-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Final CfP MMAP2011 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:14:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Dumitru Dan Burdescu dburdescu@yahoo.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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-- CALL FOR PAPERS -- International Symposium on Multimedia - Applications and Processing, MMAP 2011, http://mmap.fedcsis.org 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 mailto:burdescu@software.ucv.ro

within the framework FEDERATED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE held in Szczecin, Poland, 18 -21 September, 2011 http://www.fedcsis.org/

* 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

* 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 Cristian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania ** 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 * 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'anJiaotong University, P.R.China Enn Ounapuu, 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 B?sz?rmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria Vladimir Fomichov, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Miguel Angel Vega-Rodr?guez, 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, FranceTelecom 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