The main theme of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2015) is Sentient Multimedia Systems,
which are distributed systems capable of actively
interacting with the environment by gathering,
processing, interpreting, storing and retrieving multimedia
information originated from sensors, robots, actuators, websites and other information sources.
The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing any novel aspect of sentient multimedia systems that
significantly benefits from the incorporation/integration of multimedia data (e.g., visual, audio, pen, voice, image, etc.),
for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. Both research and case study papers or demonstrations describing results in research area as well as industrial development cases and experiences are solicited.
The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged.
DMS2015 Selected Papers will be published as Special Issue of JVLC
The Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC),
which is indexed by SCI, EI, DBLP, Scopus and other indexers,
will publish around forty selected papers of DMS/VLC/DET2015 as the
December 2015 extra large special issue of JVLC. The conference will
first publish a proceedings available in print and
online to authors and conference attendees.
Papers will go through three rounds of reviews (see detailed review plan) so that
those selected for the JVLC special issue can be further improved to meet the standard of JVLC.
The JVLC special issue will be available both in print and online.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Distributed and Sentient Multimedia Technology
media coding, acquisition and standards
QoS and QoE (quality of experience) control
digital rights management and conditional access solutions
privacy and security issues
mobile devices and wireless networks
mobile intelligent applications
sensor networks, environment control and management
Distributed and Sentient Multimedia Models and Systems
human-computer interaction
multimedia affective computing
languages for distributed multimedia
multimedia software engineering issues
semantic computing and processing
media grid computing, cloud and virtualization
web services and multi-agent systems
multimedia databases and information systems
multimedia indexing and retrieval systems
multimedia and cross media authoring
Applications of Distributed and Sentient Multimedia Systems
collaborative and social multimedia systems and solutions
humanities and cultural heritage applications, management and fruition
multimedia preservation
cultural heritage preservation, management and fruition
distance and lifelong learning
emergency and safety management
e-commerce and e-government applications
health care management and disability assistance
intelligent multimedia computing
internet multimedia computing
virtual, mixed and augmented reality
user profiling, reasoning and recommendations
Workshops and Special Sessions
The following workshops and special sessions are being planned:
The following special session is being planned:
New Technologies for Cultural Heritage (organizer: F. Colace)
Please contact the conference secretariat
if you are interested in organizing a workshop or a special session. A
one-page proposal with the following items is required:
Title of the workshop/special session
Name of the organizer(s)
A list of program committee members (reviewers)
E-mail address of the lead organizer
A brief description of the theme
Hotel Information
The DMS 2015 Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, Canada. A special daily rate of $159 will be available during the conference period.
Information for Authors
Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (PDF
format) of the full paper should be submitted
using the following URL:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dms20150.
When submitting, select the main conference DMS15 or one of the two workshop tracks VLC15 or DET15.
Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more
than 8 pages of double-column text (include figures and references).
All submissions must not be published or under consideration for publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings. Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarify of exposition.
Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be accepted as regular paper (10 pages), short paper (7 pages) or research notes (1 page and demo/poster presentation).
Information for Reviewers
Papers submitted to DMS'15 will be reviewed electronically.
The users (webmaster, program chair, reviewers...) can login using the
following URL:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dms20150
Conference Contact Information
DMS 2015 Conference Secretariat
Knowledge Systems Institute
156 Park Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15238 USA
E-mail: dms2015-0@easychair.org
Important Dates
Paper submission due: June 1, 2015
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2015
Revised paper for proceedings due: July 20, 2015
Early conference registration due: July 20, 2015
Invitation of paper submission to JVLC: Sept 10, 2015
Paper for JVLC special issue due: October 1, 2015
Publication of JVLC special issue: December 15, 2015