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Subject: IMSA 2002 - Call for Papers Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:41:25 -0700 From: "IASTED - Upcoming Conferences" Info@IASTED.com To: Gustaf.Neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sixth IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2002) August 12-14, 2002 Kaua'i, Hawaii, USA http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/hawaii/imsa.htm

SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) · Technical Committee on the Web, Internet, and Multimedia

IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submissions due: March 01, 2002 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2002 Registration, full payment, and final papers due: June 01, 2002

PURPOSE This conference is an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances in, and applications of, Web technologies and multimedia systems. It is an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. All papers submitted to this conference will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. Acceptance will be based primarily on originality and contribution.

IMSA 2002 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conferences on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2002) and Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2002).

LOCATION IMSA 2002 will take place at the Sheraton Kaua'i Resort on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. The resort is situated on the white-sand Po'ipu Beach on the sunny, southern coast of the island. Kaua'i, known as the "Garden Island", was both the first of the volcanic Hawaiian islands to be formed, and the first to be discovered by European explorers. The greenest of all the islands, Kaua'i is virtually untouched by commercial development. Some 97% of Kaua'i is divided between agriculture and conservation. In addition to swimming and water sports off the Pacific coast, Kaua'i offers many other recreational and tourist activities. Among these attractions are Waimea Canyon - the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific", Kokee State Park, Na Pali Coast, and the National Tropical Botanical Gardens.

SCOPE This conference covers all aspects of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications including:

Web and Internet Systems and Tools Internet Architectures Web and Internet Tools Web Designing Internet Search Technologies Optimization Techniques Protection and Security Privacy Fault Tolerance Internet Computing Parallel and Distributed Processing Java-based Applications for the Web Software Agents Expert Systems Knowledge-based Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications Fuzzy Logic Applications Computer Vision

Multimedia Information Systems Multimedia Tools and Architectures Multimedia Broadcasting Systems on the Web Operating System Support for Multimedia Multimedia Communication Systems Multimedia Networking Distributed Multimedia Systems Content-based Multimedia Retrieval Multimedia Performance and Management Mobile Multimedia Video-on-Demand Digital Video Broadcasting IP-based Networks ATM Networks Transport Protocols Routing Protocols Quality of Service Scheduling Resource Management

Data Management Database Management Systems Databases and the Web Intelligent Databases Multimedia Databases Digital Libraries Data Modelling Data Warehousing Data Mining Database Ontology Coding and Compression Digital Watermarking Video Storage Servers Information Retrieval

Collaborative Systems and Distance Learning Distance Learning Educational Multimedia Distributed Learning Collaborative Learning Collaborative Systems and Applications Virtual Reality Video Conferencing Computer Animation Human-Computer Interface Modelling and Simulation

Applications Electronic Commerce Mobile Commerce Internet Banking Business Medicine Engineering Education Entertainment Others

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

A.I. Almojel - Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia G. Aloisio - University of Leece, Italy A.C. Boucouvalas - Bournemouth University, UK E. Chow - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA I.D.D. Curcio - Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland C. Djeraba - Nantes University, France C. Dorai - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA S. Dustdar - Vienna University of Technology, Austria S. Guan - National University of Singapore, Singapore N.M. Guimarães - University of Lisboa, Portugal W. Halang - Fernuniversitaet, Germany W.S. Hsieh - National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan J.F. Jensen - Aalborg University, Denmark R. Lai - La Trobe University, Australia P. Lorenz - University of Haute Alsace, France T. Nakajima - Waseda University, Japan R. Nikolov - Sofia University, Bulgaria C.E. Palau - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain A. Prodan - Iuliu Hatieganu University, Romania Y.-S. Ryu - Hallym University, Korea E. Schikuta - University of Vienna, Austria N. Sharda - Victoria University of Technology, Australia T.K. Shih - Tamkang University, Taiwan S.R. Subramanya - University of Missouri-Rolla, USA A.H. Sung - New Mexico Tech., USA B. Veeravalli - National University of Singapore, Singapore P. Vuorimaa - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland D. Wang - Communications Research Centre, Canada C. Xu - University of Sydney, Australia S. Zeadally - Wayne State University, USA Z.-L. Zhang - University of Minnesota, USA

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submit your paper via our web site at: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/hawaii/submit-360.htm. Files larger than 2MB must be submitted to our FTP site at www.actapress.com (user name: actaftp; password: journals). If you submit a paper to our FTP site, please send a notification e-mail with your complete contact information and file name to calgary@iasted.com. All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. The IASTED Secretariat must receive your paper by March 01, 2002. Do not send hard copies of your paper.

Please provide four key words to indicate the subject area of your paper. One of the key words must be taken from the list of topics provided under Scope. Include a statement in your cover letter confirming that if the paper is accepted, one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Please designate a principal author, and provide the full names, affiliations, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of all authors.

Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail on April 15, 2002. Registration payments and final manuscripts are due by June 01, 2002. Late registration fees or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the conference proceedings. Please send final manuscripts via e-mail or FTP site using the same procedure as described above. The formatting instructions for final manuscripts can be found on the Web and must be strictly followed. The page limit for final papers is six pages. The additional page charge is USD $70.00 per page.

TUTORIALS Proposals for half-day tutorials (three hours) should be submitted online by March 01, 2002. Tutorials are to be submitted online via our following web site address: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/hawaii/tutorialsubmit-360.htm A tutorial proposal should clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the instructor(s).

SPECIAL SESSIONS Persons wishing to organize a special session should submit a proposal to the IASTED Secretariat by March 01, 2002. Proposals should include a minimum of five papers, a session title, a list of the topics covered, and qualifications of the session organizer(s). The name of the session organizer will appear in the program and proceedings provided five papers are presented. Special sessions proposals should be submitted online at the following hyperlink address: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/hawaii/sessionsubmit-360.htm.

For more information or to be placed on our mailing list, please contact:

IASTED Secretariat - IMSA 2002 #80, 4500 - 16th Avenue N.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T3B 0M6 Tel: 403-288-1195 Fax: 403-247-6851 E-mail: calgary@iasted.com Web Site: http://www.iasted.org

(Gustaf.Neumann@wu-wien.ac.at)

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