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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
APPLIED COMPUTING 2005
February 22-25, 2005 -
ALGARVE, PORTUGAL

(http://www.iadis.org/ac2005)

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* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Applied Computing 2005 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within the applied computing area and related
fields. This conference covers essentialy technical aspects. The
applied computing field is divided into more detailed areas (see
below). However innovative contributes that don't fit into these
areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to
conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of their papers in specific journals.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and
Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind
refereeing process.

* Topics related to Applied Computing are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Agent Systems and Applications
- Algorithms
- Applied Information Systems
- Bioinformatics
- Case Studies and Applications
- Communications
- Data Mining
- Database Systems
- E-Commerce Theory and Practice
- Embedded Systems
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Global Tendencies
- Grid Computing
- Information Retrieval
- Intelligent Systems
- Mobile Networks and Systems
- Multimedia
- Networking
- Object Orientation
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Payment Systems
- Programming Languages
- Protocols and Standards
- Security
- Semantic Web
- Software Engineering
- Storage Issues
- Technologies for E-Learning
- Wireless Applications
- WWW Applications
- WWW Technologies
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability Issues
- Virtual Reality
- Visualization
- XML and other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (second call): 5 November 2004
- Notification to Authors (second call): 10 December 2004
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (second
call): Until 7 January 2005
- Late Registration (second call): After 7 January 2005
- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 22 to 25 February 2004

* Conference Location The conference will be held in Algarve,
Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2005
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Algarve, Portugal
E-mail: ac2005@... Web site: http://www.iadis.org/ac2005

* Scientific Committee

Conference & Program Co-Chairs
Nuno Guimarães, Faculdade de Ciências - University of Lisbon,
Portugal
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.iadis.org/ac2005/committees.asp