Subject: MMM'99 Call for Paper

From: Raouf Boutaba <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 12:59:33 -0500

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               MMM'99
The International Conference on
        Multimedia Modeling
http://ocri.genie.uottawa.ca/mmm99

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        4-6 October 1999, Ottawa, Canada
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        Call for Papers and Participation
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Scope
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The Multimedia & Agents Research Laboratory at
the School of Information Technology & Engineering
University of Ottawa, Canada,the National Research
Council of Canada, and Graphics Society are proud to announce
MMM'99 Conference. This conference will provide a unique
opportunity for researchers, software and application developers,
and computer graphics technologists to discuss new developments
on multimedia modeling technologies and applications.
As with the last year's conference in Lausanne, Switzerland,
MMM'99 will focus on modeling issues across the areas of
interactive and intelligent presentation, media production,
processing and visualization, techniques for media abstractions
and intelligent multimedia information retrieval.

Call for Papers, Tutorials, Panels and Exhibits
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Contributions describing original research, surveys and
applications in the following areas are solicited:

-Formal Support for MM Modeling
- Topological and Geometric Modeling
- Integration of MM Information
- Interactive MM
- MM Operating system
- MM Database Modeling
- Hypermedia
- Model-based Video/Vision/Graphics
- Media Abstractions
- Web Mining Agents and Agent Modeling
- Broadband Home Services
- Representation of MM Information
- Indexing & Retrieval of MM Information
- Integration of Graphics & Vision
- Synchronization of MM Information
- MM and Virtual Reality
- Networked MM
- Speech and Music Modeling
- Education and Applications of MM
Authors are invited to submit papers (6,000 words)
on completed research or work in progress to the MMM'99
conference Chair (Send 5 copies of the full manuscript):

Prof. Ahmed Karmouch
MMM'99 Conference Chair
School of Information Technology & Engineering
University of Ottawa
161, Louis Pasteur, K1N 6N5
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tel. (613) 562-5800 x6203
Fax. (613) 562-5175 email: Karmouch @site.uottawa.ca

Important Dates
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Full Paper due                  15 April 1999
Proposals for Tutorials         15 April 1999
Notice of Acceptance            1 July 1999
Camera-ready paper due          1 August 1999

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Electronic submission by Email <[email-masked]> is
preferred.
Alternatively, you may use our ftp server <ocri.genie.uottawa.ca> (user:

ftp, psw: email), under </pub/mmm99/incoming>.
(Please send a note by email specifying name, type, and contents of the
file).
All paper submissions should have a cover page containing the title,
names,
email address and complete postal addresses (including telephone and fax

numbers)
 for all authors. Please indicate the main author for the purpose of
correspondence.
The cover page should also provide an abstract (150 words maximum),
and a list of keywords. Please include a statement stating that "when
accepted,
one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper".

Tutorials, panels and prototype demonstrations are also invited.
 More information on MMM'99 is available at
http://ocri.genie.uottawa.ca/mmm99

Conference Committee Members

Conference Chair:               Karmouch, Ahmed (University of Ottawa)
Technical Program Chair:        Yeap, Tet  (University of Ottawa)
Tutorial and Exhibit Chair:     Impey, Roger  (National Research
Council)
Conference Management:          Mahoney, Kahty (Ottawa Centre for
Research and
Innovation)
                                        Dinsdale, Dianne (Communications
& Information Technology of
                                        Ontario)

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