INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON e-BUSINESS & MULTIMDIA APPLICATONS

                                                       December 17-19, 2003

HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Hong Hong

Organized
By

The School of Business

















Objective

With the help of technological advancement and IT innovation, the development of multimedia technology has evolved from an experimental stage to practical applications in industry. Although multimedia research and applications are well established, its revolution has changed in such a rapid pace that yesterday's multimedia technology is obsolete/outdated. One area which benefits the most to applications of multimedia is the transformation of traditional ways of doing business into a new structure of domain known as e-business.

The objective of this conference is to provide a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas on the current issues of multimedia applications and e-business . Academicians and practitioners in public and private sectors throughout the world are invited to participate. Papers for presentation and publication in the proceedings (or textbook) are welcome. We also hope that this conference will help bridge the communication gap between practitioners, academicians and vendors worldwide, and advance our understanding of the latest concepts, products and applications of multimedia and e-business.

 Conference Topics

 Major Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Legal Issue                           * Human Factors                  *  e-education/e-learning
    * Distributed Multimedia    * Interactive/User Systems           * e-training/e-supporting
    * Hypertext/Hypermedia          * Infrastructure/Architecture  * e-logistics/e-trading
    * Multimedia Presentation   * Strategy & Implementation         * e-security/e-management
    * Multimedia Sourcing           *  Intranet/Internet/Extranet        *e-publication/e-Libary
    * Synchronization               *  Service Chain Management       * e-malls/e-entertainment
    * Image Synthesis              * Web Shopping/Applications  * e-commerce/M-commerce

  Instructions to Contributors

  1. Two (2) typed, double space copies of your manuscript, abstract, or proposal for a symposium, tutorial, or workshop must be submitted by June 21, 2003. A full paper is particular welcome for submission.
  2. Manuscripts must be in English. Straight forward language is preferred to the obscure or complex.
  3. Each submission should include a separate title page on each copy listing the title, author(s) name, affiliation, address, phone & fax numbers, e-mail address, an abstract and 3 subject areas (which may be chosen from the list of above conference topics) that are most relevant to the paper, and the individual to whom correspondence should be directed. For a purpose of better future communication, all submissions must accompany with an e-mail address.
  4. The main body of your manuscript, abstract, or proposal should indicate that title but not your name.
  5. All submissions must meet the deadline shown below. Submission can be sent to the Chairman by fax, e-mail, or post. The correspondence address is shown at the end of this web site.
  6. Authors of accepted manuscripts must register for and present at the conference in order for the inclusion of their manuscript(s) in the following publications.
Publication(s)

 All registered manuscripts will be published in the edited conference proceedings, and/or considered for possible publication as a chapter in an edited textbook of multimedia and e-business following the conference. Selected papers from the 1996 and 1998 conference were published in the Vincent WS Chow, (Ed), Multimedia Technology and Applications, Singapore: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN: 981-3083-16-6,  and Wing S. Chow, (Ed), Multimedia Information Systems in Practice, Singapore: Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN: 981-4021-53-9.
 

Registration

All participants must register and pay the registration fee. Payment can be made by either USD or HKD equivalent money order payable to "Hong Kong Baptist University". The registration fee covers a copy of proceedings (or edited book), the conference banquet, coffee breaks, lunches and addition to all sessions/workshops.
 

Important Dates/Events

For further information and enquiries, please contact: or any of the following coordinators:

Australia:         Wei Lai, Swinburne University of Technology, e-mail: wlai@it.swin.edu.au
Egypt:            Mohy Mahmoud, American University Cairo,e-mail: mohym@acs.auc.eun.eg
Hong Kong:    Ming-te Lu, Lingnan Univeristy, Hong Kong, e-mail: lumt@ln.edu.hk
Japan:             Masa Inakage, Keio University, Kanagawa, e-mail: inakage@cyberagenz.com
Switzerland:    Bertrand Ibrahim, Universite de Geneva, e-mail: Bertrand.Ibrahim@cui.unige.ch
Taiwan:          Shyong-Jian Shyu, Ming Chuan University, e-mail: sjshyu@mcu.edu.tw
United Kingdom: Janet Edwards,Loughborough University, e-mail:j.edwards@lboro.ac.uk
United States:   Chris Madu,  Pace University, New York, e-mail:ChrisMadu@aol.com
                    Renee Miller,Univesity of La Verne, e-mail:rmiller@ulv.edu

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