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The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009) 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 ISM2009 will consist of invited talks,
paper presentations, and panel discussions.

* Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
* Multimedia networking and QoS
* 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
* Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors
* Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering,
    Modality-Abstractions, etc.
* Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing,
    editing, and browsing

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SUBMISSIONS
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The written and spoken language of ISM2009 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 ISM2009 web page.
Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers
should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). 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.

ISM2009 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.
Papers from Workshops and Focused Tracks will be presented
at ISM2009, and included in the Proceedings. Submissions
of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged.
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.

April 20, 2009     Submission of workshop proposals due
May 1, 2009        Notification of acceptance of workshop
                   proposals due
June 10, 2009      Submission of papers and proposals on panels
                   and special tracks due
July 15, 2009      Notification of acceptance of special track
                   proposals due
August 10, 2009    Submission of demonstration proposals due
August 20, 2009    Notification of acceptance of papers and
                   demonstration proposals due
TBA                Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due