July 30 to August 01, 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Website: http://www.ieee-temu.org

TEMU2012 is an International conference under the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE/ComSoc, presenting new and original research results and the latest in the-state-of-the-art in Telecommunications and Multimedia. It fosters communication and discussions among researchers, scientists and students working in the design, implementation and applications of telecommunications and multimedia fields. The 2012 conference will provide a three-day Scientific Program, including presentations of invited and regular papers from researchers, manufacturers, academia and services providers. Authors are invited to submit novel, challenging and innovative results on both theoretical and practical aspects of the scope of the conference, which includes but is not limited to:

• Network & Service Infrastructures
• Beyond NGN
• Ad-Hoc and Mobile Networks
• Satellite & Space Communications
• Cognitive Radio & Dynamic Spectrum Access
• Optical Communications and Fiber Optics
• Broadcasting Future Media Internet
• Broadcasting Internet Platforms
• Cloud Computing
• Network Virtualisation
• Content aware networks & Network aware services
• IPTV, Mobile TV and P2PTV
• 3DTV, HDTV
• Service Architectures and Software Engineering
• Multimedia Authoring Tools
• Testbeds and experimentation
• Energy saving and green technologies
• Quality of Service and Quality of Experience
• Security, Privacy and Billing
• Electronic commerce and e-business

Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages-long, following the Standard IEEE conference templates for MS Word or LaTeX formats. Papers should be submitted as PDF files through the EDAS system (http://edas.info). All submitted papers will be subject to three independent reviews and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. Accepted papers in TEMU2012 will be also published in IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates
Special sessions and workshops proposals……March 30, 2012
Submission of technical papers…………………..May 07, 2012
Notification of acceptance …………………………June 04, 2012
Submission of camera-ready papers ……………June 25, 2012

Contact Email: info@temu.gr

Conference Objective

Multimedia applications are becoming more and more part of our everyday life. With the fast development of social networks and exchange platforms, users interact with each other through multimedia content, from different places, using different platforms. In order to make these applications available and successful, all the elements involved in the chain between multimedia content production and consumption have to work together with one goal in mind : maximising the Quality of Experience on the user’s side. This global issue requires taking into account a high variability of devices, networks, users and consumption scenarios, while addressing technological constraints related to the available resources in terms of network capacities, computation power and storage. In order to gain more knowledge on the provision and assessment of Quality of User Experience, new parameters have to be considered, such as from the psychophysical and environmental context. These efforts are further justified by the emergence of new multimedia concepts and applications, such as 3DTV, Free Viewpoint TV and Mobile TV, which include complex interactions with the users and with their environment. The QoEMCS workshop has been part of the last two editions of EuroITV. The third edition will once again focus on QoE and multimedia interactions, centered around the evaluation and optimization of interactions between users across different places and platforms.

So, I got the opportunity to present also my idea, which is relative to the development of a QoE framework especially for cloud computing environments. All the presentations of the workshop are available for downloading at this web page (PRESENTATIONS).

Similarly, the final report on the public consultation for the FP7 ICT Work Programme 2013-Networked Media Systems is now uploaded in the website:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/netmedia/events/consultations/wp2013consult/index_en.htm

Feature topic on “QoE management in emerging multimedia services”

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 20, 2011
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: January 15, 2012
FINAL MANUSCRIPT: March 10, 2012
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2012

“QOE MANAGEMENT IN EMERGING MULTIMEDIA SERVICES”

The realization of the paradigm of Internet anywhere, anytime and any-device and the diffusion of end-user multimedia devices with powerful and user-friendly capabilities such as smartphones, tablets pc, mobile gaming terminals and ebooks, are leading to the proliferation of a significant amount of emerging multimedia services: immersive environments, mobile online gaming, 3D virtual world, book/newspaper consumption, social networking, IPTV applications, just to cite a few. Some of these services have already reached a major market success, such as the case of newspaper/magazine mobile readers and smartphone multimedia apps. Their success could be achieved especially because a user-centered approach has been followed to design the whole process of content production, service activation, content consumption, service management and updating. Indeed, the quality of the user experience, the perceived simplicity of accessing and interacting with systems and services, and the effective and acceptable
hiding of the complexity of underlying technologies are determining factors for success or failure of these novel services, as well as graceful degradation. The management of the Quality of Experience (QoE) is then undoubtedly a crucial concept in the deployment of future successful services, and it is straightforward to be understood as well complex and stimulating to be implemented in real systems. The complexity is mainly due to the difficulty of its modeling, evaluation, and translation in what for more than a decade we have been mainly dealing with (partially in its substitution), that is the Quality of Services (QoS). Whereas QoS can be now easily measured, monitored and controlled at both the networking and application layers and
at the end-system and network sides, the quality of experience is something that is still quite intricate to be managed. The practice in evaluating the QoS can be exploited in evaluating the QoE, but it is just a starting point for a complete QoE management procedure, which should encompass at least the following activities: monitoring of the experience of the user when consuming the service, adapting the provisioning of the content on the basis of the varying context conditions (e.g. network status, user behavior, user
profile, environment), predicting potential experience level degradation, and masking quality degradation due to abrupt system changes. To have a complete control of the final user experience, all these tasks need to be performed in a coordinated way and their real effectiveness depends on the validity of the adopted user perception model.

Objectives The purpose of this special issue is to present to the magazine’s audience a concise, tutorial oriented reference of the state-of-the-art, current and future research challenges and trends on the management of QoE in emerging multimedia services. To achieve this goal the special issue seeks original research and review papers that survey and present new ideas, leading-edge research prototype development, trials and early deployment, and performance evaluations in the following areas: * Definition of QoE (Quality of Experience) for emerging services * Relationship between QoE and QoS
* Architectures for the management of the QoE in emerging multimedia services
* Offline and online prediction and evaluation of QoE * QoE-oriented multimedia traffic management * QoE-oriented multimedia source and channel coding * Testbeds for performance evaluation of QoE-oriented systems
* Middleware solutions for QoE management * Adaptive and self-configuring solutions for QoE management * Advanced, scalable service-aware QoE-oriented traffic control and management
* QoE management in heterogeneous networks

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine manuscript format described in the Authors Guidelines
(http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html). All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com). Guest Editors:
* Luigi Atzori, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
* Chang Wen Chen, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, NJ, USA
* Tasos Dagiuklas, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece * Hong Ren Wu, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Lisbon, Portugal 29th June 2011

* Important Dates:
- 31 March 2011: Submission of workshop paper
- 18 April 2011: Notification of acceptance
- 2 May 2011: Submission of camera-ready paper
- 29 June 2011: Workshop at EuroITV 2011 in Lisbon

Workshop web site: http://dcti.iscte.pt/events/qoemcs2011/

In recent years, it has been realized that the success of multimedia services or applications relies on the analysis of the entire user experience (UX). The relevance of this paradigm ranges from IPTV to video-on-demand systems offering professional TV and user-generated content that is consumed and produced ubiquitously. To obtain a pleasurable and ubiquitous user experience a large amount of aspects have to be taken into account. Major challenges in this context include the identification of relevant UX factors and the quantification of their in influence on Quality of Experience (QoE).

In the particular scenario of ubiquitous production and consumption of content, context awareness and assessment of users’ expectations play an essential role. This is further justified by the emergence of new multimedia
enhancement techniques, notably 3DTV and Free Viewpoint.
In the support of ubiquitous QoE the acquired knowledge on the context and on identified parameters affecting users’ experience could be used to improve multimedia applications and their associated content delivery mechanisms.

* Workshop objectives
The objective of this workshop consists in collecting and developing know-ledge on the following three main topics defining the session structure
of the workshop:

- Context awareness for multimedia applications (video on demand, live broadcast,
3DTV, IPTV, social aspects, sensors, GPS, semantics, energy
efficiency)

- Content and context aware quality measurements (user generated& professional
content, live& on demand)

- Assessing and supporting QoE in ubiquitous scenarios
(constant and variable in influence factors).

* Research topics
The central research question of the workshop consists in determining key elements (including content and context information) for assessing and supporting QoE ubiquitously: These questions include, but are not limited to
the following topics:

- QoE in ubiquitous scenarios
- Context awareness
- Subj/ective and objective quality evaluation in the context of use, context-aware solutions
(situation specificity, interactivity, user-generated& professional content)
- Interplay between ubiquitous delivery and QoE support – 3D Multimedia and Free ViewPoint
- QoE support for interactive multimedia

* Submission
Workshop papers should not exceed a maximum length of four pages and follow the ACM Style Guidelines
- Word Template:
http://www.euroitv2011.org/images/stories/euroitv_pubform.doc – Instructions when using latex:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
Please send your workshop paper to:shelley.buchinger@univie.ac.at

* Publication
Workshop contributions will be published in the Adjunct Proceedings of the EuroITV.

