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Coimbra attendance new
by Otto Spaniol 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Dear all, thanks for the many answers regarding attendance of the Coimbra TC6 meeting. Replies are still missing from: Theorode Apostolopoulos, Janez Bester, Ilyoung Chong, Javier Diaz, Sarolta Dibuz, Hong Doan, Villy Baek Iversen, Koos Koen, Elie Najm, Miquel Nicolau i Vila, Ignas Niemegeers, Guy Omidyar, Louis Pouzin, Imad Sabouni, Samir Tohmé, Vilas Wuwongse. With 22 participants the meeting will be quite well attended and we might expect a few more positive answers. I will soon send out the agenda of the meeting. If you have some particular topics then please send me a corresponding email. Best regards Otto

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Autonomic-Networking Conference
by Guy Pujolle 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Due to a large and strong demand, paper submission deadline for the Autonomic-Networking conference is now extended: Papers due May. 21, 2006 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2006 Camera-ready papers due June 30, 2006 Autonomic-Networking conference will take place in Paris, September 25-29, 2006 All information is on the web site: www.Autonomic-Net.org You can submit to one of the four conferences, through EDAS and Autonomic-Networking conference: SMARTNET (Tools for the Autonomic Networking) INTELLCOMM (Autonomic Management and Services) IWAN (International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks) WAC (International Workshop on Autonomic Communication)

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CFP: Special Issue on Mobile Video - Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal (Elsevier)
by Ozgur B. Akan 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Please accept our apologies for the multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS SIGNAL PROCESSING: IMAGE COMMUNICATION JOURNAL (ELSEVIER) Special Issue on MOBILE VIDEO http://www.MobiMedia.org/MobileVideo ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* Video communication over wireless networks is destined to become pervasive in daily life and a pillar for key emerging telecommunication services. The success of advanced services in mobile environments requires integrative approaches embracing video signal processing and networking technology. The interlinking of these research fields is fostering the development of underlying technology and workflows for mobile video. These technologies, generally hidden to the user, will be pre-requisite to allow for efficient multimedia support of digital communication and leisure time over wireless channels. This special issue will report the results of latest research efforts on video communication in mobile environments. The main goal of this special issue is to collate and disseminate the most relevant achievements of researchers working on video signal processing and communication for mobile applications. High quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Low-bit rate video coding * Scalable video coding for wireless communication channels * Error control resilience and concealment * Multiple video descriptions for wireless communications * Video transcoding for heterogeneous wireless channels interoperability * Video streaming over wireless channels * Video communication in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Mobile video multicast * Quality measurement for mobile video * Mobile video testbeds and applications Submission Procedure -------------------- Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers according to the instructions in the ''Information for Authors'' on the back cover of a recent issue of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal. Authors should submit their manuscripts in PDF format through the COCUS Conference Management System. If you are not a COCUS user yet, you need to register at first. Then, select SPIC-MobileVideo from the ''Events' list'' page and follow the instructions to submit your manuscript. Selected papers on mobile video submitted to MobiMedia 2006 (www.MobiMedia.org) will also be considered for publication in this special issue. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for Manuscript Submission: May 12, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 15, 2006 Publication Date: January 2007 Guest Editors ------------- Luigi Atzori (l.atzori(a)diee.unica.it) DIEE, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Ebroul Izquierdo (ebroul.izquierdo(a)elec.qmul.ac.uk) Multimedia and Vision Lab, Queen Mary, University of London London, UK Pascal Frossard (pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch) EPFL, Signal Processing Institute Lausanne, Switzerland Ozgur B. Akan (akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr) Dept. of Electrical Eng. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan

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CFP: Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia 2006)
by Ozgur B. Akan 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

[ We apologize in advance for the multiple copies of this CFP. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MOBIMEDIA 2006 Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (formerly MSAN) September 18-20, 2006 -- Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.mobimedia.org Submission Deadline: April 30, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB, DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. TECHNICAL PROGRAMS The technical program features a key-note speech from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision. The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS A student prize of 1000 Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author. Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at the conference website. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs: Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI Publications Chair: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Workshops Chair: Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA Panels Chair: Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA Local Chair: Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA Publicity Co-Chairs: Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA Gary Chan, HK University Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA U.B Desai, IIT Bombay Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR Fernando Pereira, IST, POR Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Qian Zhang, HK University, HK -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan

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Meeting 06/01 attendance list
by Otto Spaniol 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Dear all, here comes the first and very preliminary attendance list for meeting 2006/01 in Coibra, Portugal (May 19+20, 2006). You will see that many delegates did not yet respond. Please check the list and communicate your presence or absence (the latter hopefully not!) to Augusto Casaca and to me. Best regards Otto

