Track Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT)


The focus of this track is on emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of information accessible in distributed computing environment. All the required information can be found from the attached CFP

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Important Dates

  • Paper Submission
  • Acceptance/Reject notification
  • Camera ready
  • Author registration due date
  • September 20, 2009 (New !!!)
  • October 08, 2009 (New !!!)
  • October 16, 2009
  • October 19, 2009

The topics of interest of the track include:

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

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

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

Submission and Publication


SITIS 2009 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Prospective authors should submit their papers online at: SITIS 2009 Submission site .

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore and major indexes. A selection of accepted papers will be considered for publication as a journal special issue.

Tutorial proposals should be submitted to SITIS-mail.

Track Chairs

Program Committee