The 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems
                           (MMNS'2001)
  http://www.sb.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/conf/ICDCS2001/workshop/mmns2001
              http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/mmns2001

   in conjunction with ICDCS-2001, Sun Burst, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
           http: //mmis.eas.asu.edu/ICDCS2001
               http://www.computer.org/conferences/
                         April 16-19, 2001

THEME

Multimedia network is one of key technology to support cyber society in
the twenty-one century. Many advanced multimedia applications over
high-speed networks as well as mobile environment are realized in
various fields. Especially, the Internet has given drastic influence
and impact to not only the information technologies but also social
environments. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together
researchers from multimedia application areas and network system ones
with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience
between these communities. The first MMNS was held at the University of
Aizu, Japan in conjunction with ICPP'99 in September 1999 with about 30
excellent presentations. With extreme expectation toward to the new
millennium, the 2nd MMNS was held at Iwate Prefectural University,
Japan in conjunction with ICPADS'2000. About 35 papers were accepted
and presented. This time, the 3rd MMNS will be held in Arizona, USA. We
expect a great success of this continuous series of outstanding
presentation and high quality publication.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include but are not limited to following:

   * Multimedia Computing Systems
   * Multimedia Communications and Protocols
   * Internet Applications
   * Distributed Multimedia Database Systems
   * End-to-End Quality of Service Issues
   * Web-based Systems
   * Parallel and Distributed Systems
   * Mobile Multimedia Computing Systems
   * Distributed Object-based Systems
   * Agent Oriented Multimedia Systems
   * Mobile Agents and Applications
   * Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
   * Visual Simulation and Visual Programming
   * Distance Learning and Virtual University
   * E-Commerce and Related Applications

IMPORTANT DATES

   * Submission deadline: December 15, 2000
   * Notification of acceptance: February 22, 2001
   * Camera ready papers: March 31, 2001

SUBMISSION DETAILS

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original, previously unpublished work.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'20001 workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according
to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press
(two-column format) and MUST NOT be longer than SIX pages.

Electronic Submission

Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site. Please prepare
your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding,
condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever
possible. Do not use bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can
avoid it. Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are
available at http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.

File Names

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.

Transferring to FTP Site

When transferring files to our FTP site, if you have a choice between
ASCII and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most
of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.

    Our FTP site: ftp.sb.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp
    Logon as: anonymous
    Place files in subdirectory: incoming/mmns2001

    Alternative FTP site: ftp.cs.tku.edu.tw
    Logon as: anonymous
    Place files in subdirectory: incoming/mmns2001

Submission Notification

When you have put your file(s) in our FTP site, please send an e-mail
to hashi@iwate-pu.ac.jp 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.

Do NOT send a copy of your postscript file via email.

Hard Copy Paper

If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper
on our FTP site, ONLY THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to the
following address:

     Koji Hashimoto
     Faculty of Software and Information Science,
     Iwate Prefetural University
     152-52 Sugo, Takizawa, Iwate 020-0193, Japan

Please send also an electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format
and
including

  author's name,
  postal address,
  phone number,
  fax number,
  e-mail address,
  title of your paper,
  keywords
  and abstract,

to to hashi@iwate-pu.ac.jp.

Workshop Co-Chairs

   * Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural Univ., Japan
   * Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan

Program Committee

* Bernady Apduhan Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
* Leonard Barolli Yamagata Univ., Japan
* Ing-Ray Chen Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), USA
* Wen-Shyen Eric Chen National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
* Zixue Cheng Aizu Univ., Japan
* Tzi-Cker Chiueh State University of New York, USA
* Norishige Chiba Iwate Univ., Japan
* Yonghee Choi Seoul National University, Korea
* Takashi Dasai Mitsubishi Cooperation, Ltd., Japan
* Akio Doi Iwate Prefectural Univ., Japan
* William Grosky Wayne State University, USA
* Koji Hashimoto Iwate Prefectural Univ., Japan
* Hiroaki Higaki Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
* Nen-Fu Huang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
* Michiaki Katsumoto CRL, Japan
* Kunio Kondo Saitama Univ., Japan
* Takauki Kushida IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
* Mark Liao Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Yao-Nan Lien National Chengchi University, Taiwan
* Jason Yi-Bing Lin National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
* Nam Ling Santa Clara University, USA
* Peiya Liu Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA
* Hiroshi Matsuno Yamaguchi Univ., Japan
* Ming Ouhyoung National Taiwan University, Taiwan
* Jeong-Hyun Park ETRI, Korea
* Syed M. Rahman Monash University, Australia
* Toru Sekine Nihon Cisco Systems, Japan
* Olivia R. Liu Sheng Arizona State University, USA
* Sheau-Ru Tong National Pingtung Univ. of Sci. and Tech.,Taiwan
* Yih-Jia Tsai Tamkang University, Taiwan
* Zsehong Tsai National Taiwan University, Taiwan
* Joseph E. Urban Arizona State University, USA
* Son T. Vuong University of British Columbia, Canada
* Jason T. L. Wang New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
* Lars C. Wolf Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
* Shi-Nine Yang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

    Prof. Yoshitaka Shibata
    Faculty of Software and Information Science,
    Iwate Prefetural University
    152-52 Sugo, Takizawa, Iwate 020-0193, Japan
    Tel. +81-19-694-2542
    Fax. +81-19-694-2695
    e-mail:shibata@iwate-pu.ac.jp

    or

    Dr. Timothy K. Shih, Professor and Chairman
    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
    Tamkang University
    151, Ying-Chuan Road
    Tamsui, Taipei Hsien
    Taiwan 25137, R.O.C.
    e-mail: tshih@cs.tku.edu.tw
    Web: http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/chinese/teacher/tshih.htm
    fax: + 886 2 26209749
    phone: + 886 2 26215656 x2743, x2616