[Sigcr-l] ACM MEDES'09: Call For Papers

[Youakim BADR]

The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital  
EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
            Technically sponsored by both ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter
                                 http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
                                      October 27-30, 2009
                                         Lyon - France

Description and Objectives
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In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of  
digital medias leads to the emergence of
virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple  
and independent entities such as individuals,
organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or  
several missions and focusing on the interactions
and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits  
self-organizing environments, thanks to the
re-combination and evolution of its ?digital components?, in which  
resources provided by each entity are properly
conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly  
comprehend data management, innovative services,
computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the  
multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their  
characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This  
also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will  
empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The  
application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable  
the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately  
interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business  
practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through  
novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data  
management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer  
interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing  
systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage  
their resources.
The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital  
EcoSystems (EDES) aims to develop and bring together
a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry  
interested in exploring the manifold challenges
and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and  
how current approaches and technologies can be
evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original  
research papers, industrial papers and proposals
for demonstrations, and tutorials and workshops.

Topics
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We solicit original research and technical papers not published  
elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application  
oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):

- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Web Technologies
- Social Networks
- Data & Knowledge Management Systems
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Ontology Management
- Services systems and Engineering
- E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government
- Emergent Intelligence
- Game Theory
- Networks and Protocols
- Security & Privacy
- Standardization and Extensible Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Business Intelligence
- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement
- Digital Library

Paper Submission
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Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be  
uploaded using the conference website.
Submissions should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers  
that fail to comply with length limit
will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer  
reviewers. Selection criteria will
include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical  
soundness, and quality of presentation.
Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or  
challenging positions on important emergent topics
related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the  
conference to present the paper.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the  
ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates
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- Submission of papers to be mentored: April 1st, 2009
- Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 1st, 2009
- Notification of Workshop & Tutorial Acceptance: May 1st , 2009
- Full Paper submission: June 15, 2009
- Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 5, 2009
- Camera Ready Papers Due and Registration: September 15, 2009
- Conference Dates: October 27-30, 2009

Special issues and Journal Publication
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Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of  
the following reviewed journals.
- International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC)
- Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)

Committees
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Program Chairs:
Epaminondas Kapetanios (University of Westminster, UK)
Agma Traina (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Workshops Chair:
Yinghua Ma (University of Jiaotong, China)

Local Organizing Committee Chairs:
Nicolas Lumineau (INSA - Lyon, France)
Cécile Favre (University of Lyon2, France)


International Program Committee:
(see the web site for the full list)