Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN02) 
                               January 18-25 2002 
                          San Jose, California 
  

                Sponsored by SPIE, IS&T, and ACM SIG Multimedia 

            Conference web page: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/mmcn 
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 Conference Chairs: Martin Kienzle, IBM TJ Watson Research 
                    Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts 
  
 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. 

 We especially encourage papers on emerging technologies such 
 as mobile and wireless multimedia networks, edge network 
 technologies, content distribution networks and home networking. A 
 new feature this year is an industrial experiences track for 
 next-generation multimedia systems and applications. One or 
 two sessions of the conference will be reserved for papers detailing 
 industrial experiences in the design and deployment of multimedia 
 systems and applications. 
          
 Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited 
 to: 
  
 * Multimedia Computing Systems: 
      - hardware support and hardware accelerators 
      - multimedia operating system services 
      - video-on-demand servers and services 
 * Multimedia Networking: 
      - mobile network architectures 
      - wireless networks 
      - active networks 
      - home networking technologies 
      - quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms 
      - access technologies and community networking 
      - network and transport protocols 
 * Multimedia and the Internet: 
      - web servers and web-based services 
      - push technologies and content distribution 
      - wide area caching architectures 
      - data streaming and delivery mechanisms 
      - compression 
 * 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 
 * Case studies: 
      - design studies of industrial multimedia systems 
      - experience reports on the use of multimedia in real-life applications 

    IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: 
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    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, we strongly encourage electronic submission 
    of your paper in PDF or postscript format (please use standard 
    fonts and US letter format). Detailed instructions on the 
    electronic submission process can be found on the conference web 
    page at http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/mmcn 
    In the event that electronic submission is not possible, please 
    send 5 hard copies of your paper to: 
  
            Prashant Shenoy 
            Dept. of Computer Science 
            140 Governor's Drive 
            University of Massachusetts 
            Amherst MA 01003. 
            email: mmcn@cs.umass.edu 
            fax: 413 545 1249 

    Please also submit electronically (in plain text format) 
    a cover page to mmcn@cs.umass.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. Best 
    papers will be forwarded to the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems 
    Journal for publication. 

    Important Dates: 
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    Electronic submission deadline (full paper): June 4, 2001 
    Deadline for receiving a hardcopy: June 4, 2001 
    Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2001 
    Camera-ready manuscripts due: October 15, 2001 
  
    The detailed call for papers as well as the additional conference 
    information can also be obtained from: 

    http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/mmcn 
  
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Ernst Bierscak (Institute Eurécom) 
Tzi-cker Chiueh (SUNY Stony Brook) 
Wu-Chi Feng (Ohio State University/OGI) 
Pawan Goyal (Ensim) 
Kevin Jeffay (Univ. of North Carolina) 
Dilip Kandlur (IBM Research) 
John Lui (Chinese Univ of Hong Kong) 
Dick Muntz (UCLA) 
Henning Olesen (Technical University of Denmark) 
Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research) 
Ketan Patel (Univ of North Carolina) 
B Prabhakaran (National Univ. of Singapore) 
Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University) 
Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University) 
Timothy Roscoe (Sprint ATL) 
Larry Rowe (UC Berkeley) 
Cormac Sreenan (University College Cork) 
Anees Shaik (IBM Research) 
Arnd Steinmetz (IBM/GMD) 
Bill Tetzlaff (IBM Research) 
Renu Tewari (IBM Research) 
Jon Walpole (Oregon Graduate Institute) 
Amin Vahdat (Duke University) 
Michael Vernick (Lucent Bell Labs) 
Mary Vernon (Univ of Wisconsin) 
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine) 
Harrick Vin (Univ of Texas) 
David Yau (Purdue University)