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Please recirculate as widely as possible to any who might be interested.
 
Revised Call for Papers
 
DiGRA 2009
 
*PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATES FOR SUBMISSION AND DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION FOR
GUARANTEED ON-CAMPUS ACCOMODATION*
 
Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory
Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom, Tuesday 1st September --
Friday 4th September 2009
 
The Conference organisers for the Digital games Research Association
conference 2009 are pleased to announce the first Call for Papers. DiGRA is
an organisation that embraces all aspects of game studies, and the
conference aims to provide a diverse platform for discussion and a lively
forum for debate. We therefore welcome papers from any discipline focused on
any aspect of games, play, game culture and industry. The conference will be
the fourth DiGRA conference, following Utrecht, Vancouver and Tokyo, and
welcomes contributions from scholars working in any area of interest to the
association. The official business of the Subject Association will also be
conducted at the conference.
 
The Conference invites the following proposals for consideration:
 
Individual or Collaborative Papers
Panels
Workshops
Posters
 
Initial selection will be through the peer review of both full papers and
abstracts of 500-700 words in all categories. Selection of presentations
will be proportionate to the submissions received, and no distinction will
be made between papers selected from abstract or full paper review. Panel
and Workshop proposals should include abstracts for the contributions of all
participants.
 
Individual or collaborative papers ­ addressing topics relevant to the wide
remit of DiGRA (including therefore industry, education, political, social,
theoretical concerns appropriate to the association). Presentations should
be limited to 15-20 mins.
 
Panel proposals  ­ 3 ­ 4 papers which address a common theme, a common
research method, a shared conceptual issue etc.
 
Workshops ­ proposals are invited for 2 ­ 3 hour workshops that address a
range of themes relevant to the aims of the association.  Workshops that are
particularly targeted at a wide audience are most welcome.
 
Poster sessions ­ presentations of work in progress in the format are most
welcome and will be showcased throughout the event.
 
The conference committee are also interested in including featured
symposia/colloquia to address particular Œlate-breaking¹ research projects
or issue-based topics (an example might be a colloquia based around Wii
research or a symposium based around Women in Games. Please contact a member
of the conference organising committee with any expressions of interest.
 
Graduate student participation
 
In order to support graduate students and early career researchers the
conference will focus on graduate student issues on its opening day, 1st
September 2009.  The conference organizers seek appropriate mentors to work
with those addressing common themes/topics/issues in graduate roundtables.
 
 
Strands
 
Please also indicate your preference for consideration in one of the
following broad strands:
 
Games Culture
Games and Commerce 
Games Aesthetics 
Games Education 
Games Design 
Games and Theory
 
Key Dates
 
Deadline for all submissions for presentation at the conference (includes
full papers, abstracts and workshop/panel/symposia proposals): Friday 6
March 5pm GMT
 
Deadline for full papers for inclusion in digital proceedings: Friday 26
June 2009  5pm GMT 
 
Notification of acceptance: June 1 2009
 
Deadline for booking on-campus accommodation June 30 2009
 
Conference Dates: 1-4th September 2009
 
Abstracts should be of 500-700 words and include an indicative bibliography.
Full paper submissions may be of up to 6,000 words, not including
bibliography. Full details of the submissions procedure, including the
method of electronic submission, will be published here and on other forums
as soon as possible.

All contributions must be original, unpublished work. The conference
language is English, and papers, abstracts and other proposals should be
written in English.

 
Delegates are also advised that individuals will be limited to one paper
presentation and one other form of presentation to allow space and time for
the largest number of participants.
 
 
About the Conference Location
 
Brunel University is located conveniently near Heathrow Airport and is on
the London Tube system. A range of affordable accommodation is available on
campus, including 1500 en suite rooms all on one campus, 400 standard
bedrooms,  8 holiday flats (5-7 persons per  flat),  51 specially adapted
rooms for people with disabilities, plus hotel standard rooms in the
Lancaster Suite.  The Brunel Conference Centre boasts 22 theatres, 29
classrooms and 5 seminar rooms all presented to the highest standard. The
following are also available:  Free car parking (on application); Full
office support for photocopying, faxing, internet and word processing (on
application); Comprehensive range of audio visual and media services;  Mini
market; Pharmacy; Banking facilities; Reference library; Sports Facilities;
Fitness Suite; Medical centre; 24 hour security; Self service cafeteria;
Licensed bars and cafes. There are also a range of restaurants, cinemas and
shopping in Uxbridge town.
 
Local attractions
 
Historic Windsor & Eton -Windsor Castle, Legoland and shopping are just 20
minutes drive away  London - Central London and West End are easily accessed
by bus or Underground.  Historic Oxford is a 40 minute bus ride away.
 
The Conference Organisers
 
The conference is being hosted by a consortium consisting of Brunel
University, University of the West of England and the University of Wales,
Newport.
 
Tanya Krzywinska, Professor of Screen Media, Brunel University
Helen Kennedy, University of the West of England
Barry Atkins, University of Wales Reader in Computer Games Design
 

 
Dr Barry Atkins
University of Wales Reader in Computer Games Design,
International Film School, Wales
University of Wales, Newport
School of Art Media and Design,
Caerleon Campus 
PO Box 179 
Newport 
NP18 3YG 
Gwent 


barry.atkins at newport.ac.uk
http://amd.newport.ac.uk/displayPage.aspx?object_id=4467&parent_id=4442&type
=PAG
http://amd.newport.ac.uk/displayPage.aspx?object_id=4421&parent_id=4267&type
=SEC


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BA(Hons) Animation
BA(Hons) Computer Games Design


For a prospectus , contact UIC at newport.ac.uk


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From: Johannes Fromme <jfromme at OVGU.DE>
To: GAMESNETWORK at uta.fi
Sent: Thursday, 13 November, 2008 11:38:57 AM
Subject: [GAMESNETWORK] Revised Call for Papers: "Computer Games / Players /
Game Cultures" (again)

Sorry, I chose the wrong link in yesterday's email (it is password
protected). This one should work:
http://wase.urz.uni-magdeburg.de/pub/bscw.cgi/d166949/CFP%20English.pdf

Best regards,
Johannes

Johannes Fromme schrieb:

> The University of Magdeburg, Institute for Educational Science, and the

> Commission "Media Education" of the "German Association for Educational

> Science" (Kommission Medienpädagogik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für

> Erziehungswissenschaft) invite to submit abstracts and papers for the

> international conference "Computer Games / Players / Game Cultures". The

> conference will be held in Magdeburg (Germany) from March 18 to 21, 2009.

> 

> Call for Papers - revised (2nd) version

> 

> The conference seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and

> reflect upon the state which digital game studies has obtained in the past

> decade as well as discuss perspectives for the future. The focus lies on

> aesthetic, social, cultural and educational aspects of computer games,

> including persistent (multiplayer) game worlds like MMOGs and new phenomena

> like mobile digital gaming (for more details see

> http://wase.urz.uni-magdeburg.de/bscw/bscw.cgi/d166949/CFP%20English.pdf).

> 

> Following the discussion on this list about the pros and cons of DIGRA reviews

> based on abstracts we have slighty revised our procedure and time schedule.

> 

> We invite to submit suggestions for papers/talks or posters (with working

> title, allocation to main topic) via e-mail to Johannes Fromme:

> jfromme at ovgu.de until December, 7th, 2008. Submissions may include:

> -    Abstracts (700-1000 words) or full versions of papers of original,

> unpublished research or theoretical work (individual or collaborative papers).

> General surveys of key debates, problems, and empirical findings are

> especially  encouraged.

> -    Abstracts (500-700 words) for poster presentations (presentations of work

> in progress in a poster session)

> -    Abstracts (500-700 words) for presentations of Ph.D. projects in a

> special forum for doctoral candidates.

> 

> All submitted abstracts und papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers,

> posters und Ph.D. projects will be presented during the conference. The full

> versions of the papers (talks) will be published in a handbook after the

> conference (presumably by the end of 2009). Authors will have the chance to

> revise their papers for the publication after the presentation and discussion

> at the conference.

> 

> The full version of the CFP can be downloaded here:

> http://wase.urz.uni-magdeburg.de/bscw/bscw.cgi/d166949/CFP%20English.pdf

> 

> Best,

> Johannes Fromme

> 


-- 
Prof. Dr. Johannes Fromme
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Tel. +49 391 6716611
Internet: http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mpeb/




EUROMEDIA 2009 
15TH ANNUAL MEDIA CONFERENCE
1ST CALL FOR PAPERS
WEBSITE
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/172
NOVOTEL BRUGGE CENTRUM
BRUGES-BELGIUM
APRIL 15-17, 2009
Organized by
ETI
Sponsored by
EUROSIS
University Hasselt
Delft University of Technology
Belgacom
TTVI
Ghent University
DG-INFSO

The 2009 EUROMEDIA conference covers the latest developments in
web-multimedia and communications technology while also looking at their
implementation in Broadband networking, mobile computing, broadband
networking, distributed computing, telematics, E-technology and real world
environments like embedded systems, security systems and training systems.
New topics are human computer interaction with a focus on the interaction of
users with multimodal interfaces and the usability and experiences of users
with multimodal systems based on different media.
The EUROMEDIA conference is held concurrently with the ECEC and FUBUTEC
conferences.

