UMC-08 CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.sersc.org/UMC2008 The 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing (UMC-08) Wrestpoint Hotel, Hobart, Australia, October 13 - 15, 2008 Organization Honory Co-Chairs: Kay-Seob Han (Korea) SeokSoo Kim (Australia) General Co-Chairs Man-Gon Park (Korea) Shu-Ching Chen (USA) Jong Hyuk Park (Korea) Program Co-Chairs Mieso Denko(Canada) Hangbae Chang (Korea) Byeongho Kang (Australia) Program Vice-Chairs Jemal Abawajy (Australia) Dae-Hoon Hwang (Korea) IMPORT ISSUES - Submission Due: June 15, 2008 (Final extension) - Proceeding: IEEE Computer Society - Special Issues: Distinguished papers accepted and presented in UMC-08, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of international journals indexed by SCI-E (Confirmed). * COMPUTING AND INFORMATIONS - â“’Institute of Informatics * Mobile Networks and Applications - Springer The 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing (UMC-08) will be held in Australia on October 13 - 15, 2008. UMC-08 will be the most comprehensive symposium focused on the various aspects of advances in Computer Science. UMC-08 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of UMC. In addition, the symposium will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in UMC. Furthermore, we expect that the symposium and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. Special Session Co-Chairs Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (USA) Pubudu N. Pathirana (Australia) International Advisory Board Borko Furht (USA) Chin-Chen Chang (Taiwan) Dong-Sub Cho (Korea) Jianhua Ma (Japan) Laurence T. Yang (Canada) Min-Hwan Kim (Korea) Tai-hoon Kim (Korea) Yang Xiao (USA) Publicity Co-Chairs: Zhiwen YU (Japan) Wenjing Jia (Australia) Agustinus Borgy Waluyo (Singapore) Yoon-Chul Choy (Korea) Program Committee: http://www.sersc.org/UMC2008/comm.php Important Dates Submission deadline: June 15, 2008 (Final extension) Acceptance Notification: July 20, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 31, 2008 Contact If you have any question about the CfPs and papers submission, please email to PC chairs or Secretary of UMC-08 (sersc@sersc.org). Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Ubiquitous multimedia services and applications -Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems -Intelligent context-awareness for UMC -UMS for human communication interation -Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications for UMC -Multimedia networking and QoS for UMC -P2P multimedia systems and streaming for UMC -Security issues on UMC -Content protection and digital rights management for UMC -Software development using multimedia techniques in UMC -Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models in UMC -Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval for UMC -Mobile multimedia systems and services for UMC -Multimedia modeling and processing for UMC -Emerging standards and technologies for UMC -Ubiquitous multimeida business model Paper Submission & Proceeding Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper), 6 pages (regular paper) or 8 pages (full paper: 2 pages extra charge) by using online systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format. Submission System: http://submission.sersc.org/UMC2008/ All accepted papers will be included in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Distinguished papers accepted and presented in UMC-08, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of international journals indexed by SCI-E (Confirmed).