This document focuses on the work being done by three IST projects, which are all placed in the NGN Premium IP cluster. These projects are . Adaptive Resource Control for QoS Using an IP-based Layered Architecture (AQUILA) . Creation and Deployment of End-User Services in Premium IP Networks

this document is part of the workpackage 1 of the PEPITO project. This workpackage aims at defining formal models for aspects of distributed computation which are central for peer-to-peer systems. Transactions fall into this category and can help to design robust and fault-tolerant distributed

for dissemination) This document overviews the work carried out in the ALERT project concerning the detection of topics in audiovisual data using the output of a speech recognizer. The objectives of this workpackage are two-fold: to automatically divide the audio stream into topically

The new dimension of content: 3D media In the last decade, the concept of multimedia has evolved from single-content types, mainly related to non-textual data (e.g., images, videos or audio), to truly multimedia content, which integrates several types. Research on multimedia, however, is largely devoted to content whose digital representation is at most twodimensional (e.g., images), possibly with the addition of time and audio (e.g., videos). At the same time, the possibility of handling 3D visual content in specialized and non-specialized internet-based environments is becoming a reality that is likely to become very soon the new wave of multimedia content. The impact of 3D content is comparable to the one of

Technologies – one of the case studies [BCC + 05] aims at providing

for dissemination) This report discusses overall functionality, interface, architecture and platform requirements to a toolset in support of transcription, annotation, information extraction and analysis of natural and multimodal interaction (NIMM) data. NIMM data are corpora of recorded audio and/or visual data from natural and/or multimodal human-human and/or human-system communicative interaction. The report builds on input from ISLE deliverable D11.1 (Dybkjr et al.

This paper aims at collecting some of the foundational work on languages for global computing systems relying on a flat net architecture. The main case-study languages dealt through the paper are Dp, lsdp and KLAIM, but also other two languages (namely Amadio's p 1# -calculus and Sewell's NO- MADIC PICT) are also analysed. We compare their language design issues, their type theories and their behavioural theories. Moreover, by means of some informal encoding, we shall give an evidence on how strongly related they are. Finally, we shall comment on how the work presented here can influence the development of more complex theories dealing with hierarchical structured languages for global computing.

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There is plenty of evidence that social behaviour plays a very significant role when people interact with their com-puters. There are studies showing that people impose their interpersonal behaviour patterns on their computers [Reeves and Nass, 1996], and that people expect their computers to interact in a human-like way [Nass et al., 1994,

management with SPeech Interaction via REmote microphones and telephone interfaces) [1] a spoken dialog system for accessing different kinds of home appliances