Status of ACM Springer Multimedia Systems Journal

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Status of ACM /Springer Multimedia Systems Journal

• Klara Nahrstedt, Editor-in-Chief
• klara_at_cs.uiuc.edu
• MMSJ Editorial Board Meeting
• November 9,2005, Singapore
• http//cairo.cs.uiuc.edu/mmsj.html

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Facts

• Number of papers submitted in 2001 33 papers
• Number of papers submitted in 2002 41
• Number of papers submitted in 2003 57
• Number of papers submitted in 2004 46
• Number of papers
• submitted in 2005
• (November status) - 43

• Submission from 28 countries
• Majority of papers receive first response
  (accept or reject) within 3-6 months

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Facts

• We have put together over the five years 20
  issues (with 7-10 papers per issue) on average
  4 issues per year
• 17 issues are out, 18-19th is in publishing
  preparation, 20th preparation just started
  (concluded by the end of the year)
• In 2005 we have put together 7 issues

• Acceptance Rate in 2001 14 out of 33 (no
  pending papers)
• Acceptance Rate in 2002 10 out of 41 (no
  pending)
• Acceptance Rate in 2003 21 out of 57 (1
  pending)
• Acceptance Rate in 2004 12 out of 46 ( 12
  pending)
• Acceptance Rate in 2005 1 out 43, Reject 14
  (pending 28)

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Facts

• Again Most Papers are in Multimedia Content
  Processing, Security, Databases, Distributed
  Systems
• Few Papers
• Multimedia Networking (below networking layer),
• Multimedia Authoring,
• Multimedia Interfaces
• Mobile Multimedia Systems
• Multimedia Education
• Multimedia Applications

• 14 Special Issues Topics have been published or
  are in Springer preparation
• 5 Special Issues under Consideration

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Proposed Special Issues for 2006/2007

• Special Issue on Personalization User-centered
  Multimedia, Editor Susanne Boll
• Special Issue of SPIE/ACM MMCN 2005, Editors
  Surendar Chandra and Nalini Venkarasubrahanian
• Special Issue on Video Surveillance Sensor
  Networks (VSSN05) Workshop, Editors Rita
  Cucchiara, Yuan-Fang Wang
• Special Issue on Storage and Retrieval Methods
  and Applications for Multimedia, Editors Edward
  Chang and Alan Manjalic
• Special Issue on Multimedia Modeling, Editor
  Edward Chang

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Editorial Board Members Status in 2004/2005

• Dr. Anoop Gupta retired from EB (03/2003)
• Prof. Larry Rowe retired from EB (12/2003)
• Prof. Nasir Memon retired from EB (12/2004)
• Prof. Joseph Konstan retired from EB (12/2004)
• Dr. Hong-Jiang Zhang retired from EB (12/2004)
• Prof. Jorg Lieberherr retired from EB (03/2005)
• Dr. Nevenka Dimitrova retired from EB (05/2005)

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New Editorial Board Members joining in 2004/2005

• Dr. Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China
  (2004)
• Prof. Wu-Chi Feng Oregon State Univ. (2004)
• Prof. Edward Chang, UC Santa Barbara (2005)
• Dr. Yong Rui, Microsoft Research, USA (2005)
• Prof. Prashant Shenoy, Univ. Mass (2005)
• Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli, NUS (2005)

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Future

• Starting January 2006 new editor in chief Prof.
  Thomas Plagemann from University of Oslo, Norway
• All MMSJ papers submitted prior 01/2006 will be
  handled and finished by Prof. Nahrstedt
• All new MMSJ papers will be submitted to Prof.
  Plagemann
• All special issues submitted, and proposed before
  01/2006 will be handled by Prof. Nahrstedt
• All new special issue proposals, proposed and
  submitted after 01/2006 will be handled by Prof.
  Plagemann

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Future

• Springer moves to Manuscript Central electronic
  system, goal is to move MMSJ in 2006 to the web
  system
• All prior submitted papers will be finished via
  email
• New challenges, goals need to be discussed to
  bring the MMSJ to the next level Need Feedback
  from you

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