-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers of ICECCS2006 and AXMEDIS2006 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:02:56 +0100 From: DISIT disita@OBOE.DSI.UNIFI.IT Reply-To: conference@axmedis.org To: SIGMM-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Dear Sigmm Members

You are cordially invited to Submitt a paper to the following conferences:

-- 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICEECS 2006), Co-located with Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2006) Stanford University, CA, USA, 14-18 August 2006, http://www.iceccs.org

-- 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, IEEE press proc., Leeds, UK, 13-15 December 2006. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006

Sorry for multiple reception of this email, and please pass this email to other collegues that could be interested in the above events. In the following, and on the web site you may find more details.

Best wishes, Paolo Nesi

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ICEECS Call for Papers 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Co-located with Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2006)

Sponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory Stanford University, CA, USA, 10-14 August 2006.

With the ever expanding range of computing platforms and applications, system complexity is on the rise. Increasing intelligence and autonomics in today’s systems requires innovative approaches to address these concomitant complexity issues. At this cross-section of volume and complexity, current technologies are often ineffective at coping with the demands for quality computer systems. Manifold dependencies between the critical software, hardware, communications, and human elements now drive computer system and software architectures. Complexity of software systems has grown significantly, pervading several key application areas including Manufacturing, Communications, Transportation, Internet, Entertainment, Mobile, Healthcare, Aerospace, and Energy. These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, involving Internet technologies. Inundated by temporal constraints, boundless functionalities, complex algorithms, distributed and mobile architectures, security constraints, reliability, high performance, interoperability, security, and the like, these complexities are further weighing down development and evolution of today’s software systems and ultimately the organizations they serve.

The goal of this conference is to assemble industrial, academic and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to examine key complexity problems and effective solutions. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of the interest includes long-term research, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing systems, and commercially available tools.

Topic Areas:

Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: -System and software architecture and system engineering -Tools, environments, and languages for complex systems -Formal methods and approaches to manage and control complex systems -Integration of heterogeneous technologies -Software and system development and control processes for complex systems -Human factors and collaborative aspects -Interoperability and standardization -Systems and software safety and security -Industrial automation, embedded and/or real time systems -Content production and distribution systems, mobile and multi-channel systems -Software complexity visualization -Virtual environments for managing complexity

Paper Submissions:

Research papers, case studies, lessons learned, status reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains are all welcome submissions. For review, submissions are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer Society Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Submitted manuscripts must be in English and should be no longer than 4000 words or 10 formatted pages. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Submission Procedure: Please email your manuscripts in PDF format to the program chairs listed above.

Panels and Special Sections:

Proposals (1 page) for organizing panels and special sections should be sent to the general and program chairs via email. In both cases, the list of confirmed people involved should be included.

Deadlines

- 19 February, 2006 Paper submission - 7 April, 2006 Notification of acceptance - 19 May, 2006 Camera ready papers - 10-14 August, 2006 Conference

Committee:

General Chair: - Michael G Hinchey, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Michael.G.Hinchey@nasa.gov

Program Co-Chairs - Americas: - Shawn Bohner, Virginia Tech, sbohner@vt.edu - Phil Laplante, Penn State, plaplante@gv.psu.edu

Program Co-Chair - Asia: - Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, IIST, Macao, lzm@iist.unu.edu

Program Co-Chairs - Europe: - Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy, nesi@dsi.unifi.it - Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK, jim@cs.york.ac.uk

Publicity Chair: - Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech

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2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, Leeds, UK, 13-15 December 2006. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following: * Automatic cross-media production, collection, crawling, composition, formatting, P2P, etc. * Formats and models for multi-channel content distribution * Multimedia standards, e.g. MPEG-7, MPEG-21, DMP, etc. * High quality audio visual coding * Multimedia music representation and formatting * Watermarking and fingerprinting techniques * GRID and distributed systems for content production * real-time streaming media distribution * Multimedia middleware * Workflow management systems * Web services for content distribution * Semantic Web * Distribution with P2P architectures * Legal aspects related to digital content * Collecting and clearing of rights and licences * Business, payment and transaction models * Digital Rights Management (DRM), models tools, and interoperability * Formats and tools for Content Aware * Archives managements for cultural and educational applications * Synchronisation technologies and solutions * Systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand * Digital content user interface * Digital content accessibility * Novel applications and case-studies of relevant technologies

The conference proceedings is to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in special issues of one or more major peer-reviewed Journals in this domain.

- Submission due: 18 March 2006 - Conference date: 13-15 December 2006 - Conference venue: University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

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