<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#0000ff;"><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please send to interested colleagues and Ph.D. students</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- CALL FOR PAPERS --</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Third International Symposium on<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE
style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Multimedia –</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Applications and Processing, MMAP 2010,<o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.mmap.imcsit.org/"><FONT color=#0000ff>www.mmap.imcsit.org</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Organized by:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, <?xml:namespace
prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><BR>
"Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=MsoHyperlink><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><U> </U></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color=#000000>Contact:</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><U> </U></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><A href="mailto:burdescu_dumitru@software.ucv.ro"><FONT color=#0000ff>burdescu_dumitru@software.ucv.ro</FONT></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><U> <o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">within the framework<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<DIV align=center><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology </SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">in </SPAN></B><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN lang=EN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Wisla</SPAN></I></B></st1:City><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN lang=EN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></SPAN></I></B></st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN lang=EN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN">, </SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN lang=EN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN">October 18-20, 2010</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE></DIV><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">* CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Multimedia information has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Recent advances
in pervasive</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> computers, networks, telecommunications, and
information technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia mobile
devices - such as laptops, iPods, personal digital assistants (PDA), and
cellular telephones - have stimulated the development of intelligent
pervasive multimedia applications. These key technologies are creating a
multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide
spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, and governmental domains. Yet
many challenges remain, especially when it comes to efficiently indexing,
mining, querying, searching, and retrieving multimedia data. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Multimedia - Processing and Applications 2010 (MMAP 2010) Symposium addresses several themes </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">related to theory and practice within multimedia domain. The enormous interest in multimedia from many activity areas </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(medicine, entertainment, education) led researchers and industry to make a continuous effort to create new, </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">innovative multimedia algorithms and application.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As a result the conference goal is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners in order
to communicate </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">their newest and original contributions on topics that have been identified (see below). We are also interested in looking at </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">service architectures, protocols, and standards for multimedia communications - including middleware - along with the related </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">security issues, such as secure multimedia information sharing. Finally, we encourage submissions describing work on novel </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">applications that exploit the unique set of advantages offered by multimedia computing techniques, including home-networked </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">entertainment and games. However, innovative contributions that don't exactly fit into these areas will
also be considered </SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">* CALL FOR PAPERS<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>MMAP 2010 is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>The MMAP 2010 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. MMAP 2010 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><BR><BR>* <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">TOPICS OF INTEREST</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'"><FONT color=#000000>Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Image and Video Processing <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Speech, Audio and Music Processing<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>3D and Stereo Imaging <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Distributed Multimedia Systems <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Data Mining<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Multimedia in E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Multimedia in Medical Applications <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Multimedia Authentication and Watermarking<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Entertainment and games<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Multimedia Interfaces <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">* PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 14pt 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Accepted and presented papers will be published as paper in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT color=#000000>·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of IJCSA: International Journal of Computer Science & Applications, ISSN 0972-9038. </FONT><A href="http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html"><FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 14pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS style). LNCS style templates are available.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">* IMPORTANT DATES</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>
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</SPAN><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">20.06.2010</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">– Submission deadline</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN"> (extended)</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"><BR>
</SPAN><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN">12.07.2010</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"> – Notification of acceptance</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"><BR>
</SPAN><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN">23.08.2010</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"> – Camera-ready version of the accepted paper</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">s</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT color=#000000><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">18.10-20.10.2010</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> – Symposium<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">* GENERAL MMAP 2010 CHAIR<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Dumitru Dan Burdescu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place> <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">* Steering Committee</B> <BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Ioannis Pitas, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">University of Thessaloniki</SPAN></st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Costin Badica, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun"> Harald Kosch, </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">University of Passau</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Vladimir Uskov, Bradley <st1:City w:st="on">University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region><BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thomas M. Deserno, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Aachen University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT color=#000000>Mohammad S. Obaidat, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Monmouth University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR>
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">* Organizing Committee<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Liana Stanescu, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>* Publicity Chairs<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT color=#000000></FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Amelia Badica, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">* Program Committee <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
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</B></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">José Luis Sevillano Ramos, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Sevilla</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Michael Lang, National <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ireland</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">David Bustard, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ulster</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Janis Grundspenkis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Riga Technical University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Rynson Lau, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Shanghai</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, P.R. China<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gregory Wojtkowski, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boise State University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Che-Chern Lin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">National Kaohsiung Normal University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Bogdan Logofatu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Bucuresti</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Toshio Okamoto, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Electro-Communications</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wita Wojtkowski, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boise State University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Reda Alhajj, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Calgary</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Qi Chun, </SPAN><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun">Xi'an</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun"> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Jiaotong</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, P.R.China<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Enn Õunapuu, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Tallinn</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Estonia</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">George Tsihrintzis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Piraeus</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Stefan Trzcielinski,
<st1:City w:st="on">Poznan</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=DE style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE">Wilfried Philips, Universiteit Gent, Belgium<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=DE style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE">Vladimir Cretu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Academy of Science</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Kazuo Ohzeki, Shibaura Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 42.55pt; TEXT-INDENT: -42.55pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Valery Korzhik, State <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Telecommunications</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">St. Petersburg</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Boris Shishkov, IICREST / <st1:City w:st="on">Delft</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Daniel Grosu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wayne State University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Laszlo Böszörmenyi , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Klagenfurt University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Vladimir Fomichov, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT-BR style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR"><FONT color=#000000>Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT-BR style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR"><FONT color=#000000>Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Marek Ogiela, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">AGH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of Science and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT"><FONT color=#000000>Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Stefan Trausan-Matu, Politehnica <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Bucharest</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Reggie Kwan, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Caritas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Francis</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hsu</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>,</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> </FONT></SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hong Kong</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Rami Finkler, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Afeka</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of Engineering, Tel Aviv, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Alexander Verbraeck, <st1:City w:st="on">Delft</st1:City> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName>, The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Richard Chbeir, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bourgogne University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Christopher Barry, National <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ireland</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><FONT color=#000000><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Romulus</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Grigoras, IRIT - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Toulouse</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mihai Mocanu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Andrea Molinari, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Trento</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN lang=IT style="COLOR: windowtext;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN lang=IT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT"><FONT color=#000000>Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Christos Douligeris, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Piraeus</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Jacek Zurada, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Louisville</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Ryszard Choras, Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Telecommunications</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><PRE><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Shiguo Lian</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Telecom R&D Beijing, P.R. China<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Rajkumar Kannan, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bishop Heber College</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Ain Shams University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR"><FONT color=#000000>Yoshimi Teshigawara, Soka University, Japan<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR"><FONT color=#000000>Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR"><FONT color=#000000>George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University, USA<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Voicu Groza, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ottawa</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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