VideoNext: Design, Quality and Deployment of Adaptive Video Streaming

The workshop co-located with CoNEXT 2014

December 2, 2014

Sydney, Australia

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/Workshops/VideoNext/cfp.html

Submission deadline changed: August 29, 2014 (no further extensions)

Call for Papers

As we continue to develop our ability to generate, process, and display video at increasingly higher quality, we confront the challenge of streaming the same video to the end user. Device heterogeneity in terms of size and processing capabilities combined with the lack of timing guarantees of packet switching networks is forcing the industry to adopt streaming solutions capable of dynamically adapting the video quality in response to resource variability in the end-to-end transport chain. For example, many vendors and providers are already trialing their own proprietary adaptive video streaming platforms while MPEG has recently ratified a standard, called Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), to facilitate widespread deployment of such technology. However, how to best adapt the video to ensure highest user quality of experience while consuming the minimum network resources poses many fundamental challenges, which is attracting the attention of researchers from both academia and industry. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers working on all aspects of adaptive video streaming with special emphasis on innovative concepts backed up by experimental evidence.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• New metrics for measuring user quality of experience (QoE) for adaptive video streaming
• Solutions for improving streaming QoE for high-speed user mobility
• Analysis, modelling, and experimentation of DASH
• Exploitation of user contexts for improving efficiency of adaptive streaming
• Big data analytics to assess viewer experience of adaptive video
• Efficient and fair bandwidth sharing techniques for bottleneck links supporting multiple adaptive video streams
• Network functions to assist and improve adaptive video streaming
• Synchronization issues in adaptive video streaming (inter-media, inter-device/destination)
• Methods for effective simulation or emulation of large scale adaptive video streaming platforms
• Cloud-assisted adaptive video streaming including encoding, transcoding, and adaptation in general
• Attack scenarios and solutions for adaptive video streaming
• Energy-efficient adaptive streaming for resource-constraint mobile devices
• Reproducible research in adaptive video streaming: datasets, evaluation methods, benchmarking, standardization efforts, open source tools
• Novel use cases and applications in the area of adaptive video streaming

The workshop is considered an integral part of the CoNEXT 2014 conference. All workshop papers will be published in the same set of proceedings as the main conference, and available on the ACM Digital Library. Publication at this workshop is not intended to preclude later publication of an extended version of the paper. At least one author of each accepted papers is expected to present his/her paper at the workshop.

Instructions for Authors

A submission must be no greater than 6 pages in length including all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc., and must be a PDF file of less than 10MB. The review process is single-blind.

Follow the same formatting guidelines as the CoNEXT conference, except VideoNext has a 6 page limit and a 10MB file size limit. See the “Formatting Guidelines” section. Submissions that deviate from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration.

Then use the paper submission site to submit your paper by 8:59 pm Pacific Standard Time (PDT), August 29, 2014.

Important dates

• Paper Submission: August 2229, 2014 20:59 PDT
• Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2014
• Camera-ready Papers Due: October 24, 2014
• Workshop: December 2, 2014

TPC co-chairs

• Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Ali C. Begen, Cisco Canada
• Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

Technical Program Committee

• Alexander Raake, Deutsche Telecom Labs, Germany
• Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo/Simula, Sweden
• Chao Chen, Qualcom, USA
• Colin Perkins, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Tech, USA
• Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Imed Bouazizi, Samsung
• Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica
• Magda El Zarki, University of California Irvine, USA
• Manzur Murshed, Federation University Australia, Australia
• Pal Halvorsen, University of Oslo/Simula
• Polychronis Koutsakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
• Roger Zimmerman, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Saverio Mascolo, University of Bari, Italy
• Shervin Shirmohammadi ,University of Ottawa, Canada
• Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada

IEEE-TEMU-2012: 2nd Int'l Workshop on Multimedia-Aware Networking (WoMAN)

2nd Int'l Workshop on Multimedia-Aware Networking (WoMAN)

IEEE TEMU 2012: Int'l Conference on Telecommunications & Multimedia

Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 30 - August 1, 2012

http://www.ieee-temu.org

Latest advances in multimedia content encoding and representation, including HDTV, 3DTV, multi-view video and associated added-value interactive services, are offering to the end user a truly rich multimedia experience. At the same time advances in communications systems and network technologies give the ability to apply in-network processing techniques in order to take advantage of the available user and media contextual information for efficient, flexible and auto-configurable media transmission. On the other hand network-aware applications and cross-layer mechanisms are being developed in order to take advantage of network information in order to adapt the media to the current network conditions, terminal capabilities, and user preferences. This workshop solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of multimedia-aware networking. In particular, workshop papers should describe algorithms, issues and experiences related to content-aware networking and network-aware applications, future (media) Internet architectures, User-Generated Content and High-popularity VoD - the CfP in PDF format is here.

