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NOSSDAV 2016 - Call for Papers
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26th ACM SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2016),
in conjunction with ACM MMSys 2016
Friday, May 13, 2016; Klagenfurt, Austria
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https://mmsys2016.itec.aau.at/nossdav-2016/
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Motivation and Scope
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NOSSDAV 2016, the 26th ACM SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, will be co-located with MMsys 2016 in Klagenfurt, Austria, on May 10-13, 2016. As in previous years, the workshop will continue to focus on both established and emerging research topics, high-risk high-return ideas and proposals, and future research directions in multimedia networking and systems, in a single-track format that encourages active participation and discussions among academic and industry researchers and practitioners. Out-of-the-box ideas are particularly welcome.

The workshop seeks papers in all areas of multimedia networking and systems. Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers with real-world experimental results and real data sets. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

- Mobile, cloud, and peer-to-peer system architectures
- Media streaming, distribution and storage support
- Multimedia communications and system security
- Multi-core and many-core system support
- Networked GPUs, graphics and virtual environments
- Networked games / Real-time immersive systems
- Mobile augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR)
- Operating system, middleware and network support
- Web 2.0 systems and social networks
- Wireless networks and embedded systems for multimedia applications
- Social media and multimedia applications on social networks
- Mobile multimedia applications and support
- Energy-aware and green computing support
- Multimedia applications and support for health and quality of life
- Multimedia applications and support for societal networks
- System and network support for
o Multimedia data storage, analytics, and visualization
o Mobile visual search
o Quality assessment

Submissions to the Workshop
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Submitted papers must be original and should not be currently under review for any other publication. Authors of accepted papers will need to present their paper at NOSSDAV 2016 in person. The Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2016 will be published by ACM and distributed at the workshop electronically, and will also be included in the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates
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- Submission deadline: Feb. 5, 2016
- Acceptance notification: March 23, 2016
- Camera-ready paper: April 8, 2016
- Workshop: May 13, 2016

Workshop Chairs
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General Chair: Hermann Hellwagner, AAU Klagenfurt, Austria
TPC Chair: Eckehard Steinbach, TU München, Germany

Local Organization
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Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt
Institute of Information Technology (ITEC)
Universitaetsstr. 65-67, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
Web: http://www.mmsys.org
E-Mail: mmsys2016@itec.aau.at

Technical Program Committee
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Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Ali C. Begen, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), NL
Sheng-Wei (Kuan-Ta) Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA
Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA
Aiman Erbad, Qatar University, Qatar
Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University, USA
Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research & University of Oslo, Norway
Pal Halvorsen, Simula Research & University of Oslo, Norway
Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University, UK
Frank Hartung, FH Aachen, Germany
Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada
Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dwight Makaroff, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Ketan Mayer-Patel, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Michael Riegler, Simula Research & University of Oslo, Norway
Ivica Rimac, Bell Labs, USA
Nabil J. Sarhan, Wayne State University, USA
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Gwendal Simon, Telecom Bretagne, France
Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts & Akamai, USA
Christian Timmerer, AAU Klagenfurt, Austria
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA