[Sigdl-l] ACM MEDES'09: Call for Demo and Industrial Proposals - Deadline Approaching

[Youakim Badr]

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        Demonstration and Industrial Proposals' submission deadline is:
                             September 5th, 2009
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                   Call for Demonstrations and Industrial Papers

The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital  
EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
   Technically sponsored by ACM SIGAPP, ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter,IEEE  
France & IEEE SMCS
                              with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6
                                 http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
                                      October 27-30, 2009
                                         Lyon - France

Description and Objectives
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The International ACM 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 the  
resource management of Digital Ecosystems.
The conference seeks to address how current approaches and  
technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end and
will include an informative and interactive session for the  
presentation of demonstrations and industrial papers describing
original industrial applications, experiences and challenges.

Proposals should be focused on the conference topics and related techniques.


Topics
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We solicit demonstrations and industrial proposals related but not  
limited to the following topics:

- 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
- Open Source

Demonstrations and Industrial Proposal Submissions
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Submissions must follow ACM format guidelines and must be uploaded in  
PDF format using the conference website.
Proposals must be no more than four pages long. This page limit  
includes all parts of the paper: title, abstract, body, and  
bibliography.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 peer reviewers.
Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact,  
technical soundness, and quality of presentation.
At least one author should attend the conference to present the proposal.
Accepted proposals will appear in the final proceedings of the main  
conference published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library.

Demonstration proposals must clearly describe what will be  
demonstrated, how the contribution will be illustrated interactively
and how the audience will interact in order to understand the concepts  
being demonstrated.

Optionally, proposals can include a URL that shows a preliminary  
version of the demonstration such as screenshots
or another interactive program.



Important Dates
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- Proposal Submission: September 5th, 2009
- Notification: September 10th, 2009
- Camera Ready Proposals Due and Registration: September 15, 2009
- Conference Dates: October 27-30, 2009


Committees
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General Chair
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Nicolas Spyratos, Paris-Sud University, France

Program Chairs
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Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK
Agma Traina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Workshops Chairs
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Yinghua Ma, University of Jiaotong, China
William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

Tutorial Chair
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Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

Publicity Chair
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Ghislain Sillaume, CVCE, Luxembourg

Local Organizing Committee Chairs
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Nicolas Lumineau, Lyon 1 University, France
Cecile Favre, University of Lyon 2, France

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