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                ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 

                            CMSD-2003
      International Conference On Cross-Media Service Delivery
                          May 30-31, 2003	
                         Santorini, Greece

http://contessa.intranet.gr/conference
 
Important Dates
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Paper and application submission due: 
January 15, 2003, 23:59 UTC
Notification of acceptance: 
March 4,  2003   
Camera-ready version due: 
April 1, 2003 

Overview
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The digitization of traditional media formats, such as text, images,
video, and sound provides us with the ability to store, process, and
transport content in a uniform way. This has led the formerly distinct
industries of media, telecommunications, and information technology to
converge.  Cross-media publishing and service delivery are important new
trends emerging in the content industry landscape. Mass-media
organizations and content providers traditionally targeted content
production towards a single delivery channel.  However, recent economic
and technological changes in the industry led content providers to
extend their brands to cover multiple delivery channels. Following the
content industry trend to "create once and publish everywhere", a number
of integrated tools are currently being developed and deployed to
facilitate the automatic conversion of content to multiple formats, and
the creation of enhanced multi-platform services.  This new approach
enables the seamless access to information over different network
infrastructures and client devices. 

The conference aims to bring together a cross-disciplinary core of
participants to address the technical and business issues of cross-media
publishing and service delivery technologies. The conference seeks to
promote discussion and interaction between researchers, technology
experts, electronic media publishers, digital content providers, as well
as e-business companies, ISPs, network operators, broadcasters, and
multimedia equipment and software developers. Of particular interest is
the exchange of concepts, industrial prototypes, research ideas, and
other results that could contribute to the academic arena and, more
importantly, be adopted by the business and the industrial community. 

Refereed Research Papers
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Papers should describe original and significant work in the research and
practice of the main topics listed below. Research case studies,
applications and experiments are particularly welcome.Topics of interest
include but not restricted to the following aspects:   
- Cross-platform delivery systems 
- Innovative cross-media services 
- Media-industry business models 
- Cross-media caching techniques 
- Content transcoding technologies   
- User-interface and cognitive issues 
- Mark-up languages and standards 
- Security and intellectual property rights of multimedia content
- Multimedia storage and retrieval 
- Content management tools for multi-platform and cross-media
publishing.
- Distributed content management systems  
- Convergence of content delivery platforms 
- Digital TV content production and presentation tools 
- XML and metadata technologies 
- Digital content delivery networks 
- Digital rights management
- Streaming technologies
- Automatic profiling systems
- Standardized/universal formats for internet broadcasting (e.g. MPEG-4)
- Content personalization issues 
- Interactive advertising systems (ad insertion for targeted
advertising) 
- Agent technologies and search engines 
- Digital content validity and protection 
- Security issues in electronic publishing and the impact of security on
revenue generation 
- On-demand publishing and related revenue models 

How to Submit a Research Paper
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Papers should be limited to 12 pages in length, using a reasonable font
and margins, written in English and submitted electronically  via the
Web form accessible via the conference's site by January 15 2003, 23:59
UTC. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
may be considered for publication in a research journal. 

Applications
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Alternatively, proposals for presentations of Applications and Tools are
also welcome. These may consist of experience reports from actual
utilisation of tools, industrial practice and models, or tool
demonstrations. Please submit proposals for Application presentations
via email as indicated at the conference's web site by January 15 2003.
Application proposals will be reviewed based on their description and
demo, if any. An one-page summary of the accepted proposal will be
published in the conference proceedings.
 

Conference Organizers
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Programme Committee
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Diomidis Spinellis, AUEB (chair)
Maria Teresa Andrade, INESC Porto (co-chair, academic submissions)
Peter Olaf Looms, DR Interactive (co-chair, industry submissions)
Olivier Avaro, France Telecom, Research and Development (FRTD)
Javier Barria, Imperial College London
Matthias Carlsohn, Engineering & Consulting for Computer Vision & Image
Communication, Bremen
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Giorgos Diakonikolaou, OTE Research Laboratories
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean
Mario Guglielmo, Telecom Italia Labs
Paul Kafno, HD Thames
Isidor Kouvelas, CISCO
Giorgos Lekakos, AUEB
Fillia Makedon, Dartmouth College
Carlos Morais Pires, European Commission E2 Unit, ISCTE
Vassilis Prevelakis, Drexel University
Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH
Pedro Souto, University of Porto
Nuno Vasconcelos, Hewlett-Packard, Cambridge Research Laboratory
George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London
Leandros Tassiulas, Computer Engineering and Communications Dept.,
University of Thessaly, Greece

Organizing Committee
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Maria Tsakali, INTRACOM (general chair)
John Vlontzos, INTRACOM (applications programme chair)
Albert Gauthier, European Commission 
Theodoros Karvounidis, INTRACOM

Publicity Sponsors
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DR Interactive
SportNews

The CONTESSA Consortium
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INTRACOM
AUEB - eLTRUN
INESC Porto
DR Interactive
Pouliadis Group
Ibermatica
SportNews
Organised with the support of the European Commission

-- 
Diomidis Spinellis                      Assistant Professor
Department of Management Science and Technology      (DMST)
Athens University of Economics and Business          (AUEB)
Patision 76, GR-104 34 Athina, GREECE         +30 108203682
http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/             mailto:dds@aueb.gr

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