Middleware 2010
lunes, 15 de marzo de 2010
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference
November 29 - December 3, 2010, Bangalore, India
http://2010.middleware-
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important
innovations and recent advances in the design, implementation, deployment,
and usage of middleware. Middleware is a distributed-systems software that
resides between a rich variety of applications on the one hand, and the
underlying architecture on the other hand which may consist of the OS,
hardware, and network stacks or even databases, storage and different cloud
services. The goals of middleware include providing abstractions,
programmability, performance, scalability, security, and a variety of
essential features. This is a rapidly evolving and growing field.
Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 11th
International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware
research and technology in 2010. The scope of the conference is the design,
implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms
and architectures for current and future computing, storage, and
communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high
quality technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, poster and
demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.
Submissions on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly those
identifying new research directions. The topics of the conference include,
but are not limited to:
Middleware platforms:
* Middleware for emerging cloud computing, datacenters, and server farms
* Middleware for traditional clusters and Grid computing
* Middleware for data-intensive computing
* Middleware for mobile devices, ubiquitous and mobile computing
* Middleware for sensor and embedded systems
* Middleware for Web services and Web-service composition
* Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware
* Middleware for system management and monitoring
* Middleware for next generation telecommunication platforms
* Internet-based communication protocols and data transfer middleware
* Middleware support for multimedia and tele-immersion
* Middleware supporting service-oriented architectures
* Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches
* Semantic middleware
* Middleware solutions for distributed databases
* Peer-to-peer middleware solutions
* Novel middleware solutions for industry frameworks
Systems issues for Middleware:
* Reliability and fault-tolerance
* Scalability and performance
* Energy- and power-aware techniques
* Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
* Security and Information assurance
* Storage and file systems
* Parallelized execution and techniques
* Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of middleware
* Real-time solutions and quality of service
* Evaluation and deployment: challenges, techniques and lessons
Design principles and tools:
* Programming frameworks, parallel programming and design methodologies for
middleware
* Empirical and deployment studies for middleware solutions
* Debugging and distributed debugging of middleware
* Probabilistic Techniques and approaches for middleware
* Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation,
verification, and evaluation
* Formal methods, verification and software engineering for middleware
* Old Wine: Revisiting classical middleware paradigms, e.g., object models,
aspect orientation, etc.
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Industry Papers
The conference strongly encourages submission of industry-focused papers and
use case studies; full papers should be submitted to the main program, where
they will be reviewed using appropriate criteria (e.g. emphasizing
experience and system evolution), and accepted papers will be published in
the main conference proceedings. Additionally, short industry-focused papers
(10 pages, Springer LNCS style) may be submitted to a special industrial
track; accepted short papers will be presented at the conference and
published in the ACM Digital Library. Note that submissions to the main
program may indicate a willingness to be referred to the Industrial Track if
a paper is not accepted to the main program.
Big Ideas Papers
This year, we particularly encourage "big ideas papers"; that is papers that
have the potential for opening up new research directions. For such papers,
the potential to motivate new research is more important than full
experimental evaluation, though some preliminary evidence of the
effectiveness of the approach or idea is important. Authors should indicate
in the introduction that their paper is a vision of a big idea, rather than
more mature work. Such papers should clearly indicate why the idea is
revolutionary and not evolutionary; what the major questions still to be
answered are; and possible avenues of attack for the community to pursue
towards the development of the idea.
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Submission Guidelines
Submissions will be handled via the conference web page at
https://cmt.research.
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Important Dates
May 16, 2010: Abstract Submission
May 23, 2010 (11:59pm PST): Paper Submission
August 5, 2010: Notification of acceptance
August 20, 2010: Camera ready due
November 29 - December 3, 2010: Conference
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There will be a separate call for workshops, for tutorials, and for the
Doctoral Symposium. Please check the website for dates.
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Program Committee Chairs
Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge
International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
jueves, 18 de febrero de 2010
10th IFIP WG 6.1
International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
DAIS 2010
"Applications and services for a complex world"
In-cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT and SIGAPP
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 7-9, 2010
http://discotec.project.cwi.
To be held in conjunction with
FMOODS/FORTE 2010 and Coordination 2010
http://discotec.project.cwi.
