Call For Papers: The 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2012)Call For Papers: The 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2012)

Posted on July 23, 2011 by admin

The 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information
Networking and Applications (AINA-2012)
http://www.aina-conference.org/2012/
Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
Academy Hills, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan,
http://www.academyhills.com/english/index.html
March 26-29, 2012
============================================================================

IMPORTANT DATES
========================
Workshop Proposal Due: June 30, 2011
Submission Deadline: September 9, 2011
Author Notification: November 15, 2011
Author Registration: December 8, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: December 22, 2011

As one of the most important international conferences sponsored by the TCDP of the IEEE Computer Society, the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2012) will be held in Tokyo, March 26-29, 2012. The conference covers theory, design and application of computer networks and distributed computing and information systems. Aside from the regular presentations, the conference will include keynote addresses with speakers from both industry and academia. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the following areas (not limited to):

Communication Protocol and Architecture
High-speed Communication and Network
Wireless Communication and Network
Multimedia Communication and System
Personal Communication System
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Network
Low-power Network and System
Wearable Network and System
Embedded System and Networking
Internet Technology and IP-based Applications
Network Control and Management
Network Performance, Analysis and Evaluation
Quality of Services (QoS)
Multicast Routing and Technology
Security, Privacy and Trust
Fault-tolerant and Dependable System
Multi-agent System and Applications
Parallel/Distributed Algorithm and Architecture
Distributed Database and Data Mining
Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR System
Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing
Biological Informatics and Computing
E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Society, etc.
Grid, Cluster and Internet Computing
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) System
Service-oriented Framework and Middleware
Autonomic Computing and Communication
WWW, Semantic Web and Cyber World
Mobile and Context-aware Computing
Ubiquitous/Pervasive Networks and Computing
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World
Smart Object, Space/Environment and System
Innovative Networking and Applications
Social, Ethical & Other Issues of Networked World
Network and Application Hardware
Cognitive Network Access
Digital Eco Systems

==========================
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
==========================
Submit a full paper of at most 8 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings
Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and
references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:
URL: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/ submission.

AINA-2012 submission web site is in following URL.
http://www.aina-conference.org/2012/

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting
the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 8 pages
for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are
requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise
their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.

Distinguished papers accepted and presented at the conference and also
the workshops of AINA-2012, after further revisions, will be published in special issues
of prestigious international journals.

================================
AINA-2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
================================
General Co-Chairs
Takuo Nakashima, Tokai University, Japan
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology(SeoulTech), Korea
Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany

Workshops Co-Chairs
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea

Program Vice Chairs and Research Tracks

1. Opportunistic and Delay Tolerant Networks
Stephane Maag, TELECOM SudParis, France
Jung-Shian Li, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2. Ad Hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks

Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
Whai-En Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan

3. Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Services

Mikko Rissanen, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

4. Vehicular Networks and Applications

Vamsi Krishna Paruchuri, University of Central Arkansas, USA
Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan

5. Distributed and Parallel Systems

Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon et IUF, France
Weisong Shi Wayne State University, USA

6. Distributed Database and Data Mining

Akimitsu Kanzaki, Osaka University, Japan
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

7. Grid, P2P and Scalable Computing

Heinz Kredel, University of Mannheim, Germany
Hanh Le, University of Cape Town, South Africa

8. Internet Computing and Web Applications

Yuka Kato, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Ralf Gitzel, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

9. Service Oriented Architecture and Applications

Axel Korthaus, Victoria University, Australia
Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan

10. Multimedia and Social Networking

Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea
Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan

11. Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications

Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Kuo-Ming Chao, Conventry University, UK

12. Security, Privacy and Trust

Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea
Joonsang Baek, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Stefan Sackmann, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany

13. Communications Network and Protocols

Song Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK

14. Mobile Networks and Applications

Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Fumio Teraoka, Keio University, Japan

15. Dependable Systems and Autonomic Computing/Networking

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Tsang-Ling Sheu, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan

16. Semantics in Collaborative Systems

Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway

International Journal Co-Chairs
Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, Korea
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Farookh Hussain, Curtin University, Australia

Award Co-Chairs
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Arjan Durresi, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs
Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Italy
Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan
Chungmin Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

International Liaison Co-Chairs
Hwee-Pink Tan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

Publication Co-Chairs
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Stephen Huang, The University of Houston, USA
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China

Treasurer / Finance Co-Chairs
Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Valbona Barolli, Seikei University, Japan

Local Arrangements Chair
Ailixier Aikebaier, Seikei University, Japan

Steering Committee Co-Chairs

Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Steering Committee Chair and Founder of AINA

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Steering Committee Co-Chair

=================
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
=================
In conjunction with the AINA-2012 conference, some number of one-day workshops
will be held.

If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal
including call for paper, number of papers to be accepted, contact person,
to the AINA-2012 workshop Co-Chairs:

Fatos Xhafa (fatos.xhafa{at}gmail.com), Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Minoru Uehara (uehara{at}toyo.jp), Toyo University, Japan
David Taniar (dtaniar{at}gmail.com), Monash University, Australia
Sang-Soo Yeo (sangsooyeo{at}gmail.com), Mokwon University, Korea

by June 30, 2011. Proceedings of the AINA-2012 workshops will be published
by IEEE CPS. The schedule of each workshop should follow the conference schedule.

================================
FURTHER INFORMATION
================================
For further information, please contact the steering committee chairs:

Leonard Barolli (barolli{at}fit.ac.jp), Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Makoto Takizawa (makoto.takizawa{at}computer.org), Seikei University, JapanThe 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information
Networking and Applications (AINA-2012)
http://www.aina-conference.org/2012/
Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
Academy Hills, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan,
http://www.academyhills.com/english/index.html
March 26-29, 2012
============================================================================

IMPORTANT DATES
========================
Workshop Proposal Due: June 30, 2011
Submission Deadline: September 9, 2011
Author Notification: November 15, 2011
Author Registration: December 8, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: December 22, 2011

As one of the most important international conferences sponsored by the TCDP of the IEEE Computer Society, the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2012) will be held in Tokyo, March 26-29, 2012. The conference covers theory, design and application of computer networks and distributed computing and information systems. Aside from the regular presentations, the conference will include keynote addresses with speakers from both industry and academia. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the following areas (not limited to):

Communication Protocol and Architecture
High-speed Communication and Network
Wireless Communication and Network
Multimedia Communication and System
Personal Communication System
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Network
Low-power Network and System
Wearable Network and System
Embedded System and Networking
Internet Technology and IP-based Applications
Network Control and Management
Network Performance, Analysis and Evaluation
Quality of Services (QoS)
Multicast Routing and Technology
Security, Privacy and Trust
Fault-tolerant and Dependable System
Multi-agent System and Applications
Parallel/Distributed Algorithm and Architecture
Distributed Database and Data Mining
Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR System
Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing
Biological Informatics and Computing
E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Society, etc.
Grid, Cluster and Internet Computing
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) System
Service-oriented Framework and Middleware
Autonomic Computing and Communication
WWW, Semantic Web and Cyber World
Mobile and Context-aware Computing
Ubiquitous/Pervasive Networks and Computing
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World
Smart Object, Space/Environment and System
Innovative Networking and Applications
Social, Ethical & Other Issues of Networked World
Network and Application Hardware
Cognitive Network Access
Digital Eco Systems

==========================
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
==========================
Submit a full paper of at most 8 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings
Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and
references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:
URL: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/ submission.

AINA-2012 submission web site is in following URL.
http://www.aina-conference.org/2012/

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting
the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 8 pages
for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are
requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise
their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.

Distinguished papers accepted and presented at the conference and also
the workshops of AINA-2012, after further revisions, will be published in special issues
of prestigious international journals.

