ANN: New Demo Options at ISCRAM 2010

ISCRAM 2010

7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and
Management
http://www.iscram.org/iscram2010

May 2-5
Seattle WA USA

 We are pleased to announce that there will be two options for demos at the conference this year:  1. As in the past, there will be a concurrent demo/lunch session at which authors can show software associated with their papers.  This will be a common space for only that lunch time and is free of charge for presenters.  If you are interested in giving a demo during this lunch session, be sure the demo box is checked on your conftool submission and I will contact you.  2.  This year we are planning a dedicated demo exhibit area that will serve as an opportunity for vendors or others who wish to have an ongoing exhibition for a majority of the conference period.  There will be breakouts and refreshment breaks in the dedicated demo exhibit area, and this will be a great opportunity to mingle and gain exposure for your work. Vendor demos will cost $1,250, and include a registration, a banquet ticket, and demo space with power/internet connection.  Reduced pricing for nonprofits and universities is available.  Please contact demo chair Carrie Garrison-Laney at iscram2010@iscram.org for more information.  Looking forward to a great meeting this year!  Carolyn E Garrison-Laney, Demo Chair    

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[Fwd: Workshop EUD4Services]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop "EUD4Services"
May 25, 2010 -- Rome, Italy -- In conjunction with AVI 2010
www.eud4services.org <http://www.eud4services.org>
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** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement **
** Please pass this CfP to interested colleagues **

EUD4Services:
Workshop on End-User Development of Software Services and
Applications

End-User Development (EUD) has traditionally been focusing on
non-programmers tailoring or even creating software artifacts, often in
organisational context. EUD research covers methods, techniques, and
tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as
non-professional software developers, at some point to create, modify or
extend a software artifact.

Some of the more traditional examples of successful EUD concepts include
spreadsheet and word processing macros and the specification of email
filters by means of rules. Some recent developments have renewed
interest in EUD research and applications. For example, Web 2.0 and the
Semantic Web enable users to be contributors rather than just consumers
of information on the WWW. EUD-style applications can now move beyond
the corporate context and into the consumer domain, where mass
customization and personalization are now possible.

Some "best practice" examples of applying mass customization and
personalization with healthy business models have drawn again attention
to EUD. This trend is now moving from content and personalization to
functionality in the direction of user-generated web services. For
example Facebook users can share and develop applications as well as
content, and Yahoo!Pipes allows users to customize and develop fairly
sophisticated information processing applications using visual pipes and
filters.

This renewed interest is also evidenced by the increasing number of
large-scale projects focusing on these recent trends, for example
SOA4All, MyMobileWeb, FAST, EzWeb, ServFace. However, these come from
technology perspective, and the interactions between these and the
community of EUD researchers are very accidental. The proposed workshop
is trying to remedy this and create a regular forum for discussion and
fruitful cross-fertilisation of ideas between the communities underlying
these two aspects: software services, human-computer interaction,
software engineering, artificial intelligence, computer-supported
cooperative work and innovation management. Contributions from these
types of professionals are welcome to the workshop, which will integrate
dissemination of cutting-edge research results with trend-setting
discussions.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

* Empirical studies of EUD practices, especially those focused on
service development and composition.
* Service Interfaces and Interaction technologies for EUD
* Metaphors for software and service modularisation
* Requirements for EUD in service context
* Service System Architectures for EUD
* EUD as part of software infrastructuring
* EUD for specific types of devices
* EUD in specific fields of application
* EUD for user groups with specific needs
* Education concepts to foster EUD for services
* Business models of EUD for services

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
The workshop will last one day. The first part of the workshop will be
dedicated to presentations of ongoing research contributed by
participants; the second part will provide time for group discussions
and activities on relevant issues raised by the presentations. In order
to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit papers
reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the
workshop's theme.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines used for the
papers of the main conference. They have to be in PDF format and no
longer than 3 pages, with an abstract of up to 200 words.
Abstracts of accepted papers will be included in a paper describing the
workshop, published in the AVI conference proceedings by ACM.
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for a special issue
of a journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: 28th February 2010
Acceptance notification: 15th March 2010

