DMS 2009 - DMS 2009 - 15th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems

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Category DMS 2009

Deadline: March 01, 2009 | Date: September 10, 2009

Venue/Country: San Francisco Bay, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, USA

September 10 to September 12, 2009

http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms09.html

The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers

a wide spectrum of paper presentations, technical discussions and

demonstrations in the fields of distributed multimedia computing.

The main themes of the DMS2009 conference are: network and systems,

emergency management and security, situated computing, multimedia

software engineering, and multimedia information retrieval, mining and

fusion. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality

papers, panels or tutorials, addressing various aspects of distributed

multimedia systems and applications, for presentation at the

conference and publication in the proceedings. Topics of interest

include, but are not limited to:

Distributed Multimedia Technology

media coding and compression standards

media streaming and QoS control

digital rights management

middleware and OS support

privacy and security issues

mobile devices and wireless networks

sensor networks

context sensing and processing

Distributed Multimedia Models and Systems

human-computer interaction issues

situated computing

languages for distributed multimedia: Java, XML, X3D

software engineering issues

web services and multi-agent systems

multimedia databases and information systems

multimedia indexing and retrieval systems

distributed multimedia systems evaluation

multimedia authoring

Applications of Distributed Multimedia Systems

distributed collaboration

cultural heritage preservation, management and fruition

distance and lifelong learning

emergency and safety management

environment control and management

e-commerce and e-government applications

health care management and disability assistance

intelligent multimedia computing

social networking

virtual, mixed and augmented reality

Both research papers and system papers describing developments and

experiences accompanied by demonstrations of prototypes are solicited.

Conference Hotel

The DMS2009 Conference will be held at the Hotel Sofitel, Redwood

City, San Francisco Bay, USA. The hotel has made available for these

limited dates (9/10/2009 - 9/13/2009) to DMS2009 attendees a discount

rate of $89 US dollars for single/double, not including sales tax.

Information for Authors

Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript,

PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using

the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/dms09/submit/SubmitPaper.php.

Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and be no more than 6

pages of IEEE double column text (including figures and references).

Research papers must not be published or under consideration for

publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings. Research

papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical

soundness and clarify of exposition.

System papers should report on existing research prototypes by clearly

identifying the original contributions and ideas demonstrated, and

will be evaluated based on technical soundness, feasibility and

applicability.

System papers must be accompanied by a separate demo description

specifying the equipment and the type of installation that will be

used. Authors of system papers must bring their own equipment for

demo.

Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be accepted as

regular paper (6 pages), short paper (4 pages) or poster (poster

presentation only). In addition to paper presentation, system papers

will also be included in demo sessions.

Additional information on submission can be found at:

www.ksi.edu/seke/dms09.html

Important Dates

Paper submission due: March 1, 2009

Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2009

Camera-ready copy: June 1, 2009

Early conference registration due: June 1, 2009

Conference Co-Chairs: Masahito Hirakawa, Japan and Erland Jungert, Sweden

Program Co-Chairs: Augusto Celentano, Italy and Atsuo Yoshitaka, Japan

Steering Committee Chair: Shi-Kuo Chang, USA

DMS'2009 Conference Secretariat

Knowledge Systems Institute

3420 Main Street

Skokie, IL 60076 USA

Tel: 847-679-3135

Fax: 847-679-3166

E-mail: dms09ksi.edu