WebMedia 2011 - WebMedia 2011 : XVII Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web

You are kindly invited to attend WebMedia 2011 to be held in Florianópolis/SC - Brazil from October 03 to 06. The Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) annually promotes several national symposia in diverse computer science fields. Since its first edition, in 1995, WebMedia has become the most important Brazilian forum for researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and the Web.

In 2011, in its seventeenth edition, WebMedia is being organized in conjunction with the Brazilian Symposium on Database (SBBD 2008).

WebMedia will host the following events:

Workshop on Tools and Applications;
Workshop on Ongoing Thesis and Dissertations;
Workshop on Undergraduate Research;
Tutorials;
Short Courses.
The event’s current organization is under the responsibility of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).

Full and Short Paper Submissions
Authors are invited to submit papers which will be evaluated in terms of: originality, technical content and accuracy, significance of the work, presentation (organization, style and clarity), and appropriateness of references to papers presented in earlier editions of the event. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format and comply with the ACM format (described at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Authors must make use of the EASYCHAIR System for all submissions (Submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webmed...). Papers can be written in either English or Portuguese. One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication. The accepted papers will be published by ACM(1) (http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE446). Full-Papers (between six and eight pages) should report on substantial research supported by complete results.

ShortPapers (4 pages) should describe ongoing work and contain partial results.

Topics and technologies relevant to the symposium include (but are not limited to):

Architectures, services, and applications
Browsers and presentation engines
Computer supported cooperative work
Content creation, analysis, storage and distribution
Databases, storage and retrieval
Digital libraries
Digital TV
Document engineering, including authoring, analyzing, editing and user interface
Document standards, models, representation languages
Document synchronization and temporal aspects
Electronic commerce
Internet multimedia services (IPTV, VoIP, etc.)
Metadata
Mobile and pervasive/ubiquitous computing
Multimedia networking and QoS
Multimedia operating systems
Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
Performance and reliability metrics and evaluation methods
Security and privacy
Semantic Web
Signal processing and coding
Software development using multimedia techniques
Visualization
Web engineering
Important dates:

Full paper deadline: May 08,2011
Author notification (full paper): June 28, 2011
Camera-ready full paper: July 10, 2011
Short paper deadline: July 10, 2011
Author notification (short paper): August 08, 2011
Camera-ready short paper: August 15, 2011