The conference is structured around 5 tracks: WEBTEC, which deals with web
technology-COMTEC, which covers communications technology-MEDIATEC, which
covers multimedia technology-APTEC, which provides an overview of
media-integration and ETEC, which covers electronic commerce.
The conference also features special workshops on E-Business, D-TV, Medical
Imaging, Facial and Biometric Recognition, Computer Graphics and Cyber
Security.

WEBTEC
The WEBTEC conference focuses on new developments with respect to Internet,
Intranet, HTML/XML..., and WEB 2.0. Because of the large amount of new tools
and developments, scientific papers focusing on this subject should always
include references to other ideas and products. If your paper describes a
new language or tool, include the theoretical basis, application, and
(tested) experiences.
Topics:
Internet Viewers and Programs
* Development and Design Tools for the Web
* Tactical Internet
* Web Programming
* Web Simulation and Animation
* Interactive Web Publishing Tools
* Dynamic New Languages and Standards
* Java Security
* CORBA and the Web
* IPV6 (next generation internetprotocol)
Visual Programming Languages
* Advanced Web Authoring and Development Tools
* Visual Web Programming
* Visual HTML - XML , XSL editors
* Applets and Scripting Languages over Networks
3D Web Programs
* 3D Worlds
* Rule Based Programming for 3D Environments (avatars)
* Building Online Communities
* Web 2.0 social software
Video and Audio Streaming on the Web
* Video Telephony, Web Video and Web Conferencing
* Video and Audio Libraries
* Internet telephone networks
AI on the Web
* Intelligent Agents, Knowbots and REBOL Bots
* Worm Programs, Data Mining and MDX, SQL, SQLJ Based Tools
* Mobile Network Agents
* Site Analysis Tools
* Collaborative Filtering
* Intelligent Interactive Characters
* Semantic Web Applications
* Webbased Information Systems
Software for Web-based Business Applications and E-Commerce
* Building Interactive Advertising and Information Interfaces
* Business Objects and Business to Business E-Commerce
* Customer Tracking Tools, E-Commerce Tools & Architectures
* Electronic Cash Transfer Protocols on the Web
* Joint Electronic Payments Initiative
* Internet Open Trading Protocols
* Security and E-Commerce
* Web Based Training and Web Based Networked Simulation
* PC VR Based Training

MEDIATEC
The MEDIATEC conference looks at new developments in multimedia technology.
Step by step, multimedia computing becomes more common and more popular.
CD-ROM-DVD technology, videoconferencing, and real-time 3-D animation have
become widely available for standard hardware platforms. The type of papers
we are looking for try to give a theoretical foundation to developments in
multimedia hardware and software, if possible comparing different
alternatives so that empirical results can form a basis for new standards
and choice among alternatives.
Topics:
Multimedia Techniques and Telecommunications
* Real Time Interactive Systems
* Hardware for multimedia storage
* Hardware and networks for multimedia transmission
* CD-Interactive Systems and Online DVD Technology
* Removable Storage Technology
* Multimedia Sensors (RF Tags)
* Intelligent Analysis and Interpretation of Multimedia Data
Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software
* Presentation Tools
* Presentation Software
* Animation /Facial Animation
* Animation Tools
* 3D Authoring Tools, 3D Graphics, 3D Accelerators and Motion Capture
* Video and Audio Editing
* PC-DVD Video Imaging, Editing Techniques and Tools
* Video Compression Techniques and Tools
* Video Accelerators
* Non Linear Video Editing Systems
* Digital Video
* MPEG 5 PC-Video Encoding and Decoding
* (MPEG) Image Compression
* Colour Palette Strategies
* Audio Editing
* Digital Audio Software
* CD Recording Software
* Voice Recognition Systems
* Industrial Applications
* automatic speech recognition
* Software Defined Radio
Multimedia Building Blocks
* Multimedia Databases
* Toolboxes for Moving Graphics
* Productivity Tools
* Multimedia and CORBA

