Call for Papers: Semantic Enabled Multimedia Presentation Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS

 1st International Workshop on

 Semantic Enhanced Multimedia Presentation Systems (SEMPS)

 December 6, 2006 in Athens, Greece

 co-located with the
 Semantics and Digital Media Technology Conference (SAMT).

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 Submission Deadline: 30 August 2006

 For more information see:
http://mmit.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/SEMPS2006/

Description

 It is almost 10 years since Intelligent Multimedia Presentation
 Systems (IMMPS) were formalised in a Standard Reference Model. Even
 then, the role of knowledge bases and reasoning was recognised as a
 vital element for the adaptive and automated production of multimedia
 presentations. This decade has seen the rise of the Web as a platform
 for multimedia delivery and of Semantic Web research to enable the
 expression and manipulation of knowledge over the Web. The goal of
 this workshop is to explore how Semantic Web technologies can be
 applied to Multimedia Presentation Systems in order to support
 Internet-based delivery of user and context personalised, rich
 media-based Web presentations and new innovative types of online
 service. We are soliciting high-quality original submissions that
 present novel ideas in the field, discuss and question existing
 paradigms and introduce new research directions.
 Topics include, but are not limited to:

 Knowledge and Semantics in Multimedia Data Organisation,

 Describing users, devices, contexts etc. for targeted multimedia
 presentation,

 Ontologies and vocabularies for describing aspects of multimedia
 processes,

 Dynamic generation of coherent multimedia presentations,

 Services delivering multimedia content in response to information
 queries,

 Current Challenges in Semantic-enhanced Multimedia Presentation
 Systems

 Important Dates

August 30, 2006 - Submission of papers
September 30, 2006 –  Notification of acceptance
October 20, 2006 - Submission of camera-ready paper
December 6, 2006 - Workshop

 Submission

 We welcome submissions of either short or full papers to the workshop.
 Short papers may be up to 8 pages in length and accepted short papers
 will be presented in the workshop as part of a poster session. Full
 papers may be up to 15 pages in length and accepted full papers will
 be presented at the workshop as talks.  Submitted full papers may also be
accepted for presentation as posters.

 Papers should be formatted in Springer LNCS format (http://
 www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted in PDF format.



 Organizing Committee

Lyndon Nixon, Free University Berlin, Germany
Lynda Hardman, CWI, Amsterdam and TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Ansgar Scherp, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany

 Sponsored by the EU Networks of Excellence KnowledgeWeb and K-Space.

 For further information, please contact nixon@inf.fu-berlin.de