2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document
Engineering (MDDE-02), March 24, 2002, Prague
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/recherche/sic/djeraba/mdde.htm

In conjunction with the VIII International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT-02), Prague, Czech Republic, March 25-27, 2002
http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/EDBT2002/

OBJECTIVES
This 2nd international Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering is
aimed to bring together experts in all aspects of multimedia and document
engineering, including experts in databases, documents engineering, digital
media content analysis, data mining and domain experts from diverse applied
disciplines with potential in multimedia data document engineering. More
particularly, the workshop will address the following questions:
- What are the problems and the applications addressed by multimedia document
engineering?
- What are the advanced architectures of multimedia documents?
- What are the specific issues raised in knowledge extraction from within
documents composed of image, sound and video?
- What are suitable representations and formats that can help multimedia
document management?
- How can we adapt and enhance database technology and existing data mining
techniques to multimedia data that are complex (spatial and temporal features)
and not structured, in order to support knowledge discovery techniques in
multimedia documents?
Research and experience papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the
following topics:
- Models and languages for documents and semi-structured data: Conceptual
structures for documents, Semantics modeling, Query languages for Web
databases, Content description definition languages,
- Data/Document Engineering: Meta-data Management, Interoperability issues,
Techniques for integrating heterogeneous data/documents, Semantic retrieval,
Query processing and optimization, Mining from semi-structured data,
Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval, Multimedia database
management system, Standardization models (MPEG7, MPEG4, SMIL), Data
description languages and meta data (XML, RDF, etc.), Knowledge visualization,
Knowledge representation and acquisition, Multimedia applications,
- Applications in: Digital Libraries, E-commerce, Documents and mobile
networks, Co-operative systems, Data
Warehouses

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: December 30, 2001
Notification: January 15, 2002
Camera-ready: February 05, 2002

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Authors are invited to submit papers (not exceeding 15 pages) by December 30,
2001.
Selection will be based on originality and contribution to the field.
Manuscripts must be in English, typed in single spaced format in no smaller
than 10 point font. Each paper should have an extra cover page with name,
title, and address (including e-mail address) of the contact author and an
abstract of no more than 200 words. Papers in postscript or PDF format should
be sent to: mdde02@irin.univ-nantes.fr
All papers will be reviewed by at least three referees for technical merit and
content. Papers accepted for presentation will appear in the workshop
proceedings, which will be available to delegates at the conference site. It
is intended to publish the proceedings, after updating papers on the basis of
review remarks, in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series.

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
CHAIR
                    Chabane Djeraba
                    IRIN, Polytech'Nantes, France
MEMBERS
                    Michel Adiba
                    LSR, IMAG, France
                    Marie-Aude Aufaure-Portier
                    INRIA, France
                    Omar Boussaid
                    Lyon 2 University, France
                    Alberto Del Bimbo
                    Florence University, Italy
                    Jianping FAN
                    Charlotte North Carolina University, USA
                    Elena Ferrari
                    Milano University, Italy
                    William Grosky
                    Michigan Dearborn University, USA
                    Manfred Jeusfeld
                    Tilburg University, Netherlands
                    Rob Koenen
                    InterTrust Technologies Corporation, Netherlands
                    Jaroslav Pokorny
                    Charles University, Czech
                    Vaclav Snasel
                    VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech
                    Farouk Toumani
                    Blaise Pascal University, France
                    Osmar Zaiane
                    Alberta University, Canada
                    Aidong Zhang
                    Buffalo University, USA