FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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7th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing (MMAP'14)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/mmap
E-mail: mmap2014@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to MMAP 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, Informatics Europe, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

MMAP 2014 is organized by Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania "Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre. 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.
The MMAP 2014 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts developments to advanced technologies and innovative and theoretical applications. MMAP 2014 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.
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.

TOPICS
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Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Audio, Image and Video Processing
- Animation, Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo Imaging
- Multimedia File Systems and Databases: Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
- Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval in Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia in Internet and Web Based Systems: E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications
- Human Computer Interaction and Interfaces in Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia in Medical Applications
- Entertainment and games
- Security in Multimedia Applications: Authentication and Watermarking
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Network and Operating System Support for Multimedia
- Mobile Network Architecture
- Intelligent Multimedia Network Applications

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 23, 2014 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 23, 2014 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Brezovan, Marius, University of Craiova
- Burdescu, Dumitru Dan, University of Craiova, Romania

STEERING COMMITTEE
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- Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
- Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
- Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
- Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
- Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen University, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Badica, Amelia, University of Craiova, Romania
- Böszörmenyi, Laszlo, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Burlea Schiopoiu, Adriana, University of Craiova
- Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
- Cano, Alberto, University of Cordoba, Spain
- Cardoso, Jaime S., Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Cretu, Vladimir, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
- Debono, Carl James, University of Malta, Malta
- Fomichov, Vladimir, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia., Russia
- Giurca, Adrian, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
- Grosu, Daniel, Wayne State University, United States
- Groza, Voicu, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Grundspenkis, Janis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Kannan, Rajkumar, Bishop Heber College Autonomous, India
- Korzhik, Valery, State University of Telecommunications, Russia
- Kotenko, Igor, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia
- Kriksciuniene, Dalia, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Lamas, David, Tallin University, Estonia
- Lau, Rynson, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
- Lloret, Jaime, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Logofatu, Bogdan, University of Bucharest, Romania
- Luna, Jose, University of Cordoba, Spain
- Mangioni, Giuseppe, DIEEI - University of Catania, Italy
- Mihaescu, Cristian, University of Craiova
- Miyata, Hitoshi, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Japan
- Mocanu, Mihai, University of Craiova, Romania
- Morales-Luna, Guillermo, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
- Ogiela, Marek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Ohzeki, Kazuo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
- Õunapuu, Enn, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
- Paltoglou, Georgios, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
- Popescu, Dan, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia, Australia
- Querini, Marco, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering
- Salem, Abdel-Badeeh M., Ain Shams University, Egypt
- Sari, Riri Fitri, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
- Smedberg, Asa, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Stanescu, Liana, University of Craiova
- Tejera, Mario Hernández, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Trausan-Matu, Stefan, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
- Trzcielinski, Stefan, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
- Tsihrintzis, George, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Vega-Rodríguez, Miguel A., University of Extremadura, Spain
- Velastin, Sergio, Kingston University, United Kingdom
- Wotawa, Franz, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria
- Zurada, Jacek, University of Louisville, United States