We are particularly interested (but not limited to) in areas such as:

Content Aware Networking and Network Aware Applications

• Content creation: coding (e.g., 2D/3D, SVC, HEVC), preparation, packaging
• Content delivery: transport, streaming, live, on-demand, real-time, download
• Content adaptation: server, in-network, client
• Content-aware and media-aware forwarding and routing
• Content consumption: widget

Context Aware Applications and Networks

• Future Internet architectures and content/media centric aspects
• Network/infrastructure management and virtualization
• Cross-layer design, cross-layer optimization

User-Generated Content

• User generated content creation, management and consumption systems
• User centric media services
• Personalized access to media systems

High-popularity VoD

• Scalable and cost-efficient content distribution architecture
• Optimized resources utilization and cost
• Enhanced user experience for heterogeneous and extended user environment.
• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

Paper Submission Guidelines 
Submitted papers to WoMAN2012 must be unpublished, and cannot be submitted elsewhere at the same time. Accepted papers should not exceed 6 pages following the Standard IEEE conference templates for MS Word or LaTeX formats. Accepted papers longer than 6 pages will be charged €100 for each extra page. Papers cannot be longer than 8 pages. Papers should be submitted as PDF files through the EDAS system (http://edas.info/N12507). Your submitted PDF file and registered EDAS account of a paper must match. The author(s) must be listed in the same order and the title must match. There may be only minor wording differences in the abstract. Papers where the PDF and EDAS account do not match will be withdrawn by the Technical Program Co-Chairs. Accepted papers in WoMAN2012 will be also published in IEEE Xplore.

Review and Publication of Manuscripts
All submitted papers will be subject to three independent reviews and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be registered, and presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author.

Important Dates

Submission: 07/05/2012

Notification: 04/06/2012

Camera-ready: 25/06/2012

General Co-Chairs

Daniel Negru, LaBRI, France 

Eugen Borcoci, UPB, Romania 

Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria 

George Xilouris, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Evangelos Markakis, TEI of Crete, Greece

3rd International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)

Submission deadline extended: March 28, 2011

Call for papers

September 7-9, 2011, Mechelen, Belgium

http://www.qomex.org/

CfP: PDF

The third International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) will bring together leading professionals and scientists who are developing methods for evaluating multimedia quality and user experience.

Typically, multimedia processing algorithms are evaluated using objective metrics or through subjective testing in a controlled environment. However, perceived user experience is psychological in nature and changes in different environmental and social conditions and with different multimedia devices. Therefore, new techniques are needed to assess and enhance multimedia experience from the user perspective. QoMEX is an international forum to gather experts from academia and industry to present the latest developments on evaluation of multimedia quality based on user experience.
QoMEX’11 features oral presentations, exhibits, panels and poster sessions in order to provide attendees with various channels to exchange and acquire information about the latest developments and future trends in the field of multimedia user experience.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

User Experience Assessment and Enhancement: New metrics/measurements to define quality of user experience, interaction between auditory, visual, affective and other modalities and their impact on user experience, user interface design, capturing, modeling and (re)presentation of user experience data, human and multimedia device interaction, multimedia quality evaluation tools for generic and specific applications.

Visual User Experience (Image/Video/Graphics): Objective quality metrics, subjective quality evaluation, psycho-visual modeling, quality-centered processing, compression and transmission, artifacts reduction, relationship between errors/noise/losses and human perception, display-specific processing, visual saliency, 3D Video, quality evaluation in HD and beyond, quality evaluation for HDR content, quality issues in streaming video.

Auditory User Experience (Speech/Audio): Psycho-acoustic modeling, quality assessment of interactive speech and non-speech applications, intrusive/non-intrusive models for quality evaluation.
QoE for virtual, augmented and mixed realities: 3D audio, 3D video and multimodal representation, immersiveness, embodied interaction, haptic interaction, other modalities.

Link between QoS, QoE and Acceptance: Innovation management based on QoS and QoE, business models, value of QoE, relationship between QoE and price.

Psychological and sociological dimension of QoE: Physiological and neurotechnological measurement techniques, modality concepts and modality interaction, interaction and communication, semantics, user groups.

Standardization Activities in Multimedia Quality Evaluation: Subjective evaluation methods, benchmarking efforts, databases and multimedia content characteristics, testing conditions, new objective metrics and models for upcoming standards, terminology definitions.

Examples of applications include VoIP, Video conferences/Tele-presence/Video chats, Virtual/mixed reality for games, education, training, arts …

Important Dates

• Submission deadline extended: March 28, 2011
• Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2011
• Camera ready submission: June 19, 2011

Recent and Future Multimedia Events co-organized by ITEC Researchers

The aim of this post is to highlight recent and future multimedia events (workshops, special sessions, etc.) co-organized by ITEC researchers.