COMTEC
The COMTEC conference covers different types of communication technology
utilising both fixed and mobile infrastructures. Of course, this conference
must be seen in alliance with the overall theme of the conference: new media
that are used on a world-wide basis in relation to information and
communication infrastructures.
Topics:
Telecommunications Technologies
* High Speed Interconnects
* Optical Networks and Switching
* Transport Networks
* HSI in Parallel/Distributed Systems
* Message Passing Communication Standards
* Communication Servers and Networks
* Access Networks and Protocols
* Systems and Applications Software
* Clusters and Load Balancing
* Traffic Models and Performance Simulations
* Fault Tolerance, Reliability Models, Performance Studies
and System Validation
Networks
* Quality of Service
* Multicast
* ISDN, Intelligent Networks, LAN-WAN Interconnection, WIFI
* Broadband and Wideband Networks
* Information Super Highways, GRID
* Network Management
* Case Studies on Large Networks Simulation technology
* Network Planning & Management & Software Radio
* Broadband convergence networks (BcN)
Network Security
* Encryption and Coding
* Software Protocols
* Privacy, ID Verification, Authentication, Message Integrity,
Message Non-Repudiation and Security Policies
* Access Control
+ Firewalls
+ Intrusion Detection
* Smart Card Technology
Mobile Communications
* Satellite Services
* WAP compliant Broadband Mobile Communication
* Voice Paging, Mobile Fax, Mobile Video Text
* 3G Networks
* Mobile Networks Planning
* W-CDMA (3rd generation mobile telecommunications)
* Mobile adhoc networks (MANETS)
TV Technology
* CATV, HDTV, 3D TV
* Interactive Video
* DAVIC
* Digital TV
* DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)
QoS
* QoS in TP Networks
* QoS in ATM Networks
* QoS in Public Networks
* QoS in Mobile Networks
* QoS in Heterogeneous Networks
* QoS Charging

APTEC
The APTEC conference shows how effectiveness and efficiency of individuals
and public and private organisations can be improved using telematics,
advanced communications, and multimedia technology. Papers in the APTEC
conference should present the relation between the type of activity that is
supported by new technology and the characteristics of the technology
itself. If possible, empirical test results should be included in the paper.
Topics:
Telematics Consumer Applications
* Home Banking
* Video-on-Demand, Video and PC-Gaming
* Video Kiosks
Cooperative Telematics Applications
* Home Shopping
* Teleconsulting
* Teleworking
* Teleprocessing
* Telepresence
* Web Enabled Devices
Tele-Education
* Tele-Teaching
* Multimedia and DVD Technology
* Computer Based Training
* CBT Authoring Software
* Computer Assisted Instruction
* Simulation Based Training
* Interactive Tools
* Tele-Education on the Web
* Case Studies
Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware
* Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
* VHDL and Verilog Applications
* Product Data Interchange
* Synthetic Environments and Simulation on the Web
* Distributed Simulation (DIS)
* Virtual Reality
* Innovative e-mail applications
* Shared Memory, Shared Screen
* Group Decision Support
* Group Scheduling
* Group Editing
* Video Conferencing and standards
* Desktop Video Conferencing
* Workflow Software
* Putting Interactive Training Online
Telemedicine
* Multimedia
* Real-Time Systems
* Telediagnostic
* Fault Tolerance
* Telemonitoring
* Data Bases
* Case Studies
Ubiquitous computing Applications
* health care
* Pervasive computing
* Video human interaction
* Mediascapes
* Interactive posters
* Electronic tags
* Ambient intelligence
* System architecture and concepts, software and intelligent receptors
* Smart homes and transport (cars,planes, Digital home concept)
* smart surroundings using ubiquitous wireless sensor networks
* self organising digital sensor networks of individual motes
* GPS, active RFID technology
* context aware systems (f.ex SIREN)
* privacy and security from motes, smart sensors to smart dust
Embedded Systems and future product market combinations
* modelling specification and validation of embedded systems
* intelligent clothing and polytronics
* rfid technology
* intelligent products and environments
* active silenced machines (adaptronics)
* simulated environments (reverse engineering)
* man-machine interaction (converging technology)
* security systems (biometric and other dataprocessing techniques
Multimodal communication
*context sensitive sensing
*affective computing
*speech recognition, recognition of facial expressions
*recognition of emotion in text, speech and video
*usability
*engineering experiences