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Distributed application technology has become a foundation of the information
society. New computing and communication technologies have brought up a
multitude of challenging application areas, including mobile computing,
inter-enterprise collaborations, ubiquitous services, service-oriented
architectures, autonomous and self-adapting systems, peer-to-peer systems,
just to name a few. New challenges include the need for novel abstractions
supporting the development, deployment, management and interoperability of
evolutionary and complex applications and services, such as those bridging the
physical/virtual worlds. Therefore, the linkage between applications,
platforms and users through multi-disciplinary user requirements (like
security, privacy, usability, efficiency, safety, semantic and pragmatic
interoperability of data and services, dependability, trust and
self-adaptivity) becomes of special interest. It is envisaged that future
complex applications will far exceed those of today in terms of these
requirements.
The DAIS conference series addresses all aspects of distributed applications,
including their design, implementation and operation, the supporting
middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well
as experimental studies and practice reports. This time we welcome in
particular contributions on architectures, models, technologies and platforms
for large scale and complex distributed applications and services that are
related to the latest trends towards bridging the physical/virtual worlds
based on flexible and versatile service architectures and platforms.
DAIS'10 is the 10th event in a series of successful international conferences
which started in 1997. It will provide a forum for researchers, application
and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new
approaches, trends, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed
computing.
CONFERENCE THEMES
DAIS'10 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or
experience reports. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not
submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.
DAIS'10 especially encourages submissions addressing the following topics:
- novel and innovative applications in the areas of
* ubiquitous and pervasive computing
* sensor networks
* mobile computing
* peer-to-peer systems and platforms
* Cloud and enterprise computing
* collaborative intelligent devices (e.g., robots)
- models, methodology and concepts supporting distributed applications with
respect to
* sustainability
* dependability and resilience
* evolution
* energy efficiency
* robustness and trust
* usability
* autonomy
- middleware and software engineering techniques supporting distributed
applications in the areas of
* autonomic and resilient systems
* mobile systems
* context- and QoS-aware systems
* evolution of service-oriented applications
* enterprise-wide and global integration
* semantic interoperability
* application and service management
* domain-specific modelling languages
* model-driven software development, testing, validation, and adaptation
* model evolution
* software architecture and patterns
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions must be done electronically as postscript or PDF, using the
Springer LNCS style. DAIS'10 seeks:
- Full technical papers in no more than 14 pages,
- Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results,
in no more than 6 pages.
Both categories of papers will be reviewed thoroughly by the DAIS'10 Program
Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published
by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. More specific guidelines on the
preparation of papers can be found on the conference website.
*New:* Extended versions of selected best papers published in DAIS'10 will be
invited for publication in a dedicated special issue of Wiley Software:
Practice and Experience
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission February *15*, 2010 (Extended!)
Full paper submission: February *19*, 2010 (Extended!)
Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2010
Camera ready version: April 2, 2010
Conference dates: June 7-9, 2010
The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
martes, 5 de enero de 2010
(MEDES 2010)
Description and Objectives
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In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital
medias leads to the emergence of
virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple and
independent entities such as individuals,
organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several
missions and focusing on the interactions
and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits
self-organizing environments, thanks to the
re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources
provided by each entity are properly
conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data
management, innovative services,
computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the
multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems
and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This
also leads to a poor understanding as to
how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and
value-creating. The application of Information
Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities
request resources and ultimately interact to
create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge.
These technologies can be improved through
novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data management,
web technologies, networking, security,
human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and
self-organizing systems to support the establishment
of digital ecosystems and manage their resources.
The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
(MEDES) aims to develop and bring together
a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested
in exploring the manifold challenges
and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current
approaches and technologies can be
evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research
papers, industrial papers and proposals
for demonstrations, and tutorials and workshops.
Topics
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In this call, we solicit original research and technical papers not published
elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on
the following themes (but not limited to):
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Web Technologies
- Social Networks
- Data & Knowledge Management Systems
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Ontology Management
- Services systems and Engineering
- E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government
- Emergent Intelligence
- Game Theory
- Networks and Protocols
- Security & Privacy
- Standardization and Extensible Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Business Intelligence
- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement
- Digital Library
- Open Source
Paper Submission
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Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded
using the conference website.
Submissions should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail
to comply with length limit
will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer
reviewers. Selection criteria will
include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and
quality of presentation.
Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging
positions on important emergent topics
related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference
to present the paper.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM
Digital Library.