• PV'18: Packet Video Workshop, June 12, 2018, co-organized by Ali C. Begen and Christian Timmerer
• MMSys'18: Multimedia Systems Conference, June 12-15, 2018, co-organized by Christian Timmerer (Overview Talk Chair)
• MMSys'17: Multimedia Systems Conference, June 20-23, 2017, Special Session on Immersive Experiences in AR and VR, organized by Simon Gunkel, Christian Timmerer, Jacob Chakareski, and Daisuke Iwai 
• MMSys'17: Multimedia Systems Conference, June 20-23, 2017, Special Session on multi-sensory experiences, organized by Niall Murray, George Ghinea, Christian Timmerer, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Weisi Lin, and Wu-Yuin Hwang.
• MMSys'16: Multimedia Systems Conference, May 10-13, 2016, organized by Christian Timmerer and Ali Begen. 
• MuSIC'15: Workshop on Multimedia Streaming in Infomation-Centric Networks (MuSIC), co-located with IEEE ICME'15, Torino, July 2015, organized by Hermann Hellwagner and George C. Polyzos.
• VideoNext'14: Design, Quality and Deployment of Adaptive Video Streaming, co-located with CoNEXT'14, Sidney, Australia, December 2, 2014 organized by Mahbub Hassan, Ali C. Begen, and Christian Timmerer
• VisHMC'14: 2014 IEEE International Workshop on the Visualization of Heterogeneous Multimedia Content (VisHMC) co-located with ICME'14, Chengdu, China, July 14-18, 2014, organized by Esra Acar, Frank Hopfgartner, Jialie Shen, Klaus Schoeffmann.
• PCM'14: 15th Annual Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, Dec 2-4, 2014, organized by ..., Klaus Schoeffmann (publicity co-chair) and Christian Timmerer (demo co-chair)
• MMC'14: 2014 IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (MMC 2014), in conjunction with the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2014), Chengdu, China, July 14-18, 2014, organized by Wen-Huang Cheng, Kai-Lung Hua, and Klaus Schoeffmann
• CBMI'14: 12th Int'l Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, June 18-20, 2014, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, organized by Mathias Lux, Georges Quenot, Harald Kosch, Bernard Merialdo, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, László Czúni, Laszlo Böszörmenyi
• QCMan'14: 2nd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on QoE Centric Management - QCMAN 2014, May 9, 2014, Krakow, Poland organized by Christian Timmerer, Filip De Turck, and Steven Latré.
• MMSys'14: Multimedia Systems Conference, March 19-21, 2014, Singapore, organized by Roger Zimmermann, Wei Tsang Ooi, Vu Thanh Nguyen, and Mathias Lux
• MMM'14: Video Browser Showdown at 20th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, January 8-10, 2014, Dublin, Ireland, organized by Werner Bailer and Klaus Schöffmann
• PV'13: 20th International Workshop on Packet Video 2013, December 12-13, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA, organized by Ali Begen, Bernd Girod, John Apostolopoulos, Pål Halvorsen, Christian Timmerer, Zhi Li
• QoMEX'13: 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), July 3-5, 2013, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, organized by Christian Timmerer
• CBMI'13: 11th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, June 17-19 2013, Veszprém, Hungary, organized by László Czúni, Klaus Schöffmann, Tamás Szirányi
• NOSSDAV'13: 23rd ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, February 27, 2013, Oslo, Norway, organized by Pål Halvorsen and Laszlo Böszörmenyi
• MMM'13: Video Browser Showdown at 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, January 7-9, 2013, Huangshan, China, organized by Klaus Schöffmann
• TEMU'12: 2nd Workshop on Multimedia-Aware Networking (WoMAN), July 30 - August 1, 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, organized by Daniel Negru, Eugen Borcoci, Christian Timmerer, George Xilouris, Evangelos Markakis
• EUSIPCO'12: Special Session on Multimedia Delivery over Content Aware Networks, August 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, organized by S. Obreja, D. Negru, G. Xilouris, C. Timmerer
• MMM'12: The 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, January 4-6, 2012, Klagenfurt, Austria, organized by Klaus Schoeffmann et al.
• MMWeb'11: Workshop on Multimedia on the Web, September 8, 2011, Graz, Austria, organized by Mathias Lux et. al
• ICME'11: Workshop on Multimedia-Aware Networking (WoMAN), July 11-15, 2011, Barcelona, Spain, organized by Christian Timmerer, Daniel Negru, Eugen Borcoci), George Xilouris
• ICMR'11: Special Session on Video Content Visualization for Improved Interactive Search, April 17-20, 2011, Trento, Italy, organized by Frank Hopfgartner and Klaus Schoeffmann
• WIAMIS'11: Special Session on User Intentions in Image Production, Sharing, and Retrieval, April 13-15, 2011, Delft, The Netherlands, organized by Mathias Lux and Oge Marques
• MMSys'11: Special Session Modern Media Transport (MMT) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), February 23-25, 2011, San Jose, California, organized by Christian Timmerer
• MMM'11: Special Session on Interactive Image and Video Search, January 5-7, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, organized by Klaus Schoeffmann and Frank Hopfgartner
• ACMMM'10: Workshop on Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking, October 29, 2010, Florence, Italy, organized by Gabriella Olmo, Christian Timmerer, Pascal Frossard, Keith Mitchell

Further workshop proposals and special issues are in the pipeline and, thus, ... to be continued and stay tuned!

Review: ACM Workshop on Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking

On the 29th of October we had our workshop co-located with ACM Multimedia 2010. The workshop was partly sponsored by the project “ARACHNE: Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks,” funded by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research (www.diegm.uniud.it/arachne), and partly by the EC-funded “P2P-Next” project (www.p2p-next.org).

One of the highlights of the programme was definitely the keynote from George Wright, Head of Prototyping, BBC Research and Development:

P2P-Next Experiences from a broadcaster's view

Some of the presentations from the workshop received so far can be found here. Impressions from the workshop can be found below.


Another highlight was the demo session featuring P2P-Next's NextShareTV, a set-top box demonstrating live P2P streaming over the open, unmanaged Internet. The demo was running very smoothly and we received a lot of interesting feedback.

Finally, the best paper was selected among the following candidates:

• Access Control to BitTorrent swarms using Closed Swarms by Keith Mitchell, Njaal Borch, Ingar Arntzen, Dusan Gabrijelcic
• Improving Quality-of-Experience for Multiple Description Video Transmission in Peer-To-Peer Networks by Simone Milani, Giancarlo Calvagno
• A Novel Cache Optimization Algorithm and Protocol for Video Streaming in Pure Peer-to-Peer Networks by Carlo Giulietti, Dan Schonfeld, Rashid Ansari
• P2P Group Communication with Layer-Aware FEC by Yago Sánchez, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wiegand
• P2P streaming with LT codes: a prototype experimentation by Andrea Magnetto, Rossano Gaeta, Marco Grangetto, Matteo Sereno

And the best paper award goes to ...

A Novel Cache Optimization Algorithm and Protocol for Video Streaming in Pure Peer-to-Peer Networks by Carlo Giulietti, Dan Schonfeld, Rashid Ansari

Finally, on behalf of the organizers, I'd like to thank all who contributed to the success of this workshop. I personally hope that you enjoyed the carefully crafted programme and 

CfP: 1st Int'l Workshop on Cross-Layer Operation Aided Multimedia Streaming

IEEE VTC Spring 2011

5th-18th May 2011,  Budapest, Hungary

Workshop Objectives
The object of the workshop is to discuss innovative solutions enabling enhanced video streaming for point to point and point to multi-point transmissions in an IP based wireless heterogeneous system, based on cross layer adaptation of the whole transmission chain. Many areas of improvements classified in the following in four categories are considered in the workshop: i) applications for content delivery; ii) networking; iii) radio access; iv) cross-layer solutions. Indeed, today's approach, relying on traditional separation approaches and focusing on services delivered over homogeneous networks, does not allow to meet the on-going demands to maintain the required Quality of Service (QoS) for each of the users, who have different needs and requirements. This workshop looks into solutions allowing the applicability of a cross-layer design approach to the end-to-end multimedia streaming.

Workshop Topics

• Cross-layer design
• Multimedia streaming over wireless networks
• Quality assessment
• Point to multipoint video communication
• Signaling for cross-layer communication
• System adaptation and control
• Media adaptation to wireless delivery
• Wireless network adaptation for video streaming
• Radio resource allocation for heterogeneous traffic
• Error correction for video applications

Workshop Organizers

• Roberta Fracchia (THALES, FR)
• Marco Chiani (CNIT, IT)
• Gianmarco Panza (Cefriel, IT)
• Roxana Ojeda (COMSIS, FR)
• Peter Amon (SIEMENS, DE)
• Maria Martini (Kingston Univ., UK)
• Janne Vehkaperä (VTT, FI)
• Laszlo Pap (BME, HU)

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 15th November 2010
Acceptance notification: 9th January 2011
Final paper due: 20 February 2011

Technical Program Committee

• Marco Cagnazzo (TelecomParis, FR)
• Dario Rossi (TelecomParis, FR)
• Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
• Giacomo Verticale (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
• Ivan Bajic (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
• Lingfen Sun (University of Plymouth, UK)
• Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, AUT)
• Tasos Dagiuklas (TEI of Mesolonghi, GR)
• Tony Q.S. Quek (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG)
• Jo Yew Tham (Insitute for Infocomm Research, SG)
• Anil W. Fernando (University of Surrey, UK)
• Oscar Mayora (CreateNet, IT)
• Dmitri Jarnikov (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
• Andre Kaup (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

Program for ACM Workshop on Advanced Video Streaming Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks and Social Networking

Workshop website: http://www.p2pstreaming.eu/
Workshop date/location: 29th October 2010, Florence, Italy (co-located with ACMMM'10)
ACM Multimedia: http://www.acmmm10.org/

Workshop presentations: No central server will be used for oral presentations at the Conference Workshops. Authors can either use their own laptops or the PC available in each Workshop room (Windows based machine). Authors are invited to check this program page to see the time slots allocated for oral presentations. For poster and demo sessions at the Workshops, boards are available that can hold a poster up to 100 cm width x 250 cm length (3.28 ft x 8.2 ft). 

Finally, we also invite you to refer to the Conference web page (http://www.acmmm10.org/) for any further information about venue, travel, weather, accommodations, restaurants, and so on.

Final Program:

09:00-09:15: Welcome Address by the Chairs
09:15-10:00: Keynote Address
Session Chair: Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
Audio/visual content and metadata delivered over the open Internet using P2P-Next: some experiences from a broadcaster's perspective by George Wright, Head of Prototyping, BBC Research and Development

10:00-10:30: Short presentation of posters and demos

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:00: Session 1 - Networking and Streaming
Session Chair: Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)

• P2P Group Communication with Layer-Aware FEC by Yago Sánchez; Cornelius Hellge; Thomas Schierl; Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany)
• P2P streaming with LT codes: a prototype experimentation by Andrea Magnetto; Rossano Gaeta; Marco Grangetto; Matteo Sereno (Universita' di Torino, Italy)
• Peer-to-Peer streaming based on network coding improves packet jitter by Riccardo Bernardini; Roberto Cesco Fabbro; Roberto Rinaldo (University of Udine, Italy)

12:00-13:00: Session 2 - Application
Session Chair: Pascal Frossard (EPFL, Switzerland)

• A Novel Cache Optimization Algorithm and Protocol for Video Streaming in Pure Peer-to-Peer Networks by Carlo Giulietti; Dan Schonfeld; Rashid Ansari (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
• Access Control to BitTorrent swarms using Closed Swarms by Keith Mitchell (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Njaal Borch (Norut IT, Norway); Ingar Arntzen (Norut IT, Norway); Dusan Gabrijelcic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
• Advanced Prefetching and Upload Strategies for P2P Video-on-Demand by Osama Abboud; Konstantin Pussep; Markus Müller; Aleksandra Kovacevic; Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany)

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-15:30: Session 3 - Design
Session Chair: Keith Mitchell (University of Lancaster, UK)

• A Hybrid Approach to Modeling End-to-End Delay in P2P Networks by Philipp Berndt; Dominic Battré; Odej Kao (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Design and Implementation of a Generic Library for P2P Streaming by Luca Abeni; Csaba Kiraly; Alessandro Russo; Marco Biazzini; Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)
• Design and Evaluation of an Optimized Overlay Topology for a Single Operator Video Streaming Service by Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy); Rosario G. Garroppo (University of Pisa, Italy); Stella Spagna (University of Pisa, Italy); Saverio Niccolini (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany); Jan Seedorf (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-18:00: Session 4 - Posters and Demos
Session Chair: Gabriella Olmo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Posters:

• An Analytical Approach to Model Adaptive Video Streaming and Delivery by Razib Iqbal; Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Consistent Image Decoding from Multiple Lossy Versions by Marco Dalai; Serena Malavasi; Riccardo Leonardi (University of Brescia, Italy)
• Improving Quality-of-Experience for Multiple Description Video Transmission in Peer-To-Peer Networks by Simone Milani; Giancarlo Calvagno (University of Padova, Italy)
• Knapsack Problem-based Piece-Picking Algorithms for Layered Content in Peer-to-Peer Networks by Michael Eberhard (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Tibor Szkaliczki (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary); Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Laszlo Szobonya (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary); Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
• MixNStream: Multi-Source Video Distribution with Stream Mixers by Philip Chun Ho Yuen; Gary Chan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
• Three Highly Available Data Streaming Techniques and Their Tradeoffs by Sumita Barahmand; Shahram Ghandeharizadeh; Anurag Ojha; Jason Yap (USC, USA)

Demos: (tentative)

Closed Swarms by Njaal Borch (Norut IT, Norway)

Abstract: In the search for commercial opportunities within online media distribution, Closed Swarms has been designed to provide content providers with a flexible, distributed authentication mechanism for P2P media distribution. Closed Swarms allow the provider control of bandwidth costs, yet it can enable new business models which might be better suited for the Internet Age, such as freemium solutions or added benefits for paying customers. We will demonstrate how Closed Swarms can be used to provide a free, non-guaranteed community service while logged-in users are provided with a full VOD experience.

Visualizing and Reducing Wait Delay in Periodic Butterfly Communication by Philipp Berndt (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Abstract: Butterfly graphs are probably best known from their use in the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm. A different use is in P2P VoIP Conferencing, where each node combines the audio streams it receives, before forwarding the data to the next stage. Dead time between the reception and the relaying of audio data adds up along the data paths to an overall latency that impairs the communication experience. This wait delay heavily depends on the send phase offsets between the nodes. Our demonstration shows how this problem can be interactively visualized and studied, what relationships exist and which methods can be employed to minimize overall wait delay.

Developing P2P Streaming Applications with GRAPES by Luca Abeni (University of Trento, Italy)

Abstract: In this demonstration, it will be shown how to use the GRAPES library to build a simple P2P application, either single-threaded or multi-threaded (the demo application will show how the GRAPES API allows to change the structure of the application from single-threaded to multi-threaded by simply modifying the main application loop). It will also be shown how to easily change the implementation of a GRAPES module (the peer sampler), and the impact of such a change on some performance metrics will be evaluated.

NextShareTV demo by P2P-Next (http://www.p2p-next.eu)

Abstract: The NextShareTV is a Set-top-box confirming to the NextShare platform, developed as part of the P2P-Next project. As a NextShare device, it collaborates with NextSharePC implementations as well, bridging the TV set and the PC in a single content swarm.

18:00-18:30: Best Paper Aware + Closing

Call For Papers: WIAMIS2011

*** PDF of CfP *** WIAMIS2011: http://www.wiamis2011.org

Important Dates: Proposal for Special Session: October 31, 2010 Proposal for Tutorial: October 31, 2010 Paper Submission: December 10, 2010 SS Paper Submission: December 10, 2010

Introduction:

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in the areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis.
After a series of successful meetings starting in 1997 in Louvain, WIAMIS 2011 will be held at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), Delft, The Netherlands.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

* 2D/3D feature extraction
* Segmentation and reconstruction of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
* Motion analysis and tracking
* Video/Audio special event recognition
* Multimedia coding efficiency and increased error resilience
* Multimedia browsing, indexing and retrieval
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for multimedia
* Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
* Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback
* End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
* Semantic mapping and ontologies
* Semantic web and social networks
* Relevance feedback and learning systems
* Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
* Advanced multimedia applications
* Video/Audio based human behavior analysis systems
* Camera based human computer interaction

List of accepted papers for ACM Workshop on Advanced Video Streaming Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks and Social Networking

ACM Workshop on Advanced Video Streaming Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks and Social Networking

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We received a huge number of high-quality papers to this workshop but only the best of the best could be accepted. The review process was very competitive this year. In particular, we accepted 15 out of 30 papers.

Accepted papers (in alphabetic order by title):

1. "A Hybrid Approach to Modeling End-to-End Delay in P2P Networks" by Philipp Berndt; Dominic Battré; Odej Kao
2. "A Novel Cache Optimization Algorithm and Protocol for Video Streaming in Pure Peer-to-Peer Networks" by Carlo Giulietti; Dan Schonfeld; Rashid Ansari
3. "Access Control to BitTorrent swarms using Closed Swarms" by Keith Mitchell; Njaal Borch; Ingar Arntzen; Dusan Gabrijelcic
4. "Advanced Prefetching and Upload Strategies for P2P Video-on-Demand" by Osama Abboud; Konstantin Pussep; Markus Müller; Aleksandra Kovacevic; Ralf Steinmetz
5. "An Analytical Approach to Model Adaptive Video Streaming and Delivery" by Razib Iqbal; Shervin Shirmohammadi
6. "Consistent Image Decoding from Multiple Lossy Versions" by Marco Dalai; Serena Malavasi; Riccardo Leonardi
7. "Design and Evaluation of an Optimized Overlay Topology for a Single Operator Video Streaming Service" by Stefano Giordano; Rosario G. Garroppo; Stella Spagna; Saverio Niccolini; Jan Seedorf
8. "Design and Implementation of a Generic Library for P2P Streaming" by Luca Abeni; Csaba Kiraly; Alessandro Russo; Marco Biazzini; Renato Lo Cigno
9. "Improving Quality-of-Experience for Multiple Description Video Transmission in Peer-To-Peer Networks" by Simone Milani; Giancarlo Calvagno
10. "Knapsack Problem-based Piece-Picking Algorithms for Layered Content in Peer-to-Peer Networks" by Michael Eberhard; Tibor Szkaliczki; Hermann Hellwagner; Laszlo Szobonya; Christian Timmerer
11. "MixNStream: Multi-Source Video Distribution with Stream Mixers" by Philip Chun Ho Yuen; Gary Chan
12. "P2P Group Communication with Layer-Aware FEC" by Yago Sánchez; Cornelius Hellge; Thomas Schierl; Thomas Wiegand
13. "P2P streaming with LT codes: a prototype experimentation" by Andrea Magnetto; Rossano Gaeta; Marco Grangetto; Matteo Sereno
14. "Peer-to-Peer streaming based on network coding improves packet jitter" by Riccardo Bernardini; Roberto Cesco Fabbro; Roberto Rinaldo
15. "Three Highly Available Data Streaming Techniques and Their Tradeoffs" by Sumita Barahmand; Shahram Ghandeharizadeh; Anurag Ojha; Jason Yap

Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA)

held as special session in conjunction with

USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure

November 4th-5th 2010

Klagenfurt, Austria

URL: http://tinyurl.com/wima2010

Multimedia applications have become ubiquitous lately. People record and watch videos on mobile and stationary devices, they use non linear video editors, and they share and organize their personal multimedia archives. Lots of research has been done on the technical aspects of multimedia, like streaming, presentation, transcoding, adaptation and content based retrieval and analysis. But handling multimedia is an interactive process and users have to be taken into account. Even consumption is often accompanied with communication, non linear browsing and search. This interactivity in multimedia applications is a challenging yet very promising topic as especially in multimedia applications people more often accept innovative ideas and fundamental changes more easily. This workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI). In this workshop we aim to discuss recent scientific advances and also first results of greenhouse work in the field of interactive multimedia applications. We also encourage the submission of papers presenting studies on interactivity in multimedia systems or discussing the development of applications in this field.

Topics include the aspects of interactivity in the following fields:
* Multimedia Retrieval, Browsing & Navigation
* User Intentions in Multimedia Search, Annotation & Production
* Multimedia Production and Post-Production
* Multimedia in Specialized Domains (e.g. Medical Scenarios, Sports,
Security, etc.)
* Image, Audio and Video Analysis
* Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Multimedia on the Web
* Social Multimedia
* Multimedia Management and Databases
* Distributed Multimedia Systems
We also encourage the submission of greenhouse work and preliminary
results to be discussed in the workshop.
Submission
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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
* Full papers (14-20 pages)
* Short papers (6-14 pages)
* Posters (4 pages)
All papers have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style.
Submission is handled by easychair, see http://tinyurl.com/wima2010 for
details.
Important Dates
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* June 25, 2010 Deadline for Paper Submission
* July 23, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* August 15, 2010 Camera-Ready Deadline
* Nov 4 & 5, 2010 USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
Program Committee (to be extended)
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* Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Dalibor Mitrovic, TU Wien, AT
* Frank Hopfgartner, International Computer Science Institute, USA
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, DE
* Mario Döller, University of Passau, DE
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, AT
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, US
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China
* Vincent Charvillait, ENSEEIHT Toulouse, FR
* Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, AT
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Yu Cao, California State University of Fresno, US
Workshop Chairs
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* Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, AT
For further questions please contact the program chairs at
wima2010@itec.uni-klu.ac.at

ACM Multimedia 2010 - Call for Workshop Papers

Deadlines : see on Workshops websites
http://www.acmmm10.org/
October 25-29th 2010 - Firenze, Italy

ACM Multimedia 2010 announces its Workshop program:

Multimedia Content

• 1st ACM ARTEMIS2010 International Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams
• 3D Object Retrieval
• 3D video processing
• Machine Learning and Music (MML10)
• Multimodal Pervasive Video Analysis, MPVA 2010
• Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2010)
• Surreal media and Virtual Cloning
• Very-Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval

Multimedia Systems

• Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking
• Mobile Cloud Media Computing
• Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD)

Human Centered Multimedia

• Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE)
• Connected Multimedia
• Electronic Heritage and Digital Art Preservation (eHeritage)
• Social Signal Processing (SSPW 2010)
• Social, Adaptive and Personalized Multimedia Interaction and Access" (SAPMIA 2010)
• The Second SIGMM Workshop on Social Media (WSM2010)

Multimedia Applications

• Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro10)
• Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence MiFor 2010
• Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (MTDL 2010)

Please link to the ACM MM2010 Workshop web page, look at workshops' topics and scopes and plan to submit your recent research results.

QoMEX2010: Improving the Quality of Multimedia Experience through Sensory Effects

Here comes the abstract of our paper that has been accepted for publication at QoMEX2010. Please join us there in case you'd like to get in touch we us!

Markus Waltl, Christian Timmerer, and Hermann Hellwagner, "Improving the Quality of Multimedia Experience through Sensory Effects", accepted for publication at the 2nd International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX2010), Trondheim, Norway, June 21-23, 2010.

Abstract: In previous and related work sensory effects are presented as a tool for increasing the user experience of multimedia presentation by stimulating also other senses than vision or audition. In this paper we primarily investigated the influence of multimedia content annotated with sensory effects (e.g., wind, vibration, light) on various video bit-rates and qualities. Therefore, we defined a subjective quality assessment methodology based on standardized methods. The paper describes the test environment, its setup, and conditions in detail. Furthermore, we experimented with a novel voting device that allows for continuous voting feedback during a sequence in addition to the overall quality voting at the end of each sequence. The results obtained from the subjective quality assessment are presented and discussed thoroughly. In anticipation of the results we can report – without doubt – an improvement of the quality of the multimedia experience thanks to the sensory effects.

Acknowledgments: This work was supported in part by the EC in the context of the NoE INTERMEDIA (NoE 038419), the P2P-Next project (FP7-ICT-216217), and the ALICANTE project (FP7-ICT-248652).

The Fourth International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA 2010)

Fourth International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA 2010)

http://www.imqa.jp/IMQA2010/

Important dates:

Submission deadline:          February 19, 2010 (Extended !!)

Notification of acceptance:   March 20, 2010

Camera ready submission:      April 10, 2010

Workshop:                     May 13-14, 2010

The Fourth International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA 2010) is a forum for leading researchers and developers from industry and academia to discuss state-of-the-art and novel image media quality technologies, theories, methods, and applications of quality metrics in industry.

Scope

Topics of interest for submissions should include Image Media Quality, but are not limited to:

* Image Capture Devices (CCD, CMOS, etc.)

* Image Capture System (TV Camera, Digital Still Camera, Facsimile, Scanner, 3Dimage Input, etc.)

* Display (CRT, LCD, PDP, EL, etc.), Display System, 3D-Display, Holograph

* Hard Copy (Ink Jet Printer, Laser Printer, etc.), Graphic Arts (Halftone Screen, Error Diffusion, etc.)

* QoS Control and Scheduling, IP Video Conferencing, Video phone, Scalable Coding,

* Digital Broadcasting System, 3DTV, Super-High-Definition TV

* Multimedia Database (Content Recognition, Analysis, Representation, Indexing, and Retrieval)

* Coding (JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, etc)

* Assessment Test Methodology (DSIS, DSCQS, SSCQE, etc.)

* Objective Picture Quality Metric (VQEG, etc.)

* Image Reproduction, Image Restoration, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision、Animation, Virtual Reality

* Human Perception, Psychophysics, Color Reproduction, Hi-fidelity , Sensibility Information

* Security (Data hiding, Watermarking, Individual Identification, etc.)

* Human-Machine Interface, Welfare

Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit an electronic version (using PDF) of a 2-4 page abstract of their paper for review. The authors of accepted papers are requested to submit the final camera-ready manuscript of 4-10 pages that will appear in the workshop proceedings.

Extended versions of selected contributions will be published in forth coming special issue of Trans. IEICE-EA.

