Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
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Special Issue on Multimedia Computing and Management in Cloud Environment
Introduction
In cloud computing environment, various innovative multimedia (text, image, 
audio, video, graph,
etc.) services appear. For example, users may work on one document or drawing 
together over
Internet, users can push their complicated computing tasks to cloud servers, and 
users can forward
their multimedia content (e.g., TV program) to cloud servers with the aim of 
obtaining the
analyzed result (e.g., a short summarization). To support these services, 
various computing or
management techniques are required, e.g., multimedia processing, coding, 
communication, storage
and access. Additionally, in cloud computing, security and privacy become very 
important issues,
e.g., user authentication and authorization, information exchange between 
clients and cloud servers,
privacy protection of user-uploaded content, etc.
  This special issue aims to collect the best papers contributed by leading 
experts, and expose the
readership to the latest research results on multimedia computing and management 
in cloud
computing environment. It will include a number of related topics, demonstrate 
pioneer work,
investigate the novel solutions and discuss the future trends in this field.
Topics
Submitted papers may focus on theoretical model, architecture construction, 
algorithm design or
hardware implementation. Both review papers and technical papers are expected. 
The topics
include but are not limited to
Resource allocation in cloud computing
Task management in cloud computing
Cloud computing platform and system
Multimedia coding for cloud based applications
Multimedia processing in cloud environment
Multimedia communication in cloud environment
Multimedia content management in cloud environment
Multimedia storage and access in cloud platforms
Multimedia service and system in cloud environment
Multimedia security and protection in cloud computing
User authentication/authorization in cloud computing
Secure communication in cloud computing
Copyright protection and tracing in cloud computing
Privacy preservation in cloud computing
Submission
The submitted papers should describe original research which is not published 
nor currently under
review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of 
manuscript can be found at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946197/grouphome/home.html. All 
manuscripts
and any supplementary material should be submitted through the online submission 
system:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946197/grouphome/home.html, by 
selecting the corresponding special issue. All papers will be
rigorously reviewed based on their originality, high scientific quality, 
organization, clarity of
writing, and support provided for assertions and conclusion.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 1, 2011
Acceptance notification: June 1, 2011
Final manuscript due: June 30, 2011
Guest Editors
Dr. Shiguo Lian
Orange Labs Beijing, China
E-mail: shiguo.lian@ieee.org
Prof. Athanasios Vasilakos
University of Western Macedonia, Greece
E-mail: vasilako@ath.forthnet.gr