Dear Colleague,

As requested by many potential authors, the paper submission deadline of ICMCS'09 is extended to November 30, 2008. Therefore, please spread the word and inform your colleagues, students and research fellows about the approaching deadline, to assure a high number of paper submissions and a high quality and successful conference.

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Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for papers to those potentially interested to submit.

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CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ICMCS'09 - IEEE Conference International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems

April 2-4, 2009. Ouarzazate, Morocco

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Conference website: http://www.icmcs09.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ICMCS'09 is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all facets of multimedia, content authoring, processor technology, and systems design. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. A key objective of ICMCS'2009 is to create a program that achieves a balance between theory and practice, academia and industry, systems/tools-oriented research and content creation. ICMCS'09 is an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference. We are planning to have the papers published in this conference's proceedings to be published in the IEEE Digital Library and to publish two special issues of international journals (*) out of selected papers from those presented in it.

(*) - International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies - International Journal on Computer Science and Applications -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Network and operating system support for multimedia - Quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms - Multimedia file systems and databases - Audio and video compression - Sound and MIDI music, surround and around video - Set-top technologies and operating systems - Multimedia processor architecture - Computer-aided training and education, tele-medicine - Animation and morphing, fractals and rendering - Virtual reality - Mobile network architecture - Intelligent network applications - Internet and intranet applications - Web servers and services - Multimedia conferencing, internet phones, and mail - Electronic commerce - User interfaces - Authoring systems - Entertainment and games - Medical applications - Pattern recognition - Systems and Networks security - Electronics, modeling and control systems

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CO-CHAIRMEN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mohamed Essaaidi, Prof. Dr .(*) Youssef Zaz, Dr. (**) ICMCS'2009 Co-chairs

(*) IEEE Morocco Section Chair Abdelmalek Essaadi University Tetuan, Morocco (**) Assistant Professor Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate Ibn Zohr University, Morocco

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KEYNOTES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Multimedia in the Mobile Age. (Ismail Khalil - Johannes Kepler University of Linz - Austria)

- Large-scale Photo Annotation Using Collective Wisdom of Data and Users. (Edward Chang - University of California - USA)

- Interactive search in large video collections. (Marcel Worring - University of Amsterdam - Netherlands)

- Human-centered multimedia computing inspired by focus on disabilities and impairments. (Sethuraman Panchanathan - University of Arizona - USA)

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DEADLINES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Paper Submission (Full paper): November 30, 2008 Acceptance notification to authors: January 11, 2009 Final version and registration: January 31, 2009

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The IEEE Standard template available at ICMCS'09 website should be used to prepare the extended paper (up to 6 A4 pages).

WEBSITE http://www.icmcs09.org

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CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Youssef ZAZ E-mail: icmcs09@gmail.com Phone: (+212)-62-10-21-67

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