ETEC
The ETEC conference reviews the latest trends and technologies applied in
the growing field of electronic commerce. This track will be exclusively
dedicated to practical applications in business to business and business to
customer environments. E-Commerce provides valuable guidance on
reconfiguring the structure and interaction between organisations,
businesses, and customers, to create effective new possibilities and to stay
ahead of competition, by implementing new advanced information and
communications technology. The track focuses on the reality rather than the
hype which tends to surround these items. This conference is a unique
occasion to find out the key issues and essential facts from case studies
and unbiased expert presentations.
. Tele-X
. E-commerce
. Security
. Medical Information Systems
. Challenges of tomorrow and beyond Trust and security: provisions and
instruments
. Online availability of public services
. Service survivability and maintainability
. Interoperability of services
. Security in e-democracy (including e-participation and e-voting)
. E-justice (administration and workflow security for legal processes)
. Secure federating information access (from different government and
third party agencies)
. Security and reliability in media integration
. Secure e-government and Identity Management
. Security and reliability of Smart Card System
. Availability and reliability of mobile services
. Data protection and data privacy (e.g. e-health and e-education)
. Intrusion detection and prevention
. Anti-spam legislation and solution
. Public-private- partnerships management
. Role-based management and usage restriction

Special Tracks
Special Track on Knowledge Management and e-Mobility
* Knowledge warehouse
* Knowledge acquisition and datamining
* E-blended learning
* MPEG2 standards in e-mobility

Special Track on In-Car Applications
This track will cover the embedded systems envisaged in
future car design based on multimedia applications.
* Look-Ahead Radar
* Automatic Braking
* Blind Spot Detection
* Steer by Wire
* LEDS
* Lane Departure Warning
* Conversational Voice Recognition
* Drowsiness Sensors
* Cockpit Controllers
* Split Displays
* In-car Entertainment Systems
* Glass Cockpit/HUD Displays
* Smart Navigation
* Networking
* Integrated Sensors

Special Track on Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication
Facial expressions play an important role in human communication. We are
able to read emotions from human faces. Turn taking in human dialogues can
be regulated by facial expressions. There is an ongoing discussion about the
universal character of emotions. Psychologist P. Ekman claims that there are
6 universal emotions corresponding with unique facial expressions:
happiness, sadness, disgust, anger, fear and surprise. But there are much
more emotions, which can be conveyed by facial expressions, way of speaking,
gestures and other body language. For many years researchers have been
involved in the automatic recognition and generation of emotions. There are
systems which are
able to read faces and analyze speech signals to recognize emotions.
Researchers have developed ³talking faces² which are able to show facial
expressions and to speak with appropriate emotions. At this moment here
robots and avatars which are able to display emotions and are able to
recognize emotion.
The goal of the session/track is to invite researchers to present papers in
the area of non verbal communication.

Special Track on Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications
This track will cover Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications using Motion
Capture Technology in
* Advertising
* Healthcare
* Market research
* Auto Safety
* Mobile Phones
* Security

Workshops
e-business information management or e-BIM
Information is a strategic resource in every organisation. In Business
Information Management (BIM) we focus on the continuous improvement of the
quality of the information, that is intrinsic in business processes and is
supporting management decisionmaking.
In e-Business Information Management (e-BIM) internet based information
modelling analyzing and presentation is a hot issue and is part of a
company¹s competitivity.
Themes:
* e-business, e-marketing, e-services
* business process modelling
* management information systems
* content management
* business intelligence
* management reporting
* e-learning
Organised by Jeanne Schreurs, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Medical Imaging Systems
In recent years, extensive research has been performed to develop more and
more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems. Such systems are
crucial for medical specialists, allowing a deeper analysis and to
understand what is going inside the human body, and therefore they play an
essential role for adequate medical diagnosis and treatments.
To accomplish efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, many research
works have being done in many domains, like the ones related with medical
image devices, signal processing, image processing and analysis,
biomechanical simulation and data visualization.
The main goal of the Workshop ³Medical Imaging Systems² is to bring together
researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines
of development for the near future.
Therefore, the proposed Workshop will consist of researchers representing
various fields related to Medical Devices, Signal Processing, Computational
Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific
Visualization, Mathematics and Medical Imaging. The Workshop endeavors to
contribute to obtain better solutions for more efficient and powerful
medical imaging systems, and attempts to establish a bridge between
clinicians and researchers from these diverse fields.
The proposed Workshop will cover topics related with medical imaging
systems, such as:
€ image acquisition
€ signal processing
€ image processing and analysis
€ modelling and simulation
€ computer aided diagnosis
€ surgery, therapy, and treatment
€ computational bioimaging and visualization
€ software development
€ virtual reality
€ telemedicine systems and their applications
Organised by Joao Tavares of the University of Porto, Portugal