================================
AINA-2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
================================
General Co-Chairs
Takuo Nakashima, Tokai University, Japan
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology(SeoulTech), Korea
Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany

Workshops Co-Chairs
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea

Program Vice Chairs and Research Tracks

1. Opportunistic and Delay Tolerant Networks
Stephane Maag, TELECOM SudParis, France
Jung-Shian Li, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2. Ad Hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks

Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
Whai-En Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan

3. Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Services

Mikko Rissanen, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

4. Vehicular Networks and Applications

Vamsi Krishna Paruchuri, University of Central Arkansas, USA
Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan

5. Distributed and Parallel Systems

Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon et IUF, France
Weisong Shi Wayne State University, USA

6. Distributed Database and Data Mining

Akimitsu Kanzaki, Osaka University, Japan
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

7. Grid, P2P and Scalable Computing

Heinz Kredel, University of Mannheim, Germany
Hanh Le, University of Cape Town, South Africa

8. Internet Computing and Web Applications

Yuka Kato, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Ralf Gitzel, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

9. Service Oriented Architecture and Applications

Axel Korthaus, Victoria University, Australia
Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan

10. Multimedia and Social Networking

Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea
Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan

11. Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications

Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Kuo-Ming Chao, Conventry University, UK

12. Security, Privacy and Trust

Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea
Joonsang Baek, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Stefan Sackmann, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany

13. Communications Network and Protocols

Song Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK

14. Mobile Networks and Applications

Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Fumio Teraoka, Keio University, Japan

15. Dependable Systems and Autonomic Computing/Networking

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Tsang-Ling Sheu, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan

16. Semantics in Collaborative Systems

Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway

International Journal Co-Chairs
Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, Korea
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Farookh Hussain, Curtin University, Australia

Award Co-Chairs
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Arjan Durresi, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs
Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Italy
Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan
Chungmin Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

International Liaison Co-Chairs
Hwee-Pink Tan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

Publication Co-Chairs
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Stephen Huang, The University of Houston, USA
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China

Treasurer / Finance Co-Chairs
Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Valbona Barolli, Seikei University, Japan

Local Arrangements Chair
Ailixier Aikebaier, Seikei University, Japan

Steering Committee Co-Chairs

Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Steering Committee Chair and Founder of AINA

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Steering Committee Co-Chair

=================
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
=================
In conjunction with the AINA-2012 conference, some number of one-day workshops
will be held.

If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal
including call for paper, number of papers to be accepted, contact person,
to the AINA-2012 workshop Co-Chairs:

Fatos Xhafa (fatos.xhafa{at}gmail.com), Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Minoru Uehara (uehara{at}toyo.jp), Toyo University, Japan
David Taniar (dtaniar{at}gmail.com), Monash University, Australia
Sang-Soo Yeo (sangsooyeo{at}gmail.com), Mokwon University, Korea

by June 30, 2011. Proceedings of the AINA-2012 workshops will be published
by IEEE CPS. The schedule of each workshop should follow the conference schedule.

================================
FURTHER INFORMATION
================================
For further information, please contact the steering committee chairs:

Leonard Barolli (barolli{at}fit.ac.jp), Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Makoto Takizawa (makoto.takizawa{at}computer.org), Seikei University, Japan

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Call For Paper: The 7th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)Call For Paper: The 7th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)

Posted on July 22, 2011 by admin

Overview:

Future technology information technology would stand for all of continuously evolving and converging information technologies, including digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent applications, embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications, bio-inspired computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web, user experience and HCI, secuity and trust computing and so on, for satisfying our ever-changing needs. In past twenty five years or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures. Without various IT-based applications, we would find it difficult to keep information stored securely, to process information efficiently, and to communicate information conveniently. In the future world, IT will play a very important role in convergence of computing, communication, and all other computational sciences and application and IT also will influence the future world’s various areas, including science, engineering, industry, business, law, politics, culture, medicine, and so on. Our conference is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization. FutureTech 2012 is the next edition of FutureTech 2011(Crete, Greece), FutureTech 2010 (Busan, Korea, May 2010) which was the next event in a series of highly successful the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Applications & Security Services (UASS-09, USA, Jan. 2009), previously held as UASS-08 (Okinawa, Japan,Mar. 2008), UASS-07 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August, 2007), and UASS-06 (Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May, 2006).

Important Dates:

Paper Submission deadline : December 15, 2011
Acceptacne Notification : February 28, 2012
Camera-ready Due : March 15, 2012
Registration Due : March 15, 2012
Conference Dates : June 26-28, 2012

Link: http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012/

Topics (included, but are not limited to):

Track 1. Hybrid Information Technology
Track 2. High Performance Computing
Track 3. Cloud and Cluster Computing
Track 4. Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications
Track 5. Digital Convergence
Track 6. Multimedia Convergence
Track 7. Intelligent and Pervasive Applications
Track 8. Security and Trust Computing
Track 9. IT Management and Service
Track 10. Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing
Track 11. Database and Data Mining
Track 12. Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent
Track 13. Game and Graphics
Track 14. Human-centric Computing and Social Networks

Publications:

Conference Proceedings will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) – Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

All papers accepted and presented in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals (Pending) :
@ The Journal of Supercomputing – Springer (SCI) (Pending)
@ Interacting with Computers – Elsevier (SCI) (Pending)
@ International Journal of Computer Mathematics – TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Wireless Personal Communications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Journal of Internet Technology – Taiwan-NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIV. (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Cluster Computing – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing – Inderscience (SCIE) (Pending)

@ Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
@ International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
@ Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA
@ Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) – KIPS (KCIE)

Overview:

Future technology information technology would stand for all of continuously evolving and converging information technologies, including digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent applications, embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications, bio-inspired computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web, user experience and HCI, secuity and trust computing and so on, for satisfying our ever-changing needs. In past twenty five years or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures. Without various IT-based applications, we would find it difficult to keep information stored securely, to process information efficiently, and to communicate information conveniently. In the future world, IT will play a very important role in convergence of computing, communication, and all other computational sciences and application and IT also will influence the future world’s various areas, including science, engineering, industry, business, law, politics, culture, medicine, and so on. Our conference is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization. FutureTech 2012 is the next edition of FutureTech 2011(Crete, Greece), FutureTech 2010 (Busan, Korea, May 2010) which was the next event in a series of highly successful the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Applications & Security Services (UASS-09, USA, Jan. 2009), previously held as UASS-08 (Okinawa, Japan,Mar. 2008), UASS-07 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August, 2007), and UASS-06 (Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May, 2006).

Important Dates:

Paper Submission deadline : December 15, 2011
Acceptacne Notification : February 28, 2012
Camera-ready Due : March 15, 2012
Registration Due : March 15, 2012
Conference Dates : June 26-28, 2012

Link: http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012/

Topics (included, but are not limited to):

Track 1. Hybrid Information Technology
Track 2. High Performance Computing
Track 3. Cloud and Cluster Computing
Track 4. Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications
Track 5. Digital Convergence
Track 6. Multimedia Convergence
Track 7. Intelligent and Pervasive Applications
Track 8. Security and Trust Computing
Track 9. IT Management and Service
Track 10. Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing
Track 11. Database and Data Mining
Track 12. Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent
Track 13. Game and Graphics
Track 14. Human-centric Computing and Social Networks

Publications:

Conference Proceedings will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) – Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

All papers accepted and presented in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals (Pending) :
@ The Journal of Supercomputing – Springer (SCI) (Pending)
@ Interacting with Computers – Elsevier (SCI) (Pending)
@ International Journal of Computer Mathematics – TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Wireless Personal Communications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Journal of Internet Technology – Taiwan-NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIV. (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ Cluster Computing – Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
@ International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing – Inderscience (SCIE) (Pending)

@ Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) – Springer
@ International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) – Inderscience
@ Journal of Convergence (JoC) – FTRA
@ Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) – KIPS (KCIE)

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Call For Papers: Fifth European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ECUMICT 2012)Call For Papers: Fifth European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ECUMICT 2012)

Posted on July 21, 2011 by admin

The fifth edition of ECUMICT has a
SPECIAL FOCUS ON WIRELESS AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS.

March 22-23, 2012
Gent, Belgium
www.ecumict.be

ECUMICT is a two-days conference on the use of modern information and communication technologies, organized by the engineering department of KAHO St Lieven (ass KU Leuven), Gent, Belgium, in cooperation with a scientific committee composed of experts from universities and institutes of higher education in Europe.

