[Sighfis-l] 2nd CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2009)

[Youakim Badr]

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                                 -- Call For Papers --

International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative  
Systems (INCoS 2009)
                           Technically co-sponsored by IEEE-CS

                              Open University of Catalonia
                                   Barcelona, Spain
                                  November 4-6, 2009
                        http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/incos2009

Submission Deadline: **June 25, 2009**


PUBLICATIONS

Proceedings of the INCoS 2009 conference will be published by IEEE  
COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS.

Selected papers of the conference will be published in the following  
journals and books. Special issues of journals to be announced:

<--ELSEVIER International Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and  
Theory (indexed by ISI JCR)
<--INDERSCIENCE International Journal of Social Network Mining (IJSNM)
<--INDERSCIENCE International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC)
<--INDERSCIENCE International Journal of Autonomic computing (IJAC)
<--International Journal of Computer Information Systems and  
Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM)
<--Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS)
<--SPRINGER Book Series Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)  
(indexed by DBLP). Volume "Intelligent Networking, Collaborative  
Systems and Applications"
<--SPRINGER Book Series Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)  
(indexed by DBLP). Volume "Technology-Enhanced Systems and Tools for  
Collaborative Learning Scaffolding"


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

<--Prof. PANOS PARDALOS, University of Florida, USA
<--Prof. JANUSZ KACPRZYK, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, POLAND
<--Prof. HELEN KARATZA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE


CONFERENCE SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

With the fast development of the Internet, we are experiencing a shift  
from the traditional sharing of information and applications as the  
main purpose of the Web to an emergent paradigm, which locates people  
at the very center of networks and exploits the value of people's  
connections and relations. Web 2.0 has come to play a major role in  
this context by enabling a new generation of social networks and  
web-based communities and dramatically changing the way we use and  
interact with the Web. Social network analysis is also a rapidly  
growing field to investigate the dynamics and structure of intelligent  
Web-based networking and collaborative systems.

Virtual campuses and organizations strongly leverage intelligent  
networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of formal and  
informal electronic relations, such as business-to-business,  
peer-to-peer and many types of online collaborative learning  
interactions. This has resulted in entangled systems that need to be  
managed efficiently and in an autonomous way. In addition, latest and  
powerful technologies based on Grid and Wireless  infrastructure as  
well as Cloud computing  are currently enhancing collaborative and  
networking applications a great deal but also facing new issues and  
challenges. Well-known social networks lack of knowledge management  
and adaptive solutions and the information shared among peers is  
rather static. Virtual communities of practice also provide poorly  
interactive solutions and lack of  full support for organization,  
management, mobility and security.

This conference covers the latest advances in intelligence social  
networks and collaborative systems that lead to gain competitive  
advantages in business and academia scenarios. The ultimate aim is to  
stimulate research that will lead to the creation of responsive  
environments for networking and, at longer-term, the development of  
adaptive, secure, mobile, and intuitive intelligent systems for  
collaborative work and learning. Industry and academic researchers,  
professionals and practitioners are invited to exchange their  
experiences and present their ideas in this field.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submission system is located at:  
http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/incos2009/submission.html

Submitted papers should be original and contain contributions of  
theoretical, experimental or application nature, or be unique  
experience reports. Papers must be submitted no later than June 25th,  
2009 and electronic submission in PDF is required. The page limit for  
a Track paper is 8 pages. Workshop and Special Session papers  
describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature  
results are limited to 6 pages. The PhD Forum is an opportunity for  
PhD students to present their ongoing dissertation and to discuss  
their research with experts in academia and industry. The page limit  
for PhD Forum papers is 4 pages. Finally, Poster sessions provide an  
excellent possibility for authors to present in an informal and  
interactive way their original and unpublished work that demonstrates  
current research about the conference topics. The page limit for  
Poster papers is 2 pages. All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5  
two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will  
be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness,  
and will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.

It is assumed that all accepted manuscripts would be presented at the  
conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid  
registration to appear in the proceedings. All full papers are to be  
submitted in PDF electronically via the conference web site.


MAIN TRACKS

The main tracks and topics of INCoS 2009 are (but not limited to) the  
following:
  <--Intelligent networking for virtual organizations and campuses
  <--Intelligent networking for social networks
  <--Intelligent collaborative systems for work and learning
  <--Security, organization, management and autonomic computing for  
intelligent networking and collaborative systems
  <--Grid and P2P distributed infrastructure for intelligent  
networking and collaborative systems
  <--Wireless and sensor systems for intelligent networking and  
collaborative systems
  <--Data mining and knowledge management for intelligent networking  
and collaborative systems


WORKSHOPS

List of workshops:

<--International Workshop on Intelligent e-Learning Systems (IWILS 2009)
<--International Workshop on Adaptive Systems for Collaborative  
Learning (IWASCL 2009)
<--International Workshop on Machine Intelligence for Geographic  
Information Systems (MIGIS 2009)
<--International Workshop on Information Network Design (WIND 2009)


IMPORTANT DATES

<--June 25, 2009 (8 pages IEEE format for tracks/ 6 pages IEEE format  
for workshops/ 2 pages IEEE format for posters) .
<--July 5, 2009 PhD Forum (4 pages in IEEE format).
<--July 25, 2009 Notification of Acceptance.
<--September 10, 2009 Camera-Ready Submission and Fee-Payment.
<--November 4, 2009 Conference Opening.
<--November 6, 2009 Conference Closing.


COMMITTEES

Conference Chairpersons
Begoña Gros, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Programme Committee Chairs
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France

International Co-Chairs
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Aegean, Greece
Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia

Workshop Chair
Julià Minguillón, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

PhD Forum Chair
David Megías, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Organizing Chair
Antoni Ponce, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Web Administrator Chair
Carlos Lavatelli, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Industrial & Exhibitions Track Chairs
Josep Pique, 22@ Barcelona, The Innovation District, Spain
Anna Majo, 22@ Barcelona, The Innovation District, Spain
Ricard Jimenez, RD&I, ICTs, ASCAMM, Spain

Publicity Chair
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain


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