-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MULTIMEDIA 2005] Papers Due, Video Program, TOMCAP Journal Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:05:31 -0400 From: Vernick, Michael David (Michael) vernick@AVAYA.COM Reply-To: Vernick, Michael David (Michael) vernick@AVAYA.COM To: SIGMM-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Greetings from the ACM Multimedia committee. Included in this email

are the following:

* Multimedia 2005 Conference Submission Deadline reminder

* CFP Multimedia 2005 Video Program

* Letter from Larry Rowe about ACM TOMCAP Journal

http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/

Please help us publicize this conference by forwarding this email to

any interested colleagues.

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SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR MULTIMEDIA 2005

November 6-12, SINGAPORE

16 May 2005 Abstract Registration for Full Papers

23 May 2005 Submission deadline for Full Papers, Arts Exhibits for

Interactive Arts Program, and Videos for Video Program

20 Jun 2005 Submission deadline for Short Papers, Short Papers for

Interactive Arts Program, and Short Videos for Video Program

20 Jun 2005 Proposals for Panel due

29 Jul 2005 Submission deadline for Workshop, Open Source Software

Competition, Technical Demonstration, and Doctoral Symposium Papers

The full conference CFP can be found at: http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/

Details for subscribing/unsubscribing from this list can be found below.

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-- MULTIMEDIA 2005 VIDEO PROGRAM --

Call for Video Demonstrations

We invite you to make a video for ACM Multimedia 2005. This forum is

an ideal way to demonstrate your tool, system, application or brave

new idea without having to bring the equipment for a "live" demo. Even

if you have never made a video before, we encourage you to consider

this opportunity for Video Submissions at ACM Multimedia 2005.

Video Submissions Category

There are three categories of video submissions:

+ Video demonstrations (8 minutes) - gives a self-explanatory demo of

a tool, system, or application. In addition we would like to

encourage media artists to submit work that exemplifies new

trends in video art or describes an interactive multimedia art

application.

+ Video visions (8 minutes) - describes a new brave idea of

multimedia technology.

+ Video figures (3 minutes) - accompanies a regular or short

paper submission and serves as an illustration.

Accepted video demonstrations and video visions are presented during

the video demonstration session, whereas video figures are presented

together with the paper during the allocated session.

Videos will be published on a dedicated web site at the SIGMM website

(see http://www.sigmm.org/apache/video2004/ - for previous years).

The best video demonstration and video vision will get a special podium.

Submission details and information:

http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/videoprogram.html

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-- Letter from Larry Rowe --

An Open Letter to the SIGMM Community:

I am writing this message to ask for your help with the new ACM

Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications

(TOMCCAP). Many of you know that the community was unhappy that the

Springer-Verlag MMS Journal was not included in the ACM Digital

Library and that it did not incorporate networking and applications

specifically in it's topic area. As a result, a recommendation was

made at the SIGMM Retreat at Multimedia 2003 that we create our own

journal to be published by ACM.

Professor Nicolas Georganas generously agreed to undertake the task of

creating the journal, which just published its first issue - see

http://www.acm.org/tomccap/ The transactions will be published four

times per year.

We need your support to make this an outstanding publication. Please

consider submitting papers and agreeing to review papers sent to you

by members of the editorial board. At the very least, I think 20%-30%

of the papers published in our annual conference should appear in the

transactions. The ACM rules on prior publication require that the

journal paper be at least 25% different than the prior publication.

We all know that the limitation on pages imposed by the conference

proceedings constrains our ability to explain all of the algorithms,

experiments, and nuances in a research project. Consequently, it

should be easy to modify a conference publication for the

transactions.

Another way you could support the transactions would be to consider

editing a special issue on an important topic. I suspect each of the

workshops at the Multimedia Conference could identify and shepard 3-4

important papers that reflect the important ideas in the area. Having

been a guest editor, I know this is a lot of work. But, please

consider doing it as the contribution you will be making is both

valuable and, dare I say, good for your career.

To submit a paper or investigate other issues related to the

transactions, just go to the TOMCCAP website listed above.

Best wishes,

Larry Rowe

TOMCAP web site - http://www.acm.org/tomccap/