We welcome papers covering topics in the domain of wireless and mobile applications such as, but not limited to :
– Security for mobile communications and data access
– Interface technology for mobile devices
– Application development for mobile devices
– Positioning and localization, asset tracking and tracing
– Design and applications of RFID systems (also related to IoT)
– Design and applications of WSNs
– Embedded programming for WSNs
– New developments and applications of WPAN/WLAN standards
– Mobile multimedia systems
– Wireless telecommunication networks and mobile services
– Optimization techniques in wireless networks
– Developments in ad-hoc and mesh networks
– Applications of digital signal processing for mobile applications
– Applications of MEMs in WSNs

Important dates:

Submission deadline Nov. 15, 2011
Notification of Acceptance Jan. 17, 2012
Submission guidelines can be found on the conference website

Organizers:

Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven, ass. KU Leuven
Engineering Techology, Electronics
Gebr. Desmetstraat 1
B 9000 Gent
Belgium
info@ecumict.be

Scientific Committee Members:

Nicolae Dumitru ALEXANDRU
Technical University of lasi, Romania
Jeroen BOYDENS
Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende, Belgium
François CORTHAY,
HES-SO, Sion, Switserland
Luc DE BACKER,
KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Bart DE DECKER,
KU Leuven, Belgium
Jeremy FOSS
City University Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cecilia GARCIA,
Universidad Polytecnica de Madrid, Spain
Toon GOEDEME
Hogeschool voor wetenschap en kunst, Sint – Katelijne Waver, Belgium
Jean-Pierre GOEMAERE
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Adrian GRAUR
Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Roumania
Kris HERMUS
Wireless Community IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Luminita ION
EIGSI, La Rochelle, France
Wout JOSEPH,
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Michael KUHN
Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
Benedita MALHEIRO
ISEP, Porto, Portugal,
Abbas MOHAMMED,
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Vincent NAESSENS
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Carine NAESSENS
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Bart NAUWELAERS
KU Leuven, Belgium
Valentin NEGURA
Univ. Technique de Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
Joan PEUTEMAN
Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende, Belgium
Galidiya PETROVA,
Technical University Sofia, Plovdiv Branch, Bulgaria
Alin Dan POTORAC
Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania
Detlef REDLICH
Fachhochshule Jena, Germany
Volkmar RICHTER
Fachhochschule Anhalt, Köthen, Germany
Manuel G. SOARES
ISEP, Porto, Portugal
Nobby STEVENS,
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Greet VANDEN BERGHE
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Guy Vandenbosch,
KU Leuven, Belgium
Karel VAN DEN STEEN
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Luc VANDEURZEN
Groep T, Leuven, Belgium
Bart VANRUMSTE
Katholieke Hogeschool der Kempen, Belgium
Werner VERSCHELDE
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Paula VIANA
ISEP, Porto, Portugal
Annemie VORSTERMANS
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Maarten WEYN
Artesis hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium

Luc De Backer, Honorary Chair
Lieven De Strycker, Chair
________________________
dr. ir Lieven De Strycker
Engineering Technology – electronics
Tel. +32 9 265 86 14
Fax +32 9 225 62 69
Lieven.DeStrycker@ecumict.be
www.ecumict.be

KAHO Sint-Lieven
Gebroeders De Smetstraat 1
B-9000 GENT
BelgiumThe fifth edition of ECUMICT has a
SPECIAL FOCUS ON WIRELESS AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS.

March 22-23, 2012
Gent, Belgium
www.ecumict.be

ECUMICT is a two-days conference on the use of modern information and communication technologies, organized by the engineering department of KAHO St Lieven (ass KU Leuven), Gent, Belgium, in cooperation with a scientific committee composed of experts from universities and institutes of higher education in Europe.

We welcome papers covering topics in the domain of wireless and mobile applications such as, but not limited to :
– Security for mobile communications and data access
– Interface technology for mobile devices
– Application development for mobile devices
– Positioning and localization, asset tracking and tracing
– Design and applications of RFID systems (also related to IoT)
– Design and applications of WSNs
– Embedded programming for WSNs
– New developments and applications of WPAN/WLAN standards
– Mobile multimedia systems
– Wireless telecommunication networks and mobile services
– Optimization techniques in wireless networks
– Developments in ad-hoc and mesh networks
– Applications of digital signal processing for mobile applications
– Applications of MEMs in WSNs

Important dates:

Submission deadline Nov. 15, 2011
Notification of Acceptance Jan. 17, 2012
Submission guidelines can be found on the conference website

Organizers:

Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven, ass. KU Leuven
Engineering Techology, Electronics
Gebr. Desmetstraat 1
B 9000 Gent
Belgium
info@ecumict.be

Scientific Committee Members:

Nicolae Dumitru ALEXANDRU
Technical University of lasi, Romania
Jeroen BOYDENS
Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende, Belgium
François CORTHAY,
HES-SO, Sion, Switserland
Luc DE BACKER,
KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Bart DE DECKER,
KU Leuven, Belgium
Jeremy FOSS
City University Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cecilia GARCIA,
Universidad Polytecnica de Madrid, Spain
Toon GOEDEME
Hogeschool voor wetenschap en kunst, Sint – Katelijne Waver, Belgium
Jean-Pierre GOEMAERE
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Adrian GRAUR
Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Roumania
Kris HERMUS
Wireless Community IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Luminita ION
EIGSI, La Rochelle, France
Wout JOSEPH,
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Michael KUHN
Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
Benedita MALHEIRO
ISEP, Porto, Portugal,
Abbas MOHAMMED,
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Vincent NAESSENS
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Carine NAESSENS
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Bart NAUWELAERS
KU Leuven, Belgium
Valentin NEGURA
Univ. Technique de Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
Joan PEUTEMAN
Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende, Belgium
Galidiya PETROVA,
Technical University Sofia, Plovdiv Branch, Bulgaria
Alin Dan POTORAC
Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania
Detlef REDLICH
Fachhochshule Jena, Germany
Volkmar RICHTER
Fachhochschule Anhalt, Köthen, Germany
Manuel G. SOARES
ISEP, Porto, Portugal
Nobby STEVENS,
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Greet VANDEN BERGHE
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Guy Vandenbosch,
KU Leuven, Belgium
Karel VAN DEN STEEN
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Luc VANDEURZEN
Groep T, Leuven, Belgium
Bart VANRUMSTE
Katholieke Hogeschool der Kempen, Belgium
Werner VERSCHELDE
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Paula VIANA
ISEP, Porto, Portugal
Annemie VORSTERMANS
KaHo St.- Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Maarten WEYN
Artesis hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium

Luc De Backer, Honorary Chair
Lieven De Strycker, Chair
________________________
dr. ir Lieven De Strycker
Engineering Technology – electronics
Tel. +32 9 265 86 14
Fax +32 9 225 62 69
Lieven.DeStrycker@ecumict.be
www.ecumict.be

KAHO Sint-Lieven
Gebroeders De Smetstraat 1
B-9000 GENT
Belgium

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Call For Papers: The First IEEE International Conference on Internet Operating Systems (IEEE ICIOS 2012)Call For Papers: The First IEEE International Conference on Internet Operating Systems (IEEE ICIOS 2012)

Posted on July 21, 2011 by admin

The First IEEE International Conference on Internet Operating Systems (IEEE ICIOS 2012)
March 21-23, 2012
Hyatt Regency, Irvine, CA, USA
http://www.weavespace.com/domain/icios

Analogous to a desktop operating system, an Internet Operating System (IOS) brings together computational technologies that allow users to manage Internet resources (including documents, devices and applications). Unlike a desktop operating system, however, an Internet Operating System involves millions of people and it requires technologies that can stimulate the generation of content from a wide spectrum of human activities including personal, professional, cultural, social, and many others.

