Part of the Photonics West, IS&T/SPIE 1999 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Co-Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 1999

San Jose, California
January 25-27 1999

Conference Chairs	Dilip Kandlur, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center   Timothy Roscoe, Persimmon I.T., Inc.   Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Program Committee	Peter Beadle, University of Wollongong   Andrew Campbell, Columbia University   Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University   Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University   Wu-Chi Feng, Ohio State University   Martin Freeman, Philips Research   J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, U.C. Santa Cruz   Pawan Goyal, AT&T Research   Anoop Gupta, Stanford University   Mark Hayter, DEC Systems Research Center   Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor   Paul Jardetzky, Sun Microsystems   Ian Leslie, University of Cambridge   Klara Nahrstedt U.I. Urbana-Champaign   Guru Parulkar, Washington University   Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie-Mellon University   Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Research   Lawrence A. Rowe, U.C. Berkeley   Debanjan Saha, IBM T.J. Watson   Brian Smith, Cornell University   Cormac Sreenan, AT&T Research   Harrick Vin, University of Texas at Austin   Michael Vernick, Lucent Bell Laboratories   Marc Willebeek-Lemair, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center   Raj Yavatkar, Intel Corporation   Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
About the Conference	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. Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to: Multimedia Computing Systems: set-top technologies and operating systems network computers and multimedia hardware support and hardware accelerators multimedia operating system services real-time operating system services video-on-demand servers and services Multimedia Networking: active networks quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms synchronization mechanisms mobile network architectures wireless networks access technologies and community networking network and transport protocols multimedia over heterogeneous networks Multimedia and the Internet: web servers and web-based services internet appliances push technologies wide area caching architectures data streaming and delivery mechanisms compression handling heterogeneous media formats Measurement and modelling: performance measurement of multimedia systems statistical modelling 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: media and user interaction intelligent information access interactive navigation schemes multimedia authoring languages authoring metaphors and editing techniques
Submission Information:	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 points. To expedite the reviewing process, please submit the paper electronically (in PDF or postscript format, through e-mail as a MIME attachment) to kandlur@watson.ibm.com Additionally, please send 1 hard copy of your paper to: Dr. Dilip Kandlur H3-D30 I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Research Center Hawthorne, NY 10532 Phone : (914) 784-7722 E-mail : kandlur@watson.ibm.com Please also submit electronically (in plain text format) a cover page to kandlur@watson.ibm.com. Each cover page should contain: Title of paper Author names and affiliations Name and address (both postal and electronic) of contact author Abstract (500 words) Keywords Submission area (from the list of relevant areas in the call for papers) In addition, please also submit the 500 word abstract by accessing the web page at URL: http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pw99/ei99.html and following the instructions. 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.
Important Dates:	The submission deadline has been extended. New new deadlines are: July 31th, 1998 - Electronic submission deadline (abstract) July 31th, 1998 - Electronic submission deadline (full paper) July 31th, 1998 - Deadline for receiving a hardcopy September 15th, 1998 - Notification of acceptance October 19st, 1998 - Camera-ready manuscripts due