[MUST 2011 Call for Papers]
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** Important Notices **
1. Submission due: March 25, 2011
2. All accepted papers will bepublished in the Springer CCIS proceedings (EI and ISTP),
which will be indexed by the following services: EI Compendex(Since 2010),
ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S),
included in ISI Web of Science, DBLP and Scopus.
3. All accepted and presented papers in MUST 2011, after further revisions,
will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:
- Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE), http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042
- IJITCC, InderScience, http://www.inderscience.com/ijitcc
- JoC, FTRA Publishing, http://www.ftrai.org/joc
- JIPS, KIPS (KCI-E index) http://jips-k.org
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The FTRA 2nd International Workshop on
Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'11)
http://www.ftrai.org/must2011/
Crete, Greece, 28-30 June, 2011
In conjunction with FutureTech 2011
http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2011/
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The FTRA 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'11) aims at high quality research contributions in multimedia semantic computing, with a focus on how to apply the

semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation, storage, processing, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information. A main goal of MUST is to address emerging research challenges in

Semantic Multimedia and to help reducing the Semantic Gap between low-level content descriptions of multimedia and the semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media. Semantic Web

and multimedia community researchers are encouraged to join the workshop to benefit from the presentation of results from multimedia based research, which demonstrate important multimedia applications

which could be enhanced by Semantic Web technologies.
MUST'11 will be held in conjunction with MUE 2011, in Crete, Greece, 28-30 June 2011.
MUST'11 encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of multimedia in general or in the context of specific domains.
The selected outstanding papers will be published in the following Journals.
@ Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
@ International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
@ Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA
@ Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) - KIPS (KCIE)
Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
== Topics ==
- Advanced Semantic Descriptors and Similarity Metrics for Multimedia
- Advanced Semantic and Content-based Multimedia Analysis
- Machine Learning and Relevance Feedback in Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval
- Ontology Engineering and Ontology-based Multimedia Mining and Retrieval
- Semantic Web technologies and Multimedia
- Semantic-driven Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
- Semantic-driven Multimedia Personalization and Adaptation
- Interfaces for Web-scale Multimedia Repositories
- Affective/Emotional Interaction or Interfaces in Multimedia Applications
- Applications of Semantic Multimedia in Social and Web-based Environments
- Collective and Swarm Intelligence for Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia and Digital Convergence
- Intelligent Multimedia Services for Future Environments
- Multimedia Security in Future Environments
== Organization ==
Workshop General Chair
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Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Workshop Chairs
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Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea (Leading Chair)
Marco Bertini, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Gamhewage C. de Silva, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany
International Advisory Committee
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Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA
Technical Program Committee
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Aiden R. Doherty, Dublin City University, Ireland
Prarthana Shreshtha, University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece
LE Thi Lan, MICA, Hanoi University of Technology , Vietnam
Chi-ho Chan, University of Surrey, the United Kingdom
Liyanage de Silva, Massey University, New Zealand
Ramanathan Subramanian, The National University of Singapore
Pradeep K. Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, Canada
Masashi Inoue, Yamagata University, Japan
Ralf Klamma, Aachen University, Germany
Yannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
Andrew Bagdanov, CVC
Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, Germany
Carlo Torniai, OHSU, USA
Thomas Haenselmann, University of Mannheim, Germany
Jungong Han, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK
Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dirk Farin, Bosch Research, Germany
Oya Aran, Bogazici University, Istanbul
== Paper Submission and Publication ==
All accepted papers will bepublished in the Springer CCIS proceedings (EI and ISTP), which will be indexed by the following services: EI Compendex(Since 2010), ISI Conference Proceedings Citation

Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, DBLP and Scopus.
Instructions for papers in the Springer's CCIS（Note that the paper format of CCIS is the same as that of LNCS）
- Prepare your paper in the exact format as the sample paper for CCIS. Failure to do so may result in the exclusion of your paper from the proceedings. Please read the authors' instructions carefully

before preparing your papers.
- Springer accepts both Microsoft Word and LaTex format in the Lecture Note Series. However, FTRA does not accept the use of LaTex. Therefore, you should use the Microsoft Word instead of using LaTex

(The paper will be excluded from the proceeding if you use LaTex). Springer provides the relevant templates and sample files for both PC (sv-lncs.dot) and Mac (sv-lncs) environments.
- Please download word.zip (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-72919-0). If you need more help on preparing your papers, please visit Springer's

LNCS web page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0).
MUST2011 Submission URL: http://www.editorialsystem.net/must2011/
== Important Dates ==
Paper Submission: March 25, 2011 (Final Extension !!!)
Acceptance Notification: April 1, 2011 (Hard Deadline)
Camera-Ready Version: April 15, 2011
Workshop Date: June 28-30, 2011
== Contact ==
For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact Program Chairs.
Seungmin Rho (pc.seungminrho@gmail.com) or Marco Bertini (bertini@dsi.unifi.it) or Gamhewage C. de Silva (chamds@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) or Stephan Kopf (kopf@informatik.uni-mannheim.de)