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Recent advances in pervasive computers, networks, telecommunication, and information technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia-capable mobile devices, such as laptops, portable media players, personal digital assistants, and cellular telephones, have stimulated the development of intelligent and pervasive multimedia applications in a ubiquitous environment. The new multimedia standards (for example, 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 increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains. This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems.

The goals of this conference are to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.

The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below:

Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond
Ubiquitous Computing and Technology
Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing
Parallel/Distributed/Grid Computing
Novel Machine Architectures
Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid
Smart Home and Generic Interfaces

Track 2: Multimedia Modeling and Processing
AI and Soft Computing in Multimedia
Computer Graphics and Simulation
Multimedia Information Retrieval (images, videos, hypertexts, etc.)
Internet Multimedia Mining
Medical Image and Signal Processing
Multimedia Indexing and Compression
Virtual Reality and Game Technology
Current Challenges in Multimedia

Track 3: Ubiquitous Services and Applications
Protocols for Ubiquitous Services
Ubiquitous Database Methodologies
Ubiquitous Application Interfaces
IPv6 Foundations and Applications
Smart Home Network Middleware
Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID
U-Commerce and Other Applications
Databases and Data Mining

Track 4: Multimedia Services and Applications
Multimedia RDBMS Platforms
Multimedia in Telemedicine
Multimedia Embedded Systems
Entertainment Industry
E-Commerce and E-Learning
Novel Multimedia Applications
Computer Graphics

Track 5: Multimedia and Ubiquitous Security
Security in Commerce and Industry
Security in Ubiquitous Databases
Key Management and Authentication
Privacy in Ubiquitous Environment
Sensor Networks and RFID Security
Multimedia Information Security
Forensics and Image Watermarking

Track 6: Other IT and Multimedia Applications

Important Dates

December 28, 2009 Workshop/Special session proposal
January 28, 2010 Paper submission deadline
February 28, 2010 Notification of acceptance
March 20, 2010 Camera-ready paper due
March 20, 2010 Presenting author registration due
June 28-30, 2010 Conference events

Paper Publication

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE CS (Proceedings will be included in EI and other indexes). Outstanding papers will be invited for extension and publication in several journal special issues.