<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV align=left><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Arial size=2><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Please send to interested colleagues and Ph.D. students<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>-- CALL FOR PAPERS --<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>International Symposium on<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Multimedia –</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Applications and Processing, MMAP 2011,<o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><A href="http://mmap.fedcsis.org/"><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>http://mmap.fedcsis.org</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext;
FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Organized by:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>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></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Contact:</SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff><U><SPAN class=MsoHyperlink><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><A href="mailto:burdescu@software.ucv.ro">burdescu@software.ucv.ro</A></SPAN></U><SPAN class=MsoHyperlink><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>within the framework<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>FEDERATED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Szczecin</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 19-21 September, 2011<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><A href="http://www.fedcsis.org/"><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>http://www.fedcsis.org/</FONT></A></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>* CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Multimedia information has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Recent advances in pervasive</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3> computers, networks, telecommunications, and information technology, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New
Roman'"><FONT size=3>along with the proliferation of multimedia </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>mobile devices - such as laptops, iPods, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>personal digital assistants (PDA), and cellular telephones - have stimulated the development of intelligent </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>pervasive multimedia applications. </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>These key technologies are creating a multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE
style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>business, healthcare, and governmental domains. </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Yet many challenges remain, especially when it comes </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>to efficiently indexing, mining, querying, searching, and retrieving multimedia data. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>The Multimedia - Processing and Applications 2011 (MMAP 2011) Symposium addresses several themes related to theory and practice </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY:
'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>within multimedia domain. </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>The enormous interest in multimedia from many activity areas (medicine, entertainment, education) led researchers and industry to make a continuous </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>effort to create new, innovative multimedia algorithms and application. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>As a result the conference goal is to bring together researchers, engineers </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>and practitioners in order to communicate their newest and
original contributions on topics that have been identified (see below). </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>We are also interested in looking at service architectures, protocols, and standards for multimedia communications - including middleware - along </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>with the related security issues, such as secure multimedia information sharing. </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Finally, we encourage submissions describing work on novel applications that exploit the unique set of advantages offered by multimedia computing techniques, </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>including home-networked entertainment and games. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>However, innovative contributions that don't exactly fit into these areas will also be considered </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>* CALL FOR PAPERS<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>MMAP 2011 is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>real-world problems with real-world solutions.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>The MMAP 2011 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts and
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>theoretical developments </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>to advanced technologies and innovative applications. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>MMAP 2011 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Papers acceptance and publication will be judged
based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>and proposed solutions.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN><o:p><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><BR></P></FONT></PRE></DIV>
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<FONT size=2><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>* TOPICS OF INTEREST</STRONG></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG><o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'"><FONT size=2>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: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Image and Video Processing <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Speech, Audio and Music Processing<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- 3D and Stereo Imaging <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Distributed Multimedia Systems <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Data Mining<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Multimedia in E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Multimedia in Medical Applications <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Multimedia Authentication and Watermarking<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Entertainment and games<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>- Multimedia Interfaces <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><PRE><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">* <STRONG>PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></PRE>
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<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>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></FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>Accepted and presented papers will be published as paper in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database and DBLP.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>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 size=2>http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html</FONT></A><FONT size=2> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file). <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2>The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS style). The papers should be submitted to Event by 31-May-2011 using the FedCSIS EasyChair submission system </FONT><A href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fedcsis2011"><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fedcsis2011</FONT></A><FONT size=2> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 54.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p><FONT size=3> *</FONT></o:p></SPAN><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; 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: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IMPORTANT DATES</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE><SPAN><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>19.06.2011– Submission deadline</FONT></SPAN><SPAN><BR>
<FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>16.07.2011</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> – Notification of acceptance</FONT></SPAN><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><SPAN> <BR>
7.08.2011</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"> – Camera-ready version of the accepted paper</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">s</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN>September 18-21, 2011–</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> Symposium<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size=3><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=2><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* <STRONG>GENERAL
MMAP 2011 CHAIR<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><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></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><STRONG>* Steering Committee <BR></PRE>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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> </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Borko Furht, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Florida Atlantic University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun">Harald Kosch, </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">University of Passau</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Vladimir Uskov, Bradley <st1:City w:st="on">University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region><BR>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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3>Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><BR></P>
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<STRONG>* Organizing Committee<BR></STRONG>
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>Liana Stanescu, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania</FONT></P>
<P></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Cristian Mihaescu, <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></FONT></SPAN></P><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT size=3></FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><STRONG>* Publicity Chair<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> 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><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><BR></PRE>
<P><FONT size=3><STRONG>* Program Committee</STRONG> <BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Qi Chun, </SPAN><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun">Xi'an</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; 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</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Wilfried Philips, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Universiteit Gent</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Vladimir Cretu, Politehnica <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Timisoara</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"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Vladimir Fomichov, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> - Higher <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Economics</st1:PlaceName>, <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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Extremadura</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: IT"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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>, <st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Rami Finkler, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Afeka</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of Engineering, Tel Aviv, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; 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 style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Franz Wotawa, Technische <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Universitaet Graz</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"></st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Shiguo Lian</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> Telecom R&D Beijing, P.R. China<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=DE style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: DE"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College, India<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Valencia</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Yoshimi Teshigawara, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Soka University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Christian Timmerer, <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></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">George Thiruvathukal, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Loyola University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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