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[Fwd: IEEE ICME 2009: Paper Deadline Extended to 01/15, Workshop CFP]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ICME 2009: Paper Deadline Extended to 01/15, Workshop CFP Datum: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:49:20 -0600 Von: ICME 2009 Publicity <icme2009_publicity(a)cmsworkshops.com> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ======================================================================= IEEE ICME 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS regular/plenary paper submission due: Jan 15, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time workshop submissions see details below 2009 The 10th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) June 28 - July 3, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico http://www.icme09.org ======================================================================= Overview IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME is co-sponsored by four IEEE societies, including the Circuits and Systems Society, the Communications Society, the Computer Society, and the Signal Processing Society. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, and paper presentations. Paper submissions Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in IEEE double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Please visit the conference website, www.icme09.org for the instructions to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to: * Audio, image, video processing * Signal processing for media integration * Virtual reality and 3-D imaging * Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction * Multimedia Communications and networking * Multimedia security and content protection * Multimedia databases * Multimedia computing systems and appliances * Multimedia analysis and social media on the Internet * Hardware and software for multimedia systems * Multimedia standards and related issues * Multimedia applications A number of awards generously sponsored by industry and academic institutions will be presented to the Best Papers / Best Student Papers at the conference. In addition to the traditional regular 4-page papers, we are soliciting submissions of plenary (8 page) papers. Accepted (top) plenary papers will be given single-track 30 minutes time slots to present their work to the whole conference. If a paper of good quality cannot be placed in the mere few single track presentation slot, it may be accepted as a long paper and presented in a parallel session. Multimedia is known for its diversity and the broad spectrum it covers. To encourge cross-field collaborative researches, in ICME 2009, we invite our sponsoring technical committees to host workshops to introduce the emerging technology in their respective field. Thanks to the sponsoring technical committees, the following workshops have been confirmed: * Emerging Multimedia Signal Processing Technology Workshop (by IEEE MMSP TC) * Emerging Multimedia Circuits and Systems Technology Workshop (by IEEE MMSA TC) * Emerging Multimedia Communications Workshop (by IEEE MM Communications TC) * Multimedia Technology Workshop (by ACM SIG Multimedia 2009 MM TPC) Tutorials and Demos Brief tutorial proposals should be submitted by January 31, 2009, to Dr. Deepa Kundur at deepa {at} ece.tamu.edu, and must include title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Proposals for Demonstrations should be submitted to Dr. Hari Sundaram at hari.sundaram {at} asu.edu by January 31, 2009. Important Dates: Regular Paper / Plenary Paper Submission: Jan 15, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 Accepted Workshops include: Community driven Mobile Multimedia Workshop chairs Carlos Enrique Palau Salvador, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Noel Crespi, Intitut TELECOM, France Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France Internet Multimedia Search and Mining Workshop chairs Xian-Sheng Hua Microsoft Research Asia, China Marcel Worring University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications Workshop chairs Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA Susanto Rahardja, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Lekha Chaisorn, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare Workshop chairs B. Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context Workshop chairs Iris Wegmann, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany Arnd Steinmetz, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany Stefan Göbel, ZGDV Darmstadt, Germany Gearoid O'Suilleabhain, CIT Cork, Ireland Multimedia Security and Content Protection Workshop chairs Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China Hongxia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop on Emerging Applications and Many-Core Architecture Workshop chair Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel, USA Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee chair Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Labs, USA Emerging Multimedia Circuits and Systems Technologies Workshop chair Oscar Au, HKUST, Hong Kong, China Multimedia System and Applications Technical Committee chair Kevin Yang, Natl. Cheng-Kung U., Taiwan Emerging Technologies on Multimedia Communications and Networking Workshop chairs Zhu Li, HK Polytech U, Hong Kong, China Bin Wei, AT&T Labs, USA Multimedia Communications Technical Committee chair Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China Advances in Multimedia Computing Technologies Workshop chair TBD ACM Multimedia 2009 General chairs Wen Gao, Peking U, China Yong Rui, Microsoft, China Alan Hanjalic, Deft U. of Technology, Netherlands ACM Multimedia 2009 Program chairs Changsheng Xu, Academy of Sciences, China Eckehard Steinbach, Tech U. of Munich, Germany Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, U. of Ottawwa, Canada Michelle Zhou, IBM Research, China Organization General Chairs: Ching-Yung Lin, IBM Research, USA Ingemar Cox, U. College London, UK Technical Program Chairs: Qibin Sun, Hewlett-Packard, China Yong Rui, Microsoft, China --- WORKSHOP CFP 1st IEEE Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W'MAPS 2009) <http://www.icme09.org/workshop/WMAPS09> July 3rd, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) The proliferation of mobile multimedia devices and social networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. In the absence of manual annotation specifying the content of the media (in the form of captions or tags), most current content management software only allow simple browsing and navigation options; which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. This is complicated by the available types of media such as images, video, music, speech, text, and graphics, and the relationship and interactions among them. In addition to personal collections located at home PCs and laptops, the wide spread popularity of media and social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Easyshare Gallery has enabled users to share and browse images and videos. However, due to the huge magnitude and variety of media content, it is increasing difficult for users and consumers to easily navigate, search, compose, and share their content and memories. When we consider the multimedia information available on public web sites, we will be confronting with a big scalability issue with many existing techniques and algorithms. Solutions that address the broad spectrum of personal and social multimedia applications are needed. The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers from academy and industry to discuss the advances and challenges of information processing, analysis, and retrieval for multimedia applications in personal and social domains. We propose to explore emerging areas of research such as cross-media and cross-domain information analysis and extraction, which will enhance current capability of information management applications and enrich the overall multimedia experience. Another area is to leverage rich metadata and contextual information associated with the media content. These include GPS, date/time, captions/tags, camera settings, face and other biometric information. The advances in user interface technologies incorporating speech and gesture recognition will also play an important role in enabling more user friendly and easy to use multimedia applications in the consumer domain. We welcome papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on personal and social applications. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to multimedia and cross-media analysis, processing, and retrieval. A number of invited papers will also be solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cross-media information analysis and extraction - Machine learning algorithms for media information analysis and extraction - Object, feature, and relation extraction from media - Semantic content understanding and recognition - Context-aware analysis of media and cross-media content - High dynamic range image processing and retrieval - Reasoning and cross-domain learning methodologies - Intra- and inter-media representation and ontology for cross media - Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query - Metadata analysis for semantic annotations of multimedia content - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for media content - Media information processing, delivery, and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - User interface method for media browsing and search - Speech and gesture interface for consumer multimedia applications - System level research for media and cross-media applications Important Dates (Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted.) Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Alexander Loui and Susanto Rahardja Workshop Co-Chairs Lekha Chaisorn and Daniel Gatica-Perez Technical Program Co-Chairs --- http://www.icme09.org ---------------------------- (3394 wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST You are receiving this email because you have participated previous ICME events. If you would like to be removed from this email contact list, please reply to this message, including the text of the entire message above in the body of your email message, and the words 'REMOVE ME' in the subject line. This email should be addressed to: icme2009_publicity(a)cmsworkshops.com. You will be removed from this list when we receive your reply.

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[Tccc] CFP: Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2009)
by Luca Foschini 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2009) (http://mediaWiN.it.teithe.gr) July 5th, 2009 Sousse, Tunisia organized in association with the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009) (http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2009) Contributions to MediaWiN 2009 should address the technical challenges arising from novel networking scenarios. Visionary, early-stage works that are rigorously presented and can steer discussion to new topics are particularly welcome. We are actively encouraging researchers to share their views, research proposals and solutions for multimedia applications over wireless networks. Since the first workshop edition in 2006, the proliferation of wireless access technologies and multimedia applications over IP networks is leading to a growing interest in the convergence between wireless networks and multimedia applications. However, the strict requirements of multimedia applications, the unreliability of wireless media and the cost of wireless resources make this convergence very challenging. MediaWiN2009 offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals, and academics around the world to meet, present their work, and discuss the latest advances about multimedia services over wireless technology. All accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2009 Proceedings, will be available on IEEE Xplore, and will be professionally indexed by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Service. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Multimedia Services over Wireless Networks * Multimedia Applications and Protocols over Wireless Networks * Experimentation: Testbeds, Field Trials and Empirical Evaluations, Measurement Studies * Emerging Standards, Technologies and Novel Paradigms for Wireless Multimedia Communications Important Dates Submission of research papers due: 31 January 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: 28 February 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: 13 April 2009 Workshop date: 5 July 2009 Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE proceedings style, including all figures, tables and references, and must be submitted by January 31 2009 using EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7092). Papers meeting these require- ments will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the Workshop web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2009 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland (kostas.pentikousis(a)vtt.fi) Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy (ilenia.tinnirello(a)tti.unipa.it) Publicity Chair Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini(a)unibo.it) Steering Committee Chair Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece (pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org) Technical Program Committee (not finalized): Rui Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca, Italy) Hussein Badr (Stony Brook University, USA) Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Paolo Bellavista (University og Bologna, Italy) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy) Anthony Boucouvalas (University of Peloponnese, Greece) Christos Bouras (University of Patras and RACTI, Greece) Raffaele Bruno (Institute for Informatics & Telematics, Italy) Hind Castel (Inst. National des Tlcommunications, France) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea) Chrysostomos Chrysostomou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada) Martin Fleury (University of Essex, UK) Luca Foschini (University og Bologna, Italy) Ladan Gharai (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Stein Gjessing (University of Oslo, Norway) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy) Ibrahim Habib (City University of New York, USA) Stathes Hadjiefthymiades (University of Athens, Greece) George Karetsos (CTR of Thessaly, Greece) Ferhat Khendek (Concordia University, Canada) Adlen Ksentini (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France) Lambros Lambrinos (Cyprus Univ. of Technology, Cyprus) Michael Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom, Switzerland) Ioannis Mavridis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Georgios Papadimitriou (Aristotle University, Greece) Roberto Riggio (University of Trento, Italy) Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Susana Sargento (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Luca Scalia (University of Palermo, Italy) Antonio Servetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pietro Zanuttigh (University of Padova, Italy) Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA) -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini, Ph.D. DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: luca.foschini(a)unibo.it <mailto:luca.foschini@unibo.it> or lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it <mailto:lfoschini@deis.unibo.it> Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP MMVE09 at IEEE VR]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP MMVE09 at IEEE VR Datum: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:59:12 +0100 Von: Gregor Schiele <gregor.schiele(a)UNI-MANNHEIM.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE -------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2009) at the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality 2009 (VR09) March 15th, 2009 Lafayette, Louisiana, USA http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE09/ -------------------------------------------------------- With the increasing number of potential users of virtual and augmented reality systems, as indicated by the recent boom of massively multiuser online societies, the design of distributed, massively multiuser virtual environments becomes more and more important, posing new requirements on both distribution platforms and virtual reality systems. Facing these challenges is a community- spanning effort, necessitating the pooling of the resources and experiences of the virtual reality and the networking and distributed computing communities. The aim of this workshop is to provide a link between these communities to foster the development of highly distributed, flexible and robust virtual environments. Following up on last year's very successful workshop (MMVE'08) at IEEE VR, we aim to gather the practitioners and researchers in these fields under one roof to discuss their findings, incite collaboration, and move the state of the art forward. Topics ------ The main topic of this workshop is to provide a critical analysis of existing distribution approaches for virtual environments and to identify key challenges and techniques that are required for bringing VR systems into the global Internet, interconnecting thousands of users in a single environment. More specifically, the workshop addresses the following issues: 1. Scalability, i.e. the ability to handle thousands of (possibly nearby) users at the same time, interacting via the global Internet. 2. Interoperability, i.e. the ability to integrate multiple virtual worlds and/or service providers, e.g. using common protocols or universal clients. 3. Interactivity, i.e. how to provide highly responsive environments with near real time interaction despite network delay and jitter. 4. Bandwidth restricted (mobile) end user devices, e.g. the integration of mobile devices for nomadic augmented reality applications. 5. Dynamic and flexible distribution architectures, e.g. self-adapting client/server, peer-to-peer and hybrid architectures. 6. Content streaming, e.g. sound and 3D streaming. 7. Consistency, i.e. providing consistency guarantees to users of the distributed environment, despite the high level of responsiveness necessary and the experienced network delay. 8. Persistency, i.e. the ability to save and access the state of the virtual environment despite disconnections and faulty components. 9. Security and privacy, e.g. distributed authentication algorithms that allow users to participate in the environment securely and without fear of being spied on. 10. Implementation issues, e.g. novel approaches to effectively manage the complexity of developing applications for such environments. Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must cover one of the topics listed above, or a closely- related one. Submitted papers should be about 5-6 pages long, use the IEEE proceedings format and *must be blinded*. Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer- reviewed (double-blind) and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions in PDF format must be submitted online through the workshop page at http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE09/ no later than January 30th, 2009. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), subject to addressing all reviewer comments from MMVE and reformatting according to IJAMC formatting guidelines. If you have any questions, please email us at mmve(a)peers-at-play.org. Workshop Format -------------------------------------------- The workshop will have three parts. The first part will be an invited keynote talk. In the second part, we will have multiple sessions, each consisting of about 3 talks. The last part of the workshop will consist of a common panel discussion including all participants. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2009 Acceptance Notification: February 5th, 2009 Camera Ready Version: February 15th, 2009 Workshop Date: March 15th, 2009 Organizers ---------- * Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany * Shun-Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Program Committee (prelim.) ----------------- * Maha Abdallah, University of Paris VI, France * Christian Bouville, IRISA, France * Sonja Buchegger, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany * Romain Cavagna, University of Paris VI, France * Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK * Chris GauthierDickey, University of Denver, USA * Aaron Harwood, University of Melbourne, Australia * Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan * Stephan Krause, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany * Jauvane C. Oliveira, LNCC, Brazil * Peter Quax, Hasselt University, Belgium * Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy * Ingo Scholtes, University of Trier, Germany * Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada * Gwendal Simon, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan * Suiping Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore -- Dr. Gregor Schiele Chair of Information Systems II University of Mannheim, Germany http://becker.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/9.html

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[Tccc] LoCA 2009: Submission Deadline Change (Abstracts are due January 9th, 2009. Papers are due January 16th, 2009)
by walex＠cs.toronto.edu 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

************************** 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS ********************** NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE CHANGE LoCA 2009 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan http://loca2009.context-aware.org Abstract submission deadline: January 9th, 2009 Paper submission deadline: January 16th, 2009 ********************************************************************* LoCA 2009 (May 7-8, Tokyo Japan) is the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness, with proceedings published in the LNCS series by Springer-Verlag. LoCA 2009 is co-located with Pervasive 2009 the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, which will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan. The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium: * New hardware platforms for sensing location and context * Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data * Location and context representation, management, and distribution * Privacy policies and communication protocols for location and context information * User studies of location- and context-aware systems * Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium. Paper Submission Guidelines: All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. All accepted papers will be contained in the symposium proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the LNCS LaTeX stylesheets. We solicit papers of up to 18 pages in LNCS style but explicitly welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee. Best Paper and Presentation Awards: One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Symposium Website: http://loca2009.context-aware.org Program Chairs: Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA, Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland International Program Committee: Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Hung Bui, SRI International, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain Shwetak Patel, University of Washington, USA Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA Local Chair: Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan General Chair: Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK Publicity Chairs: Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Important Dates: 9 January 2009 Abstract Submission Deadline 16 January 2009 Paper Submission Deadline 27 February 2009 Author Notifications 6 March 2009 Camera Ready Copy 7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan) Sincerely, Alexander Varshavsky <varshavsky(a)research.att.com> LoCA 2009 Publicity Chair _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: Digital Ecosystems ...]