ACM - MMDB 2003
Call for Papers

The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited.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:

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