* Organizing Committee
- Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Rui Jorge Lopes, Instituto de Telecomunicações and ISCTE-IUL (POR) – Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, Tampere University of Technology (FIN) – Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE)

* Technical Program Committee (tentative list)
- Manora Caldera, Curtin University of Technology (AUS)
- Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE) – Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Harilaos G. Koumaras, University of Bordeaux (FR)
- Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University (ID)
- Hendrik Knoche, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Patrick Le Callet, Université de Nantes (FR)
- Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University (UK)
- Maria Paula Queluz, Instituto de Telecomunicações and IST (POR) – Bijan Rohani, Phybit, (SG)
- Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich (CH)
- Nitin Suresh, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
- Junyong You, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)

4th Int. ICST Conf. on MOBILe Wireless
MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
June 22-24, 2011 – London, UK

ANNUAL THEME
Towards Mobile Middleware Enablers for Seamless Service Provisioning http://www.mobilware.org/index.shtml

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2011
Camera Ready Deadline: May 15, 2011
Conference Date: June 22-24, 2011

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other, interact with
information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through
various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of these pervasive and
ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various
communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications.

TOPICS
The conference solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- New middleware concepts for mobile devices
- Cross platform application development
- Open terminal and network APIs
- End-to-end architectures for seamless service provisioning and deployment – Integration of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks and frequency bands – Interworking of mobile applications in mobile cloud environments – QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services – Opportunistic and delay-tolerant mobile and wireless networking – Location-aware and context-aware networking and computing
- Energy-efficient applications and services and OS air interface management – Mobility and handoff management
- Location and tracking supports and services
- Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices – Novel applications and communication protocols
for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, and home networks – Modeling, simulation, and performance
evaluation of mobile wireless systems and services
- Trustworthiness, security, and privacy of mobile and wireless systems

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the
Institute for Computer Sciences, Social
Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
(LNICST) series. The proceedings will be
available in both soft and hard copies by Springer.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Selected high-quality papers will be invited to a
Special Issue of a prestigious journal in the
area, probably Springer Mobile Networks and
Applications (MONET) and/or Elsevier Pervasive
and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journals approval pending.

Steering Committee
Paolo Bellavista
University of Bologna (Italy)
Carl Chang
Iowa State University (USA)
Imrich Chlamtac
Create-Net (Italy)
Thomas Magedanz
Technical University Berlin (Germany)

Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Vladimir Getov
University of Westminster (UK)
Martin Sauter
WirelessMoves (Germany)

TPC Chairs
Stephan Steglich
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
University of California, Irvine (USA)
Qinghua Zheng
Xian Jiaotong University (P.R. China)

Publicity Chairs
Carlos Becker Westphall
Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Panagiotis Chountas
University of Westminster (UK)

Web Chair
Carlo Giannelli
University of Bologna (Italy)

Conference Coordinator
Gergely Nagy
ICST

Local Chair
Alexander Bolotov
University of Westminster (UK)

