AXMEDIS08 and DMS08 Call for Paper and/or workshops

You are cordially invited to pose your attention to

1) AXMEDIS 2008: the 4th International Conference on Automated solutions for Cross Media Content and Multi-channel Distribution, 17-19th Nov. 2008, Florence, Italy.
New Deadline for the paper submission 30th of April.

2) DMS 2008: The 14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Hyatt Harborside, Boston, USA, September 4 to September 6, 2008, New Deadline for the paper submission 20th of April.

Media Content and Multi-channel Distribution

HTTP://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008

Submission due: 30 April 2008
Conference date: 17th-19th Nov. 2008
Conference venue: Florence, Italy

AXMEDIS is a large conference and community with strong innovation and research programme. You can see a part of the presentations already defined on the AXMEDIS conference web site:

http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008/
http://www.axmedis.org/com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=165&Ite
mid=79
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008draft/openconf/openconf.php

AXMEDIS 2008 will be a significant and exciting event on cross-media, content production GRID, content protection, interoperable DRM (digital rights management), multimedia terminals, multiple-play, multichannel, multi devices, MPEG-21 terminal and tools, authoring tools, digital media, P2P, OMA, multi-channel delivery, content modeling, business models, security and distribution, digital signature, legal aspects, accessibility, transaction models, social network, semantic modeling, multimedia music, workflow, and much more.

The AXMEDIS2008 International Conference is a perfect occasion to get the state of the art and beyond, on the above mentioned technologies and developments and to meet the most relevant industrial leaders, leading researchers, experts and practitioners from both industrial and research institutes, including European digital content providers, integrators, distributors, technology providers, market leaders and prestigious research institutions, social networks.

AXMEDIS is supported by more than 45 sponsors: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Florence, ICSRiM, University of Leeds, EPFL, EUTELSAT, FHG-IGD, Giunti ILABS, HP, BBC, SDAE, TISCALI, SIAE, AFI, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, SEJER, University of Reading, Pekin University, TEO (telecom Lithuania), KTU, ELION, VRS Grupe, ACIT, Telecom Italia, Strategica, EXITECH, XIM, the MUSICNETWORK International Association, the European Commission and many more.

AXMEDIS2008 aims to explore all subjects, latest developments, future trends,  of technologies and their applications.
With a particularly attention to new concepts, requirements, prototypes,  research ideas, and findings which could contribute to cross fertilization  and convergence of research and industrial communities. This is the 4th conference of a series pressed by IEEE and FUP with high level papers and large audience and distribution. 

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- formats and models for multi-channel content distribution and interoperability
- automated content production, collection, crawling, composition, formatting
- cultural heritage content and solutions
- solutions and tools for e-commerce, education entertainment
- content processing languages and tools
- GRID and distributed systems for content production
- collaborative/cooperative models and tools, CSCW
- social network and models
- content distribution: streaming and downloading
- digital libraries and distributed systems
- systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand
- multimedia middleware
- multimedia software engineering
- mobiles technologies for content distribution and optimisation
- intelligent content, semantic content and models
- interactive multimedia models
- P2P solutions and architectures
- workflow management systems Web services and web portals for content
  distribution
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) models, tools, and DRM interoperability
- multimedia standards: MPEG-7, MPEG-21, MXF, SMIL, HTML, News, etc.
- multimedia and packaging formats
- distributed games and serious games
- Quality of Service, QoS, control and planning
- user profiling, and behaviour
- agents and autonomous systems
- legal aspects related to digital content
- context awareness and solutions
- distribution of computer graphics and 3D content
- distributed information retrieval
- synchronisation technologies and solutions
- accessibility and multimodal user interfaces
- e-conference, e-medicine and e-lecture
- distributed virtual environment, virtual school, virtual university,
  and virtual learning
- content monitoring technologies
- watermarking and fingerprinting techniques
- audio and video fingerprinting and recognition

and all related topics, do not hesitate to contact the chairs if you have a proposal for the conference.

Applications and Industrial Presentations and Demos: Proposals for presentations of applications and tools, including case studies and reports on the application and/or utilization of tools, industrial practices and models, or tool/system demonstrations:
Long papers up to 8 pages, Short papers up to 4 pages, Demo: up to 2 pages.

Workshops and Panels: The Conference will hold Workshops and Panels consisting of research and industry position papers on specific topics.
Research and Development projects of EC or other organizations are invited to propose workshops or panels. For these proposals please contact the general chair: Paolo Nesi (University of Florence) at nesi@dsi.unifi.it providing topics, speakers, and aims.

All submissions and proposals must be in English and submitted in PDF or Microsoft Word format using the submission portal on the conference web site no later than 30 April 2008.
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008draft/openconf/openconf.php

Document style is available at the conference website.
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.pdf
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.doc
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.ps
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Comp. Soc.

past conferences: 
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2007
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005

DMS 2008 Call For Papers for Track on Distributed Multimedia Computing The Fourteenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Hyatt Harborside at Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA September 4 - September 6, 2008 Organized by: Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School

The DMS conference (http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms08.html ) is an international

conference series, which covers a wide spectrum of technique discussions, demonstrations, and student program/paper contests in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. Started in 1994, the series of conference has been held at Hawaii, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Taipei, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, San Francisco, Miami and Canada. This time, the conference will be held in the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA.
The conference focuses on techniques, systems, applications, and theories  in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing various aspects of distributed multimedia systems and applications,  for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings.

TOPICS of the TRACK
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
o    analysis of distributed multimedia systems
o    computing distributed object management
o    distribution methods and solutions for complex multimedia content:
downloading, progressive download, P2P, streaming
o    social networks for content collection and manipulation
o    GRID solutions and languages for multimedia and cross media
processing
o    Digital Rights Management, DRM
o    technology protection models for content distribution.
o    distributed multimedia databases
o    network architectures mobile networks
o    mobile computing multimedia stream synchronization
o    OS support for distributed multimedia systems
o    QoS control/scheduling
o    mobile agents and their applications
o    Web servers and services oriented solutions and applications for
multimedia
o    distributed multimedia digital libraries
o    collaborative and cooperative solutions and applications, CSCW
o    distributed cultural heritage multimedia applications
o    tools and systems e-commerce, e-education and e-entertainment
o    tele-conference, tele-medicine and tele-lecture
o    distributed virtual environment, virtual school, virtual university,
 and virtual learning
o    distance learning methodology and solutions
o    distributed games and serious games

The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the paper should be submitted using the following URL:
http://conf.ksi.edu/dms08/submit/SubmitPaper.php.
During submission SELECT the TOPIC "Distributed Multimedia Computing".
Please
use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-words abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references).

TRACK CHAIR
Paolo Nesi,  Department of System and Informatics, Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab, University of Florence
Email: nesi@dsi.unifi.it

If you have the intention of submitting a paper on this track please inform with an informal email the track chair, as soon as possible.
For any problem please contact the track chair or the DMS 2008 Conference
E-mail: dms@ksi.edu 

IMPORTANT DATES
20 APRIL  1, 2008     Paper submission due