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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension):
19 November 2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2009
February 25-28, 2009 – BARCELONA, SPAIN
(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Jeremy Millard, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2009 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital
Divide,  eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society,
Digital Services in eESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth,
Information Systems,  and Information Management. These broad areas
are 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 of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (online accessible). The best paper authors will be
invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS
Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and other selected
Journals.

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

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eSociety and Digital Divide »»
Connectivity may imply social coherence and integration. The opposite
may result as well, when systematic measures are taken to exclude
certain individuals or certain groups. Papers are welcomed on the
next keywords:
- Social Integration
- Social Bookmarking
- Social Software
- E-Democracy
- Social Integration

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
- Business Ontologies and Models
- Digital Goods and Services
- eBusiness Models
- eCommerce Application Fields
- eCommerce Economics
- eCommerce Services
- Electronic Service Delivery
- eMarketing
- Languages for Describing Goods and Services
- Online Auctions and Technologies
- Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
- Collaborative Learning
- Curriculum Content Design & Development
- Delivery Systems and Environments
- Educational Systems Design
- E-Citizenship and Inclusion
- eLearning Organisational Issues
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Political and Social Aspects
- Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
- Web-based Learning Communities

«« New Media and E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
- Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence
- Interactivity and virtuality
- Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy
- Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome
- Internet Cultures and new interpretations of "Space"
- Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

«« Digital Services in E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
- Service Broadcasting
- Political Reporting
- Development of Digital Services
- Freedom of Expression
- E-Journalism
- Open Access

«« eGovernment /eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
- Accessibility
- Democracy and the Citizen
- Digital Economies
- Digital Regions
- eAdministration
- eGovernment Management
- eProcurement
- Global Trends
- National and International Economies
- Social Inclusion

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
- Data Security Issues
- eHealth Policy and Practice
- eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
- Legal Issues
- Medical Research Ethics
- Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent Systems
- IS Security Issues
- Mobile Applications
- Multimedia Applications
- Payment Systems
- Protocols and Standards
- Software Requirements and IS Architectures
- Storage Issues
- Strategies and Tendencies
- System Architectures
- Telework Technologies
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Virtual Reality
- Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Content Development
- Cyber law and Intellectual Property
- Data Mining
- ePublishing and Digital Libraries
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information Search and Retrieval
- Knowledge Management
- Policy Issues
- Privacy Issues
- Social and Organizational Aspects
- Virtual Communities
- XML and Other Extensible Languages


* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (1st call extension): 19 November 2008
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 17 December 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call
extension): Until 12 January 2009
- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 12 January 2009
- Conference: Barcelona, Spain, 25 to 28 February 2009

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2009
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@.../
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:*
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
Information Systems 2009 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 25-27 February
2009
Mobile Learning 2009 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 26-28
February 2009

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend
Information Systems and Mobile Learning conferences' sessions free of
charge.

An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":
STIMULATE
=
Scientific and Technological Information
Management in Universities and Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 9)
Announcement

Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in
Brussels, Belgium, for 3 months, May June July in 2009:
Language used is English.
Our motto is
"Helping educators and innovators to advance knowledge and to enrich lives"

Context and evolution of the program:
The initiative has been approved by the Flemish
Interuniversity Council (VLIR) and is sponsored
by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series
of similar international training activities that
have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons
with a university degree (Bachelor or Master),
who work in universities, information and
documentation centres, and libraries, including
of course university libraries, and who have a
few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title
of the training program reflects our wish to
create an environment in which each participant
is stimulated to get involved actively, supported
by the lecturers and the infrastructure provided
by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".

Aim / goal of the training program:
This International Training Program offers a
stimulating learning environment to information
experts in the area of science and technology,
who are in the early phase of their career. The
aims are to sharpen their skills in collecting,
storing, retrieving, presenting and managing
information. This can be of great benefit to the
teaching and research activities going on in
their institute and to the further development of
their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic,
general aim of all the International Training
Programs that are supported by VLIR: to train
young scientists and professionals from
developing countries in a domain that is relevant
for the further development of the country, and
to stimulate the participants to transfer their
increased knowledge and skills to their
colleagues and other stakeholders in their home country.