Technical Program Committee
Allott Nick
Wholesale Application Community (UK)
Bonnin Jean-Marie
Telecom Bretagne(France)
Borcea Cristian
New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Boussard Mathieu
Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs France (France)
Bu Jiajun
Zhejiang University (China)
Budimir Djuradj
University of Westminster (UK)
Caceres Marcos
Opera (Norway)
Cai Ying
Iowa State University (USA)
Cao Jiannong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HongKong)
Cheng Liang
Lehigh University (USA)
Dan Grigoras
University College Cork (Republic of Ireland)
Demeure Isabelle
Telecom Paris (France)
Dixit Sudhir
HP (India)
Dragehorn Olaf
University Kassel (Germany)
Economou Daphne
University of Westminster (UK)
Faeth Matthias
TNO (The Netherlands)
Fasbender Andreas
Ericsson (Germany)
Fu Xinwen
University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA)
Fuhrhop Christian
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Gavras Anastasius
Eurescom (Germany)
Georgalas Nektarios
British Telecom (UK)
Giambene Giovanni
Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)
Gunes Mesut
FU Berlin (Germany)
H. Glitho Roch
Concordia University (Canada)
Hesselman Cristian
Novay (The Netherlands)
Hirschfeld Robert
Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam (Germany)
Holtel Stefan
flensburg.school for Advanced Business Research (Germany)
Hong Feng
Ocean University of China (China)
Jaokar Ajit
Futuretext (UK)
Ji Yang
BUPT (China)
Kanter Theo
Mid Sweden University (Sweden)
Kernchen Ralf
University of Surrey (UK)
Koolwaaij Johan
Novay (The Netherlands)
Krussel Steffen
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Ku Wei-Shinn
Auburn University (USA)
Kurze Martin
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Lachmund Sven
DOCOMO Euro-Labs(Germany)
Langendoerfer Peter
IHP Microelectronics (Germany)
Li Xiuqi (Suze)
University of North Carolina (USA)
Li Yan
Huawei (China)
Li Xiaolin
University of Florida (USA)
Lohi Mahi
University of Westminster (UK)
Minerva Roberto
Telecom Italia – Future Centre (Italy)
Moessner Klaus
University of Surrey (UK)
Nadeem Tamer
Old Dominion University (USA)
Nord Christian
Sony Ericsson (Sweden)
Ohsaki Hiroyuki
Osaka University (Japan)
Paul Andre
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Quantz Joachim
ART+COM (Germany)
Shikh-Bahaei Mohammad R.
King’s College London (UK)
Raggett Dave
W3C (UK)
Ravi Nishkam
NEC Labs (USA)
Roman Gruia-Catalin
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
Salden Alfons
Almende (The Netherlands)
Schwaiger Roland
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Sun Weiwei
Fudan University (China)
Taheri Javid
The University of Sydney (Australia)
Tao Xianping
Nanjing University (China)
Tarczynski Andrzej
University of Westminster (UK)
Tripathi Anand
University of Minnesota (USA)
Wagner Matthias
DOCOMO Euro-Labs (Germany)
Wang Xiaodong
National University of Defence Technology (China)
Xue Guangtao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Zhu Yanmin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Zambonelli Franco
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Web site:http://www.euvip.org

This third edition of the workshop follows up on the success achieved by theprevious i.e. VISPA 2008 and EUVIP 2010. These latter attracted prominent speakers from around the world and provided a framework for fruitful discussions on different applications of signal and image processing techniques for emerging and challenging problems. Carrying on this tradition EUVIP 2011, will offer a forum for researchers and industrials to exchange ideas and discuss the recent advances in perceptually-inspired techniques for image and video processing with application to multimedia, visual pattern recognition, surveillance, and visual information security. This event will be composed by several invited senior talks, and technical papers presentations dealing with state of the art and new advances in visual information modeling, analysis, processing and communication methods. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between established researchers as well as to provide graduate students with an opportunity to have substantive interaction with experts in the field.

Topics of particular interest to EUVIP 2011 include, but are not limited to:

Computational Vision Models Video Analysis
Image and Video Quality Assessment Visual Tracking
Image and Video Enhancement Visual Data Mining
Color Image Understanding Biometrics
Color Image Processing Perceptual Digital Watermarking
Perceptual Image& Video Retrieval Perceptual coding
Multimedia Communication Multiview Processing

Following the tradition of previous successful EUVIP workshops, a PhDstudent poster session will be organized. For further information, please go to “Student Poster Session” at http://www.euvip.org

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 15 February 2011
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2011
Camera Ready Deadline: 15 April 2011

Paper submission:

LENGTH: You are allowed a total of 6 pages (4 miminum) for your document.This is the maximum number of pages that will be accepted, including all figures, tables, and references.

Double Blind Review: EUVIP2011 reviewing is double blind, in that authors donot know the names of the area chair/reviewers of their papers, and area chairs/reviewers do not know the names of the authors. Avoid providing information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs). Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of these guidelines will lead to rejection without review.

Please look at “paper submission link” at http://www.euvip.org

Technical Committee.

