INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to DMS 2015 |DET 2015 | VLC 2015. The submission deadline of May 1, 2015 is approaching. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the JVCL Journals: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-visual-languages-and-computing/ DMS/DET/VLC proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS, DBLP, Compendex, Inspec, ============== DMS 2015 | Call for Papers =============== The Twenty First International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems www.ksi.edu/seke/dms15.html<http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms15.html> Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, Canada August 31 to September 1, 2015 Scope The main theme of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2015) is Sentient Multimedia Systems, which are distributed systems capable of actively interacting with the environment by gathering, processing, interpreting, storing and retrieving multimedia information originated from sensors, robots, actuators, websites and other information sources. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing any novel aspect of sentient multimedia systems that significantly benefits from the incorporation/integration of multimedia data (e.g., visual, audio, pen, voice, image, etc.), for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings and JVLC journal. Both research and case study papers or demonstrations describing results in research area as well as industrial development cases and experiences are solicited. The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged. An extra large special issue of JVLC The Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC), which is indexed by SCI, EI, DBLP, Scopus and other indexers, will publish around forty selected papers of DMS/VLC/DET2015 in the December 2015 extra large special issue of JVLC. The conference will publish the proceedings available to authors and conference attendees. Selected papers will go through three rounds of reviews so that they can be further improved to meet the standard of JVLC. Workshops and Special Sessions This year, DMS2015 will be held in conjunction with workshops and special sections. Papers submitted to workshops or special sessions are invited by the program committee chairs of the workshops/special sessions. This joint organization aims to collect research results from different perspectives. The following workshops are being planned: . International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing (VLC15) . International Workshop on Distance Education Technology (DET15) Hotel Information The DMS2015 Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, Canada. A special daily rate of $159 US dollars will be available during the conference period. Information for authors Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dms20150. When submitting, select the main conference DMS15 or one of the two workshops DET15 or VLC15. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 8 pages of double column text (including figures and references). All submissions must not be published or under consideration for publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings. Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarify of exposition. Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be accepted as regular paper (10 pages), short paper (7 pages) or technical notes (1 page and demo/poster presentation). Contact Information DMS2015 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute 156 Park Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, USA E-mail: dms2015-0@easychair.org<mailto:dms2015-0@easychair.org> Important dates Paper submission due: May 1, 2015 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2015 Camera-ready copy of revised paper: July 1, 2015 Early conference registration due: July 1, 2015 Invitation of submission to JVLC Special Issue: August 1, 2015 Paper submission to JVLC: September 1, 2015 Notification of JVLC paper acceptance: October 1, 2015 Final paper for JVLC due: October 20, 2015 Publication of JVLC Special Issue: December 15, 2015