ORGANIZERS
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
Piero Mussio, University of Milan, Italy

For any further information please visit the website:
www.eud4services.org <http://www.eud4services.org>

or contact the scientific secretariat at workshop@eud4services.org
<mailto:workshop@eud4services.org>

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Barbara Rita Barricelli
Ph.D. student
Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione (DICo)
Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Personal Homepage: http://barricelli.dico.unimi.it

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CFP: International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces held in Conjunction with AVI 2010

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces
(PPD10)
http://www.hitlab.utas.edu.au/wiki/PPD10

25 May 2010, Rome, Italy

held in Conjunction with
AVI 2010, the 10th International Working
Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~avi2010/

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Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: Mar 19, 2010
Notification of acceptance: Mar 30, 2010
Camera ready version: Apr 10, 2010
Workshop: May 25, 2010
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Recent developments have seen the wide spread proliferation of both large
shared displays and small display technologies. In parallel we have seen
the emergence of new classes of device which support both touch or multi
touch interaction. Examples of small touch driven devices include PDAs,
iPads, Tablets and iPhones and examples of large interactive surfaces
(multi-touch driven displays) include the MERL Diamondtouch and Microsoft
Surface.
Interactive surfaces offer great potential for face-to-face work and social
interaction and provide natural ways to directly manipulate virtual objects
whereas small devices afford the individual a personal workspace or “scratch
space� to formulate ideas before bringing them to a wider audience.

Advanced visual interfaces can be built around a combination of both private
and public display systems. Such computer mediated multi-device interaction
between local touch-driven displays and shared public ones presents a number
of novel and challenging research problems.
This workshop will specifically focus on the research challenges in designing
visual interfaces for multiple display ecosystems such as the combination of
small touch driven private input displays eg. (a set of iPhones) coupled
with large public displays such as information kiosks, digital notice
boards, Diamondtouch or Microsoft Surface.

Based on the submissions received, these topics will be refined
into 3 or 4 specific themes for group work and discussion at the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Developing evaluation strategies to cope with the complex nature of
multi-display environments
* Ethnography and user studies of visual interfaces relying on coupled
displays
* Understanding the design space and identifying factors that influence
user interactions in this space
* The impact of social conventions on the design of suitable interaction
techniques for shared and private displays
* Exploring interaction techniques that facilitate multi-display
interfaces
* Novel interaction techniques for both private and public multi-touch
devices as part of multi-display environments
* Techniques for supporting input re-direction and distributing
information between displays
* SDK/APIs and IDEs for the development of coupled display visual
interfaces.

We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners working in
the area of multi-display environments and interactive surfaces coupled
with private displays. Interested attendees should submit a short
position paper of less than 4 pages according to the format detailed
on our website. Based on a international peer review of the position
papers about 10 to 15 participants will be invited to attend the workshop.

Submission Instructions:
Submissions should be prepared according to the ACM proceedings
template format which are linked from our website. The maximum
number of pages allotted for each workshop position paper is 4
pages. All submissions must be emailed by March 19, 2010, 11:59 pm
PST to ppd10@hitlab.utas.edu.au

International Program Committee:
Antonio Krüger, Saarland University, Germany
Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Christian Kray, University of Newcastle, UK
Corina Sas, Lancaster University, UK
Daniel Widgor, Microsoft, USA
Dima Aliakseyeu, Philips Research Labs, The Netherlands
Frédéric Vernier, Uni. Paris Sud, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Ins. for Information Tech., Finland
Kenton O'Hara, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Kevin McCarthy, CLARITY, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland
Miguel Nacenta, University of Calgary, Canada
Umer Rashid, Human Interface Technology Lab, Australia
Ravin Balakrishnan , University of Toronto, Canada
Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia
Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada
Workshop Organisers
Alan Dix is Professor of Computing at Lancaster University
and has worked for 25 years in many areas of Human-Computer Interaction.

Aaron Quigley is Director of the Human Interface Technology
Laboratory Australia and an Associate Professor at the University
of Tasmania.

Sriram Subramanian is a Senior Lecturer at the University of
Bristol and a visiting staff member at the human-interface
engineering lab at the University of Osaka.

Lucia Terrenghi is an interaction designer and researcher
at Vodafone R&D in Munich.

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Dr. Sriram Subramanian
Senior Lecturer sriram@cs.bris.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science Tel: (44 or 0)117-3315235
University of Bristol FAX: (44 or 0)117-9545208
Woodland Road, BS8 1UB UK
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CFP: Interactive Data Exploration and Knowledge Discovery (AVI 2010 Workshop)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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The AVI 2010 Workshop on
Interactive Data Exploration and Knowledge Discovery
Rome, Italy
May 25, 2010
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~elenaz/AVI2010/

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held in conjunction with the 2010 Working Conference on Advanced Visual
Interfaces: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~avi2010/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE (abstracts in ACM format): March 4, 2010

People have always relied on visual tools such as maps, charts and
diagrams to better understand problems and solve them in less time.
Continuous improvements in computer processing power and graphics
capabilities have made it possible to incorporate a wide range of
advanced visualization techniques in most computing application domains,
including business, medicine, engineering and science. However, without
interactivity, visualisation is often considered as an end point of the
workflow or as a way of communicating observations. The way people
perceive and interact with visualisations can strongly influence their
understanding of the data as well as the usefulness of a visualisation
system in general.

Important progress has been recently made toward the improvement of a
computer-supported information analysis cycle. However, many challenges
still remain. The greatest challenge is how to efficiently deal with a
community of scientists who generate more data than they can possibly
look at and understand. This requires novel high-performance
visualisation algorithms and feature extraction techniques. Finding
effective visual idioms for direct user interaction is yet another
challenge. Also, it is becoming crucial to develop new guidelines and
metrics to be able to efficiently evaluate interactive exploration
environments. Another concern is how to choose from a wide plethora of
available input devices and display configurations to ensure a good user
experience and 'human-to-human' interaction between scientists while
exploring complex data spaces.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and
practitioners from computer science, HCI, software engineering, social
sciences and psychology to discuss the state-of-the-art research and to
exchange ideas to help overcome the aforementioned challenges. Topics of
interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following:

* Advanced visualisation algorithms and systems;
* Augmented and Virtual Reality for exploring complex data spaces;
* Collaborative virtual environments;
* Novel display systems and interaction devices;
* Multi-modal visualisation and interaction;
* Adaptive interaction for effective data exploration and knowledge
discovery;
* Social user interfaces;
* Human factors in computer-supported exploration;
* Design guidelines for interactive visualisation tools;
* Relevant usability and user experience studies;
* Interactive visualisation applications and systems.

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit a short abstract of maximum one page to
e.v.zudilova-seinstra@uva.nl and tony.adriaansen@gmail.com by March 4,
2010. Submissions will be judged based on their scientific quality and
application value.

Please strictly comply with the ACM formats
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), when
preparing your abstract(s).

Submissions are invited from the academic, industrial and commercial
institutes. All accepted abstracts will be published in the AVI 2010
Conference Proceedings by ACM and the authors will be invited to give an
oral presentation during the workshop. Also, following on from the
example of previous related workshops, a selected number of accepted
contributions will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion into a
journal special issue or an edited volume.

Important Dates:

04 March – deadline for abstract submission (ACM format)
14 March – notification of acceptance
25 May – workshop at AVI 2010 (Rome, Italy)

For information on workshop venue, accommodation and registration,
please refer to the website of the 2010 Working Conference on Advanced
Visual Interfaces (AVI 2010): http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~avi2010/

Workshop Organisers:

Elena Zudilova-Seinstra, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Tony Adriaansen, PROMIM (Australia)

Program Committee Members:

Ross Brown (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Paul Cairns (University of York, UK)
Yang Cai (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Christiaan Gribble (Grove City College, USA)
Andreas Holzinger (Medical University Graz, Austria)
Joseph LaViola Jr. (University of Central Florida, USA)
Frank Marchese (Pace University, USA)
Jean-Bernard Martens (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

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Dr. Elena Zudilova-Seinstra

Scientific Visualisation & VR
Section Computational Science
Faculty of Science
University of Amsterdam

Phone: +31 20 525 7513
Fax: +31 20 525 7419

http://www.science.uva.nl/~elenaz/

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CFP: Workshop: Engineering Interactive Cloud-Based Systems, Berlin, June 20th, 2010

Engineering Interactive Cloud-Based Systems Workshop

Berlin, June 20th, 2010

In conjunction with ACM SIGCHI Symposium on
Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Autonomic Computing arose to address issues of complex systems configuration. However research and applications of Autonomic Computing have spread to other areas. This workshop seeks to investigate and extend the introduction of adaptable decision processes within complex and adaptive interactive systems with mixed initiatives to reduce software-maintenance complexity and allow for quicker updates of current best practice by the instantaneous, distributed deployment of decision models via Cloud computing technology. The workshop will attempt to bring together researchers from HCI and Autonomic Computing in order to address the needs of distributed, adaptive systems both for the designers of such systems and their users

The workshop will require the submission of a 2-4 pages position paper. Papers will be assessed for the timeliness, quality and relevance of their research to the workshop topic. Accepted papers will be posted on the web and authors invited to read the submissions to promote pre-workshop discussions. The organisers will generate a summary paper bringing out the main points of the submissions. We expect these pre-workshop activities will generate a list of research topics and challenges. We will identify key issues raised for further discussion at the workshop.

The workshop will seek to build upon advances made on recently completed projects in the field of HCI with large scale. For example, 2Nrich (www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/2nrich/), reporting on the effectual limits of current self-* tools and techniques to support self-organisation for autonomic computing in e-Healthcare and/or addressing the future direction of autonomic computing and its continuing relevance to emerging trends, architectures and technologies at larger scales. Original research work is sought reporting on advances in (and/or limits of) the state-of-the-art in autonomic and self-organising computer science at large-scales, such as seen in Cloud computing, for interaction. Topics of interest are listed in the call, below.

· Foundational elements of autonomic computing systems and how they support interactive systems design.

· Global service modelling, design, deployment, and management of service-oriented computing systems for HCI via a computational Cloud.

· Self-organisation and the principles of emergent outcome for large assemblies of services, applications, etc. in supporting adaption to users' needs.

· Security, trust and social issues in systems where privacy is a vital concern, such as e-Health applications, and their autonomic systems subject to emergent self-organisation.

· Comparison of centralised autonomic computing vs. decentralised emergent self-organising approaches in providing a transparent and seamless human-computational Cloud interaction whatever the context.

· Languages and tools to support autonomic response via self-organisation.

· Biological and economic inspired interaction mechanisms: catallaxy, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, etc.

· Novel architectures, frameworks, tools and techniques exploiting scientific principles for autonomic computing

Please send position papers to d.england@ljmu.ac.uk by March 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be March 29, 2010
Organisers

Dr David England
Dr Martin Randles
Prof Taleb-Bendiab
Workshop website http://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/2nrich
Eur Ing Dr David England MBCS CEng,
Head of Computing
http://lister.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmsdengl/

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CFP: RecSys 2010

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++ CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND DEMOS
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++ ACM Recommender Systems 2010
++ http://recsys.acm.org/2010
++ September 26-30, 2010 :: Barcelona
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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the premier annual
event on research and applications of recommendation technologies, the
Fourth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. The previous conferences
in Minneapolis (2007), Lausanne (2008) and New York (2009) have been
distinguished by a strong level of interaction between practitioners
and researchers in the sharing of ideas, problems and solutions, and
the 2010 conference will continue in this tradition. The
fully-refereed proceedings will be published by the ACM and, like past
RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely read and cited.

- IMPORTANT DATES

. Deadline for abstracts (mandatory for long/short papers): April
16, 11.59 pm (PST)
. Deadline for papers (long/short): April 23, 11.59 pm (PST)
. Paper Acceptance Notifications: June 23, 2010
. Deadline for video reports: July 1, 2010
. Camera-ready copy: July 21, 2010
. Conference: September 26-30, 2010

- TOPICS OF INTEREST

We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications
ranging from e-commerce to social networking, platforms from web to
mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from
collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):

. Case studies of recommender system implementations
. Computational advertising
. Conversational recommender systems
. Context-aware and multidimensional recommender systems
. Evaluation of recommender systems
. Group recommenders
. Impact of recommenders in practice
. Innovative recommender applications
. Machine learning and recommender systems
. Novel paradigms of recommender systems
. Personalization
. Recommendation algorithms
. Recommendation in social networks
. Recommender system interfaces
. Scalability issues
. Security, privacy, and robustness
. Semantic web technologies for recommender systems
. Theoretical aspects of recommender systems
. User modeling and recommender systems
. User studies

- PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION

All the details can be found in: http://recsys.acm.org/2010/call-for-papers/

- Program Chairs

. Paul Resnick, University of Michigan
. Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt

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CFP: INCoS 2010 Conference

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS (INCoS 2010)

November 24-26, 2010
Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Site: http://incos2010.web.auth.gr/

SUBMISSION Deadline: **June 28, 2010**

CONFERENCE SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
This conference covers the latest advances in intelligent and adaptive solutions for 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.

Topics of main interest for this conference are (but not restricted to) :

-- Internet applications that shift to an emergent Web paradigm, which locates people at the very center of networks and exploits the value of people's connections and relations.
-- Web 2.0 and its major role to enable a new generation of social networks and web-based communities.
-- Social network analysis as a rapidly growing field to investigate the dynamics and structure of intelligent Web-based networking and collaborative systems.
-- Virtual campuses and organizations that strongly leverage intelligent networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of formal and informal electronic relations (business-to-business, peer-to-peer and many types of online collaborative learning interactions).
-- Latest and powerful technologies based on Grid and Wireless (Mobile) infrastructure as well as Cloud computing.
-- Design and evaluation of Collaborative and Networking applications seen from various challenging perspectives, such as: effective and efficient knowledge management, context and user modelling techniques, exploitation of semantic web technologies, powerful adaptive solutions, design of personalized environments, dynamic formats of information shared among peers and full support for virtual communities of practice (organization, management, mobility and security).

CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference will comprise invited talks, plenary sessions (oral presentations), workshops/tutorials, poster presentations and PhD forum.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the previous INCoS-2009 conference were published by IEEE Conference Publishing Service in the form of CD-ROM with ISBN, and are accessible on-line.
Second edition (INCoS-2010) will again consider IEEE Conference Publishing Service for the proceedings.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their work in several Journal Special Issues (to be announced).

SUBMISSION
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 28th, 2010 *** and electronic submission in PDF is required (see webpage of conference for details).

The page limit for a Track paper is 8 pages.
Workshop and Special Session papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or best practices reports 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. 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 accepted submissions (regular, workshop, special session, poster, PhD forum paper) will be included in the proceedings of the conference.
All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format (see webpage of the conference for guidelines). 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.
All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration by at least one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the conference web site.

ORGANIZATION
After its kick-off in Barcelona, Spain (http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/incos2009 ) the 2nd INCoS will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece (http://incos2010.web.auth.gr ) a city with rich culture and history, second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre in Greece.

Organized by: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & University of Macedonia, Greece

MAIN TOPICS AND TRACKS

The main topics of interest of INCoS 2010 include but are not limited to the following track areas:

-Intelligent networking for virtual organizations and campuses

Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Mashups eHome/Smart Home networking
Virtual environment architecture
Virtual Museum, Electronic library, Tele-Medicine
Evaluation of Network-Oriented application systems
Community Building and Communities of Practice
Design, model and framework of e-Learning Systems
E-learning metadata and standards
Educational Gaming and Multimedia for Learning
Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Systems
Lifelong Learning: continuing professional training & development
Theoretical bases of e-Learning environments
Distance and e-Learning in a global context
Context dependent learning

-Intelligent networking for social networks

Social Network Sites and Collective Intelligence
Social Software for Technology Enhanced Learning
Information diffusion in social networks
Virtual and Web Communities
Intelligent Search engines
Intelligent networking between Web Sites
Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
Infrastructure and Tools for e-Social network
Interdisciplinary Research and e-Social network
International Collaborations in e-Social network
Online communities and computer networks

-Intelligent collaborative systems for work and learning

Collaborative computing
Web-Based Cooperative Work
Collaborative Learning
Computer Supported Cooperative Care/Health
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative practices
Ethnographic and case studies of work practice
Data management for collaborative systems
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications
Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries
Human/robot collaboration
Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration

-Security, organization, management and autonomic computing for intelligent networking and collaborative systems

Autonomic computing
Case studies for autonomic computing
Learning algorithms for autonomic computing
Autonomic monitoring and management
Autonomic policy and QoS management
Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management
Self-organization, and Intra- and inter-organizational networks
Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
Workflow technology and workflow management for collaborative network management
Network management systems
Security and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations
Security and privacy in collaboration
Network security, intrusion detection
Energy management for collaborative networks
Network measurements and testbeds

-Grid and P2P distributed infrastructure for intelligent networking and collaborative systems

Computer Supported Collaborative Work with distributed systems
Distributed technologies and architectures to support group collaboration, activity, and awareness
Grid and high-performance networking
Convergence of Web services, Grid computing and Autonomic computing for Networking
Intelligent Cloud Computing & Networking
P2P platforms for supporting collaboration
P2P and overlay networks, systems, and applications
Web services technologies for collaborative networking and applications
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
Middleware support for collaborative information systems
Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems
Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications

-Wireless and sensor systems for intelligent networking and collaborative systems

Collaborative sensor systems
Collaborative mobile networks, sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications
Collaboration with and through advanced sensing systems
Ad hoc and sensor Networks
Handoff, Mobile networks and Wireless Web
Mobile Internet architectures
Mobility models for networking
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
Collaborative, location aware mobile systems
Sensor array structure and signal processing
Technology and system for collaboration in real-time enterprises

-Data mining and knowledge management for intelligent networking and collaborative systems

XML mining for Networking
Social Network Mining
Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks
Intelligent Visualization of Social Network Analysis
Intelligent agents and interfaces for Personalization and Adaptivity
Adaptive hypermedia systems
Computational models and agent-based simulations of networks
Web Services modeling for Networking
Modeling for Collaboration
Knowledge Community Formation and Support
Network evolution and growth mechanisms

- Collaborative Healthcare Systems: Issues, Solutions, and Trends
Web services for collaborative healthcare systems
Semantic technologies for collaborative healthcare systems
Ontologies for various fields of health systems
Collaborations among components within healthcare systems
Intelligent queries across collaborative healthcare systems
Improvements of healthcare standards
Agent technologies for healthcare systems
Integrated healthcare system
Intelligent healthcare systems

SPECIAL CONFERENCE TRACKS
- Special track for Networking and Collaboration at School (educators' track)
- Special track for Networking and Collaboration for People with Special Needs
- Special regional track for Intelligent Networking and Collaboration in the Balkan countries

IMPORTANT DATES
- March 15, 2010 Workshop - Tutorial Proposal
- March 30, 2010 Workshop - Tutorial Proposal Notification
- June 28, 2010 Paper Submission
- July 31, 2010 Notification of Acceptance
- September 20, 2010 Camera-Ready Submission
- September 20, 2010 Conference Registration
- November 24-26 2010, INCoS Conference days

ORGANIZATION AND LOCATION
The conference is organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Macedonia, and will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece.

COMMITTEES
-General Chairs
Fatos Xhafa, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Andreas Pombortsis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Vassilios Dagdilelis, University of Macedonia, Greece

-Programme Committee Chairs
Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nik Bessis, Bedfordshire University, UK

-International Co-Chairs (open list)
Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Frank Fischer, University of Munich, Germany
Maria Grigoriadou, University of Athens, Greece
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Aegean, Greece
Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Charalampos Karagiannides, University of Thessaly, Greece
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
George Magoulas, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Maya Satratzemi, University of Macedonia, Greece
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Christine Solomonidou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Pierre Tchounikine, University of Grenoble, France
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

-Workshop Chairs
Youakim Badr, INSA, Lion, France
Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

-PhD Forum Chairs
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
George Palaigeorgiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

-Proceedings Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIRLabs), USA
Ioannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

-Steering Committee Chairs
Fatos Xhafa, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIRLabs), USA
Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

-Committee Members: for full committee list please refer to
http://incos2010.web.auth.gr/committees

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