--------------------------------------------------------------------- EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing --------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue on Multimedia Security and Rights Management The digital information revolution has brought about profound changes in our society and our lives. New devices and powerful software have made it possible for consumers worldwide to create, manipulate, share, and enjoy the multimedia data. Internet and wireless networks offer ubiquitous channels to deliver and to exchange multimedia information for such purposes as remote collaboration, distant learning, and entertainment. With all these advances in multimedia coding and communication technologies over the past decade, the major hurdle for allowing much broader access of multimedia assets and deployment of multimedia services no longer lies with bandwidth-related issues, but with assuring that content is used for its intended purpose by its intended recipients. The core issue now becomes the development of secure management of multimedia content usage and delivery across communication networks. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the contributions from the latest research and development in multimedia security and rights management. Prospective papers should be unpublished and present solid research works offering innovative contributions either from a theoretical, methodological or application point of view. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Joint consideration of business models, system architectures and technical solutions of digital rights management (DRM) for multimedia Efficient multimedia encryption Authentication of scalable multimedia Data hiding for multimedia security and rights management Secure multimedia transmission over lossy channels and for mobile environment Secure multicast of multimedia information New forms of multimedia distribution (such as P2P) and related technical issues New security analysis and evaluation methodologies in multimedia security and rights management Legal issues, economics aspects, and limitations of DRM Low-power low-cost implementation of secure multimedia communication and rights management systems Emerging standards for multimedia security and rights management Submission procedure: Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's web submission system at http://asp.hindawi.com/wss/, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due March 31, 2003 Acceptance Notification September 30, 2003 Final Manuscript Due December 31, 2003 Publication Date 2nd Quarter, 2004 GUEST EDITORS: Min Wu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; minwu@eng.umd.edu Nasir Memon, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA; memon@poly.edu Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, Switzerland; Touradj.Ebrahimi@epfl.ch Ingemar Cox, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA; ingemar@research.nj.nec.com EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE: Naohisa Ohta, Sony, Japan