The main topics include but will not be limited to: (Excellent surveying works in these areas are welcome, too.)

1. Multimedia Modeling, Processing, Service and Applications

• AI and Soft Computing in Multimedia

• Content-Based Image Retrieval / QBE

• Current Challenges in Multimedia

• E-Commerce and E-Learning

• Entertainment Industry

• Medical Image and Signal Processing

• Multimedia Embedded Systems

• Multimedia in Telemedicine

• Multimedia Indexing and Compression

• Multimedia RDBMS Platforms

• Multimedia Security

• Novel Multimedia Applications

• Virtual Reality and Game Technology

2. Ubiquitous Services and Applications

• Ambient and Artificial Intelligence

• Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing

• Database and Data Mining

• IPv6 Foundations and Applications

• Novel Machine Architectures

• Parallel/Distributed/Grid Computing

• Protocols for Ubiquitous Services

• Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid

• Smart Home and Natural Interfaces

• Smart Home Network Middleware

• Ubiquitous Application Interfaces

• Ubiquitous Computing and Technology

• Ubiquitous Database Methodologies

• Ubiquitous Security

• Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID

• U-Commerce and Other Applications

• U-Healthcare and Other Applications