T. Aach (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
K. Abed-Meraim (Telecom Paris Tech., France)
D. Aboutajdine (Univ-Mohammed V, Morrocco)
A. Amira (Brunel University,UK)
S. Battiato (Università di Catania, Italy)
F. Battisti (University Roma Tre, Italy)
M. Bennamoun (Perth, Australia)
A. Bennaza (Sup?Com, Tunis, Tunisia)
J. Benois-Pineau (University Bordeaux, France)
B. Boashash (University of Qatar, Qatar)
A. Bouridane (Northumbria University, UK)
M. Cagnazzo (Telecom Paris Tech., France)
S. Colonnese, (Università ?La Sapienza?Roma, Italy)
F. Dufaux (EPFL, Switzerland)
I. Farup (Gjøvik University, Norway)
M. Gabbouj (TUT, Tampere, Finland)
J. Y. Hardenberg (Gjøvik University, Norway)
L. Karam (University of Arizona, USA)
D. Khalifa (Université Evry Val d’Essonne , France)
P. Le Callet (Polytech?Nantes, France)
M. Mitrea (Telecom SudParis, France)
A. Neri (University Roma Tre, Italy)
A. Ouamri (USTO, Oran, Algerira)
S. L. Phung (University of Wollongong, Australia)
T. Pun (Unversity of Geneva, Switzerland)
H. Saadane (University Poitiers, France)
A. Serir (USTHB, Algiers, Algeria)
K. Seshadrinathan (Intel Corporation in Phoenix, AZ, USA)
S. Susstrünk (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
F. H-C Tivive (University of Wollongong, Australia)
E. Viennet (Université Paris 13, France)
H.R. Wu (RMIT, Australia)

Lisbon, Portugal 29th June 2011

* Important Dates:
- 31 March 2011: Submission of workshop paper
- 18 April 2011: Notification of acceptance
- 2 May 2011: Submission of camera-ready paper
- 29 June 2011: Workshop at EuroITV 2011 in Lisbon

Workshop web site: http://dcti.iscte.pt/events/qoemcs2011/

In recent years, it has been realized that the success of multimedia services or applications relies on the analysis of the entire user experience (UX). The relevance of this paradigm ranges from IPTV to video-on-demand systems offering professional TV and user-generated content that is consumed and produced ubiquitously. To obtain a pleasurable and ubiquitous user experience a large amount of aspects have to be taken into account. Major challenges in this context include the identification of relevant UX factors and the quantification of their in influence on Quality of Experience (QoE).

In the particular scenario of ubiquitous production and consumption of content, context awareness and assessment of users’ expectations play an essential role. This is further justified by the emergence of new multimedia
enhancement techniques, notably 3DTV and Free Viewpoint.
In the support of ubiquitous QoE the acquired knowledge on the context and on identified parameters affecting users’ experience could be used to improve multimedia applications and their associated content delivery mechanisms.

* Workshop objectives
The objective of this workshop consists in collecting and developing know-ledge on the following three main topics defining the session structure
of the workshop:

- Context awareness for multimedia applications (video on demand, live broadcast, 3DTV, IPTV, social aspects, sensors, GPS, semantics, energy efficiency)

- Content and context aware quality measurements (user generated& professional content, live& on demand)

- Assessing and supporting QoE in ubiquitous scenarios (constant and variable in influence factors).

* Research topics
The central research question of the workshop consists in determining key elements (including content and context information) for assessing and supporting QoE ubiquitously: These questions include, but are not limited to
the following topics:

- QoE in ubiquitous scenarios
- Context awareness
- Subj/ective and objective quality evaluation in the context of use, context-aware solutions
(situation specificity, interactivity, user-generated& professional content)
- Interplay between ubiquitous delivery and QoE support – 3D Multimedia and Free ViewPoint
- QoE support for interactive multimedia

* Submission
Workshop papers should not exceed a maximum length of four pages and follow the ACM Style Guidelines
(http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/euroitv2010/node/37).
Please send your workshop paper to:shelley.buchinger@univie.ac.at

* Publication
Workshop contributions will be published in the EuroITV proceedings.

* Technical Program Committee (tentative list)
- Manora Caldera, Curtin University of Technology (AUS)
- Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE) – Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University (ID)
- Hendrik Knoche, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Patrick Le Callet, Université de Nantes (FR)
- Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University (UK)
- Maria Paula Queluz, Instituto de Telecomunicações and IST (POR) – Bijan Rohani, Phybit, (SG)
- Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich (CH)
- Junyong You, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)

* Organizing Committee
- Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Rui Jorge Lopes, Instituto de Telecomunicações and ISCTE-IUL (POR) – Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, Tampere University of Technology (FIN) – Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE)