Monday, February 4, 2008

Conference for your projects?

As you work on your projects, you may want to consider presenting what you are doing at a scholarly conference. Below is a call for papers that might be helpful to some of you:


-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 25 February 2008 --

IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

(MCCSIS 2008)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008

(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Conference background and goals

The IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2008 (MCCSIS 2008) aims to being a forum to gather researchers in the core areas of both Computer Science and Information Systems.

* Conferences part of the MCCSIS 2008 multi-conference:

e-Learning 2008 - EL2008

Intelligent Systems and Agents 2008 - ISA2008

Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 - WAC2008

Gaming 2008: Design for Engaging Experience and Social Interaction - G2008

Visual Communication 2008: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture - VC2008

ICT, Society and Human Beings 2008 - ISHB2008

Web Based Communication 2008 - WBC2008

Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008 - IHCI2008

Data Mining 2008 - DM2008

Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 - TNS2008

Informatics 2008 - I2008

e-Commerce 2008 - EC2008

Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 - CGV2008

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed – in alphabetical order):

Ananth Srinivasan, Director of the Centre for Digital Enterprise, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Axel Küpper, of the LMU Munich, Germany

Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK

Carlos Flavian, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Constance Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning, USA

James Hendler, Tetherless World Constellation Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Jan van Dijk, University of Twente, Dep. of Media, Communication and Organization, Netherlands

Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada

Juan M. Corchado, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Lucia Rapanotti, Department of Computing, The Open University, UK

Margaret Tan, Deputy Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Matthias Rauterberg, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Michael Hann, Director of ULITA, University of Leeds, UK

Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada

Teun Velders, Saxion Universities of Applied Science, USA

Tom Gross, Faculty of Media, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

Ulrike Hugl, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Václav Snášel, Vice - Dean for Research and Science, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA

* Format of the Multi-Conference

The multi-conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The

proceedings of the multi-conference will be published in the form of a book and

CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library

(http://www.iadis.net/dl/). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692) and also in other selected Journals.

* Types of submissions

Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Important Dates:

- Submission Deadline: 25 February 2008

- Notification to Authors: Until 31 March 2008

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 21 April 2008

- Late Registration: After 21 April 2008

- Multi Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008

* Postgraduate Summer School

The multi-conference will be organising a postgraduate summer school aimed at PhDs and Master Degree students. Please check http://www.mccsis.org/school/ for full details.

* Multi-Conference Location

The multi-conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS MULTI CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION

SYSTEMS 2008

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3

1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: secretariat@mccsis.org

Web site: http://www.mccsis.org/

* Program Committee

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Program Chairs of the MCCSIS conferences (in alphabetical order):

Ajith P. Abraham, School of Computer Science, Chung-Ang University, South Korea

Antonio Palma dos Reis, ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Eleonore ten Thij, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Gunilla Bradley, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Jairo Gutiérrez, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Jörg Roth, University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany

Katherine Blashki, Deakin University, Australia

Maggie McPherson, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Yingcai Xiao, The University of Akron, USA

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