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</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Please send to interested colleagues and
Ph.D. students</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">--
CALL FOR PAPERS --</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">International
Symposium on Multimedia –</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Applications and Processing, MMAP 2014,</b></span></font></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.fedcsis.org/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.fedcsis.org/</font></a></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Organized by:</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Software Engineering Department, Faculty of
Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania<br>
"Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Contact:<u><font color="#0000ff"> </font></u></font></font><a href="mailto:burdescu@software.ucv.ro"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">burdescu@software.ucv.ro</font></a></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">within the framework</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">FEDERATED
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">held
in </span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Warsaw, Poland,
September 7-10, 2014</span></font></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*
CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Multimedia information has become
ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and
retrieval. 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
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pervasive multimedia applications. These key technologies are creating a <br>
multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide <br>
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.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Multimedia - Processing and
Applications 2014 (MMAP 2014) 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 industry to make a continuous effort to create new, innovative
multimedia algorithms and applications.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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 sub-fields 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 middle-ware - 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 of benefit to conference attendees.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">*
CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-US">MMAP 2014 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.</span></font></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The MMAP 2014 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 2014 invites original previously unpublished contributions
that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" 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 and proposed solutions.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* <strong>TOPICS OF INTEREST</strong></font></font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";'><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Topics
of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, (but
are not limited) to the following areas:</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Audio, Image and Video Processing</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Animation, Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo
Imaging</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Multimedia File Systems and Databases:
Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information
Retrieval in Multimedia Applications</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Multimedia in Internet and Web Based
Systems:</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society
Applications</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Human Computer Interaction and Interfaces
in Multimedia Applications</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Multimedia in Medical Applications</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Entertainment and games</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Security in Multimedia Applications: Authentication
and Watermarking</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Distributed Multimedia Systems</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Network and Operating System Support for
Multimedia</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Mobile Network Architecture</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Intelligent Multimedia Network Applications</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">PAPER
SUBMISSION, PUBLICATION AND INDEXATION</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Authors should submit full papers (as
Postscript, PDF, MSWord file).</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The total length of a paper must not exceed
8-10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style
templates are available on site.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Papers will be refereed and accepted on the
basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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).</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Organizers reserve right to move accepted
papers between FedCSIS events.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Only papers presented at the conference
will be included in the IEEE Xplore® database and submitted for indexation in:
Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus,
Inspec, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar and other
repositories.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Extended versions of selected papers presented
during the MMAP conference may be published as Special Issue(s) of journal(s) to
be announced later. Now we can announce ISI Journal ComSIS journal (<span style="background: white; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">indexed by Tomson Reuters; </span></font></font><a href="http://www.comsis.org/indexing.php" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: rgb(40, 98, 197);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.comsis.org/indexing.php</font></span></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">)
and BDI Journal of Computer Science & Applications, </font><a href="http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">IMPORTANT DATES</b></font></font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Paper
submission: April 11, 2014</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Author
notification: May 19, 2014</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Final
submission and registration opening: June 19, 2014</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Conference
date: September 7-10, 2014</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*
GENERAL MMAP 2014 Co-CHAIRS</font></span></b></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of
Craiova, Romania </font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;">
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