Interdisciplinary (Intra-disciplinary within Computer Science) in nature, the ultimate success of IOS requires new, synergized technologies be developed from various disciplines such as Computer Science, Social Sciences, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Medicine, Law, Business and Humanities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Modeling and Realization of Human Activities with the Internet
* Search Engine and Question Answering
* Service Discovery and Composition
* Internet Resource Management
* Internet Activity Management
* Internet of Things
* Internet Device Management
* Human-Computer Interface
* Architecture of Internet OS
* Engineering & Tools for Application Development
* Communication Technologies
* Embedded Systems and Real-time Applications
* Privacy and Security
* Semantic Web and Internet Operating Systems

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper), Short Papers (4-page technical paper), Demonstration Papers and Posters (2 page technical paper),  and Workshop and Special Session Proposals. More information is available on the ICIOS 2012 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.

IMPORTANT DATES:

* November 27th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission
* January 9th, 2012: Notification Date
* January 22nd, 2012: Camera-Ready & Registration Camera-Ready & RegistrationThe First IEEE International Conference on Internet Operating Systems (IEEE ICIOS 2012)
March 21-23, 2012
Hyatt Regency, Irvine, CA, USA
http://www.weavespace.com/domain/icios

Analogous to a desktop operating system, an Internet Operating System (IOS) brings together computational technologies that allow users to manage Internet resources (including documents, devices and applications). Unlike a desktop operating system, however, an Internet Operating System involves millions of people and it requires technologies that can stimulate the generation of content from a wide spectrum of human activities including personal, professional, cultural, social, and many others.

Interdisciplinary (Intra-disciplinary within Computer Science) in nature, the ultimate success of IOS requires new, synergized technologies be developed from various disciplines such as Computer Science, Social Sciences, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Medicine, Law, Business and Humanities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Modeling and Realization of Human Activities with the Internet
* Search Engine and Question Answering
* Service Discovery and Composition
* Internet Resource Management
* Internet Activity Management
* Internet of Things
* Internet Device Management
* Human-Computer Interface
* Architecture of Internet OS
* Engineering & Tools for Application Development
* Communication Technologies
* Embedded Systems and Real-time Applications
* Privacy and Security
* Semantic Web and Internet Operating Systems

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper), Short Papers (4-page technical paper), Demonstration Papers and Posters (2 page technical paper), and Workshop and Special Session Proposals. More information is available on the ICIOS 2012 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.

IMPORTANT DATES:

* November 27th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission
* January 9th, 2012: Notification Date
* January 22nd, 2012: Camera-Ready & Registration Camera-Ready & Registration

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Call For Papers: The first international conference on Lifelong Learning for Competitiveness, Employability and Social Inclusion (LLL Comp 2011)Call For Papers: The first international conference on Lifelong Learning for Competitiveness, Employability and Social Inclusion (LLL Comp 2011)

Posted on July 20, 2011 by admin

Welcome to the first international conference on Lifelong learning for Competitiveness, Employability and Social Inclusion. This conference aims to address the issue of using learning as a tool to increase the competitiveness of organisations worldwide and improve the employability of our citizens.

In today’s difficult economic times achieving and maintaining competitiveness is key. Management literature suggests that competitive advantage built on knowledge and skills is less visible to competitors and thus more difficult to imitate, therefore providing a base for a more robust advantage. Thus the focus of the conference is learning for competitiveness in order to build and sustain a more robust economy.

Themes
– University industry interface in learning
– Applied learning
– Models of incorporating work practices into third level education
– E-learning/mlearning.
– work based learning
– Models for encouraging companies to adopt learning as a competitive tool.
– Social inclusion in learning for competitiveness
– Informal learning
– Learning in networks and CoPs

Link: http://cis01.central.ucv.ro/lllearning/

Call for papers Issued: 23rd May 2011
Closing date: 15 August 2011
Notify authors: 1st September
Final papers (Camera Copy): 30th September
Conference Date: 11th November 2011

Location: University of Craiova, RomaniaWelcome to the first international conference on Lifelong learning for Competitiveness, Employability and Social Inclusion. This conference aims to address the issue of using learning as a tool to increase the competitiveness of organisations worldwide and improve the employability of our citizens.

In today’s difficult economic times achieving and maintaining competitiveness is key. Management literature suggests that competitive advantage built on knowledge and skills is less visible to competitors and thus more difficult to imitate, therefore providing a base for a more robust advantage. Thus the focus of the conference is learning for competitiveness in order to build and sustain a more robust economy.

Themes
– University industry interface in learning
– Applied learning
– Models of incorporating work practices into third level education
– E-learning/mlearning.
– work based learning
– Models for encouraging companies to adopt learning as a competitive tool.
– Social inclusion in learning for competitiveness
– Informal learning
– Learning in networks and CoPs

Link: http://cis01.central.ucv.ro/lllearning/

Call for papers Issued: 23rd May 2011
Closing date: 15 August 2011
Notify authors: 1st September
Final papers (Camera Copy): 30th September
Conference Date: 11th November 2011

Location: University of Craiova, Romania

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Call For Papers: International Workshop on Social Service Computing (SSC 2011)Call For Papers: International Workshop on Social Service Computing (SSC 2011)

Posted on July 19, 2011 by admin

Nowadays, a good number of applications exhibit social elements reported in people’s daily life. The objective of these applications is to link users together to facilitate interactions and make them richer and more productive. Social computing introduces a new dimension to the Web that goes beyond connecting HTML pages. Indeed, social applications based on weblogs, social networks, wikis, etc. have reinforced the role of the Web as an inevitable communication means. Among all these applications social networks are those that have attracted the attention of academia and industry communities. For instance, a social network platform like Facebook is being seen as a serious rival to some well established players in the Web business such as Google. This major shift in developing Web applications permits to accommodate users’ needs and requirements better, but raises major challenges in an environment that has become increasingly complex, less structured, and more hostile considering the great mass of knowledge generally hidden from users.
Despite the growing interest in integrating social computing with focus on social networks into Web applications, agility and competitiveness remain a challenge for modern enterprises to compete and respond quickly to market and business changes. Web applications are required to be interoperable. Web Services (WSs), which implement the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles, seem recently to be the technology of choice to develop interoperable applications that can cross organization boundaries. There is a kind of synergy between social computing and service computing. Social computing reflects relationships that people daily experience like friendship and dislike on social networks. Service computing allows developing applications as per the basic principle of “I offer services that somebody else may need” and “I require services that somebody else may offer”. The format of the workshop in terms of number of sessions, types of papers (long or short), keynote speakers, and last but not least panel discussions will be set upon completing paper review and author notification. The workshop format will be designed to foster discussion and developing action outcomes on key issues relating to social computing research relating to service computing.

AIM

This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of social computing and service computing to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of social sciences and techniques for application to services. We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this new area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general area of Social Web Services and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we hope to identify techniques from social computing that will have the greatest impact on making Web services take into account their previous experiences to build networks of contacts. Another aim of the workshop is to identify important directions for the social community to focus on that may be adopted by the wider service community.

TOPICS

Social networks analysis and mining for Web services discovery
Group interaction and collaboration for Web services composition
Social networks for Web services privacy and security
Business opportunities for Social Web services
Impact of social interactions on services infrastructures and QoS
Social relationship between Web services
Social behavior and Web service transaction
Evolution of Web services in social-like environments
Social Web services and robustness
Reputation and social Web services
Recommendation and social Web services
Social tagging application for Web services
User generated services (UGS), Mashups, and mobile Mashups
Metrics and evaluation
Case studies

AUDIENCE

This workshop will be of particular interest to service computing researchers who are working in e-Business (a primary application area of WS), those interested in developing open systems, in tracking and developing standards, and of general interest to anyone using the social and service paradigms for software development. We also believe that the Workshop’s topic area will be of significant interest to the wider IT community and expect industry participation.

Link: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ssc2011

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission dead-line: September 15th 2011
Author Notification: October 23th, 2011
Camera-Ready: November 7th 2011
Workshop venue: December, 5th 2011

Workshop Chair

– Noura Faci, Université Lyon 1 (noura.faci AT liris.cnrs.fr)

Organizing Committee

– Noura Faci, Université Lyon 1 (noura.faci AT liris.cnrs.fr)
– Hamdi Yahyaoui, Computer Science Department, Kuwait University (hamdi AT sci.kuniv.edu.kw)
– Leandro Krug Wives, Instituto de Informática, UFRGS (wives AT inf.ufrgs.br)
– Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E (zakaria.maamar AT zu.ac.ae)

Publicity Chair

– Fahim Akhter, UAE University, UAE

Program Committee

– Adel Serhani, UAE University, UAE
– Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Canada
– Cláudio R. Geyer, UFRGS, Brazil
– Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
– Licia Capra, University College London, UK
– Márcia Pasin, UFSM, Brazil
– M. Adel Serhani, UAE University, UAE
– Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
– Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research India, India
– Nikos Loutas, University of Macedonia, Greece
– Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
– Pascal Poizat, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne, LRI, France
– Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium
– Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1, LIFL, France
– Said Elnaffar, UAE University, UAE
– Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS, CNRS, France
– Yacine Atif, UAE University, UAE
– Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, OmanNowadays, a good number of applications exhibit social elements reported in people’s daily life. The objective of these applications is to link users together to facilitate interactions and make them richer and more productive. Social computing introduces a new dimension to the Web that goes beyond connecting HTML pages. Indeed, social applications based on weblogs, social networks, wikis, etc. have reinforced the role of the Web as an inevitable communication means. Among all these applications social networks are those that have attracted the attention of academia and industry communities. For instance, a social network platform like Facebook is being seen as a serious rival to some well established players in the Web business such as Google. This major shift in developing Web applications permits to accommodate users’ needs and requirements better, but raises major challenges in an environment that has become increasingly complex, less structured, and more hostile considering the great mass of knowledge generally hidden from users.
Despite the growing interest in integrating social computing with focus on social networks into Web applications, agility and competitiveness remain a challenge for modern enterprises to compete and respond quickly to market and business changes. Web applications are required to be interoperable. Web Services (WSs), which implement the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles, seem recently to be the technology of choice to develop interoperable applications that can cross organization boundaries. There is a kind of synergy between social computing and service computing. Social computing reflects relationships that people daily experience like friendship and dislike on social networks. Service computing allows developing applications as per the basic principle of “I offer services that somebody else may need” and “I require services that somebody else may offer”. The format of the workshop in terms of number of sessions, types of papers (long or short), keynote speakers, and last but not least panel discussions will be set upon completing paper review and author notification. The workshop format will be designed to foster discussion and developing action outcomes on key issues relating to social computing research relating to service computing.

AIM

This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of social computing and service computing to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of social sciences and techniques for application to services. We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this new area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general area of Social Web Services and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we hope to identify techniques from social computing that will have the greatest impact on making Web services take into account their previous experiences to build networks of contacts. Another aim of the workshop is to identify important directions for the social community to focus on that may be adopted by the wider service community.

TOPICS

Social networks analysis and mining for Web services discovery
Group interaction and collaboration for Web services composition
Social networks for Web services privacy and security
Business opportunities for Social Web services
Impact of social interactions on services infrastructures and QoS
Social relationship between Web services
Social behavior and Web service transaction
Evolution of Web services in social-like environments
Social Web services and robustness
Reputation and social Web services
Recommendation and social Web services
Social tagging application for Web services
User generated services (UGS), Mashups, and mobile Mashups
Metrics and evaluation
Case studies

AUDIENCE

This workshop will be of particular interest to service computing researchers who are working in e-Business (a primary application area of WS), those interested in developing open systems, in tracking and developing standards, and of general interest to anyone using the social and service paradigms for software development. We also believe that the Workshop’s topic area will be of significant interest to the wider IT community and expect industry participation.

Link: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ssc2011

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission dead-line: September 15th 2011
Author Notification: October 23th, 2011
Camera-Ready: November 7th 2011
Workshop venue: December, 5th 2011

Workshop Chair

– Noura Faci, Université Lyon 1 (noura.faci AT liris.cnrs.fr)

Organizing Committee

– Noura Faci, Université Lyon 1 (noura.faci AT liris.cnrs.fr)
– Hamdi Yahyaoui, Computer Science Department, Kuwait University (hamdi AT sci.kuniv.edu.kw)
– Leandro Krug Wives, Instituto de Informática, UFRGS (wives AT inf.ufrgs.br)
– Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E (zakaria.maamar AT zu.ac.ae)

Publicity Chair

– Fahim Akhter, UAE University, UAE

Program Committee

– Adel Serhani, UAE University, UAE
– Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Canada
– Cláudio R. Geyer, UFRGS, Brazil
– Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
– Licia Capra, University College London, UK
– Márcia Pasin, UFSM, Brazil
– M. Adel Serhani, UAE University, UAE
– Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
– Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research India, India
– Nikos Loutas, University of Macedonia, Greece
– Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
– Pascal Poizat, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne, LRI, France
– Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium
– Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1, LIFL, France
– Said Elnaffar, UAE University, UAE
– Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS, CNRS, France
– Yacine Atif, UAE University, UAE
– Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

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Call For Papers: The Third International Conference on Trusted Systems (INTRUST 2011)Call For Papers: Call For Papers: The Third International Conference on Trusted Systems (INTRUST 2011)

Posted on July 17, 2011 by admin
When Nov 27, 2011 – Nov 29, 2011
Where Beijing
Submission Deadline Aug 1, 2011
Notification Due Oct 18, 2011

Link: http://www.onets.com.cn/intrust11

Introduction

Building on the success of INTRUST 2009 and INTRUST 2010 (both were held in Beijing, P. R. China), this conference focuses on the theory, technologies and applications of trusted systems. It is devoted to all aspects of trusted computing systems, including trusted modules, platforms, networks, services and applications, from their fundamental features and functionalities to design principles, architecture and implementation technologies. The goal of the conference is to bring academic and industrial researchers, designers, and implementers together with end-users of trusted systems, in order to foster the exchange of ideas in this challenging and fruitful area. The conference will be hosted by the Beijing Institute of Technology and ONETS.

INTRUST 2011 solicits original papers on any aspect of the theory, advanced development and applications of trusted computing, trustworthy systems and general trust issues in modern computing systems. The conference will have an academic track and an industrial track. This call for papers is for contributions to both of the tracks. Submissions to the academic track should emphasize theoretical and practical research contributions to general trusted system technologies, while submissions to the industrial track may focus on experiences in the implementation and deployment of real-world systems.

Instructions for authors

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any journal or other conference or workshop that has proceedings. Submissions will take place entirely via a web system. All submissions will be blind-reviewed. Papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. A submitted paper should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords.

As was the vase for INTRUST 2009 and 2010, the proceedings of INTRUST 2011 will, as a plan, be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available after the conference. Clear instructions for the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. We strongly recommend that authors submit their papers in the standard LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0 for the details) with length at most 15 pages (excluding bibliography and appendices). Committee members are not required to review more than that, so the paper should be intelligible and self-contained within this length. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Authors are asked to clearly indicate whether their submissions are for the academic track or the industrial track in the title.

Best paper award

The conference has a best paper award sponsored by Singapore Management University for US$1000; all papers are eligible for this award.

