[Tccc] Deadline Extended to October 5, 2011 - Call For Papers - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA - Special Issue on Smart, Social and Converged TV

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Fri Sep 23 11:40:07 EDT 2011


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* Due to many requests of asking for extension of submission deadline, the
submission deadline is now extended to October 5, 2011 *

*CALL FOR PAPERS *

*IEEE Transactions on Multimedia*
*Special Issue on Smart, social and converged TV*

*Important Dates*:
- Submission deadline: 5-Oct-2011 (Extended Firm Deadline)
- First notification: 30-Jan-2012
- Revised manuscript (for 2nd review) due: 15-Mar-2012
- Notification of acceptance: 05-May-2012
- Final manuscript due: 31-May-2012
- Tentative publication date: Last quarter of 2012 (TBD)

*URL:
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/uploads/special_issues_deadlines/converged_tv.pdf

*Summary*
The move to web-based television has challenged the traditional television
value chain by allowing any IP-based network,? wired and
wireless, to deliver high quality television content. In this new paradigm
for content consumption, TV-related services are expected to
play a decisive role for fixed, nomadic and mobile devices over
heterogeneous networks.? Consequently, the rapid adoption of web-based TV
applications is fueled by user demands for social and user-generated
multimedia content, in addition to the traditional
linear and on-demand offerings. As well, the new television is social,
allowing exchange of ratings and comments between viewers; connected, with
content available on many devices and via many networks; and smart, thanks
to application stores and personalized offerings. As a result, TV
convergence, as a significant problem for next generation networks and
devices, is becoming a popular topic for network, device, content and user
experience research. Significant challenges need to be addressed from
heterogeneous bandwidth management, content protection and distribution
architectures to visual perception and quality of experience.

*Scope:*
This special issue is focused on recent disruptions in IP-based and
Web-based TV. According to this framework, it wants to provide avenues for
future research in the emerging areas of social, connected and smart TV. The
targeted audience combines researchers in the many aspects of the end to end
delivery of converged TV services but also practitioners and strategic
business managers who need to know? what is next? in terms of video and
television services, applications and the overall value chain.

The editors of this special issue solicit original and innovative technical
papers that include (but are not limited to) the following
topics:

- Next generation converged TV architecture and performance - especially
those combining heterogeneous networks and platforms

- Quality of experience in social TV systems and applications over mobile
and converged networks

- Performance of novel approaches to TV network design including wireless
Internet TV

- Analysis and simulation of TV services over heterogeneous networks

- Analysis and simulation of content distribution and transmission
technologies

- Performance of novel content protection especially for Peer-to-Peer and
community TV viewing

- End-to-End TV quality of experience including monitoring, measuring and
user behavior

- Content modeling and metadata for next generation converged TV

*Submission Procedure:*
Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that
have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other
journals. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online
IEEE manuscript submission system at
(http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). All papers will be reviewed by at
least three independent reviewers. Papers should be formatted according to
the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia guidelines for  authors (please visit:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/tmm/author_info.html

*Organization:*
All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Invited
papers will be solicited first through white papers to ensure
the quality and relevance to the special issue. The accepted invited papers
will be reviewed by the guest editors and expect to account for about one
fourth of the papers in the special issue.

*Guest Editors:*

- Oscar M Bonastre, PhD. Operations Research Centre, Miguel Hernandez
University, Spain (Lead Guest Editor)
Email: ombonastre at ieee.org

- Marie-Jose Montpetit, PhD. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
USA
Email: mariejo at mit.edu

- Pablo Cesar, PhD. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, (CWI), Netherlands
Email: P.S.Cesar at cwi.nl

- Zhu Liu, PhD. AT&T Labs ? Research, USA
Email: zliu at research.att.com

- Jon Crowcroft, PhD. Cambridge University, UK
Email: jon.crowcroft at cl.cam.ac.uk

- Maja Matijasevic, PhD. University of Zagreb, Croatia
Email: maja.matijasevic at fer.hr

Please address all correspondences regarding this special issue to the Guest
Editors



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