-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] International Symposium on Multimedia – Applications and Processing, MMAP 2011 Datum: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 03:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Von: adriana burlea adriana_burlea@yahoo.com An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

*CALL FOR PAPERS** *

*International Symposium on*

*Multimedia –* *Applications and Processing, MMAP 2011,*

http://www.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 mailto:burdescu@software.ucv.ro_ _

within the framework

*FEDERATED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE*

*held inSzczecin,Poland, 19-21 September, 2011*

** 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 continuous 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 multimedia 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

*

MMAP 2011 is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions.

The MMAP 2011 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. MMAP 2011 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.

Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions.

**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

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** 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). LNCS style templates are available.

· *IMPORTANT DATES*

*31.05.2011*– Submission deadline

*30.06.2011* – Notification of acceptance

*31.07.2011* – Camera-ready version of the accepted papers

* September 19-21, 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, BradleyUniversity,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

*

José Luis Sevillano Ramos,University of Sevilla,Spain

Michael Lang, NationalUniversity 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

Wita Wojtkowski,Boise State University,USA

Reda Alhajj,University of Calgary,Canada

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

Enn Õunapuu,University ofTechnology,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, StateUniversity - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain

Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.

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

Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France

Christopher Barry, National University of Ireland, Ireland

RomulusGrigoras, IRIT - University of Toulouse, France

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

Carl James Debono, University of Malta