Topics of relevance include but are not limited to:

– Fundamental features and functionalities of trusted systems
– Primitives and mechanisms for building a chain of trust
– Design principles and architectures of trusted modules and platforms
– Implementation technologies for trusted modules and platforms
– Cryptographic aspects of trusted systems, including cryptographic algorithms and protocols, and their implementation and application in trusted systems
– Scalable safe network operation in trusted systems
– Mobile trusted systems, such as trusted mobile platforms, sensor networks, mobile (ad hoc) networks, peer-to-peer networks, Bluetooth, etc.
– Storage aspects for trusted systems
– Applications of trusted systems, e.g. trusted email, web services and various e-commerce services
– Trustworthy infrastructures and services for cloud computing
– Trusted intellectual property protection: metering, watermarking, digital rights management and enterprise rights management
– Software protection for trusted systems
– Hardware security for trusted systems
– Authentication and access control for trusted systems
– Key, identity and certificate management for trusted systems
– Privacy aspects for trusted systems
– Attestation aspects for trusted systems, including the measurement and verification of the behaviour of trusted systems
– Standards organizations and their contributions to trusted systems, such as TCG, ISO/IEC, IEEE 802.11, etc.
– Emerging technologies for trusted systems, such as RFID, memory spots, smart cards, etc.
– Trust metrics and robust trust inference in distributed systems
– Usability and reliability aspects for trusted systems
– Trust modeling, economic analysis and protocol design for rational and malicious adversaries
– Virtualisation for trusted systems
– Limitations of trusted systems
– Security analysis of trusted systems, including formal method proofs, provable security and automated analysis
– Security policies for, and management of, trusted systems
– Intrusion resilience and revocation aspects for trusted systems
– Scalability aspects of trusted systems
– Compatibility aspects of trusted systems
– Experiences in building real-world trusted systems
– Socio-economic aspects of trusted systems

Conference organization

General Chairs
– Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
– Heyuan Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
– Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK

Programme Committee Chairs
– Moti Yung, Columbia University & Google Inc., USA
– Liqun Chen, HP Laboratories, UK
– Liehuang Zhu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

When Nov 27, 2011 – Nov 29, 2011
Where Beijing
Submission Deadline Aug 1, 2011
Notification Due Oct 18, 2011

Link: http://www.onets.com.cn/intrust11

Introduction

Building on the success of INTRUST 2009 and INTRUST 2010 (both were held in Beijing, P. R. China), this conference focuses on the theory, technologies and applications of trusted systems. It is devoted to all aspects of trusted computing systems, including trusted modules, platforms, networks, services and applications, from their fundamental features and functionalities to design principles, architecture and implementation technologies. The goal of the conference is to bring academic and industrial researchers, designers, and implementers together with end-users of trusted systems, in order to foster the exchange of ideas in this challenging and fruitful area. The conference will be hosted by the Beijing Institute of Technology and ONETS.

INTRUST 2011 solicits original papers on any aspect of the theory, advanced development and applications of trusted computing, trustworthy systems and general trust issues in modern computing systems. The conference will have an academic track and an industrial track. This call for papers is for contributions to both of the tracks. Submissions to the academic track should emphasize theoretical and practical research contributions to general trusted system technologies, while submissions to the industrial track may focus on experiences in the implementation and deployment of real-world systems.

Instructions for authors

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any journal or other conference or workshop that has proceedings. Submissions will take place entirely via a web system. All submissions will be blind-reviewed. Papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. A submitted paper should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords.

As was the vase for INTRUST 2009 and 2010, the proceedings of INTRUST 2011 will, as a plan, be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available after the conference. Clear instructions for the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. We strongly recommend that authors submit their papers in the standard LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0 for the details) with length at most 15 pages (excluding bibliography and appendices). Committee members are not required to review more than that, so the paper should be intelligible and self-contained within this length. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Authors are asked to clearly indicate whether their submissions are for the academic track or the industrial track in the title.

Best paper award

The conference has a best paper award sponsored by Singapore Management University for US$1000; all papers are eligible for this award.

Topics of relevance include but are not limited to:

– Fundamental features and functionalities of trusted systems
– Primitives and mechanisms for building a chain of trust
– Design principles and architectures of trusted modules and platforms
– Implementation technologies for trusted modules and platforms
– Cryptographic aspects of trusted systems, including cryptographic algorithms and protocols, and their implementation and application in trusted systems
– Scalable safe network operation in trusted systems
– Mobile trusted systems, such as trusted mobile platforms, sensor networks, mobile (ad hoc) networks, peer-to-peer networks, Bluetooth, etc.
– Storage aspects for trusted systems
– Applications of trusted systems, e.g. trusted email, web services and various e-commerce services
– Trustworthy infrastructures and services for cloud computing
– Trusted intellectual property protection: metering, watermarking, digital rights management and enterprise rights management
– Software protection for trusted systems
– Hardware security for trusted systems
– Authentication and access control for trusted systems
– Key, identity and certificate management for trusted systems
– Privacy aspects for trusted systems
– Attestation aspects for trusted systems, including the measurement and verification of the behaviour of trusted systems
– Standards organizations and their contributions to trusted systems, such as TCG, ISO/IEC, IEEE 802.11, etc.
– Emerging technologies for trusted systems, such as RFID, memory spots, smart cards, etc.
– Trust metrics and robust trust inference in distributed systems
– Usability and reliability aspects for trusted systems
– Trust modeling, economic analysis and protocol design for rational and malicious adversaries
– Virtualisation for trusted systems
– Limitations of trusted systems
– Security analysis of trusted systems, including formal method proofs, provable security and automated analysis
– Security policies for, and management of, trusted systems
– Intrusion resilience and revocation aspects for trusted systems
– Scalability aspects of trusted systems
– Compatibility aspects of trusted systems
– Experiences in building real-world trusted systems
– Socio-economic aspects of trusted systems

Conference organization

General Chairs
– Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
– Heyuan Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
– Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK

Programme Committee Chairs
– Moti Yung, Columbia University & Google Inc., USA
– Liqun Chen, HP Laboratories, UK
– Liehuang Zhu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

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Call For Papers: International Conference on Information Resources Management 2011 (Conf-IRM 2012)Call For Papers: International Conference on Information Resources Management 2011 (Conf-IRM 2012)

Posted on July 16, 2011 by admin

WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
May 21-23, 2012

Link:  http://conf-irm2012.wu.ac.at

Theme: Information Systems and Accountability in a Digital World

Important Dates

Submission deadline: December 6, 2011
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 1, 2012
Final Submission and Early Registration due date: March 1, 2012

The organizing committee invites you to submit your research work, teaching cases, and proposals for panels and tutorials to Conf-IRM.
All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer reviewed. The review process will be handled by the track chairs and co-chairs.

Conference Tracks & Track Chairs:

1 IT Evaluation, Decision Making and Compliance
Alessio Ishizaka, University of Portsmouth, UK, Alessio.Ishizaka@port.ac.uk
Volker Stix, WU Wien, Austria, Volker.Stix@wu.ac.at

2 IT Service Management, Service Computing and Engineering
Rob Benyon, Rhodes University, South Africa, r.v.benyon@ru.ac.za
Sue Conger, University of Dallas, USA, sconger@gsm.udallas.edu
Alan Pilkington, RHUL, UK, a.pilkington@rhul.ac.uk

3 Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies
Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK, r.gholami@aston.ac.uk
Petra Staufer-Steinocher, WU Wien, Austria, petra.staufer-steinnocher@wu.ac.at

4 Knowledge Management
Pramila Gupta, CQU, Australia, p.gupta@mel.cqu.edu.au
Alexander Kaiser, WU Wien, Austria, Alexander.Kaiser@wu.ac.at
Annette Mills, UC, New Zealand, annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz

5 ICT for Development
Antonio Díaz Andrade, AUT University, New Zealand, antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz
Luiz Antonio Joia, Brazilian School of Publ. & Bus. Admin. at Getulio Vargas Found., lajoia@w3e.com.br

6 ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean (including submissions in Spanish and Portuguese)
Renata Lebre La-Rovere, UFRJ, Brazil, renataieufrj@gmail.com

Ariel La Paz, Universidad de Chile, Chile, lapaz@fen.uchile.cl
Cesar Alexandre de Souza, FEA-USP, Brazil, calesou@usp.br

7 Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management
Brian Cusack, AUT University, New Zealand, brian.cusack@aut.ac.nz
Matthew Nicolas Kreeger, University of London & Thales IT Security, UK, matthew.kreeger@thales-esecurity.com
Shaobo Ji, Carleton University, Canada, shaobo_ji@carleton.ca

8 ICT in Government, Education, and Healthcare
Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon, RHUL, UK, J.R.Cordoba-Pachon@rhul.ac.uk
Andy Igonor, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada, andyi@nait.ca

