COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTING FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
10th International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Computing and Systems
Las Vegas, Nevada, October 28-31, 1998
Session Organizers: Pradip Srimani, Colorado State University
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Dayton.
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There has been a tremendous interest in the use of multimedia in the past
few years. With the widespread availability of networks connecting a large
number of computers, it is important to consider the various architectural
and algorithmic issues related to distributed multimedia systems. This
special session is planned to evaluate the present state of the art in
communication and computing requirements for distributed multimedia systems
as well as to explore future directions of research and development. Topics
include (but are not limited to):
* Challenges and applications of
multimedia computing * End to end QoS
* Transport protocols for * Representation of digital images
multimedia communication and video
* Multimedia information * Multimedia servers
retrieval and indexing * Requirements of multimedia
* Compression techniques: digital information
audio, image, video * Scalability of multimedia
* Network support for multimedia systems
communication
Submission should include authors names, affiliations, addresses, fax and
phone numbers, email addresses, on the cover page. Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the
paper, if accepted.
Please submit your full paper (not to exceed 20 double spaced pages in
length) to one of the session organizers electronically. You should email
your postscript file (preferably produced by dvips and viewable by
ghostview) by email; you should also send a separate email with authors'
names, addresses, title and abstract of the paper. Hard copies should be
sent only if electronic submission is not possible (six copies of the
hardcopy should be mailed).
Session Organizers:
Mohammed Atiquzzaman Pradip K Srimani
Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Engg Department of Computer Science
University of Dayton Colorado State University
Dayton, Ohio 45469-0226 Ft. Collins, CO 80523 USA
Voice: + (937) 229 3183 Voice: + 970 491-7097
Fax: +(937) 229 4529 Fax: + 970 491-2466
Email: atiq@engr.udayton.edu Email: srimani@CS.ColoState.EDU
www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/matiquzz/ www.cs.colostate.edu/~srimani
Important Dates:
Papers due on: April 15, 1998
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 1998
Camera ready papers due on: August 1, 1998
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