Important Dates
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- Submission Date: June 20th, 2010
- Notification of Acceptance: September 5th, 2010
- Camera Ready: September 20th, 2010
- Conference Dates: October 26-29, 2010
The 25nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
miércoles, 9 de septiembre de 2009
The 25nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22 - 26, 2010.
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/
Data Streams Track
http://www.liaad.up.pt/~jgama/SAC10/
Important dates:
Paper Submission: 15 September, 2009 ** EXTENDED **
Author Notification: 19 October, 2009
Camera-ready Copy: 2 November, 2009
Paper Submission Guidelines:
Papers should be submitted in PDF using the SAC 2010 conference
management system: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/
The paper should omit authors and affiliations. Author names and addresses must not appear in the body of the paper, self-reference must be in the third person, attribution to the author(s) must be in the form of "author", and bibliographical entries by the author(s) must also be in the form of "author". This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's
information. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. All accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The maximum number of pages allowed for the final papers is 5 pages (about 4000 words), with the option (at additional expense) to add up to three (3) more pages. There is a set of templates
to support the required paper format for a number of document preparation systems at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
25th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing
viernes, 4 de septiembre de 2009
25th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing
March 22-26, 2010
Sierre, Switzerland
For over twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been an important forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers to interact and present their work. SAC 2010 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is presented in cooperation with other ACM Special Interest Groups.
For additional information, visit the SAC 2010 EC Track web page (www.upo.es/eps/SAC/
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION TRACK
The Evolutionary Computation (EC) track welcomes original, unpublished papers describing advances in and applications of evolutionary computation and related techniques, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, memetic algorithms, genetic programming, ant colony optimization, co-evolutionary algorithms, artificial immune systems, particle swarm optimization, and classifier systems. All accepted papers will appear in the SAC 2010 Proceedings. Selected papers, not accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers. These will be presented at a poster session during the Symposium and will be published as two-page extended abstracts in the Proceedings. A paper may be submitted to only one track of SAC 2010.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
* Papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review for any journal or other conference. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome.
* Submissions will be in electronic format via this web site: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/
* Submission must follow ths template found at this URL: http://www.acm.org/
* Authors are allowed up to eight (8) pages in the specified format, but there is a charge of US$80 for each page over five (5).
* Authors' names and addresses must not appear in the body of the submitted papers, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.
* Begin the submission process by submitting your paper's abstract on the conference web site at the URL above.
* All submitted papers must include the paper identification number (assigned when the abstract is submitted) on the front page above the title of the paper.
* No author's name may appear on more than two papers accepted to the EC track.
Note also the guidelines in the general SAC 2010 Call for Papers
(http://www.acm.org/
IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines will be strictly enforced)
SEPTEMBER 15 (extended), 2009 PAPER SUBMISSIONS
OCTOBER 19, 2009 AUTHOR NOTIFICATION
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 CAMERA-READY COPY DUE
MARCH 22, 2010 CONFERENCE BEGINS
Onward! 09 The conference for new ideas in Software
miércoles, 10 de junio de 2009
Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN in cooperation with SIGSOFT
Co-located with OOPSLA 2009
Orlando, Florida October 25-29 2009
http://www.onward-conference.
*** Deadline approaching ***
June 26, 2009 Submission of short research papers
July 2, 2009 Submission of films
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Onward! is a place for highly original ideas about how technological advances and new applications are going to shape computational fabrics of the future. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to not so well proven but well argued ideas. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming languages and software engineering research. Onward! takes a broad and inclusive view of computation and seeks contributions from all fields represented at OOPSLA and other software conferences. Onward! particularly encourages contributions influenced by other disciplines such as art, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology,
economics, communities, politics, ethics, or any other human endeavor.
Anything to do with programming and software can be submitted. Anything!
Onward! is innovative not only with regard to its topics and ideas but also to the contribution formats. This year, we seek high quality submissions in one of the following categories:
*** RESEARCH PAPERS (Due June 26, 2009) ***
While regular research papers tell what work has been done and validated in recent years, Onward! papers show what exciting work is being done right now. Onward! accepts papers that talk about innovative research work that is early in its life or is not in the mainstream. We request submissions of position papers that propose bold directions of research and advocate nontraditional methodologies. An Onward! paper does not need to contain a fully worked out theory or implemented system, but must be well-thought-out and compelling in its vision or uniqueness of thinking.
Papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the OOPSLA 2009 Proceedings, and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
*** FILMS ***
Years ago, sophisticated software systems had to be constructed by highly trained programmers who understood the ins and outs of software development. Today, with the advent of new mashup technologies and service architectures, these barriers have been lowered. The goal of this track is to explore new developments in how film and other narrative multimedia technologies can be used to enrich the software development process. Descriptions of accepted films will be published in the OOPSLA 2009 Companion, and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
*** ESSAYS (submission closed) ***
*** WORKSHOPS (submission closed) ***
*** HOW TO SUBMIT ***
Electronic submission is required through the Onward! homepage. Text submissions must follow the standard ACM SIGPLAN format. Research papers should not exceed 8 pages. Submissions must not have been previously published, and must not be concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere (including journals and formal proceedings of conferences and workshops). Violation of this policy will result in desk-rejection of the submission.
*** GENERAL CHAIR ***
Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
*** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***
Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada (chair)
Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dilma Da Silva, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Maja Dhondt, IMEC, Belgium
Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Eclipse Foundation, USA
Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Bruce Horn, Powerset, USA
Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA
Caitlin Kelleher, Washington University St. Louis, USA
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Rick McGeer, HP Labs, USA
Linda Northrop, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nuno Jardim Nunes, University of Madeira, Portugal
Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, Germany
Christa Schwanninger, Siemens, Germany
*** FILM COMMITTEE ***
Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand (chair)
Roberto Bisiani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Oliver Creighton, Siemens, Germany
Ralph Guggenheim, Allegator Planet, USA
Andrew Long, University of Otago, New Zealand
International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics
martes, 9 de junio de 2009
International Workshop on
Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics (IMCE'09)
Beijing, China, October 23, 2009
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009
(http://www.hitech-projects.
With the development of silicon technologies, consumer electronics devices, such as personal computers, HDTV, mobile phones, digital cameras and game consoles, have become ubiquitous for people’s daily life. These devices can provide multimedia sources for entertainment, communication, and so on. To interact with these equipments, consumers currently rely on devices such as remote controls, keyboards or control panels, which are often inconvenient, ambiguous and non-interactive. How to design user interfaces of CE products that enable natural, intuitive and fun interaction is one of the main challenges the CE industry is facing. Many companies and institutes are working on the advanced user interfaces.
User interface technologies have been studied in various disciplines for decades. Considering that modern CE products are usually supplied with both microphones and cameras, how to employ both audio and visual information for interactive
multimedia has recently received much attention in both academia and industry. But interactive multimedia is still an under-explored field. Many challenges exist when moving to multimodal interaction: for example, how to annotate and search
huge data acquired by using multiple sensors, especially in the unconstrained end-user environments? how to effectively extract and select representative multimedia features for human behavior recognition? and how to select the fusion strategy of multimodal data for a given application? To address these challenges, we must adapt the existing approaches or find new solutions suitable for multimedia interaction.
This workshop will bring together researchers from both academia and industry in domains including computer vision, machine learning, audio and speech processing, communications, artificial intelligence and media technology to share and discuss recent advances in interactive user interfaces and multimedia applications.
Topics related to interactive multimedia for consumer electronics include, but are not limited to:
-- Multimedia description and markup
-- Multimedia representation and annotation
-- Multimedia search and retrieval
-- Presence and environment sensing
-- Face detection, recognition, and tracking
-- Hand detection, tracking, and recognition
-- Facial expression recognition
-- Emotion/mood recognition
-- Gesture/action/activity recognition
-- Audio-visual recognition and interaction
-- Novel interaction (accelerometer, touch screen, haptics, voice)
-- Multimodal data modeling and fusion
Workshop Chairs
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Ling Shao, Philips Research Laboratories
Caifeng Shan, Philips Research Laboratories
Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Laboratories
Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo Research Laboratories
PC Members
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Alberto Del Bimbo,University of Firenze, Italy
Xavier Binefa, University of Barcelona, Spain
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Wei-Chao Chen, Nokia Research Center, USA
Berna Erol, Ricoh Innovations, USA
Yun (Raymond) Fu, BBN Technologies, USA
Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada
Jungong Han, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
Aki Harma, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Mark Huiskes, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Alejandro Jaimes, Telefonica I+D, Spain
Tae-Kyun Kim, Cambridge University, UK
Rainer Lienhart, University of Augsberg, Germany
Xuelong Li, University of London, UK
Qian Lin, HP Labs, USA
Alexander C. Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA
Xiaoming Liu, GE Global Research, USA
Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Paul Miller, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
Ryuzo Okada, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center, Japan
Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dacheng Tao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Qi Tian, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Ning Xu, Samsung, USA
Important dates
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Submission deadline: **June 15**, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2009
Camera-ready papers: July 24, 2009
Workshop: October 23, 2009
Paper Submission
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Full papers may be up to 8 pages in length. All papers must follow the standard ACM style guidelines and must be submitted in PDF format using the EDAS system (http://edas.info/). Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the workshop proceedings together with the ACM Multimedia 2009 proceedings. Extended versions of accepted papers will be invited to submit to an edited book or a
special issue of a top journal.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2009
lunes, 25 de mayo de 2009
ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2009
Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China
October 19 - 24, 2009
http://www.acmmm09.org/
The ACM Multimedia Open-Source Software Competition celebrates the invaluable contribution of researchers and software developers who advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, applications, and other multimedia software. This year will be the sixth year in running the competition as part of ACM Multimedia.
