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Call for Special Sessions open

The Call for Special Sessions at WIAMIS'08 is open now and details can be found on http://www.wiamis2008.org/specialSession.html.

Call for Special Sessions

The Program Committee of WIAMIS 2008, the 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, to be held May 7-9, 2008, in Klagenfurt, Austria, invites proposals for Special Sessions.

Proposals for Special Session must include:

• Title of the Special Sessions
• Rationale of the motivation and objective of the Special Session
• Session outline
• Specific topics of interest
• Contact information for the Special Session chair
• Short biography of the Special Session chair
• List of authors who have agreed to present a paper in the Special Session (if their papers are accepted), and a tentative title and abstract of each paper.

Proposals for Special Sessions should be submitted to José M. Martínez (JoseM.Martinez@uam.es) before November 23, 2007. Prospective organizers are strongly encouraged to contact José M. Martínez in advance. Notification of accepted of proposals is scheduled December 1, 2007, while the deadline for paper submission and review are the same as for regular papers.

Invited Special Sessions

WIAMIS 2008 will include invited Special Sessions:

1. COST292 Special Session organized by Noel O’Connor (DCU). The specific topic of the session will be announced shortly.

Papers submitted to the Invited Special Sessions will be reviewed by a mix of reviewers from the WIAMIS 2008 Program Committee and from the Program Committee of the Invited Special Sessions.

Further information can can be found on http://www.wiamis2008.org/specialSession.html.