From: Argi Krikelis Subject: CFP: 2nd Workshop on Parallel Processing and Multimedia Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:39:49 +0000 Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK 2nd Workshop on Parallel Processing and Multimedia Orland, Florida - Monday, March 30, 1998 Preliminary Call for Participation The Workshop on Parallel Processing and Multimedia will be held in Orlando, Florida on March 30, 1998. The workshop, second in the series, is part of the 12th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '98) which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing and is held in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH. In the recent years multimedia technology has emerged as a key technology, mainly, because of its ability to represent information in disparate forms as a bit-stream. This enables, everything from text to video and sound to be stored, processed and delivered in digital form. A great part of the current research community effort has emphasized the delivery of the data as an important issue of multimedia technology. However, the creation, processing and management of multimedia forms are the issues most likely to dominate the scientific interest in the long run. The focus of the activity will be how multimedia technology deals with information, which is in general task-dependent and is extracted from data in a particular context by exercising knowledge. The desire to deal with information from forms such as video, text and sound will result in a data explosion. This [requirement to store, process and manage large data sets] naturally leads to the consideration of programmable parallel processing systems as strong candidates in supporting and enabling multimedia technology. The workshop aims to act as a platform where topics related, but not limited, to * parallel architectures for multimedia * parallel multimedia computing servers * mapping multimedia applications to parallel architectures * system interfaces and programming tools to support multimedia applications on parallel processing systems * multimedia content creation, processing and management using parallel architectures * parallel processing architectures of multimedia set-top boxes * multimedia agent technology and parallel processing * `proof of concept' implementations and case studies. Workshop plans include a keynote address andsubmitted papers, and a panel discussion. Submitting Papers & Publication Details Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The language of the workshop is English. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions should be in uuencoded, gzipped, postscript form and e-mailed to Argy.Krikelis@aspex.co.uk. In cases where electronic submission is not possible, send 4 copies to the Workshop Organiser. Manuscripts must be received by November 12, 1997. The manuscript should not exceed 15 double-spaced (i.e. point size 12), single-sided A4 size page, with a 250-word abstract. The corresponding author is requested to include in the cover letter: 1. complete postal address 2. e-mail address 3. phone number 4. fax number 5. key phrases that characterize the paper's topic. Receipt of submissions will be promptly acknowledged by e-mail. Notification of review decisions will be e-mailed by January 10, 1998. Camera-ready papers will be due by January 30, 1998. Proceedings of all IPPS '98 workshop papers will be available. However, there are efforts for the workshops papers to appear in a book on their own, or as a special issue of a scientific paper. Last year's workshop's papers will appear in a special issue of the "Parallel Computing" Journal. Workshop Organiser Argy Krikelis Aspex Microsystems Ltd. Brunel University Uxbridge, UB8 3PH United Kingdom Tel: + 44 1895 203184 Fax: + 44 1895 203185 E-mail: Argy.Krikelis@aspex.co.uk Programme Committee Edward J. Delp, Purdue University Divyesh Jadav, IBM Research Center, Almaden Martin Goebel, GMD, Germany Argy Krikelis, Aspex Microsystems Ltd., UK Tosiyasu L. Kunii, The University of Aizu, Japan Vasily Moshnyaga, Kyoto University, Japan Eythymios D. Providas, University of Thessaly, Greece Registration: This workshop is being held as part of IPPS. The usual IEEE Computer Society guidelines apply wrt registration; the workshop is open to IPPS registrants and separate registration for the workshop is not needed. Information about IPPS can be obtained over the Web at the following URL: http://www.ippsxx.org