The City of Lancaster is situated 60 miles north of Manchester in the North West of England. It is 30 miles South of the English Lake District, Close to the Sea. It has good Road and Rail Links to Manchester which has an international airport. The climate in February is generally mild for the Northern European Winter. Lancaster University is Campus based and provides accommodation for approximately 3000 students and teaching facilities for around 10,000. Adjacent to the Campus is the Lancaster House Hotel which is operated by Best Western. In addition to the catering available at the Hotel there are a wide variety of other more basic catering outlets on the campus.

Meeting facilities will be provided by the post graduate management school which has rooms available comparable with those generally made available to MPEG by hotels and other conference venues.

FACILITIES FEE: A facilities fee not to exceed 200 US Dollars per participant will be levied

ALTERNATIVE:

VENUE: If the number of participants exceeds the number that can be comfortably accommodated on campus an alternative venue has been identified participants will be informed if the location is changed.

Lancaster University recently hosted the successful Middleware 98 conference in the Lake District at the Low Wood Hotel. This can provide meeting facilities for up to around 150 people. Other alternative venues are being considered.

CONTACT: Enquiries about the accommodation and the meeting should be addressed in the first instance to:

Ed Hartley. e.hartley@lancaster.ac.uk or Barbara Hickson

DMRG, Computing Department

Lancaster University

Lancs, LA14YR (44) 1524 593808

England (44) 1524 593608

URL: A pointer from http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/MPEG7/index.html will be available shortly

REGISTRATION CUT OFF: December 1 1998