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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@eecs.uci.edu and
ismspecl@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@eecs.uci.edu. Demo proposals should be
submitted to ismdemo@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
June 30, 2008 Submission of papers and proposals on panels
and special tracks due
July 15, 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