[agents] ICEC 2011 - Call for Workshop Proposals

[Juan Antonio Rodriguez]

(Apologies for multiple copies)

**** 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals ****

The Thirteenth International Conference on
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

Liverpool, UK
2-5th August 2011

http://icec11.org/

The ICEC-2011 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop 
Program to be held on August 2 immediately prior to the main technical 
program of the ICEC conference. The main goal of the ICEC-2011 workshops 
is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and 
comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, 
both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Electronic 
Commerce. The ICEC-2011 workshops will provide an informal setting where 
participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical 
topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. 
Members from all areas of the ICEC community are invited to submit 
workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new and emerging topics, or 
on applications, are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in 
length, but most will be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers 
and attendees must register for their workshop and preferably also for 
the main ICEC conference. Attendance is limited to active participants 
only.


Important Dates for Workshops
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*    FEBRUARY 20, 2011 - Proposal Submission Deadline
*    FEBRUARY 28, 2011 - Acceptance Notification
*    MARCH 11, 2011 - Deadline for posting Workshops Call for Papers
*    MARCH 11, 2011 - ICEC-2011 Workshops Program Announced
*    MAY 9, 2011 - Submission of contributions to workshops
*    JUNE 9, 2011 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
*    JUNE 24, 2011 - Deadline for complete workshop notes submission to 
Workshop chair
*    JUNE 24, 2011 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation
*    AUGUST 2, 2011 - ICEC-2011 WORKSHOPS



ICEC-2011 Workshops Requirements for Submission
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Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length, and
should contain the following information:

* Title of the workshop.
* A technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop 
goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of 
the workshop to the main conference.
* A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
* A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, 
and their relation to the proposed workshop.
* Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when 
and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and 
affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered 
attendees, and follow-up publications, if any (e.g., journal special 
issue).
* A preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing 
the workshop. This should include a brief description of how the 
organizers intend to encourage an atmosphere appropriate for a workshop.
* Description of paper review process and acceptance standards.
* The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email 
addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee 
should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical 
issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include 
individuals from multiple institutions.
* The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee (this 
person must have an email address).
* A description of the qualifications of the individual committee 
members with respect to organizing an ICEC workshop, including a list of 
workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing 
committee, if any.
* List of potential program committee members, including their title and 
affiliations.
* Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day).
* A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where 
the workshop is planned to be advertised.


Proposers are encouraged to send their draft proposal to potential 
participants for comments before submission. All proposals should be 
submitted by electronic mail, to the ICEC-2011 Workshop Chair:

Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (jar at iiia.csic.es)

in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than:

*** Tuesday February 20, 2011 ***

Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision no 
later than:

*** Tuesday February 28, 2011 ***

The selection of the workshops to be included in the final ICEC program 
will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical 
interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, balance and 
distinctness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference 
workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar 
and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to 
merge their proposals.

Responsibilities of ICEC and workshop organizers
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For all accepted proposals, ICEC will be responsible for:

*    Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
*    Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop.
*    Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.
*    Duplicating working notes and distributing them to the participants.

Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:

* Setting up a web site for the workshop.
* Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers (by MARCH 11, 
2011) and a call for participation (by JUNE 30, 2011).
* Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance 
or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair 
selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt 
the same deadlines for paper submissions and notifications of 
acceptance, i.e.,

o    MAY 9, 2011: Submissions of contributions to workshops
o    JUNE 9, 2011: Notifications

* Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop 
chair by JUNE 24, 2011, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements 
and any special room requirements.
* Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register 
for the workshop and are invited to register to the main conference (at 
least one author must register for the workshop in order for a paper to 
appear in the workshop proceedings).

ICEC reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above 
responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for 
the workshop to support its running costs. To cover costs, it will be 
necessary to charge workshop participants a workshop fee.

Submissions and Inquiries:
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Please send proposals and inquiries to:
Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA
Spanish National Research Council, CSIC
jar at iiia.csic.es