Special Issue Call for Papers ==================================================================== *** Submission Due: Jan 31, 2009 (Extended) ************************ -------------------------------------------------------------------- MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS (indexed by SCI-E) http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042 Special Issue on Advanced Intelligent Multimedia Applications for Next Generation Environments ==================================================================== Next Generation environments (NG) have recently raised relevant interests in both the academic and industrial research communities as one of the most promising application fields for intelligent computing services. In fact, the NG application domain poses unique challenges such as various services to enable working from home, remote education, remote diagnosis, virtual shopping, network gaming, and portal & high quality VOD with no limitations on space and time, and so on. Specially, Advanced Intelligent Multimedia Applications for NG have been coming as a new paradigm. This special issue aims to address the Advanced Intelligent Multimedia Applications (AIMA) for NG. It will accept both original research papers and review articles that enhance the state-of-the-art in smart spaces and their services including topics like smart homes and offices, intelligent system architecture, human communication interaction, advanced smart services, context-awareness, data-mining, security issues, emerging standards and technologies and novel applications that are associated with AIMA for NG utilization. The papers will be peer reviewed and will be selected on the basis of their quality and relevance to the theme of this special issue. Topics --------- It will cover the following topical areas but are not limited to: Inf Intelligent multimedia systems and applications for NG Intelligent multimedia networking and communications for NG Data-mining for AIMA in NG Human communication interaction for AIMA in NG Intelligent context-awareness for AIMA in NG Security issues for AIMA in NG Emerging standards and technologies for AIMA in NG Industry and business models for AIMA in NG Submission Details ------------------ Concerning the preparation of the manuscript, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors" page at the journal website, http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=100320. Further, the manuscript must be submitted in the form of PDF file to the following addresses: parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com and yu@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp. The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and the corresponding author's name and affiliation. Further, for CSA-08 extended papers, the CSA-08 Paper ID Number of the accepted paper must be provided. All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on both quality and suitability to the special issue. For further questions or inquiries, please contact corresponding editor Prof. Jong Hyuk Park Schedule ------------------ Deadline for manuscript submission: Jan 1, 2009 --> Jan 31, 2009 (Extended) Acceptance notification: April 25, 2009 Final manuscript due: May 30, 2009 Publication date: Summer or Fall, 2009 (Tentative) Guest Editors ------------------ Prof. Jong Hyuk Park Corresponding editor Kyungnam University, Korea Email: parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com Website: http://jhpark.sersc.org/ Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia The University of Georgia, USA Email: hra@cs.uga.edu Website: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra/ Dr. Zhiwen Yu Kyoto University, Japan E-mail: yu@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Website: http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yu/ -The End-