CALL FOR PAPERS
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XIX BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA AND THE WEB

WEBMEDIA 2013

November 5 - 8, 2013

Gran Hotel Stella Maris
Salvador - BA, Brazil

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IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

FULL PAPERS
Submission deadline: May 20, 2013
Rebuttal: 17-24 June 2013
Author notification: July 1, 2013
Camera-ready version: August 12, 2013

SHORT PAPERS
Submission deadline: July 8, 2013
Author notification: July 29, 2013
Camera-ready version: August 12, 2013

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We cordially invite you to participate in WebMedia 2013, the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web, which will be held in November 5-8, 2013, in the city of Salvador/BA, Brazil.

Supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), WebMedia has been, since 1995, the most important Brazilian forum for presentations, tutorials and discussions concerning recent advances in research and technology related to Multimedia, Hypermedia and the Web, bringing together professionals from both the academia and industry.

The event holds the following categories:

- Full papers and Short papers
- Workshop on Ongoing Thesis and Dissertations (WTD)
- Workshop on Tools and Applications (WFA)
- Workshop on Undergraduate Research Work (WTIC)
- Short Courses

The event's current organization is under the responsibility of the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and University Salvador (UNIFACS).


W E B M E D I A 2013
FULL AND SHORT PAPER SUBMISSION
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FULL AND SHORT PAPER SUBMISSIONS

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.

This edition of Webmedia is organized into three tracks:

- Web and Social Networks (co-chair: André Santanchè - Unicamp)
- Multimedia (co-chair: Celso Alberto Saibel Santos - UFES)
- Digital TV, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing (co-chair: Rudinei Goularte – ICMC USP)

The evaluation of full papers will have a rebuttal phase, in which authors may access the reviews and have the opportunity to respond to reviewers before the final selection.

The Volume 1 of 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webmedia2013

Previous editions of the Volume 1 of the Proceedings are available at: http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE446

Venue
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The WebMedia 2013 will take place in Salvador, BA, at Gran Hotel Stella Maris, Praça de Stella Maris, 200, Stella Maris (http://www.solexpress.com.br/stellamarisresorthotel.aspx).


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TOPICS
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Topics and technologies relevant to the symposium include, among others:

Web and Social Networks Track

- 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


Multimedia Track

- 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 Track

- 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


COMMITTEE
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General Chair
Cássio Prazeres - UFBA
Paulo Sampaio - UNIFACS (co-chair)

Technical Program Chair
André Santanchè - Unicamp

Track Co-chairs
Web and Social Networks Track: Andre Santanchè - Unicamp
Multimedia Track: Celso Alberto Saibel Santos - UFES
Digital TV, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Track: Rudinei Goularte – ICMC USP

Program Committee
In Construction