CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twenty Third International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems,
Visual Languages and Sentient Systems (DMSVLSS2017)
will be held at the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center, Pittsburgh, USA
from July 7 to July 8, 2017.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/dmsvlss17.html

The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials,
addressing any novel aspect of sentient multimedia systems that significantly benefits
from the incorporation/integration of multimedia data (e.g., visual, audio, pen,
voice, image, etc.), especially in visual languages and distance education technologies,
for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings of DMSVLSS2017.
Both research and case study papers or demonstrations describing results in research area
as well as industrial development cases and experiences are solicited.
The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNALS:
Selected Papers from DMSVLSS2017 will be published as special issues of the Journal
of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC) and the Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems (VLSS).

CO-LOCATED CONFERENCE:
The Int'l Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering SEKE2017
(ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/seke17.html)
will be held at the same hotel from
July 5 to July 7, 2017. Authors are welcome to
contribute papers and attend both conferences.

WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS:
This year, DMSVLSS2017 will be held in conjunction with workshops and special sections.
Papers submitted to workshops or special sessions are invited by the program committee chairs of the workshops/special sessions.

CONFERENCE HOTEL:
The hotel has made available for these limited dates (7/4 - 7/9/2017)
to DMSVLSS 2017 attendees a discount rate of $109 US dollars per room, per night, single/double occupancy,
including free WiFi in hotel room and free parking, not including sales tax.
For other days prior to or after the conference period, the hotel will provide best available rate.
Guests can make on-line reservations by visiting the hotel's reservations
website at www.wyndham.com. Please enter the hotel's zip code "15213" and
arrival/departure date. Then click "special rates". Then click "group code".
Enter the group code "07036841SE" and click "enter" and then finally click "find
it". The name of the group and rate should appear.
Please complete making the reservation in the usual manner.
If you have problems please contact (412) 682-6200 and
talk to Reservation Desk.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:
Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be
submitted using the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmsvlss2017.
When submitting, select the main conference DMSVLSS17 or one of the special tracks.
Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 8 pages of double column text
(including figures and references). All submissions must not be published or under
consideration for publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings.
Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarify of exposition.
Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be accepted as regular paper (10 pages),
short paper (7 pages) or technical notes (1 page and demo/poster presentation).

CONTACT INFORMATION:
DMSVLSS2017 Conference Secretariat
KSI Research
156 Park Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, USA
E-mail: dmsvlss2017@easychair.org

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission due: March 28, 2017
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2017
Early registration deadline: May 10, 2017
Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2017