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Call For Papers (and revised submission date)

The First Australian Workshop on Network Support for Interactive Multimedia 
and Games (NSIM'04) is being held this year in Sydney, Australia on December 
10th as part of the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications 
Conference (ATNAC 2004).

We are soliciting papers for NSIM'04. Papers are due September 12th (note the 
revised, later submission date).

Workshop Scope:

Improvements in both graphics technology and broadband Internet access have 
led to exciting developments in real-time interactive entertainment on the 
Internet. In particular the online games industry is evolving quickly. Fast 
paced first person shooter games now support up to hundreds of players while 
the server farms of massively multiplayer games support over 100,000 players 
simultaneously. Online games (and multiparty, real-time immersive environment 
applications in general) represent a challenging new market for Internet 
Service Providers and game hosting companies.

This workshop will focus on presenting papers that examine network issues 
related to this class of application, and looking past the current generation 
- what is the future of interactive entertainment, what demands will this 
class of applications place on networks in the future and what can we do to 
support them. The workshop's scope includes (but is not limited to) the 
following topics:

* Modelling and measuring immersive virtual environment or interactive 
multimedia network traffic. 

* Network issues that will arise from scaling immersive environments to 
thousands of players (e.g. for Massively Multiplayer Online Games). 

* Network support for distributed game and interactive multimedia servers. - 
Network support for the next generation of games. 

* Distributing interactive multimedia. 

* Supporting interactive entertainment and network games over wireless access 
or ad hoc networks.


Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the 
conference. Full papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages in the required 
format detailed on the ATNAC web site). Short papers are an opportunity to 
present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 camera-ready 
pages in length.

Papers will be peer reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers.

Paper submissions will be handled through EDAS (http://www.edas.info)

Information about submission procedure and paper formats is available at: 
http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/atnac/nsim04.html

Specific queries regarding paper submission not covered on the website can be 
sent to: nsim04@titr.uow.edu.au

Co-chairs:
   Paul Boustead, University of Wollongong
   Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology

Program Committee:
  Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  Paul Boustead, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore
  Kwan-Wu Chin, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
  Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth College, USA
  Xu Ke, National University of Singapore
  Justin Lipman, Smart Internet CRC, Australia
  Jeff Yan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Sebastian Zander, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Important Dates for 2004
  Paper Submission:    12 September
  Notification of Acceptance: 9 October
  Early Registration:   17 October
  Camera-ready Papers:  17 October
  Registration by Authors:  17 October
  (Full ATNAC registration required)
  ATNAC 2004:    8-10 December
  NSIM 04:     10 December

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