CALL FOR PAPERS

   International Workshop on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE'98)
 (in conjunction with International Conference on Software Engineering)
                  URL: http://kel.eecs.uic.edu/MSE98/

          
                       April 20-21, 1998

          Kyoto International Conference Hotel, Kyoto, Japan



Despite the growing importance of multimedia applications we still know
relatively little about how to specify, design and maintain this class of
complex applications in a systematic manner. The purpose of this workshop
is to bring together active researchers in the area of software engineering
and multimedia systems to exchange and  evaluate the issues, experience, 
and trends in this area. 

MSE'98 will be conducted as a combination of paper presentations, 
invited talks, and panel discussion. Submission of high 
quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are 
invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - multimedia software architecture
   - representation of media types
   - modelling and metamodelling techniques
   - architecture specification languages
   - software development using multimedia techniques
   - multimedia authoring
   - multimedia file systems and databases
   - multimedia over mobile systems
   - user-interface design
   - requirements and design specification techniques
   - distributed software development environment
   - metrics, analysis, testing and debugging techniques
   - visual programming
   - software process models for multimedia applications


PAPER SUBMISSIONS

     Papers  are  solicited  from  potential  participants
of  this  workshop.  Papers  must  be  written in English,
with the length of no more than 20 pages, and printed using 
at least 11-point type and double spacing. Authors are requested
to submit their paper electronically (postscript or pdf format only)
and followed by a hard copy to the respective Program Co-Chairs.
The paper should have a cover page which includes a 200-word abstract, 
a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address.

For authors in Americas, Europe, and Africa

     Professor Sourav Bhattacharya
     Department of Computer Science
       and Engineering
     Arizona State University
     Tyler  Mall - GWC 206 
     Tempe, AZ 85287-5406             
     sourav@asu.edu

For authors in Asia and Australia
        
     Professor Masahito Hirakawa, 
     Faculty of Eng. Infor. Systems
     Hiroshima University
     Higashi-Hiroshima 739, Japan 
     hirakawa@huis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Important dates:
   Papers due                           December 30, 1997
   Paper acceptance notification        February 15, 1998
   Camera ready paper due               March 1, 1998

Organization:

Honorary General Co-Chairs
        Tadao Ichikawa, Hiroshima University 
        Kiyoh Nakamura, Fujitsu Limited, Inc.

Conference Co-Chairs:
        Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago
        Farokh B. Bastani, University of Texas, Dallas     

 
Program Co-Chairs:
        Sourav Bhattacharya, Arizona State University
        Masahito Hirakawa, Hiroshima University


PC members,
        Mikio Aoyama - Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
        Doris Bernardini, Defense Information Systems Agency, USA 
	S.K. Chang - University of Pittsburg, USA
        Doug DeGroot, Texas Instruments, USA
        Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK
	Arif Ghafoor - Purdue Univeristy, USA
        Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA
        Chung-Shyan Liu, Chung Yuan C. University, Taiwan
        Satoshi Matsuoka - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
        Max Muhlhauser, University of Linz, Austria
        Jun Ohya - ATR, Japan
        Rikio Onai - NTT/Real World Computing, Japan
        Atul Prakash - University of Michigan, USA
        Philip Sheu, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
        Arun K. Sood, George Mason Univ., USA
        Jaideep Srivastava, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
        Scott Stevens, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
        V.S. Subrahmanian, Univ. of Maryland, USA
        Wei Sun, Florida International University, USA
        Hiroyuki Tarumi - Kyoto Univ., Japan
        Satish K. Tripathi, Univ. of California at Riverside, USA
        I-Ling Yen, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
        John Yen, Texas A&M University, USA


Publicity Co-Chairs:
        Yaodong Bi, Scranton University, USA
        Benjamin Jang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan