2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document
Engineering (MDDE-02), March 24, 2002, Prague
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/recherche/sic/djeraba/mdde.htm

In conjunction with the VIII International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT-02), Prague, Czech Republic, March 25-27, 2002

http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/EDBT2002/

OBJECTIVES
This 2nd international Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document
Engineering is aimed to bring together experts in all aspects of
multimedia and document engineering, including experts in databases,
documents engineering, digital media content analysis, data mining and
domain experts from diverse applied disciplines with potential in
multimedia data document engineering. More particularly, the workshop
will address the following questions:
- What are the problems and the applications addressed by multimedia
document engineering?
- What are the advanced architectures of multimedia documents?
- What are the specific issues raised in knowledge extraction from
within documents composed of image, sound and video?
- What are suitable representations and formats that can help multimedia
document management?
- How can we adapt and enhance database technology and existing data
mining techniques to multimedia data that are complex (spatial and
temporal features) and not structured, in order to support knowledge
discovery techniques in multimedia documents?
Research and experience papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the
following topics:
- Models and languages for documents and semi-structured data:
Conceptual structures for documents, Semantics modeling, Query languages
for Web databases, Content description definition languages,
- Data/Document Engineering: Meta-data Management, Interoperability
issues, Techniques for integrating heterogeneous data/documents,
Semantic retrieval, Query processing and optimization, Mining from
semi-structured data, Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval,
Multimedia database management system, Standardization models (MPEG7,
MPEG4, SMIL), Data description languages and meta data (XML, RDF, etc.),
Knowledge visualization, Knowledge representation and acquisition,
Multimedia applications,
- Applications in: Digital Libraries, E-commerce, Documents and mobile
networks, Co-operative systems, Data
Warehouses

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: December 30, 2001
Notification: January 15, 2002
Camera-ready: February 05, 2002

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Authors are invited to submit papers (not exceeding 15 pages) by
December 30, 2001.
Selection will be based on originality and contribution to the field.
Manuscripts must be in English, typed in single spaced format in no
smaller than 10 point font. Each paper should have an extra cover page
with name, title, and address (including e-mail address) of the contact
author and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Papers in postscript
or PDF format should be sent to: mdde02@irin.univ-nantes.fr
All papers will be reviewed by at least three referees for technical
merit and content. Papers accepted for presentation will appear in the
workshop proceedings, which will be available to delegates at the
conference site. It is intended to publish the proceedings, after
updating papers on the basis of review remarks, in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
CHAIR
                    Chabane Djeraba
                    IRIN, Polytech'Nantes, France
MEMBERS
                    Michel Adiba
                    LSR, IMAG, France
                    Marie-Aude Aufaure-Portier
                    INRIA, France
                    Omar Boussaid
                    Lyon 2 University, France
                    Alberto Del Bimbo
                    Florence University, Italy
                    Jianping FAN
                    Charlotte North Carolina University, USA
                    Elena Ferrari
                    Milano University, Italy
                    William Grosky
                    Michigan Dearborn University, USA
                    Manfred Jeusfeld
                    Tilburg University, Netherlands
                    Rob Koenen
                    InterTrust Technologies Corporation, Netherlands
                    Jaroslav Pokorny
                    Charles University, Czech
                    Vaclav Snasel
                    VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech
                    Farouk Toumani
                    Blaise Pascal University, France
                    Osmar Zaiane
                    Alberta University, Canada
                    Aidong Zhang
                    Buffalo University, USA