4th EUROMEDIA CONFERENCE
1999

FEATURING

WEBTEC-MEDIATEC-COMTEC-APTEC 

FINAL PROGRAM

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MUNICH, GERMANY

APRIL 26-28, 1999

Hosted by:

SIEMENS AG, Munich, Germany 

CONTENTS

General Information	4

Conference Location	4
How to get there	4
Badges	4
Tickets	4
Need Help?	4
Registration	5
Conference Proceedings	5
Social Event and Lunches	5
Best Paper Award	6
Paper Legend	6

Quick Program Overview	7

Scientific Program	9

Sunday, April 25	9
Monday, April 26	10
Tuesday, April 27	14
Wednesday, April 28	18

Conference Locations	21

General Information
Conference Location

The Conference takes place at Conference Site is the Convention Center of Siemens AG
Siemens AG, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81739 Munich , Germany.
The registration desk will be placed in the hallway on the ground floor. Registration will start on Sunday, April 25, at 4.00 p.m.and from Monday onwards from 8.30 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. every day with Wednesday registration only at 9.45 a.m.- 10.15 a.m.

ALL MAPS ARE AT THE BACK OF THIS PROGRAMME

How to get there

By Plane:
International Airport Munich, Tel.: ++49-89-97500

By Train:
Munich is located on the international railway line Paris-Frankfurt-Stuttgart-Munich-Salzburg-Vienna-Budapest as well as at the international railway line Roma-Innsbruck-Munich-Hamburg-Kopenhagen

By Car:
>From the West: Motorway (Autobahn) A8 from Karlsruhe via Stuttgart
>From the North: Motorway A9 from Nuremburg
>From the East: Motorway A8 from Salzburg
>From the South Motorway from Innsbruck via Rosenheim

Badges

Each registrant will receive a name badge upon registration. The badge must be worn to be admitted to the technical sessions, lunches and social event.

Tickets

 Extra tickets for the social event and lunches are available from the registration desk.
		Price: (or equivalent in another currency) for extra tickets

conference dinner: 	50 EURO	100 DM	

Need Help?

Check with SCS personnel at Registration Desk.

General Information

Registration

The EUROMEDIA’99  Registration Desk will be open for information and registration:

Sunday, April 25		4.00 p.m.  to  6.00 p.m. in the main Hall
Monday, April 26		8.30 a.m.  to  5.00 p. m. in the main Hall
Tuesday, April 27		9.00 a.m.  to  5.00 p. m. in the main Hall
Wednesday, April 28		9.45 a.m.  to  10.15 a.m. in the main Hall

Conference Proceedings

Each fully paid registrant will be provided with a copy of the Conference Proceedings (printed format) This is NOT applicable to students who are not authors.
( Extra copies, are available on a cash and carry basis at special rates during EUROMEDIA’99)

		Price:(or equivalent in another currency) for an extra copy

EUROMEDIA'99 Proceedings	30 EURO	65 DM	
Other books & CD’s 	see desk	see desk	

Social Event and Lunches

All registrants are invited to 
Conference Dinner, Tuesday April 27th
Will be held in The Ratskeller Munchen on the main square (Marienplatz 8, 80331 Munchen) All participants will be taken there by bus.
Buffet lunches and Coffee are served at Siemens.

General Information

Best Paper Award

During the conference the papers which were accepted as extended papers will be judged by the committee in order to choose the best paper of the EUROMEDIA’99 conference.

Paper Legend:

E= Extended
R= Regular
S= Short
	O= Overhead
S= Slide Projector
LCD=  Projector
VCR= Video
PC= PC	

ALL SESSION CHAIRPERSONS IN THIS PROGRAM ARE PROVISIONAL

THE NUMBERS NEXT TO THE PRESENTATIONS DENOTE THE PAGE-NUMBERS IN THE PROCEEDINGS. IF NO NUMBERS ARE MENTIONED THEN THIS PAPER IS NOT PUBLISHED IN THE PROCEEDINGS

THE AUTHORS WHO ARE UNDERLINED ARE NORMALLY THE PRESENTERS

PAPERS IN GREY BOXES ARE THE EXTENDED PAPERS ELIGIBLE FOR THE BEST PAPER AWARD

CHECK OUT THE OTHER SCS EVENTS ON OUR WEBSITE: http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs

MOST PROCEEDINGS OF SCS EUROPE SINCE 1996 ARE NOW AVAILABLE 
ON CD-ROM

ANOTHER GREAT IDEA OF 

THE SIMULATION INFORMATION PEOPLE

 	PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SUNDAY April 25, 1999	
16.00-18.00	Registration at Siemens	

 	PROGRAM OVERVIEW
MONDAY April 26, 1999	
08.30-17.00	Registration 	
 	Room A	Room B	Room C	
09.00-09.15	Opening Session in the Main Hall	
09.15-10.15	Keynote Presentation in the Main Hall	
10.15-10.45	Coffee Break	
10.45-12.15	APTEC I	COMTEC I	MEDIATEC I	
12.15-13.15	Lunch	
13.15-15.30	APTEC II	COMTEC II		
15.30-16.00	Coffee Break	
16.00-18.00	APTEC III		WEBTEC I	

 	PROGRAM OVERVIEW
TUESDAY April 27, 1999	
08.30-17.00	Registration 	
 	Room A	Room B	Room C	
09.15-10.15	Keynote Presentation in the Main Hall	
10.15-10.45	Coffee Break	
10.45-12.15		Invited Presentation from Siemens		
12.15-13.15	Lunch	
13.15-15.30	WEBTEC II	COMTEC III	MEDIATEC II	
15.00-16.00	Coffee Break	
16.00-18.00	APTEC IV	WEBTEC III	MEDIATEC III	
19.30-22.30	Conference Dinner 	
 	
 	PROGRAM OVERVIEW
WEDNESDAY April 28, 1999	
09.45-10.15	Registration	
 	Room A	Room B	Room C	
10.15-12.15	APTEC V	COMTEC IV	MEDIATEC IV	
12.15-13.15	Lunch	
13.15-14.30	APTEC VI		WEBTEC IV	
14.30-14.45	Farewell Address
and Best Paper Award			

Sunday, April 25, 1999

16.00	-	18.00	Registration at Siemens in the Main Hall

Monday, April 26, 1999

08.30	-	17.00  	Registration

09.00 	- 	09.15  	Opening Session

Main Hall	Opening Address 
Winfried Hahn, General Conference Chair, University of Passau, Germany

Welcome Address
Ellen Walther-Klaus, General Program Chair, Siemens AG

Welcome Announcements
Philippe Geril, SCS Europe

09.15 	- 	10.15  	Keynote Presentation

Main Hall 	Session Chairperson: 
Fernand Broeckx, Gencerv CV, Antwerp, Belgium

European Information Society Technologies, A Unique Momentum
Mr. Emiel De Hert, European Commission, DGXIII

10.15 	- 	10.45  	Coffee Break

10.45 	- 	12.15  	Parallel Sessions

Room A	APTEC I

10.45-12.15  	Session Chairperson:
A.Sandalov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

APTEC-7-R
IT Security Training for SMEs via the Internet
Matthew Warren, Jonathan Lean, Mark Swain 
and Graham Plumb	210

APTEC-9-R-O
Using the Worldwide Web to Facilitate Teaching and Learning
Shicheng Tian	222

Monday, April 26, 1999

Room b	Comtec I 

10.45-12.15  	Session Chairperson:
Jan Knop, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

COMTEC-1-R-O
A Novel Media-Access-Control Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks
R.Skakni and C.G.Guy	115

COMTEC-2-R
An Interactive and Cooperative VideoRecording on-demand System over Mbone
Giancarlo Fortino and Libero Nigro	120

Room C	Mediatec I 

10.45-12.15  	Session Chairperson:
Fernand Broeckx, Gencerv CV, Antwerp, Belgium

MEDIATEC-1-R-O
Visually Uniform Near-Lossless CMYK Image Compression
Koen Denecker, Peter De Neve, Boris Rogge, Dimitri Van De Ville 
and Ignace Lemahieu	59

MEDIATEC-2-R-S
Network Implementation of a Voice-Based Conversational Service of a World Wide Web Educational System
Paola Salomini, Marco Roccetti and Maria Elena Bonfigli	64

12.15 	- 	13.15  	Lunch

13.15 - 		15.30  	Parallel Sessions

Room A	Aptec II

13.30-15.30  	Session Chairperson:
Ph. D. Shuichi Fukuda, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

APTEC-3-R-O
The Cost Effectiveness Criterion-Based Approach to Development, Implementation and Support of Computer-Based Training Simulators for Continuous Process Operators
Victor M.Dozortsev, Dmitry V.Kneller 
and Nikolai V.Shestakov	197

Monday, April 26, 1999

APTEC-4-R-O
On Time, Within Budget: A Simulation Based Learning Environment for Practising Resource Allocation in Instructional System Development Projects
Alexei Sioutine and J.Michael Spector	202

APTEC-13-R-O-LCD
MANERCOS: A New Tool providing Ergonomics in a Concurrent Engineering Design Life Cycle
Samuel Gomes, Jean-Claude Sagot, Abder Koukam
and Nicolas Leroy	237

Room B	COMTEC II

13.15-15.30  	Session Chairperson:
Prof.Dr. Krzysztof Amborski, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt

COMTEC-3-R-O
On the Life Cycle of the Certification Authority Key Pair in EMV'96
Constantinos Markantonakis and Konstantinos Rantos	125

COMTEC-4-R-O
Security Considerations in Online Distance Learning
Steven Furnell, Udo Bleimann, Johnni Girsang, Horst Röder, Peter Sanders and Ingo Stengel	131

COMTEC-7-R-O
A Hyper Graphics Markup Language for Optimising WWW Access in Wireless Networks
Paul Reynolds, Steven Furnell, Michael Evans 
and Andy Phippen	136

15.30 - 		16.00  	Coffee Break

16.00 - 		18.00  	Parallel Sessions

Room A	APTEC-III

16.00-18.00  	Session Chairperson:
Takoe Onoye, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

APTEC-1-E-O-LCD
Simulation and Virtual Reality for Education on the Web
Christian Schmid	181

Monday, April 26, 1999

APTEC-2-E-O
Technique and Didactics of Computer Based Training for Industrial Plant Operators
Victor M.Dozortsev	189

Room C	WEBTEC I

16.00-18.00  	Session Chairperson:
Uwe Borghoff, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany

WEBTEC-2-E-S
VR-CLASS: A Multi-User VRML Teaching EnvironmenT
Pedro García López, Antonio Gomez Skarmeta, Jose Jaime Meseguer and Jesus Ibáñez Martinez	3

MEDIATEC-2-R
Simulating Partial Differential Equations in the World Wide Web
Juan de Lara and Manuel Alfonseca	45

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

08.30	-	17.00  	Registration

09.15 	- 	10.15  	Keynote Presentation

Main Hall 	Session Chairperson: 
Prof.Winfried Hahn, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

The Internet: A Revolution in Communications and Electronic Business
Dr.Peter Page, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

10.15 	- 	10.45  	Coffee Break

10.45 	- 	12.15  	Invited Presentation

Main Hall 	Session Chairperson: 
Prof.Winfried Hahn, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

Multimedia Content in the Broadcast Industry
Glenn Benson, Michael Koehler and Reinhold Schulzki, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

12.15 	- 	13.15  	Lunch

13.15 	- 	15.30  	Parallel Sessions

Room A	WEBTEC II 

13.15-15.30  	Session Chairperson:
David Hill, Universite Blaise Pascal, Aubiere Cedex, France

WEBTEC-3-R-O
A Web Help for Oncology
L.Motta, C.Lombardo, T.Wiley, R.Sacile, E.Villa, G.Nicolò, D.Ugolini 
and L.Santi	11

WEBTEC-4-R-LCD
Personalizing Your Electronic Newspaper
Vicente Luque Centeno, Carmen Fernández Panadero, Carlos Delgado Kloos, 
Andrés Marin López and Carlos García Rubio	16

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

WEBTEC-9-S-O-PC
Computing of Distributed Virtual Environment Based on Complex Behaviors
Wang Yong-Jun, Wang Yi-Jie, Hu Shou-Ren and Li Si-Kun	42

Room B	COMTEC III

13.15-15.30  	Session Chairperson:
Johan Opsommer, Belgacom NV, Brussels, Belgium

COMTEC-8-R-O-LCD
Low-Power Architecture of H.324 Codec Dedicated to Mobile Computing
Gen Fujita, Hiroyuki Okuhata, Morgan H.Miki, Kenji Mastumura, Takao Onoye and Isao Shirakawa	145