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Fwd: [Ifip_tcchairs] IFIP Strategy
by Otto Spaniol 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Dear all, please find enclosed a new paper on IFIP's strategy: "The new IFIP". If you want to comment then please do it to me and/or to Basie von Solms <basie(a)rau.ac.za>. Deadline: End of April. Best regards Otto ---------------- Anfang Weiterleitung ---------------- Betreff: [Ifip_tcchairs] IFIP Strategy Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 12:43 Uhr Von: Sebastiaan von Solms <basie(a)rau.ac.za> An: Ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.org Dear TC Chairs As you remember, you were asked to complete some questionnaire about a future IFIP Strategy, sent to you by Leon and myself. Furthermore we had extensive discussions about this aspect during the TC dinner and during Council. There was a general feeling that the document produced by the Strategy meeting in London in Dec 2005, was not comprehensive (and novel) enough. TA therefore decided that TA will create a further document, based on the results of the questionnaire, and the discussions, which will then be submitted to the June 2006 meeting of the Strategy committee. Leon and myself undertook to do this. Leon was however snowed under by WCC 2006, WITFOR and other IFIP activities, so I carried on with the process. I used the inputs from the questionnaire and discussions to draft the attached document. Leon has provided some comments which helped. Again, if you do not like the content, blame me, and not Leon, because he went with the attached version, but does stil have some reservations. Nevertheless the 2 of us agreed to circulate this version. Please study the document, and provide comments - it may seem a little 'blue sky' for some, but I have no doubt that IFIP must change dramatically - this document is an effort to move in that direction. On Leon's advice, I will draft a second document, covering all the tactical/operational aspects mentioned in your replies. That will be a second document submitted to the Strategy meeting in June, because we did not want these operational and tactical aspects to 'contaminate' the more strategic direction of the attached document. This second document will be circulated later. The attached one is however the most important, and I hope we can use it as a basis to move to a new strategy agreed on by all TC Chairs which we can submit in June. Can I please have your comments/inputs/reservations/critisism/whatever by 24 April. I will then consolidate, and resend. I want to submit our final version by middle May. Regards Basie _______________________________________________ Ifip_tcchairs mailing list Ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.org http://www.ifip.org/mailman/listinfo/ifip_tcchairs ----------------- Ende Weiterleitung -----------------

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Invitation to TC6 meeting
by Augusto Casaca 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Dear colleagues, The first meeting of TC6 in 2006 will take place in Coimbra, Portugal on May 19th and 20th. You are kindly invited to attend this meeting. The meeting follows the Networking Conference, which takes also place in Coimbra starting on May 15th. I have already agreed with Otto Spaniol that the TC6 meeting will start on Friday (May 19th) in the morning and will end on Saturday (May 20th) by lunch time. Therefore, all the planning is done assuming this time allocation. On Friday evening there will be the TC6 dinner in a place still to be defined and on Saturday afternoon you are invited for a small excursion in Coimbra and its surroundings. In attach you can find a document containing information about Coimbra, the two available hotels and the excursion. It is urgent that you choose the hotel and book it following the indications given in the document. We advise you to do it until April 8th as the block booking is only accepted until that date. You do not need to worry with transportation to the meeting place in the University, as the local organization will provide it. Concerning the two hotels, I can inform that Hotel Astoria is near the old part of town but has only three stars although it is a renovated hotel. Hotel Melia is a more modern hotel with four stars but is not in the old town. Later on we will provide more information about the meeting and the meeting agenda will be directly sent by Otto. Looking forward to seeing all of you in Portugal Best regards Augusto Casaca

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Call for Participation of Infoscale 2006
by Jinli Cao 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Call for Participation First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE) 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/ The final program can be found from: http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/techprog.html Two workshops in conjunction with INFOSCALE 2006: 1. International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management (P2PIM06): http://p2p-im.org/ 2. Infoscale Work in Progress Workshop (I-WIPW): http://www.i-wipw.org/ For the main conference, there will be 14 sessions spanning 2.5 days (May 30 - June 1) and featuring 45 presentations. In the afternoon of June 1, participants are invited to join a guided local tour of the city free of charge. =============== INFOSCALE 2006 First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/ As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this diversifying world of information. Conference Scope =============== * Parallel Information Retrieval * Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval * Scalable Grid Information Systems * P2P Systems * Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems * Index Compression Methods * Architectures for Scalability * Networking for Scalable Information Systems * Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology, military, etc.) * Evaluation Metrics for Scalability * VLDB * Data Mining * Information Security Publications Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published in The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications (http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/). General Chair Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong (jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk) PC Chairs Abdur Chowdhury, AOL (cabdur(a)aol.com) Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong (fcmlau(a)cs.hku.hk) Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facilities (f.wang(a)cranfield.ac.uk) Steering Committee Chairs Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair Publicity Chair Jinli Cao, La Trobe University Publications Chair Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong Workshops Chair Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair Hao Zhu, Vice Chair Local Arrangement Chair Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong

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[MobiMedia] submission deadline approaching
by Tatiana Onali 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 **************** Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (formerly MSAN) September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.mobimedia.org ------------------------------------------------- ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 ******** IMPORTANT NEWS ************************** -------------------------------------------------- keynote speeches: - Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision - Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia Publication of accepted papers: - Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending) - Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. Workshops/symposiums/special sessions: - International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006) - European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006) - Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES SCOPE -------------------------------------- The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB, DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. TECHNICAL PROGRAMS -------------------------------------- The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia. The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS -------------------------------------- A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author. Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at the conference website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI Publications Chair: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Workshops Chair: Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA Panels Chair: Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA Local Chair: Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA Publicity Co-Chairs: Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA Web masters: Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA Gary Chan, HK University Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA U.B Desai, IIT Bombay Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR Fernando Pereira, IST, POR Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Qian Zhang, HK University, HK

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[MobiMedia] submission deadline approaching
by Tatiana Onali 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 **************** Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (formerly MSAN) September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.mobimedia.org ------------------------------------------------- ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 ******** IMPORTANT NEWS ************************** -------------------------------------------------- keynote speeches: - Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision - Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia Publication of accepted papers: - Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending) - Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. Workshops/symposiums/special sessions: - International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006) - European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006) - Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES SCOPE -------------------------------------- The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB, DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. TECHNICAL PROGRAMS -------------------------------------- The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia. The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS -------------------------------------- A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author. Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at the conference website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI Publications Chair: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Workshops Chair: Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA Panels Chair: Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA Local Chair: Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA Publicity Co-Chairs: Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA Web masters: Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA Gary Chan, HK University Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA U.B Desai, IIT Bombay Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR Fernando Pereira, IST, POR Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Qian Zhang, HK University, HK

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