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          50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008
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                   10-12 September 2008
                      Zadar, CROATIA

         Paper submission deadline: March 03, 2008

                http://www.elmar-zadar.org/


                      CALL FOR PAPERS


  TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

  IEEE Region 8
  EURASIP - European Assoc. Signal, Speech and Image Processing
  IEEE Croatia Section
  IEEE Croatia Section Chapter of the Signal Processing Society
  IEEE Croatia Section Joint Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies


  CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY

  IEEE Xplore
  INSPEC


  POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES AND SPRINGER BOOK
  (only selected best papers)

  International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
  International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)
  Springer book - series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"


  TOPICS

  --> Image and Video Processing
  --> Multimedia Communications
  --> Speech and Audio Processing
  --> Wireless Commununications
  --> Telecommunications
  --> Antennas and Propagation
  --> e-Learning and m-Learning
  --> Navigation Systems
  --> Ship Electronic Systems
  --> Power Electronics and Automation
  --> Naval Architecture
  --> Sea Ecology
  --> Special Sessions (details below)


  KEYNOTE TALKS

  * Univ.Prof.Dr.techn. Markus Rupp, Vienna University
    of Technology, AUSTRIA:
    Testbeds and Rapid Prototyping in Wireless Systems

  * Professor Paul Cross, University College London, UK:
    GNSS Data Modeling: The Key to Increasing Safety and
    Legally Critical Applications of GNSS

  * Dr.-Ing. Malte Kob, RWTH Aachen University, GERMANY:
    The Role of Resonators in the Generation of Voice
    Signals


  SPECIAL SESSIONS (proposals open until February 04, 2008)

  SS1: "VISNET II - Networked Audiovisual Systems"
  Organizer: Dr. Marta Mrak, I-lab, Centre for Communication
  Systems Research, University of Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM
  Contact: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/profiles?s_id=3937

  SS2: "Computer Vision in Art"
  Organizer: Asst.Prof. Peter Peer (1), Dr. Borut Batagelj (1)
  and Prof. Karolj Skala (2) - (1) University of Ljubljana,
  Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Computer Vision
  Laboratory, SLOVENIA; (2) Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Center
  for Informatics and Computing, Zagreb, CROATIA
  Contact: http://www.lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/~peterp/

  SS3: "Wireless Sensor Networking"
  Organizer: Asst.Prof. Theodore Zahariadis, Prof. Stamatis
  Voliotis and Nelly Leligoy, TEI of Chalkida, Psahna, GREECE
  Contact: zahariad (_) teihal.gr
  
  SS4: "ICT Network Convergence and NGN"
  Organizer: Prof. Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak University of
  Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
  and Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications,
  Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
  Contact: pavol.podhradsky (_) stuba.sk

  SS5: "The Impact of Galileo on Maritime and Inland Navigation"
  Organizer: Univ.-Prof. Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Institute
  of Navigation and Satellite Geodesy, Graz University of
  Technology, AUSTRIA
  Contact: hofmann-wellenhof (_) tugraz.at

  SS6: "Planning of Wireless and Wireline Broadband Networks"
  Organizer: Asst.Prof. Jens Myrup Pedersen, Aalborg University,
  Department of Electronic Systems, DENMARK 
  Contact: http://www.control.aau.dk/~jens/
  
  SS7: "New Electromagnetic Structures - Analysis and Design"
  Organizer: Prof. Zvonimir Sipus, University of Zagreb, Faculty 
  of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Wireless 
  Communications, CROATIA
  Contact: http://www.rc.fer.hr/tabid/1318/Default.aspx?djelatnik=90
  
  SS8: "Multimedia Processing"
  Organizer: doc. Ing. Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak University of 
  Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 
  and Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications,
  Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
  Contact: http://www.ktl.elf.stuba.sk/~gregor/


  SUBMISSION

  Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in
  symposium proceedings available at the symposium and
  abstracted/indexed in the IEEE Xplore and INSPEC database.

  More info is available here: http://www.elmar-zadar.org/

  IMPORTANT: Web-based (online) paper submission of papers in
  PDF format is required for all authors. No e-mail, fax, or
  postal submissions will be accepted. Authors should prepare
  their papers according to ELMAR-2008 paper sample, convert
  them to PDF based on IEEE requirements, and submit them using
  web-based submission system by March 03, 2008.


  SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES

  Deadline for submission of full papers: March 03, 2008
  Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 05, 2008
  Submission of (final) camera-ready papers : May 19, 2008
  Preliminary program available online by: May 26, 2008
  Registration forms and payment deadline: June 02, 2008
  Accommodation deadline: August 22, 2008


  GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

  Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia
  Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia


  PROGRAM CHAIR

  Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia


  INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Juraj Bartolic, Croatia
  David Broughton, United Kingdom
  Paul Dan Cristea, Romania
  Kresimir Delac, Croatia
  Zarko Cucej, Slovenia
  Marek Domanski, Poland
  Kalman Fazekas, Hungary
  Janusz Filipiak, Poland
  Renato Filjar, Croatia
  Borko Furht, USA
  Mohammed Ghanbari, United Kingdom
  Mislav Grgic, Croatia
  Sonja Grgic, Croatia
  Yo-Sung Ho, Korea
  Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Austria
  Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Austria
  Bojan Ivancevic, Croatia
  Ebroul Izquierdo, United Kingdom
  Kristian Jambrosic, Croatia
  Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, USA
  Tomislav Kos, Croatia
  Murat Kunt, Switzerland
  Panos Liatsis, United Kingdom
  Rastislav Lukac, Canada
  Lidija Mandic, Croatia
  Gabor Matay, Hungary
  Branka Medved Rogina, Croatia
  Borivoj Modlic, Croatia
  Marta Mrak, United Kingdom
  Fernando Pereira, Portugal
  Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak Republic
  Ramjee Prasad, Denmark
  Kamisetty R. Rao, USA
  Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak Republic
  Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom
  Mubarak Shah, USA
  Shiguang Shan, China
  Thomas Sikora, Germany
  Karolj Skala, Croatia
  Marian S. Stachowicz, USA
  Ryszard Stasinski, Poland
  Luis Torres, Spain
  Frantisek Vejrazka, Czech Republic
  Stamatis Voliotis, Greece
  Nick Ward, United Kingdom
  Krzysztof Wajda, Poland
  Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia


  CONTACT INFORMATION

  Assoc.Prof. Mislav Grgic, Ph.D.
  FER, Unska 3/XII
  HR-10000 Zagreb
  CROATIA

  Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851
  Fax: + 385 1 6129 717
  E-mail: elmar2008 (_) fer.hr

  For further information please visit:
  http://www.elmar-zadar.org/