MIS'99
                        Fifth International Workshop
                                     on
                       MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      October 21-23, 1999, Miramonte Resort, Indian Wells, California


                                FINAL 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 - 14:45    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)

14:45 - 15:30    Session 4: Demos (refreshments will be served)

15:30 - 17:00    Session 5: Querying Multimedia Databases (Session Chair
TBA)

     "Finite Graph Algebras for Querying Interactive Multimedia
     Presentation Databases",
     S. Adali (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), M.L. Sapino, M.
     Schenone (Universita di Torino)
     and V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland)

     "Indexing Animated Objects",
     G. Kollios (Polytechnic University), D.Gunopulos and V.J. Tsotras
     (UC Riverside)

     "Modeling 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 6: 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 7: 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 - 14:15    Session 8: PANEL (Session Chair: R.R. Muntz)

     "Hollywood: Multimedia Challenges and Opportunities".
     Panelists: R.R. Muntz (UCLA), R. Feeney (Silicon Grail and RFX),
     W. Aylsworth (Warner Bros.), Q. Ellis (QB, Inc.).

14:15 - 15:00    Session 9: Demos (refreshments will be served)

15:00 - 16:00    Session 10: INVITED TALK (Session Chair TBA)

     "Multimodal Impact on Multimedia"
     R.L. Storms (US Army)

16:00 - 17:30    Session 11: 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 12: 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 13: 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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