IARIA Workgroup on Multimedia

Workgoup Kick-off Meeting, July 21, 2009 - Colmar, France
17:45 - 19:45

Attendance: 43

Agenda:

One Expert panel:

Thinking of a Picture and Finding it: Evolving MMedia Computer Interfaces

in addition to two general special events presented at NexComm 2009:

One Tutorial: Multimedia Standards
Prof. Dr. Peter Stanchev
Kettering University, USA // Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

One Keynote Speech: Multimedia, Quo vadis?
Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Laszlo Böszörmenyi
Klagenfurt University, Austria

See the MMEDIA 2009 Program:

The Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html
The Keynote speeches and Panels are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html
Excellent discussions around the Panel.

Discussions:

There were discussions on enlarging the dissemination of MMEDIA CfP for 2010
Help is expected from all the committee members for a careful dissemination, avoiding spamming
The promotion of young researchers was appreciated; more work to be done offline with volunteers
It was an open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics under the Call on MMEDIA (Laszlo focused on managing the enormous amount of mmedia content)
There were logistics discussions on:

There was a suggestion to organize ‘lunch together’ (we started to experiment it on site); as expected, there were lagging attendees. Next time it will be better handled, but the experience was enjoyable.
the idea of “dinner-together” is more feasible and it will be implemented from the next events. Enrollment will be daily, and local attendees might help to identity the best places.

Please have a look at MMEDIA 2010

Suggestions are welcome at petre@iaria.org

The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated.

There were discussions (with a few attendees) to have these journals rather twice a year, not quarterly, as they are now, with the declared purpose of offering more time to the authors for preparing an extended version of a paper.

Suggestions:

Clearly, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect new topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process.

Publications:

The option to publish in an open digital library was discussed; this will allow having all the proceedings of the co-located events on the same CD Proceedings, and full free access to any publication. Apparently there is a consensus that publishing in an archived form is more beneficial than publishing in a privately owned portal, including IEEE Xplore or ACM Portal. On the other side, university administration might have different rules for evaluation.
Referring to classification rules:

The attempts to classify scientific events have no an accurate basis
Different countries are listening to different rules
Apparently, the most important is to have the events indexed (ISI, EI, etc.)

The only caveat is that the computer scientists’ community is not yet used to it, as the scientists in physics or mathematics.
This issue will be carried further on to the IARIA Board for careful attention.

Next steps:

Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges
Extend invitations for MMEDIA 2010 committee membership
Identify particular lists for candidate contributors.

MMEDIA 2010:

Announce the new topics with the CfP for MMEDIA 2010
Location: Athens, Greece
MMEDIA 2010 will be organized under NexComm 2010, June 13-19, 2010



	Workgoup Kick-off Meeting, July 21, 2009 - Colmar, France 17:45 - 19:45 Attendance: 43 Agenda: One Expert panel: Thinking of a Picture and Finding it: Evolving MMedia Computer Interfaces in addition to two general special events presented at NexComm 2009: One Tutorial: Multimedia Standards Prof. Dr. Peter Stanchev Kettering University, USA // Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria One Keynote Speech: Multimedia, Quo vadis? Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Laszlo Böszörmenyi Klagenfurt University, Austria See the MMEDIA 2009 Program: The Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html The Keynote speeches and Panels are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html Excellent discussions around the Panel. Discussions: There were discussions on enlarging the dissemination of MMEDIA CfP for 2010 Help is expected from all the committee members for a careful dissemination, avoiding spamming The promotion of young researchers was appreciated; more work to be done offline with volunteers It was an open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics under the Call on MMEDIA (Laszlo focused on managing the enormous amount of mmedia content) There were logistics discussions on: There was a suggestion to organize ‘lunch together’ (we started to experiment it on site); as expected, there were lagging attendees. Next time it will be better handled, but the experience was enjoyable. the idea of “dinner-together” is more feasible and it will be implemented from the next events. Enrollment will be daily, and local attendees might help to identity the best places. Please have a look at MMEDIA 2010 Suggestions are welcome at petre@iaria.org The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated. There were discussions (with a few attendees) to have these journals rather twice a year, not quarterly, as they are now, with the declared purpose of offering more time to the authors for preparing an extended version of a paper. Suggestions: Clearly, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect new topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process. Publications: The option to publish in an open digital library was discussed; this will allow having all the proceedings of the co-located events on the same CD Proceedings, and full free access to any publication. Apparently there is a consensus that publishing in an archived form is more beneficial than publishing in a privately owned portal, including IEEE Xplore or ACM Portal. On the other side, university administration might have different rules for evaluation. Referring to classification rules: The attempts to classify scientific events have no an accurate basis Different countries are listening to different rules Apparently, the most important is to have the events indexed (ISI, EI, etc.) The only caveat is that the computer scientists’ community is not yet used to it, as the scientists in physics or mathematics. This issue will be carried further on to the IARIA Board for careful attention. Next steps: Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges Extend invitations for MMEDIA 2010 committee membership Identify particular lists for candidate contributors. MMEDIA 2010: Announce the new topics with the CfP for MMEDIA 2010 Location: Athens, Greece MMEDIA 2010 will be organized under NexComm 2010, June 13-19, 2010