Integration of software engineering and content technologies supporting the content production and
multichannel distribution, interoperability, knowledge, protection and semantics aspects.
AXMEDIS2008 aims to explore all subjects, latest developments, future trends, of technologies and
their applications. With a particularly attention to new concepts, requirements, prototypes, research ideas,
and findings which could contribute to cross fertilization and convergence of research
and industrial communities. This is the 4th
conference of a series pressed by IEEE with high level papers and large audience and distribution.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
Submitting Papers: Papers should describe significant work in the related topics. (i) Long papers: up to 8 pages, typically focused on research studies, applications and experiments (ii) Short papers: up to 4/6 pages, suitable for reporting work-in-progress or interim results.
Workshops and Panels: The Conference will hold Workshops and Panels consisting of research and industry position papers on specific topics. Research and Development projects of EC or other organizations are invited to propose workshops or panels. For these proposals please contact the general chair: Paolo Nesi (University of Florence and AXMEDIS coordinator) at nesi@dsi.unifi.it providing topics, speakers, and aims.
All submissions and proposals must be in English and submitted in PDF or Microsoft Word no later than 15 May 2008 [NEW date]. Document style for paper is classical 2 columns of IEEE. The conference proceedings are to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers from Industrial Panels and Workshops will be published in a separate volume of the proceedings by Florence University Press.
Supported by the AXMEDIS partners: BBC, TISCALI, HP, Telecom Italia, Giunti Ilabs, TEO, EXITECH, ACIT, AFI, SIAE, SDAE, Univ Firenze, Univ. Politec. Catalogna, Univ. Reading, Univ. Leeds, Pekin Univ., KTU, ETRI, ELION, FIA, VRS, XIM, FHG-IGD, EPFL, ANSC, etc., and by the MUSICNETWORK.