(DBWORLD) Request for TKDE Referees

Arif Ghafoor (mkhan@ecn.purdue.edu)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:30:30 -0500 (EST)

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Dear Colleagues,

I am enclosing in this email the CFP for the Special Section on Data
and Knowledge Management in Multimedia Systems in IEEE Trans. on
Knowledge and Data Engineering.

We will appreciate if you can volunteer to be a referee for reviewing
submissions made for this special section. You are also welcome to
suggest the names and contacts of other persons you deem competent for
this purpose.

If you agree to help in the refereeing process, please send me via
email (i) your areas of expertise, and (ii) your postal address.

Thank you.

Arif Ghafoor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
W. Lafayette, IN 47907

Ph. 765-494-0638
Fax 765-494-3317
email: ghafoor@ecn.purdue.edu

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Call for Papers

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Special Section on Data and Knowledge Management in Multimedia Systems

Emerging multimedia information technologies will allow users to
store, retrieve, share, and manipulate complex information which are
expected be used for building exciting new applications. Development
of such applications to a mature and fruitful stage will require
substantial changes in our approach to the design of operating
systems, databases and storage systems. Most multimedia applications
will use some form of pre-orchestrated stored information. Such
applications include video-on-demand, digital libraries, virtual
reality, on-line education and training, CAD/CAM, etc. The stored
nature of the information poses a number of challenges and can allow
novel techniques in the management and representation of multimedia
data and knowledge. Potentially promising areas include data
organization and integration, indexing and retrieval mechanisms,
intelligent searching techniques, information browsing, content-based
query processing, handling of heterogeneity and variety of multimedia
data, and so forth.

In this special section of the TKDE, we focus on data and knowledge
management issues arising in future multimedia information systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Knowledge-Based Representation of Multimedia Information
- Semantic Modeling
- Content-Based Retrieval
- Indexing, Searching and Browsing
- Knowledge-based Query
- Algorithms for Managing Multimedia Data and Knowledge
- Distributed Data and Knowledge-Bases
- Experimental Systems
- Applications

Prospective authors are requested to submit six copies of their final
manuscripts to Arif Ghafoor by November 15, 1997. Manuscripts should
be no longer than 35 doubled-spaced pages and should conform to the
guidelines for the authors printed inside the back cover of the issues
of TKDE. Only original manuscripts will be considered for
publication.

Important dates:

Submission Deadline: November 15, 1997
Acceptance Notification: March 1, 1998
Final Papers: May 1, 1998
Publication: Fall 1998

Guest Editors:

P. Bruce Berra
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, New York, 13244
USA
Tel: (315) 443-4445
Fax: (315) 443-4745
email: berra@cat.syr.edu

Arif Ghafoor
School of Electrical and Computer Engr.
Purdue University,
W. Lafayette, IN, 47907
USA
Tel: (765) 494-0638
Fax: (765) 494-3371
email: ghafoor@ecn.purdue.edu

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