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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005)

Irvine, California, USA December 12-14, 2005

Extended Submission Deadline: August 5, 2005 Author Notification : September 2, 2005 Camera Ready Copy: September 23, 2005

http://ISM2005.eecs.uci.edu/

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society in cooperation with the University of California at Irvine

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The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2005 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions.

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

* Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications * Multimedia networking and QoS * Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming * Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV * Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems * Architecture specification languages * Software development using multimedia techniques * Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding * Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing * Visualization * Virtual Reality * Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models * Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval * Multimedia collaboration * Rich media enabled E-commerce * Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms * Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis * Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems * Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption

=========== SUBMISSIONS ===========

The written and spoken language of ISM2005 is English. Authors should submit a full paper via electronic submission at http://gaia.csus.edu/~ism2005/ http://gaia.csus.edu/%7Eism2005/. Full papers must not exceed 20 pages printed using at least 11-point type and double spacing. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF) or PostScript format. The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in journals.

ISM2005 will also include a few tutorials, workshops and special tracks dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on tutorials, workshops and special tracks of emerging areas are invited. Please submit proposals to Tutorial Chairs, Workshop Chairs or Special Tracks Chair, respectively. Papers from Workshops and Focused Tracks will be presented at ISM2005, and included in the Proceedings.

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

August 5, 2005: Submission of papers and proposals on workshops, special tracks and tutorials. August 26, 2005: Notification of acceptance of workshop, special track and tutorial proposals September 2, 2005: Notification of acceptance of papers September 23, 2005: Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due

=================== CONFERENCE LOCATION ===================

HYATT REGENCY IRVINE 17900 Jamboree Boulevard Irvine, CA 92614 D/L: 949-225-6662 Fax: 949-225-6769 Website: www.irvine.hyatt.com http://www.irvine.hyatt.com

============= ACCOMMODATION =============

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the rate below, please make your reservations early and mention the IEEE Computer Society/ ISM2005 Conference. The deadline for hotel reservation is 11/12/2005. Conference Special Rate: $119