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: Digital Ecosystems ... Datum: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:45 +0100 Von: Bernardo Wagner <wagner(a)rts.uni-hannover.de> An: NTH-School für IT Ökosysteme <it-oekosysteme-all(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, vielleicht sind Sie ja an beliegendem Call for Papers interessiert. Ansonsten wünsche ich Ihnen frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr. B. Wagner ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <it-oekosysteme-all(a)in.tu-clausthal.de>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <it-oekosysteme-all-off(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <it-oekosysteme-all-digest(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <it-oekosysteme-all-index(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> Send administrative queries to <it-oekosysteme-all-request(a)in.tu-clausthal.de>

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2009: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2009: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:57:19 -0500 (EST) Von: Shamik Sengupta <Shamik.Sengupta(a)stevens.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) ************* CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** ---------- MoViD 2009 ---------- 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2009 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 24 April 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *********************************************** The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Communications Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Jan 30 Accept/reject notification: Feb 28 Camera ready paper due: Mar 15 Workshop date: Apr 24 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Corporation of America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Google, Inc. Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm Research Center Athina Markopoulou, University of California, Irvine Sourav Pal, Microsoft Research Amy R Reibman, ATT Research Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles Deepak Turaga, IBM Research, Watson Thierry Turletti, INRIA Stephan Wenger, Nokia Research Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Infocom Student Workshop - Deadline Jan 9, 2009
by Renata.TEIXEIRA＠lip6.fr 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Abstracts IEEE INFOCOM Student Workshop Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 20, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Infocom 2009 Student Workshop organizing committee is encouraging the submission of abstracts describing on going thesis research in all areas of computer networking and data communications, (for a list of topics, please refer to the Infocom 2009 call for papers at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/call_for_papers.htm). Accepted abstracts will appear in the Infocom 2009 workshop proceedings and the student will present a poster during the workshop. The Infocom Student Workshop is a forum for graduate students all over the world to interact with their peers, publicize and get feedback on their work. It is an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences, make contacts, and learn how other students are furthering Networking research. Students will also be able to interact with well-established researchers in the field who will participate in the workshop as mentors and organizers. The workshop will be a day-long program consisting mainly of panel discussions and poster sessions. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Abstract Submission Deadline : January 9, 2009, 23:59 PST * Acceptance Notification : January 19, 2009 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- We are soliciting abstracts, submitted in the Infocom 2009 format (Please refer to http://www.ieee-infocom.org/paper-layout.htm), that do not exceed 2 pages. Accepted abstracts will be available via IEEE Xplore and will be published as part of Infocom 2009 workshop proceedings. Note that the submitted version of accepted abstracts will be published in the proceedings. To submit an abstract go to: http://www-rp.lip6.fr/crp-sw-infocom09/ CO-CHAIRS --------- Renata Teixeira, CNRS and UPMC Paris Universitas (France) Ranjita Bhagwan, MSR (India) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech (USA) Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson (France) Carla Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Rene Cruz, UCSD (USA) Ramesh Govindan,USC (USA) Jim Kurose , UMass (USA) Vishnu Navda, MSR (India) Alex Snoeren, UCSD (USA) Rui Zhang, Princeton (USA) Ben Zhao, UCSB (USA) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] International Workshop on Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context (2009) - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] International Workshop on Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context (2009) - Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:00:09 +0100 Von: Wegmann, Iris <iris.wegmann(a)H-DA.DE> Antwort an: Wegmann, Iris <iris.wegmann(a)H-DA.DE> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG (apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP) ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context (2009) in concjunction with IEEE ICME July 3, 2009 Cancun, Mexico *** Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION --------------------- Serious Games is an