CFP: MDDE-2003

On the basis of colleague remarks concerning the readability of the CFP in HTLM 
format, I post the MDDE CFP in text format.
----oooOooo---

3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering
(MDDE-2003)
www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/recherche/sic/djeraba/mdde03/mdde-2003.html
September 8th, 2003, Berlin, Germany, 

in conjunction with
 
29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
(VLDB-2003) 
http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de/
 
OBJECTIVES
----------
The 3rd international Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering is 
aimed to bring together experts from all aspects of multimedia data and 
document engineering, including experts in data mining, documents engineering, 
digital media content analysis, multimedia databases and domain experts from 
diverse applied disciplines with potential in multimedia data and document 
engineering. 
Particularly, the workshop will address the following questions:
* What are the problems and the applications addressed by multimedia data and 
document engineering?
* What are the specific issues in knowledge extraction from multimedia data and 
documents composed of image, sound and video?
* What are the advanced architectures for multimedia data and document storage 
and retrieval?
* What are suitable representations and formats that can facilitate multimedia 
data and document management?
* How can the existing database and data mining techniques be adapted and 
enhanced for knowledge discovery from unstructured complex multimedia data and 
documents?

Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Analysis, indexing and retrieval of multimedia data and documents
* Models and languages for documents and semi-structured data
* Semantic modeling and retrieval
* Content description definition languages and metadata
* Mining from semi structured data (video, image, audio, web documents)
* Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval
* Video analysis and content exploration
* Video genre classification 
* Multimedia database management systems
* Relevance ranking of video clips for queries
* Query processing and optimization
* Multimedia Standardization Models (MPEG7, MPEG4, SMIL)

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2003
Submission Deadline: May 20, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2003
Camera-ready papers due: July 20, 2003
Workshop: September 8, 2003

PROGRAM CHAIR
-------------
Sadiye Guler, Northrop Grumman Information Technology / TASC, USA

PROGRAM COMITTEE MEMBERS
------------------------
Michel Adiba (University of Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) 
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versaille, France)
Chabane Djeraba (University of Nantes, France) 
Dave Doermann (University of Maryland, USA)
Jianping Fan (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Elena Ferrari (University of Milano, Italy)
Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University, USA)
William Grosky (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
Alex Hauptman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 
Tom D. Little (Boston University, USA)
Andy Merlino (Virage Inc., USA) 
Gunther Saake (Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
Mohand-Said Hacid (University of Lyon, France)  
Ishwar Sethi  (University of Oakland, USA)
Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida, USA)
Christine Vanoirbeck (EPFL, Switzerland) 
Aidong Zhang (University of Buffalo, USA)

SUBMISSIONS
-----------
Only electronic submission is accepted. The submission deadline is May 20, 
2003. Please follow the instructions given below. Papers will be reviewed using 
a double blind review process and accepted papers will appear in MDDE'03 
proceedings. Proceedings will be distributed to all participants at the 
workshop. If you have any questions or problems regarding the submission 
process, please send e-mail to 
SGuler-8jwv6glDKBG10BpprcZSx0EOCMrvLtNR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject MDDE03.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
-----------
  1.. Prepare your manuscript, in English, using one of the two provided style 
files, either LaTeX (in tar gzipped format) or Microsoft Word 97/2000 (in Zip 
format). The submitted manuscript should correspond to the full paper and be no 
longer than 8 (double-column) pages.
  2.. Create a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of your manuscript.
  3.. Send your manuscript in PDF to 
SGuler-8jwv6glDKBG10BpprcZSx0EOCMrvLtNR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
To subscribe or unsubscribe yourself from
dbworld, send a msg to majordomo-hcNo3dDEHLuVc3sceRu5cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with 
one of these lines:
subscribe dbworld OR unsubscribe dbworld
To find out more options send a msg with the line:
help
To post messages, go to URL www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld
--------------------------------------------------------------------------