AMR 2006 - 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval 27-28 July 2006, University of Geneva, Switzerland http://viper.unige.ch/amr2006/ The 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval will be held on 27-28 July 2006 at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. So far, several approaches have been developed that tackle specific problems of the retrieval process, e.g. feature extraction methods for multimedia data, query languages, problem-specific similarity measures and interactive user interfaces. However, in most cases the user still needs several steps in order to find the searched objects. The main reasons for this are on the one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in the form of a well defined query (which is partially caused by inappropriate user interfaces), on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant features from the multimedia objects. Furthermore, user specific interests and the search context are usually neglected when objects are retrieved. To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop intelligent methods that are able to support the user in the search process, e.g. by providing additional user adapted information about the search results as well as the data collection itself and especially by adapting the retrieval tool to the user's needs and interests. The goals of the workshop are to intensify the exchange of ideas between different research communities, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between the diverse involved research communities and research in AI. TOPICS OF INTEREST: The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, and visualization methods as well as user interface design. Therefore, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not limited to: - Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and mixed-media) - Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining - Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure extraction - Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems - Metadata for multimedia retrieval - Multimedia and multi-modal mining - Semantic content analysis for multimedia - Semantic web and ontologies - Adaptive query languages - Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures) - User and preference modelling (including feedback models) - Methods for adaptive data visualization and user interfaces IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for paper submission: March 17, 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 19, 2006 Deadline for final paper submission: June 2, 2006 Workshop starts: July 27, 2006 HOW TO SUBMIT: Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (for details see the instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). Papers should have about 10 pages but must not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format (see the "Submission" section on the web site for details). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. COMMITTEE: General Chair: Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Program Chairs: Eric Bruno, University of Geneva, Switzerland Andreas Nürnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany Marcin Detyniecki, Laboratoire d'Informatique Paris, CNRS Paris, France Local Chair: Nicolas Moënne-Loccoz, University of Geneva, Switzerland Publicity Chair: Lila Abes, University of Geneva, Switzerland Program Committee: Kobus Barnard University of Arizona, USA Jenny Benois-Pineau University of Bordeaux, LABRI, France Stefano Beretti Universitŕ di Firenze, Italy Susan Boll University of Oldenburg, Germany Jesper W. Schneider Royal School of Library and Info. Sci, Denmark Arjen de Vries CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bogdan Gabrys Bournemouth University, United Kingdom Ana M. García Serrano Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Theo Gevers University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alex Hauptmann Carnegie Mellon University, USA Philippe Joly Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT, Toulouse, France Gareth Jones Dublin City University, Ireland Joemon Jose University of Glasgow, UK R. Manmatha University of Massachusetts, USA Trevor Martin University of Bristol, United Kingdom José María Martínez Sánchez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Bernard Merialdo Institut Eurécom , France Jan Nesvadba Philips Research, The Netherlands Stefan Rüger Imperial College London, UK Simone Santini University of California, San Diego, USA Raimondo Schettini University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Ingo Schmitt University of Magdeburg, Germany Nicu Sebe University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland John R. Smith IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Xian-Sheng Hua Microsoft Research, China