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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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. =========== SUBMISSIONS =========== 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. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== 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 --------------------------- 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@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yu/ ---------------------------