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********************** IDC'2008 - call for papers *************************

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

                          Submit your paper here:
           http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2008

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

News
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Information Sciences, Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505730/description#description
showed interest for possible inclusion in a Special Journal Issue, after
peer reviewing, of extended versions of best papers accepted and presented
at IDC 2008.

Call for Papers
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The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers addressing topics in
both areas 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.

Please submit your paper here:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2008

Important dates
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Full paper submission: extended to April 27, 2008
Notification of acceptance: delayed to May 25, 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