• Up to now, each of the following journals have confirmed an MINES 2009 special issue:
• ■  Applied Soft Computing  (SCI)
• ■  Multimedia Tools and Applications  (SCI)
• ■  Information Systems Frontiers  (SCI)
• ■  Journal of Internet Technology  (SCI)
• ■  Electronic Commerce Research  (EI)
• (Several other special issues are pending.....)
• January 5, 2010:
• MINES 2009 has been included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library Subscriptions 
• The OPAC is : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentCon.jsp?punumber=5368001
• April 23, 2009:
• 3 workshops have been approved
• Workshop 1：First International Workshop on Network Steganography - IWNS 2009
• Workshop 2：1rst Workshop on Best Practices for Multimedia (BPM’09) IEEE MINES 2009 Conference
• Workshop 3：2009 International Workshop on Secure Multimedia Communication and Services (SECMCS'09)
• April 22, 2009:
• 4 special sessions have been approved.
• Special Session 1：Security, Privacy and Copyright in Multimedia Social Network
  
• Special Session 2：Semantics based multimedia understanding
• Special Session 3：Internet Based Services
• Special Session 4：Watermarking and Steganography
• March 10, 2009:
• http://blog.sina.com.cn/mines2009 has been opened. And The MINES 2009's Question & Answer has been opened on this link!
• March 10, 2009:
• MINES 2009 has appeared on the IEEE Conference Search and the IEEE’s Call for Papers listing now!
• December 31, 2008:
• The Paper Submission System is open.
• December 24, 2008:
• The MINES2009 proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
• December 23, 2008:
• MINES2009 has been co-sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China
• December 23, 2008:
• Prof. Chang Wen Chen (University at Buffalo, the State University of New York) has accepted the invitation of MINES2009 as one of the Keynote Speakers.
  (Dr. Chen has been the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) since January 2006. He has served as an Editor for Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, EUROSIP Journal of Signal Processing: Image Communications, and Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. He has also served in numerous technical program committees for IEEE and other international conferences. He was elected an IEEE Fellow for his contributions in digital image and video processing, analysis, and communications and an SPIE Fellow for his contributions in electronic imaging and visual communications. )