SMAP 2021 - Call for Papers
15-06-2021

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16th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2021)
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SMAP 2021
November 4-5, 2021
Online
https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/smap2021/


* VIRTUAL WORKSHOP:
Kindly note that due to the coronavirus outbreak, SMAP 2021 will allow all interested participants to provide either a real-time or pre-recorded online (remote) presentation of their work. More details will be provided upon paper acceptance notification.


* PRESENTATION:

The 16th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2021) will take place online on November 4-5, 2021. SMAP 2021 will be organized with the support of Ionian University.

The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) workshop is the evolution of the Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization initiative, which was founded back during the summer of 2006 in an effort to discuss the state-of-the-art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation and personalization. However, as social media applications have nowadays substantially transformed the way organizations, communities, and individuals interact, the scopes of SMAP were extended towards the social aspect, seeking to bring together researchers from the Social Web, as well as from the Semantic Web communities.

After 15 successful workshops starting from Athens (2006), and then London (2007), Prague (2008), San Sebastian (2009), Limassol (2010), Vigo (2011), Luxembourg (2012), Bayonne (2013), Corfu (2014), Trento (2015), Thessaloniki (2016), Bratislava (2017), Zaragoza (2018), Larnaca (2019), and Zakynthos/Online (2020), the SMAP workshop series has been consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field.

* AIM AND TOPICS:

SMAP 2021 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

   -Content creation, annotation and modeling for semantic and social web
   -Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization
   -Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents
   -User modeling and dynamic profiling
   -Ontologies and reasoning
   -Multimedia standards
   -Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications
   -Recommender systems for mobile users
   -Web adaptation methods and techniques
   -Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems
   -Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing)
   -Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities
   -User-generated content mechanisms
   -Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications
   -Privacy preserving data mining and social networks
   -Content customization and adaptation
   -Semantic context modeling and extraction
   -Context-aware multimedia applications
   -Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries
   -Multilingual content navigation
   -Intelligent personalized interfaces
   -Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g., semantic wikis)
   -Social web economics and business
   -Social network aggregation
   -Social data analytics
   -Social data mining
   -Adaptive/Personalized conversational media

* IMPORTANT DATES:

   -Paper submission deadline: *July 30, 2021*
   -Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2021
   -Camera-ready submission deadline: October 1, 2021
   -Early registration for authors: October 1, 2021
   -Workshop: November 4-5, 2021


* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2021 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression.

Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed.

For your convenience, you may use the LaTeX (https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/smap2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SMAP2021_windows_latex_template.zip) or MS Word (https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/smap2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SMAP2021_usletter_template.doc) templates. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smap2021) in .pdf format.


* PROCEEDINGS / PUBLICATIONS:

As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers will be indexed by IEEE Xplore, as well as DBLP and Scopus.

Selected accepted papers will be invited to be submitted to a Special Issue pf an international peer-reviewed and indexed journal.


* CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS:

Special Session Proposals should be sent in PDF format to the Special Session Chair at the following e-mail address:
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Any other inquiries may also be sent to the same e-mail address.


* GENERAL CHAIRS:
    Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University
    Katia-Lida Kermanidou, Ionian University


* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

    Giovanni Acampora, University of Naples Federico
    Harry Agius, Brunel University
    Panos Alexopoulos, Textkernel B.V.
    Adel Alti, University of Setif – Algeria
    Maria Bielikova, Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies
    Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, University of Vigo
    Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza
    George Caridakis, University of the Aegean
    Keeley Crocket, Manchester Metropolitan University
    Antonio Fariña, Universidade da Coruña
    Francesco Guerra, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
    Ramon Hermoso, University of Zaragoza
    Tomas Horvath, Eötvös Loránd University
    Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza
    Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean
    Rajkumar Kannan, King Faisal University
    Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University
    Petros Kefalas, University of Sheffield
    Katia-Lida Kermanidis, Ionian University
    Sébastien Laborie, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
    Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo
    Ioanna Lykourentzou, Utrecht University
    Kristína Machová, TUKE
    Trevor Martin, University of Bristol
    Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
    Angelos Michalas, University of Western Mcedonia
    Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University
    Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
    Klimis Ntalianis, University of West Attica
    Stergios Palamas, Ionian University
    Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice
    Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Reserach Centre
    Jose Pazos-Arias, University of Vigo
    Laura Po, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia
    Marek Reformat, University of Alberta
    Dimitrios Ringas, Ionian University
    Philippe Roose, LIUPPA/UPPA
    Petr Saloun, VSB-TU Ostrava
    Florence Sedes, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III
    Jakub Simko, Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies
    Marian Simko, Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies
    Spyros Sioutas, University of Patras
    Evaggelos Spyrou, University of Thessaly
    Michalis Stefanidakis, Ionian University
    Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology
    Andreas Veglis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    Panagiotis Vlamos, Ionian University
    Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese



* CONTACT:
hilab (at) ionio.gr

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