SMAP 2012 - Extended Deadline

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*SMAP 2012 ***_http://www.smap2012.org/_ 
<http://www.smap2012.org/cms/SMAP2012/content.nsf/id/submission?opendocument&language=EN> 


7^th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and 
Personalization

December 3-4 2012, Luxembourg -city (Luxembourg)

**** Paper submission (extended) deadline: June 15, 2012  ****



The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) 
workshop is the evolution of the Semantic Media Adaptation and 
Personalization initiative, which was founded during the summer of 2006 
in an effort to discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future 
perspectives for semantic media adaptation and personalization. As 
social media applications have substantially transformed the way 
organizations, communities, and individuals interact, the scopes of the 
workshop are now extended towards this new trend, seeking to bring 
together researchers from the social web as well as from the semantic 
web communities, under the umbrella of the media adaptation and 
personalization domain.

After six successful workshops –in Athens,London, Prague, San Sebastian, 
Limassol and Vigo-, the SMAP workshop series has consolidated as a 
reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the 
field. The 7th SMAP workshop will be held in Luxembourg -city, 
Luxembourg. The 1-track, 2-day conference aims to provide a platform for 
exchanging fresh ideas and expertise, and for obtaining feedback on 
ongoing research. Proceedings will be published by the *IEEE Computer 
Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS)*.

SMAP 2012 is technically co-sponsored by *IEEE Systems, Man, & 
Cybernetics Society*. It is supported by the *IEEE CIS Semantic Web Task 
Force* and the *IEEE-SMC Technical Committee on Intelligent Internet 
Systems*. Discussions are in progress to get additional sponsoring from 
the Fonds National de La Recherche Luxembourg (FNR).



*Keynote speakers*
· *Dr. Lora Aroyo*, associate professor at the Web and Media group, at 
the Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands.
· *Dr. Vania Dimitrova*, lecturer at the School of Computing, University 
of Leeds, UK.

*Aim and topics*
SMAP covers different issues of semantic technologies and social 
semantic technologies in their use for content creation, media 
adaptation and filtering, and user profiling. Topics of interest include 
but are not limited to:
· Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web.
· Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents.
· User modelling and dynamic profiling.
· Ontologies and reasoning.
· Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications.
· Web adaptation methods and techniques.
· Content customization and adaptation.
· Semantic context modelling and extraction.
· Context-aware multimedia applications.
· Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries
· Multilingual content navigation.
· Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities.
· Intelligent personalized interfaces.
· Multimedia standards.
· Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation 
engines or adaptation systems.
· Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing).
· User-generated content mechanisms.
· Adaptive / Personalized conversational media.
· Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis).
· Social web economics and business.
· Social network aggregation.
· Privacy/Security issues in social and personalized media applications

*Important dates*
· *Paper submission (extended) deadline: June 15, 2012 *
· Notification: August 24, 2012
· Registration open: TBA
· Camera-ready submission: TBA

*Submission Guidelines*

Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the 
Workshop Program Committee, based on its originality, significance, 
technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in 
English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well 
as promising work in progress. The proceedings will be published by the 
IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers 
must be formatted according to the CPS formatting guidelines, with a 
limit of 6 IEEE 2-column style pages, including all figures, tables, and 
references. A minimum paper length of 4 IEEE 2-column style pages is 
also imposed.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the SMAP 2012 website: 
_http://www.smap2012.org/cms/SMAP2012/content.nsf/id/submission?opendocument&language=EN_ 
<http://www.smap2012.org/cms/SMAP2012/content.nsf/id/submission?opendocument&language=EN>. 


As with previous SMAPs, plans are in place to have selected papers 
appear either in an edited volume or in a special journal issue.

*Conference Chairs*
Yannick Naudet, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
Djamel Khadraoui, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece

*Steering committee*
· Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
· Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
· Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
· Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece
· Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

*Program committee*
· Harry Agius, Brunel University, United Kingdom
· Panos Alexopoulos, iSOCO, Spain
· Christos Anagnostopoulos, Ionian University, Greece
· Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
· Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
· Frederic Andres, University of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan
· Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic
· Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
· Fernando Bobillo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
· Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
· Claudia Buzzi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
· Silvia Calegari, Universitá di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
· Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
· George Caridakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
· Claudia d'Amato, Universitá di Bari, Italy
· Mathieu d’Aquin, The Open University, UK
· Ernesto Damiani, Universitá di Milano, Italy
· Martine de Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
· Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
· Mario Doeller, University of Passau, Germany

· Muriel Foulonneau, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
· Panagiotis Germanakos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 
Greece
· Andrzej Glowacz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
· William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
· Rajkumar Kannan, BHC, India
· Martin Lopez-Nores, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
· Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, United Kingdom
· Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Belgium
· Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Central Greece, Greece
· Ferrán Marqués, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
· Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
· Vasileios Mezaris, Centre of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
· Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of Western 
Macedonia, Greece
· Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
· Yannick Naudet, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
· Viviana Patti, Università di Torino , Italy
· José J. Pazos-Arias, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
· Petr Saloun, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
· Miguel Ángel Sicilia, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
· Evaggelos Spyrou, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece
· Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
· Zenonas Theodosiou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
· Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
· Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
· Michalis Vafopoulos, National Technical University, Greece
· David Vallet, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
· Paulo Villegas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
· Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece