Reminder CFP: MMM 2001 - The 8th Int'l Conf. on Multimedia Modeling

*** New addition: call for tutorials ***

MMM 2001

THE 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON  MULTIMEDIA MODELING

November 5-7, 2001
CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Call for Papers

CWI, The Dutch National Center for Mathematics and Computer Science,
is pleased to announce The Eight International Conference on
Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2001), to be held on November 5th though 7th
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  MMM 2001 will continue the MMM series'
exploration of models and abstractions for multimedia creation,
representation, storage, delivery, processing, presentation and final
interface.  This year's foci will be on authoring and creation,
standards, intelligent delivery and presentation, and the recent
(re-)introduction in the field of semantic models for multimedia and
for the Web.

Topics & Areas

Scientific and technical papers are solicited in, but not limited to,
the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and
applications.  Submitted papers will be reviewed by an international
program committee.

Authoring
 - Authoring tool of multimedia information
 - Authoring tool of adaptable/adaptive multimedia information
 - Automatic generation of multimedia documents
 - Authoring based on Templates/Style Sheets
 - Authoring tool of 3D animations
 - Collaborative authoring tool
 - Constraint techniques for multimedia authoring tool

Presentation
 - Presentation of distributed Multimedia Information
 - Presentation of Adaptative Multimedia Information
 - Content Negotiation of Multimedia information
 - Presentation of Multimedia Information on mobile devices
 - Accessibility of multimedia information

Multimedia Standards and Models
 - Standards impacts
 - Standards convergence
 - Requirements and development of standards
 - Multimedia/hypermedia Models

Semantic models for multimedia and for the Web
 - multimedia annotations
 - metadata for multimedia document
 - authoring and visualization of metadata

Multimedia Modeling of Real World Scenarios
 - Model-based Graphics, Video, Vision and Virtual Reality
 - Simulation

Formal Methods and multimedia information
 - Formal supports for Multimedia Models
 - Formal verification of spatio/temporal integrity of multimedia
documents

Multimedia databases
 - Indexing, searching, querying and retrieving media
 - Annotating and archiving media
 - Semantic annotations in media databases
 - Content recognition and understanding of multimedia data

Important Dates

Submissions due:          20 May,      2001
Notice of Acceptance:     10 July,     2001
Camera-ready Paper due:   20 August,   2001
Conference:              5-7 November, 2001

Instruction for Authors

Authors are invited to submit full papers of about 6,000 words.  All
papers should have a cover page containing the title, names and
addresses, phone and fax numbers, the contact e-mail addresses for all
authors.  The cover page also should include an abstract of up to 150
words, and some keywords.  All figures and drawings should be included
with the submissions.

Authors are invited to submit full papers of about 6,000 words. All
figures and drawings should be included with the submissions. All
papers should have a cover page containing the following:

  title
  information for each author
    name
    address
    phone number
    fax number
    e-mail address
  abstract of up to 150 words
  keyword lists
  CFP topics and areas the paper fits under

PDF and Postscript versions of the submissions can be sent to

  mmm01-submissions@cwi.nl

They can also be mailed to the conference co-chair at:

  Lloyd Rutledge
  CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica)
  PO Box 94079
  NL-1090 GB Amsterdam
  The Netherlands

The Website for the conference is at

  http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/MMM01

General questions and comments for the conference can be sent to

  mmm01@cwi.nl

*** NEW *** Call for Tutorials *** NEW ***

The first day of MMM 2001 will be devoted to tutorials. These
tutorials will be given by recognized experts covering issues related
to the modeling and design of multimedia systems. Potential speakers
are invited to send proposals for presentations covering any of the
emerging hot topics relevant to the conference. A non-exhaustive
suggested list of topics and areas in the scope of MMM 2001 is listed
in the MMM 2001 Call for Papers.

Important Dates

 Submissions due:       20 May,      2001
 Notice of Acceptance:  10 July,     2001
 Tutorial Notes due:    20 August,   2001
 Conference:           5-7 November, 2001


Instructions for Instructors

Instructors are invited to submit proposals for half-day and and
full-day tutorials. All proposals should containing the following
information:

  title
  contact information for instructor
    name
    address
    phone number
    fax number
    e-mail address
  summary
  intended audience
  outline
  biography of speaker

Proposals for MMM 2001 tutorials can be sent to the tutorials chair
Patrick Sénac at senac@ensica.fr.

Received on Wednesday, 4 April 2001 11:13:31 UTC