[Sigdl-l] CFP: 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'12), Addis Ababa-Ethiopia

[Richard Chbeir]

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 The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2012)
                         In-Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6
                                http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/12/
                                    October 28-31, 2012
                                   Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


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 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 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.


Topics
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In this call, 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
- Green computing
- Emergent Intelligence
- Services
- Trust, Security & Privacy
- Data & Knowledge Management
- Web and Standards
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Networks and Protocols
- Open Source
- Miscellaneous


Paper Submission
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Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website.
The submitted paper 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. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. 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 and DBLP.

Important Dates
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- Submission Date: June 05th, 2012

- Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September 3rd, 2012
- Rebuttal Deadline: September 7th, 2012

- Final Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2012
- Camera Ready: September 20th, 2012
- Conference Dates: October 28-31, 2012

Special issues and Journal Publication
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Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals.
The list of journals will be announced later.

General Chair
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Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

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


Steering Committee Members
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Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand
Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK


Publicity and Publication Chair
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Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France


Local Organizing Committee
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Solomon Atnafu (Chair), Addis Ababa University
Sebsibe H/Mariam, Addis Ababa University
Mulugeta Libsie, Addis Ababa University
Salehu Anteneh, Addis Ababa University
Dida Midekso, Addis Ababa University
Rahel Bekele, Addis Ababa University
Dejene Ejigu, Addis Ababa University
Fekade Getahun, Addis Ababa University

International Program Committee
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(See website of the conference)