Organized by: Faculty for Informatics and Automation of the TU Ilmenau Department of Telematics within the STJA'99 Conferences

The Workshop on Multimedia Information and Communication Systems (MIK) was beeing organized once in the year by the Department of Telematics of the Technical University of Ilmenau since 1995. In 1999 it first takes place within the STJA'99 Conferences.

Future this workshop will have the function to add the aspects of netbased systems to the subjects of the STJA Conferences. The topics extend over the realisation of essential services, for instance security architectures, information retrieval, the possibilities of the representation of informations to such applications as electronic commerce, teleteaching and telelearning systems, HelpDesk systems and the appropriate object oriented software architectures in consideration of aspects of the distribution. In addition tools for development of such applications have been intergrated within the area of subjects.