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-- CALL FOR PAPERS --
International Symposium on
Multimedia – Applications and Processing, MMAP 2011,
http://mmap.fedcsis.org
 
Organized by:
Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania

 "Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre

Contact: burdescu@software.ucv.ro

within the framework

FEDERATED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE

held in Szczecin, Poland, 19-21 September, 2011

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* CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS

Multimedia information has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. 

Recent advances
 in pervasive computers, networks, telecommunications, and information technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia 

mobile devices - such as laptops, iPods, personal digital assistants (PDA), and cellular telephones - have stimulated the development of intelligent 

pervasive multimedia applications. 

These key technologies are creating a multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, 

business, healthcare, and governmental domains. 

Yet many challenges remain, especially when it comes 
to efficiently indexing, mining, querying, searching, and retrieving multimedia data. 

The Multimedia - Processing and Applications 2011 (MMAP 2011) Symposium addresses several themes related to theory and practice 

within multimedia domain. 

The enormous interest in multimedia from many activity areas (medicine, entertainment, education) led researchers and industry to make a c
ontinuous 

effort to create new, innovative multimedia algorithms and application. As a result the conference goal is to bring together researchers, engineers 

and practitioners in order to communicate their newest and
 original contributions on topics that have been identified (see below). 

We are also interested in looking at service architectures, protocols, and standards for multimedia communications - including middleware - along 

with the related security issues, such as secure multimedia information sharing. 

Finally, we encourage submissions describing work on novel applications that exploit the unique set of advantages offered by multime
dia computing techniques, 

including home-networked entertainment and games. However, innovative contributions that don't exactly fit into these areas will also be considered 

because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* CALL FOR PAPERS

* TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas:

- Image and Video Processing

- Speech, Audio and Music Processing

- 3D and Stereo Imaging

- Distributed Multimedia Systems

- Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval

- Data Mining

- Multimedia in E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications

- Multimedia in Medical Applications

- Multimedia Authentication and Watermarking

- Entertainment and games

- Multimedia Interfaces

 * PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

• Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
• Accepted and presented papers will be published as paper in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database and DBLP.
• Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of IJCSA: International Journal of Computer Science & Applications, ISSN 0972-9038. http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html  
• Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file).
• The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS style). The papers should be submitted to Event by 31-May-2011 using the FedCSIS EasyChair submission system https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fedcsis2011

 *         IMPORTANT DATES

19.06.2011– Submission deadline

16.07.2011 – Notification of acceptance 

7.08.2011 – Camera-ready version of the accepted papers

September 18-21, 2011– Symposium

* GENERAL
 MMAP 2011 CHAIR

               Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania 

 * Steering Committee 

Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany

Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen University, Germany

Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA

 
* Organizing Committee
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Liana Stanescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania

Cristian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania

* Publicity Chair

 Amelia Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

* Program Committee
Michael Lang, National University of Ireland, Ireland

David Bustard, University of Ulster, UK

Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Rynson Lau, Shanghai University, P.R. China

Che-Chern Lin, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

Bogdan Logofatu, University of Bucuresti, Romania

Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

Qi Chun, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R.China

Enn Õunapuu, University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Stefan Trzcielinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Wilfried Philips, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Vladimir Cretu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania

Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation

Kazuo Ohzeki, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Valery Korzhik, State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Boris Shishkov, IICREST / Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA

Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Vladimir Fomichov, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain

Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy

Stefan Trausan-Matu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Reggie Kwan, Caritas Francis Hsu College, Hong Kong

Rami Finkler, Afeka College of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel

Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France 

Christopher Barry, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Mihai Mocanu, University of Craiova, Romania

Andrea Molinari, University of Trento, Italy

Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria

Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece

Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, USA

Ryszard Choras, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland

Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, P.R. China

Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College, India

Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Yoshimi Teshigawara, Soka University, Japan

Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University, USA

Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada

Asa Smedberg, Stockholm University, Sweden

Carl James Debono, University of Malta