[mmve] CFP: MMVE 2017 @ ACM MMSys 2017 (2-WEEKS TO DEADLINE)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

-= MMVE 2017 =-
The 9th International Workshop on Virtual Environments

at the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys)

June 20-23, 2017
Taipei, Taiwan

http://mmsys17.iis.sinica.edu.tw/mmve/
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Virtual Environment systems are spatial simulations that provide 
real-time human interactions with other users or a simulated virtual 
world. Virtual environments have experienced phenomenal growth in recent 
years in the form of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) such as 
World of Warcraft and Lineage, and social communities such as Second 
Life and Habbo Hotel. Virtual environments are also considered a central 
building block in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality systems, 
especially for multi user systems. They are also examined in areas like 
the Internet of Things or Cyber Physical Systems to act as a common 
information space that can be used e.g. by smart devices to interact 
with each other.
The technical aspect of designing, developing, and deploying them is 
highly interdisciplinary and involves experts from many domains, e.g., 
graphics, networking, and architecture designs. The MMVE workshop 
intends to provide a forum for both academic researchers and industry 
developers to investigate the architectural and system support for 
virtual environments. By gathering experts under one roof, we wish to 
discuss their findings, incite collaborations, and move the state of the 
art forward.


The workshop seeks to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners 
in the field, and will encourage discussions based on the presented 
papers to identify current and future research topics.

As an intended focal point of discussion, we particularly solicit 
contributions related to the various challenges that recent advances in 
virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) pose to MMVE systems and 
architectures.

Further topics of interests include:

- Scalability, the ability to handle at a large number of concurrent 
users, and or devices, interacting via Internet.
- Interactivity, how to provide responsive, near real time interactions 
and user experience despite latency or jitter.
- Consistency, providing consistent views for users, despite the 
inherent delay in state updates.
- Persistence, the ability to save and access the world states despite 
disconnections and failures.
- Security and privacy, distributed algorithms allowing secure 
interactions and privacy guarantees.
- Interoperability, integration of multiple systems or providers with 
common protocols or clients.
- Bandwidth restriction, the integration of mobile devices for nomadic 
systems.
- Self-Organisation, e.g. load balancing and fault tolerance without 
manual configurations.
- Video, voice and content streaming, also in (mixed) 3D, remote 
presence, incremental deployment and updating.
- Content generation methods, procedural or by users.
- Implementation issues, novel approaches to address development 
challenges, including sociological aspects.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: April 14, 2017
Camera Ready Deadline: April 28, 2017
Workshop Date: June 20-23, 2017 (TBD)


PAPER SUBMISSION:
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We solicit full-size papers (6 pages), as well as extended abstracts for 
posters (3 pages), covering one of the above or closely related topics. 
All submissions must be blinded and constitute original, unpublished 
work not under review elsewhere. Submissions will undergo a double-blind 
peer review process and will be selected based on their originality, 
merit and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers must be presented 
by one of the authors at the workshop and will be indexed by ACM and 
included as part of the ACM MMSys 2017 proceedings.

To prepare your paper for submission, please use the ACM SIG Proceedings 
template. The submission process itself is handled online via our 
electronic submission system, which can be accessed through the workshop 
website.


CONTACT:
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For more information and updates please visit the workshop website 
(http://mmsys17.iis.sinica.edu.tw/mmve/) or contact the chairs 
(gre...@un..., a....@tu...) directly.


GENERAL CHAIRS:
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Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Gregor Schiele, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany


STEERING COMMITTEE:
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Shun-Yun Hu, Imonology Inc., Taiwan
Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gregor Schiele, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Arno Wacker, University of Kassel, Germany


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Joaquin Keller, Orange Labs, France
Herman Engelbrecht, MIH Media Lab, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna, Italy
Laura,Ricci, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
Jean Botev,The University of Luxembourg
Jacek Jankowski, Intel
ColinAllison, University of St. Andrews, UK
Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Siqi Shen, National University of Defense Technology, China