This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================== International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia Computing (ParDMCom-06) http://multimedia.ucc.ie/ParDMCom/ in conjunction with the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Application (ISPA-06) ,Sorrento, Italy, December 1-4, 2006 ======================================================================== DESCRIPTION -------------- For the last decades Multimedia computing has emerged as an important technology to generate content based on images, video, audio, graphics, and text. Furthermore, the recent new development represented by High Definition and Interactive television will generate important computing problems connected with the creation, processing and management of Multimedia content. Dealing with HD Multimedia content (image, video and sound) will generate a huge volume of data to process which can lead in a natural way to parallel and distributed computing. Moreover, the inherent data parallelism of Multimedia content data makes this type of computing a natural application area for parallel and distributed processing. This workshop aims to merge the recent research achievements in developing new theories, algorithms, architectures, systems and integrated multimedia platforms that exploit parallel and distributed computing. TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to the following): ------------------------------------------------------ - Parallel and distributed algorithms for multimedia. - Parallel and distributed architectures for multimedia. - Parallel multimedia computing servers. - Multimedia content creation, processing, and management using parallel and distributed architectures. - Parallel processing architectures of multimedia set-top boxes. - Multimedia agent technology and parallel processing. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Submission Deadline: August 1, 2006 Notification: Sep 1, 2006 Final Copy Due: Sep 20, 2006 SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------- Authors should prepare the manuscript with no more than 15 pages in PDF file (free style). Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, Springer (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a journal special issue. ParDMCom-06 submission web site: http://ParDMCom06.ispa-conference.org/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Steering Co-Chairs: Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan General Co-Chairs: Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs: Sabin Tabirca, National University of Ireland at Cork, Ireland Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (tentative list) ------------------------------------ Alex Zhaoyu Liu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Chi Zhang, Florida International University, USA Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Hong-va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Hongli Luo, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Hsuan T. Chang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jason C. Hung, Northern Taiwan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan Lawrence Y. Deng, St. John's University, Taiwan Ling Tan, Monash University, Australia Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Michael Ditze, University of Paderborn, Germany Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Vishv Malhotra, University of Tasmania, Australia Xiaochuan Yi, AT&T, USA Xubin He, Tennessee Technological University, USA Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA John O'Mullane, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland Dorin Bocu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania Paul McKevitt, Ulster University, UK