emerging topic. More and More fields in research and industry discover the great possibilities Serious Games provide for various subjects as employee training, education, sports, medical science, fire brigade, tourism, society, aviation, military training etc. Although Serious Games is circulating in broad and heterogeneous fields it has not reached the multimedia community yet. The aim of this workshop should be the initiation of a Serious Game forum within multimedia. The concept of Serious Games offer immense opportunity to change education and game area but there is still a lot of room for improvement in gameplay, user experience, communication of learning content. We will assemble all disciplines in Multimedia to discuss how multimedia can be enrichment for Serious Games – which prospects provide Multimedia in connection with Serious Games. We will converse questions such as how alternate input and out devices are able to improve the gameplay, how innovations in communications of Multiplayer games can increase learning success and user experience, do game engines have the power to ease the production of Serious Games, how can augmented and virtual reality effect gameplay and user experience,… TARGET AUDIENCE ------------------ The target audience is researchers and practitioners in the field of Computer/Serious Games and its related areas. These include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Simulation, Speech Recognition, Mimic Recognition, Gesture Control, Alternate Input and Output Devices, Game Engines / Technology Platforms, Audio, Smart User Interfaces, Innovative User Interfaces, Multimodal Interaction, etc. We recommend having previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. Multidisciplinary contributions coming from artistic and human-machine-interface as well as case studies, artistic installations, user experience evaluations are highly welcome which are affecting the development of Serious Game as new form of Computer Game / Media. Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org <http://www.icme09.org/paperkit.html#FileFormat> for the instructions to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to: Multimedia systems and components for - dynamic generation of multimedial (AV) output - direct interaction on multimedial (AV) output - Interpretation and comparison/grading of medial input - Speech and mimic analysis for computer based Language Games - AV-Communication in (Serious) Multiplayer Games - Serious Games in Museum / Public Multimedia Installations - Game Engines for Educational Games IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- * February 1, 2009: Paper Submission Deadline * March 10, 2009: Notification of Acceptance * March 31, 2009: Camera Ready Submissions * July 3, 2009: Workshop COMMITTEE: ------------ Workshop Chairs: * Arnd Steinmetz, igdv – Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Iris Wegmann, igdv – Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Stefan Goebel, ZGDV - Center for Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany * Gearoid O'Suilleabhain, CIT - Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland Program Committee: * Oliver Schneider, igdv - Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Gunter Sterr, igdv - Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Torsten Racky, rocketscience games development GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany * Jens Keil, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Darmstadt, Germany FURTHER INFORMATION: -------------------- Please visit the workshop website: http://workshops.igdv.h-da.de/organization.html

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[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: WEEDEV 2009 (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED)
by Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================================= 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) April 6, 2009, Washington DC, USA (in conjunction with TRIDENTCOM 2009) The 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) http://www.weedev.org/ will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2009), on April 6th ~ 8th, 2009, in Washington DC, USA. http://www.tridentcom.org/. WEEDEV 2009 focuses on experimental and deployment experiences in vehicular networks. Nowadays, vehicular networks technology is entering a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are investing significant time and resources on the large-scale deployment of these networks so that their benefits in the road safety and improvement of traffic flow could be leveraged. Still, a number of technical challenges need to be resolved in order that these networks could be widely deployed and used in our daily life. This motivates the need for real tests, field trials, and experimental evaluations for the different technological solutions and aspects in such networks. This workshop aims to present and discuss the recent advances and experimental evaluation in the development of vehicular networks and ITS application, and to disseminate the most advanced ideas and solutions in the field. Submitted papers should have practical evaluation and/or deployment experiences as their main subject or they should use experiments to validate their modeling/analysis results. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for ITS * Heterogeneous wireless technologies in vehicular networks * Mobility management in vehicular networks and NEMO * Ad hoc and mesh routing for vehicular networks * IPv6 Address configuration for vehicular networks * Security in vehicular communication (authentication, access control, confidentiality, services' authorization, ..) * QoS in vehicular networks * Geographic routing and addressing * Sensor networks and technologies for vehicular networks * Smart antenna in vehicular networks * Digital maps and location technologies * Data collection and cooperation between vehicles Accepted papers will be included in the TridentCom09 conference proceedings and the IEEE Xplore digital library and will be indexed by EI. Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a forthcoming Special issue (4th quarter 2009) of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=144 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 double-column pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: General Chair: Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) - France E-mail: hassnaa.moustafa(a)orange-ftgroup.com TPC Chair: Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos, University of Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) - Spain E-mail: cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es Technical Program Committee: Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra - Portugal Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory - Norway Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Carlos J. Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Hassnaa Moustafa, Orange Labs - France Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia - USA Thierry Ernst, INRIA - France Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University - USA Roberto Baldessari, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Carolina Pinart, Telefónica I+D - Spain Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Massimiliano Lenardi, Hitachi Europe - France Manuel Fernandez Veiga, Universidad de Vigo - Spain Ignacio Soto, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Nader Moayeri, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) - USA Sidi-Mohamed Senouci, Orange Labs - France Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan - USA Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Research Corporate - USA Wassim Haddad, Qualcomm - USA Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - Germany Yi Qian, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST)- USA Houda Labiod, Telecom ParisTech - France David Cottingham, University of Cambridge - UK Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2009. Papers Notification: February 5, 2009. Submission of Camera-ready papers: February 15, 2009. Workshop date: April 6, 2009. _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Weedev 2009: Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Weedev 2009: Deadline Extended Datum: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:32:35 +0800 Von: Tuanche Chen <brad(a)wire.cs.nthu.edu.tw> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) April 6, 2009, Washington DC, USA (in conjunction with TRIDENTCOM 2009) The 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) http://www.weedev.org/ will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2009), on April 6th ~ 8th, 2009, in Washington DC, USA. http://www.tridentcom.org/. WEEDEV 2009 focuses on experimental and deployment experiences in vehicular networks. Nowadays, vehicular networks technology is entering a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are investing significant time and resources on the large-scale deployment of these networks so that their benefits in the road safety and improvement of traffic flow could be leveraged. Still, a number of technical challenges need to be resolved in order that these networks could be widely deployed and used in our daily life. This motivates the need for real tests, field trials, and experimental evaluations for the different technological solutions and aspects in such networks. This workshop aims to present and discuss the recent advances and experimental evaluation in the development of vehicular networks and ITS application, and to disseminate the most advanced ideas and solutions in the field. Submitted papers should have practical evaluation and/or deployment experiences as their main subject or they should use experiments to validate their modeling/analysis results. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for ITS * Heterogeneous wireless technologies in vehicular networks * Mobility management in vehicular networks and NEMO * Ad hoc and mesh routing for vehicular networks * IPv6 Address configuration for vehicular networks * Security in vehicular communication (authentication, access control, confidentiality, services' authorization, ..) * QoS in vehicular networks * Geographic routing and addressing * Sensor networks and technologies for vehicular networks * Smart antenna in vehicular networks * Digital maps and location technologies * Data collection and cooperation between vehicles Accepted papers will be included in the TridentCom09 conference proceedings and the IEEE Xplore digital library and will be indexed by EI. Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a forthcoming Special issue (4th quarter 2009) of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=144 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 double-column pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: General Chair: Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) - France E-mail: hassnaa.moustafa(a)orange-ftgroup.com TPC Chair: Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos, University of Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) - Spain E-mail: cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es Technical Program Committee: Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra - Portugal Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory - Norway Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Carlos J. Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Hassnaa Moustafa, Orange Labs - France Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia - USA Thierry Ernst, INRIA - France Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University - USA Roberto Baldessari, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Carolina Pinart, Telef髇ica I+D - Spain Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Massimiliano Lenardi, Hitachi Europe - France Manuel Fernandez Veiga, Universidad de Vigo - Spain Ignacio Soto, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Nader Moayeri, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) - USA Sidi-Mohamed Senouci, Orange Labs - France Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan - USA Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Research Corporate - USA Wassim Haddad, Qualcomm - USA Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - Germany Yi Qian, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) - USA Houda Labiod, Telecom ParisTech - France David Cottingham, University of Cambridge - UK Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2009. Papers Notification: February 5, 2009. Submission of Camera-ready papers: February 15, 2009. Workshop date: April 6th 2009. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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