Research Track

Important information

• Submission deadline: November 30, 2017 December 14, 2017 (extended)
• Acceptance notification: February 26, 2018
• Camera ready deadline: April 12, 2018
• Online submission: https://submissions.mmsys2018.org/mmsys
• Submission format: 6-12 pages, using ACM style format (double-blind)
• Reproducibility: obtain an ACM reproducibility badge by making datasets and code available (authors will be contacted to make their artifacts available after paper acceptance)

Program chairs

• Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
• Niall Murray (Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland)

The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, database, mobile computing, distributed systems, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections and the inter-play of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

MMSys is a venue for researchers who explore:

• Complete multimedia systems that provide a new kind of multimedia experience or systems whose overall performance improves the state-of-the-art through new research results in more than one component, or
• Enhancements to one or more system components that provide a documented improvement over the state-of-the-art for handling continuous media or time-dependent services.

Such individual system components include:

• Operating systems
• Distributed architectures and protocol enhancements
• Domain languages, development tools, and abstraction layers
• Using new architectures or computing resources for multimedia
• New or improved I/O architectures or I/O devices, innovative uses, and algorithms for their operation
• Representation of continuous or time-dependent media
• Metrics, measures, and measurement tools to assess performance

This touches aspects of many hot topics including but not limited to: adaptive streaming, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 3D video, Ultra-HD, HDR, immersive systems, plenoptics, 360° video, multimedia IoT, multi- and many-core, GPGPUs, mobile multimedia and 5G, wearable multimedia, P2P, cloud-based multimedia, cyber-physical systems, multi-sensory experiences, smart cities, QoE.

Papers should be between six and twelve pages long (in PDF format) including references prepared in the ACM style and written in English. Hence MMSys papers enable authors to present entire multimedia systems or research work that builds on considerable amounts of earlier work in a self-contained manner. MMSys papers are published in the ACM Digital Library; they are available for just as long as journal papers and authors should not feel compelled by space limitations to publish extended works on top of an MMSys paper. Authors who submit very specific, detailed research work are encouraged to use less than 12 pages. The papers are double-blind reviewed.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the technical program committee. All papers will be evaluated for their scientific quality. Authors will have a chance to submit their rebuttals before online discussions among TPC members.

ACM SIGMM has a tradition of publishing open datasets (MMSys) and open source projects (ACM Multimedia). MMsys 2018 will continue to support scientific reproducibility, by implementing the ACM reproducibility badge system (MMSys 2017 having been the first SIGMM conference to pioneer this). All accepted papers will be contacted by the scientific Reproducibility Chair, inviting the authors to make their dataset and code available, and thus obtaining an ACM badge (visible at the ACM DL). The additional material will be published as Appendixes, with no effect on the final page count for papers.

The Call for Papers and the Flyer can be downloaded in PDF format.