Call For Papers for ACM MMSys 2011

Important Dates:
* September 24, 2010: Submission Deadline
* November 9, 2010: Notification Date

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2nd ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference to be held Feb. 23-25, 2011 in San Jose, California, USA. The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems is regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to view the intersections and interplay of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types. Furthermore, MMSys provides an avenue for communicating research that addresses multimedia systems holistically.

*** Dataset Track ***
MMSys is introducing a new Dataset Track to the conference to encourage and recognize dataset sharing among researchers from both industry and academia. Submission to the dataset track will need to include:

* A URL where the dataset is located.

* A short paper (up to 6 pages) describing the format of the data collected, the methodology used to collect the dataset, and basic characterizing statistics from the dataset.

Authors of datasets accepted for publication will receive:
* Dataset hosting from MMSys for at least 5 years.
* Citable publication of the dataset description in the proceedings.
* Inclusion in a poster session at the conference.
* Discounted conference registration.

Datasets should be appropriately anonymized.

Datasets will be evaluated by the committee on the basis of the collection methodology and the value of the dataset as a resource for the research community.

*** Full Paper Track ***

Full papers submitted can be up to 12 pages long.

Authors of papers that rely upon or use an underlying dataset are encouraged to also submit the dataset to the dataset track if possible.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Multimedia Systems
* Multimedia Networking
* Multimedia Operating Systems
* Multimedia Databases
* Large-Scale and Remote Display Architectures
* Real-Time Support For Multimedia
* Networked Games
* Virtual and Augmented Worlds
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* Peer-to-Peer Architectures for Streaming and Multicast
* Modeling of Multimedia Systems
* Multimedia Interfaces
* Multimedia Middleware and Toolkits
* Multimedia Programming Languages
* Cloud-based Multimedia Processing
* Multi-Core Support for Multimedia
* Mobile Multimedia Systems
* 3D and Multiview Streaming
 

This year the conference will be hosted by Cisco. The MMSys organizing committee gratefully acknowledges this generous show of support for this research community and welcomes the participation of all industry researchers.

Sponsored by ACM SIGMM

General Co-Chairs
Ketan Mayer-Patel, Univ. of North Carolina, USA
Ali C. Begen, Cisco, Canada

Technical Program Chair
Mark Claypool, Worcster Polytechnic Institute, USA

Technical Program Committee

Luca Abeni, University of Trento, Italy
Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Ali Begen, Cisco, Canada
Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA
Dick Bulterman, CWI, Netherlands
Surendar Chandra, ACM, USA
Bruce Davie, Cisco, USA
George Dunlap, Citrix Systems, UK
Wu-Chang Feng, Portland State University, USA
Wu-Chi Feng, Portland State University, USA
Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway
Pal Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Norway
Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK
Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan, USA
Charles "Buck" Krasic, University of British Columbia, Canada
Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada
Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA
Tom Little, Boston University, USA
Dwight Makaroff, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK
John Miller, Microsoft, UK
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon, USA
Christoph Rensing, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Larry Rowe, FXPAL, USA
Nabil Sarhan, Wayne State University, USA
Travis Schluessler, Intel, USA
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, USA
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael Vernick, Avaya, USA
Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada
Huahui Wu, Google, USA
Roger Zimmerman, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts, USA