[agents] CFP WITDS 2008

[Wathiq Mansoor]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Track on Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS) 
The Fourth International Conference on SIGNAL-IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS
In cooperation with ACM Sigapp.fr, IEEE (pending)    
November 30th to December 3rd, 2008
Bali, Indonesia
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis
 
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. 
SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting 
systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. 
 
The track "Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS)" is devoted to 
emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for creating an interconnected 
world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, 
and communities of users with similarly interests can be formed while addressing security threats 
that are present more than ever before.
 
Topics
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The main topics of interest include (but not limited to): 

*Information system interoperability 
- Digital librairies
- Semantic interoperability and semantic mediators
- Ontologies interoperability
- Cooperative database systems and workflow management
- Agent-oriented architectures for database interoperability
- Data interoperability issues in advanced applications 
*Emergent semantics 
- Context-dependent semantics
- Contextual reasoning in distributed ontologies
- Communication in multi-agents systems
- Emergent semantic interoperability in large-scale systems
- Emergent semantics in content retrieval systems
- Semantics for trust management
*Agent-based systems 
- Agents for distributed systems
- Agent-based approaches for web applications
- Security of systems using agents
- Agents for grid computing solutions 
- Intelligent agents for p2p computing
- Agent-oriented software engineering and methodologies 
- Ontologies and agent systems
- Agents support for applications (e-commerce, e-gov, ..)
*Distributed, parallel, grid, P2P, mobile information management 
- Information sharing
- Clusters/data grids/P2P computing and applications
- Knowledge and semantic grid
- Semantics of peer data management systems
- Mobile systems and computing
- Distributed architectures and algorithms
- Resources allocation and management
- Mobile data management and mobile database systems
- Geographic data management
*Web-centric systems 
- Semantic web/web services
- Web services and service computing
- Web services personalization, context-aware Web services
- Composition and integration of web services
- Web engineering/mining/searching and crawling
- E-commerce and e-learning
*Security and integrity issues for the web
- Web usability and accessibility
- Formal methods for web applications
- Security modeling, architectures and protocols
- Intrusion avoidance, detection, response and prevention
- Web services security
- Ecommerce, ebusiness and egovernment security
- Distributed trust models
- Digital Rights Management
- Reputation information management

Submissions and publication 
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SITIS 2008 invites submission of high quality and original papers. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for 
technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. 
Papers must be submitted via Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis08).
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published IEEE CSP. 
Proceedings published by IEEE CSP are referenced in IEEE Xplore, EI, INSPEC and 
other engineering indexes. Selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in a major journal. 
Tutorial proposals should be submitted to sitis at u-bourgogne.fr. 

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission:  Jun 30th, 2008 
Acceptance/Reject notification: Aug 20th, 2008
Camera ready:   Sep 08th, 2008 
Author registration due date:  Sep 08th, 2008
Tutorial proposals:  Sep 08th, 2008

Track Chairs
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Alban Gabillon, University of Polynésie Française, France
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, AUstralia
Wathiq Mansoor, American University in Dubai, UAE

Publicity Chair
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Michael Mrissa, University of Namur, Belgium

Local Committee
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I Wayan Simri Wicaksana, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
I Made Wiryana, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
Eri Prasetyo, Gunadarma University, Indonesia

Program Committee
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Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada
Ferda Nur Alpaslan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Chandrasekhar Anantaram, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India
Frederic Andres, University of Advanced Studies, Japan
Youakim Badr, INSA Lyon, France
Aicha Nabila Benharkat, INSA Lyon, France
Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France
Jawad Berri, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, United Arab Emirates
Subhash Bhalla, The University of Aizu, Japan
Alexis Bonnecaze, ESIL, France
Rafik Bouaziz, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax, Tunisia
Mario Bravetti, Università di Bologna, Italy
Sviatoslav Braynov, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA
Patrick Capolsini, University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia
Ana R. Cavalli, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM & Management SudParis, France
Nora Cuppens, ENST Telecom Bretagne, France
Zhi-Hong Deng, Peking University, China
Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina, USA
Jacques Fayolle, Istase, University of Saint Etienne, France
Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Stephane Grumbach, Sino-French IT Lab, China
Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT - Paul Sabatier University, France
Wook-Shin Han, Kyungpook National  University, Korea
Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta (Porjtuguese Open University), Portugal
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK
Peter Kelly, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Ousmane Koné, University of Toulouse, France
Abder Koukam, University of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Jaroslaw Kozlak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Sang Ho Lee, Soongsil University, Korea
Natalia Lopez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Hongen Lu, La Trobe University, Australia
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Maria Ángeles Moraga, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Ghita Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Oxford University, UK
Michael Mrissa, University of Namur, Belgium
Manuel Núñez Garcia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Florent Pasquier, IUFM Paris, France
Kalpdrum Passi, Laurentian University, Canada
Olivier Perrin, Nancy University, France
Pit Pichappan, Al Imam Saud Bin University, Saudi Arabia
Ismael Rodríguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dumitru Roman, STI / University of Innsbruck, Austria
Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Yingpeng Sang, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Aviv Segev, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
Christelle Vangenot, EPFL, Switzerland
Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Yinglin Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brooks University, UK
Jian Yu, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Salim Zabir, Kyushu University, Japan
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
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