[dbjapan] ISM2008 CALL FOR PAPERS

["Zhiwen Yu" <yu [at] ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008)

 

Berkeley, California, USA
December 15-17, 2008
http://ism2008.eecs.uci.edu

 

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

 

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The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008) is
an international forum for researchers to exchange information
regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of
multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging
research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.
The technical program of ISM2008 will consist of invited talks,
paper presentations, and panel discussions.

 

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or
on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are
not limited to:

 

  * Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
  * Multimedia networking and QoS
  * Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors
  * Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering,
    Modality-Abstractions, etc.
  * Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
  * Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems
    including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and
    digital TV
  * Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating
    systems
  * Architecture specification languages
  * Software development using multimedia techniques
  * Multimedia signal processing including audio, video,
    image processing, and coding
  * Visualization
  * Virtual Reality
  * Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
  * Multimedia collaboration
  * Rich media enabled E-commerce
  * Computational intelligence including neural networks,
    fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
  * Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation,
    distribution, and analysis
  * Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and
    systems
  * Multimedia security including digital watermark and
    encryption
  * Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services
  * Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing,
    editing, and browsing

 

There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper
Award competition. Award winners will be announced at the
conference banquet.

 

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SUBMISSIONS
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The written and spoken language of ISM2008 is English.
Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript
in double-column IEEE format including  authors' names and
affiliations, and a short abstract  electronically, following
the submission guidelines available on the ISM2008 web page.
Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers
should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The paper
should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract,
a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail
address. The Conference Proceedings will be published by
the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online
access via IEEEXplore. A number of the papers presented at
the conference will be selected for possible publications in
journals.

 

ISM2008 will include a few workshops and special tracks
dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals
on workshops and special tracks of emerging areas are invited.
Please submit proposals to ismwork [at] eecs.uci.edu and
ismspecl [at] eecs.uci.edu respectively. Papers from Workshops and
Focused Tracks will be presented at ISM2008, and included in
the Proceedings. Submissions of proposals on panels and
demonstrations are also encouraged. Panel proposals should be
submitted to ismpanel [at] eecs.uci.edu. Demo proposals should be
submitted to ismdemo [at] eecs.uci.edu. Panel summary articles may
also be included in the conference proceedings.

 

Prospective authors are also invited to submit papers to the
Industrial Program, which will be included in the proceedings.
Please refer to the Industrial Program link for submission
details.

 

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IMPORTANT DATES
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April 1, 2008      Submission of workshop proposals due
April 20, 2008     Notification of acceptance of workshop
                   proposals due
May 30, 2008       Submission of papers and proposals on panels
                   and special tracks due
June 20, 2008      Notification of acceptance of special track
                   proposals due
August 10, 2008    Submission of demonstration proposals due
August 20, 2008    Notification of acceptance of papers and
                   demonstration proposals due
September 19, 2008 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due

 

Conference Organizing Committee

 

General Chairs

 

Alberto Del Bimbo, University degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA
Jay Kishigami, NTT, Japan
Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA

 

Program Chairs

 

William Bishop, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Gerald Friedland, International Computer Science Institute, USA
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
Max Muhlhauser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

 

Workshops Co-Chairs
Rodrigo C. Guido, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Xiao-Ping Zhang, Ryerson University, Canada

 

Industrial Program Co-Chairs
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany
Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA
Rong Yan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

 

Best Paper Award Committee Co-Chairs
Zhu Liu, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

Demo Co-Chairs
Ramazan Savas Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Allen C. Cheng, University of Pittsburgh, USA

 

Panel Co-Chairs
Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University, Japan
Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

 

Publicity Co-Chairs
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Ilja Radusch, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Laurence T. Yang, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada
Heather Yu, Huawei Technologies, USA
Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan
Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

 

Finance Chair
George Wang, California State University Northridge

 

Publication Co-Chairs
James B. D. Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Anthony Y. H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan

 

Local Arrangement Chair
Donghua Deng, Juniper, USA

 

Registration Chair
Wang Qi, University of California, Irvine, USA

 

Web Chair
Chengjia Huo, University of California, Irvine, USA

 

Steering Committee Chair
Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

 

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Dr. Zhiwen YU
Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
TEL/FAX: (+81)075-753-7480
Email: yu [at] ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yu/
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