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Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking

July 21-26, 2005 Salt Lake City Marriott City Center Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~immcn05

In conjunction with Eighth Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2005) http://www.jcis.org

Theme and Scope

In the last few years we have witnessed an explosive growth of multimedia computing, communication and applications. The few key technologies interact in an interesting and yet useful way, bringing along the multimedia revolution. This revolution is transforming the way people live, work, and interact with each other, and is impacting the way businesses, government services, education, entertainment, and health care are operating. The enabling technology is based on the infrastructure of seamless communication, over the wired environment as well as the wireless environment. Following the rapid increase in penetration rate of the broadband services, and the imminent depolyment of the 3G wireless infrastructure, coupled with the Wi-Fi, users are beginning to enjoy multimedia services readily. Yet, several issues related to modeling, specification, analysis and design of distributed multimedia systems and intelligent multimedia applications are still challenging to both researchers and practitioners. IMMCN 2005, a constituent of JCIS 2005, serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among researchers, developers, and practitioners from around the world, contributing to all facets in the field of intelligent multimedia systems and technology. Furthermore, all participants of this conference would benefit from the communication and interaction with related research communities.

The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers addressing various aspects of intelligent multimedia systems and applications, especially under the Internet, Intranet and wireless network environment, for presentation at the conference and publication in the JCIS proceedings. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Intelligent and Next-Generation Networking [] photonics and optical communications [] next generation Internet technologies [] grid computing [] home networking [] mobile agent technologies [] intelligent negotiation agents [] information security [] intelligent network architectures Multimedia Technology [] watermark technologies [] animation and computer graphics [] audio and video compression [] 3D audio and video [] image, video, audio content analysis and indexing/retrieval [] multi-paradigmatic information retrieval [] multimedia stream synchronization [] game technology [] intelligent multimedia [] multimedia authoring tools and intelligent tutoring Multimedia and Wireless Multimedia [] multimedia communications and networking [] cluster computing of multimedia systems [] intelligent multimedia workflows [] video-on-demand [] peer-to-peer systems [] mobile network architectures [] wireless web service [] handheld device programming [] visualization on palm Multimedia Systems Design and Modeling [] multimedia software engineering [] modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems [] distributed multimedia databases and computing [] performance measurement of distributed multimedia systems [] simulation and benchmarking [] OS support for distributed multimedia systems [] quality of service control/scheduling [] multimedia human-computer interaction [] intelligent multimodal interaction [] visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications [] Java, VRML and multimedia languages [] MPEG, Quicktime, Windows API standards Applications [] E-commerce systems and recommendation systems [] multimedia digital libraries and mail systems [] multimedia search engines [] games [] computer-supported cooperative work [] cultural heritage multimedia applications [] distance learning applications [] virtual reality systems [] tele-conferencing [] tele-medicine Case Studies [] virtual university [] virtual museum [] multimedia-based E-commerce sites

Papers must be written in English. Please send a softcopy or four hardcopies of your 4-page extended summary (10 point, double column, and single-spaced) and your choice of a full length double-spaced complete manuscript (include figures and references) to the conference chair. Electronic submission to immcn05@comp.polyu.edu.hk is highly encouraged. The conference proceedings will publish the four pages of extended summary. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the PC members of the IMMCN 2005 conference. The conference organizers may also invite researchers to submit qualified papers related to the above topics. Selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal.

Invited/Special Sessions

Papers submitted to special sessions are invited by special session chairs. Special sessions aim to collect research results from different qualified perspectives. Please contact the conference chair if you are interested in organizing a special session.

Important Dates

Paper submission due February 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance March 15, 2005 Final manuscript due April 30, 2005 Registration and paper fee due April 30, 2005

Sponsored by

Duke University, USA (to be confirmed) Association of Intelligent Machinery (to be confirmed)

Conference Organization

Honorary Conference Chair Paul Wang, Duke University, USA

Conference Co-Chairs Hong Va Leong Department of Computing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China e-mail: cshleong@comp.polyu.edu.hk

Chong Wah Ngo Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Ave, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China e-mail: cwngo@cs.cityu.edu.hk

Conference Program Committee Yuan-Chi Chang, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Han-Chieh Chao, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Shu-Shing Chen, University of Florida, USA Ling Feng, University of Twente, The Netherlands William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University, Japan Wen-Shyong Hsieh, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Chung-Ming Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Odej Kao, University of Paderborn, Germany Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mingjing Li, Microsoft Research China, China Sheng-Tun Li, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Jonathan Liu, University of Florida, USA Peiya Liu, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Wenyin Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis, USA Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA Jeong-Hyun Park, ETRI, Korea Syed M. Rahman, Minnesota State University, USA Rodolfo F. Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Antonio Si, Oracle Corporation, USA John Smith, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Lilian Tang, University of Surrey, UK Alexander Vazhenin, The University of Aizu, Japan Son T. Vuong, University of British Columbia, Canada Jason T. L. Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Man Hon Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Shi-Nine Yang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Aidong Zhang, State University of New York, USA Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, The Deakin University, Australia

Steering Committee Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2003 Chair) Sheng-Tun Li, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan (2002 Chair) Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

Inquiry

For further information, please contact the conference co-chairs at cshleong@comp.polyu.edu.hk or cwngo@cs.cityu.edu.hk.