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6th @WAS International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2008)

24-26 November, 2008 Linz, AUstria

Conference Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008

---------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- July 1, 2008 : Full papers submission September 15, 2008 : Acceptance Notification October 15, 2008 : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration November 24-26, 2008 : Conference

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The speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio has brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers.

Due to constant changing environments, limited battery life and diverse data types, Mobile Multimedia implies considerable challenges to operators, infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast, reliable services and accommodating the quick growing global customer needs.

MoMM'2008 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in mobile computing and multimedia.

TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics:

Mobile Computing Track

- Mobile Applications & Services - Mobile Computing Software Architectures - Mobile Network Traffic Engineering, Performance & Optimization - Wireless & Mobile Network Management and Service Infrastructure - Database and Data Management Mobile Computing - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Computing - Mobile Computing Markets & Business Models - Provisioning of Mobile Services - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Computing - Mobility and Location Management - Transaction Processing in Mobile Environments - Integration and Interworking of Wired and Wireless Networks - Distributed Systems Aspects of Mobile Computing - Operating System and Middleware Support for Mobile Computing - Security and Privacy of Mobile/Wireless Systems

Multimedia Track

- Multimedia Databases - Multimedia streaming and services - Multimedia Coding and Encryption - Multimedia for Learning - Multimedia Description Language and Standard - Image Clustering - Content-Based Image Retrieval - Interfaces for Multimedia Creation - Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation - Audio Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation - Video Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation - Video Mining and MPEG - Image Modeling and Editing - AI and Image Recognition - Distributed Multimedia System

Mobile Multimedia Track

- Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services - Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia - Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures - Wireless & Mobile Multimedia Network Management - Mobile Multimedia Network Traffic Engineering & Optimization - Enabling Infrastructures for Mobile Multimedia - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Multimedia - Mobile Multimedia Markets & Business Models - Provisioning of Mobile Multimedia Services - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Multimedia

PUBLICATION ----------- MoMM2008 Proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and indexed in ISI- Proceedings and included in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and ACM Digital Library (approval pending).

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] Journal of Mobile Multimedia (http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jmm/index.html ) [2] International Journal of Mobile Information Systems (http://www.iospress.nl/flyers_j/1574017x.pdf ) [3] Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/530 ) [4] More are pending approval

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------------- Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at ((http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/submission.html) Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and must follow the OCG guidelines (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/cfp.htm).

COMMITTES

Steering Committee Chair Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler Uni Linz, Austria

General Conference Chair Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

General Program Committee Co-Chairs David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Workshops Chair Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Masters and Doctoral Colloquium Chair Wolfram Wˆfl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Organizing Committee Chair Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Publicity Coordinators Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Laura Rusu, La Trobe University, Australia

Publicity Chairs Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada (Canada) Saad Harous, Sharjah University, UAE (North Africa) Ruzana Ishak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia (Asia) Rene Mayrhofer, University of Lancaster, UK (Europe) Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Middle East) Bo Yang, Bowie State University, USA (North America) Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan (Asia) Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, Universidad AutÛnoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia (South America)

Awards Co-Chairs Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, AUstralia Bernady O Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Program Committee Ashraf M. A. Ahmad, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK Laszlo Boszormenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, UNAB, Colombia Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK Mohamed Ali Feki, I2R, Singapore Vincenzo de Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium Panayotis E. Fouliras, University of Macedonia, Greece Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Peter C. J. Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada Christos Grecos, University of Central Lancashire, UK Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada G¸nter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Dimitrios Katsaros, Aristotle University, Greece Karlheinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Birgitta Kˆnig-Ries, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitdt Jena, Germany Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Clement Leung, Victoria University, Australia Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK Luigi Logrippo, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano Via Ponzio, Italy Max M¸hlh‰user, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Vicente Pelechano, Universidad PolitÈcnica de Valencia, Spain Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Tom Pfeifer, TSSG - Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Lambert Spaanenburg, Lund University, Sweden Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg, Germany Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, I2R, Singapore Zheng Da Wu, Bond University, Australia Yuping Yang, University of Exeter, UK Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan

ORGANIZATION ----------------------- The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS), hosted and organized and by the Institute of Teleccoperation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the tenth international conference on Information Integration and Web-based applications & Services (iiWAS'2008 - http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/).

CONTACT ------- David Taniar, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia Email: david at iiwas.org

Eric Pardede, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC 3083 Australia Email: eric at iiwas.org ------------------------------- END OF CFP -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc