U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: MLabNet 2000-Advanced Multimedia Systems and Applications

该奖项支持美国科学家参加将于2001年10月10日至12日在日本Karuizawa举行的关于MLabNet 2000-先进多媒体系统和应用的美日研讨会。联合组织者是韦恩州立大学的威廉·格罗斯基教授和日本东京国家信息学研究所(NII)的弗雷德里克·安德烈斯教授。MLabNet是美国、日本、法国、意大利和泰国不同机构之间的虚拟多媒体研究框架，自1999年4月以来一直存在。在这个框架下正在研究的两个重要项目是超大规模超媒体传输系统(VLSHDS)和MediaSys，后者为多媒体管理提供了一个可扩展的接口。拟议的研讨会将包括研究报告、海报和演示。它将在这些项目的背景下评估MLabNet内部的研究合作，并解决有关国家之间获取信息和共享多媒体内容方面的问题。它们还将在与国家科学基金会框架、日本文部省框架和欧洲联盟制定的第五个框架有关的未来研究问题的背景下，讨论文化遗产问题。研讨会组织者特别努力让年轻的研究人员、博士后和研究生既作为参与者又作为观察员。与日本专家在这一领域交换想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进他们自己的工作，并将为未来的合作项目奠定基础。研讨会信息的传播将在万维网上提供。

0089732GroskyThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S.-Japan seminar on MLabNet 2000-advanced multimedia systems and applications, to be held in Karuizawa, Japan from October 10-12, 2001. The co-organizers are professors William Grosky of Wayne State University and Professor Frederic Andres of the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. MlabNet is a virtual multimedia research framework between various institutions in the United States, Japan, France, Italy and Thailand and has existed since April 1999. Two important projects being investigated under this framework are the Very Large-Scale Hypermedia Delivery System (VLSHDS) and MediaSys, which provides an extensible interface for multimedia management.The proposed seminar will include research presentations, posters, and demonstrations. It will assess the research cooperation inside MLabNet in the context of these projects, as well as address issues in information access and sharing multimedia content between the involved countries. They will also address issues in cultural heritage, in the context of future research issues related to the National Science Foundation framework, the Japanese Ministry of Education framework, and the Fifth Framework set by the European Union. Seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve younger researchers, postdocs and graduate students as both participants and observers. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in this field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. Dissemination of information on the seminar will be available on the World Wide Web.