9 E-Commerce, M-Commerce and Social Networking
Zhang Cheng, Fudan University, China, zhangche@fudean.edu.cn

10 Cloud Computing and Virtualization
Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany, daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de
Konradin Maier, WU Wien, konradin.maier@wu.ac.at

11 Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations, and Society
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK, jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com
Peijian Song, Nanjing University China, songpeijian@nju.edu.cn

12 Strategic IT Management and Governance
Romano Dyerson, RHUL, UK, r.dyerson@rhul.ac.uk
Tim McLaren, Ryerson University, Canada, tmclaren@ryerson.ca
Geoffery Seaver, NDU, USA, Seaverg@ndu.edu

13 Design Thinking in Information Systems Development
Marko Forsell, Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, marko.forsell@cou.fi

14 IS Research Methods
Johann Mitlöhner, WU Wien, Austria, mitloehn@wu-wien.ac.at
Frantisek Sudzina, Aarhus University, Denmark, fransu@asb.dk

PT Panels and Tutorials
Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria, roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz

We also welcome papers in Spanish and Portuguese in track 6 (ICT in Latin America and the Carribean). All other submissions are only accepted in English.

Submission Types and Guidelines:

(i) Full Length Submissions
Submissions must be no more than 5000 words, including references, appendices and title page, with a maximum of 5 figures/tables. Submissions must be original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscript for review. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety upon payment of registration fees. Papers accepted and presented at the conference will also be placed in the AIS e-Library. Papers not presented at the conference, for any reason, will not be included in the AIS e-Library.

Highly rated papers by the reviewers will be considered for publications in selected Journals. Moreover, the paper that best represents, in terms of quality and suitability to the theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded the “Best Paper Award” during the conference.

(ii) Research-in-Progress Submissions
Submissions of no more than 2000 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables. All research-in-progress submissions will be published in the proceedings as short papers.

(iii) Teaching Cases
We welcome submissions of teaching cases. The cases should be based on real situations and targeted at specific learning objectives. Cases should be no more than 5000 words and must be accompanied by instructor
teaching notes (not included in the 5000 words). The teaching notes will not be published.

(iv) Panel and Tutorial Submissions
Submissions of not more than 1000 words. Proposals should include the objectives, issues to be covered and full details of all presenters. Method of presentation is at the submitter’s discretion; however, the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own panel members. All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings (Please note that all panelists and tutorial presenters must register for the conference).

Further Announcements
– The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two submissions.
– Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all panel members MUST register and attend the conference.
– Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by December 6, 2011.
– Details of track descriptions and how to submit will be announced soon.

Send all your inquiries to the Conference Secretariat (conf-irm@wu.ac.at) or directly to:

Conference Co-Chairs
Edward Bernroider, WU Wien, Austria, edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at
G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, g.harindranath@rhul.ac.uk

Program Co-Chairs
Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria, roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at
Lech Janczewski,University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz

Publications and Proceedings Chair
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz

International Co-Chairs
Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada, gerald_grant@carleton.ca
Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt, skamel@aucegypt.edu
Felix B Tan, AUT University, New Zealand, felix.tan@aut.ac.nz

Administrative Co-Chairs
Stefan Bauer, WU Wien, Austria, stefan.bauer@wu.ac.at
Nikolaus Obwegeser, WU Wien, Austria, nikolaus.obwegeser@wu.ac.at

We look forward to seeing you in Vienna in May 2012.

Edward Bernroider and G. Harindranath

** Conf-IRM is an AIS Affiliated Conference **WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
May 21-23, 2012

Link: http://conf-irm2012.wu.ac.at

Theme: Information Systems and Accountability in a Digital World

Important Dates

Submission deadline: December 6, 2011
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 1, 2012
Final Submission and Early Registration due date: March 1, 2012

The organizing committee invites you to submit your research work, teaching cases, and proposals for panels and tutorials to Conf-IRM.
All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer reviewed. The review process will be handled by the track chairs and co-chairs.

Conference Tracks & Track Chairs:

1 IT Evaluation, Decision Making and Compliance
Alessio Ishizaka, University of Portsmouth, UK, Alessio.Ishizaka@port.ac.uk
Volker Stix, WU Wien, Austria, Volker.Stix@wu.ac.at

2 IT Service Management, Service Computing and Engineering
Rob Benyon, Rhodes University, South Africa, r.v.benyon@ru.ac.za
Sue Conger, University of Dallas, USA, sconger@gsm.udallas.edu
Alan Pilkington, RHUL, UK, a.pilkington@rhul.ac.uk

3 Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies
Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK, r.gholami@aston.ac.uk
Petra Staufer-Steinocher, WU Wien, Austria, petra.staufer-steinnocher@wu.ac.at

4 Knowledge Management
Pramila Gupta, CQU, Australia, p.gupta@mel.cqu.edu.au
Alexander Kaiser, WU Wien, Austria, Alexander.Kaiser@wu.ac.at
Annette Mills, UC, New Zealand, annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz

5 ICT for Development
Antonio Díaz Andrade, AUT University, New Zealand, antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz
Luiz Antonio Joia, Brazilian School of Publ. & Bus. Admin. at Getulio Vargas Found., lajoia@w3e.com.br

6 ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean (including submissions in Spanish and Portuguese)
Renata Lebre La-Rovere, UFRJ, Brazil, renataieufrj@gmail.com

Ariel La Paz, Universidad de Chile, Chile, lapaz@fen.uchile.cl
Cesar Alexandre de Souza, FEA-USP, Brazil, calesou@usp.br

7 Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management
Brian Cusack, AUT University, New Zealand, brian.cusack@aut.ac.nz
Matthew Nicolas Kreeger, University of London & Thales IT Security, UK, matthew.kreeger@thales-esecurity.com
Shaobo Ji, Carleton University, Canada, shaobo_ji@carleton.ca

8 ICT in Government, Education, and Healthcare
Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon, RHUL, UK, J.R.Cordoba-Pachon@rhul.ac.uk
Andy Igonor, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada, andyi@nait.ca

9 E-Commerce, M-Commerce and Social Networking
Zhang Cheng, Fudan University, China, zhangche@fudean.edu.cn

10 Cloud Computing and Virtualization
Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany, daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de
Konradin Maier, WU Wien, konradin.maier@wu.ac.at

11 Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations, and Society
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK, jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com
Peijian Song, Nanjing University China, songpeijian@nju.edu.cn

12 Strategic IT Management and Governance
Romano Dyerson, RHUL, UK, r.dyerson@rhul.ac.uk
Tim McLaren, Ryerson University, Canada, tmclaren@ryerson.ca
Geoffery Seaver, NDU, USA, Seaverg@ndu.edu

13 Design Thinking in Information Systems Development
Marko Forsell, Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, marko.forsell@cou.fi

14 IS Research Methods
Johann Mitlöhner, WU Wien, Austria, mitloehn@wu-wien.ac.at
Frantisek Sudzina, Aarhus University, Denmark, fransu@asb.dk

PT Panels and Tutorials
Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria, roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz

We also welcome papers in Spanish and Portuguese in track 6 (ICT in Latin America and the Carribean). All other submissions are only accepted in English.

Submission Types and Guidelines:

(i) Full Length Submissions
Submissions must be no more than 5000 words, including references, appendices and title page, with a maximum of 5 figures/tables. Submissions must be original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscript for review. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety upon payment of registration fees. Papers accepted and presented at the conference will also be placed in the AIS e-Library. Papers not presented at the conference, for any reason, will not be included in the AIS e-Library.

Highly rated papers by the reviewers will be considered for publications in selected Journals. Moreover, the paper that best represents, in terms of quality and suitability to the theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded the “Best Paper Award” during the conference.

(ii) Research-in-Progress Submissions
Submissions of no more than 2000 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables. All research-in-progress submissions will be published in the proceedings as short papers.

