CFP : The 7th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia DMS 2001

CFP : The 7th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia DMS 2001
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\Due to the requests from many authors, I will like to announce the extension of the Seventh International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2001). The submission of papers is now due on the first of April 2001. Please consider sending your paper(s) to me as soon as possible. This is just a cordial reminder. We are arranging two special issues for the best papers accepted to the conference/workshops. SPECIAL ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL: The best papers accepted to the conference will be suggested to one of the following special issues: 1. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), World Scientific Pub. Co. 2. International Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (IJVLC) Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have a question regarding to DMS'2001. Regards, 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 Call for Papers --------------------------- The Seventh International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems DMS'2001 Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan September 26 -- 28, 2001 http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/DMS2001 The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers a wide spectrum of technique discussions, demonstrations, and student program/paper contests in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. Started in 1994, the serious of conference was held at Hawaii, Hong Kong, Vancuover, Taipei, and Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. This time, the conference will be held at Tamkang University, Taipei with, video conferencing in other universities/organizations in Taiwan. DMS'2001 focuses on techniques, systems, applications, and theoreies in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing various aspects of distributed multimedia systems and applications, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o audio and video compression o MPEG, Quicktime, Windows API standards o image, video, audio content analysis and indexing/retrieval o image, video and audio watermark o 3D audio and video o computer graphics and animation o modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems o OS support for distributed multimedia systems o distributed multimedia databases and computing o multi-paradigmatic information retrieval o multimedia human-computer interaction o multimedia communications and network architectures o mobile networks and mobile computing o multimedia stream synchronization and QoS control/scheduling o multimedia software engineering o multimedia processors and ASIC o multimedia technologies for people with disability o intelligent multimedia computing o intelligent multimodal interaction o multi agents, mobile agents and their applications o communication encryption o security of distributed computer systems o Web servers and services o XML applications o Java, VRML and multimedia languages o visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications o multimedia digital libraries and mail systems o multimedia applications for CSCW o multimedia authoring tools and intelligent tutoring o cultural heritage multimedia applications o tele-conferencing, tele-medicine and tele-lecture o virtual reality, distributed virtual environment, and their applications o virtual school, virtual university, and virtual learning community o distance learning methodology, tools and systems o e-commerce, e-education and e-entertainment The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged. Workshops and Special Sessions ------------------------------ This year, DMS'2001 will be held in conjunction with workshops and special sections. Papers submitted to workshops or special sessions are invited by the program committee chairs of the workshops/sections. This join organization aims to collect research results from different qualified perspectives. Please contact the conference program co-chair, Timothy K. Shih if you are interested in organizing a workshop or a special session. A one-page proposal with the following items is required: Title of the workshop/special session Name of the program committee chair(s) A list of program committee members E-mail address of the corresponding program committee chair A brief description of the theme Each special session should include at least 6 invited (or accepted) papers. Each workshop should include at least 2 special sessions (12 papers). Paper review process of the workshop/special session will be arranged by the individual program committee chair. It is the responsibility of the individual chairs to ensure the quility of papers in the workshop/special sessions. The schedule of workshops/special sessions will be the same as the main conference (see Important Dates below). Each individual PC chair can setup the Web site of the workshop/special session. However, papers will be printed in the same volume as the main conference. Special issue of Journals ------------------------- Best ranked