[Dbworld] MIS 2004- call for participation

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MIS 04 - 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Systems
                College Park, MD, August 25-27, 2004

                http://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/conf/mis04/


WORKSHOP PROGRAM


Wednesday, August 25th

8.30 - 9.00: Registration

9.00-9.15: Welcome Remarks by the General Chair, V.S. Subrahmanian

09.15-10.15: Invited Talk: Monitoring Human Activity using Computer Vision 
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^  Larry Davis, University of Maryland 

10.15-10.45: Coffee break 

10.45-11.45 Session 1: Multimedia and sensors

10.45-11.15 Improving freshness of sensor data on KRAFT sensor database system
Hideyuki Kawashima, Michita Imai, Motomichi Toyama, Yuichiro
Anzai,


11.15-11.45 Efficient Stream Routing in Quality- and Resource-Adaptive Flow
Architectures 
K. Selcuk Candan , Lina Peng, Kyung D. Ryu, Karamvir Chatha,
Christopher Mayer


11.45-14.00 Lunch break 

14.00-15.00 Invited Talk: Extracting Multimedia Stories in Pompei
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^  Antonio Picariello, Univ. of Napoli, Italy 

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break 

15.30 - 17.00 Session 2: Mobile/Wireless information access

15.30-16.00 An Optimal Continuous Media Replication Strategy for Ad-hoc 
Networks of
Wireless Devices
Ashkan Aazami, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Tooraj Helmi, 


16.00-16.30 Server Replication in Interactive, Push-Based Data Delivery
K.Selcuk Candan, Nikhil Iyer


16.30 - 17.00 Requirements for Context Dependent Mobile Access to Multiple
Information
Fabio A. Schreiber, Augusto Celentano, Letizia Tanca, 



Thursday, August 26th

9.00-10.30 Session 3: Efficient querying

9.00-9.30: Integrating the Results of Multimedia Sub-Queries Using Qualitative
Preferences 
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Vincent Oria, M. Tamer Ozsu, 


9.30-10.00: Optimizing Selection and Mixing in Audio Databases
Marat Fayzullin, V.S. Subrahmanian, 


10.00-10.30: Querying Spatial Data on Extensible Grid Files
Ryosuke Miyoshi, Takao Miura, Isamy Shioya, 


10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.00 Session 4: Multimedia presentations

11.00-11.30: A Notion of Equivalence for Multimedia Documents 
P. Bertolotti, O. Gaggi


11.30-12.00: Modelling of Multimedia Presentations with non-Markovian Conditions
Graciela Gonzalez, Md Galibur Rahman, 



12.00-14.00 Lunch break 

14.00-15.00 Invited Talk: Biological sensor management for homeland defense 
applications 
            ^^^^^^^^^^^   Ivor Knight, Canon USA Life Sciences

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break 

15.30 - 17.00 Session 5: Management of multimedia content

15.30-16.00: METIS - A Flexible Database Foundation for the Unified Management 
of
Multimedia Content 
Ross King, Niko Popitsch, Utz Westermann, 


16.00-16.30: A Generic Model for Syntactical and Semantical Description of 
Images: a
Core Component of a framework for image database engineering 
L. Besson, J. Savelli, E. Leclercq, M.N. Terrasse, 


16.30-17.00: A formal framework for handling audiovisual materials
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Paola Bertolotti, Roberto Del
Pero, Alberto Martelli, Alberto Messina, Gian Maria Sacco, Claudio Schifanella, 



Friday, August 27th
9.00-10.00 Invited Talk: Sensor Webs: Dynamic Measurement Techniques and 
Adaptive Observing
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^  Strategies for Earth and Space Science"
                         Steve Talabac, NASA

10.00-10.30: Coffee Break

10.30-12.30 Session 6: Image databases

10.30-11.00: Improving Image Similarity Search Effectiveness in a Multimedia 
Content
Management System
Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro, Fausto Rabitti, Giuseppe Amato,
Pasquale Savino, Peter Stankev, 


11.00-11.30: Database Support for Image-based Electronic Editions
Alexander Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin
Kiernan, Neil Moore, 
Dorothy Carr Porter, 


11.30-12.00: Retrieval in Image Database based on Animate Vision 
G. Boccignone, A. Chianese, V. Moscato, A. Picariello, L.Sansone,


12.00-12.30: Embedding Hypermedia Information in MPEG Standard Compatible Video 
Andre' Gradvohl, 


12.30: Concluding Remarks

 












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