CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
(ISM2008)
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
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