Advances in computer and networking technologies have fueled the rapid growth of research and development in multimedia computing and high-speed networking. As emerging multimedia technologies set higher performance levels at competitive costs, they are starting to enable and proliferate multimedia solutions in a spectrum of commercial and laboratory projects. The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. The conference will serve as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. Presenters will be encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their solutions. Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to:

• Multimedia Computing Systems:
  • set-top technologies and operating systems
  • network computers and multimedia
  • hardware support and hardware accelerators
  • multimedia operating system services
  • real-time operating system services
  • video-on-demand servers and services
• Multimedia Networking:
  • active networks
  • quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms
  • synchronization mechanisms
  • mobile network architectures
  • wireless networks
  • access technologies and community networking
  • network and transport protocols
  • multimedia over heterogeneous networks
• Multimedia and the Internet:
  • web servers and web-based services
  • internet appliances
  • push technologies
  • wide area caching architectures
  • data streaming and delivery mechanisms
  • compression
  • handling heterogeneous media formats
• Measurement and modeling:
  • - performance measurement of multimedia systems
  • - statistical modeling of server traffic and server software
  • - multimedia system simulations
• Applications areas:
  • multimedia search engines and databases
  • - entertainment and games
  • - adaptive applications
  • - synthetic animation
  • - distributed virtual reality
• User Interfaces and Authoring Systems:
  • media and user interaction
  • intelligent information access
  • interactive navigation schemes
  • multimedia authoring languages
  • authoring metaphors and editing techniques.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:

Please submit full papers for review. The submissions should not exceed 15 single-spaced pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 10 point. To expedite the reviewing process, please submit the paper electronically in PDF or postscript format, through the web submission page here Additionally, please send 1 hard copy of your paper to:

Prof. Wu-chi Feng

Dept. of Comp. and Info. Sci.

The Ohio State University

2015 Neil Avenue

Columbus, OH 43210

email: wuchi@cis.ohio-state.edu

fax: 614-292-2911

Please also submit electronically (in plain text format) a cover page to wuchi@cis.ohip-state.edu. Each cover page should contain:
1. Title of paper;
2. Author names and affiliations;
3. Name and address (both postal and electronic) of contact author;
4. Abstract (500 words);
5. Keywords;
6. Submission area (from the list of relevant areas in the call for papers).

Each paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a camera-ready manuscript that will appear in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates:

Electronic Submission deadline (full paper): June 15, 2000  (extended to June 22, 2000)
Deadline for receiving a hardcopy: June 15, 2000 (extended to June 22, 2000)
Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2000
Camera-ready manuscripts due: November 2000

For further inquiries, please send an email to wuchi@cis.ohio-state.edu