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The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST97)
April 3-5, 1997
Motorola University, Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
THEME: MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Enabling Technology for the Cyberspace
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http://www.cs.depaul.edu/ICMIS97.html
http://www.depaul.edu/~cliu/icmis97
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The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology
(ICAST97)
will be held at Motorola University in
Schaumburg, Illinois, on April 3-5, 1997.
The conference is sponsored by
Chinese Academic and Professional Association in Mid-America (CAPAMA),
DePaul University and Motorola Inc. Other co-sponsors include
ICSE of University of Illinois at Chicago, IEEE Chicago Section,
C-SPIN, etc.
The theme of the conference is multimedia information systems.
Multimedia technology can substantially improve the communication between
information providers and consumers. It contributes to the general
accessibility of information, through new interactive media as well as
through new forms of production, delivery and perception of existing media.
The modeling, specification, analysis and application of multimedia
information systems present many challenging problems to both researchers
and practitioners.
The purpose of ICAST' 97 is to
promote the exchange of
information and ideas between academia and industry, faculty, practitioners
and students. It provides a forum for practitioners, researchers and
students to get together to share ideas with and learn from each other.
The conference program include 2 tutorials, 3 panel discussions and 7
technical paper sessions.
The tutorial topics are "Multimedia Communications Protocols"
and "Distributed Semantic Multimedia Information Retrival".
The panel discussions are "Multimedia Technology",
"Software process for developing cyberspace
applications" and "Multimedia in Higher Education".
The technical papers are selected by the program committee
from many submissions from many countries and regions including
Australia, Austria, Brizil, China, England, France, Greece, Isaril,
Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United states.
The topics of the technical paper sessions include
Multimedia Databases, Multimedia Modeling, Multimedia Technology,
Video/Audio on Demand, Software Engineering, Telecommunicaitons and WWW.
The conference also has a special YUFORIC (Youth Forum in Computer
Science) track. The YUFORIC track include an interviewing skills workshop,
personal feedback sessions, student paper presentations and
internship interviews with Motorola for all student
attendees. Please see the home page (http://www.depaul.edu/~cliu/icast97)
for further information or you can contact
Dr. Paosheng Chang (email: pschang@lucent.com, phone: 630-979-2232,
fax: 630-224-2393) or Prof. Chengwen Liu
(email: liu@cs.depaul.edu, phone: 312-362-8722, fax: 312-362-6116).
======================= Prelminary Program ==================================
ICAST97/ICMIS97 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology
in conjunction with
The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems
April 3-5, 1997
Motorola University, Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
Thursday, April 3:
10:00-12:00 Tutorial 1: Protocols for Multimedia Communications
Dr. Francis Leung (Motorola Inc.)
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-5:00 Tutorial 2: Distributed Semantic Multimedia Information Retrieval
Professor William I. Grosky (Wayne State University)
Professor Venkat N. Gudivada (University of Missouri at Rolla)
Friday, April 4:
8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Opening
9:15-10:00 Session 1: Keynote 1
Dr. Herbert Y. Chang
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Sessions 2 (2A & 2B)
Session 2A: Panel 1
What Will be the Next Generation Multimedia Network?
Panel Chair: Francis Leung (Motorola Inc.)
The panel assembles expert visionaries from leading networking
technology companies in the Chicago area to debate their
visions of the future network. These experts come from service
providers AT&T and Ameritech, and equipment (software and
hardware) vandors Spyglass, Tellabs, Lucent and Motorola.
They will discuss future services, drivers for the new sevices,
technology necessry to support these services and the way
the network will evolve.
Session 2B: Multimedia Database
Design and Implementation of Object-based Video Navigation
Y. Okamura (Stanford University), K. Hirata and Y. Hara (NEC USA)
Indexing Multi-Visual Feature in Multimedia Database
Rong Lei, anne H. H Ngu, Jesse J. Jin (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Retrieval and Extraction by Content in an Object Oriented Database
Chabane Djeraba, Patrick Fargeaud, Henri Briand (IRIN, France)
Knowledge-based Document Filing: TEXPROS Approach
Xien Fan, Qianhong Liu and Peter A. Ng (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:00 Session 3: Keynote 2
TBA
2:00-3:30 Session 4 (4A & 4B)
Session 4A: Multimedia Modeling
Whole-Part Relationships in Hypermedia Database
Thomas Pruckler and Michael Schrefl (University of Linz, Austria)
A Dynamic Hypermedia Model for Interactive Video
Long Yan, Wei Sun, Nagarajan Prabhakaran, Sha Guo and Yi Deng (Florida Intl Univ.)
Behavior in Aggregation Hierarchies
S. Vauttier, M. Magnan and C. Oussalah (EERIE Parc Scientifique, France)
An Object-Oriented Approach to Modeling and Querying in Multimedia Information Systems
Ya-Hui Chang (Providence University, Taiwan), Jia-Ling Koh and Arbee L.P. Chen (National
Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Session 4B: Panel 2
Software Process for developing cyberspace applications
Panel Chair: Hamid Ghezavat (Honeywell)
To understand and improve the way Cyberspace applications have
been and will be developed, this panel assembles practitioners
who have devoted time and effort in developing such
applications. The panelists will share their lessons learned
in developing Cyberspace applications and the issues
surrounding such developments.
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Session 5 (5A & 5B)
Session 5A: On Demand Servers
Dynamic Grouping: An Efficient Buffer Management Scheme for Video-on-Demand Servers
Simon Shen, Kien A. Hua and Wallapak Tavanapong (Univ. of Central Florida)
Buffer Management Based on Forecasting Methodology in Multimedia DBMS
Kwang-Chul Jung, Ung-Kyu Park, Dae-Young Hur, Myung-Joon Kim ABRN (ETRI, KOREA)
Pre-Admission Control for Movie-on-Demand Systems
Wallapak Tavanapong, Kien A. Hua and Simon Sheu (Univ. of Central Florida)
An efficient Data Striping and Layout Scheme on Zoned-Disks for Continuous Media Servers
Shiao-Li Tsao and Yueh-Min Huang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)
Session 5B: Software Engineering
Visualization of Data Dependency Analysis in Parallel Program Design
E. Trichina, J. Oinonen and B. Thoms (Univ. of South Australia)
A Visual Software Construction Approach
D. J. Chen, W. C. Chen, C. C. Hwang and C..S. Kung (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
A Testing Maturity Model for Software TestProcess Assessment and Improvement
Ilene Burnstein, Gary Saxena, Robert Carlson, Ariya Hoymen, Taratip Suwanassart (Illinois
Institute of Technology)
Inspections Don't Do It All
Nicole Bianco (Motorola, Inc.)
7:00-9:30 Banquet
Saturday, April 5:
8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Session 6: Invited Talks
ISDN, Its Present and Future
Albert Chen (Telamon Corporation)
An Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard: Enabling Digital
Multimedia Compression
Mark Banham and Jim Brailean (Motorola Inc.)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 7 (3 parallel sessions)
Session 7A: Telecommunications
Experiences with QoS Brokerage and Enforcement in Distributed Multimedia Applications
Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
An Adaptive Algorithm for Managing Queues with Multiple Delay and Loss Priorities in ATM Networks
Francis Kai (Dynamics Research Corporation), Hong Andy Chen (Northeastern Illinois
University), Chuan-I Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University) and I-Ping Chu (Depaul University)
IP Switching: Destination Triggered Redirection and Reclaim Solicit
Matius Soneru, Heng-Hsin Liao (Lucent Technologies, Illinois Institute of Technology)
Speech Prosody Representation for synthesis and Compression
Wojciech Kurek and Rashid Ansari (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Session 7B: Multimedia Technology
A Dynamic Type System Supports Structure Multimedia Presentation
Timothy K. Shih, Yule C. Lin and Chun-Chia Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
A Preliminary Study of Current Multimedia Information Technology
Julia C. lee (Argonne National Laboratory)
Documents and Multimedia Objects
Tony Elliman (Brunel University, England)
Testing a Set of Image Processing Operations for Completeness
Leonard Brown, Le Gruenwald (The University of Oklahoma)
Session 7C: Yuforic Workshop: JOb Interview Skills
Joan Quinn, DePaul University
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 8 (3 parallel Sessions)
Session 8A: Panel 3
Multimedia in Higher Education
Panel Chair: Tze-chung Li (Dominican University)
Panelists: Hong Andy Chen (Northeastern Illinois University)
Wilfred W. Fong (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
Bor-sheng Tsai (Wayne State University)
In-lan Wang Li (John Marshall Law School)
Session 8B: WWW and Distributed Systems
A Taxonomy on the Architecture of Database Gateways for WEB
Pyung-Chul Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea)
Multi-user Interactive Script Model of Collaborative Hypermedia Systems on WWW
Cheng-Ju Hsu, Horng-Jyh Yu, Jia-Sheng Heh (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)
Process assistant
Laura Seidensticker, Karin Melberg (Motorola INC.)
Distributed Concurrency Control Based on wait-Depth Priority
Jiahong Wang, Jie Li and Hisao Kameda (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Session 8C: Yuforic Paper Session
The Future of Information Technology, Global Competition and Struggle
of Traditional Industries
Jacek R. Brzezinski (DePaul University, USA)
Exploiting Group Communication for Highly Available Video-On-Demand
Services
Tal Anker, Gregory V. Chockler, Idit Keidar, Michael Rozman,
and Jonathan Wexler (Hebrew University, Israel)
Image Retrieval Based on Texture, Color and Objects of Interest
Jia Wang and Wen-jann Yang (State Univ. of New York - Buffalo)
Classification in Data Mining: A Look at Traditional Methods in a
Non-Traditional Environment
Caroline St. Clair (DePaul University, USA)
A MHEG-5 Objects Server for Multimedia Applications
Marilde Terezinha Prado Santos (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil),
Fabiano Calixto dos Santos, and Marina Teresa Pires Viera
(Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil)
===================== tutorials ==========================================
Tutorial 1: Protocols for Multimedia Communications
Dr. Wu-Hon Francis Leung (Motorola Inc.)
This talk will summarize the results of a multimedia conference system
implemented in an experimental fast packet network (ATM networks are
standardized fast packet networks). These results allow a user to engage
in several multimedia conferences at the same time, each conference can
have several conferees using an arbitrary number of information streams
of varying bandwidth. The end-user can set up, tear down and change the
conference configurations in real time. Adding and dropping information
streams from a conference, merging and splitting conferences are special
cases of what the user can do in changing the conference configurations.
Furthermore, the user can specify that an information stream to be shared
by a subset of the conferees and restrict a conferee's access to an
information stream.
These multimedia conferencing capabilities are supported by a set of
results at different protocol layers. At the user interface level,
a multimedia conference is a window. Icons inside the window represent
conferees and applications shared by the conferees. In the Session Layer,
we use a software device called a connector to manage the information
streams used in the multimeida conference. The connector can be considered
as a generalization of the UNIX pipe, providing full duplex and multicast
connectivity among UNIX processes. A multimedia virtual circuit mechanism
is used in the Transport Layer to maintain the temporal synchronization of
the information streams and to provide coordination of upper layer
software (for example, by signalling the addition of a new stream).
A subset of the multimedia virtual circuit concept is now an essential
part of the ATM layer protocol. In the Network Layer, the conference is
a multicast connection. We will describe the modeling, properties
and routing of multicast connections. This talk will review these
concepts and in particular, show how they work together as a system
to support multimedia conference configuration change in real time.
Instructor Biography:
Dr. Wu-Hon Francis Leung presently heads the System Architecture
Department of Motorola's GSM Product Division. For the past twelve years,
he managed development and exploratory research teams, at Motorola and
Bell Laboratories, on areas like cellular infrastructure architecture,
interactive video server on public switched network, switching system
software, multimedia communication protocols, ATM technology and
application oriented language. Prior to that he was a developer in a
large real time software development project and a researcher in local
switch architecture and technology for several years. For these work,
he was granted 10 U.S. patents and with several more pending. He
received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of
California, Berkeley. His graduate research was on the specification
and verification of parallel programs in operating systems and
parallel processing of sequential programs.
Tutorial 2: Distributed Semantic Multimedia Information Retrieval
William I. Grosky, Wayne State University
Venkat N. Gudivada, University of Missouri at Rolla
Bulk of the data processed by computers in the near future will be
audio-visual in nature. With the proliferation of multimedia computing into
the ubiquitous desktop computers, multimedia data will be as common to
computers of the near future as what text data is to today's computers.
