Dear Member of the SIGMM Community, Welcome to the SIGMM Records in 2011! This exciting issue features an interview again: you can read about commercial game developers’ views on various questions of interest for multimedia researchers. Researchers hear about developers’ view on serious games, the role of research communities for …
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Challenging market dynamics and the rise of complex value networks require organizations to adjust their processes rapidly in order to stay competitive. Because many organizational processes are directly supported or even enabled by Information Technology (IT), a process is only as flexible as its underlying technological representation. The Service-oriented Architecture …
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Providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees is an important challenge in the design of next generations of wireless networks. In particular, real-time services involving stringent delay constraints are expected to be increasingly popular among users of mobile equipments. In Rayleigh channels, the delay requirement is usually expressed in terms of …
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With the explosion in the complexity and amount of pervasive multimedia data, there are high demands of multimedia services and applications in various areas for people to easily access and distribute multimedia data. Facing with abundance multimedia resources but inefficient and rather old-fashioned keyword-based information retrieval approaches, a content-based multimedia …
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The aim of this PhD thesis is to develop automatic methods that extract textual descriptions from the Web that can be associated with music pieces. Deriving descriptors for music permits to index large repositories with a diverse set of labels and allows for retrieving pieces and browsing collections. The techniques …
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The field of multimedia pattern recognition is on a fundamental quest to design intelligent systems that can learn and behave the way humans do. One important aspect of human intelligence that has so far not been given sufficient attention in these fields is the capability of humans to hedge decisions. …
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Award Description This award will be presented every year to a researcher whose PhD thesis has made contributions and has the potential of very high impact in multimedia computing, communication and applications. The goal will be to evaluate contributions towards advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network …
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This award is presented every year to a researcher who has made significant and lasting contributions to multimedia computing, communication and applications. Outstanding technical contributions through research and practice are recognized.