To qualify, software must be provided with source code and licensed in such a manner that it can be used free of charge in academic and research settings. For the competition, the software will be built from the sources. All source code, license, installation instructions and other documentation must be available on a public web page. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged (with the exception of operating systems and commonly found commercial packages available free of charge). To encourage more diverse participation, previous years' non-winning entries are welcome to re-submit for the 2009 competition. Student-led efforts are particularly encouraged.
Authors are highly encouraged to prepare as much documentation as possible, including examples of how the provided software might be used, download statistics, other public usage information, etc. Entries will be peer-reviewed to select entries for inclusion in the conference program as well as an overall winning entry, to be recognized formally at ACM Multimedia 2009. The criteria for judging all submissions include broad applicability and potential impact, novelty, technical depth, demo suitability, and other miscellaneous factors
(e.g., maturity, popularity, student-led, no dependence on closed source).
Authors of the winning entry, and possibly additional selected entries, will be invited to demonstrate their software as part of the conference program. In addition, accepted overview papers will be included in the conference proceedings.
Important Dates
June 10, 2009 Submission Deadline (Extended)
July 10, 2009 Notification of Acceptance
July 24, 2009 Final Camera-Ready Version
Oct 19-24, 2009 Presentation/demonstration at main conference
Submission Instructions
Authors interested in submitting an entry to the open source software competition should prepare a package containing the following information to be submitted via the EDAS online submission system under the Open Source Software Competition track of ACM Multimedia 2009 Conference (http://edas.info/newPaper.
+ Title of submission
+ Names and affiliations of authors (indicate students). In case of a large distributed project, include full list of contributors, if possible, and indicate main contact (e.g., project owner or maintainer).
+ Two-page summary paper including an overview of the open-source software package, its description, applications, intended audience, main features, etc. Selected entries, in addition to the winning entry, will be included in the conference proceedings. The paper should be prepared in double-column ACM proceedings style as a PDF file, and should include a public URL for project page where software, documentation, and open-source license can be found.
+ Compressed zip archive file with all source code, documentation, build/install instructions, and licenses.
NOTE: If the archive file is more than 5MB in size, please place the file in a web accessible location and include a URL for that location in the PDF paper. In that case, upload only the PDF paper to the online EDAS submission system.
NOTE: The judging committee will make a reasonable effort to build any submitted software. However, if we are unable to make the software run given a reasonable effort, we must unfortunately exclude it from the competition. Therefore, complete and clear build/install instructions will be a crucial component of any submission.
If you have questions about what can or should be submitted, please feel free to address your questions to the competition chair prior to the submission deadline.
We are excited to be organizing this innovative and creative component of the 2009 ACM Multimedia program. Please help us make this venture a continuing success by submitting your entry to the competition. We look forward to your participation.
Contact
For any questions regarding the open source competition please email the chair:
Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev (IBM Research) natsev -at- us.ibm.com
The First (ACM) International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
The First (ACM) International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
November 23-25, 2009
Kunming, Yunnan, China
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General Co-Chairs
Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dan Xu , Yunnan University, China
Program Co-Chairs
Albert Del Bimbo, University of Firenze
Qi Tian, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Changsheng Xu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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URL: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~
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Important dates:
- Submission of Papers: July 1, 2009
- Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2009
- Submission of Camera-Ready Papers: September 15, 2009
- Early Bird Registration: September 15, 2009
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The First (ACM) International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS’2009) will focus on a wide variety of key issues and investigate new approaches to tackle problems arising from the fast-growing multimedia data on internet and users’ diverse requirement for multimedia service.
The ICIMCS'2009 is a forum for researchers from the academia and the industry, professionals, standard developers to exchange information on the state-of-the-art of internet multimedia information processing technologies and applications, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia information computing from internet.
The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Basic techniques for image, video and audio processing
- Learning techniques for large scale multimedia annotation and classification
- Image/Video indexing, query and re-ranking
- Performance evaluation for large scale multimedia processing
- Cross media computing by integrating visual, aural and textual information
- Human factor issues for internet multimedia computing
- Adaptive multimedia accessing and browsing for mobile equipment
- Digital right management and data protection for multimedia
- Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
The 1st ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics (MiFor09)
in conjunction with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM-MM)
Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China
October 23, 2009
With the proliferation of multimedia data on the web, surveillance cameras in cities, and mobile phones in everyday life we see an enormous growth in multimedia data that needs to be analyzed by forensic investigators. The sheer volume of such datasets makes manual inspection of all data impossible. Tools are needed to support the investigator in their quest for relevant clues and evidence and in their strive towards preventing crime.
The time is ripe to tailor results from the Multimedia field for forensics. Multimedia in forensics aims at addressing the multimedia toolbox supporting the forensic process from the prevention of crime, capturing and annotation of the crime scene, the investigation of the data in the lab, up to the presentation of the results in court. It is a first attempt in bringing multimedia tools in to this exciting application field. Target audience are researchers working on innovative technology, representatives from companies developing tools, and forensic investigators in various disciplines.
The workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Surveillance
- Video Analytics
- Forensic investigation
- Multimodal analysis
- Ontologies
- Visual analytics
Crime scene
- Modeling and reconstruction
- Semantic annotation
Investigation
- Searching for illicit content in multimedia data
- Image and video linking
- Multimedia copyright violation detection
- Multimedia interfaces
- Detection of stenography
- Speaker recognition
- Authenticity of multimedia data
- Identity detection
Presentation in court
- Multimedia presentation of evidence
- Use of 3D models
Papers should be 6 pages. Accepted papers for oral and poster presentations at the workshop will be included in the workshop's proceedings, which will be published together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2009. A special issue or an edited volume will be realized containing an extended version of the best papers.
Additional information is available at the workshop website:
http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/mifor2009
Important dates:
Jun. 10, 2009 (Wednesday): Submission Deadline
Jul. 10, 2009 (Friday): Acceptance Notification
Jul. 24, 2009 (Friday): Camera ready
Workshop Chairs:
Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam)
CFP: 16th Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
jueves, 21 de mayo de 2009
16th Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Co-sponsored by ACM and VRSJ
Kyoto, Japan
November 18-20, 2009
http://www.vrst.org/vrst2009
We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2009 in Kyoto, Japan.
The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with virtual reality software and technology. This year, VRST 2009 is co-sponsored by ACM and the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ). VRST 2009 will provide an opportunity for VR researchers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging directions for the field.
Important Dates:
Papers due: June 10, 2009
Short papers due: June 17, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2009
Demos and posters due: July 29, 2009
Conference dates: November 18-20, 2009
Call for Papers
ACM VRST 2009 seeks original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of virtual, mixed and augmented reality.
Authors are required to submit fully formatted papers, with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for final publication. The ACM SIGGRAPH paper preparation guidelines are described at http://www.siggraph.org/
Submissions may be optionally accompanied by additional materials such as images, videos, or electronic documents. These materials do not form a part of the official submission and will be viewed only at the discretion of the reviewers.
For more information on the online submission process visit
http://www.vrst.org/vrst2009/
Conference Location
VRST 2009 will be held in Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is a world-renowned city for being the ancient capital of Japan with numerous cultural heritages. Located just two-minute walk distance from JR Kyoto station, the conference venue, Mielparque Kyoto, is convenient for business trips and tourism.
Organization
General Co-Chairs:
Yoshifumi Kitamura, Osaka University, Japan
Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan
Program Co-Chairs:
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
Benjamin Lok, University of Florida, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Yuichi Itoh, Osaka University, Japan
Christian Sandor, University of South Australia, Australia
CFP: ACM U-NET'09 — User-provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities
Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2009
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/unet/
Submission Deadline: July 17, 2009
Submit at: http://edas.info/N7753
*Motivation*
This workshop is dedicated to the debate of concepts, challenges, and opportunities concerning user-provided networking, i.e., scenarios where users cooperate by sharing wireless resources as well as Internet services.
To provide a specific example that relates to Internet Access (connectivity),
the end-user (or a community of end-users) is a micro-operator in the sense that he/she shares his/her subscribed broadband Internet access based on some form of incentive scheme. In addition, the end-user may or may not provide other network functionality such as local mobility management, or persistent storage and forwarding services. This new role is disruptive in what concerns Internet service models, since there is no distinction between what is today known as end-user device and network device: in the future, end-user devices will actively participate as part of the network. In contrast, the Internet has been up to now mostly the means for end-users to obtain some form of network service, originally related to connectivity, person-to-person communication, or information retrieval. Such user-centric provider role is also disruptive given that the regular network boundaries of trust have to be extended in a way that should mimic social behavior: there is the need to form networks of trust in order to accommodate a robust network growth, given that the key to such growth is the willingness to cooperate.
Another disruptive aspect of user-provided networking is that due to the nature of the wireless media and the way that humans move, support for intermittent connectivity as well as fast and transparent roaming between micro-operators needs to be considered. Finally, and given that user-provided networking spreads
dynamically having as network elements regular end-user devices, there is the need to
consider cases where information is opportunistically relayed instead of routed based
on topological information.
Due to the disruptive aspects mentioned, user-provided networking seem to have the potential to provide a paradigm shift in Internet communication models, given that such novel functionality allow wireless networks to operate in a completely autonomic way and also given that the end-user becomes a provider of Internet services (e.g. connectivity) based upon cooperation incentives or rewards and based
upon his/her own mobility and social patterns. Services are established on the fly, and do not necessarily imply the use of multihop technology or routing. For instance, connectivity may be, in most cases, simply relayed.
The workshop program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers and a discussion panel with guests from industry and academia. We envision U-NET as a
forum aiming to ignite a debate concerning technical challenges and impact (negatively or positively) that user-provided networking may have on Internet communication models.
*Topics*
U-NET'09 solicits high quality technical contributions within the context of
user-provided networking. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Challenges and opportunities for access providers.
* Impact on Internet architectures.
* Internet connectivity.
* Trust models, incentives to share broadband access.
* Human behaviour and mobility patterns.
* Self-organization.
* Wireless cooperation.
Papers submitted are expected to be highly innovative and may incorporate early stage ideas; position papers (clearly identified as such) pointing to new directions and capable of generating discussion are also welcome.
Submission must be original and not already published in any other conference proceeding or journal. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
*Submissions*
Submitted papers must be at most 6 (six) pages long (including figures,
tables and references) in the standard ACM double column format. All text
must use font sizes of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submissions will be done via EDAS at http://edas.info/N7753.
*Important Dates*
Submissions due: July 17, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2009
Camera ready version due: October 1, 2009
Workshop date: December 1, 2009
*Program Committee*
PC Chairs
Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, Portugal
Olivier Marcé, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
Technical Program Committee
Rute Sofia, INESC Porto, Portugal
André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dirk Trossen, British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom
Prosper Chemouli, France Telecom, France
Martin May, Thomson Paris Research Laboratory, France
Karen Sollins, MIT, USA
Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA
James Kempf, Ericsson Research, USA
Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgders University, USA
Bernhard Plattner, ETH, Switzerland
George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Maria Papadopouli, FORTH/University of Creete, Greece
Anand Prasand, NEC, Japan
Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany
Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
The Requirements Engineering Track
miércoles, 20 de mayo de 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Requirements Engineering Track
http://www.dsc.upe.br/~sac2010
at The 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010)
Sierre, Switzerland
March 22-26, 2010
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Overview
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For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world.
The Third Edition of the Requirements Engineering Track (RE-Track'10) is part of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC 2010 is hosted by University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Further details may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/.
Requirement Engineering is defined as the branch of Software Engineering concerned with the real-world goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems; it is also concerned with the relationship of these factors to precise specifications of software behaviour and to their evolution over time and across software families. Requirements engineering is increasingly recognized as a critically important activity in any systems engineering process.
The arising of many complex software applications in many multidisciplinary domains, the speed with which they need to be developed, and the degree to which they are expected to change, all play a role in determining how the systems development process should be conducted. Independently of the nature of the software, the elicitation, analysis, negotiation, specification, validation and management of requirements are fundamental for the development of quality in complex software. Only by fully understanding stakeholders' needs, and documenting them in a concise, and unambiguous way, can consistently deliver quality products designed to meet the complexities of our advanced information society.
However, there area number of inherent difficulties in the RE process.
The existing methods for requirements specification are far from being completely satisfactory. Requirements must be measurable, testable, related to identified business and other field needs or opportunities, and defined to a level of detail sufficient for system design. The demand for better, faster, and more usable software systems will continue, and RE will therefore continue to evolve in order to deal with different development scenarios which must be considered. Besides that, many new areas are being investigated by requirements engineering community (such as: aspect-oriented or agents-oriented development, COTS-based systems, use of simulation techniques, autonomic system) to achieve better ways for leading with the involved complexity.
The objective of this track is to explore different advances in requirement
engineering in a general way, its relation with different areas, reducing the gap between software engineering solutions and the way one specific domain of knowledge was seen up to given point.
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TOPICS
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These are the main areas of concern in Requirements Engineering:
* Requirements Engineering for Scientific Areas
* Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation
* Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools
* Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints
* Modelling of requirements, goals, and domains
* Non-functional requirements
* Requirements engineering and software architecture
* Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
* Agent-oriented requirements engineering
* Requirements for COTS-based systems
* Case studies and experiences based on requirements engineering
* Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering
* Requirements engineering: education and Training
* Requirements and Simulation
* Requirements and Autonomic Systems
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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit ORIGINAL and UNPUBLISHED papers in all
areas of Requirement
Engineering.
The program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate the double blind review. The paper should not exceed 5 pages in ACM format.
Please note that the maximum page length for the conference is 5 pages (without extra-fee), 8 is the maximum (with extra-fee).
Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to more than one ACM-SAC track.
Paper submissions should be done electronically through the website http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010.Further information may be found at:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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All deadlines will be strictly enforced.
September 8, 2009: Paper submissions (submission deadline is strict)
October 19, 2009: Author notification
November 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Copy
March 22-26, 2010: 25th ACM SAC, Sierre, Switzerland
CFP: THE 25th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
domingo, 17 de mayo de 2009
THE 25th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
22-26 March 2010, Sierre, Switzerland
ACM SAC'10
For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists,
computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers
from around the world. SAC 2010 is sponsored by the ACM Special
Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by the
University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO)and the
Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Sierre, Switzerland.
ORIGINAL PAPERS (Double blind reviewed)
Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of
experimental computing and application development for the technical
program via the various tracks hosted by SAC 2010. Peer groups with
expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to
that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference
proceedings. The submission must not identify the authors (self-reference
should be in the third person) to facilitate double blind review.
Authors are allowed up to 8 pages according to the paper template,
but more than 5 pages in the camera ready version will be
charged 80USD per extra page.
MULTIMEDIA AND VISUALIZATION TRACK (MMV)
The themes Multimedia and Visualization are concerned with principles,
tools and processes that improve our ability to understand, create,
manage, visualize and maintain multimedia in general and interactive
media in particular. The aim of this track is to bring together
researchers from academia and industry who are actively engaged both
in theoretical and practical aspects of these multidisciplinary
themes, including those interested in discussing issues relative to
Human-Media Interaction. Topics of interest and and further
information is found in the track website
(http://www.icmc.usp.br/~acmsac/mmv10)
MTAP JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
As in the previous edition of the MMV Track at SAC'09, the Multimedia
Tools and Applications Journal (MTAP) will publish a special issue
with papers from the ACM SAC'10 MMV track: authors of the best papers
will be invited to submit a substantially extended version for their
work to the special issue
(http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042).
IMPORTANT DUE DATES (submission deadline is strict)
September 08, 2009:... Paper submissions
October 19, 2009:..... Author notification
November 02, 2009:.... Camera-Ready Copy
March 22-26, 2010:.... 25th ACM SAC, Sierre, Switzerland
MORE INFORMATION
* Submission website eCMS: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/
* MMV Track Site: http://www.icmc.usp.br/~acmsac/mmv10
* ACM SAC'10 Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/
Ethan V. Munson (co-chair), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Maria da Graça Pimentel (co-chair), Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
