International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems, Call for Papers

                           Call for Papers

         International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems
                                  MMNS'99
           to be held in Aizu, Japan, September 21-24, 1999
     http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icpp99/workshop/mmns/

                         in conjunction with
       the 28th International Conference on Parallel Processing
                               ICPP'99
            http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icpp99/

 Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press


THEME

Current information systems are composed of various kinds of objects
like systems which are interconnected by communication networks. The
communication networks have supported standard infrastructure to
realize advanced multimedia applications like virtual society.
Especially, the Internet has given drastic influence and impact to not
only the information technologies but also social environments. The
new computation paradigm, e.g. nomadic computing is proposed based on
the mobile communication.  The standard object-based framework of the
distributed applications is developed by CORBA and others. 

The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from multimedia application areas and network system ones with the aim
of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience between these 
communities.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

   * Multimedia Computing Systems
   * Multimedia Communication
   * Internet Applications
   * Web-based Systems
   * Parallel and Distributed Systems
   * Mobile Computing Systems
   * Distributed Object-based Systems
   * Mobile Agents and Applications


IMPORTANT DATES

   * Submission deadline:         1 February 1999
   * Notification of acceptance: 15 May      1999
   * Camera-ready copies:        15 June     1999


SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be 
carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical 
soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by
at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be
published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the ICPP'99
workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the
author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press (two-column
format) and MUST NOT be longer than SIX pages.

Electronic Submission

Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site. Please
prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding,
condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever
possible. Do not use bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you
can avoid it. Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript
files are available at http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.

File Name

Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be
smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number them:
smith1.ps, smith2.ps, etc.

Transferring to FTP Site

When transferring files to our FTP site, if you have a choice between
ASCII and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well
most of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.

     Our FTP site:                   ftp.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp
     Logon as:                       anonymous
     Place files in subdirectory:    incoming/mmns99

Submission Notification

When you have put your file(s) in our FTP site, please send an
e-mail to hig@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp with the following information:
author's name, postal address, phone number, fax number, e-mail
address, title of your paper, keywords, abstract, and the filename(s)
you used. (Do NOT send a copy of your postscript file via email.)

Hard Copy Paper

If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper
on our FTP site, ONLY THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to
the following address:

     Dr. Hiroaki Higaki
     Department of Computers and Systems Engineering
     Tokyo Denki University
     Hatoyama-cho Ishizaka, Hiki-gun, Saitama 350-0394, Japan

Please send also an electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format
and including author's name, postal address, phone number, fax number,
e-mail address, title of your paper, keywords,abstract, to
hig@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp.


WORKSHOP Co-CHAIRS

   * Michiaki Katsumoto, CRL, Japan
   * Wu-chi Feng, Ohio State Univ., USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   * Leonard Barolli, Yamagata Univ., Japan
   * Eric Chen, National Chung-Hsing Univ., Taiwan
   * Hiroaki Higaki, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
   * Rieko Kadobayashi, ATR, Japan
   * Tamio Kihara, NTT, Japan
   * Prasant Mohapatra, Iowa State University, USA
   * Akihito Nakamura, ETL, Japan
   * Yoonho Park, IBM TJ Watson, USA
   * Pradeep Ray, Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

     Dr. Hiroaki Higaki
     Department of Computers and Systems Engineering
     Tokyo Denki University
     Hatoyama-cho Ishizaka, Hiki-gun, Saitama 350-0394, Japan
     Tel.  +81-492-96-2911 ext.2542   Fax.  +81-492-96-6185
     e-mail  hig@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp