<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing, MMAP 2013</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div class="y_msg_container"><a href="http://www.fedcsis.org/" target="_blank">http://www.fedcsis.org/</a><br>Organized by:<br>Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania<br>"Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre<br>Contact:<a ymailto="mailto:burdescu@software.ucv.ro" href="mailto:burdescu@software.ucv.ro">burdescu@software.ucv.ro</a><br>within the framework<br>FEDERATED
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS?CONFERENCE<br>held in Krakow, Poland, September 8-11, 2013<br>CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS<br>Multimedia information has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval.<br>Recent advances in pervasive 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, educational and governmental domains. Yet many challenges remain, especially when it comes to efficiently indexing, mining, querying, searching, retrieving, displaying and interacting with multimedia data.<br>The Multimedia
- Processing and Applications 2013 (MMAP 2013) Symposium addresses several themes related to theory and practice within multimedia domain. The enormous interest in multimedia from many activity areas (medicine, entertainment, education) led researchers and<br>industry to make a continuous effort to create new, innovative multimedia algorithms and applications.<br>As a result the conference goal is to bring together researchers, engineers, developers and practitioners in order to communicate their newest and original contributions. The key objective of the MMAP conference is to gather results from academia and industry partners working in all subfields of multimedia: content design, development, authoring and evaluation, systems/tools oriented research and development. We are also interested in looking at service architectures, protocols, and standards for multimedia communications - including middleware - along with the related security issues, such as
secure multimedia information sharing. Finally, we encourage submissions describing work on novel applications that exploit the unique set of advantages offered by multimedia computing techniques, including home-networked entertainment and games. However, innovative contributions that don't exactly fit into these areas will also be considered because they might be<br> of benefit to conference attendees.<br><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b><br>MMAP 2013 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.<br>The MMAP 2013 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 2013 invites original previously unpublished contributions<br>that are not submitted concurrently to a
journal or another conference.<br>Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation,<br>originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions.<br><b>TOPICS OF INTEREST</b><br>Topics of interest are related to Multimedia<br>Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following?areas:<br>Audio, Image and Video Processing<br>Animation, Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo Imaging<br>Multimedia File Systems and Databases: Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval<br>Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval in Multimedia Applications<br>Multimedia in Internet and Web Based Systems: E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications<br>Human Computer Interaction and Interfaces in Multimedia Applications<br>Multimedia in Medical Applications Entertainment and games<br>Security in Multimedia Applications: Authentication and Watermarking<br>Distributed Multimedia
Systems<br>Network and Operating System Support for Multimedia<br>Mobile Network Architecture<br>Intelligent Multimedia Network Applications<br><b>PAPER SUBMISSION, PUBLICATION AND INDEXATION</b><br>Authors should submit full papers (as Postscript, PDF, MSWord, or ODF file). The total length of a paper must not exceed 8 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates.<br>Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.<br>Submitted papers must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal (submissions that violate this?requirement will be regarded as self-plagiarism).<br>Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.<br>Only papers presented at the conference will be included in the IEEE Xplore? database and submitted for indexation.<br><b>Proceedings of the FedCSIS 2012 conference were indexed in the Thomson
Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, where they will also be submitted in 2013.</b><br>Furthermore, FedCSIS proceedings will be submitted for indexation to: DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Inspec, Scirus, and other repositories.<br>Extended versions of selected papers presented?during the conference may be published as Special Issue(s) of journal(s)to be announced later.<br><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b><br>Paper submission: May 21, 2013<br>Author notification: June 17, 2013<br>Final submission and registration opening: July 8, 2013<br>Conference date: September 8-11, 2013<br>GENERAL MMAP 2012 CHAIR<br>Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania<br>Steering Committee<br>Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece<br>Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania<br>Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA<br>Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany<br>Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA<br>Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen
University, Germany<br>Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA<br>Organizing Committee<br>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<br>Cristian Marian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania<br>Publicity Chair<br>Amelia Badica, University of Craiova, Romania<br>Adriana Schiopoiu Burlea, University of Craiova, Romania<br>Program Committee<br>Badica, Amelia, University of Craiova, Romania<br>B?sz?rmenyi, Laszlo, Klagenfurt University, United States<br>Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain<br>Cano, Alberto, University of Cordoba, Spain<br>Cardoso, Jaime S., Universidade do Porto, Portugal<br>Cretu, Vladimir, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania<br>Debono, Carl James, University of Malta, Malta<br>Fomichov, Vladimir, State University - Higher School of Economics,
Russia<br>Giurca, Adrian, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany <br>Grosu,Daniel, Wayne State University, United States<br>Groza, Voicu, University of Ottawa, Canada<br>Grundspenkis, Janis, Riga Technical University, Latvia<br>Hendrix, Maurice, Coventry University, United Kingdom<br>Kannan, Rajkumar, Bishop Heber College Autonomous, India<br>Korzhik, Valery, State University of Telecommunications, Russia<br>Kotenko, Igor, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia<br>Kriksciuniene, Dalia, Vilnius University, Lithuania<br>Lamas, David, Tallin University, Estonia<br>Lau, Rynson, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China<br>Lloret, Jaime, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain<br>Logofatu, Bogdan, University of Bucharest, Romania<br>Luna, Jose, University of Cordoba, Spain<br>Mangioni, Giuseppe, DIEEI - University of Catania, Italy<br>Miyata, Hitoshi, Centro de Investigacion y de
Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politocnico Nacional, Japan<br>Mocanu, Mihai, University of Craiova, Romania<br>Morales-Luna, Guillermo, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico<br>Ogiela, Marek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland<br>Ohzeki, Kazuo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan <br>Ounapuu, Enn, University of Technology, Estonia<br>Paltoglou, Georgios, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom<br>Popescu, Dan, CSIRO, Australia<br>Salem, Abdel-Badeeh M., Ain Shams University, Egypt<br>Sari, Riri Fitri, University of Indonesia, Indonesia<br>Smedberg, Asa, Stockholm University, Sweden<br>Tejera, Mario Hernandez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain<br>Trausan-Matu, Stefan, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania<br>Trzcielinski, Stefan, Poznan University of Technology, Poland<br>Tsihrintzis, George, University of Piraeus, Greece<br>Vega-Rodriguez, Miguel A.,
University of Extremadura, Spain<br>Velastin, Sergio, Kingston University, United Kingdom<br>Wotawa, Franz, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria<br>Zurada, Jacek, University of Louisville, United States<br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>