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From: zyda@cs.nps.navy.mil (Michael Zyda)
Subject: PRESENCE Call for Participation: Networked Virtual Environments and Teleoperation
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Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
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PRESENCE: "Networked Virtual Environments and Teleoperation" 
           Call for Participation

PRESENCE will devote an issue to "Networked Virtual Environments 
and Teleoperation". Co-editors of this special issue are 
Michael Zyda and Michael Macedonia of the Naval Postgraduate School. 
The goal of this issue is to determine the state-of-the-art
in networked virtual environments and teleoperation research. 
We have the complete issue to fill, which means we desire
traditional research papers, lab reviews, and what's happening submissions. 
 
PRESENCE is the premier journal of teleoperation and virtual environments.
 
For the research paper and lab reviews sections, we are interested in hearing 
about what research groups are doing with respect to the networking
of their virtual environment and teleoperation systems.

Subjects include but are not limited to:

     1. distributed interactive simulation (DIS) applications,
     2. distributed, multi-player video games,
     3. remote telepresence with time delay systems,
     4. distributed virtual environment toolkits,
     5. DIS and other network protocols,
     6. software and hardware architectures for networking multi-player 
        virtual environments.
  
We are particularly interested in papers on the "grand challenges" for 
networked virtual environments:

     1. large scale (greater than 200) simultaneous participants,
     2. networked, hypermedia embedded virtual environments where
        compressed video and audio data must be transferred between player
        stations,
     3. distributed virtual environments to support concurrent engineering.

For the what's happening section, we request information on conference
announcements, multi-player, networked virtual environment entertainment 
sites, and other VE/teleoperation events.

Manuscripts should be in 12 point type, using double spaced pages for all 
text, including references. 

Manuscripts are accepted for consideration with the understanding that they
represent original material and are not being considered for publication
elsewhere. 

Send 7 copies of your manuscripts for this special issue to:

      Michael Zyda
      PRESENCE Networked Virtual Environment and Teleoperation Issue
      Naval Postgraduate School
      Code CS/Zk, Dept. of Computer Science
      Monterey, California 93943-5100
      (408) 656-2305 (work)
      (408) 656-2814 (fax)

We are NOT willing to review faxed submissions. Please attach an electronic 
mail address to which receipt acknowledgment can be sent.
 
The deadline for submissions to this special issue is 30 April 1994.
The 7 copies of the paper must be in Monterey by that date in order for
us to have sufficient review time for our publication schedule.




PRESENCE Paper Submission, Call for Participation & Subscription Information
Mosaic Home Page

I put together a Mosaic Home Page for the journal PRESENCE.
The Mosaic page contains general submission information,
Calls for Participation for special issues, and subscription
information. I will try and maintain this page as time
allows. See:

file://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/PRESENCE_MOSAIC/presence_mosaic.html

The most common Mosaic error/complaint I receive is that our
machine is not accessible or that Mosaic has generated an error.
ALL of these complaints so far have been people starting the
above line with http: instead of file: as listed above.
TYPE IT AS ABOVE. BETTER YET, COPY THE ABOVE LINE WITH
YOUR MOUSE AND PASTE IT INTO THE OPEN URL DIALOGUE BOX.

If you don't have Mosaic, get it. Its available via anonymous ftp
from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu for most flavors of machine. Mosaic is
THE interface to the InfoBahn. Don't be left homeless without it.

     Michael Zyda, Aggressive Associate Editor of PRESENCE
     zyda@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil
