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Hot News!
1. Submission due has been extended to January 5, 2008 (Final Extension)
2. Please use the submission website: http://submission.sersc.org/IMIS2008/
3. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in IMIS 2008, after further revisions, will be published in
Special Issue of Intelligent Automation And Soft Computing Journal (publisher: WAC), an ISI ranked journal (SCI-E, ISSN 1079-8587).

Overview

With the proliferation of wireless technologies and electronic devices, there is a fast growing interest in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (MUC). MUC enables to create a human-oriented computing environment where computer chips are embedded in everyday objects and interact with physical world. Through MUC, people can get online even while moving around, thus having almost permanent access to their preferred services. With a great potential to revolutionize our lives, MUC also poses new research challenges. This workshop will focus on the challenges and solutions for MUC with an emphasis on interactive multimedia and intelligent services. The workshop will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of MUC. The workshop will publish high quality papers, which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in MUC. In addition, we expect that the workshop and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

Topics (included, but are not limited to)

- Multimedia content distribution/service system in MUC
- Theoretical foundations and algorithms for multimedia in MUC
- Real-time and interactive multimedia applications for MUC
- Ubiquitous multimedia streaming with mobility, QoS, and multicast support
- Multimedia synchronization schemes in MUC
- Mobile multimedia applications & services
- Business model and protocols for ubiquitous services
- Intelligent context-aware schemes for MUC
- Wireless sensor networks / RFID application for MUC
- Key management and authentication in MUC
- Network security issues and protocols in MUC
- Security issues on multimedia for MUC
- Authentication and Access control for MUC
- Emerging standards and technologies for MUC

Workshop Co-Chairs

Seong-Moo Yoo (The University of Alabama In Huntsville, USA)
Bonam Kim (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
Hui-Huang Hsu (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Steering Committee

Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, Korea, Steering Co-chair)
Jonghyuk Park (Kyungnam University, Korea, Steering Co-chair)
Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan, Steering Co-chair)
Ching-Hsien Hsu (Chung Hua University, Taiwan)
David Simplot-Ryl (IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille 1, France)
Edwin H-M. Sha (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain)

Publicity Co-Chairs

Shu-Ching Chen (Florida International University, USA)
Tatsuya Yamazaki (NICT, JAPAN)
Junmo Yang (Samsung Electronics Co,. LTD., Korea)
Wen-Tzeng Huang (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)

Program Committee

Akiyo Nadamoto (NICT, Japan)
Chengcui Zhang (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Ching-Sheng Wang (Aletheia University, Taiwan)
Chunming Rong (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Frode Eika Sandnes (Oslo University College, Norway)
Geyong Min (University of Bradford, UK)
Howard Leung (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Hyobeom Ahn (Kongju National University, Korea)
Hyunju Kim (Jinju National University, Korea)
Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA)
Isabelle Simplot-Ryl (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1, France)
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Javier García-Villalba (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Jemal H. Abawajy (Deakin University, Australia)
Jinhua Guo (University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA)
Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Kouichi SAKURAI (Kyushu University, Japan)
Kuei-Ping Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Lawrence Y. Deng (St. John's University, Taiwan)
Mei-Ling Shyu (University of Miami, USA)
Mohammad Al-Shurman (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan)
Oh-Heum Kwon (Pukyong National University, Korea)
Pedro M. Ruiz (University of Murcia and ICSI Berkeley, Spain)
Pilar Herrero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Q. Shi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Qun Jin (Waseda University, Japan)
Seungjin Park (University of Southern Indiana, USA)
Sang Hyuk Son (University of Virginia Charlottesville, USA)
Whai-En Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada)
Xiaofeng Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Yin-Fu Huang (National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan)

Important dates

Paper Submission deadline: January 5, 2008 (Final Extension)
Acceptance notification: January 14, 2008
Camera-ready due: January 31, 2008

Author Instruction

Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings. The submission of contributions to IMIS 2008 occurs through the MUE2008 paper submission website. Paper must be prepared with PDF. Please use IEEE CS paper format (Click here to download the format: MS-WORD. Submissions must not exceed 6 pages, including tables and figures, with only PDF. 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.

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE CS. The proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference site and present the paper at the workshop.
After conference, outstanding papers will be published for a Special Issue on Intelligent Automation And Soft Computing Journal (indexed by SCI-E, ISSN 1079-8587).

For more detail information about the special issue, please visit: http://www.wacong.org/autosoft/auto/si.php

Contact

For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact IMIS 2008 Cyber-chair at imis08cyberchair@gmail.com