Special Session on

Communication and Computing for Distributed Multimedia Systems

10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems

Las Vegas, Nevada, October 28-31, 1998

There has been a tremendous interest in the use of multimedia in the past few years. With the widespread availability of networks connecting a large number of computers, it is important to consider the various architectural and algorithmic issues related to distributed multimedia systems. This special session is planned to evaluate the present state of the art in communication and computing requirements for distributed multimedia systems as well as to explore future directions of research and development. Topics include (but are not limited to): Submission should include authors names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, email addresses, on the cover page. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.

Please submit your full paper (not to exceed 20 double spaced pages in length) to one of the session organizers electronically. You should email your postscript file (preferably produced by dvips and viewable by ghostview) by email; you should also send a separate email with authors' names, addresses, title and abstract of the paper. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible (six copies of the hardcopy should be mailed).

Session Organizers:

Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Engg
University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio 45469-0226
Voice: + (937) 229 3183
Fax: +(937) 229 4529
Email: atiq@engr.udayton.edu
URL: http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/matiquzz/

 Pradip K Srimani
Department of Computer Science
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523 USA
Voice: + 970 491-7097
Fax: + 970 491-2466
Email: srimani@CS.ColoState.EDU URL:http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~ srimani

Important Dates:

Papers due on:
Notification of acceptance:
Camera ready papers due on:
 April 15, 1998
June 15, 1998
August 1, 1998