SMAP2006

Call for Papers
The emergence of advanced network infrastructures enables fast, efficient and reliable end-to-end transmission of huge multimedia content. This, combined with the development of a plethora of terminal devices available for media display through networked access has lead to immense market opportunities for content and service providers. During the last years providers have invested in technologies that utilize higher level content adaptation and personalization techniques in order to achieve a cross-media world.

Still, in today's market it is becoming obvious that in order for media content and media services to be competitive they cannot limit their consideration to diverse networking infrastructures and diverse terminal devices; diverse users also need to be served in a way that is more suitable to their own needs and preferences. Although presentation preferences (such as video quality) can be addressed by something as simple as low level content adaptation, a user's preferences at a semantic level are more difficult to understand, model and finally satisfy. The realization of the notions of context and contextualization at a semantic level is expected to aid significantly in the area of media content and services.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from related fields in order to discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation. Specifically, it will cover areas such as knowledge acquisition and management, ontologies, knowledge models for personalization, semantic context modeling and extraction, content adaptation, user profiling, personalized filtering and so on.

The above mentioned topics are broadly identified as central in current research efforts in the field of semantic media technology. Thus, it is expected that the proposed workshop will draw the attention of an audience much broader than its prospective authors. We strive to have a diverse academic audience, varying from young researchers working on PhD level to experts in the field. The workshop aims to provide a platform for exchanging fresh ideas and expertise, and for obtaining feedback on ongoing research.

Workshop topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):


 * Knowledge Modeling, Integration and Management for Personalization
 * Ontology-based Personalization, Exploitation of User Contexts
 * User Modeling, Group Modeling, User Profiling, Short/Long-term Profiling
 * User Preferences Representation, Generation, Extraction and Update of User Preferences/User Profiles
 * Personalized Content Authoring, Delivery and Access
 * Intelligent Personalized Interfaces, Personalization in Ubiquitous Computing
 * Adaptive Hypermedia, Personalized TV and Presentation Environments
 * Adaptive Information Retrieval
 * Personalized Filtering, Semantically Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
 * Personalized Multimedia Summarization
 * Personalized Syndication and Aggregation

General Chairs

 * Phivos Mylonas, MSc, fmylonas@image.ntua.gr, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 * Manolis Wallace, PhD, wallace@uindy.gr, University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece
 * Marios Angelides, BSc PhD FBCS CITP, marios.angelides@brunel.ac.uk, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Program Committee Chairs

 * William Grosky, PhD, wgrosky@umich.edu, University of Michigan - Dearborn, US
 * Anastasios Delopoulos, PhD, adelo@eng.auth.gr, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Venue
SMAP 2006 will take place on December 4-5th, 2006, right beneath the Acropolis and just next to the roman market, in the beautiful building that used to host the Goulandri Horn museum. This is in the very center of the "Athens Historical Triangle". This is a mostly pedestrian area downtown Athens and includes most of the historical landmarks that the city has to display. The workshop organizers are negotiating special hotel rates for SMAP delegates at different hotels in the area of the venue. More information on affiliated hotels are available at the workshop's website.