[agents] Last Mile: ICDS 2015 || February 22 - 27, 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal

[Cristina Pascual]

INVITATION:
 
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 Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
 groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
 scientific results to ICDS 2015.
 The submission deadline is extended to October 20, 2014.
 Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article
 versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ICDS 2015 | Call for Papers ===============
 
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
 
ICDS 2015, The Ninth International Conference on Digital Society
 
February 22 - 27, 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
 

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ICDS15.html
 
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPICDS15.html
 
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitICDS15.html
 
Contributions:
 - regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
 - short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
 - ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
 - extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
 - posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
 - posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
 - presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
 - demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
 - doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
 

Proposals for:
 - symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
 - workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
 - tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
 - panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
 

Submission deadline: October 20, 2014
 
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
 Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
 Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org
 Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
 http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
 Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
 http://www.thinkmind.org
 
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
 concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
 running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
 are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
 review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
 limited to, topic areas.
 
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
 terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
 Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
 
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
 http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
 

ICDS 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
 
Tracks:
 
Citizen-centric disruptive and enabling technologies
 
    Wireless and user mobility; Ubiquitous systems; On-line
 interactions; User-centric services, applications, eLearning; High speed
 electronics, storage, networking eHealth and nano medicine; Biological
 informatics and computing
 
Internet and Web services
 
    IP-based networking and applications; Best effort and QoS/SLA; WWW,
 Web Services, Semantic Web; eLearning and mobile learning;
 Service-oriented platforms; Peer-to-Peer Systems and applications;
 Web-advertising and Web-publishing Multimedia and Webcasting
 
eGovernment services in the context of digital society
 
    e-Government strategies; Citizen-Government eModels; Special
 applications and services of eGovernment; ePayment, eTax administration;
 eVoting, eCitizen identity cards; Social e-financial projects; Educating
 eHealth; Homeland security and public records; eGarbage collection of
 private records; Metrics for eGovernment projects and services; Benefits
 of eGovernment; On-line social networking; Financing e-Government;
 e-Governance; From e-Government to m-Government (mobile-Governemet);
 e-Environment
 
eCommerce and eBusiness
 
    On-line shopping frameworks; Trust, privacy, security; Internet
 macro and micro payment systems; On-line banking; Agent-based
 e-commerce; eBusiness models and costs; eBusiness applications;
 Infrastructure for e-Commerce; Mobile commerce
 
Citizen-oriented digital evidence
 
    Processing citizen-oriented electronic evidence (acquisition,
 preservation, analysis); Multimedia documents ( X-rays, radiology,
 biometrics, and surveillance data); Medical digital forensics; Classic
 and 3D medical documents; DNA profiling; Genetic and biocomputing;
 Forensic and data mining; Predictive data modeling; Biological data and
 privacy; Digital forensics tools
 
Consumer-oriented devices and services
 
    Mobile TV and IPTV; Consumer-oriented e-commerce; Smart and digital
 homes; Wearable devices; Smart consumer appliances; Speech enable
 appliances; Consumer accessibility appliances and services
 
Intelligent computation
 
    Theories of agency and autonomy; Intelligent techniques, logics,
 and systems; Evolutionary computation; Autonomic and autonomous systems;
 Autonomic computing and autonomic networking; Ubiquitous and ambient
 computing; Computational economics; Protecting and preventing computing;
 High performance computing; Service-oriented computing; Multi-agent
 based computing; Cluster computing and performance; Artificial intelligence
 
Networking and telecommunications
 
    Networking and telecommunications technologies; Wireless, mobility
 and multimedia systems; Internet and Web Services technologies; Systems
 performance, security, and high availability; Communications protocols
 (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad
 hoc/Sensor); Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand); Advanced
 paradigms (SOA/WS/on-demand)
 
eDefense for security and protection
 
    Knowledge for global defense; Security in network, systems, and
 applications; Trust, privacy, and safeness; Business continuity and
 availability; Cryptography and algorithms encryption; Rapid Internet
 attacks and network; Applications and network vulnerabilities
 
Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems
 
    Reducing false positives and improving true positives; Automating
 IPDS responses; Innovative signature writing and processing; Improving
 IPDS usability; Successful approaches to Anomaly IPDS (Statistical;
 Fuzzy logic; Bayesian; Neural networks, etc.); Inventive behavioural
 based IPDS methods; Inventive host based IPDS methods; Improving the
 performance of IPDS; Multiple sensor IPDS; Tuning IPDS; The business
 cases supporting IPDS; Network traffic normalization techniques;
 Cost/Benefit of IPDS; Combining IPDS with other hardware e.g. firewalls,
 routers etc.; Inventive methods of using IPDS to counter specific attack
 types (Web attacks; Buffer overflow attacks; Brute force attacks, etc.);
 Comparisons of different IPDS mechanisms; Combining multiple IPDS approaches
 
Enforced citizen-centric paradigms
 
    Data-centered information systems; User-centric information
 systems; Pervasive and ubiquitous systems; Mobile learning and
 communications; Open and distance education systems
 
