日本データベース学会の皆様 ACM SIGMOD日本支部の皆様 　神戸大学の鎌原です。先日、MMM2006 in Beijingの最後のCFPのお知らせをさせて いただいたばかりですが、要望が多かったため、締切が１週間延長され、8月19日(金)が 新しい締切となりました。 　よろしくお願いします。 Begin forwarded message:

Dear Colleagues:

Due to the numerous requests for extension, the submission deadline of MMM2006 is now extended to August 19th, 2005.

The URL of submission web site is: https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/mmm2006/

The URL of MMM2006 web site is: http://www.cie-china.org/mmm2006

Thank you,

Best regards,

huamin

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Call for papers and Announcement

MMM 2006

MultiMedia Modelling 2006

4-6 January 2006 Media Center Hotel, Beijing, China

http://www.cie-china.org/MMM2006

MMM2006 provides a forum to discuss the efficient representation, processing, interaction, integration, communication, and retrieval of multimedia information. In particular, MMM2006 will concentrate on common modelling frameworks for integrating the diverse fields of visual, audio, video, and virtual world information. MMM2006 will take place on 4-6 Jan 2006 in Beijing. We solicit original high-quality papers in, but not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications:

- Multimedia Databases - Formal Methods and multimedia information - Image and Video Retrieval - Video-based Multimedia Applications - Spatial and Temporal Multimedia Modeling - Semantic models for multimedia and for the Web - Web Information Systems - Authoring and Visualization of Multimedia Information - Networked Multimedia and Virtual Environments - Real-time and Interactive Multimedia Applications - Virtual Reality - Multimedia Modeling of Real World Scenarios - GIS and Multimedia

IMPORTANT DATES ================

Submission of full papers: 19 Aug 2005 Notification of acceptance: 22 Sep 2005 Camera-ready copy: 12 Oct 2005 Author registration: 7 Oct 2005 Conference: 4-6 Jan 2006

(Proceedings of this conference will be published by IEEE Press and available at the meeting.)

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ==================

Ed Chang, Uni. of California at Santa Barbara, USA Bo Zhang, Tsinghua Uni., China Qinping Zhao, Beihang Uni., China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS ===========================

Huamin Feng, Beijing Elec. Sci. & Tech. Inst., China Shiqiang Yang, Tsinghua Uni., China Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang Uni., China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==================

Kiyoharu Aizawa, Uni. Of Tokyo, Japan Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellom Uni., USA Xilin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Deakin Uni, Australia Tat-Seng Chua, National Uni. of Singapore, Singapore Jean-Pierre Courtiat, LAAS, France Arjen P. de Vries, CWI, Netherland Michel Diaz, LAAS, France Zoran Dimitrijevic, Google William Grosky, Uni. of Michigan, USA JunZhong Gu, East China Normal Uni., China Alan Hanjalic, Deflt Uni., Netherland Shuji Hashimoto, Waseda Uni., Japan Xian-sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia Zhiyong Huang, Nat. Uni. Of Singapore, Singapore Benoit Huet, Eurocom, France Horace Ip, City Uni, Hong Kong Jesse Jin, Uni. Sydney, Australia Junzo Kamahara, Kobe Uni., Japan Mohan Kankanhalli, Nat. Uni. of Singapore, Singapore Ahmed Karmouch, Uni. of Ottawa, Canada Clement Leung, Victoria Uni. of Tech, Australia Bo Li, Beihang Uni., China Guohui Li, National Uni. Of Defence Technology, China Jianzhong Li, Harbin Uni. of Technology, China Qing Li, City Uni., Hong Kong Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yuncai Liu, Shanghai jiaotong Uni. China Guojun Lu, Monash Uni., Australia Jianhua Ma, Hosei Uni., Japan Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia R. Manmatha, Uni. Mass.,USA Milind Naphade, IBM Research Ming Ouhyoung, Taiwan Uni., Taiwan Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo Alexander Pasko, Hosei Uni., Japan Silvia Pfeiffer, CSIRO, Australia Yong Rui, Microsoft Research Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, Netherlands Shin'ichi Satoh, NII, Japan Nicu Sebe, Uni. of Amsterdam, Netherlands Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France Bo Shen, HP Labs Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang Uni., Taiwan Yoshihisa Shinagawa, Uni. of Illinois, USA Luiz Fernando G. Soares, PUC-Rio, Brasil Lifeng Sun, Tsinghua Uni., China Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland Tian Qi, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore XiangYang Xue, Fudan Uni. China Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria Uni. of Tech, Australia Zhangfei Zhang, Binghamton University, USA Jingli Zhou, Huazhong Uni. Of Sci. Tech., China Miaoliang Zhu, Zhejiang Uni, China

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIRS ==================================== MengQi Zhou, Chinese Inst. of Electronics,

Steering Committee ===================

Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Deakin Uni, Australia Tat-Seng Chua, National Uni. Of Singapore, Singapore Huamin Feng, Beijing Elec. Sci. & Tech. Insti., China Tosiyasu. L. Kunii, Kanazawa Inst. Of Tech., Japan Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France Shiqiang Yang Tsinghua Uni., China Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang Uni., China

PROCEEDINGS and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================================== MMM2006 invites high-quality original papers and exciting tutorial proposals on any topic related to Multimedia Modelling. Papers should not be more than 8 pages in length, conforming to the formatting instructions of the IEEE Press. Tutorial proposals should be at most two pages long. Papers will be judged by the international program committee based on their originality, significance, correctness and clarity. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or Microsoft Word) to: MMM2006 Paper Submission Website. The proceedings of the conference will be published by the IEEE Press, and will be available internationally after the conference through IEEE and its agents. To publish the paper in the conference, one of authors needs to register and present in the conference. Selected papers will be published in "The Visual Computer" journal and The special issue of ACM Multimedia Systems Journal.

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