1998 ICASSP Meeting, May 14, Seattle.

Minutes of MMSP TC at ICASSP'98
Seattle, Thursday, May 14, 1998
Prepared by: Reha Civanlar

New Business: 

1. Election of the new TC members is postponed due to
limited number of candidates and late submission of information about
them.

2. M. R. Civanlar requested MMSP TC's technical sponsorship for the
upcoming Packet Video'99 workshop.  The proposal to include the
wording "in cooperation with the IEEE Signal Processing Society MMSP
Technical Committee" with Packet Video workshop was voted and
unanimously accepted. TC chair will inform the IEEE conferences
committee.

3. IEEE conference board representative presented several procedural
changes for organizing future ICIP's. The TC is not in a position to
approve or disapprove these; however, suggestions are solicited. The
TC chair will inform the conference board about the suggestions if
any.

4. IEEE conference board representative presented conference board's
recommendation for a change in the paper review process for future
ICASSP's. According to the recommendation, all submitted papers will
be sent to all TC chairs so that papers submitted to wrong TC's can be
reclassified. MMSP TC suggested that the conference chair should be
designated to have the final word for resolving any conflicts between
TC chairs related to paper reclassification. The reclassification
process is to be performed by the TC chairs before the reviews. Some
TC members raised concerns about the large number of papers to be
handled by the TC chairs in a limited time. Web based tools will be
used to alleviate this problem.

5. Antonio Ortega reported an IEEE policy decision concerning extra
workshop proceedings. The extra proceedings may not be sold back to
IEEE for raising funds for the workshops anymore.

6. The IEEE Transactions on MM will most likely be handled by four
IEEE societies. The details will be provided after the final approval.

7. This year's number of submissions to MMSP (35) was quite
low. Considering the popularity of the special sessions in this
conference, more of them may be needed.