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      The International Workshop on Pervasive Media (PerMedia2009) 

               http://malab.cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/permedia/

                             Held with 
            The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous 
                 Intelligence and Computing (UIC-09)

                      Technically Sponsored by 
        IEEE Task Force on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing

                 Brisbane, Australia, 7-10 July, 2009   
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                      Important Dates
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            Papers due                  15 Feb 2009 
            Notification                25 Mar 2009
            Camera-ready papers due     10 Apr 2009

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Pervasive or ubiquitous computing defines a new paradigm of computing 
for 21st century as a result of ubiquity of computing beyond the 
mainframe and personal computers and advances of the media sensing, 
computing and usage along with the developments and applications of 
communication and networking. Traditional multimedia computing in 
pervasive computing environments faces new challenges in increasing 
number of ubiquitous media devices, media types, media content and 
semantic modeling, analysis and processing, media management, usage and 
services. 

The Workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and industry 
practitioners to share their research experience, original results and 
practical developments on the specific challenges and emerging issues 
in pervasive or ubiquitous media computing. 

PerMedia2009 covers all media related fundamentals, theories, models, 
technologies and applications in pervasive/ubiquitous systems and 
environments. The technical program will consist of invited speech, 
paper presentations and panel discussions.

The PerMedia2009 topics include but are not limited to the followings:

- Fundamentals and challenges of per-media 
- Architecture and infrastructure for per-media 
- Per-media input devices in ubiquitous/pervasive systems 
- Environment-centric media in ubiquitous/pervasive systems 
- Media communication and networking in ubiquitous/pervasive systems 
- Server and service technologies for per-media 
- Per-media database and content management 
- Per-media indexing and retrieval 
- Per-media content modeling and analysis 
- Media context awareness in ubiquitous/pervasive systems 
- Smart and intelligent media computing in ubiquitous/pervasive systems 
- Per-media semantics and modeling 
- Per-media data and knowledge mining 
- Security, privacy, trust and safety issues for per-media 
- Per-media user interfaces 
- Per-media services and applications 

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            Paper Preparation, Submission and Publication
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Prospective authors are invited to submit an electronic verson of 
full papers in PDF format (not exceeding 6 pages) according to 
two-column formatting of IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing 
Services. All papers are submitted as per the instructions on the 
Workshop website. Each paper will receive at least 3 peer reviews. 
At least one author should register for the workshop at full rate for 
the inclusion of the paper in the proceedings and is expected to present 
their work at the Workshop. 

The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press 
(indexed by EI). 

Selected papers, with potential extension and revision, will be 
published in a special issue (No.4,2009) of Journal of Mobile Multimedia.

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                    Workshop Organizing Committee
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General Chairs:

- Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
- Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria 

Program Chairs:

- Lei Ye, University of Wollongong, Australia 
- Qiang Wu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 

Steering Chairs:

- Jianhua Ma, Hosei Univeristy, Japan 
- Laurence T. Yang, Francis Xavier University, Canada 

Publicity Chairs:

- Ning Li, University of Surrey, UK 
- Xingang Liu, Yeungnam University, Korea
- Anthony Y. H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan
- Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland 

Advisory Committee:
  See PerMedia2009 Website

Program Committee:
  See PerMedia2009 Website

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