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	1996 Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems
	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),
		Hong Kong, June 25-28, 1996

Theme of Workshop:

The development of National Information Infrastructure (NII) is under way in
many countries. NII is a seamless web of communications networks, computers,
databases, and consumer electronics that will put vast amount of information at
users' fingertips. This will transform the way people live, work, and interact
with each other. Every kind of business will be changed as commerce, finance,
government services, manufacturing of all kinds, education, entertainment, and
health care employ multimedia. The modeling, specification, analysis and
application of distributed multimedia systems present many challenging problems
to both researchers and practitioners. This workshop offers a forum for
practicing engineers and researchers to exchange ideas and learn from one
another. In addition, tutorials will be held on June 25 and 26 to provide
participants with opportunities for interaction with experts in the related
fields. 

Through this call for paarticipation, the organizers seek contributions of high
quality papers, panels or tutorials on the topics relevant to distributed
multimedia systems which include (but are not limited to): 

	. distributed multimedia databases and computing 
  	. multi-paradigmatic information retrieval
  	. modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems
  	. OS support for distributed multimedia systems
  	. multimedia communications and networking
  	. multimedia digital libraries and mail systems
  	. multimedia human-computer interaction
  	. multimedia applications for CSCW, distant education, 
	  electronic commerce, tele-conferencing, telemedicine, etc.
	. visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications

The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged. 
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of IEEE
Multimedia.  More information can be found at
``http://www.cs.umn.edu/research/dmc/dms96/''. 

Workshop Site:

The workshop will be held at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
(HKUST), located in the scenic Clear Water Bay peninsula in East Kowloon of Hong
Kong. Special arrangement will be made with local hotels for a limited number 
of rooms at the special workshop rate.

Information for Authors:

Submit four copies of panel or tutorial proposals or manuscripts (maximum of 20
pages) including abstract, keywords and complete contacting address to one of
the following program co-chairs: 

	Professor David H.C. Du
	Dept. of Computer Science
	University of Minnesota
	Minneapolis, MN 55455
	U.S.A.
	Tel:   +1 612 6252560
	Fax:   +1 612 6250572
	Email: du@cs.umn.edu

  	Professor Olivia R. Liu Sheng
	Dept. of Information and Systems Management
	School of Business and Management
	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Clear Water Bay
	Kowloon, Hong Kong
	Tel: +852 2358 7645
	Fax: +852 2358 2421
	Email: olivia@usthk.ust.hk


Important Dates:

	January 15, 1995	Paper\proposal submission due
	March 15, 1996 		Notification of acceptance
	April 15, 1996 		Final manuscript due

Sponsored by:
	Knowledge Systems Institute, USA
	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
	University of Pittsburgh, USA
	University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA
	
Steering Committee Chair:
	S.-K. Chang		Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Workshop Chair:
	Bruce Berra		Syracuse University, USA

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
	David H.C. Du		Univ. of Minnesota, USA
	Olivia R. Liu Sheng	HKUST, Hong Kong

Finance Chair:
	Kar Yan Tam		HKUST, Hong Kong

Local Arrangement Chair:
	Grace Au		HKUST, Hong Kong

Workshop Coordinator:
	Winnie Chan		HKUST, Hong Kong

Program Committee:
	Lewis Chau		HKUST, HK
	Patrick Y. K. chau	HKUST, HK
	Wen-Tsuen Chen		National Tsing-Hua Univ., Taiwan
	Yanghee Choi		Seoul National Univ., Korea
	Anindya Datta		Univ. of Arizona, USA
	H.-M. Chen Garcia 	Univ. of Hawaii, USA
	William Grosky 		Wayne State University, USA
	Venkat N. Gudivada 	Ohio State University , USA
	Arding Hsu		Siemens Corporate Research, USA
	Oscar Ibarra		Univ. of Cal., Santa Barbara, USA
	Horris Ip		City University of Hong Kong, HK
	Stephen Itoga		Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
	Ramesh Jain		Univ. of Cal., San Diego, USA
	Paul Lin		CCL, Taiwan
	Ralph Martinez		Univ. of Arizona, USA
	J. Mizusawa		NTT, Japan
	Kingsley C. Nwosu 	AT&T Bell Labs., USA
	Ted Ozeki		Toshiba Corp., Japan
	Ting-Chuen Pong		HKUST, HK
	Ming-Chien Shan		Hewlett-Packard, USA
	Dong Ho Song		HangKong Univ., Korea
	Jaideep Srivastava	University of Minnesota, USA
	Kazuo Sugihara		University of Hawaii, USA
	Bhavani Thuraisingham 	Mitre Corp., USA
	Joseph E. Urban		Arizona State University, USA
	Son T. Vuong		Univ. of British Columbia, Canada 
	Kyu-Young Whang 	KAIST, Korea 
	Philip Yu		IBM, USA
	HongJiang Zhang 	HP Labs, USA