1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization

December 4-5, 2006, Athens, Greece

On Monday and Tuesday, December 4 and 5, 2006, National Technical University of Athens, University of Indianapolis Athens Campus and Brunel University are organizing the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2006). 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.

2 Day Event

Dear SMAP 2006 friends and contributors, you may recall that this workshop started out as a one day event, planed to take place on December 5, 2006. We are happy to report that the interest and focus the workshop has received has been so intense that we have now clearly exceeded not only our initial expectations but also the capacity of our venue. As a result, we are forced to extend SMAP to a two day event, spanning both Monday, December 4 and Tuesday, December 5, 2006. We hope this change will not upset your schedules, and also that it may give some of you the opportunity to combine SMAP with a nice weekend in Athens.

Important Dates

Proceedings

The proceedings of the workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Following the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) all publications will also be available through IEEE Xplore™ and through the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The format of papers will have to be prepared according to IEEE Computer Society standards. A paper length of 6 IEEE double column style pages is recommended, whereas a minimum of 4 IEEE double column style pages is imposed. Please note that only IEEE Xplore™-compliant PDF files can be accepted for final paper submissions. Detailed instructions are available at the workshop's submission site.

Edited Volume

Deserving papers will be solicited for inclusion in an edited volume in the Studies in Computational Intelligence series of Springer. Springer's Studies in Computational Intelligence is the fastest growing book series in its field.

Journal Special Issue

Deserving papers will be solicited for inclusion in a journal special issue after extension and re-evaluation. The journal that will host the issue will be announced soon.

Athens Becomes a Meeting Point for Semantics and Media

SMAP 2006 will take place right beneath the Acropolis and just next to the roman market, in the beautiful building that used to host the Goulandri Horn museum. SMAP 2006 will take place two days before SAMT 2006 so that participants are facilitated in attending both events. However, SMAP 2006 is a standalone event and not an integral part of SAMT 2006.