-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers (MSGID:20030818214817) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:53:17 +0800 From: CFP SYSTEM cfp@cs.tku.edu.tw To: Lars.Wolf@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de

Call for Papers The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA'2004)

http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/MNSA/2004 http://www.f.waseda.jp/jin/mnsa2004 http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/MNSA2004

in conjunction with The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2004)

Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004.

THEME Multimedia technologies broaden software applications. With the growing popularity of wired and wireless Internet, multimedia network systems and applications are changing our daily life and social activity. Research contributions to solve communication, compression, synchronization, and other difficulties in distributed multimedia systems make multimedia network applications possible. Yet, to develop useful and attractive applications, such as Multimedia Web Service, Collaborative Systems, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Community tools, is becoming important. Started in 1999, the series of workshop has been held at USA, Germany, Austria and Japan.

The theme of this workshop is to publish high quality papers and for researcher and participants to exchange experience of developing application oriented multimedia systems. Research papers to introduce technologies of specific application problems, middleware for constructing multimedia applications, or commercial systems and tools are welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to following: * Multimedia Tool and Systems * Distributed Multimedia Systems and Shared Applications * Quality of Service Issues for Applications * Advanced Internet Technologies and Applications * Web Service Tools and Systems * Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval Tools * Multimedia Right Protection and Watermarking * Wireless Networks and Mobile Multimedia Applications * Agent Oriented Multimedia Systems and Applications * Mobile Agents and Applications * Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality * Visual Languages and Visual Programming * Distance Learning and Virtual Community * E-Commerce and Related Applications

IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: September 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2003 Camera ready papers: December 20, 2003

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the ICDCS'2004 workshops. A special issue of International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC, published by Inderscience Publishers) is planned afterwards for selected high-quality papers that have been presented at MNSA'2004.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Submit a full paper of about 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page. URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

Contact author must input the following information at the MNSA2004 web site : paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 200-250 word abstract, and five keywords. Prepare your paper in Postscript or PDF file (Adobe format), and send it to our web site.

URL: http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/MNSA/2004

Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number them: smith1.ps, smith2.ps, ...etc.

SUBMISSION NOTIFICATION When you submit a paper, please send an e-mail to both Qun Jin (jin@waseda.jp) and Hui-huang Hsu (h2101392@mars.seed.net.tw) with the following information: author's name, postal address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, title of your paper, keywords, abstract, and the filename(s) you used.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

Steering Committee Chair Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Steering Committee Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

General Co-Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Program Committee Rachid Anane University of Coventry, UK Bernady Apduhan Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Wael Badawy University of Calgary, Canada Leonard Barolli Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Verma Brijesh Griffith University, Australia Kuo-Ming Chao University of Coventry, UK Lap-Pui Chau Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen Queensland University of Technology, Australia Zixue Cheng University of Aizu, Japan Edward Chow University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Akio Doi Iwate Prefectural Univeristy, Japan Tomoya Enokido Tokyo Denki University, Japan Stuart Goose Siemens Corporate Research, USA Nathan Griffiths University of Warwick, UK Ning Gu Fudan University, China Khairuddin b. Hashim Tun Abdul Razak University, Malaysia Koji Hashimoto Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Pedro Isaias Portuguese Open University, Portugal Akio Koyama Yamagata University, Japan Wonjun Lee Korea University, Korea Qing Li City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mark Liao Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hiroshi Matsuno Yamaguchi University, Japan Jeong-Hyun Park ETRI, Korea Zhiyong Peng Wuhan University, China Timothy K. Shih Tamkang University, Taiwan S. R. Subramanya University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Mahbubur Rahman Syed Minnesota State University, USA G. K. Theodoropoulos The University of Birmingham, UK Minoru Uehara Toyo University, Japan Joseph E. Urban Arizona State University, USA Jari Veijalainen University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Ying-Hong Wang Tamkang University, Taiwan Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Shi-Nine Yang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Muhammad Younas University of Coventry, UK Shuuichi Yukita Hosei University, Japan

For any further questions or inquiries please contact: Qun Jin Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama 359-1192, Japan E-mail: jin@waseda.jp Tel: +81-42-947-6906 Fax: +81-42-947-6803

Hui-huang Hsu Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, 151 Ying-Chuan Rd., Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, 25137, Taiwan E-mail: h2101392@mars.seed.net.tw Tel: +886-2-26215656 Ext. 2616 Fax: +886-2-26209749

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