-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] Call for Papers - MMCN 2004 (Multimedia Computing and Networking 2004) Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:37:34 -0700 From: Nalini Venkatasubramanian nalini@ics.uci.edu Reply-To: tcgn@majordomo.ieee.org To: tcgn@ieee.org

********************************************************************** * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * MMCN 2004 * * * * MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 2004 (EI22) * * * * http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mmcn2004 * * * * January 21-22, 2004 * * San Jose, CA, USA * * * * Held in cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia * * * **********************************************************************

MMCN 2004 will be held January 21-22, 2004, at the San Jose Marriott and San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA.

Present your work at MMCN 2004 and define the future of multimedia!

The paper submission deadline is June 23, 2003. For paper submissions please check the MMCN 2004 webpage at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mmcn2004

Recent advances in telecommunication, storage and information technologies along with enhancements in consumer electronics have stimulated the development of pervasive multimedia applications. New and upcoming standards (MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities of information into truly interoperable multimedia frameworks, creating new experiences for consumers. Such powerful multimedia solutions can have significant impact across a wide spectrum of commercial, consumer, non-profit and governmental domains.

The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners contributing to all facets of multimedia computing and networking. The conference will serve as an invigorating forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. Presenters will be encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their solutions in person.

We especially encourage papers on emerging technologies such as multimedia and QoS support for 3G and UWB networks, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks, multimedia in P2P environments, network processors, content distribution networks, home networking and digital appliances. An exclusive industrial track will feature industrial design experiences and showcase tools for next-generation multimedia systems and applications.

Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to:

Multimedia Computing

* hardware accelerators * multimedia OS services * power-aware systems * video-on-demand services * peer-to-peer media systems

Multimedia and the Internet

* web-based services * push technologies and content distribution * wide-area caching * data streaming and delivery

Multimedia Networking

* mobile and wireless networks * broadband networks * network-processor systems * home networking * QoS control and scheduling * access technologies

Measurement and Modeling

* performance measurement of multimedia systems * statistical modeling of server traffic and server software * multimedia system simulations * benchmark comparisons

Multimedia Middleware * proxy services * transcoding * multimedia data management * security and multimedia

Case Studies and Applications

* synthetic animation * multimedia search engines * entertainment and games * distributed virtual reality * multimedia authoring

We specifically solicit submissions in new and emerging areas in the field.

AWARDS will be given to the best paper and the best student paper.

PANELS will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics.

Author Information

Submissions should not exceed 15 single-spaced pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 10 point. Papers must be electronically submitted in PDF or postscript format (using standard fonts and "US letter" size). Detailed instructions on the electronic submission process can be found on the conference web page at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mmcn2004/. Please also submit a cover page electronically, (in plain text format) to mmcn2004@ics.uci.edu. Each cover page should contain paper title, author names and affiliations, name and address (both postal and electronic) of contact author, abstract (less than 500 words), keywords, and submission area.

Please direct questions about paper submission to the Program Co-Chair at mmcn2004@ics.uci.edu

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline : June 23, 2003 Notification of acceptance : Aug 24, 2003 Camera-ready manuscripts due : Oct 27, 2003 200-word Summary to SPIE : Nov 17, 2003

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General Chair Ragunathan Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University

Program Chair Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine.

Publicity Chairs Americas: Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Europe: Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway Far East: Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China

Program Committee

Tarek F. Abdelzaher, University of Virginia Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara Riccardo Bettati, Texas A&M University Nina Bhatti, Hewlett-Packard Labs Sajal K. Das, University of Texas, Arlington Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo (Norway) Martin G. Kienzle, IBM Research Ketan D. Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz Douglas C. Schmidt, DARPA/Vanderbilt University Prashant J. Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cormac J. Sreenan, University College Cork (Ireland) Michael Zink, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) Roger Zimmermann, University of Southern California Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian 464 Computer Science Building Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine Irvine CA 92697-3425