1st International Workshop on Synchronism of Things (WSoT)
Scope and Goals
Inter-media and intra-media synchronization has continuously created new challenges for the multimedia research area. Besides the development of new communication technologies and the advances in computational resources, high-quality media objects and new compression techniques led to novel requirements for media synchronization. Multi-sensorial media (mulsemedia) presentations also introduced different requirements, where media objects that state traditional visual content types (i.e. text, audio, image, and video) can be related with media objects that target other human senses (i.e. olfactics, haptics, etc.).
IoT momentum demands a broader approach where sensors and actuators are first-class citizens as media objects in multimedia presentations, allowing the specification of new and complex relationships among these media objects with the usual ones, in what we call Synchronism of Things (SoT). In this sense, synchronization technologies must address new types of events and mechanisms to orchestrate objects distributed in extremely heterogeneous environments, composing a complex ecosystem that is far beyond the current media-and-presentation-only practices found in most multimedia/mulsemedia systems.
The 1st International Workshop on Synchronism of Things (WSoT) intents to inspire and gather research contributions in mechanisms and corresponding tools that expands synchronization to a new level and encompasses not only the usual media objects, but also sensor and actuator objects, in order to leverage new complex multimedia applications in the following areas: Internet of Things, Smart Homes, Smart Cities and other multi-device/multimedia/multi-event applications or services.
All papers must be submitted electronically by the JEMS system. The paper can be written in English or in Portuguese and should contain up to 8 pages. Submissions must be in PDF, complying with the ACM format. Upon submitting a manuscript, authors assume the commitment that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author will register in the conference and present the paper.
The WSoT will be held at WebMedia 2016, Teresina-PI, Brazil.
Topics of Interest
We encourage research contributions in the following topics of interest (not limited to):
– Multimedia systems, software architectures and middlewares in SoT: orchestrating the presentation of usual media objects with sensors and actuators; novel architectures, algorithms and techniques.
– Specifying SoT with Hypermedia Languages: new languages to specify SoT applications; how existent hypermedia languages (e.g. HTML5, NCL, SMIL, etc.) enrolls SoT;
– Multimedia Authoring tools in SoT: tools to support writing multimedia SoT applications;
– Multimedia services in SoT: IP and Web services; hybrid broadband broadcast services;
– SoT Multimedia Document Engineering: frameworks and conceptual models;
– SoT Multimedia Transport Protocols, Inter-process communications and APIs: evaluation of metrics; protocols and standards for real-time multimedia communication; inter-process communication and separation of concerns;
– Multimedia Applications in SoT: multimedia sensing; applications and SoT use cases; SoT e-learning; SoT conferencing; SoT rich interactive narratives and storytelling.
Important dates
Submission deadline: July 25, 2016 August 15, 2016
Author notification: September 1st, 2016 September 16, 2016
Camera-ready version: September 12, 2016 September 30, 2016
Organizing
Marcio Ferreira Moreno (IBM Research | Brazil)
Sergio Colcher (TeleMidia | PUC-Rio)
Contact
mmoreno AT br.ibm.com
colcher AT inf.puc-rio.br
Program Committee
Carlos de Salles Soares Neto (LAWS/UFMA)
Carlos Eduardo Batista (LAVID/UFPB)
Carlos Ferraz (UFPE)
Cassio Prazeres (UFBA)
Cesar Teixeira (UFSCar)
Debora Muchaluad (UFF)
Eduardo Barrere (LAPIC/UFJF)
Francisco Silva (UFMA)
Julio Nogima (IBM Research)
Manoel Neto (IFBA)
Marcelo Ferreira Moreno (LAPIC/UFJF)
Marcelo Nery dos Santos (IBM Research)
Markus Endler (PUC-Rio)
Mauro Oliveira (UFCE)
Paul Borrel (IBM Research)
Rafael Brandao (IBM Research)
Renato Cerqueira (IBM Research)
Roberto Gerson (TeleMidia/PUC-Rio)
Rodrigo Laiola (IBM Research)
Romualdo Monteiro (LAPIC/UFJF)
Thais Batista (UFRN)
Windson Viana (UFCE)
Accepted Papers
Desafios da modelagem de aplciações multimídia com múltiplos efeitos sensoriais – Douglas P. Mattos (UFF), Fábio Barreto (UFF), Glauco F. Amorim (CEFET/RJ), Joel A. F. dos Santos (CEFET/RJ) e Débora C. Muchaluat-Saade (UFF)
RFID-based Object Detection During Video Production – Tiago Machado (UFJF) e Marcelo F. Moreno (UFJF)
Using NCL to Synchronize Media Objects, Sensors and Actuators – Álan L. V. Guedes (PUC-Rio), Marcio Cunha (PUC-Rio), Hugo Fuks (PUC-Rio), Sérgio Colcher (PUC-Rio) e Simone D.J. Barbosa (PUC-Rio)