The Doctoral Symposium is an opportunity for students involved in the preparation of a PhD to interactively discuss their research issues with senior researchers. During the Doctoral Symposium, selected students will present their thesis topic, the work they have done so far and the results that they have obtained. They will also expose the difficulties, problems, questions, issues that they encounter in the continuation of their work. They will ask for the comments of the audience and the discussion of those points.

The Doctoral Symposium will take place on Thursday afternoon, December 5th, 2002.

The following presentations have been selected for the Doctoral Symposium:

1. Thesis Title	A dynamic controller for optimal layering of video
   Student	Aruna Thakur
   University	Dep. of CS and EE, Lulea Univ of Tech., Sweden
   Advisor	Lenka Motycokva Carr

2. Thesis Title	Content adaptation of multimedia delivery and indexing using MPEG-7
   Student	Mulugeta Libsie
   University	Dep. of Information Tech., Univ Klagenfurt, Austria
   Advisor	Prof H Kosch

3. Thesis Title	Complexity management for video encoders
   Student	Yafan Zhao
   University	School of Eng, The Robert Gordon Univ, Aberdeen, UK
   Advisor	Dr Iain G Richardson

4. Thesis Title	Video telephony for the deaf: analysis & development of an optimised video compression product
   Student	Laura J Muir
   University	School of Eng, The Robert Gordon Univ, Aberdeen, UK
   Advisor	Dr Iain G Richardson

5. Thesis Title	An architecture for policy-based security management for distributed multimedia services
   Student	Sandrine Duflos
   University	LIP6, Paris, France
   Advisor	Brigitte Kervella and Eric Horlait