ACM-MMDB 2003 Call for Papers The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases New Orleans, Louisiana, USA November 7, 2003 http://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 - multimedia database applications Instructions for authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited.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 (http://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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe yourself from dbworld, send a msg to majordomo@cs.wisc.edu with one of these lines: subscribe dbworld OR unsubscribe dbworld To find out more options send a msg with the line: help To post messages, go to URL www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld --------------------------------------------------------------------------