------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop UP-TO-US: User-Centric Personalized TV ubiquitOus and secUre Services July 4th, 2012 Berlin, Germany http://www.euroitv2012.org/program/workshops/u2u/ Held in con-junction with the 10th EuroiTV 2012 Conference. **** Paper Registration Deadline --- April 15th, 2012 **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION -------------------- The advances in digital TV technology enable a new model for service provisioning, moving from traditional broadcaster-centric TV services to a new user-centric TV model. This new model will allow users not only to access new services and functionalities from their providers, based upon their profiles and contexts, but also to become active parts in the content personalization through contributing in building their dynamic profiles. This TV model is promising in allowing enriched TV smart and targeting services for end-users (while enhancing users’ interaction with the IPTV system and the Quality of Experience (QoE) which in turn increases users’ satisfaction and services acceptability) and a revenue system for broadcasters based on personalized advertising methods, as well as new business opportunities for network operators and service providers. Advanced and enriched content personalization is still in its infancy lacking the real-time consideration of each user context and the context of his environments (network and devices) while preserving users’ privacy. UP-TO-US workshop will be held in con-junction with EuroiTV 2012 conference (on July 4^th 2012 in Berlin, Germany) http://www.euroitv2012.org/program/workshops/ and aims at bringing together academia and industry to present and discuss the recent advances and novel aspects of technology including network architectures, services platforms, and user equipments to help creating pathways for the development of solutions for TV services personalization over different TV systems. The workshop will include a keynote session, a session for an invited presentation on the Celtic UP-TO-US European project, two sessions for selected papers presentation, and a brainstorming/panel discussion session that would end the workshop . The solicited topics for presentation and exchange in the workshop include: -Architectures and protocols for personalized TV services management and delivery. -Advanced technologies for TV personalization including context-awareness, content recommendation and content adaptation. -Quality of Experience (QoE) management. -Use-cases and business models for actors in the digital TV delivery chain -Monetization of content and possible business models among different actors. -Traffic optimization techniques including Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) -Content-centric networking: caching, distribution, load balancing. -Enhanced nomadic services access as well as services continuity. -User profile management. -Privacy management. WORKSHOP PROGRAM -------------------- 9:30 - 9:45 Workshop Opening 9:45 - 10:30 Keynote speech related to the workshop subject 10:30 - 12:00 Morning session for the selected papers 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break 13:00 - 14:00 Presentation on the UP-TO-US Celtic Project 14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon session for the selected papers 15:30 - 15:45 Break 15:45 - 17:15 Brainstorming Session/Panel Discussion 17:15 Workshop wrap-up The workshop aims to discuss the different contributions from academia and industry on enriched TV personalization through two sessions for selected papers to be published in the workshop proceedings. A keynote session is also planned at the beginning of the workshop by an expert on the domain aiming to highlight the different technical challenges for TV personalization and the possible ways to resolve them.A presentation will be also given on the ongoing Celtic project (UP-TO-US project) which focuses on the problem of enriched IPTV services personalization and thus aiming to disseminate among the participants the different works done and discuss the possible exchange with other projects in Europe working in related subjects. A Brainstorming Session (or a sort of Panel Discussion) is also planned to allow more interaction and exchange among the participants, where a Poster could be developed at the end of the session summarizing the different exchange. To stimulate the interaction among the participants, the PAPSA (Perception, Analyze, Production, Selection, Application) method is a good candidate method with also a possibility of creating two focus groups amongthe participants (depending on the number of participants) making an exchange intra-group first then inter-group. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE -------------------- Workshops Chairs Professor Maria Calderon University of Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M), Spain Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa Senior Research Engineer at Orange Labs, France Dr. Marek Dabrowski Expert in Telecom Poland Technical Program Committee Chair Professor Hossam Afifi Telecom Sud Paris, France Technical Program Committee members Sherali Zeadally, University of District of Columbia, Washington DC, USA Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute-Alsace, France Ken Chen, Paris 13 University, France Oscar Martinez Bonastre, University of Miguel Hernandez (UMH), Spain Ali Begen, Cisco, USA Xavier Anguera, Telefonica, Spain Makram Bouzid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France Noelia de la Pena, Full On Net (FON), Spain Raúl Varela Izquierdo, Ericsson Network Services, Spain Hervé Brutin, Marben Products, France Peter Stadlmann, IP-Austria, Austria Daniel Molina, Paradigma Tecnológico, Spain Ignacio Soto, UC3M, Spain Wassim Haddad, Ericsson, USA Eugen Mikoczy, Slovak Telecom, Slovakia Marie-Jose Montpetit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA Yiting Liao, Intel Labs, Oregon, USA Enrique de Miguel Illari, Vmodal, Spain Federico Alvarez, University of Madrid (UPM), Spain Petros Daras, Informatics and Telematics Institute (IT), Greece Publication Chairs Silvia Bastos Molares, Vmodal, Spain Rodrigo Illera Camargo, Gesfor, Spain Brainstorming Session Chairs Jacky Forestier, Orange Labs Carles Fernandez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (OUC), Spain IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- -Paper Submissions: 15th April 2012 -Notification on Submissions: 15th May 2012 -Camera-ready papers submissions for accepted papers: 30th May 2012 -Workshop Date: 4th July 2012 -Early Registration: 25th May 2012 PAPER SUBMISSIONS -------------------- All submissions must be in English and in either PDF or postscript format. Papers should be formatted using the ACM guidelines http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates as stated in the EuroITV 2012 main program. The submissions will be reviewed by at least two PC members and will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, contribution, and interest to the workshop participants. Authors should send their papers to hossam.afifi@it-sudparis.eu with copy to hassnaa.moustafa@orange.com, Marek.Dabrowski@telekomunikacja.pl and maria@it.uc3m.es PUBLICATION OF PAPERS -------------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to register for the workshop and present their papers at the workshop in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings. These papers will be published in the EuroITV 2012 Adjunct Proceedings. Participants will have two sessions to present their papers and the rest of the day will be used to discuss in a brainstorming session to summarize the state of the technology presented. A special issue of an appropriated journal to publish revised and extended versions of selected best papers is pending.