Subject: [AVT] Call for Papers - MMCN 2004 (Multimedia Computing and Networking 2004)

From: "Nalini Venkatasubramanian" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:37:29 -0700

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*                           CALL FOR PAPERS                          *
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*                             MMCN 2004                              *
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*              MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 2004 (EI22)       *
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*                     http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mmcn2004               *
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*                          January 21-22, 2004                       *
*                          San Jose, CA, USA                         *
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*                Held in cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia         *
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MMCN 2004 will be held January 21-22, 2004, at the San Jose Marriott
and San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA.

Present your work at MMCN 2004 and define the future of multimedia!

The paper submission deadline is June 23, 2003.
For paper submissions please check the MMCN 2004 
webpage at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mmcn2004

Recent advances in telecommunication, storage and information
technologies along with enhancements in consumer electronics have
stimulated the development of pervasive multimedia applications.
New and upcoming standards (MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21) facilitate
the seamless integration of multiple modalities of information
into truly interoperable multimedia frameworks, creating new
experiences for consumers. Such powerful multimedia solutions can
have significant impact across a wide spectrum of commercial,
consumer, non-profit and governmental domains.

The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers,
developers, and practitioners contributing to all facets of
multimedia computing and networking. The conference will serve as
an invigorating forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art
research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems,
technologies, and applications. Presenters will be encouraged to
make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their solutions in
person.

We especially encourage papers on emerging technologies such as
multimedia and QoS support for 3G and UWB networks, power-aware
computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia
networks, multimedia in P2P environments, network processors,
content distribution networks, home networking and digital
appliances. An exclusive industrial track will feature industrial
design experiences and showcase tools for next-generation
multimedia systems and applications.

Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but
not limited to:

Multimedia Computing

    * hardware accelerators
    * multimedia OS services
    * power-aware systems
    * video-on-demand services
    * peer-to-peer media systems

Multimedia and the Internet

    * web-based services
    * push technologies and content distribution
    * wide-area caching
    * data streaming and delivery

Multimedia Networking

    * mobile and wireless networks
    * broadband networks
    * network-processor systems
    * home networking
    * QoS control and scheduling
    * access technologies

Measurement and Modeling

    * performance measurement of multimedia systems
    * statistical modeling of server traffic and server software
    * multimedia system simulations
    * benchmark comparisons

Multimedia Middleware
    * proxy services 
    * transcoding 
    * multimedia data management 
    * security and multimedia 

Case Studies and Applications

    * synthetic animation	
    * multimedia search engines 
    * entertainment and games
    * distributed virtual reality
    * multimedia authoring

We specifically solicit submissions in new and emerging areas in
the field.

AWARDS will be given to the best paper and the best student paper.

PANELS will consist of discussions on timely and controversial
topics.

Author Information

Submissions should not exceed 15 single-spaced pages including
figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than
10 point. Papers must be electronically submitted in PDF or
postscript format (using standard fonts and "US letter" size).
Detailed instructions on the electronic submission process can be
found on the conference web page at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mmcn2004/. Please also submit
a cover page electronically, (in plain text format) to
[email-masked]. Each cover page should contain paper title,
author names and affiliations, name and address (both postal and
electronic) of contact author, abstract (less than 500 words),
keywords, and submission area.

Please direct questions about paper submission to the Program
Co-Chair at [email-masked]

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline    :  June 23, 2003
Notification of acceptance   :  Aug 24, 2003
Camera-ready manuscripts due :  Oct 27, 2003
200-word Summary to SPIE     :  Nov 17, 2003

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General Chair
    Ragunathan Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University

Program Chair
    Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine.

Publicity Chairs
    Americas: Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina, 
                                 Chapel Hill
    Europe:   Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway
    Far East: Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China

Program Committee

    Tarek F. Abdelzaher, University of Virginia
    Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Riccardo Bettati, Texas A&M University
    Nina Bhatti, Hewlett-Packard Labs
    Sajal K. Das, University of Texas, Arlington
    Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine
    Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo (Norway)
    Martin G. Kienzle, IBM Research
    Ketan D. Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Douglas C. Schmidt, DARPA/Vanderbilt University
    Prashant J. Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Cormac J. Sreenan, University College Cork (Ireland)
    Michael Zink, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany)
    Roger Zimmermann, University of Southern California
    Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
    Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research
    Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China
    Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon

Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian
464 Computer Science Building
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine CA 92697-3425 
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