papers accepted at the conference will be suggested for publication in a special issue of an international journal, subject to a quick review by the program committee. Papers suggested for the special issue will then be reviewed by external reviewers following the standard procedure of review stipulated by the international journal. Conference Site --------------- The conference is located at the Tamsui campus of Tamkang University. Tamsui is a beautiful college town 15 miles from the downtown of Taipei. The campus is 10 minutes from the seashore of north Taiwan and about 50 minutes from the well-known Yang-Ming mountain. Since March 1997, the subway of Taipei metropolitan pass Tamsui. The campus is within a working distance from the train station. Commuters from Taipei city can reach the campus either by bus or by subway. After Conference Tour --------------------- The conference organizer will arrange for a free tour to the National Palace Museum in Taipei, which has a collection of more than 100,000 pieces of ancient Chinese art. Information for Authors ----------------------- Paper must be written in English. Please send four copies of the complete manuscript with a 200-word abstract and no more than 20 pages of double-spaced text (include figures and references) before March 1, 2001, to the program co-chair: Timothy K. Shih 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 Alternatively, electronic submissions are encouraged. Send a copy of your paper in one of the following file formats to the above program co-chair via e-mail: Postscript PDF MS Word Important Dates --------------- April 1, 2001 Paper submission due (extension) June 1, 2001 Notification of acceptance August 1, 2001 Final manuscript due August 1, 2001 Early conference registration due Sponsored by ------------ Knowledge Systems Institute, USA University of Pittsburgh, USA Tamkang University, Taiwan Ministry of Education, Taiwan (pending) National Science Council, Taiwan (pending) DMS'2001 Organization --------------------- Steering Committee Chair Shi-Kuo Chang, Knowledge Systems Institute, USA Steering Committee Ramesh Jain, University of California, La Jolla, USA C. N. Liu, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan Jin-Tu Wang, Telecommunications Laboratories, Taiwan Conference Chair Shi-Kuo Chang, Knowledge Systems Institute, USA Tadao Ichikawa, Hijiyama University, Japan Honorary Conference Chair Louis R. Chow, Tamkang University, Taiwan Horng-Jinh Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan An-Chi Liu, Feng-Chia University, Taiwan International Advisors Taieb Znati, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Teleconference Committee Chair F. F. Chen, China Telecom, Taiwan Jen-Shiun Chiang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Teleconference Committee Peter Shih, Telecommunications Laboratories, Taiwan (tentative) Publicity Chair Po-Jen Chuang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Jiung-Yao Huang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Hwei-Jen Lin, Tamkang University, Taiwan Shwu-Huey Yen, Tamkang University, Taiwan Ren-Junn Hwang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Timothy Arndt, Cleveland State University, USA Program Committee Kai H. Chang Auburn University, USA Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University, USA Han-Chieh Chao National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Ing-Ray Chen Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), USA Meng Chang Chen Academia Sinica, Taiwan Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Yonghee Choi Seoul National Univ., Korea Zied Choukair ENST Bretagne, France Fadi P. Deek New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA David H. C. Du Univ. of Minnesota, USA Larbi Esmahi National Research Council of Canada, Canada Stuart Goose Siemens Corporate Research, USA William Grosky Wayne State Univ., USA Angela Guercio University of Salerno, Italy Michelle T. C. Kao National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan James Kwok Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Wee Kheng Leow The National University of Singapore, Singapore Sheng-Tun Li National Kaohsiung First Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan Wen-Syan Li CCRL, NEC USA Inc. Mark Liao Academia Sinica, Taiwan Fuhua Lin Athabasca University, Canada Chien-Tsai Liu Taipei Medical College, Taiwan Kenji Ohmori Hosei University, Japan Vincent Oria New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ming Ouhyoung National Taiwan University, Taiwan Syed M. Rahman Minnesota State University, USA Steven L. Tanimoto Univ. of Washington, USA Joseph E. Urban Arizona State Univ., USA Athena Vakali Aristotle University, Greece Son T. Vuong Univ. of British Columbia, Canada Lars C. Wolf Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany Shi-Nine Yang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Fun Ye Tamkang University, Taiwan Conference Secretary Chuan-Feng Chiu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Lawrence Y. Deng, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Do not bookmark this page; the URL will change once in a while. Bookmark the list of CFPs instead.

