ACM-Postgraduate Research Day

The Second ACM Hong Kong Postgraduate Research Day October 23, 1999 The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong http://www.acm.org.hk/activity/pg/index.html Programme Schedule (pdf format) Detailed Programme Schedule (pdf format) The second ACM Hong Kong Postgraduate Research Day will be held at the University of Hong Kong on October 23, 1999. The Research Day serves as a forum for postgraduate students in Hong Kong to present their recent research findings and to share their invaluable experiences learnt in doing their research. We cordially invite your participation in this important annual ACM Hong Kong event by submitting your work in all aspects of computing and communications: from underlying technologies at the physical level to novel techniques at the application level, from theory to practice, and architectural concepts to real systems. Authors of accepted full papers will be awarded certificates of merit from ACM HK. Best paper awards will be given to the three most outstanding papers. Papers submitted or published previously elsewhere can be submitted, as long as they were not published before June 1, 1999.
Technical Program:
The technical program, as in last year's PG Day, will consist of keynote speeches from influential people from industry and/or government, poster presentations, and parallel oral presentation sessions with topics of general interest in the following categories: Computing : computer architectures, parallel and distributed computing, JAVA and Internet computing, compilers, operating systems, information retrieval, human-computer interface, databases, image processing, computer graphics, neural networks, combinatorial optimizations, theoretical computer science, etc. Communications : ATM networking, Wireless ATM, QoS issues, video-on-demand, network architectures, multiple-access protocols, multi-casting, Internet services, active networks, audio/image/video source coding, media data compression, channel coding, etc.
Important Dates:
June 15, 1999 Paper submission due August 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance/rejection September 1, 1999 Final papers due October 23, 1999 Postgraduate Research Day
Format and Content of Submissions:
Papers must be submitted in electronic form using Postscript or PDF. For every submission, both an one-page abstract and an extended abstract of at most 10 pages have to be submitted. Extended abstracts should begin with a succinct statement of the problems and goals of the paper, the main results, and the significance of the work in the context of previous research. They should provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to evaluate the validity, quality, and relevance of the contribution. The entire extended abstract should not exceed 10 double-spaced pages using a minimum of 10-point typeface. An optional appendix may be included, but this will be used at the program committee's discretion.
When and Where to Submit Papers:
Submissions must be sent via email to the program committee member(s) of your institution on or before the submission deadline listed above (or contact the committee member of your instituition, e.g. PolyU submissions should be mailed to acmgrad@comp.polyu.edu.hk )
The Program Committee:
*Program Co-Chairs:* Ricky Y.-K. Kwok, University of Hong Kong ykwok@eee.hku.hk Christopher C. Yang, University of Hong Kong yang@csis.hku.hk Program Committee: Chia-Hao Chang, LingNan College chchang@ln.edu.hk Ronnie Cheung, Polytechnic University csronnie@comp.polyu.edu.hk Xiao-Tie Deng, City University CSDENG@cityu.edu.hk Hong-Va Leong, Polytechnic University cshleong@comp.polyu.edu.hk Xiao-Shan Li, University of Macau fstxsl@sftw.umac.mo Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong hmmeng@se.cuhk.edu.hk Mike Wong, Polytechnic University enmike@polyu.edu.hk Beat Wuthrich, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology beat@cs.ust.hk Pong-Chi Yuen, Baptist University pcyuen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Association for Computer Machinery (Hong Kong Chapter)
Email: acm-hk@cse.cuhk.hk