This event seeks to promote discussion and interaction between researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts, and project managers. AXMEDIS-2005 will bring together a variety of participants from the academic, business and industrial worlds, to address different technical and commercial issues. Particular interests include the exchange of concepts, prototypes, research ideas, industrial experiences and other results.
The conference focuses on the challenges in the cross-media domain (including production, protection, management, representation, formats, aggregation, workflow, distribution, business and transaction models), and the integration of content management systems and distribution chains, with particularly emphasis on the reduction of costs and solutions for complex cross-domain problems.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following
aspects:
- Automatic cross-media production, gathering, crawling, composition, formatting, P2P, etc.
- Formats and models for multi-channel content distribution
- Multimedia standards such as MPEG-7, MPEG-21, DMP, etc.
- Legal aspects related to digital content
- High quality Audio Video Coding
- Multimedia Music representation and formatting
- Watermarking and fingerprinting techniques
- GRID and Distributed systems for Content production
- Multimedia Middle Ware
- Workflow management systems
- Web services for content distribution
- Distribution with P2P architectures
- Semantic Web and P2P
- Collecting and clearing of rights and licenses
- Formats and tools for Content Aware
- Archives managements for cultural and educational applications
- Digital Rights Management (DRM), models and tools,
and interoperability
- Synchronisation technologies and solutions
- Business and transaction models
- Systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand
- Digital Content User Interface
- Digital Content accessibility
- Payments model
- Novel applications and case-studies of relevant technologies.
1st International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution
30 November - 2 December 2005 in Florence