D-TV Workshop
3rd Workshop on Digital Television & Digital Special Interest Channels at
the Euromedia 2009 - From Realisable Visions to Feasible and Sustainable
Applications.
Scope:
In contrast to traditional TV DTV is a telecommunication system for
broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital
signals. It uses digitally compressed modulation data, which requires
decoding by a specially designed television set or a standard receiver
(set-top box) as well as via PC-TV based on ADLS (VDSL). Digital Television
has several advantages regarding technically as well as content and
programme related aspects. One of the most significant is the use of a
smaller channel bandwidth. This frees up space for more digital channels,
other non-television services such as pay-multimedia services and the
generation of new revenue models based on interactive advertisement and
marketing features. Furthermore there are special services such as
multicasting (more than one programme on the same channel), electronic
programme guides and interactivity providing a wider range of application.
Accordingly within the last year a growing up of specialised digital TV
channels (Special Interest Channels) has to be observed European wide. This
new growing up stream is mainly characterised by the phenomena of merging
television (TV) and information technology (IT) know how, methods and
techniques.
In this context the workshop targets to show up the development in both
directions: the technically aspects as well as the content and programme
issues. It provides a presentation and discussion platform for exchanging
experiences made within the establishment as well as the maintenance of
digital special interest channels. Main focus will be to point out the
interdependencies and the mutual influences of technically streams and
content respectively service related issues.
Topics:
* Broadband Television
* Interactive Television
* IPTV - Web-TV
* DVB-H, DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C
* MHP & Interactive Television
* Set-Top-Boxes
* Full Digital Production Chain Management
* Digital-Video-Journalism
* DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)
* FreeTV & PayTV
* Interactive Video
* Interactive Advertising Formats
* Event Oriented Interview Formats
* Event Driven Program Schemes & Formats
* Mobile Content
* Cross-Format Content & Knowledge Pooling
* Cross-Media Content Production & Distribution
* Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Content
* Semantically Enrichment of Digital Content
* Security & Digital Rights Management (DRM)
* Watermarking & Copyrights & Protection
* Cross-platform productions on TV Media-Convergence
* Peer-to-peer Grid TV Applications
Organised by Hasn-Joachim Nern, DT-TV

Cybersecurity
Access Control, Applications of Cryptography, Attacks and Viral Software,
Authentication and Authorization, Biometrics and Applications, Critical ICT
Resources Protection, Data and System Integrity, Data Protection, Ethics,
Digital Content Security, Identity Management, Information Hiding,
Information Warfare, Internet and Web Security, Intrusion Detection,
Peer-to-Peer Security, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Risk Analysis and
Management, Secure Electronic Voting, Secure Sensor Networks, Secure Systems
Development, Security Architectures, Security Economics, Security Education,
Security Management, Security Metrics, Smart Cards, SPAM, SPIT, SPIM, Trust
Management and Models
Computer Graphics Applications

TUTORIALS
Tutorials can be proposed in the following three categories:
T1- Introductory tutorials
T2- State of the Art Tutorials
T3- Software and Modelware Tutorials
Tutorial proposals should be emailed to Philippe.Geril at eurosis.org

POSTER SESSION
The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the actual poster
presentation, these submissions also feature as short papers in the
Proceedings.

STUDENTS SESSION
This session is for students who want to present their work in progress or
part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers are denoted by the
fact that only the name of the student appears on the paper as an author.
They are published as short papers in the Proceedings.

DIVERSE ACTIVITIES
For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact EUROSIS. Special
session will be set up for vendor presentations in coordination with the
scientific program. User Group meetings for simulation languages and tools
can be organised the day before the conference. If you would like to arrange
a meeting, please contact the Conference Chairs. We will be happy to provide
a meeting room and other necessary equipment.

Exhibition
There will be a special exhibition section for universities and non-profit
organisations, and a special section for publishers and commercial stands.
If you would like to take part in this exhibition please contact the
EUROSIS for a full price schedule and stand layout.

Deadlines and Requirements
DECEMBER 15, 2008 (EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION)
JANUARY 20, 2009 (SUBMISSION DATE)
FEBRUARY 5, 2009 (LATE SUBMISSION)
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in the period
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Camera-Ready Copies:
MARCH 25, 2009
All EUROSIS Proceedings are indexed by ISI-THOMSON and INSPEC

As this event is being held in Belgium, our home country, we are required to
add on a 21% VAT surcharge. In order for you to get a VAT refund, have your
registration paid by your university, institute or company as they have a
VAT number. If you prepay personally it is possible you cannot reclaim the
VAT. All prices below are without VAT.

