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<div>Call For Papers </div>
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<div>1st IEEE Workshop on Cloud-Centric Media System (CCMS-2012) </div>
<div>In conjunction with IEEE ICME 2012, 9-13 July, Melbourne, Australia </div>
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<div>Recent advances in communications technologies have witnessed a </div>
<div>growing and evolving multimedia content delivery market based on </div>
<div>information gathering, manipulation, and dissemination. It is a fact </div>
<div>that personal communications, computing, broadcasting, entertainment, </div>
<div>etc. have turned into streams of multimedia content, and the various </div>
<div>communication and network technologies have become the means to carry </div>
<div>that content to a wide variety of terminals. Existing media delivery </div>
<div>platforms are faced with many new challenges: low utilization in </div>
<div>system resources, stringent power constraints of the mobile devices, </div>
<div>unpredictability in the wireless communication channel, and </div>
<div>heterogeneity in access networking technologies, just to name a few. </div>
<div>On the other hand, the comparatively unlimited resources offered by </div>
<div>cloud services and their flexible resource allocation mechanisms </div>
<div>present a unique opportunity for taming some of the aforementioned </div>
<div>challenges for media delivery targeted at a N-screen (e.g., TV, PC, </div>
<div>smartphone and tablet) experience. Cloud computing is emerging as a </div>
<div>promising technology to provide additional resources for many </div>
<div>media-rich applications. </div>
<div>The goal of this workshop is to bring together the state-of-the-art </div>
<div>research contribution that describes original and unpublished work </div>
<div>addressing the new emerging techniques on cloud-based media system. It </div>
<div>seeks high quality submissions in both theoretical and practical </div>
<div>research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the </div>
<div>following scopes: </div>
<div>l Cloud-assisted media content recommendation </div>
<div>l Resource scheduling and allocation in the cloud for mediaapplications </div>
<div>l Distributed caching of media data </div>
<div>l Cloud-based multimedia processing </div>
<div>l Novel architecture for media clouds </div>
<div>l Performance measurements for cloud-based media systems </div>
<div>l Cloud-based media applications, such as online gaming, virtual </div>
<div>desktop, etc. </div>
<div>l Multimedia communications over cloud </div>
<div>A submission is 5 standard IEEE conference page; one more paper may be </div>
<div>allowed with additional publication fee. </div>
<div>Important dates </div>
<div>u Paper submission due: 5th March, 2012 </div>
<div>u Decision notification due: 26th March, 2012 </div>
<div>u Camera-ready and registration due: 9th April, 2012 </div>
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<div>Workshop Chair </div>
<div>Prof. Yonggang Wen </div>
<div>Nanyang Technological University, Singapore </div>
<div>Email: ygwen@ntu.edu.sg </div>
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<div>TPC Chairs </div>
<div>Dr. Liang Zhou </div>
<div>Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China </div>
<div>Email: liang.zhou@ieee.org </div>
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<div>Prof. Chin-Feng Lai </div>
<div>National Ilan University, Taiwan </div>
<div>Email: cinfon@ieee.org </div>
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<div>Prof. Honggang Wang </div>
<div>University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA </div>
<div>Email: hwang1@umassd.edu </div>
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