Structured data, text, graphics, animation, images, audio and
video comprise multimedia data. With the advent of the World-wide Web (or
simply Web), more and more multimedia information sources are being made
available for on-line access. Semantic multimedia information retrieval is
characterized by the ability of the system to perform retrieval based on
textual, visual, and auditory contents of the media in a transparent way to
the system user. Tools and techniques for multimedia data organization,
search, retrieval, and presentation comprise the enabling technology to
realize semantic retrieval. The objective of this tutorial is to present
various issues concerning the evolving theory, design, and development of
systems for distributed semantic
multimedia information retrieval (DSMIR).
The tutorial include the following topics:
- A survey of multimedia information retrieval applications
- A taxonomy for existing approaches to multimedia information retrieval
- Characteristics of and problems in distributed semantic multimedia
information retrieval
- Multimedia data types, storage and compression standards
- Multimedia information retrieval models: Information retrieval models
for text, graphics, images, audio, and video will be presented.
- Issues in capturing multimedia features and semantics.
- Query processing and similarity measures
- Issues in the query language or specification scheme design.
- Indexing structures
- Incorporating user subjectivity
- Distribution issues
- Test collections for benchmarking retrieval algorithms
- System implementation issues
- Research prototypes and commercial systems.
- Research directions
- Prototype demonstrations.
Instructor Biography:
Dr. William I. Grosky received his B.S. from M.I.T. in 1965, his M.S. from
Brown University in 1968, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971. He was
an assistant professor of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia
Institute of Technology from 1971-1976 and is currently a professor of
Computer Science at Wayne State University.
His research interests lie in the fields of database management systems,
multimedia information systems, hypermedia, and object-oriented analysis and
design. An author of over 90 papers, he has participated in numerous
projects sponsored by governmental agencies and multinational corporations,
including the ARO, AFOSR, IBM, and Ford Motor Company.
He has given many short courses in the area of database management for local
industries and has been invited to lecture on multimedia information
systems. Serving also on many conference program committees in the database
area, he is currently on the editorial boards of the publications IEEE
Multimedia, International Journal of Applied Software Technology, Journal of
Database Management, and Pattern Recognition.
Dr. Venkat N. Gudivada received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science
from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana in 1986 and 1993. His Ph.D. dissertation was
concerned with developing a unified approach to modeling and retrieving
images based on their semantic contents. Currently, he is on the computer
science faculty at the University of Missouri at Rolla. He teaches graduate
and undergraduate courses in database and multimedia systems.
His major research interests lie in distributed semantic multimedia
information retrieval and multimedia database management. Other areas of
interest include digital libraries, and geographic information systems. His
research was funded by ARO, NASA, and DOE. He has published about 25
technical articles in multimedia information retrieval area. Dr. Gudivada
served as a co--guest editor for September 1995 IEEE Computer (theme issue
featuring Content-based Image Retrieval Systems) and December 1995 symposium
issue of ACM Computing Surveys on multimedia systems. He has served on the
program committees for several conferences and is co-chairing 1997 SPIE
conference on Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems.
============================= registration ================================
The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology
(ICAST 97)
in conjunction with
The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems
(ICMIS 97)
Motorola University, Schaumburg, Illinois
April 3-5, 1997
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PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
Deadline: March 22, 1997
Last Name: ___________________ First Name: _________________ M.I: ____
Affiliation: _____________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________
City: ______________________ State: ______________ ZIP: ___________ Country: ___________
Telephone: _________________ Fax: _________________ eMail: __________________________
Registration Fee
Speaker Member Non-Member Student
Tutorial* [ ] $40.00 [ ] $40.00 [ ] $60.00 [ ] $20.00
Registration* [ ] $95.00 [ ] $95.00 [ ] $120.00 [ ] $20.00
Proceedings Included Included Included [ ] $20.00
Banquet Included Included Included [ ] $35.00
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* Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.
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Please make check payable to ICAST 97. Mail your check with this form to:
ICAST 97, 4885 Westhaven Ct., Barrington, IL 60010
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If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Paosheng Chang by phone at
+1-630-979-2232 or by email at pschang@lucent.com
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