Dear All,

We are pleased to announce that the paper submission deadline for the above workshop has been extended to March 5, 2010. This workshop will be co-located with the IEEE ICME conference in Singapore on July 19-23, 2010.

You may visit the website for more updated information and paper submission procedures: http://imde.cio.umh.es/iwitma2010.html

Thanks.

Cheers, Jo Yew

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From: Tham Jo Yew Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:44 AM To: thamjy@ieee.org; ombonastre@ieee.org Subject: IEEE ICME 2010 - Satellite Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA Importance: High Sensitivity: Confidential

Dear Fellow Researchers,

========================================================================================== We´re glad to announce that the best papers (extended version) of IWITMA 2010 and selected by TPC will be published in a special issue (approved) of the Elsevier's Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication; SCI indexed with JCR impact factor. ==========================================================================================

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2010)

IEEE ICME 2010 - Satellite Workshop July 19-23, 2010, Singapore

Website - http://imde.cio.umh.es/iwitma2010.html http://imde.cio.umh.es/iwitma2010.html

Scope and Topics

The 2nd International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2010) will be a one-day event focusing on recent advances in IPTV technology and applications. IWITMA 2010 will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2010) in order to profit from the attendance at IEEE ICME as well as providing this group with recents advances in video that will impact the networks of the future.

The workshop will present innovative technical papers on all aspects of IPTV and converged applications delivery as well as on novel approaches video transmission and network architectures for video. In addition to these papers the workshop intends to have ample time for discussion amongst participants on topics randing from industry trends to actual and future implementation.

The workshop seeks innovative technical papers on all aspects of IPTV in multimedia broadcasting, including architectural standardization, content protection, quality of service and quality of experience, middleware, etc.

The following IPTV related topics are included as to attract attendance from both academia and industry:

* Architectures for IPTV systems especially those targeting multiscreens and combining mobility * IPTV Service deployments, interactivity, Social TV, datacasting * IPTV QoS issues (including performance, traffic management and monitoring, etc.) * IPTV user experience and user experience design * Video Content Distribution Networks for distributed IPTV services * Mobile IPTV (system deployment, mobile extension considerations, etc.) * Transmission aspects including video compression and network coding * User devices and home networking * Content protection and rights management * Network design impacts of video convergence * Software platforms and middleware for next generation IPTV * Business, pricing and billing models for evolving IPTV services * Mathematical and analytical models for IPTV networks * IPTV content consumption measurement, congestion control, rate control * IPTV test beds and field trials for multimedia broadcasting applications * IPTV processing, video coding and processing

Additionally, the workshop plans to bring a distinguished invited speaker to talk on "IPTV in Industry" and especially in emerging IPTV markets, i.e., to discuss original contributions from various industry IPTV domains (e.g.consumer electronics, broadcasters, producers, broadband companies, software and hardware developers, telecom operators). The objective will be discussing evidences of issues regarding IPTV technologies' dealing with industry cases in the above areas of interest.

IMPORTANT DATES * Regular Paper Abstract Submission: February 13, 2010 * Regular Paper Submission: February 27, 2010 * Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance/Rejection: March 25, 2010 * Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 15, 2010

PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions for this workshop should follow the submission format and guidelines for regular ICME papers. Guidelines for paper submission to IWITMA 2010 can be found at http://www.icme2010.org/submission.html http://www.icme2010.org/submission.html

In addittion, Guidelines for IWITMA 2010 follow the authors guidelines of IEEE ICME 2010 which can be found here: http://www.icme2010.org/authorguide.html http://www.icme2010.org/authorguide.html

Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process. The best papers (extended version) of IWITMA 2010 and selected by TPC will be published in a special issue (confirmed) of the Elsevier's Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication; SCI indexed with JCR impact factor.

WORKSHOP CHAIR Oscar Martinez Bonastre Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain E-mail: ombonastre@ieee.org mailto:ombonastre@ieee.org

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tham Jo Yew (Publicity Chair), Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS' Media Int. Lab, Germany Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Marie-José Montpetit, Invited Scientist, MIT, USA Collin Perkins, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Khaled El-MalehQualcomm Inc., USA Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel, Network Strategy Group, Belgium Nhut Nguyen, Samsung Telecomms America, USA Serge Fdida, LIP6, France Fan Zhai, Video Tech. Dept., Texas Instrumments, USA Jürgen Heiles, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany Simon T Jones, British Telecom, United Kingdom Hassnaa Moustafa, Telecom Research (Orange Labs), France Maurizio Murroni, University of Cagliari, Italy Fernando Ramos, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Rui Cruz, Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal. Carlos Palau Salvador,Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Caifeng Shan, Philips Research, Netherlands James She, University of Waterloo, Canada Jinsul Kim, Korea Nazarene University, Korea Joaquin S Soriano, Operations Research Center, Spain Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany Dalibor Turina, Ericsson, Sweden Meng Wang, Microsoft Research Asia Albert Canigueral, Advanced Digital Broadcast, Switzerland Mohamed Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco Jivesh Govil, Cisco Systems, Inc - USA Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong Univ. Science & Tech., P.R. China Ulf Essler, Centre for Information and Communications Research (CIC), Sweden Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China Jivesh Govil, Cisco Systems, Inc - USA

For all questions about the workshop, or expression of interest in joining the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for this event, please contact the Workshop Chair (ombonastre@ieee.org mailto:ombonastre@ieee.org )

Thanks.

Cheers, Jo Yew THAM