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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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Important Dates:
Abstraction Submission Deadline: May 20, 2003 (Email in ascii to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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:
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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
