[agents] CfP & CfW: Intelligent Distributed Computing 2008 - IDC2008

[Costin Badica]

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******* IDC'2008 - call for papers and call for workshop proposals ********

2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC'2008
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                   September 18-20, 2008, Catania, Italy

                        http://idc08.diit.unict.it
      Contact: gmangioni at diit.unict.it, badica_costin at software.ucv.ro



Organized by
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni,
Universita di Catania, Italia
  Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Romania


Call for Papers
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Intelligent computing is a quite mature field of information and
communication technology covering a hybrid palette of methods and
techniques derived from classical artificial intelligence,
computational intelligence, multi-agent systems a.o. Intelligent
computing is generally known to be computationally intensive from
the point of view of resources required: time, memory, bandwidth. As
this is usually thought to be a drawback, distributed computing is
expected to give an impetus to its practical applications. Moreover,
intelligent techniques have also proved their usefulness to core
distributed computing technologies like: planning & scheduling, load
balancing, replication, resource allocation and management, etc.
Therefore, the emergent field of intelligent and distributed
computing is expected to pose new challenges of adaptation and
fruitful combination of both areas. The aim of this symposium is to
bring together researchers involved in intelligent and distributed
computing to allow cross-fertilization and synergy of ideas and to
enable advancement of researches in the field.

The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all
aspects of intelligent and distributed computing ranging from
concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and
innovative applications. Papers acceptance and publication will be
judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of
presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed
solutions. Topics include, but are not limited to, broadly
understood:
- Intelligent service composition and orchestration
- E-service and Web intelligence
- Multi-agent systems
- Information extraction and retrieval in distributed environments
- Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed environments
- Semantic and knowledge grids
- Intelligent integration of data and processes
- Distributed problem solving
- Ontologies and meta-data for describing heterogeneous resources and
services
- Autonomic and adaptive distributed computing
- Intelligence in mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Intelligence in cooperative information systems, groupware and
  workflows, virtual enterprises, social networks
- Intelligent applications in e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health,
  e-science, e-government
- Self-organising and adaptive distributed systems
- Intelligence in Peer-to-Peer systems
- Emerging behaviours in complex distributed systems
- Modelling and simulation of intelligent distributed systems


Paper Submission and Publication
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All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which
will be published by Springer as part of their series Studies in
Computational Intelligence. Papers should have at most 10 pages length and
must be formatted according to Springer format.

Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by a system provided by
the organizers. Please submit your paper here:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2008

Extended versions of the best papers accepted and presented at this
symposium may be considered for publication in a Special Issue of an
internationally recognized journal.


Important dates
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Full paper submission: April 6, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2008
Final (camera ready) paper due: June 20, 2008
Symposium: September 18-20, 2008


Steering Committee
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Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Michele Malgeri, Universita di Catania, Italy
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland


Organizing Committee
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http://idc08.diit.unict.it/organization.html


Program Committee Chairs
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Giuseppe Mangioni, Universita di Catania, Italia
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania


Program Committee
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http://idc08.diit.unict.it/committees.html


IDC'2008 Call For Workshop Proposals
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The symposium welcomes proposals for workshops organisation on
relevant topics within the scope of the main conference. Workshops
should be focused on advanced and on--the--edge aspects of
research in the field of intelligent distributed systems,
stimulating discussion, collaboration and exchange of views.

Each Workshop must have at least six, and no more than twelve,
presentations from different authors, with a paper acceptance rate
of 50% at most. Workshop Chairs will be responsible for all
aspects of paper submission, handling, review and acceptance. The
final program and date of each workshop would be decided according
to the number of accepted papers, and are subject to the approval
of the Conference Program Chairs.  Paper presented at workshops
will be included in conference proceedings

Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

- Names, affiliations and a brief CV of workshop chairs
- Workshop title
- 200-words description of workshop topic


Important dates
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- Proposals submission: February 28, 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: March 16, 2008
- Final (camera ready) papers due: June 20, 2008