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AXMEDIS2007 International Conference, 28th - 30th November 2007, Barcelona

You are cordially invited to participate at the AXMEDIS2007 International
Conference, 28th - 30th November 2007, Barcelona, Spain,
at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

This will be a significant and exciting event on cross-media, content
production GRID, content protection, interoperable DRM (digital rights
management), multimedia terminals, multiple-play, multichannel, multi
devices, MPEG-21 terminal and tools, authoring tools, digital media, 
P2P,  OMA, multi-channel delivery, content modelling, business models, 
security and distribution, legal aspects, accessibility, transaction models, 
multimedia music, workflow, and much more.

The AXMEDIS2007 International Conference is a perfect occasion to discover
the state of the art and beyond, on the above mentioned technologies
and developments and to meet the industry leaders, leading researchers,
experts and practitioners from both industrial and research institutes,
including European digital content providers, integrators, distributors,
technology providers, market leaders and prestigious research institutions.

AXMEDIS is supported by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 
University of Florence, ICSRiM, University of Leeds, EPFL, 
EUTELSAT, FHG-IGD, Giunti ILABS, HP, BBC, SDAE, TISCALI, SIAE, AFI, 
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, SEJER, University of Reading,
Pekin University, TEO (telecom Lituania), KTU, VRS Grupe, ACIT, Telecom Italia, 
Strategica, EXITECH, XIM, the MUSICNETWORK International Association,
the European Commission and many more.

See http://www.AXMEDIS.org/axmedis2007/

Please feel free to forward and redistribute this email to everyone
who may be interested in this event and to all relevant mailing lists.
Please do not hesitate to inform us if this email has not been of your
interest.

Best regards,
Paolo Nesi and Jaime Delgado

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CALL for PAPERS
AXMEDIS2007
3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content 
for Multi-channel Distribution
HTTP://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2007

Submission due: 27th April 2007
Conference date: 28th-30th Nov. 2007
Conference venue: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)

In the Internet as well as in the digital era, cross-media production and 
distribution represent key developments and innovations that are fostered 
by emergent technologies to ensure better value for money while optimising
 productivity and market coverage. AXMEDIS2007 aims to explore all subjects
 and topics related to cross-media and digital-media content production, 
processing, management, standards, representation, sharing, protection and
 rights management interoperability, to address the latest developments and 
future trends of the technologies and their applications, its impact and 
exploitation. We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, 
requirements, prototypes, research ideas, and findings which could contribute
 to academic research or could be beneficial to business and industrial 
communities.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Automatic cross-media production, collection, crawling, 
  composition, formatting, P2P, etc.
- Formats and models for multi-channel content distribution and interoperability
- Multimedia standards: MPEG-7, MPEG-21, DMP, etc.
- High quality audio visual coding
- Multimedia music representation and formatting
- Watermarking and fingerprinting techniques
- GRID and distributed systems for content production
- Real-time streaming media distribution
- Multimedia middleware
- Workflow management systems
- Web services for content distribution
- Semantic Web for multimedia production and distribution
- Collaborative models and tools
- Distribution with P2P architectures
- Legal aspects related to digital content
- Collecting and clearing of rights and licences
- Business, payment and transaction models
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) models, tools, and interoperability
- Context Awareness
- Archives management for cultural and educational applications
- Synchronisation technologies and solutions
- Systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand
- Content adaptation
- Accessibility and multimodal user interfaces
- Novel applications and case-studies of relevant technologies
- etc. etc. 

and all realted topics, do not hesitate to contact the chairs if you 
have a proposal for the conference. 

Research and applications Papers: Papers should describe original and 
significant work in the research and application of related topics. 
(i) Long papers: up to 8 pages, typically focused on research studies,
 applications and experiments (ii) Short papers: up to 4 pages, 
suitable for reporting work-in-progress or interim results.

Industrial Panels: The Conference will hold an Industrial Track composed
 by Panels consisting of position papers and round-tables on specific 
topics. For Panel Proposal (topic, prospective speakers etc), please 
see the Conference website. 

Workshops: Proposals for workshops are welcome. The format is open. 
European Commission and/or other large Research and Development projects
are invited to consider proposing a Workshop. 

Please contact conference@axmedis.org for details.

All submissions and proposals must be in English and submitted in PDF 
or Microsoft Word format using the submission portal on the conference 
web site no later than 27th April 2007. Document style for research papers
 is available at the conference website. The conference proceedings are to 
be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected papers will be 
considered for publication in special issues of one or more major 
peer-reviewed Journals in this domain. Papers from Industrial Panels and 
Workshops will be published in a separate volume of the proceedings by a
 University Press.

Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Kia Ng, University of Leeds, UK
Domenico Dato, TISCALI, Italy
AXMEDIS 2007 Chairs
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2007

past conferences had more than 200 registered people each:  
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005

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The AXMEDIS is an open solution which builds on technologies and tools to:

  • reduce costs and increase efficiency for content production, protection, management and distribution. It offers effective automation for
    • integrating your Content Management Systems (CMSs), with the distribution systems by automating the communication and maintenance of content and information between the two systems;
    • content gathering and ingestion processes from local and remote CMSs as well as file systems;
    • composition, supporting parallel processing, GRID technology, and optimisation techniques for content ingestion, production, protection and formatting;
    • managing the workflow processes at content-factory level and content-factories with the support of OpenFlow and BizTalk Workflow Management systems;
    • the overall process allowing content production on demand.
  • support the whole value chain, including composition, packaging, integration, aggregation, synchronisation, formatting, adaptation, transcoding, indexing. Additional features include the integration of both protected and non-protected components within an object, definition of relationships with other resources, metadata integration and remapping/transcoding, protection, license production and verification;
  • allow the convergence of the media and interoperability of content to enable multi-channel distributions. The framework supports content distribution:
    • on different channels such as satellite data broadcast, Internet, cellular/mobile network, wireless and traditional media supports such as CDs, DVDs;
    • via different communication technologies, particularly with Peer-to-Peer (P2P) for both B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C (Business-to-Consumer) levels;
    • to different devices such as PC, PDA, interactive TV (i-TV), set-top box (STB), etc.;
    • with different transaction models on the same channels and content, and with flexibility.
  • adopt new methods and tools for flexible and interoperable Digital Rights Management (DRM) in order to facilitate smooth transition from paper contracts to digital licenses.
    • exploitation of MPEG-21 REL (Rights Expression Language) with specific extensions and enhancements;
    • support of different business and transactions models and their integration;
    • integration/interoperation of different DRM models such as MPEG-21 REL and ODRL OMA (Open Mobile Alliance).
  • harmonise B2B and B2C areas for DRM, bringing the DRM model in the B2B area, supporting production and protection models in the whole value chain;
  • increase content accessibility with AXMEDIS P2P platform at B2B level, which can integrate content management systems and workflows.

AXMEDIS content model is designed to support all types of cross-media contents; from simple multimedia files to software components such as games, for all kinds of applications, from personal to global scale usages including leisure, education, entertainment, infotainment as well as the management of protected content for government, healthcare, business, etc..

AXMEDIS will offer assistance and technical support to companies interested in using the platform and adopting the AXMEDIS solutions via their Affiliation.

You can have more information on AXMEDIS attending conferences and events or training courses. Axmedis 2006.
If you have any queries or comments about the project, please email axmedisinfo@axmedis.org.

AXMEDIS is partially supported by European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST DG-INFSO) programme of the 6th Framework Programme (IST-2-511299, www.axmedis.org). Thanks to all partners and participants of the AXMEDIS project, including all User Group Experts and Affiliated Members, for their contributions, support and collaborations.

The project had an effective start in September 2004. After that the consortium has produced and published a set of documents that have been used in many forums: