Data Semantics

• Multiple representation
• Ontology
• Conceptual data modeling
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Web semantics and semi structured data
• Semantic caching
• Data warehousing and semantic
• Semantics in data visualization
• Semantic services for mobile users
• Applications of semantic-driven approaches
• Semi-structure data management, meta data, and xml
• Semantic modeling and management of web-based databases

     Spatial information systems and applications

• Spatial modeling data modeling
• Conceptual and logical models for gis
• Ontologies for gis appalications
• Semantics issues in gis
• Gis service modelling
• Spatial data query and retrieval
• Gis and information grid
• Spatiotemporal data modeling
• Schema mapping and evolution
• Geographical search engines
• Digital geographical libraries
• Query languages and interfaces
• Spatial information integration
• Spatial information visualisation
• Spatial data mining and data warehousing
• Locationbased services
• Peertopeer computing for gis
• Interoperability and standards
• Metadata management
• Gis middleware architectures
• Environmental and urban gis
• Gis and remote sensing

     Multimedia and application

• Image and video databases
• Image and video indexing and retrieval
• Emergent semantics in content retrieval systems
• Semantics and meta data in multimedia systems
• Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia data
• Approximate search techniques and the quality of answers
• High-dimensional clustering for indexing
• Query languages and query processing for multimedia retrieval
• Multimedia data modeling and visualization
• Tools, benchmarks, evaluation protocols and standards
• Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
• Multimedia networking and qos
• Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
• Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems
• Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
• Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing
• Visualization
• Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models
• Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
• Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
• Information security
• Fundamental services on network and distributed systems

     Track Chairs

• Vincent Oria (New Jersey Insititute of Technology, USA)
• Brigitte Kerhervé (UQAM, Canada)

     Program Committee

• Abdulmotaleb EL Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Agma Juci Machado Traina (University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil)
• Ahmed Mostefaoui (U. of Franche Comte, France)
• Ajith Abraham (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
• Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, Italy)
• Alex Jaimes (Telefonica, Spain)
• Andreas Uhl (Salzburg University, Austria)
• Clement Leung (Victoria University, Australia)
• Danielle Boulanger (Jean Moulin University - Lyon, France)
• Dimitri Theodoratos (NJIT, USA)
• Dulce ponceleon (IBM Almaden, USA)
• Ernesto Damiani (U. of Milan, Italy)
• Fernando Ferri (IRPPS-CNR, Italy)
• Genevieve Jomier (Universite Paris Dauphine, France)
• Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany)
• Heng Tao Shen (University of Queensland, Australia)
• Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Ilaria Bartolini (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Ingo Wolf (T-Systems, Germany)
• Jaroslaw Kozlak (U. of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland)
• Jim Geller (NJIT, USA)
• Joaquim Felipe (University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
• Jun Miyazaki (NAIST, Japan)
• Karine Zeitouni (University of Versailles Saint Quentin, France)
• Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo, Japan)
• Koji Eguchi (Kobe University, Japan)
• Kokou Yetongnon (University of Bourgogne, France)
• Lei Chen (Hong Kong Universit of Sciences and Technology, China)
• Manabu Ohta (Okayama University, Japan)
• Maria Luisa Sapino (Universita di Torino, Italy)
• Marta Rukoz (University of Nanterre, France)
• Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• Masakatsu Nishigaki (Shizuoka University, Japan)
• Masashi Tsuchida (Hitachi, Japan)
• Masayoshi Aritsugi (Kumamoto University, Japan)
• Maude Manouvrier (University of Paris-Dauphine, France)
• Michael Granitzer (I-Know Center, Austria)
• Michel Crucianu (CNAM, France)
• Michel Scholl (CNAM, France)
• Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)
• Nico Van de Weghe (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Pit Pichappan (Annamalai University, India)
• Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Ramzi Haraty (LAU, Lebanon)
• Richard Chbeir (University of Bourgogne, France)
• Roger RN. Nkambou (University of Québec at Montréal, Canada)
• Rosa Iglesias (Ikerlan Technological Research Centre, Spain)
• Satoshi Nakamura (kyoto University, Japan)
• Sean Wang (University of Vermont, USA)
• Seung-won Whang (POSTECH, Korea)
• Shigeyoshi Ohna (Polytechnic University, Japan)
• Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan)
• Shinsuke Nakajima (NAIST, Japan)
• Solomon Atnafu (U. Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia)
• Taketoshi Ushiama (Kyushu University, Japan)
• Tetsuji Satoh (University of Tsukuba , Japan)
• Thierry Badard (University of Laval, Canada)
• Thierry Badard (University of Laval, Canada)
• Toshiyuki Amagasa (University of Tsukuba , Japan)
• Valérie Gouet-Brunet (CNAM, France)
• Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT Informatique, France)
• Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA)
• Wook-Shin Han (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
• Yoshihiko Ichikawa(Yamaguchi University, Japan)
• Yukiko Kawai(Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan)