MUE2010 Call for Papers ================================================================================================ The 4th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE2010) http://www.ftrg.org/mue2010 Cebu, Philippines, August 11 - 13, 2010 Published by IEEE ================================================================================================ ----------------- Important Dates ----------------- Paper Submission deadline : April 25, 2010 (Final extension - No more extension!!) Notification of acceptance : April 30 / May 10, 2010 (original due / final extended due) Camera-ready paper due : May 28, 2010 (No Extension!!) Conference events : August 11 - 13, 2010 --------------- Special Issues --------------- After conference, special issues of international journals with high qualities will be arranged for selected papers. - ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Assoc Computing Machinery(ACM) (SCIE) http://acmtecs.acm.org/index.htm - multimedia tools and applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE) http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042 - International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijitcc - International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC) - Inderscience http://www.inderscience.com/ijamc - Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM) - Rinton Press http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jmm/ In addition, good papers from Korean authors will be recommended to international journals indexed by KCI-E in NRF-K. - Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) http://jips.kips.or.kr/ --------------------------------- Paper Submission and Proceeding --------------------------------- All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE Press (IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing group) and will be included in the IEEE Xplorer. Please use the IEEE Conference Proceedings format (US letter size, available for download here: IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings) for submission. MUE 2010's submission web site : http://www.editorialsystem.net/mue2010/ -------------------- Keynote Speakers --------------------- * Prof. Borko Furht Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University ================================================================================================ --------------------------------- Overview --------------------------------- 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. ------------------- Topics ------------------- We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: 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 --------------------- Organizing Committee --------------------- == Steering Committee Chair == Jong Hyuk Park (Seoul National University of Technology, Korea) == General Co-chairs == Shu-Ching Che (Florida International University, USA) Mei-Ling Shy (University of Miami, US) Sang Soo Yeo (Mokwon University, Korea) == Program Co-chairs == Chengcui Zhan (The University of Alabama, USA) Ivan Lee (University of South Australia, Australia) Mario Doeller (Passau University, Germany) == Program Vice Co-chairs == Hongli Luo (Track 1) (Indiana University, USA) Min Chen (Track 2) (Seoul National University, Korea) Pawel Lukowicz (Track 3) (University of Passau, Germany) Laszlo Boszormenyi (Track4) (Klagenfurt University, Austria) Deok Gyu Lee (Track 5) (ETRI, Korea) Jianping Fan (Track 6) (University of North Carolina, USA) == Workshop Co-chairs == Seungmin Rho (Korea University, Korea) Yijuan (Lucy) Lu (Texas State University, USA) Chong Wah Ngo (City University, China) == Steering Committee == Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway) Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Han-Chieh (Chao National Ilan University, Taiwan) Hai Jin (HUST, China) Weijia Jia (City U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Laurence T. Yang (St Francis Xavier University, Canada) Jianhua Ma (Hosei University, Japan) == Publicity Co-chairs == Eddie Law (Ryerson University, Canada) Ruben Tous (Universitat Politecnica de, Spain) Jun Zhao (University of Oxford, UK) Naveen K Chilamkurti (La Trobe University, Australia) Wei-Bang Chen (The University of Alabama, USA) Malrey Lee (ChonBuk National University, Korea) == Local organizing Committee == Rafael Saldana (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) Henry N. Adorna (University of the Philippines, Philippines) Gregg Victor Gabison (The University of San Jose, Philippines) Elmer P. Dadios, De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines == Web and System Management Chairs == Yang Sun Lee (Chosun University, Korea) Seungmin Rho (Korea University, Korea) == Program Committee == Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond Sheng-Wei (Kuan-Ta) Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna, Italy Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China David Liu, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA S Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand Zhou Su, Waseda University, Japan Todor Cooklev, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Ruhai Wang, Lamar Universtiy, USA Ming Yang, Jacksonville State University, USA Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HongKong Yu Sun, University of Central Arkansas, USA Akimitsu Kanzaki, Osaka University, Japan Ahmed H Zahran, University College Cork, Ireland Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan M. Younas, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom Track 2: Multimedia Modeling and Processing Andrew D. Bagdanov, University of Barcelona, Spain Bartosz Ziolko, AGH-Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Seung-Ryong Han, The Unviersity of Tokyo, Japan Sumon Shahriar, University of South Australia, Australia Jungong Han, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands Pradeep K. Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, CANADA Aiden Roger Doherty, Dublin City University, Ireland Xubo Song, Oregon Health and Science University, USA Muhammad Asadur Rahman, Clayton State University, USA Wei Ding, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Yingchun Yang, Zhejiang University, China Qiming Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Liang-Tien CHIA, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zi (Helen) Huang, The University of Queensland, Australia Cheng-Chang Lien, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Track 3: Ubiquitous Services and Applications Tobias Burger, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ruben Tous, DMAS, Barcelona, Spain Miran Choi, ETRI, Korea Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA Kai Kunze, University of Passau, Germany Gerald Bauer, University of Passau, Germany Gernot Bahle, University of Passau, Germany Josef Neuburger, University of Passau, Germany Oscar Mayora, Create Net, Italy Gerd Kuerten, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Oliver Amft, TU Delft Heiko Schuldt, Uni Basel Heiko Schuldt, Switzerland Daniel Roggen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Klaus Hermann, University Stuttgart, Germany Jamie A Ward , Lancaster University, United Kingdom Kurt Partridge, Palo Alto PARC Reserarch center Track 4: Multimedia Services and Applications Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria Klaus Schoffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria Bill Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Marc Spaniol, MPI, Saarbrucken, Germany Markus Strohmaier, Know Center, Graz, Austria Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, USA Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Romulus Grigoras, ENSEEIHT, France Savvas Chatzichristofis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Vincent Charvillat, ENSEEIHT, France Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Yu Cao, California State University at Fresno, USA Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany Mario Doeller, University of Passau, Germany Tzi-cker Chieuh, Univ. of NY in Stony Brook, USA Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, Germany Track 5 : Multimedia and Ubiquitous Security Moo Seop Kim, ETRI, Korea Yu Cao, California State University at Fresno, USA Ming Li, California State University at Fresno, USA Alex S. Liu, California State University at Fresno, USA Hyoung Joong Kim, Korea University, Korea Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Toshihiro Tabata, Okayama University, Japan Marco Cremonini, University of Milan, Italy Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Paisarn Muneesawang, Naresuan University, Thailand Weiqi Yan, Queen's University Belfast Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Tarek Bejaoui, University of Carthage, Tunisia Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy Of Sciences, Russia Deok Gyu Lee , ETRI, Korea Track 6: Other IT and Multimedia Applications Hangzai Luo, East China Normal University, China Yuli Gao, HP Labs, Polo Alto, USA Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore Mohan-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Chris Poppe, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium Lasse Lehmann, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Subramanian Ramanathan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hongwei Zheng, Konstanz University, Germany Ning Zhou, UNC-Charlotte, USA Wesley De Neve, KAIST, Korea Hong Lu, Fudan University, China Yujie Zhang, Fudan University, China Yuefei Guo, Fudan University, China Yi Shen , UNC-Charlotte, USA Chunlei Yang, UNC-Charlotte, USA Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, India Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College, India Aneel Rahim, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Datchakorn Tancharoen, Thai-Nichi Institute of Tech., Thailand -------------------- Contact Information -------------------- If you have any question about the CFP and paper submission, please email to Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo (ssyeo@msn.com) and Prof. Chengcui Zhang (zhang@cis.uab.edu).