=========== MDMM'08 Call For Papers ===================

 

  The 1st International Workshop on
  Multimedia Data Mining and Management (MDMM'08)

  http://www.bridgeport.edu/~jelee/mdmm

 

  to be held in conjunction with

  the 19th International Conference on DEXA 2008

  September 1 - 5 Turin, Italy

 

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With the recent advances in electronic imaging, video devices,
storage, networking and computer power, the amount of multimedia has
grown enormously, and data mining has become a popular way of
discovering new knowledge from such a large data sets. Multimedia data
mining is a discipline which brings together database systems,
artificial intelligence, and multimedia processing, such as image and
video processing.  It is important to understand what is multimedia
data mining, how data mining techniques can contribute to discover new
knowledge, how to organize and manage the discovered knowledge and
concepts.  The multimedia data appear in multiple forms including
audio, speech, text, web, image, video and combinations of several
types.

In this workshop, we aim to solicit papers that address the technical
challenges in mining multimedia data and management.  Through the
workshop, we expect to bring together experts in analysis of
multimedia data, state-of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in
multimedia database systems, and domain experts in diverse areas, such
as medical, surveillance, and education.


=== TOPICS ===

The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

* Algorithms and Models

  Association rules for multimedia data mining
  Clustering algorithms for multimedia data mining
  Classification algorithms for multimedia data mining
  Conceptual clustering for multimedia data mining
  Neural networks for multimedia data mining
  Parallel and distributed data mining for multimedia data
  Multimedia data mining in pervasive computing
  Multimedia ontology
  Stream data mining algorithms
  Spatio-Temporal data mining and algorithms

* Applications

  Audio/Image/Video DBMSs
  Data mining system for medical multimedia data
  Multimedia segmentation
  Visualization
  Semantic web and annotation
  Summarization and abstraction
  Video abstraction
  Contents-based image/video retrieval systems

== Submission Guidelines ==

Authors are invited to submit research contributions or practical
experience reports in English (not more than 4000 words or 5 two
column pages in IEEE format. The papers accepted for MDMM’08 will
be published with IEEE CS Press in the workshop proceedings of
DEXA’08. Inclusion of a paper in the proceedings is contingent on
one of the authors registering and presenting at the
conference. Submission site will be open soon.

== Important Dates ==
  Abstract Submission: March 14, 2008
  Full Paper Submission: March 28, 2008
  Notification to Authors: April 25, 2008
  Final Versions of Accepted Papers: May 16, 2008

== Organizational Committee ==

Jeongkyu Lee
  Department of Computer Science & Engineering
  University of Bridgeport
  jelee@bridgeport.edu
  http://www.bridgeport.edu/~jelee

For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission,
please contact: Jeongkyu Lee at jelee@bridgeport.edu