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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 09:58:57 +0200
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                       Call for Papers
                          DMS'96

1996 Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems

	Hong Kong Science and Technology University
	Hong Kong, June 27-28, 1996

Theme of Workshop:

The development of National Information Infrastructure (NII) is under way
at many countries. NII is a seamless web of communications networks,
computers, databases, and consumer electronics that will put vast amount
of information at users' fingertips. This will transform the way people
live, work, and interact with each other. Every kind of business wil be 
changed as commerce, finance, government services, manufacturing of all
kinds, education, entertainment, and health care employ mulimedia.
The modeling, specification, analysis and application of
distributed multimedia systems present many challenging
problems to both researchers and practitioners.
This workshop offers a forum for practicing engineers and
researchers to exchange ideas and learn from one another.
In addition, tutorials will be held at Hong Kong Science and Technology University
on June 25-26, 1996, and provide opportunities
for interaction with experts in the related fields.

Through this call for papers, the organizers seek
contributions of high quality papers on the topics relevant
to distributed multimedia systems which include (but are not
limited to):

  	distributed multimedia databases
  	multi-paradigmatic information retrieval
  	modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems
  	OS support for distributed multimedia systems
  	multimedia communications
  	multimedia networking
  	multimedia mail systems
  	multimedia human-computer interaction
  	multimedia applications for CSCW, long-distance education,
	tele-conferencing, etc.
	visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications

The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations
is encouraged.


Information for Authors:

Submit four copies of the manuscript (maximum of 20 pages)
including abstract, keywords and email address to:

  	Professor David H.C. Du 
	Dept. of Computer Science
	University of Minnesota
	Minneapolis, MN 55455
	U.S.A.
	Tel:   +1 612 6252560
	Fax:   +1 612 6250572
	Email:  du@cs.umn.edu


Important Dates:

 December 15, 1995	 Paper submission due
 February 15, 1996 	 Notification of acceptance
 March 15, 1996 	 Final manuscript due


Sponsored by:
 Knowledge Systems Institute, USA
 University of Pittsburgh, USA
 Hong Kong Science and Technology University
 University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA

Conference Chair:
 Bruce Berra	Syracuse University, USA

Steering Committee Chair:
 S.-K. Chang	Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
 Olivia Sheng	Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Hong Kong
 David H.C. Du	Univ. of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA