Call for Papers The 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing http://www.sersc.org/UMC2008 Australia, October 14 - 16, 2008 The 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing (UMC-08) will be held in Australia on October 14 - 16, 2008. UMC-08 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in Computer Science. UMC-08 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of UMC. In addition, the symposium will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in UMC. Furthermore, we expect that the symposium and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. Topics Topics for submission include but are not limited to: -Ubiquitous multimedia services and applications -Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems -Intelligent context-awareness for UMC -UMS for human communication interation -Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications for UMC -Multimedia networking and QoS for UMC -P2P multimedia systems and streaming for UMC -Security issues on UMC -Content protection and digital rights management for UMC -Software development using multimedia techniques in UMC -Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models in UMC -Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval for UMC -Mobile multimedia systems and services for UMC -Multimedia modeling and processing for UMC -Emerging standards and technologies for UMC -Ubiquitous multimeida business model Organization Honory Chairs: Kyoo Seok Park, Kyungnam University, Korea SeokSoo Kim, University of Tasmania, Australia General Chairs: Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Program Chairs: Hangbae Chang, Daejin University, Korea E-mail: hbchang@paran.com Byeongho Kang, University of Tasmania, Australia E-mail: Byeong.Kang@utas.edu.au Mieso Denko, University of GUELPH, Canada E-mail: denko@cis.uoguelph.ca Program Vice-Chairs: TBA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Special Session Chairs: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA E-mail: iq@mscs.mu.edu Pubudu N. Pathirana Deakin University, Australia E-mail: pubudu.pathirana@deakin.edu.au Invited Speakers: TBA International Advisory Board: Chin-Chen Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA Publicity Chairs: Zhiwen YU, Kyoto University, Japan Wenjing Jia, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Agustinus Borgy Waluyo Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Program Committee: TBA Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2008 Camera Ready Due: July 15, 2008 Conference Dates: October 14 - 16, 2008 Paper Submission and Publication Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper), 6 pages (regular paper) or 8 pages (full paper: 2 pages extra chage) by using online systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. Submission system: TBA Distinguished papers accepted and presented in UMC-08, after further revisions, will be published in special issues on prestigious international journals indexed by SCI-E (Pending). Contact Information If you have any question about the CfPs and papers submission, please email to PC chairs or Secretary of UMC-08 (sersc@sersc.org).