Please note the new deadline: May 24th, 1999.


 			  Call For Papers
			      MIS'99
		   Fifth International Workshop
			        on
		  MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS

		        October 21-23, 1999
			  Miramonte Resort 
	  Indian Wells, Palm Springs Desert, California

	 Workshop Home Page: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~mis99


MIS'99 is the fifth of a series of workshops which started in 1995 with 
the aim of fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all 
aspects of multimedia information systems. MIS'99 will be held between 
October 21-23, 1999, at the Miramonte Resort, a mediterranean style 
resort hotel located at Indian Wells, in the Palm Springs Desert area 
(about 130 miles east of Los Angeles). 

MIS'99 follows upon the success of the four workshops in this series 
that were held in Arlington (VA), West Point (NY), Como (Italy) and 
Istanbul (Turkey). As in the past, this is a focused workshop, consisting 
of participants drawn from a wide variety of disciplines such as: 

	- databases, 
	- networks, 
	- operating systems, 
	- graphics and visualization, 
	- artificial intelligence,
	- real-time systems, 
	- theory, 
	- algorithms, etc.

all of whom are engaged in research on one or more aspects of multimedia 
systems. 


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (maximum 6 pages) or 
one-page descriptions of panel proposals by May 24, 1999. Selection will 
be based on originality and contribution to the field. Manuscripts 
must be in English, typed in double spaced format in 12 point font. 
Each extended abstract should have an extra cover page with name, title, 
and address (including e-mail address) of the contact author and an 
abstract of no more than 200 words. Each panel proposal should include 
a list of proposed panelists.

Electronic submissions are STRONGLY encouraged! Please send the 
postscript file of your short paper or panel proposal by May 24, 1999, 
to: mis99@cs.ucr.edu .                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If electronic submission is not possible, please send six copies of the 
short paper or panel proposal to the following postal address:

	Prof. Vassilis J. Tsotras
	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
	University of California
	Riverside, CA 92521, USA

	tel: 909-787-2888
	fax: 909-787-4643
	email: tsotras@cs.ucr.edu


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: 
In addition to the workshop proceedings, selected submissions will be 
chosen by the Program Committee to be submitted as full papers of a 
special issue of a journal (to be announced later). 

IMPORTANT DATES:
	- May 24, 1999   Paper submission deadline 
	- June 30, 1999  Notification of results 
	- July 26, 1999  Final version of papers due 

STEERING COMMITTEE:
Dave Hislop 		 US Army Research Office
V.S. Subrahmanian 	 University of Maryland
Satish K. Tripathi 	 University of California, Riverside

GENERAL CHAIR:
Satish K. Tripathi 	 University of California, Riverside

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Leana Golubchik 	 University of Maryland
Vassilis J. Tsotras 	 University of California, Riverside

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Charu C. Aggarwal  	 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Elisa Bertino  		 University of Milano
Bir Bhanu  		 University of California, Riverside
Alex Biliris  		 AT&T Laboratories
K. Selcuk Candan  	 Arizona State University
H.W. Chan  		 University of Hong Kong
Stavros Christodoulakis  Technical University of Crete
Alex Delis  		 Polytechnic University
Alexandros Eleftheriadis Columbia University
Edward A. Fox		 Virginia Tech
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh  University of Southern California
Dave Hislop		 US Army Research Office
Erik Hoel		 Environmental Systems Research Institute
Kevin Jeffay		 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ibrahim Kamel		 Panasonic Research Laboratories
Ioannis Lambadaris	 Carleton University
Jorg Liebeherr		 University of Virginia
John C.S. Lui		 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fillia Makedon		 Dartmouth College
Akifumi Makinouchi	 Kyushu University
Beng Chin Ooi		 National University of Singapore
Banu Ozden		 Bell Laboratories
Meral Ozsoyoglu		 Case Western Reserve University
M. Tamer Ozsu		 University of Alberta
Krithi Ramamritham	 Umass-Amherst and IIT-Mumbai
Debanjan Saha		 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Timos Sellis		 National Technical University of Athens
Ozgur Ulusoy		 Bilkent University
Gerhard Weikum		 University of the Saarland
Clement Yu		 University of Illinois at Chicago
Philip S. Yu		 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Michelle Zhou		 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

MORE INFORMATION:
Additional information about the workshop (hotel reservations, 
travel arrangements, etc.) will be posted at the workshop home 
page: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~mis99