CfP - 3rd International Workshop on FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING

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3rd International Workshop on

FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING

http://fmn2010.kt.agh.edu.pl

June 17-18 2010, Krakow, Poland

IEEE Technical Sponsorship

in Collaboration with ACM (pending)

Sponsored also by IET and the British Computer Society

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AIMS AND GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP

In recent years real-time multimedia services have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future Internet. The management of content distribution services is an important key to attract and keep customers, while increasing profits to content providers. At the same time the complexity and dynamics of content networks require special solutions in order to provide efficient delivery and deployment of real-time multimedia services. Further, emerging diverse and heterogeneous wired and wireless systems is a challenging research objective. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols, as well as, the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE), and seamless mobility control creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols, architectures and methods towards Future Multimedia Networking Systems. Thus, one major challenge is the ever growing complexity of communication management and network maintenance. Solutions are required in which services, management and administration entities interact and behave autonomously, with the overall goal of creating content centric networks.

The objective of the Future Multimedia Networking - FMN 2010 workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, content networking, and autonomous communication. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Content centric networks

- Autonomic content networks

- Audio-visual systems

- Novel protocols for multimedia services

- Grid networking for multimedia services

- Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks

- Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks and autonomic network infrastructures

- Multimedia in mobile and broadband wireless access networks

- Quality of service management in content centric networks

- Quality of experience management in content centric networks

- Seamless mobility of multimedia services in emerging content networks

- Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management

- Resource reservation for multimedia services

- Context-aware content distribution

- Energy-efficiency in content centric networks

- Multimedia Security

PARALLEL POSTER/DEMONSTRATION SESSION

A parallel poster/demonstration session entitled "Demonstrations on Future Multimedia" will be organized along with the main workshop. This event encourages researchers to present and discuss "work-in-progress" or "experience-in-practice" of their current implementations and research prototypes that cover the topics of FMN 2010. Authors are invited to submit a short paper of up to 6 pages following the format of workshop. All accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings of FMN 2010. The papers should specifically focus on implementation and practical aspects such as

- Experiments/lessons from recent multimedia deployments

- Quality of Service/ Quality of Experience of multimedia applications

- Performance evaluation of multimedia services

- Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services

PUBLICATION

Special Issue Journal Publication: Extended versions of best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of a  well-known SCI-indexed journal. Selected best papers of FMN'09 will  appear in a Special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal.

Proceedings: FMN 2010 papers will be published by Springer-Verlag - LNCS series (pending approval)

BEST PAPER AWARD

One best paper award, selected by the organizing committee, based on referee reviews, will be presented to the author(s) of the best paper submitted to the workshop along with other awards presented during the social event.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on FMN 2010 topics are solicited. Submissions must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere while being evaluated for this workshop.

*** Full papers (main workshop): The maximum length of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address.

*** Short Papers (poster/demonstration): The maximum size of posters/demos should be 2500 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 6-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address.

- How to submit:

The paper submission system has two stages. At the first stage, participants register to the SysKon system. Paper submission becomes possible at the second stage. After registering to the SysKon system one can modify her/his article or cancel his/her registration. Only papers in PDF and MS Office Word will be accepted for reviewing. Submissions as e-mail attachment will not be accepted.

To register to the SysKon click on Registration on the FMN'10 web page: 

http://fmn2010.kt.agh.edu.pl

- Peer Review of submitted papers: Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive rigorous peer reviewing.

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers of the workshop are expected to be presented and will be included in the workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission deadline:                              2 March 2010

Short paper submission deadline:           10 March 2010

Acceptance notification:                               5 April, 2010       

Camera ready version:                                  15 April 2010

Early registration deadline:                          30 April 2010      

                                                 

COMMITTEES

GENERAL CHAIR

Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, UK

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Eduardo Cerqueira, Federal University of Para, Brazil

Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA

Carmen Guerrero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

STEERING COMMITTEE

Zdzislaw Papir (Chair), AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Andrzej R. Pach, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

Scott Fowler (Publicity Chair for Europe), Aston University, UK

Augusto Neto (Publicity Chair for Latin American), Federal University of Goias, Brazil

Piotr Romaniak (Publicity Chair for Europe), AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Jo Yew Tham (Publicity Chair for Asia), Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mikolaj Leszczuk (Chair), AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Michal Grega, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Piotr Romaniak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Szymon Szott, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Antonio Jorge Abelém, UFPA - Federal University of Pará, Brazil

Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Naveen Chilamkurti, LaTrobe University, Australia

Kelvin Dias, Federal University of Pará, Brazil

Olivier Fourmaux, University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris6) - LIP6, France

Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Francisco Garcia, Agilent, United Kingdom

Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory,Network and Distributed Systems, Norway

David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Luigi Iannone, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Mohsin Iftikhar, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Eckhart Koerner, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany

Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany

Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK

Parag Mogre, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Andrzej Pach, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Zdzisław Papir, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Antonio Pescape, UNINA, Italy

Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway

Nicholas Race, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Susana Sargento, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Thomas Schmidt, HAW Hamburg (DE), Germany

Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Nicolas Sklavos, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece

Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia

Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Artur Ziviani, LNCC, Brazil