<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div id="yiv7419341061"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv7419341061"><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10652"><div class="yiv7419341061ms__id8447" id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10651" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv7419341061"><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9504"><div class="yiv7419341061ms__id7582 yiv7419341061ms__id8448" id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9503" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_2853"><b
id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_2852"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_2851" lang="EN-US">International Symposium on Multimedia –</span></b><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_3334" lang="EN-US"> <b id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_3333">Applications and Processing, MMAP 2014,</b></span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19060"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19059" lang="EN-US"><a id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19058" href="http://www.fedcsis.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><font id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19057" color="#196ad4">http://www.fedcsis.org/</font></a></span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19116"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19115" lang="EN-US">Organized by: Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation,
Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania<br clear="none"> "Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19308"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19307" lang="EN-US">Contact:<span> </span><a id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19306" href="mailto:burdescu@topedge.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:burdescu@topedge.com"><font id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19305" color="#196ad4">burdescu@topedge.com</font></a><span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">within the framework</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9527"><b id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9526"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9525" lang="EN-US">FEDERATED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE</span></b></div><div
id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10655"><b><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_7" lang="EN-US">held in </span></b><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10654" lang="EN-US">Warsaw, Poland,
September 7-10, 2014</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9558"><b id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9557"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9556" lang="EN-US">* CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS</span></b></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10653"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_8_1396981427311_7" lang="EN-US">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 <br clear="none"> 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.</span></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_8_1396981427311_9" lang="EN-US">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.</span></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_8_1396981427311_11" lang="EN-US">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.</span></div><div><b><span lang="EN-US">* CALL FOR PAPERS<br clear="none"></span></b><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_15" 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></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_8_1396981427311_13" lang="EN-US">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.</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9514"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9513" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9509" lang="EN-US"><br clear="none"> * <b id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9524">TOPICS OF INTEREST</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9523"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9522" lang="EN-US">Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, (but are not limited) to the following areas:</span></div><div
id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9563"><span lang="EN-US">Audio, Image and Video Processing</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9562"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9561" lang="EN-US">Animation, Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo Imaging</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9559"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9560" lang="EN-US">Multimedia File Systems and Databases: Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9537"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9536" lang="EN-US">Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval in Multimedia Applications</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9539"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9538" lang="EN-US">Multimedia in Internet and Web
Based Systems:</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9541"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9540" lang="EN-US">E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9543"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_9542" lang="EN-US">Human Computer Interaction and Interfaces in Multimedia Applications</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Multimedia in Medical Applications</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Entertainment and games</span></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_24" lang="EN-US">Security in Multimedia Applications: Authentication and Watermarking</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Distributed Multimedia Systems</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Network and Operating System Support for Multimedia</span></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_26" lang="EN-US">Mobile Network
Architecture</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Intelligent Multimedia Network Applications</span></div><div><b><span lang="EN-US">PAPER SUBMISSION, PUBLICATION AND
INDEXATION</span></b></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_28" lang="EN-US">Authors should submit full papers (as Postscript, PDF, MSWord file).</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_30" lang="EN-US">Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.</span></div><div><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_32" lang="EN-US">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).</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.</span></div><div><span
id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_34" lang="EN-US">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.</span></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19050"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_19049" lang="EN-US">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="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">indexed by Tomson Reuters; </span><a href="http://www.comsis.org/indexing.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><span style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197);">http://www.comsis.org/indexing.php</span></a>) and BDI Journal of Computer Science & Applications, <a href="http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><font color="#196ad4">http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html</font></a> .</span></div><div><b><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b></div><div><b><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_38"
lang="EN-US">Paper
submission: <span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_40" style="color: red;">April 23, 2014
(SHARP Paper submission deadline)</span></span></b></div><div><b><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_9_1396981427311_42" lang="EN-US">Author notification: May 19, 2014</span></b></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10658"><b id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10657"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396981427311_10656" lang="EN-US">Final submission and registration opening: June 19, 2014</span></b></div><div id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_2906"><b id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_1_1396952213382_2907"><span id="yiv7419341061yui_3_13_0_8_1396952213382_100" lang="EN-US">Conference date: September 7-10, 2014</span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>