12th German-Japanese Symposium

Program

SESSION 1: OPENING SESSION
Co-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Fraunhofer Institute
FOKUS, Berlin and Dr. Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT, Tokyo

Opening Address
Prof. Dr. Arnold Picot, MÜNCHNER KREIS, Munich

Keynotes
Mr. Takashi Hanazawa, NTT, Tokyo    pdf
Mr. Christopher Schläffer, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn   pdf


SESSION 2: TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONVERGENCE

Co-Chairs: Dr. Roland Raschke, Fujitsu Labs Europe, Langen and
Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto, NTT, Tokyo   pdf

FMC and Triple Play as Drivers for Uniform Service Delivery Platforms
Dr. Josef Schäfer, Arcor AG & Co. KG, Eschborn   pdf

IP Multimedia Convergence Technologies Implemented by IMS and Other Functions
Mr. Tatsuro Murakami, NTT, Tokyo   pdf

IMS vs. Peer-to-Peer – a War of Concepts or a Synergy?
Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Berlin   pdf

Service-oriented Architecture and Web Service Security
Mr. Kojiro Nakayama, Hitachi Ltd., Kanagawa   pdf

Convergent Service Delivery Platforms and Service Orchestration
Mr. Alf Hendryk Wulf, Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Stuttgart   pdf

Technologies for Fixed Mobile and Broadcasting Convergence
Mr. Hideaki Tani, NEC Corp., Kanagawa   pdf


SESSION 3: TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEW MEDIA
Co-Chairs: Dr. Thomas Götz, Detecon International, Bonn and
Prof. Dr. Tohru Asami, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo

Business Models/Value Chain Impact from Provider’s View
Mr. Thomas Mörsdorf, Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Com, Bonn   pdf

Challenges and Opportunities for Broadband Mobile Media in the Next Decade
Dr. Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Yokosuka   pdf

Technology Evolution and Medium Long Term Changes in the Value Chain
Mr. Roberto Saracco, Telecom Italia, Torino   pdf

Technologies for Fixed Mobile Broadcast Convergence Services
Dr. Yasuyuki Nakajima, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Saitama   pdf

User Driven Publishing – Technology Push vs. Market Pull
Dr. Manfred Kops, University of Cologne, Cologne   pdf

The Scaleable Video Technologies Towards Fixed Mobile Convergence
Dr. Tokumichi Murakami, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Kanagawa   pdf


SESSION 4: PLAYERS AND THEIR CHANGING ROLES

Co-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess, University of Munich, Munich
and Prof. Dr. Koichiro Hayashi, Institute of Information Security, Yokohama

User Generated Content: Blessing or Curse?
Dr. Matthias Moeller, Gogol medien GmbH & Co. KG, Augsburg   pdf

How Public Telecommunications Operators Try to Survive:
Horizontal vs. Vertical and Wireline vs. Wireless Development

Mr. Yoshihiro Tagawa, The Foundation for MultiMedia Communications FMMC, Tokyo   pdf

Technology and Capricious Consumers:
Drivers of Change in Business Models and Value Chains
Prof. Dr. Robert G. Picard, Jönköping University, Jönköping   pdf

New Networking:
From the Perspective of Web2.0 and Rise of Internet Companies
Dr. Kou Yukawa, Fujitsu Research Institute, Tokyo   pdf


SESSION 5: REGULATION/DEREGULATION
Co-Chairs: Dr. Karl-Heinz Neumann, WIK GmbH and WIK-Consult GmbH, Bad Honnef
Prof. Dr. Koichiro Agata, Waseda University, Tokyo

How to Deregulate the Telecommunications Sector without Endangering the Level of Competition Already Realized
Dr. Iris Henseler-Unger, Federal Network Agency, Bonn   pdf

Regulation/Deregulation for the Convergence between Telecommunications and Broadcasting from a Theoretical View Point
Prof. Dr. Kiyoshi Nakamura, Waseda University, Tokyo   pdf

How to Manage Infrastructure Deployment Towards Next Generation Networks and Optical Fibre Networks in a Competitive Environment
Mr. J. Scott Marcus, WIK-Consult GmbH, Bad Honnef   pdf

Infrastructure, Competition and Deregulation for the Convergenceof Media from the Sight of the Regulator
Mr. Gaku Nomizu, RITE, Foundation for Multimedia Communications, Washington D.C.   pdf


SESSION 6: CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE

Co-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Heinz Thielmann, Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt
and Dr. Yoshihiro Fujita, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo

IPTV Service Development
Mr. Katsuhiko Kawazoe, NTT, Kanagawa   pdf

User Experience Architecture
Mr. Jan Mühlig, relevantive AG, Berlin   pdf

FMC Service Trend and Consumer Acceptance
Ms. Chihoko Tosa, Deutsche Telekom K.K., Tokyo   pdf

Key Factors for Consumer Acceptance
Prof. Dr. Heidi Krömker, Technical University Ilmenau, Ilmenau   pdf

Beyond the Ubiquitous Network Society
Dr. Miwako Doi, Toshiba Corp., Kanagawa   pdf


SESSION 7: NEW CONVERGENCE BASED APPLICATIONS

Co-Chairs: Dr. Andreas Bereczky, ZDF, Mainz and
Mr. Takaaki Matsumoto, NTT DATA Corp., Tokyo

Alice Home TV: Experience with IPTV in Germany
Dr. Eric Heitzer, HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH, Hamburg   pdf

Automatic Generation Tool for Web-ready Content
Mr. Takayuki Kunieda, RICOH, Tokyo   pdf

Multi-Platform Programming for Digital TV
Mr. Thomas Schultheis, SevenSenses GmbH, Unterföhring   pdf

New IT Service Trends: Knowledge Processing and Software as a Service
Dr. Kazuo Asakawa, Fujitsu Laboratories, Kanagawa   pdf

Japan with Advanced Network Infrastructure, U.S. with Advanced Applications
Mr. Yutaka Kuroda, Cardinal Consulting International, Inc., San José, CA   pdf


SESSION 8: CONCLUDING SESSION:
CONVERGENT MEDIA AND NETWORKS – A GLOBAL TREND WITH REGIONAL IMPACTS
Co-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Jörg Eberspächer, Munich University of Technology, Munich and Dr. Shigeyuki Akiba, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Saitama

Participants:
Prof. Dr. Eli Noam, Columbia University, New York
Dr. Yoshinobu Tonomura, NTT, Kyoto   pdf
Dr. David R. Dean, The Boston Consulting Group, Munich
Mr. Matthias Nass, Die Zeit, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Freiburg   pdf
Mr. Junjie Xia, China Netcom (Group) Company Ltd., Beijing   pdf