[Ieee_vis] ISM2011 - Call for Papers

[Masahito Hirakawa]

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2011)
Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa
Dana Point, California USA
December 5-7, 2011
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee
on Multimedia Computing

http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/

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The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2011) is an
international forum for researchers to exchange information
regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of
multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging
research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.
The technical program of ISM2011 will consist of invited talks,
paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions are
solicited for full papers, workshop papers, technical demos,
and panels.

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results
or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but
are not limited to:

* Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
* Multimedia networking and QoS
* Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
* Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including
  mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
* Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
* Architecture specification languages
* Software development using multimedia techniques
* Multimedia signal processing including audio, video,
  image processing, and coding
* Multimedia Information Visualization and Interactive Systems
* Virtual Reality
* Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
* Multimedia collaboration
* Multimedia in social network analysis
* Rich media enabled E-commerce
* Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy
  logic, and genetic algorithms
* Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution,
  and analysis
* Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
* Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
* Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services
* Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors
* Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering, Modality-
  Abstractions, etc.
* Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and
  browsing

There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award for
the best submitted paper and the best submitted student paper. The
award winners will be announced at the conference banquet.

SUBMISSIONS

The written and spoken language of ISM2011 is English. For full
papers, authors should submit an 8-page manuscript in double-column
IEEE format including the authors' names and affiliations, and a
short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines
available on the ISM2011 web page. Only electronic submission will
be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document
format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by
the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access
via IEEEXplore. A number of the papers presented at the conference
will be selected for possible publications in journals.

ISM2011 will include a few workshops dedicated to focused interest
areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops of emerging areas are
invited. Papers from Workshops will be presented at ISM2011, and
included in the Proceedings. Submissions of proposals on panels
and demonstrations are also encouraged. Panel summary articles may
also be included in the conference proceedings. The page limit is
6 for workshop papers and 2 for demonstration papers, both in IEEE
double-column format. Please refer to the workshop and demonstration
program links for additional requirements.

Prospective authors are also invited to submit papers to the
Industry Program, which will be included in the proceedings. A main
goal of this program is to present research work that exposes the
academic and research communities to challenges and issues important
for the industry. Please refer to the Industry Program link for
submission details.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of workshop proposals: 4/6/2011
Notification of workshop acceptances: 4/15/2011
Submission of main conference/workshop papers: 7/6/2011
Submission of panel proposals: 7/6/2011
Submission of demo and industry papers: 7/20/2011
Notification of panel acceptances: 8/20/2011
Notification of acceptance of main conference/workshop: 8/20/2011