The pervasive use of mobile devices, the development of more natural usersâ?? interfaces and the new possibilities offered by the evolution of Web applications, together with the availability of large amount of multimodal data and information, enable people to access them and/or to use a multimodal dialog approach in order to access information and/or services.

The purpose of this workshop will be to discuss and provide a scenario about: 1) theories and techniques about multimodal information retrieval and multimodal databases for indexing, representing, organizing, querying and extracting features from multimodal data, and 2) multimodal interfaces and multimodal interaction languages used in a more natural/flexible Human Computer Interaction approach, 3) the multimodal Web interaction.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

· Multimodal information retrieval

· Multimodal Web interaction

· Indexing, search, and retrieval techniques of multimodal data

· Multimodal database systems

· Multimodal query processing

· Information extraction

· Information fusion and fission

· Multimodal query languages

· Multimodal interfaces and Multimodal interaction languages

· Evaluation of multimodal interfaces

PC Chairs:

· Karin Coninx, Hasselt University, Belgium, e-mail: karin.coninx@uhasselt.be

· Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy, e-mail:fernando.ferri@irpps.cnr.it

· Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Italy, e-mail:patrizia.grifoni@irpps.cnr.it

Program Committee:

· Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, UCL Interaction Centre, UK

· Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

· Pedro Branco, IMEDIA Providence RI, USA

· Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France

· Anna Formica, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica-CNR, Rome, Italy

· Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

· Irina Kondratova, Institute for Information Technology, NRC, Canada

· Fabio Pittarello,Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy

· Riccardo Torlone, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

· Esteban Zimanyi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

· Frederic Andres, University of Aizu, Japan

· Yiwei Cao, University of Aachen, Germany

· Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands

Important dates:

Submission of abstracts: February 29, 2008
Submission of full papers: March 9, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2008
Camera-ready copies due: May 15, 2008

Papers Submission:

The full paper submission is limited to 5 pages in length (IEEE ICDE Format). Simultaneous submission to another conference/workshop/journal is not allowed. Papers must be original and have not been published or under consideration for publications elsewhere. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 program committee members for their technical merit, originality, significance, and relevance to the workshop. Please upload abstract (no more than 250 words in ASCII text) and paper at https://www.dexa.org/dexadriver/.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'08 workshops.