Call for papers: SMAP 2016

11th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization

October 20-21, 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece
http://www.smap2016.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be included in Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining journal (http://link.springer.com/journal/13278)

Keynotes will be offered by
- Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Senior Researcher, Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre of Research & Technology - Helllas (CERTH).
- Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis, Senior Researcher, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT),National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos".
(see further info in http://smap2016.org/#/keynote/speakers)

The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) initiative was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to discuss the state-of-the-art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic and social media adaptation. After 10 successful workshops –in Athens, London, Prague, San Sebastian, Limassol, Vigo, Luxembourg, Bayonne, Corfu, and Trento, the SMAP workshop series has consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field, including a 2-days single main track of high-quality scientific papers. The 11th SMAP workshop will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece at October 20th and 21th, 2016 and it will be hosted by the South East European Research Centre (SEERC) (http://www.seerc.org).

Aim and topics

SMAP 2016 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web
• Content customization and adaptation
• Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization
• Semantic context modelling and extraction
• Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents
• Context-aware multimedia applications
• User modelling and dynamic profiling • Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries
• Ontologies and reasoning • Multilingual content navigation
• Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications
• Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities
• Web adaptation methods and techniques • Intelligent personalized interfaces
• Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems
• Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis)
• Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing)
• Social web economics and business
• User-generated content mechanisms • Social network aggregation
• Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications
• Adaptive/Personalized conversational media

Proceedings/Publications

As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers will be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore.

Extended versions of selected papers will be included in Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining journal (http://link.springer.com/journal/13278).

General Chairs:

• Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece
• Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece

Steering Committee:

• Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece
• Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Sébastien Laborie, University of Pau - IUT de Bayonne et du Pays Basque, France
• Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece
• Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese, Greece

Important dates:

Submission of full papers: 6th June 2016
Notification of acceptance: 29th July 2016
Submission of camera ready: 9th September 2016
Main Workshop: 20th- 21st October 2016

Submission guidelines

Analytical submission guidelines are provided in http://smap2016.org/#/submission. Papers should be directly submitted through EasyChair in https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smap2016.