-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP FIrst International Symposium on Multimedia Applications_and_Processing Datum: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:20:16 +0100 Von: Marcin Paprzycki paprzyck@ibspan.waw.pl Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Symposium on Multimedia – Applications and Processing (MMAP'08) Wisla, Poland, October 20-22, 2008

Multimedia – Applications and Processing (MMAP'08) will be organized within the framework of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology and co-located with the XXIV Autumn Meeting of the Polish Information Processing Society.

MMAP'08 will be organized by Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania ("Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre).

CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS

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 2008 (MMAP'08) 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 fit into these areas will also be considered because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

CALL FOR PAPERS

MMAP'08 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'08 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'08 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 * E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications * Multimedia in Medical Applications * Authentication and Watermarking * Entertainment and games * Multimedia Interfaces

Papers submission

* 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 at the conference WWW site. * Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference. * Accepted and presented papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and published on a CD (ISSN 1896-7094). * Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of JDIM: Journal of Digital Information Management ISSN 0972-7272.

Important dates

18.05.2008 - Full paper submission 14.07.2008 - Notification of acceptance 01.09.2008 - Camera-ready version of the accepted paper

GENERAL CHAIR Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania

Steering Committee Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen University, Germany Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA

Publicity Chairs Amelia Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dacheng Tao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Program Committee Michael Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christopher Barry, National University of Ireland, Ireland Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria Mohamad Bouhlel, Sfax University, Tunisia David Bustard, University of Ulster, UK Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France Ryszard Choras, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Vladimir Cretu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Jean Louis Ferrier, Angers University, France Rami Finkler, Afeka College of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel Vladimir Fomichov, State University Moscow, Russia Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Romulus Grigoras, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia Qi Chun, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R.China Valery Korzhik, State University of Telecommunications, St-Petersburg, Russia Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas, USA Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Reggie Kwan, Caritas Francis Hsu College, Hong Kong Michael Lang, National University of Ireland, Ireland Rynson Lau, Durham University, UK Ioan Alfred Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Bogdan Logofatu, University of Bucuresti, Romania Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy Mihai Mocanu, University of Craiova, Romania Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer-Institut Informationstechnologie, Darmstadt, Germany Boris Shishkov, University of Twente, Netherlands Dacheng Tao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Stefan Trausan-Matu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Stefan Trzcielinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain Gregory Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA Wita Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, 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

--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe@lists.optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help@lists.optimanumerics.com

Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------