[ecoop-info] SMAP 2009 - 3rd Call for Papers (deadline extended to July 24, 2009)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2009)
December 14-15, 2009
San Sebastian, Spain
http://www.smap2009.org
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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The Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) Initiative was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation. After three successful workshops, SMAP 2006 (Athens, Greece), SMAP 2007 (London, United Kingdom), and SMAP 2008 (Prague, Czech Republic) the Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization workshop series has consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field, including a 2-days main track of high-quality scientific papers. Thus, the 4th SMAP workshop 
   * will be held in San Sebastian, Spain
   * will be hosted by VICOMTech-IK4 Applied Research Centre (http://www.vicomtech.org)
   * will take place on Monday and Tuesday, December 14th and 15th, 2009.

We strive to have a diverse academic audience, varying from young researchers working on PhD level to experts in the field. The workshop aims to provide a platform for exchanging fresh ideas and expertise, and for obtaining feedback on ongoing research. As with previous SMAPs, plans are in place to have all the papers presented at the workshop published by the IEEE Computer Society and selected papers to appear either in an edited volume or in a special journal issue.


*WORKSHOP TOPICS*
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SMAP 2009 will aim to address several issues of semantic multimedia technologies in multilingual environments such as, but not limited to:
    * Semantic content creation and modelling
    * Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
    * Multimedia ontologies, reasoning and Semantic Web adaptation technologies
    * Content customization and adaptation
    * Multilingual content navigation
    * Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities
    * Multimedia content annotation tools
    * Intelligent search, content retrieval and filtering
    * User modelling, intelligent personalized interfaces and dynamic profiling
    * Multimedia and open standards
    * Semantic context modelling and extraction
    * Context-aware multimedia applications
    * and so on


*WHO CAN PARTICIPATE*
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The 2009 Workshop aims not only to bring back together the researchers and practitioners from 2006, 2007 and 2008, but also to welcome new ones in order to explore recent and emerging developments in the field of semantic media adaptation and personalization, building on the achievements of the previous Workshops. Specifically, SMAP 2009 will consolidate any prior efforts to advance beyond a workshop meeting to a focused meeting of a society of researchers and practitioners.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
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Submission of full papers:                                    *July 24, 2009* 
Notification of acceptance/rejection:                          August 17, 2009 
Submission of camera-ready papers and author registration:     September 8, 2009 
Workshop:                                                      December 14-15, 2009 



*WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS*
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Local Chairs
    * Maria Teresa Linaza, VICOMTech, Spain
    * Jorge Posada, VICOMTech, Spain

General Chairs
    * Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    * Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece
    * Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece

Sessions Chair
    * Malamati Louta, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
    * Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
    * Angelos Michalas, University of Western Macedonia, Greece


*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*
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    * Harry Agius, Brunel University, United Kingdom
    * Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
    * Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    * Adrian S. Barb, Penn State University, USA
    * Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic
    * Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
    * Claudia Buzzi, Italian National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy
    * Silvia Calegari, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
    * Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
    * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
    * Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, UK
    * Jaime Delgado, Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain
    * Mario Doller, University of Passau, Germany
    * Yaniv Eytani, University of Illinois, USA
    * Nastaran Fatemi, Haute Ecole d'Ingenierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud, Switzerland
    * Junbin Gao, Charles Sturt University, Australia
    * Sabine Graf, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    * William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
    * Jesus Herrero, Fundacion Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain
    * Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Centre of Research and Technology Hellas, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
    * Sebastien Laborie, INRIA, France
    * Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan (China)
    * John W.T. Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
    * Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Belgium
    * Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Aegean, Greece
    * Ferran Marques, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
    * Vasileios Mezaris, Centre of Research and Technology Hellas, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
    * George Paliouras, Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research, Greece
    * Viviana Patti, Universita' di Torino , Italy
    * Jose Juan Pazos, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
    * Petr Saloun, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
    * Maria Teresa Linaza, VICOMTech, Spain
    * Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
    * David Vallet, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
    * Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain
  	


*SUBMISSION PROCEDURE*
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Prospective contributors are invited to submit research papers at the EasyChair Online SMAP'09 Submission site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smap2009). A peer review process will be applied to all submissions, provided by the workshop's Program Committee members, being selected among well-known researchers in the area.


*WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS*
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The Workshop proceedings will be published by the *IEEE Computer Society* and made available through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society standards and their length must be between 4 and 6 IEEE double column style pages. Only IEEE Xplore - compliant PDF files will be accepted. 


*EDITED VOLUME*
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Like in all previous SMAP Workshops, deserving papers will be solicited for inclusion in an Edited Volume.


*JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE*
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In addition, exceptional papers will be solicited for inclusion in an international, peer-reviewed journal special issue after extension and re-evaluation. 


*VENUE/ACCOMODATION*
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SMAP 2009 will be held in Donostia/San Sebastian in the Technology Park of San Sebastian. A combination of Nature, Technology and Art characterises San Sebastian Technology Park, an ideal meeting point for the interchange of ideas and knowledgement. It is located within a privileged natural setting in the Miramon Park, just five minutes from the centre of San Sebastian, the capital of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country). San Sebastian Technology Park's excellent infraestructures and the services it provides, have made it into a First Class location for holding conferences, exhibitions, workshops and gala events. It offers the most advanced audiovisual resources. The restaurant Arbelaitz Miramon (1 Michelin Star 2008!) completes the global offer of the Park.


*CONTACT*
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larraitz at lankor.com
or 
smap at image.ntua.gr








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