cfp: special issue "Multimodal Interaction and MultImodal Content management"

*Call for Papers* *Multimedia Tools and APplications (MTAP) International Journal* *http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042* Special issue on *Multimodal Interaction and MultImodal Content management (MIMIC)* The special issue aims to collect scientific contribution about new and important applications and trends on algorithms, artificial intelligence methods, distributed architectures and systems that are relevant for: 1) theories and techniques about multimodal information retrieval and multimodal databases for indexing, representing, organizing, querying and extracting features from multimodal data, and 2) multimodal interfaces and multimodal interaction languages used in a more natural/flexible Human-Machine Interaction approach. , TTopic areas for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following: · Multimodal information retrieval · Multimodal Web interaction · Intelligent Interaction and Web 3.0 applications · Social interaction · Multimodal database systems · Multimodal query processing · Information fusion and fissionnull