We are delighted to invite you to submit quality papers describing original research and new findings on technological and theoretical aspects related to Multimedia, Hypermedia and the Web at Webmedia’2015 (XXI Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia).

Authors are invited to submit papers reporting research results, which will be evaluated in terms of: originality, technical content and accuracy, significance of the work, presentation (organization, style and clearness), and appropriateness of references to papers presented in earlier editions of the event. The event holds the following categories:

Full papers
Short papers
Workshop on Ongoing Thesis and Dissertations (WTD)
Workshop on Tools and Applications (WFA)
Workshop on Undergraduate Research Work (WTIC)
Short Courses
The papers can address the following three main topics:

Web and Social Networks
Multimedia
Digital TV, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
The Proceedings, containing the full and short papers, will be published in the ACM DL during the event. Due to editorial requirements, only papers whose authors meet the hard deadlines for submitting the final version will be published in the proceedings.

Upon submitting a manuscript, authors assume the commitment that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author will register in the conference and present the paper.

Authors can submit full or short papers. Full papers can have a length of up to 8 pages at submission and should report on substantial research supported by complete results. Short papers submission are limited to 4 pages and may describe ongoing work and contain partial results.

Papers must be prepared to allow double-blind review, which requires removing any information which may suggest who the authors are (in the first page, in the references etc.).

Papers can be written either in English or Portuguese. Papers in Portuguese must include an abstract in English, and optionally an abstract in Portuguese.

The submissions must be in PDF, complying with the ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).

All papers must be submitted electronically by the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webmedia2015

Subtopics and technologies relevant to the symposium include, among others:

Web and Social Networks Topic

- Architectures, processes, services, methodologies and applications
- Web Interfaces, usability and accessibility Mobile devices and the Web
- Browsers and presentation engines Authoring, collaboration, content adaptation and personalization
- Social Networks and social and Emergent Semantics
- Document engineering
- Web engineering
- Standards for documents, models and languages
- Structured data on the Web
- Semantic Web, linked data, annotations, metadata and ontologies
- Web services, service-oriented Web applications and semantic Web services
- Content management and digital libraries on the Web
- Interaction and user experience
- Web 2.0 applications – rich internet applications, mashups, apps and other component models
- E-Commerce
- Web Data mining
- Sentiment analysis on Web and Social Networks

Multimedia Topic

- Architectures, systems, middleware and applications
- Distribution, transport, sharing and security
- Analysis, coding, and processing of multimedia content
- Search and retrieval of multimedia content
- Authoring, production, synchronization, presentation
- Collaboration, adaptation and personalization of content
- Multimedia and social networks
- Multimedia and mobile devices
- Interaction and user experience

Digital TV, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Topic

- Languages, architectures, middlewares and frameworks
- Analysis, coding, and processing of content
- Collaboration, adaptation and personalization of content
- Context-aware computing
- Content authoring, testing and verification
- Application authoring, testing and verification
- Mobile devices and multiple devices
- Interaction and user experience

If you have any questions, contact us: webmedia2015@icomp.ufam.edu.br. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. This year we are celebrating the 21th edition of Webmedia and we hope to see you there!

Best Regards,

General Chairs
Marco Cristo (UFAM) and David Fernandes (UFAM)

Program Committee Chairs
Adriano C. Machado Pereira (UFMG)

Co-chairs
Fabrício Benevenuto (UFMG)
Valter Roesler (UFRGS)
Marcelo Moreno (UFJF)

Workshop on Ongoing Thesis and Dissertations (WTD)
Local chair: João Marcos Bastos Cavalcanti (UFAM)

Workshop on Tools and Applications (WFA)
Local chair: Moisés Gomes de Carvalho (UFAM)

Workshop on Undergraduate Research Work (WTIC)
Chair: Eduardo Barrére (UFJF)
Local chair: André Luis Costa Carvalho (UFAM)

Short Courses
Chair: Renato FIleto (UFSC)
Local chair: Altigran Soares da Silva (UFAM)

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

FULL PAPERS
Abstract submission deadline: June 19, 2015
Submission deadline: June 26, 2015
Author notification: July 27, 2015
Camera-ready version: August 07, 2015

SHORT PAPERS
Submission deadline: August 03, 2015
Author notification: August 17, 2015
Camera-ready version: August 24, 2015

WORKSHOPS (WTD, WFA, WTIC)
Submission deadline: August 20, 2015
Author notification: September 04, 2015
Camera-ready version: September 08, 2015

CT-VIDEO WORKSHOP
Submission deadline:
Author notification:
Camera-ready version:

SHORT COURSES
Submission deadline: August 03, 2015
Author notification: August 28, 2015
Camera-ready version: September 25, 2015