To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction
of a user, it is necessary to develop intelligent methods that are able
to support the user in the search process, e.g. by providing additional
user adapted information about the search results as well as the data
collection itself and especially by adapting the retrieval tool to the
user's needs and interests.

The goals of the workshop are to intensify the exchange of ideas
between different research communities, to provide an overview of
current activities in this area and to point out connections between
the diverse involved research communities and research in AI.

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Topics of interest:
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The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on
feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic
approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, and visualization methods
as well as user interface design. Therefore, contributions to the
workshop should focus on, but are not limited to:

- Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and
mixed-media)
- Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining
- Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure
extraction
- Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems
- Metadata for multimedia retrieval
- Multimedia and multi-modal mining
- Semantic content analysis for multimedia
- Semantic web and ontologies
- Adaptive query languages
- Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures)
- User and preference modelling (including feedback models)
- Methods for adaptive data visualization and user interfaces

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Important Dates:
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March 23, 2008 Deadline for paper submission
May 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance/rejection
May 25, 2008 Deadline for final paper submission

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Submissions: (cf. http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/amr2008/submission.html)
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Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to
Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Papers should have about 10 pages but should not exceed 15 pages and
should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format.

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Committee: (cf. http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/amr2008/commitees.html)
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Program Chairs
Marcin Detyniecki CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France
Ulrich Leiner Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Nuernberger University of Magdeburg, Germany

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Further details can be found on the Web page of the workshop:
http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/amr2008
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