From ictk2012.drtc at gmail.com Tue Jun 5 05:02:38 2012 From: ictk2012.drtc at gmail.com (ictk drtc) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:32:38 +0530 Subject: [Sighlth-l] ICTK 2012: Call for registration Message-ID: International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics 10-13 July, 2012 Hosted by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ictk Venue: NIMHANS Convention Center, Nimhans Hospital Premises, Hosur Road, Bangalore- 560029 Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) established by Prof. S R Ranganathan in 1962, is a research centre at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) conducting Research, Training and Higher Education in the field Library and Information Sciences and allied areas. In the last five decades, DRTC has been involved in Research, Education, Training and cutting edge applications of Information and Communication Technology to Libraries and Information Centres, Knowledge centers and systems. 2012 marks the Golden Jubilee of DRTC and we are happy to host as part of 'Golden Jubilee Celebrations', the 'International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics' (ICTK-2012). Broadly the themes of the conference are divided into main streams (in parallel sessions on all the days of the conference): Stream 1: Trends in Library Education and Research Stream 2: Trends in Public Library Services Stream 3: Trends in Domain Specific Information Systems and Services Stream 4: Trends in Open Access to Information and Data Stream 5: Trends in ICT applications to Library and Information Science For details visit us on http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ictk/subthemes ICTK 2012 includes sessions of invited talks by renowned in the field of Library and Information Science from around the globe on various topics related to the above mentioned five streams covering various aspects of current interest and popular trends. The conference serves as an International Platforms for dissemination of information of International research and collaborative projects such as European Commission infrastructure projects. Experts Panel on Open Access to Information and Public Libraries present experts' views from around the world. In addition to plenary spearker of International repute, we plan to have panel discussions on Higher Education and International Collaborative Research in LIS, Public Libraries, Agricultural Information Systems, Open Access to Information List of invited speakers Dr. Jagdish Arora INFLIBNET India Dr. Roberto Barbero INFN Italy Dr. Donatella Castelli CNR-ISTI, Italy Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento Italy Dr. Johannes Keizer UN-FAO Rome Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Goettingen State and University Library Germany Dr. Alberto Masoni INFN Rome Dr. Carlos Morais Pires, European Commission, Brussels Dr. Federico Ruggieri INFN Rome Dr. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro University of Parma Italy Dr. Stuart Wiebel Senior Research Scientist, OCLC USA Last date of registration : 30 June 2012 Details of registration at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ictk/registration Contact Prof. A.R.D. Prasad (Convener - ICTK-2012) Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (I.S.I), 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore - 560 059, Karnataka INDIA Phone: +91-80-2848 2711 Fax : 91-80-2848 4265 E-mail ID: ictk2012 at drtc.isibang.ac.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Jun 4 15:22:03 2012 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard CHBEIR) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:22:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sighlth-l] CFP: Extended Deadline for the 4th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'12) In-Reply-To: <828267782.145809.1338837650511.JavaMail.root@iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <742132426.145865.1338837723874.JavaMail.root@iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr> ------ Extended submission deadline -------- 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 --------------------------- 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 ------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- - Submission Date (extended): June 28th, 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 --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. General Chair -------------- Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Program Chair -------------- Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Steering Committee Members -------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Local Organizing Committee ------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- (See website of the conference) From Richard.Chbeir at iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr Tue Jun 5 03:22:11 2012 From: Richard.Chbeir at iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr (Richard CHBEIR) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:22:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sighlth-l] SITIS'12 CFP: The 8th Int. Conf. on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS, Sorrento-Italy Message-ID: <1568404074.163130.1338880931762.JavaMail.root@iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================================================== Internet-Based Computing and Systems (IBCS) track at SITIS 2012 - The 8th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS In cooperation with IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (pending) November 25-29, 2012, SORRENTO - Naples, Italy http://sitis.u-bourgogne.fr/12/ ======================================================================================================== The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi structured data found in the web. The focus of the track on Internet Based Systems and Computing is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management. Novel architectures are being proposed to allow resource sharing and distributed processing of data with increasing complexity. Cloud computing, peer to peer computing, mobile information systems, semantic based applications, and decision support systems are a few examples of these applications and systems. The Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Data semantics * Multiple Representation * Ontologies * Conceptual Data Modeling * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning * Metadata * Evolution and Change * Web Semantics and Semi Structured Data * Semantic Caching * Data Warehousing and Semantic * Semantics in Data Visualization * Semantic Services for Mobile Users * Applications of Semantic-Driven Approaches Web-Centric Systems * Semantic Web and Web Service * Web Services and Service Computing * Semantics of Web Services Compositions * Future Internet for Enterprise Systems * Hypermedia and Adaptation * E-Commerce and E-Learning * Data Mining Methods and Web * Machine Learning Advanced Information Systems and Applications * Spatial Modeling and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) * GIS and Sustainable Development * Environmental GIS * GIS and Remote Sensing * Urban GIS * Spatial, temporal modeling semantics Information System Interoperability * Digital Libraries * Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators * Ontologies Based Systems * Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies Emergent Semantics * Context-Dependent Semantics * Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies * Ontologies Based Systems * Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies * Context-Dependent Semantics * Communication in Multi-Agents Systems * Emergent Semantic Interoperability in Large-Scale Systems * Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems Cooperative information and Distributed Systems * Information Sharing * Cloud computing for Business * Peer To Peer Computing and Applications * Knowledge and Semantic Grid * Semantics Of Peer Data Management Systems * Mobile Information Systems and Computing Multimedia and application * Image and Video Databases * Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval * Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems * Semantics and Meta Data in Multimedia Systems * Content-Based Indexing and Search * Multimedia Data Modeling and Visualization * Tools, Benchmarks, Evaluation Protocols and Standards Information security * Security Modeling and Access Control Protocol * Intrusion Avoidance, Detection, and Response * Web Security and Supporting Systems Security * Denial of Service: Attacks and Countermeasures * Intellectual Property Protection * Fundamental Services on Network and Distributed Systems * Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies * Trust based systems ==== Submission and publication ==== The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS'12 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. SITIS'12 online submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2012 ==== Important Dates ==== * Submission: September 03, 2012 * Review notification: September 25, 2012 * Final submission: October 07, 2012 * Author registration: October 15, 2012 ==== Program Committee ==== General Chair * Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Program Chair * Giuseppe De Pietro, ICAR-CNR, Italy Track Chairs * Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR, Italy * William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Local Organizing Committee * Luigi Gallo, ICAR-CNR, Italy * Marco Anisetti, University of Milan, Italy * Valerio Bellandi, University of Milan, Italy * Fulvio Frati, University of Milan, Italy ==== Contact ==== info at sitis-conf.org From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Tue Jun 5 03:25:11 2012 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard CHBEIR) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:25:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sighlth-l] SITIS'12 CFP: The 8th Int. Conf. on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS, Sorrento-Italy In-Reply-To: <1568404074.163130.1338880931762.JavaMail.root@iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <203707909.163388.1338881111525.JavaMail.root@iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================================================== Internet-Based Computing and Systems (IBCS) track at SITIS 2012 - The 8th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS In cooperation with IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (pending) November 25-29, 2012, SORRENTO - Naples, Italy http://sitis.u-bourgogne.fr/12/ ======================================================================================================== The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi structured data found in the web. The focus of the track on Internet Based Systems and Computing is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management. Novel architectures are being proposed to allow resource sharing and distributed processing of data with increasing complexity. Cloud computing, peer to peer computing, mobile information systems, semantic based applications, and decision support systems are a few examples of these applications and systems. The Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Data semantics * Multiple Representation * Ontologies * Conceptual Data Modeling * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning * Metadata * Evolution and Change * Web Semantics and Semi Structured Data * Semantic Caching * Data Warehousing and Semantic * Semantics in Data Visualization * Semantic Services for Mobile Users * Applications of Semantic-Driven Approaches Web-Centric Systems * Semantic Web and Web Service * Web Services and Service Computing * Semantics of Web Services Compositions * Future Internet for Enterprise Systems * Hypermedia and Adaptation * E-Commerce and E-Learning * Data Mining Methods and Web * Machine Learning Advanced Information Systems and Applications * Spatial Modeling and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) * GIS and Sustainable Development * Environmental GIS * GIS and Remote Sensing * Urban GIS * Spatial, temporal modeling semantics Information System Interoperability * Digital Libraries * Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators * Ontologies Based Systems * Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies Emergent Semantics * Context-Dependent Semantics * Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies * Ontologies Based Systems * Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies * Context-Dependent Semantics * Communication in Multi-Agents Systems * Emergent Semantic Interoperability in Large-Scale Systems * Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems Cooperative information and Distributed Systems * Information Sharing * Cloud computing for Business * Peer To Peer Computing and Applications * Knowledge and Semantic Grid * Semantics Of Peer Data Management Systems * Mobile Information Systems and Computing Multimedia and application * Image and Video Databases * Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval * Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems * Semantics and Meta Data in Multimedia Systems * Content-Based Indexing and Search * Multimedia Data Modeling and Visualization * Tools, Benchmarks, Evaluation Protocols and Standards Information security * Security Modeling and Access Control Protocol * Intrusion Avoidance, Detection, and Response * Web Security and Supporting Systems Security * Denial of Service: Attacks and Countermeasures * Intellectual Property Protection * Fundamental Services on Network and Distributed Systems * Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies * Trust based systems ==== Submission and publication ==== The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS'12 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. SITIS'12 online submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2012 ==== Important Dates ==== * Submission: September 03, 2012 * Review notification: September 25, 2012 * Final submission: October 07, 2012 * Author registration: October 15, 2012 ==== Program Committee ==== General Chair * Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Program Chair * Giuseppe De Pietro, ICAR-CNR, Italy Track Chairs * Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR, Italy * William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Local Organizing Committee * Luigi Gallo, ICAR-CNR, Italy * Marco Anisetti, University of Milan, Italy * Valerio Bellandi, University of Milan, Italy * Fulvio Frati, University of Milan, Italy ==== Contact ==== info at sitis-conf.org From ictk2012.drtc at gmail.com Fri Jun 22 06:47:34 2012 From: ictk2012.drtc at gmail.com (ictk drtc) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:17:34 +0530 Subject: [Sighlth-l] ICTK2012: Call for registration Message-ID: *ICTK 2012: Call for registration * International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics 10-13 July, 2012 Hosted by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) * *http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ICTK** *Venue:* NIMHANS Convention Center, Nimhans Hospital Premises, Hosur Road, Bangalore- 560029 Landmark: Near Dairy Circle Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) established by Prof. S R Ranganathan in 1962, is a research centre at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) conducting Research, Training and Higher Education in the field Library and Information Sciences and allied areas. In the last five decades, DRTC has been involved in Research, Education, Training and cutting edge applications of Information and Communication Technology to Libraries and Information Centres, Knowledge centers and systems. 2012 marks the Golden Jubilee of DRTC and we are happy to host as part of 'Golden Jubilee Celebrations', the 'International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics' (ICTK-2012). Broadly the themes of the conference are divided into main streams (in parallel sessions on all the days of the conference): *Stream 1: Trends in Library Education and Research* ? *Stream 2: Trends in Public Library Services* ? *Stream 3: Trends in Domain Specific Information Systems and Services* ? *Stream 4: Trends in Open Access to Information and Data* ? *Stream 5: Trends in ICT applications to Library and Information Science* For details visit us on http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ICTK/subthemes ICTK 2012 includes sessions of invited talks by renowned in the field of Library and Information Science from around the globe on various topics related to the above mentioned five streams covering various aspects of current interest and popular trends. The conference serves as an International Platforms for dissemination of information of International research and collaborative projects such as European Commission infrastructure projects. Experts Panel on Open Access to Information and Public Libraries present experts' views from around the world. In addition to plenary spearker of International repute, we plan to have panel discussions on Higher Education and International Collaborative Research in LIS, Public Libraries, Agricultural Information Systems, Open Access to Information *List of invited speakers * *Dr. Jagdish Arora* INFLIBNET India *Dr. Roberto Barbero* INFN Italy *Dr. Donatella Castelli* CNR-ISTI, Italy *Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia,* University of Trento Italy *Dr. Johannes Keizer* UN-FAO Rome *Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau* Goettingen State and University Library Germany *Dr. Alberto Masoni* INFN Rome *Dr. Carlos Morais Pires,* European Commission, Brussels *Dr. Federico Ruggieri* INFN Rome *Dr. Alma Swan* Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK *Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro* University of Parma Italy *Dr. Stuart Wiebel* Senior Research Scientist, OCLC USA Details of registration at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ictk/registration *Contact * * * *Prof. A.R.D. Prasad (Convener - ICTK-2012)* Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (I.S.I), 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore - 560 059, Karnataka INDIA Phone: +91-80-2848 2711 Fax : 91-80-2848 4265 E-mail ID: ictk2012 at drtc.isibang.ac.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 ------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- - Submission Date (extended): June 28th, 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 --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. General Chair -------------- Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Program Chair -------------- Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Steering Committee Members -------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Local Organizing Committee ------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- (See website of the conference)