SITIS 2013
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The 9th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS
2-5, December 2013
Terrsa Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan

http://www.sitis-conf.org/

The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web.

SITIS 2013 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks:
The first track titled " Web Computing and Applications (WeCA) / Web Computing, Big Data and Applications (WCBDA)" focuses on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management. The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance.

The second track titled "Signal & Image Technologies" (SIT) focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques.

The focus of the third track titled "Multimedia Information Retrieval and Application" (MIRA) is focuses on emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of multimedia information accessible in distributed computing environment.

SITIS is also dedicated to bring together scientists from the world over, particularly from developing countries, to share and exchange knowledge, experience and research results. When the conference is hosted by research institutions in developing countries, a particular emphasis will be placed on the presentation of applied research, the organization of practical tutorials and workshops that may help address the information processing needs of these countries, and book give away sessions to allow conference attendees to donate books to the local institutions.

Main topics
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Track on Signal & Image Technologies (SIT)
- Image Processing and Analysis
- Signal processing
- Applications
- Image/Video Coding and Authentication

Track on Web Computing and Applications (WeCA)
- Data and emergent semantics
- Information System Interoperability
- Web-Centric Systems
- Advanced Information Systems and Applications
- Information security
- Cooperative information and Distributed Systems

Track on Multimedia Information Retrieval and Applications (MIRA)
- Spatial information systems and applications
- Multimedia and applications


Submission and publication
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The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS’13 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics.
Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes.


Important dates
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Paper Submission: September 8, 2013
Acceptance/Reject notification: October 6, 2013
Camera ready: October 13, 2013
Author registration: October 20, 2013


Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
Setsuo Tsuruta, Denki University, Japan
Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

WeCa/WCBDA Track Chairs
Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France
Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France

MIRA Track Chair
Shin’chi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

SIT Track Chairs
Andrea Kutic, International Christian University, Japan
Albert Dipandà, University of Bourgogne, France

Workshop Program Chair
Luigi Gallo, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Local Organizing Chair
Yoshiyuki Mizuno, Kyoto Women University, Japan

Local Organizing Committee
Kensuke Miyashita, Kyoto Women University, Japan
Takao Nakayama, Kyoto Women University, Japan
Takashi Kawabe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Tetsuo Shinozaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Yukiko Yamamoto, Tokyo Denki University, Japan


Contacts
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info@sitis-conf.org