[Tccc] CFP - 4th International Workshop on IP-based TV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2012), in conjunction with IEEE ISM 2012, Irvine, California (USA)

ombonastre@ieee.org ombonastre
Mon Apr 30 10:23:03 EDT 2012


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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Workshop on IP-based TV Technologies and
Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2012), to be held in
conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2012),
Irvine, California, 10-12 December 2012
http://imde.cio.umh.es/iwitma2012/
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SCOPE
The 4th International Workshop on IP-based TV Technologies and
Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2012) is a high-quality
satellite event of IEEE ISM 2012 and following same format of the last
editions organized in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2011, IEEE ICME
2010 and ConTel 2009, IEEE Communications sponsored. The workshop will
address IP-based TV and multidisciplinary applications of IP video,
which will not only radically change the telecommunications and the
entertainment industries, but they are also expected to stimulate and
enhance creativity, professional productivity and community relations.

In particular, the workshop intends to have ample time for discussion
amongst participants on research topics of emerging trends in the area
of media delivery and how the networks, current and future, will
support the converged multimedia.

The workshop encourages submissions to attract attendance from both
academia and industry. Thus, the workshop seeks innovative technical
papers that consolidate and present the leadingedge research prototype
development, deployment and performance studies in the following
multimedia and  multidisciplinary areas:

- Network design impacts of IP-based video convergence
- Architectures for converged systems especially those targeting
multiscreens and combining mobility
- Video convergence, Mobile TV, Mobile Social TV applications and interactivity
- Scalable compression, Network coding, congestion control, rate
control of IP-based TV content
- Encoding technologies for maintaining the integrity and optimise the
QoE of IP-based TV content
- Cross-layer dynamic adaptation and end-to-end QoS issues for
heterogeneous IP-based TV networks
- Video Content Distribution, Networks and P2P architectures for
distributed services
- Innovative methods for evolving IP-based TV services (including
algorithmic aspects of computer networking oriented to billing,
pricing and advertising models, large-scale data management, etc.)

PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions for this workshop should follow the submission
format and guidelines for regular conference papers, and be submitted
electronically before submission deadline. Please ?see conference web
site http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/ for details. Submitted papers will
undergo a peer review process and accepted papers will be published in
the special section of the main conference proceedings.

At the closing ceremony of the workshop, there will be a Best Workshop
Paper Award that will consist of a recommendation for publication at
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). For considering publication at
TMM, this paper should be an extended version (30-40%) of the original
contribution presented at the workshop.

Furthermore, outstanding papers will be invited for publication (TBC)
in a Special Issue of a major journal (indexed in SCI) relevant to the
main topics promoted at this workshop. For this purpose, those
selected papers should be an extended version of the original
contribution presented at the  workshop.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Additionally, the workshop plans to bring a distinguised speaker to
talk on IP-based TV in Industry, i.e., to discuss original
contributions from various industry IP-based TV domains (e.g. consumer
electronics, broadcasters, producers, broadband companies, software
and hardware developers, telecom operators).

DEMOS
The workshop encourages IP-based TV companies to present contributions
which are especially relevant to the future video networks and
IP-based TV industry. Therefore, this topic is not intended to present
research work (only). Contributions concerning (amongst others) with
IPbased TV area like live demos, business cases, market insights,
innovation, case studies, etc. are welcomed. More details at
http://imde.cio.umh.es/iwitma2012/

IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Paper Abstract Submission: June 20, 2012
Regular Paper Submission: June 27, 2012
Notification of Paper & Demo Acceptance: September 7, 2012
Camera-Ready Paper Due: TBC
Program available online: November 1, 2012
Demo proposals: September 1, 2012
IWITMA Workshop: December 10-12, 2012

Program Chair
Oscar M Bonastre, University Miguel Hernandez (UMH), Spain

Technical Program Committee
Marie-Jose Montpetit - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Pablo Cesar - Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
Chang Wen Chen - State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Simon T Jones, British Telecom, United Kingdom
Ali C. Begen, Cisco, USA
Oscar M Bonastre - University Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Danny De Vleeschauwer - Alcatel, Network Strategy Group, Belgium
Nhut Nguyen - Samsung Telecommunications America, USA
Hassnaa Moustafa - France Telecom Research (Orange Labs), France
Rui Cruz - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal
Caifeng Shan - Philips Research, Netherlands
James She - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS' Media Interoperability Lab, Germany
Joaquin S Soriano - UMH, Operations Research Center, Spain
Meng Wang - Microsoft Research Asia
Albert Canigueral - Advanced Digital Broadcast, Switzerland
Mohamed Essaaidi - Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco
Shiguo Lian - France Telecom R&D Beijing, China
Thomas Silverston - University of Tokyo, Japan
Vijay Gopalakrishnan - AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Dewan Ahmed - University of Ottawa, Canada
Soohong Daniel Park - Samsung Electronics R&D, Korea
Xiaojun Hei - Huazhong Univ. Science, P.R. China
Ju Liu - University of North Dakota, USA

For all questions about the workshop, or expression of interest in
joining the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for this international
event, please contact the Workshop Chair (ombonastre at ieee.org)



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