Subject: ISIMADE'99 - Final Call

From: Mahbubur Syed <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:25:06 -0500

Dear Colleague:

Attached is the final call for the ISIMADE'99.

With your active research in this field we expect that this
international event will of interest to you.

Please let me know if you are intending to contribute.

I would highly appreciate if you also circulate it to your network.

Regards.

Syed Mahbubur Rahman

********   CALL FOR PAPERS   ***********

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA AND DISTANCE EDUCATION

In Conjunction with
The 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and
Cybernetics

2-7 August 1999 in Baden-Baden, Germany 

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More Details at URL: 
http://venus.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu/ee/research/conferences/isimade/
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Symposium Co-Chairs
Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Syed, North Dakota State University, USA
Dr. Orlando R. Baiocchi, North Dakota State University, USA

Conference Chair
Dr. G. E. Lasker I.I.A.S, Scool of Computer Science, 
University of Windsor, canada

=======  IMPORTANT DATES ======

Extended abstract/full paper to symposium chair	      25 April 1999

Notification of acceptance		                    12 May 1999

Receipt of camera-ready papers by the conference chair 1 June 1999

======  MAIN TOPICS =======

STREAMS: 

MULTIMEDIA stream and 
DISTANCE EDUCATION stream.

Topics include, but not limited to, following.

In Multimedia Stream:

- Internet Applications
- Applications in visualization, human computer interactions 
- Applications in virtual environments
- Industrial, medical and other applications
- Multimedia in electronic commerce applications
- Video, audio & image  processing and retrieval
- Vision and Image Processing
- Image data structures and databases
- video, audio and image compression techniques
- Neural network and AI applications
- Next generation applications
- Multimedia communications and databases
- Multimedia standards
- Intelligent multimedia
- Document image understanding
- Animation
- Tools for multimedia production and services
- Networked Multimedia
- Digital Signal Processing
- Distributed Intelligent Systems
- Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction
- Integration of MM Information
- Interactive MM
- Hypermedia
- Representation of MM Information
- Integration of Graphics & Vision
- Synchronization of MM Information
- MM and Virtual Reality
- Education and Applications of MM
- Cooperative Information Systems

In Distance Education (DE) Stream:

- DE delivery, experience and tools development at secondary schools, 
  universities, business and industries and in all academic areas such
  as computer science, arts, engineering, business, medicine etc.
- DE, the Internet and Internet-based visualization
- Using computer graphics; visualization for education; video- and 
  Multimedia-based Learning
- Cognitive aspects of visual teaching and learning
- New Educational paradigms such as interactive classrooms,
tele-immersion,
  networked tele-collaboration and WebTV etc.
- Internet-based visualization
- Hardware and software tools for educational applications
- Instructional Management, student assessment, student support services
- Virtual Education environment; Virtual university - concepts and
futures
- Needs Assessments and Perspectives including National Policies and
Regional Programs
- Organizational Models of Distance Education Institutions and case
studies
- Open learning and Flexible learning

======  SUBMISSIONS  =======

Submit electronic version (Word, postscript or rtf format) of the
original 
research work, not submitted elsewhere, as an extended abstract
(limited to
4 pages) or full paper (not exceeding 15 double-spaced pages) to the 
following email address:

[email-masked]

Alternatively, submit three copies in hard copy form to the symposium
Co-chair at the following address.

Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Syed
Electrical Engineering Department, EERoom 101
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105, USA

Email: [email-masked]
	[email-masked]

Phone: (701) 231 7689 
Fax:   (701) 231 8677

A cover sheet should include address, phone/fax numbers, email
address of the 
corresponding author.

All papers must be in English. All submitted papers will be refereed. 

Authors should indicate, at the time of submission, their preferences to 
present their papers either in the oral or poster sessions as
detailed below.

SESSIONS:

There will be oral sessions and poster sessions for presentation of
papers in 
the symposium. Authors should indicate their preferred mode of
presentation
at the time of submission of their papers. The paper review and
acceptance
process will be same for both type of presentation options and all
accepted 
papers will be published in the proceedings. At least one of the
authors must 
present their paper in the accepted presentation mode. However, poster 
session authors may arrange for their papers to be presented by a
symposium 
attendee. Authors of accepted papers for the poster presentation must
submit 
their posters along with the camera-ready papers to the conference
chair. 
The authors who can not attend the symposium due to special
circumstances 
must mention at the time of submission and may be considered for poster 
presentations only.

======  INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE  =======

Mohammad S. Alam, Purdue University, USA 
M. Atiquzzaman, University of Dayton, USA
Orlando R. Baiocchi, North Dakota State University, USA
Bob Bignall, Monash University, Australia
Robert Breaux, Naval Air Warfare Center, USA
Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Thomas Ertl, Universitaet Erlangen, Germany
Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA
Craig Gotsman, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
A. Gunasekaran, University of Massachusetts, USA
Werner Hansmann, University of Hamberg, Germany
David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK
Wolfgang Herzner, Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Austria
Joaquim A. Jorge, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal
Mohammad Karim, The University of Tennessee, USA
George E. Lasker, University of Windsor, Canada
Ales Leonardis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peiya Liu, Siemens, USA
Mark T. Maybury, MITRE, USA
Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
Kendall E. Nygard, North Dakota State University, USA
Alan P. Parkes, Lancaster University, UK
William Perrizo, North Dakota State University, USA 
Mohammed Quaddus, Curtin Univ of Technology, Australia
Laurent Romary, Laboratoire Loria, France
Ruhul Sarker, UNSW, Australia
Henry Selvaraj, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Timothy K Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Mahbubur R Syed, North Dakota State University, USA
Daniel Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
José Carlos Teixeira, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University, Greece
Benjamin Wah, The Chinese Univ. of HongKong
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

======  STEERING/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  =======
Orlando R. Baiocchi, North Dakota State University, USA
Khan Iftekharuddin, North Dakota State University, USA
Paul Juell, North Dakota State University, USA
Nancy Olson, North Dakota State University, USA
Mahbubur R Syed, North Dakota State University, USA
Val G. Tareski, North Dakota State University, USA

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Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Syed
Department of Electrical Engineering, EERoom 101
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105, USA

Email: [email-masked]
Phone: (701) 231 7689=20
Fax:   (701) 231 8677
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