CFP : The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications MNSA 2004

CFP : The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications MNSA 2004
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Call for Papers The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications ( MNSA'2004) http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/MNSA/2004 http://www.f.waseda.jp/jin/mnsa2004 http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/MNSA2004 in conjunction with The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2004) Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004. THEME Multimedia technologies broaden software applications. With the growing popularity of wired and wireless Internet, multimedia network systems and applications are changing our daily life and social activity. Research contributions to solve communication, compression, synchronization, and other difficulties in distributed multimedia systems make multimedia network applications possible. Yet, to develop useful and attractive applications, such as Multimedia Web Service, Collaborative Systems, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Community tools, is becoming important. Started in 1999, the series of workshop has been held at USA, Germany, Austria and Japan. The theme of this workshop is to publish high quality papers and for researcher and participants to exchange experience of developing application oriented multimedia systems. Research papers to introduce technologies of specific application problems, middleware for constructing multimedia applications, or commercial systems and tools are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to following: * Multimedia Tool and Systems * Distributed Multimedia Systems and Shared Applications * Quality of Service Issues for Applications * Advanced Internet Technologies and Applications * Web Service Tools and Systems * Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval Tools * Multimedia Right Protection and Watermarking * Wireless Networks and Mobile Multimedia Applications * Agent Oriented Multimedia Systems and Applications * Mobile Agents and Applications * Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality * Visual Languages and Visual Programming * Distance Learning and Virtual Community * E-Commerce and Related Applications IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: September 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2003 Camera ready papers: December 20, 2003 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'2004 workshops. A special issue of International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC, published by Inderscience Publishers) is planned afterwards for selected high-quality papers that have been presented at MNSA'2004. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Submit a full paper of about 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page. URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Contact author must input the following information at the MNSA2004 web site : paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 200-250 word abstract, and five keywords. Prepare your paper in Postscript or PDF file (Adobe format), and send it to our web site. URL: http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/MNSA/2004 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. SUBMISSION NOTIFICATION When you submit a paper, please send an e-mail to both Qun Jin (jin@waseda.jp) and Hui-huang Hsu (h2101392@mars.seed.net.tw) 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. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Steering Committee Chair Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Steering Committee Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan General Co-Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Hui-huang Hsu, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan Program Committee Bernady Apduhan Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Wael Badawy University of Calgary, Canada Leonard Barolli Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Verma Brijesh Griffith University, Australia Kuo-Ming Chao University of Coventry, UK Lap-Pui Chau Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen Queensland University of Technology, Australia Zixue Cheng University of Aizu, Japan Edward Chow University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Akio Doi Iwate Prefectural Univeristy, Japan Tomoya Enokido Tokyo Denki University, Japan Stuart Goose Siemens Corporate Research, USA Ning Gu Fudan University, China Khairuddin b. Hashim Tun Abdul Razak University, Malaysia Koji Hashimoto Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Pedro Isaias Portuguese Open University, Portugal Akio Koyama Yamagata University, Japan Wonjun Lee Korea University, Korea Qing Li City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mark Liao Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hiroshi Matsuno Yamaguchi University, Japan Jeong-Hyun Park ETRI, Korea Zhiyong Peng Wuhan University, China Timothy K. Shih Tamkang University, Taiwan S. R. Subramanya University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Mahbubur Rahman Syed Minnesota State University, USA Minoru Uehara Toyo University, Japan Joseph E. Urban Arizona State University, USA Jari Veijalainen University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Ying-Hong Wang Tamkang University, Taiwan Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Shi-Nine Yang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Shuuichi Yukita Hosei University, Japan For any further questions or inquiries please contact: Qun Jin Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama 359-1192, Japan E-mail: jin@waseda.jp Tel: +81-42-947-6906 Fax: +81-42-947-6803 Hui-huang Hsu Department of Computer Science Chinese Culture University 55 Hwa-Kang Rd., Yangminshan, Taipei, 11114, Taiwan E-mail: h2101392@mars.seed.net.tw Tel: +886-2-28610511 Ext. 123, 724 Fax: +886-2-28629600

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                         Call for Papers 
The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (
MNSA'2004) 

                http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/MNSA/2004
                http://www.f.waseda.jp/jin/mnsa2004
                http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/MNSA2004

                         in conjunction with 
The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2004)

                 Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004.

THEME 
Multimedia technologies broaden software applications. With the growing popularity of wired 
and wireless Internet, multimedia network systems and applications are changing our daily 
life and social activity. Research contributions to solve communication, compression, 
synchronization, and other difficulties in distributed multimedia systems make multimedia 
network applications possible. Yet, to develop useful and attractive applications, such as 
Multimedia Web Service, Collaborative Systems, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Community tools, 
is becoming important. Started in 1999, the series of workshop has been held at USA, 
Germany, Austria and Japan.

The theme of this workshop is to publish high quality papers and for researcher and 
participants to exchange experience of developing application oriented multimedia systems. 
Research papers to introduce technologies of specific application problems, middleware for 
constructing multimedia applications, or commercial systems and tools are welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to following: 
  * Multimedia Tool and Systems
  * Distributed Multimedia Systems and Shared Applications 
  * Quality of Service Issues for Applications
  * Advanced Internet Technologies and Applications
  * Web Service Tools and Systems 
  * Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval Tools 
  * Multimedia Right Protection and Watermarking 
  * Wireless Networks and Mobile Multimedia Applications 
  * Agent Oriented Multimedia Systems and Applications 
  * Mobile Agents and Applications 
  * Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality 
  * Visual Languages and Visual Programming 
  * Distance Learning and Virtual Community 
  * E-Commerce and Related Applications 
  
IMPORTANT DATES 
    Submission deadline:          September 1, 2003 
    Notification of acceptance:    October 31, 2003 
    Camera ready papers:          December 20, 2003 

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'2004 workshops. A special issue 
of International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC, published by Inderscience 
Publishers) is planned afterwards for selected high-quality papers that have been presented 
at MNSA'2004. 


ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
Submit a full paper of about 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: 
two column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, 
and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts 
at the following web page. URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. 

Contact author must input the following information at the MNSA2004 web site : 
paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail 
address of the author, about 200-250 word abstract, and five keywords. Prepare your 
paper in Postscript or PDF file (Adobe format), and send it to our web site. 

URL: http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/MNSA/2004

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.

SUBMISSION NOTIFICATION
When you submit a paper, please send an e-mail to both Qun Jin (jin@waseda.jp) and 
Hui-huang Hsu (h2101392@mars.seed.net.tw) 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.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the 
authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be 
given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the 
notification of acceptance.

Steering Committee Chair
     Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan 

Steering Committee 
     Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
     Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

General Co-Chairs 
     Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
     Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan 

Program Co-Chairs 
     Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan 
     Hui-huang Hsu, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan

Program Committee 
     Bernady Apduhan           Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
     Wael Badawy               University of Calgary, Canada
     Leonard Barolli           Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
     Verma Brijesh             Griffith University, Australia
     Kuo-Ming Chao             University of Coventry, UK
     Lap-Pui Chau              Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
     Shu-Ching Chen            Florida International University, USA
     Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen       Queensland University of Technology, Australia
     Zixue Cheng               University of Aizu, Japan 
     Edward Chow               University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA 
     Akio Doi                  Iwate Prefectural Univeristy, Japan
     Tomoya Enokido            Tokyo Denki University, Japan
     Stuart Goose              Siemens Corporate Research, USA
     Ning Gu                   Fudan University, China
     Khairuddin b. Hashim      Tun Abdul Razak University, Malaysia
     Koji Hashimoto            Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
     Pedro Isaias              Portuguese Open University, Portugal
     Akio Koyama               Yamagata University, Japan
     Wonjun Lee                Korea University, Korea
     Qing Li                   City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
     Mark Liao                 Academia Sinica, Taiwan
     Hiroshi Matsuno           Yamaguchi University, Japan
     Jeong-Hyun Park           ETRI, Korea 
     Zhiyong Peng              Wuhan University, China
     Timothy K. Shih           Tamkang University, Taiwan
     S. R. Subramanya          University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
     Mahbubur Rahman Syed      Minnesota State University, USA
     Minoru Uehara             Toyo University, Japan
     Joseph E. Urban           Arizona State University, USA
     Jari Veijalainen          University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
     Ying-Hong Wang            Tamkang University, Taiwan
     Laurence T. Yang          St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
     Shi-Nine Yang             National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
     Shuuichi Yukita           Hosei University, Japan

For any further questions or inquiries please contact: 
     Qun Jin 
     Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, 
     School of Human Sciences, Waseda University,
     2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama 359-1192, Japan
     E-mail: jin@waseda.jp
     Tel: +81-42-947-6906
     Fax: +81-42-947-6803

     Hui-huang Hsu
     Department of Computer Science
     Chinese Culture University
     55 Hwa-Kang Rd., Yangminshan, Taipei, 11114, Taiwan
     E-mail: h2101392@mars.seed.net.tw
     Tel: +886-2-28610511 Ext. 123, 724
     Fax: +886-2-28629600