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JOURNAL OFMULTIMEDIA (JMM, ISSN 1796-2048)

http://www.academypublisher.com/jmm/

SpecialIssue on Multimedia Contents Security in Social Networks Applications

TOPICAL THEME

Recent years have witnessed rapiddevelopments of the information and communication technologies,and theNext-Generation Internet, 3G and 4G wireless mobilenetworks havebeen striding to a large-scale deployment and application. The emerging versatile networkadmissions, especially for social network services, tools and applications, enablea much more convenient access to multimedia contents in anytime, at anywhere, foranyone. Unfortunately, in such environment, copyright infringementbehaviors, such as illicit copying, malicious distribution, unauthorized usage, free sharing ofcopyright-protected digital contents, will also become a much more common phenomenon. Some research frontiers onmultimedia contents security in social networks applications have been in progress,including enhanced security mechanisms, methods and algorithms, trustassessment and risk management in social network applications, as well as socialfactors and soft computing in social media distributions.

The special issueattempts to bring together researchers, contents industry engineers and administrators resorting to the state-of-the-art technologiesand ideas to protect valuable multimedia contents and services against attacks and IP piracy inthe emerging social networks. 

The topics include, but are not limited to:

·        Preventative cryptography methods for multimedia contents security

·        Reactive watermarking and forensics approaches to multimedia contentprotection in Social Networks

·        Social Distribution Network architecture, modeling and simulation

·        IP, privacy and usage control for Multimedia Social Networks

·        Social computing and Multimedia Social Networks

·        Trust management and trust assessment in social networks

·        Security risk management and soft computing in social networkapplications

·        Toward social network DRM application cases

IMPORTANT DATES 

Manuscript SubmissionDue: Dec 31,2011 

Notifications of the first round of reviews: Mar 1, 2012

Deadline of the revised submissions: Apr 1, 2012

Final decisions for all the accepted papers: May 15, 2012

Publication of the special issue: Aug, 2012

PAPER SUBMISSIONS AND REVIEWS

The original andunpublished research works, also including superior-quality survey, are invited on above topics, but are not limited to these, and submittedpapers must not be simultaneously submitted or reviewed elsewhere. 

Submissionsshould follow the guidelines of Journal of Multimedia, which can be found at: http://www.academypublisher.com/jmm/forauthors.html.Note that allmanuscripts for the special issue MUST be submitted to “Special Issue onMultimedia Contents Security in Social Networks Applications” Track in EDAS system, NOT JMM generalpool. For further questions or inquiries, pleasecontact the corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Zhiyong Zhang by Email at: z.zhang@ieee.org, or zhangzy@mail.haust.edu.cn.  

All submitted paper must accept strict peer reviews based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity andpresentation, by atleast two anonymous reviewers.

GUEST EDITORS

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zhiyong Zhang (Email:  z.zhang@ieee.org, zhangzy@mail.haust.edu.cn)

Department of Computer Science,Henan University of Science &Technology, Luoyang, P. R.of China

Assoc.Prof. Dr. Muthucumaru Maheswaran (Email:  maheswar@cs.mcgill.ca)

School of Computer Science, McGillUniversity, Montreal, Canada