First IEEE international workshop on Service-oriented Community Coordinated Multimedia (SCCM 2008)

Personal experiences are being enhanced, augmented, and extended with ever increasing user generated digital and networked multimedia and increasing number of people who are capable of accessing the Internet, namely Community Coordinated Multimedia (CCM) experience. The CCM experiences are manifested by a great number of rich potential applications, such as Youtube, Wikipedia, online journalism, online learning, mobile TV, etc. To advance the CCM human experience, efforts in research and development of CCM are strongly required to offer a community-coordinated, Web-based, specific vendors-independent, evolving, and agile solution environment in community management, multimedia computing, and multimedia communication. Service-orientation is regarded as a distinct view of perceiving the software systems world. This view is beneficial not only to break down a large problem into a series of individual concerns, namely services, but also support registration, discoverability, and composability of services, further evolution, extensibility and agility of a software system management. The service orientation principles for modern software system design are gained and promoted through contemporary SOA by introducing standardization to service registration, semantic messaging platforms, and Web services technology.

This workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners together for exploring applying service orientation method and Service-oriented Architecture into the emerging area of Community Coordinated Multimedia. The following topics are encouraged to be addressed, but not limited to them.

• Human-centric and Service oriented methods
• Service-oriented community coordinated multimedia architectures
• Process modeling and service design
• Knowledge representation and service description
• Middleware and protocols for service communication
• Service-oriented pervasive computing
• Multimedia metadata frameworks
• Community-aware service computing
• Web service specification for community coordination
• Protocols and middleware design for communication management
• Overlay and peer-to-peer communication in community networks
• Signaling and service enabling protocols for communication
• Social network management
• Load balancing for community coordination
• Legacy multimedia applications evolution
• Advanced multimedia content delivery
• Content processing, analysis and understanding in digital communities
• Content and context-based search and indexing for multimedia sharing

Paper Abstract Submission: June 5, 2008
Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2008
Paper Notification: June 22, 2008
Camera Ready Paper Submission and Author Registration: July 26, 2008

Dr. Mika Ylianttila is a professor and adjunct professor in computer science and information networks at the Information Processing laboratory and Research Manager at the MediaTeam Oulu research group at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include: Protocol design and performance; Communication and middleware architectures; Mobile applications and services.

Dr. Qun Jin is a Professor of Networked Information Systems in the Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, Waseda University, Japan. He has been engaged extensively in research works on computer science, information systems, and social and human informatics. His recent research interests include human-centric information systems, ubiquitous services computing, information retrieval and recommendation, human-computer interaction, e-learning, and computing for well-being. He seeks to exploit the rich interdependence between theory and practice in his works with interdisciplinary and integrated approaches. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Distance Education Technology (JDET). See the detail with the link: www.f.waseda.jp/jin/.

Dr. Minyi Guo is currently an IBM endowed chair professor of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has published more than 150 research papers in international journals and conferences and served as general chair, program committee or organizing committee chair for many international conferences. He is the founder of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA), and International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Embedded Systems. See the detail with the link: http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~minyi/

Dr. Jukka Riekki, Professor, University of Oulu, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Director, Intelligent Systems Group. His research interest is related with context-aware computing. See the detail with the link: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~jpr/

Dr. Zhixiong Chen is an Associate Professor, in Department of Math and Computer Information Science, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY, USA. He obtained hi PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, 1997. His current research interest is related to Autonomic Computing. He has published more than 26 journal and conference papers. See the details with the link: http://www.mercy.edu/faculty/zchen/personalWeb.htm

Dr. Heming Zhang is an associate professor and director of Concurrent Engineering group, CIMS research institute, Department of Automation, Tsinghua. He obtained his PhD from Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China in 1995. His research interests include concurrent engineering, virtual prototype, product data management and lifecycle management, collaborative design and simulation platform. See the details with the link: http://www.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/szll/zhangheming/default.htm

Dr. Mika Rautiainen received his M.Sc (eng.) and Dr. Tech. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu. His research interests include content-based multimedia retrieval and management systems, pattern recognition, digital image and video processing and understanding.

Dr. Jiehan Zhou is a Post-doctoral research scientist at MediaTeam, Information Processing laboratory, University of Oulu. He obtained his PhD in manufacturing and automation from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China in 2000. He did 2-year postdoctoral research In CIMS, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He worked in VTT/Oulu Finland and INRIA/Sophia Antipolis France for a 18-month ERCIM fellowship. His current research interests include community coordinated multimedia, serviceoriented computing, ontology engineering, semantic Web, protocol engineering.