Call for Papers: EUROMED 2012 Cultural Heritage Protection and Documentation

4th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference - EUROMED 2012
October 29th - November 3rd, 2012
Limassol, Cyprus
http://www.euromed2012.eu
Paper submission deadline (extended): 15th of JUNE, 2012


We are glad to invite you to the 4th Int. Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EUROMED 2012) which will be held in Limassol (Cyprus) October 29th to November 3rd, 2012 at the Amathus-Limassol hotel.
The 4th EUROMED conference brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, owners, managers and conservators of our cultural patrimony.

Keynote Speakers:
EUROMED 2012 will feature the following invited speakers:

- KISHORE RAO, Director of UNESCO's WHC
- THOMAS R. KLINE, Lawyers for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Prof. NADIA MAGNENAT-THALMANN, Director of MIRALab at the University of
Geneva (Switzerland) and Director of the Institute for Media Innovation
(IMI) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
- Professor DANIEL THALMANN, founder of VRlab at EPFL (Switzerland) and
professor at the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) at Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore
- Dr LIVIO DE LUCA, director of MAP laboratory at CNRS Marseille (France)
- Dr ELEANOR E. FINK, international art and technology consultant the Institute of Information Science, University of Southern California, the World Bank, and International Finance Corporation
- Dr MICHAEL T. JONES, Google's Chief Technology Advocate, former Chief Technologist of Google Maps/Google Earth and CTO of Keyhole Corporation
- Dr JOHN GREAVES, the pioneer of the RFID technology
- Prof. STEFAN GRADMANN, professor of knowledge management and semantic knowledge architectures at the School of Library and Information Science of Humboldt-University in Berlin (Germany)

Topics and themes:
Researchers and practitioners willing to participate to the EUROMED 2012 conference are invited to submit papers on original works addressing the following subjects and research themes:

i) PROTECTION, RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
ii) DIGITAL HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION AND PRESENTATION
More detail information regarding the themes can be found at:
http://www.euromed2012.eu/index.php/call-for-participation/

Submission of Papers:
Submissions for the event are completely electronic through the on-line submission website available at
http://www.euromed2012.eu/index.php/paper-submission/
The conference accepts only original, unpublished work written in English which will be blind-reviewed and published by an international editor.
We are soliciting three types of contributions:

1. Full research papers: they present new innovative research developments and results. They will feature a full-length oral presentation and will be published in a high-quality proceedings volume. Each submitted paper must not exceed 10 pages in total.

2. Project papers: they focus on the description of project organization, use of technology and lessons learned. They will feature a short oral presentation and will be published in a high-quality proceedings volume.
Each submitted paper must not exceed 10 pages in total.

3. Short papers: they present preliminary ideas and works-in-progress. Thesepapers will have a short oral presentation and will be also available also as posters in conference breaks. Each short paper must not exceed 6 pages in total.

The 15 best submitted papers will be published on a special issue of the International Journal Heritage in the Digital Era
(http://www.digital-heritage-journal.eu/
-journal.eu%2F> )

All the accepted papers will be published by SPRINGER in its collections "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS).

In addition, space will be available for Exhibition and Live Showcases. If you have a system / tool you wish included in the exhibition and showcase area, please contact the organizers (email: chairman@euromed2012.eu)


For more information about the conference please visit the web site
http://www.euromed2012.eu or directly contact the chair of the event at chairman@euromed2012.eu