\Due to the requests from many authors, I will like to announce the
extension of the Seventh International Conference on Distributed
Multimedia Systems (DMS'2001). The submission of papers is now due on
the first of April 2001. Please consider sending your paper(s) to me
as soon as possible.  This is just a cordial reminder. We are
arranging two special issues for the best papers accepted to the
conference/workshops.

SPECIAL ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL: 

The best papers accepted to the conference will be suggested to one of the 
following special issues: 

1. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages 
   (IJCPOL), World Scientific Pub. Co. 
2. International Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (IJVLC) 

Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have a question regarding 
to DMS'2001. 

Regards, 
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 


                            Call for Papers 
                       --------------------------- 

The Seventh International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems 

                                DMS'2001 

                     Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan 
                         September 26 -- 28, 2001 

                     http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/DMS2001 

The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers a 
wide spectrum of technique discussions, demonstrations, and student 
program/paper contests in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. 
Started in 1994, the serious of conference was held at Hawaii, Hong Kong, 
Vancuover, Taipei, and Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. This time, the conference 
will be held at Tamkang University, Taipei with, video conferencing in 
other 
universities/organizations in Taiwan. 

DMS'2001 focuses on techniques, systems, applications, and theoreies in 
the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The conference organizers 
seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing 
various aspects of distributed multimedia systems and applications, for 
presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. Topics 
of 
interest include, but are not limited to: 

   o audio and video compression 
   o MPEG, Quicktime, Windows API standards 
   o image, video, audio content analysis and indexing/retrieval 
   o image, video and audio watermark 
   o 3D audio and video 
   o computer graphics and animation 
   o modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems 
   o OS support for distributed multimedia systems 
   o distributed multimedia databases and computing 
   o multi-paradigmatic information retrieval 
   o multimedia human-computer interaction 
   o multimedia communications and network architectures 
   o mobile networks and mobile computing 
   o multimedia stream synchronization and QoS control/scheduling 
   o multimedia software engineering 
   o multimedia processors and ASIC 
   o multimedia technologies for people with disability 
   o intelligent multimedia computing 
   o intelligent multimodal interaction 
   o multi agents, mobile agents and their applications 
   o communication encryption 
   o security of distributed computer systems 
   o Web servers and services 
   o XML applications 
   o Java, VRML and multimedia languages 
   o visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications 
   o multimedia digital libraries and mail systems 
   o multimedia applications for CSCW 
   o multimedia authoring tools and intelligent tutoring 
   o cultural heritage multimedia applications 
   o tele-conferencing, tele-medicine and tele-lecture 
   o virtual reality, distributed virtual environment, and their 
applications 
   o virtual school, virtual university, and virtual learning community 
   o distance learning methodology, tools and systems 
   o e-commerce, e-education and e-entertainment 

The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is 
encouraged. 

Workshops and Special Sessions 
------------------------------ 

This year, DMS'2001 will be held in conjunction with workshops and special 
sections. Papers submitted to workshops or special sessions are invited by 
the program committee chairs of the workshops/sections. This join 
organization 
aims to collect research results from different qualified perspectives. 
Please 
contact the conference program co-chair, Timothy K. Shih if you are 
interested 
in organizing a workshop or a special session. A one-page proposal with 
the 
following items is required: 

  Title of the workshop/special session 
  Name of the program committee chair(s) 
  A list of program committee members 
  E-mail address of the corresponding program committee chair 
  A brief description of the theme 

Each special session should include at least 6 invited (or accepted) 
papers. 
Each workshop should include at least 2 special sessions (12 papers). 
Paper 
review process of the workshop/special session will be arranged by the 
individual 
program committee chair. It is the responsibility of the individual chairs 
to 
ensure the quility of papers in the workshop/special sessions. The 
schedule 
of workshops/special sessions will be the same as the main conference (see 
Important Dates below). Each individual PC chair can setup the Web site of 
the workshop/special session. However, papers will be printed in the same 
volume as the main conference. 

Special issue of Journals 
------------------------- 

Best ranked papers accepted at the conference will be suggested for 
publication 
in a special issue of an international journal, subject to a quick review 
by 
the program committee. Papers suggested for the special issue will then be 
reviewed by external reviewers following the standard procedure of review 
stipulated by the international journal. 

Conference Site 
--------------- 

The conference is located at the Tamsui campus of Tamkang University. 
Tamsui is a beautiful college town 15 miles from the downtown of Taipei. 
The campus is 10 minutes from the seashore of north Taiwan and about 50 
minutes from the well-known Yang-Ming mountain. Since March 1997, the 
subway of Taipei metropolitan pass Tamsui. The campus is within a working 
distance from the train station. Commuters from Taipei city can reach 
the campus either by bus or by subway. 

After Conference Tour 
--------------------- 
The conference organizer will arrange for a free tour to the National 
Palace Museum in Taipei, which has a collection of more than 100,000 
pieces of ancient Chinese art. 

Information for Authors 
----------------------- 
Paper must be written in English. Please send four copies of the 
complete manuscript with a 200-word abstract and no more than 20 
pages of double-spaced text (include figures and references) before 
March 1, 2001, to the program co-chair: 

Timothy K. Shih 
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 

Alternatively, electronic submissions are encouraged. Send a copy of your 
paper in one of the following file formats to the above program co-chair 
via e-mail: 

   Postscript 
   PDF 
   MS Word 

Important Dates 
--------------- 
   April 1, 2001 Paper submission due (extension) 
   June 1, 2001 Notification of acceptance 
   August 1, 2001 Final manuscript due 
   August 1, 2001 Early conference registration due 

Sponsored by 
------------ 
   Knowledge Systems Institute, USA 
   University of Pittsburgh, USA 
   Tamkang University, Taiwan 
   Ministry of Education, Taiwan (pending) 
   National Science Council, Taiwan (pending) 

DMS'2001 Organization 
--------------------- 
   Steering Committee Chair 
     Shi-Kuo Chang, Knowledge Systems Institute, USA 

   Steering Committee 
     Ramesh Jain, University of California, La Jolla, USA 
     C. N. Liu, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan 
     Jin-Tu Wang, Telecommunications Laboratories, Taiwan 

   Conference Chair 
     Shi-Kuo Chang, Knowledge Systems Institute, USA 
     Tadao Ichikawa, Hijiyama University, Japan 

   Honorary Conference Chair 
     Louis R. Chow, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
     Horng-Jinh Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
     An-Chi Liu, Feng-Chia University, Taiwan 

   International Advisors 
     Taieb Znati, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA 
     Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan 
     Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan 

   Teleconference Committee Chair 
     F. F. Chen, China Telecom, Taiwan 
     Jen-Shiun Chiang, Tamkang University, Taiwan 

   Teleconference Committee 
     Peter Shih, Telecommunications Laboratories, Taiwan (tentative) 

   Publicity Chair 
     Po-Jen Chuang, Tamkang University, Taiwan 

   Local Arrangement Co-Chairs 
     Jiung-Yao Huang, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
     Hwei-Jen Lin, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
     Shwu-Huey Yen, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
     Ren-Junn Hwang, Tamkang University, Taiwan 

   Program Co-Chairs 
     Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
     Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan 
     Timothy Arndt, Cleveland State University, USA 

   Program Committee 
     Kai H. Chang Auburn University, USA 
     Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University, USA 
     Han-Chieh Chao National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan 
     Ing-Ray Chen Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), USA 
     Meng Chang Chen Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
     Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA 
     Yonghee Choi Seoul National Univ., Korea 
     Zied Choukair ENST Bretagne, France 
     Fadi P. Deek New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA 
     David H. C. Du Univ. of Minnesota, USA 
     Larbi Esmahi National Research Council of Canada, Canada 
     Stuart Goose Siemens Corporate Research, USA 
     William Grosky Wayne State Univ., USA 
     Angela Guercio University of Salerno, Italy 
     Michelle T. C. Kao National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan 
     James Kwok Hong Kong University of Science and  Technology, Hong Kong 
     Wee Kheng Leow The National University of Singapore, Singapore 
     Sheng-Tun Li National Kaohsiung First Univ. of Sci. and  Tech., Taiwan 
     Wen-Syan Li CCRL, NEC USA Inc. 
     Mark Liao Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
     Fuhua Lin Athabasca University, Canada 
     Chien-Tsai Liu Taipei Medical College, Taiwan 
     Kenji Ohmori Hosei University, Japan 
     Vincent Oria New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA 
     Ming Ouhyoung National Taiwan University, Taiwan 
     Syed M. Rahman Minnesota State University, USA 
     Steven L. Tanimoto Univ. of Washington, USA 
     Joseph E. Urban Arizona State Univ., USA 
     Athena Vakali Aristotle University, Greece 
     Son T. Vuong Univ. of British Columbia, Canada 
     Lars C. Wolf Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany 
     Shi-Nine Yang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 
     Fun Ye Tamkang University, Taiwan 

   Conference Secretary 
     Chuan-Feng Chiu, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
     Lawrence Y. Deng, Tamkang University, Taiwan