--------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIS'2000 Sixth International Workshop on MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS October 26-28, 2000 Marriott Chicago O'Hare Chicago Workshop Home Page: http://outlook.cs.purdue.edu/MIS2000/ The International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems is the sixth of a series of workshops that started in 1995 with the aim of fosteringinterdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of multimedia information systems, in all their diversity. MIS 2000 will be held in Chicago, October 26-28, 2000, at the Marriott Chicago O'Hare, 15 minutes away from the Chicago downtown area. MIS 2000 follows upon the success of the five workshops in this series that were held in Arlington (VA), West Point (NY), Como (Italy), Istanbul (Turkey), and Indian Wells (CA). The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in all aspects of multimedia information systems, digital media content, multimedia database systems, networking, real-time systems, graphics and visualization, artificial intelligence, and algorithms. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Modeling, representation, and compression, - Multimedia indexing and retrieval by content, - Distributed multimedia systems and media servers, - Networking protocols and media delivery, - Quality of service and the future Internet, - Watermarking and data hiding, - Privacy, security, and copyright protection, - Real-time operating systems and fault tolerance, - Spatial and spatio-temporal storage and retrieval, - Query processing and optimization, - Performance evaluation and benchmarking, - Performance evaluation and benchmarking, - Multimedia data mining, summarization, and warehousing, - Document management, - XML, content description, and standards, - Distant learning, virtual meetings, and interactive applications, - E-commerce applications, - Multimedia over mobile networks. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Authors are invited to submit full papers or extended abstracts (around 10 pages long) or one-page descriptions of panel proposals by June 16, 2000. Selection will be based on originality and contribution to the field. Manuscripts must be in English, typed in double spaced format in 12 point font. Each paper/extended abstract should have an extra cover page with name, title, and address (including e-mail address) of the contact author and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Each panel proposal should include a list of proposed panelists. Electronic submissions are STRONGLY encouraged! Submit your paper or panel proposal ONLINE (http://outlook.cs.purdue.edu/MIS2000) by June 16, 2000. Your paper must be in postscipt, or pdf file format. If electronic submission is not possible, please send six copies of the short paper or panel proposal to the following postal address: Prof. Walid G. Aref Dept. of Computer Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA tel: 765-494-1997 fax: 765-494-0739 email: aref@cs.purdue.edu JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: In addition to the workshop proceedings, selected submissions will be chosen by the Program Committee to be submitted as full papers of a special issue of a journal (to be announced later). IMPORTANT DATES: . June 16, 2000, Paper/Panel submission deadline . July 28, 2000, Notification of results . August 22, 2000, Final version of papers due STEERING COMMITTEE: Dave Hislop, U.S. Army Research Office V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland Satish K. Tripathi, University of California, Riverside GENERAL CHAIR: V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland PROGRAM CHAIRS: Walid G. Aref, Purdue University Ibrahim Kamel, Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Lab.(PINTL) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Amr El Abbadi, Univesity of California, Santa Barbara Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Elisa Bertino, Universita' di Milano Asit Dan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University Robert Fish, Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Lab. Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, University of Southern California Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Delaware Wolfgang Klas, University of Ulm, Germany Sharad Mehrotra, University of California, Irvine Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Philips Research Labs Richard Muntz, University of California, Los Angeles Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan, Kyuseok Shim, KAIST, Korea Vassilis Tsotras, University of California, Riverside Roger Weber, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University Wayne Wolf, Princeton University Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University, Greece Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta Sponsored by: - Purdue University - University of California, Riverside - University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies - Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Laboratory MORE INFORMATION: Additional information about the workshop (hotel reservations, travel arrangements, etc.) will be posted at the workshop home page: http://outlook.cs.purdue.edu/MIS2000.