Industry Program   Call for Papers Program Goals and Format: The goals of the ISM 2008 Industry Program are to foster exchanges between practitioners and the academics, to promote novel solutions to today's challenges in the area of multimedia computing and applications, to provide practitioners in the field an early opportunity to evaluate leading-edge research, and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development efforts. Similar to research papers, the papers in the industry session will undergo a review process and will appear in the conference proceedings. However, the selection criteria for industry papers are slightly different. In particular, papers should describe technologies, methodologies, applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. A main goal of this session is to present research work that exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. Therefore, the paper in this session will be mainly evaluated by the novelty and applicability of the insights from its industrial solutions, instead of the originality of its algorithmic content. Topics of Interest: Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to those identified in the conference CFP, as well as those listed below Technologies •  Development of new multimedia systems, architecture, and protocol standards •  Employ of multimedia tools and technologies •  Employ of multimedia systems •  Innovative solutions for performance optimization •  Benchmarking and performance evalaution of multimedia systems Methodologies •  Multimedia networking and peer-to-peer multimedia systems •  Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems •  Visualization and virtual reality •  Mobile multimedia systems and services •  Multimedia content analysis, indexing and retrieval systems •  Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption Applications •  Modeling issues and case studies of multimedia computing •  Internet and wireless applications •  Industry IT applications •  Game and entertainment applications •  e-business and other applications •  Analysis of industry-specific trends and challenges •  Benchmarking models Important Dates: June 30, 2008 Submission of paper August 20, 2008 Notification of acceptance September 19, 2008 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due Industrial Paper Submission: Industrial papers should be submitted via the same ISM 2008 online paper submission system. For easy identification, all industrial papers should have as their title " Industry Track: rest of title ". Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2008 web page. Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). All industrial papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the conference proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must not be published or submitted for another conference. Industrial papers will also be considered for publications in journal special issues along with research track papers. Industry Program Co-Chairs: Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA Rong Yan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA