CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

            Workshop on Resource Allocation 
             Problems in Multimedia Systems

   Held in conjunction with the 17th IEEE Real-Time 
                  Systems Symposium

          December 3, 1996, Washington, DC


The timing problems inherent in the design and construction of 
multimedia systems have led to a renaissance in the study of real-
time resource allocation problems in the operating system, 
distributed systems, and networking communities.  This workshop 
seeks to bring together multimedia systems researchers and 
developers from these fields to assess the state of the art and practice 
in solving real-time multimedia resource allocation problems, to 
identify common solution techniques and algorithms, and to 
articulate promising future research directions.  The result of the 
workshop will be the publication of a special issue of the Kluwer 
journal Real-Time Systems on the dominant results and themes 
emerging from the workshop.  

To participate in the workshop, individuals are encouraged to submit 
a 3-5 page position paper or extended research abstract.  Position 
papers commenting of the current state of the art, speculative new 
approaches or solution techniques, current and future system 
requirements, or future research directions, are solicited.  Extended 
abstracts of previously unpublished research results, project 
summaries, or practice and experience papers are also welcome.  Of 
particular interest are position papers and abstracts addressing 
resource allocation problems arising in the design and realization of

      - quality of service managers and architectures

      - video on demand systems

      - digital libraries

      - multimedia file systems 

      - network communication protocols

      - multimedia authoring and presentation systems

      - operating system schedulers

      - network packet schedulers

The format of the workshop will consist of presentations and 
discussions of submitted and invited papers as well as a panel 
discussion.  Individuals submitting papers should indicate their 
willingness to either present a brief synopsis of their paper or serve 
on a discussion panel.

An electronic proceedings of the workshop will be published on the 
World Wide Web.  Based on the results of the workshop, a subset 
of the submitted papers will be selected for consideration for 
inclusion in a special issue of the journal Real-Time Systems to be 
published in 1997.  Authors of these papers will be invited to submit 
full versions of their paper for an expedited peer review.

Workshop Registration Guidelines

All requests for participation in the workshop should be sent to via 
electronic mail to Professor Kevin Jeffay (jeffay@cs.unc.edu).  
Position papers and extended abstracts should be mailed as either 
plain PostScript or ASCII files and should be sent by November 20, 
1996.