(iii) Teaching Cases
We welcome submissions of teaching cases. The cases should be based on real situations and targeted at specific learning objectives. Cases should be no more than 5000 words and must be accompanied by instructor
teaching notes (not included in the 5000 words). The teaching notes will not be published.

(iv) Panel and Tutorial Submissions
Submissions of not more than 1000 words. Proposals should include the objectives, issues to be covered and full details of all presenters. Method of presentation is at the submitter’s discretion; however, the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own panel members. All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings (Please note that all panelists and tutorial presenters must register for the conference).

Further Announcements
– The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two submissions.
– Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all panel members MUST register and attend the conference.
– Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by December 6, 2011.
– Details of track descriptions and how to submit will be announced soon.

Send all your inquiries to the Conference Secretariat (conf-irm@wu.ac.at) or directly to:

Conference Co-Chairs
Edward Bernroider, WU Wien, Austria, edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at
G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, g.harindranath@rhul.ac.uk

Program Co-Chairs
Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria, roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at
Lech Janczewski,University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz

Publications and Proceedings Chair
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz

International Co-Chairs
Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada, gerald_grant@carleton.ca
Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt, skamel@aucegypt.edu
Felix B Tan, AUT University, New Zealand, felix.tan@aut.ac.nz

Administrative Co-Chairs
Stefan Bauer, WU Wien, Austria, stefan.bauer@wu.ac.at
Nikolaus Obwegeser, WU Wien, Austria, nikolaus.obwegeser@wu.ac.at

We look forward to seeing you in Vienna in May 2012.

Edward Bernroider and G. Harindranath

** Conf-IRM is an AIS Affiliated Conference **

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Call For Papers: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology – Special Issue on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (TIST-SI-SASWeb 2012)Call For Papers: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology – Special Issue on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (TIST-SI-SASWeb 2012)

Posted on July 15, 2011 by admin

1. Overview

Social Web is growing daily, together with the number of users and applications. Users generate a significant part of Web content and traffic: they create, connect, comment, tag, rate, remix, upload/download, new or existing resources in an architecture of participation, where user contribution and interaction add value. Users are also involved in a broad range of social activities like creating friendship relationships, recommending and sharing resources, suggesting friends, creating groups and communities, commenting friends activities and profiles and so on.

At the same time, Semantic Web, whose main goal is to describe Web resources in a way that allows machines to understand and process them, has started to go out from academies and begins to be massively exploited in many web sites, incorporating high-quality user contributed content and semantic annotations using Internet-based services as an enabling platform.

The recent advances in the Semantic Web area, and specifically the widespread use of weak semantic techniques (the so-called ‘lowercase’ semantic web), such as the use of microformats (e.g. eRDF, RDFa) to attach semantics to content, also provide new standardized ways to process and share information. This approach allows information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, …) to also be automatically processed by machines, and this obviates other more complicated methods of processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping.

The primary goal of this special issue is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Social Web and Semantic Web, in order to analyze the benefits adaptation and personalization have to offer in the Web of the future, the so-called Social Semantic Web.

We are particularly interested in system-oriented papers, in which the approaches are accompanied by an in-depth experimental evaluation.

2. Topics

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

  • The impact of Social Web on Semantic Web, and viceversa
  • Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies
  • Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Semantic Web
  • Enriching Social Web with semantic data: weak semantic techniques, microformats and other approaches
  • Folksonomies vs Ontologies
  • Novel approaches and/or systems combining semantic, social and adaptive aspects
  • Adaptation, personalization, recommendation models and goals in the Social Semantic Web
  • Reasoning in the Social Semantic Web
  • Novel trust and reputation models
  • Social navigation support, social search and semantic browsing
  • Semantic Mashups
  • User studies and novel metrics for evaluating Social Semantic Web applications
  • Querying and mining Social Semantic Web data

3. Tentative Schedule

Full paper submission: September 30, 2011

Review decision notification: December, 22 2011

Final manuscript: February 6, 2012

4. Submissions guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to the special issue should contain original material not published in nor submitted to other journals. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers. Papers which do not meet publication quality standards, or does not pass the editorial assessment of suitability of this special issue will be rejected before the review process.

Full papers should be sent via on-line submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select “Special Issue: Semantic Adaptive Social Web” as the manuscript type). Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the ACM TIST Website at http://tist.acm.org/

5. Guest Editors

Federica Cena

Department of Computer Science – University of Turin, Italy

Web site: http://www.di.unito.it/~cena/

E-mail: cena(at)di(dot)unito(dot)it

Antonina Dattolo

Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica – University of Udine, Italy

Web site: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/antonina.dattolo/

E-mail: antonina(dot)dattolo(at)uniud(dot)it

 

Pasquale Lops

Department of Computer Science – University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Web site: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/lops.html

E-mail: lops(at)di(dot)uniba(dot)it

Julita Vassileva

Department of Computer Science – University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Web site: http://julita.usask.ca/homepage/j1.htm

E-mail: jiv(at)cs(dot)usask(dot)ca

1. Overview

Social Web is growing daily, together with the number of users and applications. Users generate a significant part of Web content and traffic: they create, connect, comment, tag, rate, remix, upload/download, new or existing resources in an architecture of participation, where user contribution and interaction add value. Users are also involved in a broad range of social activities like creating friendship relationships, recommending and sharing resources, suggesting friends, creating groups and communities, commenting friends activities and profiles and so on.

At the same time, Semantic Web, whose main goal is to describe Web resources in a way that allows machines to understand and process them, has started to go out from academies and begins to be massively exploited in many web sites, incorporating high-quality user contributed content and semantic annotations using Internet-based services as an enabling platform.

The recent advances in the Semantic Web area, and specifically the widespread use of weak semantic techniques (the so-called ‘lowercase’ semantic web), such as the use of microformats (e.g. eRDF, RDFa) to attach semantics to content, also provide new standardized ways to process and share information. This approach allows information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, …) to also be automatically processed by machines, and this obviates other more complicated methods of processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping.

The primary goal of this special issue is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Social Web and Semantic Web, in order to analyze the benefits adaptation and personalization have to offer in the Web of the future, the so-called Social Semantic Web.

We are particularly interested in system-oriented papers, in which the approaches are accompanied by an in-depth experimental evaluation.

2. Topics

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

  • The impact of Social Web on Semantic Web, and viceversa
  • Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies
  • Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Semantic Web
  • Enriching Social Web with semantic data: weak semantic techniques, microformats and other approaches
  • Folksonomies vs Ontologies
  • Novel approaches and/or systems combining semantic, social and adaptive aspects
  • Adaptation, personalization, recommendation models and goals in the Social Semantic Web
  • Reasoning in the Social Semantic Web
  • Novel trust and reputation models
  • Social navigation support, social search and semantic browsing
  • Semantic Mashups
  • User studies and novel metrics for evaluating Social Semantic Web applications
  • Querying and mining Social Semantic Web data

3. Tentative Schedule

Full paper submission: September 30, 2011

Review decision notification: December, 22 2011

Final manuscript: February 6, 2012

4. Submissions guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to the special issue should contain original material not published in nor submitted to other journals. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers. Papers which do not meet publication quality standards, or does not pass the editorial assessment of suitability of this special issue will be rejected before the review process.

Full papers should be sent via on-line submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select “Special Issue: Semantic Adaptive Social Web” as the manuscript type). Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the ACM TIST Website at http://tist.acm.org/

5. Guest Editors

Federica Cena

Department of Computer Science – University of Turin, Italy

Web site: http://www.di.unito.it/~cena/

E-mail: cena(at)di(dot)unito(dot)it

Antonina Dattolo

Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica – University of Udine, Italy

Web site: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/antonina.dattolo/

E-mail: antonina(dot)dattolo(at)uniud(dot)it

 

Pasquale Lops

Department of Computer Science – University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Web site: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/lops.html

E-mail: lops(at)di(dot)uniba(dot)it

Julita Vassileva

Department of Computer Science – University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Web site: http://julita.usask.ca/homepage/j1.htm

E-mail: jiv(at)cs(dot)usask(dot)ca

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