Web Accessibility
 
    Design approaches, techniques,  and tools to support Web
 accessibility; Best practices for evaluation, testing reviews and repair
 techniques; Accessibility across the entire system lifecycle;
 Accessibility within e-organizations: good practices and experiences;
 Industry and research collaboration, learning from practice, and
 technology transfer; Mobile Internet-Web Accessibility; Developing user
 interfaces for different devices; Dealing with different interaction
 modalities; Web authoring guidelines and tools; Accessibility and other
 core areas related to the Web user experience; (UX): Usability,
 Findability, Valuability, Credibility, etc.; Innovations in assistive
 technologies for the Web; Accessible graphic formats and tools for their
 creation; Adaptive Web accessibility; Accessibility and information
 architecture; Universally accessible graphical design approaches; User
 Profiling; Cognitive and behavioral psychology of end user experiences
 and scenarios
 
Computational advertising
 
    Computational linguistics; Linguistic signal processing;
 Statistical properties of community structures; Semantic contextual
 advertising; Relevance and click feedback; Searching dense and isolated
 submarkets; Latent factor models; Semantic relatedness; Personalized ad
 delivery; Processing over query-dependent functions; Inverse document
 frequency; Query-biased summarization; Pseudo-relevance feedback;
 Classification of rare queries; Page ranking
 
Management and control
 
    Digital telecommunications management; Control and monitoring
 systems; Measurement and management systems; Human/Machine interface and
 man-in-the-loop control; Energy and power systems control;
 Self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, self-management systems
 
Digital analysis and processing
 
    Digital information processing (Voice/Data/Video); Computer
 graphics and animation; Virtual reality/3D graphics/Games; Computer
 modeling/simulation; Graphic/Image/Photo/Hand-writing analysis and
 processing; Pattern recognition / Computer vision; Natural language
 processing / robust processing; Speech recognition and processing
 
Mobile devices and biotechnologies
 
    Robotics/Mobile devices/ Mobile networks; Handled and wearable
 computing and devices; Vehicular navigation and control;
 Nanotechnologies/Systems-on-the-chip/Networks-on-the-chip/ Haptic
 phenomena; Biotechnologies/Bioinformatics/Biometrics/Biomedical systems;
 Computational biochemistry; Biological data management
 
Software and system robustness for digital society
 
    Portals and user-oriented systems; Software as a service; Software
 specification and design methodologies; Software development and
 deployment; Programming languages and supporting tools;
 Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks;
 Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming; Neuronal networks/Fuzzy
 logic/Temporal logic/ Genetic Algorithms; Reasoning models/Model
 checking/Modular reasoning/; Program verification/validation/correctness
 ; Embedded and real-time systems;
 
Consumer-oriented digital design
 
    Online consumer decision support & advertising; Semiotic
 engineering of online services; Human factors in computer systems;
 Personal information management; Consumer trust in digital society;
 Interaction in smart environments; Mobile consumers and interactive
 spaces; Hedonic and perceived digital quality; Usability, aesthetics,
 and accessibility; Multimodal and interactive interfaces; Intelligent
 user interfaces
 
Social networking
 
    Social networking technologies (Web 2.0, faceBook, YouTube,
 Twitter, etc.); Enterprise social networking; General informative
 webcast; Government information webcast; State-of-the-art for chat,
 blogs, wikis, etc.; Text-audio-video blogs; Virtual tradeshows; Social
 profiling; Contextual social network analysis; Personalization for
 search and for social interaction; Dynamics, evolution, and trend
 prediction patterns; Social interactions; Medical assistance in social
 networking; Data protection inside communities; Misbehavior detection in
 communities; Pattern presentation for end-users and experts; Evolution
 of communities in the Web; Online and offline social networks;
 Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
 
Digital accessibility
 
    Design approaches, techniques,  and tools to support Web
 accessibility; Best practices for evaluation, testing reviews and repair
 techniques; Accessibility across the entire system lifecycle;
 Accessibility within e-organizations: good practices and experiences;
 Industry and research collaboration, learning from practice, and
 technology transfer; Mobile Internet-Web Accessibility; Developing user
 interfaces for different devices; Dealing with different interaction
 modalities; Web authoring guidelines and tools; Accessibility and other
 core areas related to the Web user experience; (UX): Usability,
 Findability, Valuability, Credibility, etc.; Innovations in assistive
 technologies for the Web; Accessible graphic formats and tools for their
 creation; Adaptive Web accessibility; Accessibility and information
 architecture; Universally accessible graphical design approaches; User
 Profiling; Cognitive and behavioral psychology of end user experiences
 and scenarios
 
ICT support and applications for eCollaboration
 
    Touch screen voting; Local e-Participation; Portals and eGovernment
 websites; eGovernment platforms and benchmarks; Business process
 management; Interoperable frameworks (national and cross-countries);
 Private-public eCollaboration; Regional and cross-nation competitiveness
 
Legal aspects
 
    Digital Divide and Accessibility; e-Democracy and e-Government;
 Privacy; e-Anonymity and e-Identity; WEB x.0 Impersonation, e-Harassment
 and e-Threats; e-Loss; e-Fraud Prevention; Technical Countermeasures;
 e-Law; e-Punishment; e-International relations
 
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComICDS15.html
 
ICDS Advisory Committee
 Lasse Berntzen, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Norway
 Åsa Smedberg, DSV, Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden
 Freimut Bodendorf, University of Erlangen, Germany
 A.V. Senthil Kumar, Hindusthan College of Arts and Science, India
 Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece
 Andranik Tangian, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut -
 Düsseldorf | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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