ICST - Mobimedia 2009: Call for Papers

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* PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS *
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* Mobimedia 2009 *
* 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference *
* August 26-28, 2009, Xi'an, China *
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* http://www.mobimedia.org/ *
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Co-Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST

SCOPE

The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where multimedia, physical layer and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia semantic characteristics, human interpretation of audiovisual information, extraction and usage of semantic information, coding standards and their interaction with transmission and networking aspects, mobility and security protocols are research challenges that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that will be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital television in a converged environment, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware services, emergency and healthcare applications, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The efficient delivery of multimedia applications and services over emerging diver
se and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research effort for the 4G vision of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which the delivery of such services can be accomplished. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding, mobile communications and networking fields, to study new technologies, applications and standards.
Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.

Technical program

The conference will also include invited panels to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited.

Important Dates

Proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions proposal deadline:
Feb 20, 2009
Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 19, 2009
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 23, 2009

Students Award & Grants:

Student prizes will be awarded to the best papers authored by full time students as first author.

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Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs
* Maria G. Martini, Kingston University, UK
* Christos Politis, Kingston University, UK

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
* George Kormenzas, University of Aegean, GR

Steering Committee Chairs
* Luigi Atzori, DIEE-University of Cagliari, Italy
* Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy

EU Liaison Chair
* Bartolome Arroyo-Fernandez, European Commission

Workshops Chair
* Tasos Dagiuklas, TEI of Mesolonghi, GR

Special sessions Chair
* Pierluigi Dragotti, Imperial College, UK

Publications Chair
* Jyrki Huusko, VTT, Finland

Demo/Exhibition Chair
* Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, IT

Industrial Liaisons
* Dorgham Sisalem, Tekelec, Germany
* Stavros Stavrou, Sigint Solutions, Cyprus

Publicity Chairs
* Moonseo Park, Yonsei University, Korea
* Jonathan Rodriguez, University of Aveiro, Portugal
* Dr Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain

Local Arrangements Chair
* Bee-Lian Tang, Kingston University London, UK

Conference Coordinator
* Maria Morozova, ICST, Europe

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Venue

Kingston University, Wireless Multimedia Networking (WMN) Group Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics.
Kingston upon Thames, England, UK

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