Workshops

Call For ISM2006 Workshop Proposals

held in conjunction with
The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006)
December 11-13, 2006
San Diego, California, USA
http://ism2006.eecs.uci.edu/

The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006) will be held
at San Diego, California, USA from December 11-13, 2006. Six to seven workshops will be held in conjunction with ISM2006. The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics of multimedia computing. Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome.  It is expected that the proceedings of the workshop programs will be published as the workshop proceedings by IEEE CS press.

The following workshops have been associated with ISM2006:

Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval
Multimedia Technologies over Wireless Networks
Security and Pervasive Multimedia Environments

In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-day and half-day workshops are welcome. If you would like to organize a "one-day" workshop, 10 to 12 accepted papers and presentations would be necessary. Please send a workshop proposal by May 01, 2006 to:

ISM2006 Workshop Co-Chairs:

Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada

at: ismwork@eecs.uci.edu


The workshop proposal should include following information:

1. Title of the workshop: International Workshop on ...
2. Workshop chair(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail, web link and short bio
3. Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words)
4. Expected number of papers to be submitted
5. Call for paper of the workshop (draft version)
6. Tentative list of program committee members

The proposals will be reviewed as soon as they are received. We will send the notification to you soon.

Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop.

The tentative schedule is as follows:

Workshop proposal due: May 01, 2006
Paper submission due:  specified by the workshop
Acceptance notification: specified by the workshop
Camera-ready due: September 25, 2006
Author registration: September 25, 2006
Conference: December 11-13, 2006