International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM) http://www.igi-global.com/ijmdem Editor-in-Chief: Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) CALL FOR PAPERS MISSION OF IJMDEM: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM). The primary objective IJMDEM is to promote and advance multimedia research from different aspects in multimedia data engineering and management. It provides a forum for university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to be become acquainted with new theories, algorithms, and technologies in multimedia engineering, and to all those who wish to gain a detailed technical understanding of what multimedia engineering involves. Novel and fundamental theories, algorithms, technologies, and applications will be published to support this mission. COVERAGE OF IJMDEM: Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following: - content-based retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.) - multimodal data analysis - relevance feedback - multimedia databases - image/video/audio databases - multimedia data mining - learning support for multimedia data - multimedia data engineering - multimedia data modeling - multimedia data indexing - multimedia data storage - security support for multimedia data - new standards - network support for multimedia data - multimedia systems - technologies and applications SUBMITTING TO IJMDEM: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL.S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines.html. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal and/or ad-hoc reviewers for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to chens@cs.fiu.edu. PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management published by IGI Global publisher of the "IGI Publishing," "Information Science Publishing," "IRM Press," "CyberTech Publishing", "Information Science Reference", and "Medical Information Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management E-mail: chens@cs.fiu.edu