COMTEC-10-R-O
Remote Command Execution Mechanism with Network Transparency on WAN
Masaaki Takase, Nariyoshi Yamai and Koso Murakami	157

COMTEC-9-E-O
Adaptive Multicast Routing Method for Load Distribution
Hideki Tode, Hiroki Yamauchi and Hiromasa Ikeda	150

Room c	MEDIATEC II

13.15-15.30  	Session Chairperson:
G.Peter, 

MEDIATEC-8-R
Analysis of Facial Expressions Using Silhouettes
L.J.M.Rothkrantz, J.C.Wojdel and A.Wojdel	98

MEDIATEC-9-R
Redundancy and Ambiguity in Multimodal Human Computer Interaction
L.J.M.Rothkrantz and M.Andre	106

15.30 	- 	16.00  	Coffee Break

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

Room A	APTEC IV

16.00-18.00  	Session Chairperson:
W.Haverkamp,University of Passau, Passau, Germany

APTEC-6-S-O
Digital Simulation of Continuous Systems
Krzysztof Amborski, Manfred Pester and Hans Schulz	207

APTEC-10-R-O
A Design for Video on Demand System with Multicasting and Burst Data Transmission
Satoshi Uno, Hideki Tode and Koso Murakami	227

APTEC-11-R-O
Cooperative Information Systems over the Internet and the WWW
Christos Bouras, Panagiotis Destounis, John Garofalakis, Giannis Tzimas, 
Vassilis Triantafillou and Panagiotis Zarafidis	232

Room B	WEBTEC III

16.00-18.00  	Session Chairperson:
Lorenzo Motta, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

WEBTEC-5-R-O
NATIVE: A Network Architecture Supporting Large-Scale VRML Based Collaborative Virtual Environment
Qingping Lin, Weihua Wang, Ji Feng, Bo Gao, Tin Oo Zaw, Yoke Hwee Low and Karthikeyan Balasubramanian	23

WEBTEC-6-R-O
Region of Interest-Based Progressive Transmission of Greyscale Images across the Internet
B.Rogge, I.Lemahieu, W.Philips, K.Denecker, P.De Neve 
and S.Van Assche	28

WEBTEC-11-S-O-PC
Adaptive Hypermedia Learning System on the Web
Alenka Kavčič	53

Tuesday, April 27, 1999
Room C	MEDIATEC III

16.00-18.00  	Session Chairperson:
Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

MEDIATEC-6-R-O
Online Algorithms for Multimedia Object Allocation onto Heterogeneous Storage Systems
Abdulaziz Al-Sehibani and Kishan Mehrotra	85

MEDIATEC-7-R-LCD
Enhancement of News On-Demand Systems via User-Oriented News Digest Composing Mechanisms
Kazuyoshi Mii, Yuuchi Teranashi, Akira Koijma, Hiroki Akama, Tetsuji Satoh, 
Katsumi Teranaka, Junzou Kamahara, Shinji Shimojo 
and Shojiro Nishio	90

19.30 - 	22.30  	Conference Dinner
			All participants will be picked up from their hotels 
			(see information board near the registration desk

Wednesday, April 28, 1999

09.45	-	10.15  	Registration

10.15 	- 	12.15  	Parallel Sessions

Room A	APTEC V

10.15-12.15	Session Chairperson:
W.Haverkamp, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

APTEC-8-S
Information Infrastructure of University Education
Victor A.Sadovnichy, Vladimir I.Trukhin, Aleksandr N.Sandalov 
And Natalia A.Sukhareva	215

APTEC-16-S-O
Design of Electronic Payment Systems for Using into Internet
Alexandre Ediberidze, Malkhaz Nikolashvili 
and Nikoloz Abuashvili	247

Room B	COMTEC IV

10.15-12.15	Session Chairperson:
Oryal Tanir, Bell Canada, Montreal, Canada

COMTEC-12-E-LCD-PC
The Effects of High-Speed Networks on Multimedia Jitter
Mark Claypool and John Riedl	162

COMTEC-14-S
Realisation of a Workflow and Redaction System Using MIIS and Oracle-Database
H.J.Nern, C.Stummer and H.A.Nour Eldin	175

COMTEC-13-R
A Design of Mobile Agent System with Network Transparency
Michihiko Kuwada, Kimihito Watanabe, Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Nariyoshi Yamai and Koso Murakami	170

