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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Colleagues,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this
CFP.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>M O B I M E D I A</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Third International Mobile Multimedia Communications
Conference</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>(</FONT><A
href="outbind://2/www.mobimedia.org"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial
size=2>www.mobimedia.org</FONT></U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>27-29 August 2007</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nafpaktos Greece</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Technical Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, Eurasip</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scope</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>The successful development of multimedia services and
applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary
approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly.
Multimedia semantic characteristics, Human Interpretation of audiovisual
information, extraction and usage of semantic information, coding standards and
its interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research
issues 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,
video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware
services, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The efficient
delivery of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and
heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The
research effort for the 3G/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 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, and mobile
networking fields to study new applications, solutions, 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unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Research Areas:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless,
mobile and ubiquitous</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>environments</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Multimedia QoS in wireless networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Extraction and usage of semantic
information</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Performance evaluation of multimedia
services</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile
environments</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in
emerging wireless</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and
mobile networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia
communications over wireless</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Joint source-channel coding</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor
networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless
multimedia</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile
networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging
wireless networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Mobile Content Delivery Networks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Technical program:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. Please submit proposals to
Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paper submission and publication:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mobimedia 2007 invites manuscripts that present
original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by,
another conference or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to
7 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages (including all figures and references)
formatted according to </FONT><A
href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html"><U><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html</FONT></U></FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2>.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Full-length papers should report on completed work
and will be considered for oral presentations. Short papers should report on
work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster
presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be
submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality,
significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Papers will be
submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: </FONT><A
href="http://cocus.create-net.it/"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://cocus.create-net.it</FONT></U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference
Proceedings Series and will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as
indexed by EI and ISI Index.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Workshops:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two workshops will run in parallel with Mobimedia
General Conference entitled &#8220;Workshop on Context Aware Mobile
Multimedia Systems and Applications&#8221; and &#8220;Workshop on
Convergence among Mobile Multimedia Services and Fourth- Generation Wireless
Networking Standards: Technical Challenges and Usersʼ
Perspectives&#8221;</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Important dates:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=593115319-03052007>Extended
</SPAN>Deadline Paper Submission: <SPAN class=593115319-03052007>18 May
</SPAN>2007</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Notification of acceptance: 08 June 2007</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Submission of camera-ready papers: 02 July
2007</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Students award and grants:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Five student prizes will be awarded to the best
papers authored by full time students as first author.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Technical Program Committee</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington,
USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* John Apostolopoulos, HP, USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Pedro A. Amado Assuncao, Polytechnic Institute of
Leiria, Portugal</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Luigi Atzori, University Of Cagliari,
Italy</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Pietro Camarda, Politecnico di Bari,
Italy</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Homer Chen, National Taiwan University,
Taiwan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Trista Chen, Intel Corporation, USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Turkey</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Magda El-Zarki, University of California,
USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Sergio Faria, Institute of Telecommunications,
Portugal</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University,
Denmark</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology,
Finland</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Mohammad Ghanbari, University of Essex,
UK</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Christine Guillemot, IRISA, France</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Matthias Hollick, Technical University of
Darmstadt, Germany</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Ebroul Izquoerdo, Queens Mary College,
UK</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Wolfgang Klas, University of Wien,
Austria</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Odysseas Koufopavlou, University of Patras,
Greece</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Georgios Kormentzas, University of Aegean,
Greece</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Stavros Kotsopoulos, University of Patras,
Greece</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Inald L. Lagendjik, Delft University of Technology,
Netherlands</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Javier Lopez, University of Malaga,
Spain</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Maja Matijasevic, FER, Croatia</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* James Modestino, University of Miami,
USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Liam Murphy, University College Dublin,
Ireland</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Thrasos Pappas, Northwestern University,
USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Francisco Pereira, IST, Portugal</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo,
Norway</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology,
Ireland</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Wan-Chi Siu, Hong Kong University, Hong
Kong</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Thanos Skodras, Hellenic Open University,
Greece</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt,
Germany</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research,
Germany</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Rahim Tafazolli, CCSR, UK</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Murat Telkap, Koc University, Turkey</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Micaela van der Schaar, UCLA, USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Dimitrios Vergados, University of Aegean,
Greece</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales,
Australia</FONT></P>
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