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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Dear Colleague, </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Distinguished papers accepted and presented in EM-Com 2009, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of international journals (see below).</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>EM-Com 2009 Call for Papers</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US> </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>===========================================================================================</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Fourth International Conference on </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EM-Com 2009)</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>http://www.ftrg.org/em-com2009</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jeju, Korea, December 10 - 12, 2009</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Distinguished FTRG Workshop : ACSA 2009</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>http://www.ftrg.org/acsa2009</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Joint Conference: CSA-09</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>http://www.ftrg.org/CSA2009</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hosted by FTRG and KIPS</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US> </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>===========================================================================================</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US> </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>EM-Com 2009 will be held in Jeju, Korea on December 10 - 12, 2009. </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>EM-Com 2009 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in Embedded and Multimedia (EM) Computing. </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>EM-Com 2009 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of EM. </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>In addition, the conference will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in EM. </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Furthermore, we expect that the<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>conference and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE (indexed by EI) - Pending.</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>The EM-Com 2009 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing (UMC-08, Australia, Oct. 2008) </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>and International Workshop on Embedded Software Optimization (ESO-08, China, Dec. 2008), previously held as UMS-08 (Korea, April, 2008), </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>UMS-07(Singapore, Jan. 2007), ESO-07(Taiwan, Dec. 2007), ESO-06(Korea, Aug. 2006).</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>[ TOPICS ]</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US> </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>1.Embedded Computing</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Embedded system architectures </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Hardware/Software optimization techniques</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Real-Time systems and operating systems </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- System/Network-on-Chip </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Trustworthy computing in embedded computing</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Secure embedded system / software design</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Reconfigurable Computing Systems and Applications </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Verification and testing techniques for embedded computing</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- System-level power/energy management</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Fault-tolerant computing</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Interconnects System and Applications </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>2.Multimedia Computing</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Ubiquitous multimedia services and applications </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Multimedia networking and QoS</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- P2P multimedia systems and streaming</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Multimedia Security issues</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Multimedia modeling and processing</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Human-centered multimedia</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Multimedia content analysis</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>3.EM Applications and Services</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Mobile multimedia systems and services</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Communications and networks for EM</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Context-awareness for EM</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Human communication interaction for EM</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Business model for EM</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Emerging standards and technologies for EM </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Case studies</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>[ ORGANIZATION ]</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Honorary Chair</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Jeongbae Lee, Sunmoon University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Steering Chairs</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Edwin Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>General Chairs</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yu Hen Hu, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Chun Jason Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Program Chairs</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Meikang Qiu, University of New Orleans, USA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Jin Kwak, Soonchunhyang University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Sudip Misra, The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Ki-Ryong Kwon, Pukyung National University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Steering Committee</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Tei-wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University, USA</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Mieso Denko, University of GUELPH, Canada<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Athanasios (Thanos) Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Habib F. Rashvand, University of Warwick, UK</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Morris Chang, Iowa State University, USA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Publication Chairs</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Jongsung Kim, Korea Universtiy, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Soo Kyun Kim, PaiChai University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Publicity Chairs </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Bing Guo, Sichuan University, China<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Houcine Hassan, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Liang Zhou, ENSTA-ParisTech, France.</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Local Arrangement Chairs</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Hang-Bae Chang, Daejin University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Eun-Jun Yoon, Kyungpook National University, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Kwang-il Hwang, Incheon Citiy College, Korea</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Registration and Finance Chair</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Web Management Chair</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Soo Kyun Kim, PaiChai University, Korea </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>[ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ]</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US> </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE (indexed by EI) - Pending.</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Authors should submit full paper with 8 pages, regular paper with 6 pages, and short paper with 4 pages in length by using online systems for review.</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>Distinguished papers accepted and presented in EM-Com 2009, after further revisions,</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI) </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Journal of Telecommunication Systems (JTS) - Springer (SCI-E) </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>SENSORS Journal - MOLECULAR DIVERSITY PRESERVATION INT (SCI-E) </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCI-E) </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Multimedia Systems Journal - ACM/Springer (SCI) </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The Computer Journal - Oxford University (SCI-E)</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>All submissions must be made electronically (http://www.editorialsystem.net/em-com2009)</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>[ IMPORTANT DATES ]</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US> </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Paper Submission Deadline: July 17, 2009 </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2009 </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Camera Ready Due: September 15, 2009 </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Conference Dates: December 10 - 12, 2009 </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>[ CONTACT INFORMATION ] </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>For further information regarding the symposium and paper submission, </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US>please contact to Prof. Jong Hyuk Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) and Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo (ssyeo@msn.com).</SPAN></PRE>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>---------------------------<BR>Dr. Jongsung Kim<BR>CIST, Korea
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