(DBWORLD) MIS'99 - Call for Participation
Vassilis Tsotras
Fifth International Workshop on MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIS'99).
The workshop will be held at the Miramonte Resort at Indian Wells, CA,
October 21-23, 1999.
We have a very exciting program consisting of sixteen high quality papers,
three invited talks [by H. Garcia-Molina (Stanford Univ.), R.R. Muntz (UCLA)
and R.L. Storms (US Army)], two panels and demos.
Please note: the registration deadline is September 15th, 1999,
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while the hotel reservation deadline is September 20th, 1999.
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Best regards,
Vassilis Tsotras
Leana Golubchik
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MIS'99
Fifth International Workshop
on
MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS
October 21-23, 1999, Miramonte Resort, Indian Wells, California
workshop web page: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~mis99/
ADVANCE PROGRAM
Wednesday, October 20, 1999
18:00 - 20:00 Welcoming Reception
Thursday, October 21, 1999
8:30 - 9:15 Registration and Breakfast
9:15 - 9:30 Introductory Remarks
Satish Tripathi (UC Riverside)
Leana Golubchik (U. of Maryland)
Vassilis J. Tsotras (UC Riverside)
David Hislop (US Army Research Office)
9:30 - 10:30 Session 1: INVITED TALK (Session Chair TBA)
"Recent Advances in Multimedia Systems Research"
H. Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Session 2: Feature Extraction (Session Chair TBA)
"On Fingerprinting Images for Recognition",
N.F. Johnson, Z. Duric and S. Jajodia (George Mason University)
"Feature Relevance Estimation for Image Databases",
J. Peng and B.Bhanu (UC Riverside)
12:00 - 13:30 Working Lunch (Group Leaders TBA)
13:30 - 15:00 Session 3: PANEL (Session Chair: A. Ghafoor)
"Multimedia Databases: Challenges and Promises".
Panelists: A. Ghafoor (Purdue University), A. Zhang (SUNY
Buffalo), A. Khokhar (University of Delaware)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 4: Querying Multimedia Databases (Session
Chair TBA)
"Finite Graph Algebras for Querying Interactive Multimedia
Presentation Databases",
S. Adali (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), M.L. Sapino
(Universita di Torino) and V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland)
"Indexing Animated Objects",
G. Kollios (Polytechnic University), D.Gunopulos and V.J. Tsotras
(UC Riverside)
"Modeling and Querying Shapes in an Image Database System",
V. Oria, M.T. Ozsu, L.I. Cheng, P.J. Iglinski and Y. Leontiev
(University of Alberta)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (at the Miramonte Resort)
19:30 - 22:00 Bus to "Villagefest" at Palm Springs
Friday, October 22, 1999
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 Session 5: INVITED TALK (Session Chair TBA)
"Sensors and Memory: Managing Context Data for Situated Applications"
R.R. Muntz (UCLA)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Session 6: Distributed Multimedia Architectures (Session
Chair TBA)
"Autonomous Disks: The Building Block for a Scalable Distributed
File System",
C. Akinlar, W.G. Aref, I. Kamel and S. Mukherjee (Panasonic
Technologies, Inc.)
"A Distributed Image-Database Architecture for Efficient Insertion
and Retrieval",
R. Weber and H.J. Schek (ETH Zurich)
11:30 - 13:00 Working Lunch (Group Leaders TBA)
13:00 - 14:30 Session 7: PANEL (Session Chair TBA)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 8: INVITED TALK (Session Chair TBA)
"Multimodal Impact on Multimedia"
R.L. Storms (US Army)
16:00 - 17:30 Session 9: Potpourri (Session Chair TBA)
"Facilitating Spatio-Temporal Operations in a Versatile Video
Database System",
S. Chan and Q. Li (City University of Hong Kong)
"OMMMA: An Object-Oriented Approach for Modeling Multimedia
Information Systems",
S. Sauer and G. Engels (University of Paderborn)
"Collaborative Project Management with a Web-based Database
Editor",
R. Gillner (FH Fulda), L. Wegner and C. Zirkelbach (Univ. Gh.
Kassel)
19:00 - 21:00 Bus to Banquet
Saturday, October 23, 1999
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 Session 10: Networking and Performance Evaluation (Session
Chair TBA)
"Minimizing Bandwidth Requirements for On-Demand Data Delivery",
D. Eager (Univ. of Saskatchewan), M. Vernon (Univ. of Wisconsin)
and J. Zahorjan (Univ. of Washington)
"Optimizing Profits in the Broadcast Delivery of Multimedia
Products",
C.C. Aggarwal, M.S. Squillante, J.L. Wolf, P.S. Yu (IBM T.J.
Watson) and J. Sethuraman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Performance Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
in IP networks",
U. Ahmed, I. Lambadaris, T. Kunz (Carleton University), J.H.
Salim, B. Nandy and N. Seddigh (Nortel Networks)
10:00 - 10:45 Group Leaders Report
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 11: Interactive Multimedia Systems (Session
Chair TBA)
"Deriving an Optimal Synchronization Interval for Supporting View
Consistency in a Distributed
Virtual Environment", J.C.S. Lui, O.K.Y. So and P.T.S. Tam (The
Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Immersidata Management: Challenges in Management of Data
Generated within an Immersive
Environment", C. Shahabi, G. Barish, B. Ellenberger,
M. Kolahdouzan, N. Jiang, S-R Nam and
R. Zimmerman (University of Southern California)
"Resource Prediction for Admission Control of Interactive
Multimedia Sessions",
S. Hollfelder and K. Aberer (GMD-IPSI)
12:30 -12:45 Closing Remarks, Satish Tripathi (UC Riverside)
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MIS'99
Fifth International Workshop
on
MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS
October 21-23, 1999, Miramonte Resort, Indian Wells, California
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM
(to be returned by September 15th, 1999)
PERSONAL DATA:
First Name:
Last Name:
Affiliation/Institution:
Mailing Address:
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
Vegetarian Food: Yes / No
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Regular Registration Fee: 325 USD (until September 15th, 1999)
On Site Registration Fee: 400 USD
Regular Student Registration Fee: 175 USD (until September 15th,
1999)
On Site Student Registration Fee: 225 USD
The workshop registration fee (regular or student) includes:
- Welcoming Reception (October 20th)
- Dinner (October 21st)
- Banquet Dinner (October 22nd)
- Breakfast (October 21st, October 22nd, October 23rd)
- Lunches (October 21st, October 22nd)
- Coffee Breaks
- One copy of the workshop proceedings
Tickets for non-registered guests are as follows: Dinner ticket: 50 USD,
Banquet ticket: 55 USD, Lunch ticket: 30 USD/Lunch,
Welcoming Reception ticket: 20 USD
___________________________________________________________________
Workshop Registration Fee: __________ USD
Indicate number of additional non-registered guest tickets:
__Dinner __Banquet __Lunch __Reception Vegetarian Food: Yes / No
Total Cost of non-registered guest tickets: __________ USD
Total Amount Included: __________ USD
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PAYMENT INFORMATION
Payments must be made in US Dollars using either (1) a cheque drawn on a
US bank, or (2) a bank draft or money order. All cheques, bank drafts or
money orders should be made payable to: "UC Regents". Credit Cards are NOT
accepted.
Please send one Personal Data Form per registered person and your payment by
postal mail to:
Joanne Ford (c/o MIS'99)
Bourns College of Engineering
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 909-787-6374
Email: joa...@engr.ucr.edu
Your postal mail must be postmarked by September 15th, 1999 in order to
guarantee the regular registration fee. Student registration must be
accompanied by the advisor's name. You should also indicate the number
and kind of any non-registered guest tickets (including vegetarian food
preference).
HOTEL RESERVATIONS
The workshop will be held from October 21-23, 1999, at the Miramonte Resort,
located on Highway 111 in Indian Wells, about twenty five minutes from Palm
Springs.
Miramonte is a luxurious, Mediterranean style resort and member of Preferred
Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. We have secured a special rate of 125 USD (plus
$5 resort service fee and tax) per night per room (single or double
occupancy). The special rate starts from October 20th through October 22nd.
If you travel plans require a Saturday night stay, the rate for Saturday,
October 23rd, 1999 is150 USD (plus $5 resort service fee and tax). The resort
service fee includes: newspaper delivery, complimentary local calls,
admission to the fitness center, complimentary shuttle service to golf and
the El Paseo shopping area and complimentary guest parking.
To guarantee these special rates you must make your reservation by
September 20th, 1999
Reservations should be made directly with the Resort. Please call the
Miramonte Resort at: (760) 341-2200 or toll-free: (800) 237-2926 and
mention "MIS'99" or "University of California, Riverside" when you make
your reservation.
TRAVEL INFORMATION
Miramonte is located in Indian Wells on Highway 111, about 20 minutes from
the Palm Springs Regional Airport. If your airline does not service the
Palm Springs Regional Airport, you can fly into Los Angeles International
Airport (LAX), the John Wayne-Orange County Airport, or the Ontario Airport.
We highly recommend to rent a car at your destination airport and drive to
the Miramonte Resort.
Otherwise, a shuttle service exists between the above airports and Miramonte.
Reservations are needed at least two days in advance of your arrival date.
Please call the Desert Valley Shuttle, toll free at: 1-800-413-3999.
The Desert Valley Shuttle prices are: $33/person each way from the Palm
Springs Regional Airport; $55/person each way from LAX (note: they provide
only two trips/day, leaving LAX at 12:30 and 19:30); $60/person each way
from the John Wayne-Orange County Airport (note: they provide only two
trips/day, leaving Orange County airport at 13:00 and 20:00); $42/person
each way from Ontario Airport.
If you choose to rent a car, directions from all airports follow:
From Palm Springs Regional Airport: Take El Cielo to Ramon. Make left on
Ramon and continue until 10 East. Take 10 East to Cook Street exit.
Turn right on Cook Street and continue until Highway 111. Turn left on
Highway 111. Go about 2 miles, the Miramonte Resort is on the right at
Indian Wells Lane. Estimated driving time: 20 minutes.
From LAX Airport: Take South Sepulveda Blvd. to 105 East. Take 605 North.
Take 10 East to Cook Street exit. Turn right on Cook Street and continue
until Highway 111. Turn left on Highway 111. Go about 2 miles, the Miramonte
Resort is on the right at Indian Wells Lane. Estimated driving time: about
2 hrs. and 35 min (approximately 140 miles).
From John Wayne-Orange County Airport: Take Airport Exit to 405 North. Take
55 North. Take 91 East. Take 10 East to Cook Street exit. Turn right on
Cook Street and continue until Highway 111. Turn left on Highway 111. Go
about 2 miles, the Miramonte Resort is on the right at Indian Wells Lane.
Estimated driving time: about 2 hrs. and 10 min (approximately 116 miles).
From Ontario Airport: Take South Archibald Avenue to 10 East. Take 10 East to
Cook Street exit. Turn right on Cook Street and continue until Highway 111.
Turn left on Highway 111. Go about 2 miles,the Miramonte Resort is on the
right at Indian Wells Lane. Estimated driving time: 1 hr. and 35 min
(approximately 87 miles).
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