germany
IEEE INFOCOM
' 97 Driving the Information Revolution
07.-11.04.1997, Kobe, Japan
First Annual G7 Conference
Global Marketplace for SMEs
07.-09.04.1997, Bonn, Germany
GSM China 08.-10.04.1997, Beijing, PRC
ISADS '97 3rd Int. Symposium
on Autonomous Decentralised Systems
09.-11.04.1997, Berlin, Germany
Conference on
Electronic Publishing
14.-16.04.1997 Canterbury, UK
BCS International Conference on Virtual
Environments on the Internet, WWW, and Networks
15.-17.04.1997 Bradford, UK
Wireless in the Local Loop 15.-17.04.1997, Budapest, Hungary
ICASSP 97 Int'l.
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
20.-24.04.1997, Munich, Germany
OBCE'97 - Overcoming Barriers
to Electronic Commerce
21.-25.04.1997, Malaga, Spain
EP '97 Electronic Publishing International 23.-25.04.1997, Hamilton, Bermuda
2nd Erlangen Symposium on Advances
in Digital Image Communication
25.04.1997, Erlangen, Germany
5th Symposium on Interactive
3D Graphics
27.-30.04.1997, Providence, RI
7th Conference on High
Performance Network
28.04-01.05.1997 White Plains, NY
Conference on Joint Public/Private Partnership in Cultural Heritage
& the Info Society
April 1997, Washington DC
NI Chain and Chain Group Meetings
06.-07.05.1997, Paris, France
contact: Paulo de Sousa, Renaud
di Francesco
SGML Europe 97
11.-16.05.1997, Barcelona, Spain
JENC-8 8th Joint
European Network Conference
12.-15.05.1997, Edinburgh, UK
HFT' 97 16th International
Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunications
12.-16.05.1997, Oslo, Norway
Virtual Reality World '97
13.-15.05.1997, Stuttgart, Germany
IFIP TC11 Conference on
Information Security: Research and Business
14-16.05.1997, Copenhagen, Denmark
Internet World UK
20.-22.05.1997, London, UK
Workshop on Synthetic/Natural
Hybrid Coding
21.05.1997, Milan, Italy
ECMAST
- 2nd European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services
and Technologies
21.-23.05.1997, Milan, Italy (see ACTS NewsClips No. 12)
contact: Leon Van Noorden,
Eric Badiqué, Francisco
Guirao, Steffen Malmros
IEEE ATM'97 Workshop
26-28.05.1997, Lisbon, Portugal (see call for papers above)
IS&N '97
27.-29.05.1997, Como/Milan, Italy (see ACTS NewsClips No. 11)
contact: Mario Campolargo
IWSSIP-97 4th
Int'l. Workshop on System, Signals and Image Processing
28.-30.05.1997 Poznan, Poland (see call for papers above)
International
Conference on Quality Control by Artifical Vision
28.-30.05.1997 Le Creusot, France
INFO SERVICES EXPO
97 50th World Newspaper Congress/4th World Editors Forum Conference
02.-04.06.1997, Amsterdam, Nederlands
ICMCS-97, IEEE Int'l.
Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
03.-06.06.1997, Ottawa, Canada
DSV-IS
97 4th Int'l. Eurographics Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification
of Interactive Systems
04.-06.06.1997, Granada, Spain
ACTS Concertation Meeting
03.-04.06.1997, Brussels, Belgium
contact: Paul Verrept
9th Conference on Computer
Animation '97
05.-06.06.1997, Geneva, Switzerland
Telecoms@the Internet
09.-13.06.1997, London, UK
GINA-NI Conference on Global Networking
15.-18.6.1997, Madeira, Portugal
contact: Paulo de Sousa
ITS/ICCC Global Networking Conference
'97
15.-18.06.1997, Calgary, Canada
SERS 97 9th Int'l. Conference
on Software and Knowledge Engineering
18.-20.05.1997, Madrid, Spain
HPCS
97 4th IEEE
Workshop on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance
Communication Systems
23.-25.06.1997, Sani Beach, Chalkidiki, Greece
International Workshop on Sampling
Theory and Applications
23.-26.06.1997, Aveiro, Portugal
IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop on Multimedia
Signal Processing
23.-26.06.1997, Princeton, NJ
WIAMIS
'97 - Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
23.-25.06.1997, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
Cellular Mobile Communications in Central and Eastern Europe
23.-25.06.1997, Warsaw, Poland
CG International '97 - Virtual
Environments and Multimedia on Networks and the Internet
24.-28.06.1997, Hasselt-Diepenbeek, Belgium
IEA'97 From Experience
to Innovation, 13th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics
Association
29.06-04.07.1997, Tampere, Finland
ISDSS 97 4th Conference
of the International Society for Decision Support Systems
21.-22.07.1997, Lausanne, Switzerland
ACM International Conference
on Digital Libraries
23.-26.07.1997, Philadelphia, PA
DMS 97 Pacific Workshop on Dist.
MM Systems
24.-27.07.1997, Vancouver, Canada
SIGIR 97 ACM International
Conference on R&D in Information Retrieval
25.-31.07.1997, Philadelphia, PA
SPIE
Annual Meeting / Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image
Processing
27.07.-01.08.1997, San Diego, CA
SIGGRAPH 97 24th International
Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques
03.-08.08.1997, Los Angeles, CA
Summerschool on New Information
Technology and Work Psychology
10.-31.08.1997, Budapest, Hungary
HCI '97 European
Human-Computer Interaction forum
12.-15.08.1997, Bristol, UK
4th
Asia-Pacific Conference on HDL (APCHDL'97)
18.-20.08.1997, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
HCI International
'97 7th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
jointly with 13th Symposium on Human Interface (Japan)
24.-29.08.1997, San Francisco, CA
Designing Interactive Systems 97 30.08.-01.09.1997, Netherlands
ICHIM 97 & EVA Paris
97 Museums and the Visual Arts
01.-05.09.1997, Paris, France
7th Int'l.
Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
01.-03.09.1997, London, UK
1997
IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing
07.-11.09.1997, Mackinac Island, MI
ESCW
97 European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
07.-11.09.1997, Lancaster, UK
IROS
97 - IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
08.-12.09.1997, Grenoble, France
TELECOM Interactive '97
08-14.09.1997, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
Picture Coding Symposium
10.-12.09.1997, Berlin, Germany
CM SIGCOMM'97 Conference
14.-18.09.1997, Cannes, France
16th
GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing
15.-19.09.1997, Grenoble, France
NI Chain and Chain Group Meetings
15.09.1997, Paris, France
contact: Paulo de Sousa, Renaud
di Francesco
ACTS Concertation Meeting
16.-17.09.1997, Brussels, Belgium
contact: Paul Verrept
NI Chain and Chain Group Meetings
18.09.1997, Ghent, Belgium
contact: Paulo de Sousa, Renaud
di Francesco
ECOC '97 European Conference on Optical Communications
22-26.09.1997, Edinburgh, UK
IFIP TC6 2nd Workshop
on ATM
24.-26.09.1997 Canada
3rd International Conference on Communications
and Multimedia Security
25-26.09.1997, Athens, Greece
Optical Networks Workshop
27.09.1997, Edinburgh, UK
4th European Assembly on Telework and New Ways of Working
September 1997, Stockholm, Sweden
2nd ACTS International Mobile Summit
07-10.10.1997, Arlborg, Denmark
contact: Bartolomé Arroyo
ICANN
'97 - 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
08.-10.10.1997, Lausanne, Switzerland
IEEE Signal
Processing Society - 1997 International Conference on Image Processing
26.-29.10.1997, Santa Barbara, CA
Conference on Human Factors and Usability
October 1997, London, UK
NI Chain and Chain Group Meetings
06.-07.11.1997, Athens, Greece
contact: Paulo de Sousa, Renaud
di Francesco
ACTS Concertation Meeting
09.-10.12.1997, Brussels, Belgium
contact: Paul Verrept
ACTS Demonstrations and Exhibits at Expo 98
22.05.-30.09.1998, Lisbon, Portugal
contact: Nick Heenan
1998
International Conference on Image Processing
04.-07.1998, Chicago, IL
ACTS Demonstrations and Exhibits at Telecom 99
01.-17.10.1999, Geneva, Switzerland
contact: Nick Heenan
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