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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear MEI community members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am Luca A. Ludovico, from the Laboratory of Music Informatics, Department of Computer Science, University of Milan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am one of the authors of the IEEE 1599 standard, an XML-based format for the multi-layer representation of music information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I was also in Mainz in 2013 at the MEC conference, where I presented a paper titled “The Music Encoding Initiative and the IEEE 1599 Standard - Towards an Integrated Description of Music Contents” focusing on possible intersections of the two formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’m sending this e-mail to announce that we are organizing a one-day workshop in Milan, followed by the kickoff meeting to revise the IEEE 1599 standard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We would be very pleased to receive contributions from MEI community focusing on the multi-layer characteristics of the standard, and to have someone from MEI in the new working group of IEEE 1599.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please feel free to extend our invitation to other people potentially interested. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS, made available on IEEE Xplore and indexed by all major systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Below, the call for papers and participation that we are sending to sound and music computing mailing lists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I hope to see you in Milan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best regards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Luca A. Ludovico<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>First International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Processing (MMRP19)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, 24-25 January 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://mmrp19.di.unimi.it/">http://mmrp19.di.unimi.it/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The MMRP Workshop is organized by the Laboratory of Music Informatics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(LIM), Dept. of Computer Science, University of Milan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We are pleased to confirm that the workshop Proceedings will be <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (IEEE CPS), will be <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>made available on IEEE Xplore, and will be included on major indexing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Updated information about paper submission and registration is now <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>available on the MMRP19 website.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The workshop is held in conjunction with the kick-off of the IEEE <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Working Group (WG) for XML Musical Application. Ten years after the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>release of the IEEE 1599 Standard for music representation, the WG will <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>work at updating and extending the standard to provide a multilayered <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>meta-representation of music information, achieving integration among <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>general (metadata), structural, notational, computer-driven performance, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and audio layers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We are soliciting original submissions for oral and poster/demo <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>presentations examining all facets of the workshop theme. We welcome in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>particular scientific contributions on novel approaches to bridge the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>gap between different layers of music representation and generate <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>multilayer music contents, as well as related application domains. These <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Computational Musicology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Intangible Cultural Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Machine Learning and Understanding of Music<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Multilayer representation models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Music Libraries and Archives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Music Signal Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Music Training and Education<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Optical Music Recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Representations of Music<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Score-informed Transcription<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Structural Segmentation of Music<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Symbolic Music Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Synchronization of Score, MIDI, and Audio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- XML for Music Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Abstract submission: November 25, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Full-paper submission: December 02, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Notification to authors: December 23, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Camera-ready submission: January 11, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div>
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