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ACM-MMDB 2003 Call for
Papers
November 7, 2003
ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Contact: www.cs.fiu.edu/mmdb03
The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases will take
place
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on November 7 2003. The target audiences will
be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software
engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new
theories and technologies in multimedia databases, and to all those who wish
to gain a detailed technical understanding of what multimedia databases
involve. The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions
and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia
databases. ACM MMDB 2003 will be held in conjunction with The 12th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM
2003).
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- multimedia database query processing
- multimedia database query languages
- multimedia database engine
- multimedia data modeling
- multimedia data indexing
- multimedia database searching
- multimedia data storage
- image/video/audio databases
- multimodal databases
- distributed multimedia databases
- content-based retrieval
- multimedia synchronization model
- new standards (XML, MPEG-7, etc.)
- multimedia database applications
Instructions for authors:
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and
related topics are solicited. All submitted papers will be refereed for
quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The
acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. All
questions should be addressed to the PC co-chairs.
Authors need to submit an abstract (in ascii) via email to chens@cs.fiu.edu
by
May 20, 2003. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be
submitted by May 28, 2003 to the workshop website
(www.cs.fiu.edu/mmdb03).
Papers must be prepared in such a way that
ensures they will print anywhere. Thus, you should avoid using special fonts.
Manuscripts must be in English and should not exceed 5000 words. Submissions
should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address,
tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address on the first page.
If electronic submission is not possible, please send four copies of the
paper
to the following postal address:
Dr. Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University
School of Computer
Science
11200 SW 8th Street, ECS 354
Miami, FL 33199, USA
tel:
305-348-3480
fax: 305-348-3549
email: chens@cs.fiu.edu
Important Dates:
Abstraction Submission Deadline: May 20, 2003 (Email in ascii to chens@cs.fiu.edu)
Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2003 (PDF format)
Notification of Results: August 5, 2003
Camera Ready Copies: September 3, 2003 (PDF, black and white only)
Registration Deadline: September 10, 2003 (for authors)
Workshop date: November 7, 2003
Program Chairs:
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
Program Committee:
Walid Aref: Purdue University, USA
Arbee L.P. Chen: National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Ming-Syan Chen: National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Chin-Wan Chung: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
South Korea
Jen-Yao Chung: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Isabel F. Cruz: University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Chabane Djeraba: IRIN, University of Nantes, France
Forouzan Golshani: Arizona State University, USA
William I. Grosky: University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Mohand-Said Hacid: Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1-Batiment Nautibus,
France
Harald Kosch: University Klagenfurt, Australia
Chung-Sheng Li: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Qing Li: City University of Hong Kong, P.R. China
Xuan Liu: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Chang-Tien Lu: Virginia Tech, USA
Wei-Ying Ma: Microsoft Research China, P.R. China
Stuart Rubin: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, USA
Yong Rui: Microsoft Research, USA
Cyrus Shahabi: University of Southern California, USA
John R. Smith: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jaideep Srivastava: University of Minnesota, USA
V.S. Subrahmanian: University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Kian-Lee Tan: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michalis Vazirgiannis: Athens University of Economic and Business, Greece
Agnes Voisard: Fraunhofer ISST Berlin and Freie Universitdt Berlin,
Germany
Roger Weber: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Yi-Leh Wu: VIMA Technologies, USA
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