CFP: Special Issue on Multimedia Semantics @ IJ on Semantic Web and Information Systems

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)

Special Issue on Multimedia Semantics

Information is increasingly becoming ubiquitous and all-pervasive, with

the World-Wide Web as its primary repository. The rapid growth of

information on the Web creates new challenges for information retrieval.

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the investigation and

development of the next generation web – the semantic web. The semantic

web enables programs/agents to automatically understand what data is

about, and therefore, bridge the, so-called, semantic gap between the ways

in which users request web resources and the real needs of those users,

ultimately improving the quality of web information retrieval.

Multimedia information has always been part of the semantic web paradigm,

but, in general, has been discussed very simplistically by the semantic

web community. We believe that, rather than trying to discover a media

object’s hidden meaning, one should formulate ways of managing media

objects so as to help people make more intelligent use of them. The

relationship between users and media objects should be studied. Media

objects should be interpreted relative to the particular goal or

point-of-view of a particular user at a particular time. Media objects

that would satisfy a user at one time may not satisfy him at other times.

And, of course, media objects that would satisfy one user may not satisfy

other users, even at the same time.

Content-based descriptors are necessary to this process. Recently, a

major European wireless service provider managed to have all its digital

media content providers supply metadata in RDF, and saw the revenues

increase by 20% in three months. Major search engines are in the process

of rolling out A/V search capabilities. At the same time, such

descriptions are definitely not sufficient. Context is also important,

and should be managed. The area of emergent multimedia semantics has been

initiated to study the measured interactions between users and media

objects, with the ultimate goal of trying to satisfy the user community by

providing them with the media objects they require, based on their

individual previous media interactions.

For this special issue on the Multimedia Semantic Web, we welcome all

papers relevant to topics at the confluence of multimedia information

management and the semantic web, such as multimedia ontologies, multimedia

extraction and annotation, multimedia semantics, semantics-based search

and integration of multimedia and digital content, emergent semantics,

semantics enabled multimedia applications (including search, browsing,

retrieval, visualization), semantics enabled networks and middleware for

multimedia applications, semantic metadata for mobile applications,

tool-based approaches utilizing such artifacts as RDF Schema and OWL,

approaches using metadata standards such as MPEG-7, and industrial use

cases and applications.

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Submission Guidelines and Important Dates:

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Submitting authors should follow the Style and Author Guidelines for

regular IJSWIS papers available at http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis

Manuscripts should be submitted to William Grosky at wgrosky@umich.edu

Submission Deadline for Papers: March 1, 2006

Completion of 1st Round of Reviews: April 1, 2006

Major/Minor Revisions Due: April 15, 2006

Completion of 2nd Round of Reviews: May 1, 2006

Editorial Decisions Sent: May 15, 2006

Planned Publication: Issue 2(3) or 2(4)

Special Issue Guest Editors:

William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn,wgrosky@umich.edu

Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, fotouhi@wayne.edu