Call for papers
From the 17th to 20th of October, 2017, the 23th edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (WebMedia 2017) will be held at Gramado–RS, Brazil. WebMedia is an academic event promoted annually by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). The event aims to convene students, academics and professionals together to discuss and debate current research topics in Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web.
Authors are invited to submit papers reporting research results. The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its general accessibility to the WebMedia audience. Papers will be judged on significance, originality, and clarity. The paper must be organized so that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise. The paper should clearly identify what has been accomplished, why it is significant, and how it relates to previous work reported in the state-of-the art literature.
We encourage contributions from the following topics of multimedia, hypermedia and Web domains. Please note this list is not exhaustive but it gives an indication of the some interest topics in the current edition of the event:
– Applications and services
– Architectures, processes and methodologies
– Collaboration, interactive environments
– Content adaptation, personalization and recommendation
– Content analysis, coding and processing
– Content authoring, enrichment and annotation
– Content delivery, transport, sharing and security
– Content search, retrieval and visualization
– Content synchronization and presentation
– E-commerce and e-payment systems
– Mashups, RIA, apps and others Web 2.0 applications
– Mobile and Wearable devices and Internet of Things (IoT)
– Multi/hypermedia document engineering and Web engineering
– Multimedia and Web content management
– Multimodality and multisensorial approaches
– Novel interactions, user interfaces, usability, accessibility and user experience
– Semantic Web, linked data, annotations, metadata and ontologies
– Social networks analysis, opinion analysis and social and emergent semantics
– Standards for documents and multimedia content, models and languages
– Systems and middleware
– Test and validation of systems and applications
Submission Format
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Authors can submit full or short papers for the main conference. Full papers can have a length of up to 8 pages and should report substantial research supported by complete results. Short papers submissions are limited to 4 pages and may describe ongoing work and contain partial results.
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Papers can be written and presented either in English or Portuguese. Papers in Portuguese must include title and abstract in English, and optionally an abstract in Portuguese.
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Papers must be written so as to allow double-blind review, which means that authors need to ensure that their submissions do not give away their identity, both in the text and in the references.
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The submissions must be in PDF, complying with the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publicati
ons/proceedings-template). ** use the ACM_SigConf template. -
All papers must be submitted electronically by the JEMS system: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/
home.cgi?c=2800.
The proceedings containing the full and short papers will be published in the ACM DL during the event. Previous versions of the WebMedia proceedings can be found in http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id
Due to editorial requirements, only papers whose authors meet the hard deadlines for submitting the final version will be published in the proceedings. Upon submitting a manuscript, authors assume the commitment that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author will register in the professional category of the conference and present the paper.