REGISTRATION FEES
Registration Authors EUROSIS Other
Fees Members Participants
Pre-Reg
before 495 Euro 495 Euro 555 Euro
March 25, 2009
Reg after Pre-
March 25, 2009 registration 535 Euro 595 Euro
Required
Registration fees should preferably be paid in EUROs, but can
also be paid in the equivalent amount of US$.. Payment is possible
by Creditcard The registration fee includes one copy of the Conference
Proceedings, coffee and tea during the breaks, all lunches, a welcome
cocktail, the conference dinner and conference visit.
Author Registration
Authors are expected to register early (at a reduced fee) and to attend the
conference at their own expense to present the accepted papers.
Without early registration and payment, the paper will not be published in
the Conference Proceedings. Each registration covers one presentation.

PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES
FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references, at least
five pages, double column)
During review, the submitted full papers can be accepted as a regular 5 page
paper. If excellent, full papers can be accepted by the program committee as
an extended (8-page) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least
three members of the International Program Committee.
EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages, single column)
Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5
pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the
International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in
the EUROMEDIA'2009 Conference Proceedings.
SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages)
Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster,
which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted
papers will be published in the EUROMEDIA'2009 Conference Proceedings.
ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.

Refereeing and Camera-ready papers
The notification of acceptance or rejection, in combination with suggestions
to improve the paper, will be sent by FEBRUARY 15, 2009.
Along with the notification of acceptance, an author kit with complete
instructions for preparing a camera-ready copy for the Proceedings will be
sent to authors of accepted abstracts or drafts. The camera-ready copy of
the papers must be in by MARCH 20, 2009. In order to guarantee a
high-quality conference, the camera-ready papers will be checked as well, to
check see the suggestions of the program committee have been incorporated.

VENUE
The EUROMEDIA 2009 will be co-located with the FUBUTEC 2009/ECEC 2009
conferences. Paying registration for either one of the conferences allows
you to visit sessions from all three conferences.
The conference itself is held in the beautiful Medieval city of Bruges (an
UNESCO
Heritage site) known as the Venice of the North.
http://www.brugge.be
http://foto.brugge.be/slides/slides.htm
All conferences are co-located at the Novotel Brugge Centrum.
http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-1033-novotel-brugge-centrum/index.shtml
which is located in the very heart of the historic city of Bruges.

CONFERENCE VISIT
A visit will be envisaged to a company relevant to the conference.
In this case it will be New Holland in Zedelgem, just outside Bruges.
http://www.cnh.com/wps/portal/cnhportal
The conference dinner will be held at the Huisbrouwerij Halve Maan
http://www.halvemaan.be/
While a reception will be given on Wednesday the 15th of April at
the Town Hall of Bruges.

REPLY CARD
Surname:..................................................
First Name:...............................................
Affiliation:..............................................
MailingAddress:...........................................
..........................................................
.........................................................
Zipcode:...........City:..................................
Country:..................................................
Telephone:....................Fax:........................
E-mail:...................................................
Yes, I intend to attend the 2009 Euromedia Conference:
* Without presenting a paper
* Contributing to the Exhibition
* Proposing a vendor presentation with the following
title:....................................................
* Proposing a tutorial about the following subject:
* Proposing a panel discussion with the following title:
* Proposing the following short paper (abstract at least 2 pages)
* Proposing the following full paper (based on extended
abstract or full paper submission
Title of submission
..................................
...................................
The paper belongs to the following theme (please tick one):
[] WEBTEC
* Internet Viewers and Programs
* Visual Programming Languages
* 3D Web Programs
* Video and Audio Streaming on the Web
* AI on the Web
* Software for Web-based Business Applications
[] MEDIATEC
* Multimedia Techniques and Telecom
* Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software
* Multimedia Building Blocks
[] COMTEC
* Telecommunications Technologies
* Networks
* Network Security
* Mobile Communications
* TV Technology
* QoS
[] APTEC
* Telematics Consumer Applications
* Cooperative Consumer Application
* Tele-Education
* Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware
* Telemedicine
* Ubiquitous Computing Applications
* Embedded Systems and Future Product Market Combinations
* Multimodal communication
[] ETEC
* Tele-X and E-Commerce
* Knowledge Management and E-Mobility
Special Tracks:
[] Knowledge Management and e-Mobility
[] In-Car Applications
[] Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication
[] Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications
Special Workshops:
[] e-BIM
[] Medical Imaging Systems
[] D-TV
[] Cybersecurity
[] Computer Graphics
Do you know others interested in the topic of the conference?
Name: ....................................
Address: .....................................
...........................................
For general information, contact the EUROSIS:
European Simulation Office, c/o Philippe Geril
Greenbridge NV
Wetenschapspark 1
Plassendale 1
B-8400 Ostend, Belgium
Tel: +32 59 255.330
Fax: + 32 59.255.339
Email: philippe.geril at eurosis.org
Further information about the 2009 EUROMEDIA Conference can be found on WWW
under: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/172

First Call for Papers
Eurographics 2009 Workshop on 3D object retrieval
 
( http://3dor.ge.imati.cnr.it/ <http://3dor.ge.imati.cnr.it/>  )
 
March 29, 2009
Munich, Germany
 

3D content is now widely recognized as the upcoming wave of digital media.
Inexperience and professional users are becoming more and more actively
involved in the content creation pipeline and ask for intuitive and
effective tools for creating, sharing, retrieving and re-using 3D content.
Search and retrieval of 3D objects is therefore rapidly become a key issue
in the upcoming panorama of multimedia content, both in general usage
scenarios, such as online gaming or 3D social networks, and in scientific
domains, such as molecular biology and medicine. The development of
efficient search mechanisms is required for the effective retrieval of 3D
objects from large repositories, both of a single class (such as human
faces) and across classes.
 
The aim of this workshop is to stimulate researchers from different fields
(computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning, human-computer
interaction, semantic web) who work on the common goal of 3D object
retrieval, to present state-of-the-art work in the field and thus provide a
cross-fertilization ground that will stimulate discussions on the next steps
in this important research area.
 
Topics
 
Topics of interest include but are not limited to :
 
- 3D object similarity and matching
- 3D Object classification, indexing, and mining
- Feature extraction, model decomposition and segmentation
- Partial and many-to-many matching
- Matching under uncertainty and noise
- Query interfaces and search modalities
- Multi-level representations for matching and retrieval
- Semantics-driven 3D object retrieval and classification
- Sketch-based retrieval
- Benchmarking issues
- Relevance feedback methods
- Active learning 
- Generative / Discriminative approaches in 3D object categorisation
- Applications in Multimedia industry
- Applications in CAD industry
- Applications in Games industry
- Applications in Biometrics
- Applications in e-Science
- Applications in e-Learning
- Applications in Medicine and Biology
- Applications in Cultural Heritage
 
Important Dates
 
Submission deadline: Friday, January 9, 2009 (24:00 GMT)
Notification of acceptance: Friday, February 20, 2009
Camera-ready papers deadline: Thursday, February 26, 2009
Workshop: Sunday, March 29, 2009 (one full day)
 
Organisation
 
Workshop Chairs
 
Ioannis Pratikakis  ( IIT / NCSR ‘Demokritos’, Greece )
Michela Spagnuolo ( IMATI / CNR, Italy )
 
Programme Chairs
 
Theoharis Theoharis ( Department of Informatics, University of Athens,
Greece )
Remco Veltkamp, ( Utrecht University, NL )
 
International Programme Committee
 
Yiannis Aloimonos (UMIACS, USA)
Philipos Azariadis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy)
Petros Daras (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece)
Bianca Falcidieno (IMATI-CNR, Italy)
Dieter W. Fellner (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)
Daniela Giorgi (IMATI-CNR, Italy)
Frank Ter Haar (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Simone Marini (IMATI-CNR, Italy)
Ron Kimmel (Technion, Israel)
Georgios Papaioannou (AUEB, Greece)
Nicholas Patrikalakis (MIT, USA)
Stavros Perantonis (IIT / NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
Karthik Ramani (Purdue University, USA)
William Regli (Drexel University, USA)
Marcos Rodrigues (University of Sheffield, UK)
Nikolaos Sapidis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Dietmar Saupe (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Francis Schmitt (TELECOM ParisTech, France)
Ariel Shamir (Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, Israel)
Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
Theodore Trafalis (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Titus Zaharia (Institut National des Telecommunications, France)
 
Contact Information
 
Ioannis PRATIKAKIS
Computational Intelligence Laboratory
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications
National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"
15310 Athens, Greece
Tel:     +30-210-650 3183
E-mail: ipratika at iit.demokritos.gr
 
 
Michela SPAGNUOLO
Istituto per la Matematica Applicata e le Tecnologie Informatiche
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via De Marini, 6 - 16149 Genova
Phone: +39-0106475677 Fax: +39-0106475660
Email: spagnuolo at ge.imati.cnr.it



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