[sigCR] ACM MEDES'13: Call for participation - Luxembourg (28-31 oct. 2013)

[Richard Chbeir]

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                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 
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               The International ACM Conference on 
            Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems 
                          (MEDES 2013)
 

                       Technically Sponsored by:
                           ACM SIGAPP  
                           ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter
                           with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6           

                    http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/
                           October 28-31, 2013
                    Abbey of Neumunster, Luxembourg
  
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For registration and hotel reservations, please visit the conference web site.
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The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) 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 MEDES addresses a large number of themes and issues including the following regular session topics:
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Big Data
- Services
- Cloud Computing 
- Emergent Intelligence
- Trust, Security & Privacy
- Data & Knowledge Management
- Web and Standards
- Networks and Protocols 


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PROGRAM:
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For full program details, please visit the conference web site at:
http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/.

Some of the highlights of the program include:

(1) A half-day tutorial:

       From data to services: the creation of services from Open Data and Semantic data sets
          By Dr. Muriel Foulonneau, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
             Dr. Geraldine Vidou, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg


(2) Keynote presentations from field leaders including;

     Explaining Recommendations in time-aware Location-based Social Networks
        Dr. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

     Ecosystem of CNRTA in Brazil 
        Dr. Silvio A. Spinella, Information Technology Center Renato Archer, Brazil


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PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
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All accepted papers will be published by the ACM Digital Library.
Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in affiliated journals and special issues.


Special tracks affiliated with MEDES 2013 include:
* Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
* EU-Brazil innovation and Best Practice in IT Ecosystems
* DEEP: experiences and perspectives of Digital Ecosystems European Projects

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE :
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General Chair
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Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Peter A. Bruck, Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria
Antonio Montes, Centro de Tecnologia da Informacao Renato Archer, Brazil

Program Chairs
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Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France

Local Organizing Chairs
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Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Ingrid Zantis, Zantis-Consulting, Luxembourg
Jean-Paul Hengen, ICT Sector Development, Luxembourg

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