Wednesday, April 28, 1999

Room C	MEDIATEC IV

10.15-12.15	Session Chairperson:
Fernand Broeckx, Genserv CV, Antwerp, Belgium

MEDIATEC-4-E-O
Developing the Altenberger Dom Presentation - Integrating Content Providers and Software Developers
Klaus Alfert	70

MEDIATEC-5-E-O
A Broadcasting Protocol for Compressed Video
Jehan-François Pâris	78

12.15 	- 	13.15  	Lunch

13.15 	- 	14.30  	Parallel Sessions

Room A	APTEC VI

13.15-14.30	Session Chairperson:
N.Sukhareva, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

APTEC-14-R-LCD
Virtual Environment System on Distance Education
Kikuo Asai, Noritaka Osawa and Yuji Y.Sugimoto	242

APTEC-17-R
A Training System Relating to Australian Electronic Commerce
M.Warren, J.Coldwell, A.Whilley, D.Hutchinson, D.Moosajee, P.Pempeit 
and R.Chan	250

Room C	WEBTEC IV

13.15-14.30	Session Chairperson:
Lorenzo Motta, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

WEBTEC-7-R
From the Verbal Ability to the Fuzzy Virtual Worlds
Antonio Gómez Skarmeta, Jesus Ibáñez Martinez 
and Pedro García López	33

WEBTEC-8-R-S
The Development of a Testing Environment on the Web Using JAVA
Juan C. Guerri , Carlos E. Palau and Manuel Esteve	37

Wednesday, April 28, 1999

14.30 - 		14.45  	Closing Session
Room A	Closing Session and Best Paper Award

14.30-14.45  	Session Chairperson:
Winfried Hahn, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

Closing Announcements

CONFERENCE LOCATIONS

CONFERENCE LOCATIONS AND HOTELS

EUROMEDIA’99 EXHIBITORS

SCS: The Society for Computer Simulation
The Society for Computer Simulation will display its latest publications
For more information on SCS please contact: Philippe Geril, SCS , Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Tel: +32.9.233.77.90, Fax: +32.9.223.49.41, Email: Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be

The SCS Publishing House
The SCS Publishing House will display its latest publications
For more information about the SCS Publishing House please contact: Rainer Rimane, SCS Publishing House, Weidenweg 34B, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany. Tel/Fax: +49.9131.66247. Email: Rainer.Rimane@informatik.uni-erlangen.de

FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF SCS MEMBERSHIP

Since our founding in 1952, The Society for Computer Simulation's membership roster has been made up of engineers, scientists, managers, business professionals, students, and educators. A very diverse field whose interests include: artificial intelligence, microcomputers in simulation, methodology and validation, supercomputers, and more.
	With this in mind, the editors of SCS have created two publications to cover these areas of interest. Our members receive the monthly journal SIMULATION. This journal is filled with up-to-the-minute technical articles, industry news, editorials, an AI column, calendar of events, conference information, and much more. Advertising is supplied by the industry leaders, and short courses and classified ads are an integral part of this journal.
	Our members also receive a 60% discount on TRANSACTIONS of the Society for Computer Simulation International, our quarterly journal. This journal is a highly-refereed, scholarly journal that presents papers dealing with theoretical and practical applications of archival value. It is an excellent review board whose critical expertise insures the quality of the publication.
	In addition we also publish the Directory of Simulation Software, Publication Catalogs, Conference Proceedings, and a long list of conference information to keep our members informed.

Categories of Membership

	Full Membership in SCS is open to all who have been professionally involved in computer simulation for at least 4 years, or who hold an appropriate 4 year degree from accredited college or university.
	Associate Membership is available to anyone who is interested in the technology of simulation or applications of the computer arts and sciences.
	Student Membership is open to any person regularly enrolled on a substantially full-time basis in an institution of higher learning.
	Academic Membership is available to educational institutions. This is an opportunity for your university or college to sponsor an organization that serves educators, students, and society by advancing the science of computer simulation. We encourage professors on campus to coordinate Student Chapters that will facilitate interaction between the professional and business community. The benefits of Academic Membership include a 1/2 page "Presenting" in the journal SIMULATION, and a one year subscription to the TRANSACTIONS of the Society for Computer Simulation International. Also included are discounts on all publications and Proceedings.
	
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