CALL FOR PAPERS


                              SUBMISSION DEADLINE OCTOBER 14, 2002










                    International Conference on Information Technology:
                                   Coding and Computing


                                ITCC 2003 April 28-30, 2003

SPONSORED BY IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY










                              The Orleans, Las Vegas, Nevada











The rapid growth in information science and technology
in general and the complexity and volume of multimedia
data in particular have introduced new challenges for
the research community. Of particular interest is the
need for a concise representation, efficient
manipulation, and fast transmission of multimedia
data. Applications such as space science,
tele-medicine, military, and robotics deal with large
volumes of data which need to be stored and processed
in real time. The ITCC is  an international forum
which brings together researchers and practitioners
working on different aspects of Information
Technology.  It is a gathering where the latest
theoretical and technological advances on Information
Technology are presented and discussed. All papers
submitted to this  conference will be reviewed by at
least two members of the ITCC program committee.
Digital Image, Video & Audio Processing
Information Hiding & Video Streaming
Document Image Analysis
Data Compression
Authentication of Video and Audio Data
Multimedia Computing
Hybrid Source/Channel Coding
Systems Interfacing and Integration
Information Databases
E-commerce Compressed Data Processing
Data Storage Platforms
Optical Data Transmission
New Architectures for Multimedia Processing
Graphics and Video Hardware
Error Control Codes
Video and Audio Codec Design
Enterprise Architectures
Enterprise-wide Information Management
Pervasive Computing


Papers should be original and contain contributions of
theoretical or experimental nature, or be unique
experience reports. Interested authors should send an
8-page extended summary including 5 keywords to  the
Program Chair, Pradip K Srimani, Department of
Computer Science, Clemson University , Clemson, SC
29634, USA, Voice: + 864 656-7552, Fax: + 864
656-0145, Email: srimani@CS.Clemson.EDU.  Electronic
submission of pdf files is strongly encouraged.

Tracks: ITCC-2003 is soliciting proposals from those
who are interested in organizing a track dealing with
a specific area of information technology. Track
organizers will be members of the program committee
and associate editors for the conference proceedings.
Track chairs will be responsible for advertizing,
collecting and reviewing technical articles. Each
track is anticipated to include approximately 30
papers. Please submit your track proposal to the
General Chair, Shahram Latifi at latifi@unlv.edu Track
topics are not necessarily limited to the topics
listed above. Following tracks have already been
organized:
 *  IT Education &Curriculum, Emma Regentova,
    University of Nevada, USA
 *  Modern Web and Hypermedia Systems, Mario
    Cannataro, University of Calabria, Italy
 *  Web and IR Technologies, Amanda Spink,
    Pennsylvania State U., USA
 *  Enabling Technolgies, E. Lawrence & B. Garner,
    University of Technology, Sydney, Australia




Student Best Paper Award: A Student Best Paper will be
awarded at the conference. Papers submitted by
students may be considered for the award, which
includes full conference registration. To be eligible,
the student must be the sole author of the paper, or
the first author and primary contributor. A cover
letter or email to the Program Chair/Track Chair must
identify the paper as a candidate for this competition
at the time of the submission. (The winner of the
award will present the paper in a plenary speech at
the conference)







  Program Committee , Steering Committee











General Chair: Shahram Latifi, ECE, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
Program Chair: Pradip K Srimani, Computer Science,
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
Publicity Chair: Henry Selveraj, ECE, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
Finance Chair:
Industry Relations Chair:
Registration Chair:
                                October 14, 2002 Paper Due
                           November 15, 2002 Author Notification
                       December 10, 2002 Advance Author Registration


Note: The Proceedings will be published by IEEE
Computer Society. A special issue of an international
journal is being planned consisting of selected papers
from this conference. Authors of selected papers will
be invited to submit an extended version for the
journal.