Welcome to the March’16 edition of the IEEE-TCMC (Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing) monthly mailing.
To join TCMC: https://www.computer.org/web/tcmc/join-tcmc
This month’s topics include:
* IEEE Trans. on Multimedia Call for Editor in Chief
* IEEE Trans. on Multimedia Call for Best Paper Award
* 2016 IEEE ICME Workshop/Demo/Industry paper deadline extended to Mar. 25th
* Conf. CFPs:
ACM Multimedia 2016
IEEE IRI 2016
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IEEE Trans. on Multimedia Call for Editor in Chief
The IEEE Computer Society invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia for a 3-year term starting 1 January 2017. The nominees must have
expertise and editorial experience in the multimedia area.
Nominations should be submitted no later than 1 June 2016. For more information or to submit
application materials, please contact: Kimberly Sperka, ksperka@computer.org.
Nominations must include:
– Name, affiliation, and contact info for the candidate and nominator
– A brief statement of the expertise and editorial experience of the candidate
– A brief statement of interest from the candidate outlining their vision for the journal
– A web address that contains the candidate’s CV (no attachments please)
The society will vet nominations and forward at least one to the Steering Committee (SC), assuring
that the nominee(s) have editorial experience in the multimedia area. The SC will carefully consider
the expertise, editorial experience, and vision statement of each candidate, and how they best fit
the current needs of the journal, and will submit their top choice to the sponsoring societies’ Vice
Presidents-Publications for final approval.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
Candidates for any editor-in-chief position should possess significant editorial experience and a good
understanding of industry, academic, and government aspects of the specific publication’s field.
In addition, candidates must demonstrate the managerial skills necessary to process manuscripts
through the editorial cycle in a timely fashion. An editor in chief must be able to attract respected
experts to his or her Editorial Board. Major responsibilities include:
• actively soliciting high-quality manuscripts from potential authors and, with support from
publication staff, helping these authors get their manuscripts published;
• identifying and appointing editorial board members with the concurrence of the Steering
Committee;
• selecting competent manuscript reviewers with the help of Editorial Board members and
managing timely reviews of manuscripts;
• directing Editorial Board members to seek special issue proposals and manuscripts in specific
areas;
• providing a clear, broad focus through promotion of personal vision and guidance where
appropriate; and
• resolving conflicts or problems as necessary.
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IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2016
Best Paper Award Nomination for 2016 Best Paper Award is open.
Any paper published in T-MM in 2013, 2014, or 2015 is eligible.
Nominations should include: 1. Nominator 2. Bibliographic information for the paper 3.
A short statement of support (less than 500 words) explaining the rationale for the nomination.
Judging shall be on the bases of originality, subject matter, timeliness, potential impact,
and presentation quality.
Nominations should be sent to the T-MM Editor-in-Chief:Dr. Chang Wen Chen (chencw@buffalo.edu)
no later than 31-March-2016.
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2016 IEEE ICME Workshop/Demo/Industry paper deadline extended to Mar. 25th
See conference website for details: http://www.icme2016.org/
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CFP: ACM Multimedia 2016
October 15-19, 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherland
Call for Contributions
ACM Multimedia 2016 solicits submissions of contributions for the following programs (partial
list, please visit the website for details):
• Regular scientific papers
• Brave new idea papers
• Interactive art exhibition
• Open source software competition
• Multimedia grand challenge competition
• Tutorials
• Panels
• Doctoral symposium
• Technical demonstrations
• Workshops
Full Papers:
Abstract submission 27 March 2016
Manuscript submission 3 April 2016
Initial reviews to authors 8 May 2016
Rebuttal period 8 – 15 May 2016
Author-to-Author’s Advocate contact period 8 – 15 May 2016
Notification of acceptance 24 June 2016
Camera-ready submission 27 July 2016
Short Papers:
Manuscript submission 25 April 2016
Notification of acceptance 24 June 2016
Camera-ready submission 27 July 2016
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CFP: IEEE IRI 2016
July 28-30, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/iri2016/
The development of software and its’ supporting hardware, at the global level, is becoming a
race for speed, memory, and most-importantly, cost-effectiveness. Simply put, software plays
an ever-increasing role in the world economy. This is currently about 20 percent of the U.S.
GDP. It includes everything from providing creative decision support in cancer research to
simulating nuclear fusion reactor designs to mining big data for scientific research and
business – all of which generalize to creating knowledge, which did not previously exist. All this
and more are enabled by reuse and integration.
Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) encompasses all approaches for effectively removing
redundancy in the representation and exercise of data and knowledge for incorporation into
systems and applications. Data integration provides knowledge, which is more compact and is
thus of greater utility than the original data. Furthermore, IRI addresses the representation,
cleansing, generalization, validation, and reasoning strategies for the scientifically-sound and
cost-effective advancement of all systems – including software, hardware, and systems of
systems (SoS).
This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and
reusable systems (SoS). Information reuse explores theory and practice of information
representation and randomization; information integration focuses on innovative strategies and
algorithms for fusing sources of data and knowledge; and, reusable systems focuses on
developing and integrating collections of systems, which provide novel cost-effective
capabilities.
The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia,
industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world
problems with real-world solutions. Theoretical and applied papers are both welcome. The
conference program will include several plenary speeches from academia, industry, and
government; special sessions, open forum workshops, panels, and tutorials (at no extra
charge).
The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below:
Reuse and integration in VLSI/ SoC, and Computing architectures
Large Scale System Integration
Component-Based Design & Reuse
Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies
Database Integration
Structured/Semi-structured Data
Reuse in Software Engineering
Data Mining & BigData
Sensory and Information Fusion
Automation, Integration and Reuse Across Applications
Security, Privacy & Survivability
AI & Decision Support Systems; Heuristic Optimization and Search
Knowledge Management
Fuzzy and Neural Systems
Soft Computing
Mobile & Cloud Computing
Case-Based Reasoning
Natural Language Understanding
Command & Control Systems
Human-Machine Interaction
Biomedical & Healthcare Systems/Applications
Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering
Reuse in Modeling & Simulation
Space and Robotic Systems
Service-Oriented Architectures
Multimedia Systems/Application
Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems
Information Integration in Grid, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environment
Systems of Systems
Semantic Web and Emerging Applications
Collaborative systems, networks & applications
Best Paper Award:
The IEEE IRI Awards Committee will be presenting an award for the Best theory and/or applicative Paper.
Other select awards will also be presented.
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