CFP: First Workshop on Multimedia Service Composition

published by the ACM within a dedicated volume for the workshops of ACM Multimedia 2005.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Papers should address specific challenges for service composition in multimedia systems, and propose or evaluate methods, architectures and techniques to overcome these challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- integration of web and multimedia service composition frameworks
- system integration aspects in service composition
- service composition support in middleware systems
- session management for service compositions
- service routing and aspects of distribution
- role of service discovery in dynamic composition
- semantic enhancements for service discovery /selection 
- service composition and meta-data representation
- semantic distances between advertised service capabilities
- ontology-based service capability descriptions (e.g. OWL-S)
- service interoperability, interface design and impact on QoS
- service level agreements and QoS guarantees of service chains
- multimedia service personalization and customization 
- multimedia application decomposition and service modeling
- multimedia process workflows and service composition lifecycle


PAPER SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES
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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers. Submissions should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines and have up to 10 pages. Submissions have to be sent by July, 29th 2005 to the workshop chairs

* 29 Jul 2005   Workshop papers due 
* 22 Aug 2005   Notice of acceptance for workshop papers 
* 29 Aug 2005   Camera ready papers due


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Co-Chairs:    Klara Nahrstedt  (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)    
              Wolf-Tilo Balke (L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Germany)

PC members:
      Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
      Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
      Peter Dolog (University of Hannover, Germany) 
      Xiaohui Gu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) 
      Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs Palo Alto, USA) 
      Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine, USA)
      Matthias Wagner (NTT DoCoMo Euro Labs, Germany) 
      Klaus Wehrle (University of Tübingen, Germany) 
      Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China) 
      Dongyan Xu (Purdue University, USA)