MNSA 2009 - The 11th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications MNSA-2009 in conjunction with The IEEE 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Call For Paper

The 11th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications
(MNSA-2009)
http://www.takilab.org/conf/MNSA/2009
in conjunction with
The IEEE 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS-2009)
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/icdcs2009/
Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
June 22-26, 2009


THEME

Networks of today are going through rapid evolution. In the last few years, we have
observed an explosive growth of multimedia computing, multimedia networking and applications.
Multimedia technologies have broaden software applications.
With the growing popularity of wired and wireless Internet, multimedia network systems and
applications are changing our daily life and social activity.
Also, the development of useful and attractive applications, such as Multimedia Web Service,
Collaborative Systems, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Community Tools is becoming very important.
This workshop started in 1999 and has been held in USA, Taiwan, Austria, Japan, Portugal, Canada,
and China in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS. MNSA2009 will be held on June 26 (Fri.), 2009
in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2009.

The workshop provides an international forum for researcher and participants to share and exchange
their experiences, discuss challenges and present original ideas in all aspects of multimedia systems.
We welcome research papers which deal with multimedia applications, middleware for constructing
multimedia applications, information networking, commercial systems and tools.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to following:

* Multimedia Tool and Systems
* Distributed Multimedia Systems and Shared Applications
* Quality of Service Issues for Multimedia Applications
* Advanced Internet Technologies and Applications
* Web Service Tools and Systems
* Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval Tools
* Multimedia Right Protection and Watermarking
* Wireless Networks and Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Agent Oriented Multimedia Systems and Applications
* Mobile Agents and Applications
* Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
* Visual Languages and Visual Programming
* Distance Learning and Virtual Community
* E-Commerce and Related Applications
* Web-meeting Systems
* Multimedia Networking
* Applications of Video Coding and Streaming
* Applications of Image Processing
* Embedded Systems for Multimedia Applications
* Mobile Multimedia


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: December 25, 2008
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2009
Camera ready papers: March 20, 2009

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work.
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness,
and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee.

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the ICDCS-2009 Workshops.
We plan to organize a special issue in an International Journal with selected high-quality papers presented
at MNSA- 2009.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Submit a full paper of about 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced),
including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page.
You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page.

URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

Contact author must input the following information at the MNSA-2009 web site: paper title, authors' names,
affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 200-250 word abstract,
and five keywords. Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and send it to the following web site.

URL: http://www.takilab.org/conf/MNSA/2009

Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be JohnSmith.pdf.
If you are submitting two or more files, please number them: JohnSmith1.pdf, JohnSmith2.pdf, etc.

SUBMISSION NOTIFICATION

When you submit a paper, please send an e-mail to MNSA-2009 Workshop Co-chairs
Prof. Makoto Takizawa (makoto.takizawa-AT-st.seikei.ac.jp) and Prof. Leonard Barolli (barolli-AT-fit.ac.jp)
with the following information: author's name, postal address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address,
title of your paper, keywords, abstract, and the filename(s) you used.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register
and present the paper in the conference. Each accepted paper must have a full registration in order to include
the paper in the conference proceedings, unless the author(s) of the paper are all students.
Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together
with the notification of acceptance.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan
Makoto Takizawa, Sekei University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs

Tomoya Enokido, Risho University, Japan
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada

Program Committee

Markus Aleksy, BB AG Corporate Research Centre, Germany
Rachid Anane, University of Coventry, UK
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Kuo-Ming Chao, University of Coventry, UK
Arjan Durresi, Indiana University Perdue University Indianapolis, USA
Katherine Guo, Bell Labs, USA
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Hahn Le, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Cristian Tchepnda, France Telecom R&D, France
Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
Quincy Wu, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Fumiaki Sato, Toho University, Japan
Takuo Nakashima, Tokai University, Japan
Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan
Masato Oguchi, Ochanomizu University, Japan

Web Administration Chairs

Ailixier Aikebaier, Tokyo Denki University, Japan


For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

Leonard Barolli
Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT),
3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 811-0295, JAPAN
Phone: +81-92-606-4970
Fax: +81-92-606-4970
E-mail: barolli-AT-fit.ac.jp

Tomoya Enokido
Faculty of Business Administration Rissho University,
2-16 Osaki 4 Chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8602, JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-5487-3212
Fax: +81-3-5487-3351
E-mail: eno-AT-ris.ac.jp