MUSES 2014 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia and Sensory Environment Services

With the advancement of multimedia, sensor technology, and wireless communication, we witness a renewed interest in realizing Multimedia and Sensory Environment, such as Smart Home, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), Intelligent Environment (IE) and the like. The goal of this movement is to promote a paradigm where our environments are technologically augmented with myriad sensors and heterogeneous devices that are sensitive to the presence of people and responsive to serve their needs. The cornerstone of such environment is the availability of vast amount of multimedia data that are generated based on the multimodal sensors and processed to identify the needs of the residents. Multimedia data are also contributed and shared by the residents to report and enhance their experience in the environment. Underlying to such environments are the different services that need to be defined, developed, and integrated in a holistic manner.
The emergence of multimedia and sensory environment services has brought many challenges, which are the core focus of this workshop. More specifically, this workshop aims to report on state-of-the-art techniques and methodologies to define, develop and integrate different services relevant to ambient multimedia and sensory environment. We seek high quality papers that were not published elsewhere and have scientific values relevant to several topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following:
- Multimedia service creation and integration
- Event and activity detection services
- Context identification services
- Interaction services in multimedia and sensory environment
- Multimedia processing and sharing services
- Multimedia services middle-ware
- Service discovery, selection and composition
- Sensing and actuation services
- Multimedia services for Assisted Living
- Sensor data collection, processing, and visualization services
- Entertainment and multimedia presentation services
- Smart healthcare and education services
- Emerging cloud services for multimedia and sensory environment
- Recommendation services for ambient environment
General Co-chairs
M. Anwar Hossain, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Technical Program Committee (tentative)
Oliver Brdiczka, PARC, USA
Mohammed Mehedi Hassan, King Saud University, KSA
Alecio Binotto, IBM Research, Brazil
Giannis Georgalis, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Starvroula Doa, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Gino Brunetti, CASED, Germany
Marco Blumendorf, TU Berlin, Germany
Christian Elting, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Pedro Santoz, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Santiago Tainta Ausejo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Giuseppe Conti, GraphiTech, Italy
Raffaele de Aimecis, GraphiTech, Italy
Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
Hesam Rahimi, University of Toronto, Canada
Mehdi Bagheri, Qazvin University, Iran
Morteza Mostajab, Technische Universität München, Germany
Jorge Posada, VICOMTech, Spain
Ernesto William De Luca, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany
Dimitris Grammenos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Margarita Antona, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Areti Damala, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Ioannis Patras, University of London, UK
Jorge Parra, Ikerlan-IK4, Spain
Daqing Zhang, Telecommunication Network and Services Department, France
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Manuscript Preparation and Paper Submission
Papers submitted to MUSES workshop must not have been previously published and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit a full paper (two-column format, up to 6 pages, including figures and tables) according to the guidelines available on the conference website at http://ism2014.asia.edu.tw/submission.html. Reviewing will be double blind. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Papers will be reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state-of-the-art in the field. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and presentation quality. All papers accepted will appear in the workshops proceedings which and will be included in the IEEE Explore Digital Library.