See http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/mmcn/


Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001 (MMCN'01)

                                 January, 2001 
                               San Jose, California 
            Sponsored by SPIE, IS&T, and ACM SIG Multimedia(tentative) 

                              Conference Chairs: 
                        Wu-chi Feng, Ohio State University 
                  Martin Kienzle, IBM TJ Watson Research Center 

                                Call for Papers

Advances in computer and networking technologies have fueled the rapid growth of
research and development in multimedia computing and high-speed networking. As
emerging multimedia technologies set higher performance levels at competitive
costs, they are starting to enable and proliferate multimedia solutions in a spectrum
of commercial and laboratory projects. The objective of this conference is to bring
together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of
multimedia computing and networking. The conference will serve as a 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. Papers are
solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to: 

      Multimedia Computing Systems: 
            set-top technologies and operating systems 
            network computers and multimedia 
            hardware support and hardware accelerators 
            multimedia operating system services 
            real-time operating system services 
            video-on-demand servers and services 
      Multimedia Networking: 
            active networks 
            quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms 
            synchronization mechanisms 
            mobile network architectures 
            wireless networks 
            access technologies and community networking 
            network and transport protocols 
            multimedia over heterogeneous networks 
      Multimedia and the Internet: 
            web servers and web-based services 
            internet appliances 
            push technologies 
            wide area caching architectures 
            data streaming and delivery mechanisms 
            compression 
            handling heterogeneous media formats 
      Measurement and modeling: 
            - performance measurement of multimedia systems 
            - statistical modeling of server traffic and server software 
            - multimedia system simulations 
      Applications areas: 
            multimedia search engines and databases 
            - entertainment and games 
            - adaptive applications 
            - synthetic animation 
            - distributed virtual reality 
      User Interfaces and Authoring Systems: 
            media and user interaction 
            intelligent information access 
            interactive navigation schemes 
            multimedia authoring languages 
            authoring metaphors and editing techniques. 


IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: 

Please submit full papers for review. The submissions should not exceed 15
single-spaced pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no
smaller than 10 point. To expedite the reviewing process, please submit the paper
electronically in PDF or postscript format, through the conference web page at
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/mmcn Additionally, please send 1 hard copy of
your paper to:

      Prof. Wu-chi Feng 
      Dept. of Comp. and Info. Sci. 
      The Ohio State University 
      2015 Neil Avenue 
      Columbus, OH 43210 
      email: wuchi@cis.ohio-state.edu 
      fax: 614-292-2911 

Please also submit electronically (in plain text format) a cover page to
wuchi@cis.ohip-state.edu. Each cover page should contain:
1. Title of paper;
2. Author names and affiliations;
3. Name and address (both postal and electronic) of contact author;
4. Abstract (500 words);
5. Keywords;
6. Submission area (from the list of relevant areas in the call for papers).

Each paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee. Authors of
accepted papers will be asked to submit a camera-ready manuscript that will appear
in the conference proceedings. 

Important Dates: 

Electronic Submission deadline (full paper): June 15, 2000  
Deadline for receiving a hardcopy: June 15, 2000  
Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2000 
Camera-ready manuscripts due: November 2000 


For further inquiries, please send an email to wuchi@cis.ohio-state.edu 



Program Committee 

Lisa Amini, IBM TJ Watson 
Milind Buddhikot, Lucent Bell-Labs 
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University 
MS Chen, National Taiwan University 
Jayanta Dey, GTE Labs 
Martin Freeman, Philips Research 
Paul Jardetzky, CPlane 
Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina 
Asa Kalavade, Lucent Bell-Labs 
Ian Leslie, University of Cambridge 
Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina 
Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University 
Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University 
Timothy Roscoe, Sprint Research 
Larry Rowe, University of California/Berkeley 
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts 
Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork 
Arnd Steinmetz, IBM TJ Watson 
Bill Tetzlaff, IBM TJ Watson 
Michael Vernick, Lucent Bell-Labs 
Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin 
Harrick Vin, University of Texas 
Jon Walpole, Oregon Graduate Institute 
Raj Yavatkar, Intel