[Acpc-l] MoMM2008 Call for Submissions

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:39:17 +0100

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              C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

6th @WAS International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM'2008)

                     24-26 November, 2008
                        Linz, AUstria

Conference Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008

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IMPORTANT DATES
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July 1, 2008            : Full papers submission
September 15, 2008      : Acceptance Notification
October 15, 2008        : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration
November 24-26, 2008    : Conference

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The speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of 
multimedia services
like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile 
video conferencing,
streaming video and audio has brought true mobile multimedia experiences to 
mobile customers.

Due to constant changing environments, limited battery life and diverse data 
types, Mobile
Multimedia implies considerable challenges to operators, infrastructure 
builders in terms of
ensuring fast, reliable services and accommodating the quick growing global 
customer needs.

MoMM'2008 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and 
professionals
for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and 
to bring together
experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and 
discussion on future
challenges in mobile computing and multimedia.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical 
program, demos, short papers,
posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or 
related topics, industrial
presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics:

Mobile Computing Track

  - Mobile Applications & Services
  - Mobile Computing Software Architectures
  - Mobile Network Traffic Engineering, Performance & Optimization
  - Wireless & Mobile Network Management and Service Infrastructure
  - Database and Data Management Mobile Computing
  - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Computing
  - Mobile Computing Markets & Business Models
  - Provisioning of Mobile Services
  - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Computing
  - Mobility and Location Management
  - Transaction Processing in Mobile Environments
  - Integration and Interworking of Wired and Wireless Networks
  - Distributed Systems Aspects of Mobile Computing
  - Operating System and Middleware Support for Mobile Computing
  - Security and Privacy of Mobile/Wireless Systems

Multimedia Track

  - Multimedia Databases
  - Multimedia streaming and services
  - Multimedia Coding and Encryption
  - Multimedia for Learning
  - Multimedia Description Language and Standard
  - Image Clustering
  - Content-Based Image Retrieval
  - Interfaces for Multimedia Creation
  - Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation
  - Audio Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
  - Video Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
  - Video Mining and MPEG
  - Image Modeling and Editing
  - AI and Image Recognition
  - Distributed Multimedia System

Mobile Multimedia Track

  - Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services
  - Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia
  - Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures
  - Wireless & Mobile Multimedia Network Management
  - Mobile Multimedia Network Traffic Engineering & Optimization
  - Enabling Infrastructures for Mobile Multimedia
  - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Multimedia
  - Mobile Multimedia Markets & Business Models
  - Provisioning of Mobile Multimedia Services
  - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Multimedia

PUBLICATION
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MoMM2008 Proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society as a 
volume set in the books@ocg series and indexed in ISI-Proceedings and included 
in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and ACM Digital Library (approval 
pending).

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special 
issues of :
[1] Journal of Mobile Multimedia 
(http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jmm/index.html)
[2] International Journal of Mobile Information Systems 
(http://www.iospress.nl/flyers_j/1574017x.pdf)
[3] Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia: second edition 
(http://www.iiwas.org/ismail/book.html)
[4] More are pending approval

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format 
at ((http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/submission.html)
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been 
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference 
with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least 
three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated 
based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of 
exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be 
published by the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series.
The submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and must follow the OCG 
guidelines (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/cfp.htm).

COMMITTES

Steering Committee Chair
     Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler Uni Linz, Austria

General Conference Chair
     Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

General Program Committee Co-Chairs
     David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
     Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Workshops Chair
     Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Masters and Doctoral Colloquium Chair
     Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Organizing Committee Chair
     Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Publicity Coordinators
     Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
     Laura Rusu, La Trobe University, Australia

Publicity Chairs
     Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada (Canada)
     Saad Harous, Sharjah University, UAE (North Africa)
     Ruzana Ishak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia (Asia)
     Rene Mayrhofer, University of Lancaster, UK (Europe)
     Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Middle East)
     Bo Yang, Bowie State University, USA (North America)
     Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan (Asia)
     Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia 
(South America)

Awards Co-Chairs
     Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, AUstralia
     Bernady O Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Program Committee
     Ashraf M. A. Ahmad, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan
     Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK
     Laszlo Boszormenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
     Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, UNAB, Colombia
     Mohamed Ali Feki, I2R, Singapore
     Vincenzo de Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium
     Panayotis E. Fouliras, University of Macedonia, Greece
     Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
     Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
     Peter C. J. Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada
     Christos Grecos, University of Central Lancashire, UK
     Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
     Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
     G&uuml;nter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria
     Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
     Hsu Hui-Huang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
     Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
     Kalrheinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
     Dimitrios Katsaros, Aristotle University, Greece
     Birgitta K&ouml;nig-Ries, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitdt Jena, Germany
     Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
     Clement Leung, Victoria University, Australia
     Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China
     Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK
     Luigi Logrippo, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada
     Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia
     Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
     Max M&uuml;hlh&auml;user, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
     Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
     Tom Pfeifer, TSSG &ndash; Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
     Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
     Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
     Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
     Lambert Spaanenburg, Lund University, Sweden
     Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
     Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
     Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg, Germany
     Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria
     Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, I2R, Singapore
     Yuping Yang, University of Exeter, UK
     Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan
     Zheng Da Wu, Bond University, Australia

ORGANIZATION
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The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information 
integration and web based
applications and services (@WAS), hosted and organized  and by the Institute 
of Teleccoperation,
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and supported by Monash University, 
Australia, La Trobe
University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the tenth 
international conference on
Information Integration and Web-based applications & Services (iiWAS'2008 - 
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/).

CONTACT
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David Taniar, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair
Clayton School of Information Technology
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800
Australia
Email: david at iiwas.org

Eric Pardede, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3083
Australia
Email: eric at iiwas.org