Workshops held in conjunction with The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008) December 15-17, 2008 Berkeley, California, USA http://ism2008.eecs.uci.edu/ The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008) will be held at Berkeley, California, USA from December 15-17, 2008. Several workshops will be held in conjunction with ISM2008. The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics of multimedia computing. The proceedings of the workshop programs will be published as the workshop proceedings by IEEE CS press. The ISM2008 Workshop Call for Proposals can be found here. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. The following workshop proposals have now been accepted: DSMSA Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/Service/DSMSA2008.htm EMACS The IEEE International Workshop on Embedded Multimedia Accelerating Computer Systems (Introduction URL currently unavailable) MASP Multimedia Audio and Speech Processing: advancing the state-of-the-art http://speechlab.ifsc.usp.br/ism2008/ MAUBI International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis of User Behaviour and Interactions http://www2.lifl.fr/~martinej/ISM2008workshop/cfp.html MTEL Multimedia Technologies for e-Learning http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~knipping/ieee/ism08-mtel/ MIPR The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/mipr08 Any general questions regarding ISM2008 Workshops and workshop proposals should be directed to the ISM2008 Workshop Co-Chairs: Rodrigo C. Guido, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Xiao-Ping Zhang, Ryerson University, Canada at: ismwork@eecs.uci.edu