SITIS 2006

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                                    CALL FOR PAPERS

                        The 2006 International Conference on
                SIGNAL-IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET- BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 06)
                        Sponsored by IEEE and ACM (approval pending)

                        December 17th - December 21st 2006
                                The MARCO POLO Hotel
                                Hammamet, Tunisia

http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis<http://202.54.156.184/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u-bourgogne.fr%2Fsitis>

The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to
represent,
share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image,
and multimedia
data to traditional data and semi-structured data found in the web.
SITIS 2006 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on
research activities
centered on three main tracks.

The focus of the first track "Information Management & Retrieval
Technologies" (IMRT)
is on the emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that
take into account
the amount, type and diversity of information accessible in distributed
computing environment.
The main topics of Interest include:

- Data Semantics
- Spatial Information Systems and Applications
- Multimedia and application
- Information security.

The second track "Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems"
(WITDS) is devoted to
emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for creating
interconnected environments
in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed
collaboratively, and communities
of users with similarly interests can be formed while addressing security
threats that are present
more than ever before. The main topics of Interest include:

- Information System Interoperability
- Emergent semantics
- Agent-based systems
- Distributed, Parallel, GRID, P2P, Mobile information management
- Web-Centric Systems

The third track "Signal & Image Technologies" (SIT) focuses on recent
developments in digital signal
processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal
processing, analysis, coding
and authentication, and retrieval techniques. The main topics of Interest
include:

- Image Processing and Analysis
- Image/Video Coding and Authentication
- Signal processing
- Applications



Submissions must be in electronic form as PDF or PS files and should be
uploaded through the SITIS 2006 Web site.
Submissions should be 3000-4000 words long (approx. 8-12 double-space
printed pages).
Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 qualified 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. At least one author should attend the
conference to present the paper.

Tutorial and Workshop proposals should be submitted to
sitis@u-bourgogne.fr<http://202.54.156.184/horde/imp/message.php?Horde=53c6a064657810866b7d35cea4c98412&index=2715#>.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Proposals for Tutorials/Workshops           September 9th, 2006
Paper submission                            September 9th, 2006
Notification of acceptance                  October 15th, 2006
Final version paper with registration       November 3rd, 2006


Track Organizers
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IMRT Track
Harald Kosch, U. Passau, Germany (harald.kosch at itec.uni-klu.ac.at)
Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA (oria at homer.njit.edu)

WITDS Track
Esma Aïmeur, U. of Montreal,  Canada (aimeur at iro.umontreal.ca)
Djamal Benslimane, U. Lyon, France (djamal.benslimane at iuta.univ-lyon1.fr)
Javier Lopez, U. of Malaga, Spain (jlm at lcc.uma.es)
Zakaria Maamar, U. of Zayed, U.A.E (zakaria.maamar at zu.ac.ae)
Manuel Nunez, U. Comp.de Madrid, Spain (mn at sip.ucm.es)

SIT Track
Peter Schelkens, Vrije U. Brussel, Belgium (pschelke at etro.vub.ac.be)
Louis Legrand, U. of Bourgogne, France (Louis.Legrand at u-bourgogne.fr)
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