Submission Deadline extended to February 20, 2011 and Journal Special Issue

The 2011 International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Multimedia Systems (PCMS 2011) http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/pcms11/index.htm

Held in conjunction with the 5th IEEE/FTRA International Conference on
Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2011)
http://www.ftrai.org/mue2011

********* Journal Special Issue *********

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in MUE2011, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:

* The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
* International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing - Inderscience (SCIE)
* Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
* International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
* Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA
* Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) - KIPS (KCIE)
* International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM).


Call For Paper:

With the pervasive multimedia data (image, video, structured text, etc.) and the recent advances in networks and information technology, multimedia pervasive computing is having an unprecedented impact on every aspect of our life, from the personal use of multimedia mobile devices, such as iPod and PDA, to a wide spectrum of domains such as business and healthcare. The new multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in an ever effective way, bringing along the multimedia revolution. Traditional multimedia research, which largely lies in signal processing and data communication, is now facing challenges posed by the new research trends such as multimedia semantic computing, multi-modal interaction and cross-mining, cooperative processing, new multimedia standards, Quality of Service (QoS), multimedia security, and social issues, which are just a few examples of the major research areas. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in multimedia semantic computing to discuss the state of the art of the research on semantic-based multimedia systems, present theoretical frameworks and practical implementations, and identify challenges and open issues in multimedia semantic modeling and integration. Multimedia semantic computing can be defined as "Computing with (machine processable) Descriptions of Content and Intentions" of multimedia data and has been gaining attentions in various applications including pervasive multimedia computing systems, multimedia delivery over the network, personalized multimedia information retrieval systems which adapt to the user's needs, integration of semantic content and schema from distributed multimedia sources so that the user sees a unified view of heterogeneous data, clustering and classification of semantically-tied information in different multimedia modalities, security issues in multimedia/hypertext systems, etc. We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit original research contributions to this workshop.

IEEE PCMS 2011 will be held in conjunction with the 5th IEEE/FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2011) http://www.ftrai.org/mue2011

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
* semantic content analysis
* semantic integration
* multimedia retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.)
* multimodal data analysis and interaction
* semantic media annotation

* human-centered multimedia computing
* image/video/audio databases
* multimedia data mining
* multimedia data storage
* social network analysis from multimedia
* multimedia data modeling
* distributed multimedia systems
* multimedia data visualization
* semantic media adaptation and personalization

* semantic based Internet data streaming and delivery

* Multimedia streaming and networking
* multimedia assurance and security
* semantic enabled multimedia applications
* novel applications

Instructions for authors:
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. Authors should submit a 6-page technical paper manuscript (in English) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract, following the document templates available on the MUE2011 paper submission web site http://www.editorialsystem.net/pcms2011. Manuscripts should be submitted online to http://www.editorialsystem.net/pcms2011 on or before the deadline date of January 31st, 2011. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submissions should include the name and the email address of the corresponding author.

All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings together with the proceedings of IEEE/FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2011) and will be included in IEEE Explorer.


Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission Deadline extended: February 20, 2011 (PDF format)
Notification of Results: February 28th, 2011
Camera Ready Due: April 1st, 2011
Author Registration: TBA

Program Co-Chairs:
Chengcui Zhang (zhang@cis.uab.edu) The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hongli Luo (luoh@ipfw.edu) Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
Min Chen (chen@cs.umt.edu) University of Montana