[ieeetcsc-discuss] First International Symposium on Multimedia – Applications and Processing (MMAP'08)

[Marcin Paprzycki]

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