=========== MDMM'08 Call For Papers =================== The 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining and Management (MDMM'08) http://www.bridgeport.edu/~jelee/mdmm to be held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on DEXA 2008 September 1 - 5 Turin, Italy ================================================== With the recent advances in electronic imaging, video devices, storage, networking and computer power, the amount of multimedia has grown enormously, and data mining has become a popular way of discovering new knowledge from such a large data sets. Multimedia data mining is a discipline which brings together database systems, artificial intelligence, and multimedia processing, such as image and video processing. It is important to understand what is multimedia data mining, how data mining techniques can contribute to discover new knowledge, how to organize and manage the discovered knowledge and concepts. The multimedia data appear in multiple forms including audio, speech, text, web, image, video and combinations of several types. In this workshop, we aim to solicit papers that address the technical challenges in mining multimedia data and management. Through the workshop, we expect to bring together experts in analysis of multimedia data, state-of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, and domain experts in diverse areas, such as medical, surveillance, and education. === TOPICS === The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: * Algorithms and Models Association rules for multimedia data mining Clustering algorithms for multimedia data mining Classification algorithms for multimedia data mining Conceptual clustering for multimedia data mining Neural networks for multimedia data mining Parallel and distributed data mining for multimedia data Multimedia data mining in pervasive computing Multimedia ontology Stream data mining algorithms Spatio-Temporal data mining and algorithms * Applications Audio/Image/Video DBMSs Data mining system for medical multimedia data Multimedia segmentation Visualization Semantic web and annotation Summarization and abstraction Video abstraction Contents-based image/video retrieval systems == Submission Guidelines == Authors are invited to submit research contributions or practical experience reports in English (not more than 4000 words or 5 two column pages in IEEE format. The papers accepted for MDMM’08 will be published with IEEE CS Press in the workshop proceedings of DEXA’08. Inclusion of a paper in the proceedings is contingent on one of the authors registering and presenting at the conference. Submission site will be open soon. == Important Dates == Abstract Submission: March 14, 2008 Full Paper Submission: March 28, 2008 Notification to Authors: April 25, 2008 Final Versions of Accepted Papers: May 16, 2008 == Organizational Committee == Jeongkyu Lee Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Bridgeport jelee@bridgeport.edu http://www.bridgeport.edu/~jelee For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact: Jeongkyu Lee at jelee@bridgeport.edu