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                  D E A D L I N E    E X T E N D E D
	    	               CALL FOR PAPERS

	                The Second Beijing-Hong Kong
	              International Doctoral Forum 2007

		               Hong Kong, China
		                3-6 July 2007

	           http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PHDForum2007
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Beijing-Hong Kong Doctoral Forum 2007 invites you to experience 
both the vibrant and cosmopolitan atmosphere of Hong Kong while 
enjoying the high quality forum programs. The objective of the forum 
is to bring together Ph.D. students from all over the world, 
contributing to all facets of networking and multimedia computing.  
All expenses within the forum of the attendees will be covered by CUHK, 
including registration, meals, accommodation, and local transportation 
fees, etc.  

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IMPORTANT DATES:

  *  Paper submission (extended): May 24, 2007 (4 pages)
  *  Notification of acceptance (extended): A few days after June 2, 2007
  *  Registration (extended): June 10, 2007
  *  Camera Ready Due: June 10, 2007
  *  Student Traveling Grants application deadline (changed): June 5, 
  2007
  *  Forum: July 3-6, 2007

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AWARDS and GRANTS:

Best paper awards will be selected and announced during the forum.
Limited student traveling grants are also available.

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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS: 

1) Paper presentations
2) Invited talks
3) Award presentations
4) Hi-tech companies and research institutes visitation
5) Local tours
6) Social activities
7) Tsinghua Shenzhen Graduate School visitation

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PAPER SUBMISSION:

Student authors are invited to submit both research and industrial
papers on original work (including recently published work) describing 
current research and novel ideas in Network Modeling and Design,
Multimedia Computing, Network Multimedia Applications and Systems 
and Web Intelligence. Papers whose contributions are supported by 
experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. 

Copyright of the submitted work is held by the author/owner. 

Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format
including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only 
electronic submission written in English will be accepted. Please
download paper format requirements and sample files at the forum 
website 
  http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PHDForum2007/doku.php?id=author_s_kit.  

Submission can be made on: 
  http://conferences.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PhDForum2007/.

Papers are solicited in all areas of network and multimedia computing,
including, but not limited to:

Network Modeling and Design:
 - Network architectures and algorithms
 - Network security
 - Network quality, reliability and fault-tolerance
 - Home, mobile, wireless, ad-hoc and broadband networks
 - Next generation networks

Multimedia Computing:
 - Multimedia coding and trans-codin
 - Audio/video streaming
 - Multimedia content analysis and indexing
 - Multimedia authoring and retrieval
 - Multi-modal human-computer interaction and integration
 - Multimedia security and rights management

Network Multimedia Applications and Systems:
 - System performance measurement and benchmark 
 - Multimedia search engines
 - Multimedia in e-learning, entertainment and virtual reality

Web Intelligence:
 - Web structural, content, and usage mining
 - Web information clustering and classification
 - Web page search, crawling, and ranking techniques
 - Link analysis
 - Web metrics and statistics
 - Social network

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ORGANIZATION:

Conference General Co-chairs
  *  Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  *  Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Organizing Co-chairs
  *  Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  *  Jiaya Jia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  *  Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University
  *  Lianhong Cai, Tsinghua University 
  *  Jianhua Feng, Tsinghua University
 

Advisory Committee
  *  Shiqiang Yang, Tsinghua University
  *  Peter Yum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Program Co-chairs
  *  Henry P.S. Hui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  *  Haixuan Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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SPONSORS:

  *  Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  *  Tsinghua University
  *  INRIA - The French National Institute for Research in Computer
     Science and Control
  *  Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and
     Interface Technologies
  *  Microsoft Research Asia 
  *  Croucher Foundation

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