More specific objectives of the training program:
-- to provide participants with a clearer view on
the importance of information in general and for
their environment in particular, and on how to manage information:
summarised: "Management in libraries and information centres"
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern
technology, in view of the increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: "Information and communication
technology for libraries and information centres"
-- to guide them in retrieving information that
is publicly accessible on an international scale:
summarised: "Information retrieval/searching"
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present,
manage, publish information resources at
personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: "Information architecture"

After being actively involved in this
International Training Program, every participant
will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of
access to information for their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential
users, using appropriate information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and
management of information, using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further)
development of an information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users
of information, information providers, colleagues,…
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision
making related to information systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and
access by potential users, using information technology

Contents of the program:
3 months means about 10 weeks or about 50 days.
During about 3 days per week for 10 weeks = 30
days, the participants will be guided by professors and other experts.
During the other 2 days per week for 10 weeks =
20 days, they will work on tasks=assignments as
individuals or in groups, and their reports will
be presented and discussed afterwards, again
guided by professors and other experts.
The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month = introduction level,
--the second month = intermediate level, and
--the third month = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may
make sense to participate exceptionally during
only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships
are granted only to persons who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an
orientation tour of the University and the
University Library. Then some of the following
subjects are covered. Of course, due to the
limited available time, not all the mentioned
subjects can be discussed in each training
program, but a SELECTION will be made by the
organisers. The concrete content of each training
program depends on the availability of suitable
expert lecturers from Belgium and from abroad
during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made
available through the WWW site of the program.

1. Management in libraries and information centers:

Statistics to support decision making for
information science and for library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of
electronic journals and databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification
schemes; thesaurus systems, ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and
information technology transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related
to the establishment of an information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.

2. Information and communication technology
relevant for libraries and information centers:

Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system;
writing a proposal for a computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet:
telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50 and ISO239.50, Open
Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

3. Information retrieval/searching:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database
searching; search tactics and strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about books and about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.

4. Information architecture and digital libraries:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family
for information storage and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data
in a database, output of selected data to file or
printer; developing a database structure;
indexing data for fast retrieval; ISIS for
Windows; WINISIS; history and future of ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Digital archiving.
Institutional document repositories.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).


Study visits:

In addition to the courses taking place at the
university campus, study visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology
Department of the Royal Museum on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on
information and library science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the various branches of the university
library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor
Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen / Antwerp, Belgium
--to the historical city library of Antwerpen / Antwerp
--to the public library of Antwerpen / Antwerp
--to the old central library and to the modern
science and technology library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and
documentation centre and to the UNESCO-IOC-IODE
offices, near the sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the
Royal Tropical Institute), and to the high school
on libraries, documentation and information, both
in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the
National, Royal Library in Den Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in
Den Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands

More culturally oriented guided visits are
organised by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
These may include trips to the old cities of
Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam, Paris, and to the North Sea coast.

About half of the time, the participants are
guided by experts who are invited to the
university. They use the other half time to solve
problems, to make exercises, to use
microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the
participants have access like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed
material, CD-ROMs and PCs with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

Poster session by participants:

Each participant creates a poster to present
information to the other participants of the
training program as well as to other interested
persons who may be present, about
1. the location of their professional organisation/institute
2. the aims of their professional organisation/institute
3. their personal professional function and expertise
4. their professional needs, expectations, wishes, desires, priorities
The posters are shown once in a poster session that lasts for about 1 hour.
This is organised as soon as possible, probably on day 2 of the program.
The hope is that during this session, the
participants can get to know each other better
and they can make interesting professional contacts.
The poster can consist of several sheets A4 or
better A3 size, with printed text and figures and
can contain a leaflet or brochure about their home organisation.
The secretariat of the program will provide
adhesive tape to mount the poster on a wall.
In this way, participants and some professors get
to know each other efficiently and the
participants learn to present information in the
format of a scientific poster.
The poster should not cover more than 1 square meter.
Each participant should collect some supporting
materials like folders, leaflets, photos, maps,
etc… well in advance for inclusion in their
poster and bring these to the program!

Scientific tutorial presentations by participants:

Each participant is expected to present a
tutorial presentation during the program of
maximum 15 minutes, with 10 minutes of questions
and answers plus discussion foreseen. The
audience is composed of the other participants.
The topic of each presentation is one aspect of
their expertise. The aims are the following:
- participants improve their scientific
presentation, teaching and communication skills,
- they share their knowledge with the other participants,
- participants get to know each other better,
- the session may form a basis for possible later co-operation, etc…

Recommendations by participants

Near the end of the program, each participant
completes a presentation supported by slides
managed on computer, with concrete, constructive comments and recommendations
--to the organisers of this training program and
--to the director(s) / manager(s) of their own organisation.

Teachers, professors, experts, resource persons:
The following will be invited. They may
contribute as they did in previous programs, if
their agenda and the limited duration of the training program allow this:
" Collier, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
" Dekeyser, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
" De Keyser, Hogeschool, and Library School, Belgium
" Dell'Orso, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
" De Smet, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and INASP, UK
" Egghe, Hasselt University, Belgium
" Goovaerts, Hasselt University, Belgium
" Koninckx, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Holans, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
" Hopkinson, Middlesex University, London, England, UK
" Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Noordermeer, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
" Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Quiroga, University of Hawai, Hawai, USA
" Rousseau, Hogeschool Oostende, Belgium
" Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Van Borm, ex-director of the university
library, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

Certificat:
At the end of the program all participants obtain
a certificate stating that they have indeed
participated, with a reference to the full
detailed overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are
followed by an evaluation by the responsible
expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by
each participant; this can lead to a certificate
of active and successful participation.

Social and cultural activities planned:

- Poster presentation by each participant to the
other participants and to invited guests, about
information management in their home institute,
on the same evening as the welcome reception with
drinks and appetizers, early in the program.
- Evening with the opportunity to learn more
about beer tasting and to taste some of the
world-famous Belgian beers and some Belgian food; with beer tasting contest.
- Tasting contest: various types of chocolate produced in Belgium.
- Two photography contests.
- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks. (final evening of the program)
Furthermore the participants can join some of the
many activities at the university and in
Brussels, which are organized by others.

Participation, registration=tuition fee:

Grants=scholarships:

Participation is free of charge (!) for 12
participants from selected developing countries.
Those participants who receive a scholarship are
selected by the Steering Committee of the
program, by VLIR (the Flemish Inter-university
Council) section for University Co-operation
VLIR-UOS, and by DGOS. They also receive a return
flight ticket plus a scholarship to cover the
costs of transport from the airport upon arrival
to their room, accommodation, health insurance
during the stay in Belgium, transport in Belgium,
and finally transport from their room to the airport.
The ideal participant applying for a grant is
younger than 40 years, and will be able to apply
what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.
The detailed forms that are needed to request a
grant=scholarship should be available through the
Internet starting from November preceding the
Program, from the WWW site of VLIR-UOS concerning
scholarships  http://www.scholarships.vliruos.be/
Applications for a scholarship must be received
before the end of January! (and NOT before the
end of February as in previous years up to 2005).
If you have requested a grant=scholarship for an
earlier version of this program and you did not
receive one of the scholarships, then you can
send a complete, new request following the most
recent procedure and using the most recent official forms.
Priority countries are selected by the government
of Belgium, NOT by VLIR, NOT by the academic
organisers of this program and the list changes
over the years. The following is copied from the VLIR-UOS WWW site in 2008:
Only residents of developing countries on the
VLIR-UOS' List of Developing Countries are
eligible for a scholarship. The Belgian
Directorate-General for Development Cooperation
(DGCD) decided to modify, as of 2008, the country
list applicable to university corporation for
development activities. Only 41 countries still
remain on the list. Please check carefully
whether your country of origin is on the list.
The geographical spread of students is a factor:
50% of the participants in an ICP or ITP must
come from Sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts will be
made to ensure equal representation.
Candidates must reside in their country of origin
when they apply and when the programme starts, in case they are selected.
Latin America:
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Cuba
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Nicaragua
Peru
Surinam
Africa:
Algeria
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
DR Congo
Ethiopia
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Madagascar
Mali
Morocco
Mozambique
Niger
Rwanda
Senegal
South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Asia:
Bangladesh
Cambodia
China
India
Indonesia
Palestinian Administrative Areas
Philippines
Vietnam

Normal registration without scholarship from VLIR:

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the
Belgian Government through VLIR, 8 persons can
participate after paying a registration=tuition
fee that is small in comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel,
transport in Belgium, meals and accommodation,
but do include transport from the airport upon
arrival, welcome reception, health insurance,
printed study materials, study visits, social activities.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate
for the whole period can nevertheless participate
during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1
month only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend
for instance the first month or the first two
months only. It makes less sense to participate
only during the second or the third month, as
introductions to some activities or topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from
the program: 30 Euro per half day.

To register and pay the registration=tuition fee,
send the form (see below) by classical mail or by
private courier, together with an international
bank transfer / bank cheque / bank draft, payable to
University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable
for you, then you can transfer the required sum
of money to the following bank account of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark:
for internal account VOPA21 BIBLINK3 University
Library STIMULATE International Training Program
The money received by the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel financial department must be transferred
internally; this transfer takes about 1 week,
which means a delay in the registration procedure, which is better avoided.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)
Realize that some bank transfer costs are
involved and that these should be paid besides
the requested participation fee that is transferred.

There is no formal deadline. However, we
recommend you to register as early as possible,
because "first come, first served": the arrival
of your participation fee determines who can
participate. Furthermore the later a participant
is registered, the more difficult it becomes to
find cheap and suitable accommodation.

There is NO need to "apply" prior to the
registration, to request permission to
participate or to be accepted, from the
organizers of the program or from their
universities. Also there is no age limit. The
decision to participate to the program is to be
made by the person who is interested and NOT by
the organizers. This is like participating to a conference.
Invitation letters can be sent on request if
needed, but in principle only when the
participation = registration fee has been
received. This announcement is in fact an invitation.

It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of
the program about sponsors besides VLIR mentioned above.

Didactic materials and notebook pc:

Every participant who receives a
grant/scholarship from VLIR-UOS receives next to
his/her monthly grant/scholarship a lump sum of
about 280 euro from VLIR-UOS for the purchase of
didactic materials (e.g. books needed for a
course, printed course notes, cost of study visits, use of a notebook pc).
Each participant who receives a scholarship from
VLIR-UOS pays a lump sum of 150 euro to the
program organisers for the didactic costs, durin
the first week of the program. For participants
who are participating without a VLIR-UOS
grant/scholarship this cost is included in the registration (=tuition fee).
Because computer applications are important in
the program and because the schedule is online
and because communication is organised through
the internet, it is obligatory that every
participant uses a notebook=laptop pc with a
wireless network card=component=interface (WIFI)
during the program. Each participant should bring
a suitable bag to carry and transport the pc
safely during the program; ideally this should
not look like a special pc bag to avoid theft.
Access to a notebook pc can be arranged as follows:
OPTION 1:
The participant brings a notebook pc. In this
case it is important that the participant should
try to bring the official purchasing papers for
the notebook pc, so that in the case that a
technical problem arises, the participant in
question can go to an official dealer for
technical support and so that the pc can be
exported and imported through the customs at the airports without problem.
OPTION 2:
The participant can not bring a pc. In this case
he/she informs the program organisers as soon as
possible and well in advance of the start of the
program. Then the program organisers will try to
provide a notebook pc which can be rented for the
whole duration of the program. Rental cost for
three months is 130 euro. Guarantee is 400 euro;
this sum is refunded to the participant after
returning the notebook pc in good condition at
the end of the program. The notebooks provided by
the program organisers are suitable for all the
tasks required during the program. The provision
of a notebook pc by the program organisers cannot
be guaranteed, as there is only a limited number
of notebook pc's which the program organisers
have available. The participants that inform the
program organisers first concerning their need to
rent a notebook pc have priority to the others.
If the participant prefers not to rent but to buy
a notebook pc during the first week of the
program, then this can also be arranged, with
assistance of the program organisers.
OPTION 3:
The participant cannot bring a notebook pc and
the program organisers cannot provide one for
rent. In that case, the participant has to buy a
new notebook pc during the first week of the
program, with assistance of the program
organisers, in a shop freely chosen by the
participant. Of course in this case the
participant should have the needed funds
available (minimum 600 euro at the time of writing this text).

Medical insurance:

Participants are covered during their stay by a full medical insurance.
This costs about 40 Euro per month.
This is formalised as soon as possible after
arrival in Belgium, with the secretariat of the program.

Accommodation:

The organisers of this program normally book in
advance a single, cheap, basic room with access
to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each
participant, unless a participant writes us that
he/she wants to take care of accommodation
personally, for instance by staying with a friend
or by renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their accommodation directly
to the person or organisation providing
accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive
in Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance,
then we can normally find basic accommodation for
about 300 Euro per month, meals not included;
however, a late receipt of the
registration=tuition fee forces us probably to book a more expensive room.

The cost of living in Belgium:

According to previous participants and in
agreement with the grants provided by VLIR-UOS,
1100 Euro per month should be enough to cover all
expenses, including accommodation, local
transport, food… In Belgium, tap water available
free of charge is safe and healthy, suitable for drinking.

Total cost:
An estimate of the total cost to participate can
of course be made by adding all cost factors
which include probably the following:
registration=tuition fee, travel, accommodation,
food and drinks, medical insurance, taxi at
arrival, local transport mainly in Brussels,
study materials, use of a notebook pc, taxi at departure.
Some of these are mentioned and explained above.

How to contact the academic organizers?

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in
case that this does not seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax  32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429  or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University
Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM

However, correspondence about scholarships should
not be addressed to the academic organizers, but
to VLIR-UOS as explained elsewhere in this text.

Location:

The training is mainly organized at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The main campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be
reached by Metro (subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be
found through the WWW; see for instance:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in
Brussels (in French and in Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/
offers information on Brussels and some photos,
based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eric-maerschalck.be/Brussels/bruxelles.php?log=NO
offers photos made in Brussels
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm
offers an interactive map and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.use-it.be/
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Interesting trips are possible to places in
neighbouring countries like The Netherlands and
France. Therefore, participants should try to
obtain also a visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).

Program and Steering Committee:

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen,
professor full-time at the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit
Antwerpen, Science and technology librarian of
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/
An official, formal Steering Committee is
composed of members from the co-operating universities in Flanders:
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the
organisation, the program and the budget. This
committee reports formally to VLIR.

This version is dated 2008-10-15


____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a
letter AND I pay the registration=tuition fee as
described in the announcement of the
International Training Program on INFORMATION.
(So the following is NOT the form to request a scholarship/grant.
Use this form only when you pay the registration=tuition fee.)
   a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in
maiden-name as well as name of husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
Personal address: ...................................
     .....................................................
Country:.............................................
Electronic mail address
Telephone, fax, telex:

Date of birth:                                     Place of birth:
Nationality:                                       Sex: male / female

Present employment:
a. Name and address of employer: .................
        ...............................................
        ...............................................
b. Since: ../../..
c. Position - function - specialization
d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:

Education - studies:
     Name of institute   Degree   Date





Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:


Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
.................................................................
.................................................................

Please book a room for me   OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation

Date and signature:………………………………………….

Please include a recent photograph, as this will
simplify identifying you upon arrival.

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 20 October 2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2009
February 25-28, 2009 – BARCELONA, SPAIN
(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2009 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital
Divide,  eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society,
Digital Services in eESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth,
Information Systems,  and Information Management. These broad areas
are 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 of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (online accessible). The best paper authors will be
invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS
Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and other selected
Journals.

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

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eSociety and Digital Divide »»
Connectivity may imply social coherence and integration. The opposite
may result as well, when systematic measures are taken to exclude
certain individuals or certain groups. Papers are welcomed on the
next keywords:
• Social Integration
• Social Bookmarking
• Social Software
• E-Democracy
• Social Integration

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
• Business Ontologies and Models
• Digital Goods and Services
• eBusiness Models
• eCommerce Application Fields
• eCommerce Economics
• eCommerce Services
• Electronic Service Delivery
• eMarketing
• Languages for Describing Goods and Services
• Online Auctions and Technologies
• Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
• Collaborative Learning
• Curriculum Content Design & Development
• Delivery Systems and Environments
• Educational Systems Design
. E-Citizenship and Inclusion
• eLearning Organisational Issues
• Evaluation and Assessment
. Political and Social Aspects
• Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
• Web-based Learning Communities

«« New Media and E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
• Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence
• Interactivity and virtuality
• Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy
• Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome
• Internet Cultures and new interpretations of "Space"
• Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

«« Digital Services in E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
• Service Broadcasting
• Political Reporting
• Development of Digital Services
• Freedom of Expression
• E-Journalism
• Open Access

«« eGovernment /eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
• Accessibility
• Democracy and the Citizen
• Digital Economies
• Digital Regions
• eAdministration
• eGovernment Management
• eProcurement
• Global Trends
• National and International Economies
• Social Inclusion

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
• Data Security Issues
• eHealth Policy and Practice
• eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
• Legal Issues
• Medical Research Ethics
• Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Systems
• IS Security Issues
• Mobile Applications
• Multimedia Applications
• Payment Systems
• Protocols and Standards
• Software Requirements and IS Architectures
• Storage Issues
• Strategies and Tendencies
• System Architectures
• Telework Technologies
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Virtual Reality
• Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Content Development
• Cyber law and Intellectual Property
• Data Mining
• ePublishing and Digital Libraries
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Search and Retrieval
• Knowledge Management
• Policy Issues
• Privacy Issues
• Social and Organizational Aspects
• Virtual Communities
• XML and Other Extensible Languages


* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 20 October 2008
- Notification to Authors: 17 November 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 15
December 2008
- Late Registration: After 15 December 2008
- Conference: Barcelona, Spain, 25 to 28 February 2009

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2009
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@.../
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:*
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
Information Systems 2009 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 25-27 February
2009
Mobile Learning 2009 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 26-28
February 2009

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend
Information Systems and Mobile Learning conferences' sessions free of
charge.

** Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students.**

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 1 September
2008 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2008
                     Freiburg, Germany, 13 - 15 October 2008
                       (http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Co-organised by: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

   Endorsed by: Institute for the Management of Information Systems
(IMIS)

   Supported by: The Journal of eWorking


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Bebo White, Stanford University, USA

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2008 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference
aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (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 of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors
will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the
IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and
also in other selected Journals. The top 10 papers related to the
journal topics will be invited to submit
an extension paper to the Journal of eWorking (*ISSN*: 1872-3284) for
publication.

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

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:

Web 2.0
- Collaborative Systems
- Co-generation of Content, Understandings and World Views

Semantic Web and XML
- Semantics Web Architectures
- Semantic Web Middleware
- Semantic Web Services
- Semantic Web Agents
- Ontologies
- Applications of Semantic Web
- Social Networks and Semantics Web
- Semantic Web Data Management
- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses
- Game Architecture and Development
- e-Learning
- e-Commerce / e-Business
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Procurement
- e-Society
- Digital Libraries
- Internet Applications
- Interoperability with Mobile Applications

Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Internet Architectures
- Network Algorithms
- Network Architectures
- Network Computing
- Network Management
- Network Performance
- Protocols and Standards
- Traffic Models

Research Issues
- Bioinformatics
- Human Computer Interaction
- Security and Protection
- Data Mining and Social Networks
- Information Retrieval
- Information Seeking Behaviours

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (2nd call) - 1 September 2008
- Notification to Authors (2nd call) - 16 September 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call) -
Until 23 September 2008
- Late Registration (2nd call) - After 23 September 2008
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 13 to 15 October 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located Conference:
This conference is co-located with the IADIS International Conference
on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2008)
(http://www.celda-conf.org/) - participants of one conference may
attend the sessions from the other conference at no extra charges.

** apologies for cross-postings **

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 13 June 2008 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2008
                     Freiburg, Germany, 13 - 15 October 2008
                       (http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Co-organised by: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

   Endorsed by: Institute for the Management of Information Systems
(IMIS)


* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2008 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference
aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (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 of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors
will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the
IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and
also in other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:

Web 2.0
- Collaborative Systems
- Co-generation of Content, Understandings and World Views

Semantic Web and XML
- Semantics Web Architectures
- Semantic Web Middleware
- Semantic Web Services
- Semantic Web Agents
- Ontologies
- Applications of Semantic Web
- Social Networks and Semantics Web
- Semantic Web Data Management
- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses
- Game Architecture and Development
- e-Learning

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 30 May
2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATICS 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.informatics-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Dr. Ulrike Hugl, University of Innsbruck, Austria

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Informatics 2008 shall host fundamental topics on
Informatics. In addition, its
scope is not just limited to fundamental theory, but it should also
cover the impact of
Informatics on society and human life, and it shall furthermore
complement theory
foundations with technical considerations and practice.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions
of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

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

* Topics related to Informatics are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:

- Theory Foundations (Main area)
  - Algorithms
  - Architectures
  - Artificial intelligence
  - Compilers
  - Complex systems
  - Data modeling
  - Expert systems
  - Graph theory
  - Hybrid methods
  - Interfaces
  - Interpreters
  - Natural language processing
  - Numerical computation
  - Object orientation
  - Ontologies
  - Programming languages
  - Programming techniques
  - Scientific computing
  - Service-oriented architecture
  - Theorems

- Human Respect (Main area)
  - Accessibility
  - Application design
  - Bio-signal processing
  - Computing for handicapped
  - Computer science in practice Education and Informatics
  - Ethics
  - Freedom of information
  - Geographic information
  - Information retrieval
  - Medical applications
  - Multimedia
  - Privacy
  - Public digital libraries
  - Public science archives
  - Quality-of-service
  - Security
  - Ubiquitous tools
  - Visualization
  - Virtual reality

- Technical Aspects (Main area)
  - Adaptive systems
  - Computer aided design
  - Computer aided manufacturing
  - Computing practices
  - Development processes
  - Distribution processes
  - Distributed systems
  - Embedded systems
  - Grid computing
  - Industrial applications
  - Interoperability
  - Marketing
  - Networking
  - Parallel systems
  - Performance issues
  - Simulation
  - Software development
  - Software engineering
  - System integration
  - UML

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (last call): 30 May 2008
- Notification to Authors: 16 June 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 30 June
2008
- Late Registration: After 30 June 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 to 27 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATICS 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.informatics-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Informatics 2008 Conference Program Chair
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.informatics-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 30 May
2008 --

IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008
(http://www.datamining-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Václav Snášel, Vice - Dean for Research and Science,
University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Professor Juan M. Corchado, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de
Salamanca, Spain

* Conference background and goals
The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM'08) is aimed to gather
researchers and application developers from a wide range of data
mining related areas such as statistics,
computational intelligence, pattern recognition, databases and
visualization. ECDM'08 is aimed to advance the state of the art in
data mining field and its various real world applications. ECDM'08
will provide opportunities for technical collaboration among data
mining and machine learning researchers around the globe.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions
of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

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

* Topics related to Data Mining are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:
- Core Data Mining Topics (Main area)
  - Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
  - Data streams mining
  - Graph mining
  - Spatial data mining
  - Text video, multimedia data mining
  - Web mining
  - Pre-processing techniques
  - Visualization
  - Security and information hiding in data mining

- Data Mining Applications (Main area)
  - Databases
  - Bioinformatics
  - Biometrics
  - Image analysis
  - Financial modeling
  - Forecasting
  - Classification
  - Clustering

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (last call): 30 May 2008
- Notification to Authors: 16 June 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 30 June
2008
- Late Registration: After 30 June 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.datamining-conf.org/

* Program Committee
European Conference on Data Mining 2008 Program Chair
Ajith P. Abraham, School of Computer Science, Chung-Ang University,
South Korea

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.datamining-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (extension): 5 May
2008 --

IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008
(http://www.datamining-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Václav Snášel, Vice - Dean for Research and Science,
University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Professor Juan M. Corchado, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de
Salamanca, Spain

* Conference background and goals
The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM'08) is aimed to gather
researchers and application developers from a wide range of data
mining related areas such as statistics,
computational intelligence, pattern recognition, databases and
visualization. ECDM'08 is aimed to advance the state of the art in
data mining field and its various real world applications. ECDM'08
will provide opportunities for technical collaboration among data
mining and machine learning researchers around the globe.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions
of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

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

* Topics related to Data Mining are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:
- Core Data Mining Topics (Main area)
  - Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
  - Data streams mining
  - Graph mining
  - Spatial data mining
  - Text video, multimedia data mining
  - Web mining
  - Pre-processing techniques
  - Visualization
  - Security and information hiding in data mining

- Data Mining Applications (Main area)
  - Databases
  - Bioinformatics
  - Biometrics
  - Image analysis
  - Financial modeling
  - Forecasting
  - Classification
  - Clustering

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (extension): 5 May 2008
- Notification to Authors: 26 May 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 16 June
2008
- Late Registration: After 16 June 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.datamining-conf.org/

* Program Committee
European Conference on Data Mining 2008 Program Chair
Ajith P. Abraham, School of Computer Science, Chung-Ang University,
South Korea

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.datamining-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (extension): 5 May
2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATICS 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.informatics-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Dr. Ulrike Hugl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Informatics 2008 shall host fundamental topics on
Informatics. In addition, its
scope is not just limited to fundamental theory, but it should also
cover the impact of
Informatics on society and human life, and it shall furthermore
complement theory
foundations with technical considerations and practice.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions
of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

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

* Topics related to Informatics are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:

- Theory Foundations (Main area)
  - Algorithms
  - Architectures
  - Artificial intelligence
  - Compilers
  - Complex systems
  - Data modeling
  - Expert systems
  - Graph theory
  - Hybrid methods
  - Interfaces
  - Interpreters
  - Natural language processing
  - Numerical computation
  - Object orientation
  - Ontologies
  - Programming languages
  - Programming techniques
  - Scientific computing
  - Service-oriented architecture
  - Theorems

- Human Respect (Main area)
  - Accessibility
  - Application design
  - Bio-signal processing
  - Computing for handicapped
  - Computer science in practice Education and Informatics
  - Ethics
  - Freedom of information
  - Geographic information
  - Information retrieval
  - Medical applications
  - Multimedia
  - Privacy
  - Public digital libraries
  - Public science archives
  - Quality-of-service
  - Security
  - Ubiquitous tools
  - Visualization
  - Virtual reality

- Technical Aspects (Main area)
  - Adaptive systems
  - Computer aided design
  - Computer aided manufacturing
  - Computing practices
  - Development processes
  - Distribution processes
  - Distributed systems
  - Embedded systems
  - Grid computing
  - Industrial applications
  - Interoperability
  - Marketing
  - Networking
  - Parallel systems
  - Performance issues
  - Simulation
  - Software development
  - Software engineering
  - System integration
  - UML

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (extension): 5 May 2008
- Notification to Authors: 26 May 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 16 June
2008
- Late Registration: After 16 June 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 to 27 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATICS 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.informatics-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Informatics 2008 Conference Program Chair
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.informatics-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions(new date): 31 March
2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATICS 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.informatics-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Dr. Ulrike Hugl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Informatics 2008 shall host fundamental topics on
Informatics. In addition, its
scope is not just limited to fundamental theory, but it should also
cover the impact of
Informatics on society and human life, and it shall furthermore
complement theory
foundations with technical considerations and practice.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions
of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

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

* Topics related to Informatics are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:

- Theory Foundations (Main area)
  - Algorithms
  - Architectures
  - Artificial intelligence
  - Compilers
  - Complex systems
  - Data modeling
  - Expert systems
  - Graph theory
  - Hybrid methods
  - Interfaces
  - Interpreters
  - Natural language processing
  - Numerical computation
  - Object orientation
  - Ontologies
  - Programming languages
  - Programming techniques
  - Scientific computing
  - Service-oriented architecture
  - Theorems

- Human Respect (Main area)
  - Accessibility
  - Application design
  - Bio-signal processing
  - Computing for handicapped
  - Computer science in practice Education and Informatics
  - Ethics
  - Freedom of information
  - Geographic information
  - Information retrieval
  - Medical applications
  - Multimedia
  - Privacy
  - Public digital libraries
  - Public science archives
  - Quality-of-service
  - Security
  - Ubiquitous tools
  - Visualization
  - Virtual reality

- Technical Aspects (Main area)
  - Adaptive systems
  - Computer aided design
  - Computer aided manufacturing
  - Computing practices
  - Development processes
  - Distribution processes
  - Distributed systems
  - Embedded systems
  - Grid computing
  - Industrial applications
  - Interoperability
  - Marketing
  - Networking
  - Parallel systems
  - Performance issues
  - Simulation
  - Software development
  - Software engineering
  - System integration
  - UML

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (new date): 31 March 2008
- Notification to Authors: 18 April 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 9 May
2008
- Late Registration: After 9 May 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 to 27 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATICS 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.informatics-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Informatics 2008 Conference Program Chair
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.informatics-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions extended: 21 December
2007 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2008
April 9-12, 2008 – ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speakers:
Tim Braulke, Network Economy Group, Germany
Bert Mulder, Associate Professor Information, Technology and Society,
The Hague University, The Netherlands

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2008 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital
Divide,  eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society,
Digital Services in eESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth,
Information Systems,  and Information Management. These broad areas
are 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 of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (online accessible). The best paper authors will be
invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the Journal
of Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE) (ISSN: 1741-
5659), IADIS Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and other
selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eSociety and Digital Divide »»
Connectivity may imply social coherence and integration. The opposite
may result as well, when systematic measures are taken to exclude
certain individuals or certain groups. Papers are welcomed on the
next keywords:
• Social Integration
• Social Bookmarking
• Social Software
• E-Democracy
• Social Integration

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
• Business Ontologies and Models
• Digital Goods and Services
• eBusiness Models
• eCommerce Application Fields
• eCommerce Economics
• eCommerce Services
• Electronic Service Delivery
• eMarketing
• Languages for Describing Goods and Services
• Online Auctions and Technologies
• Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
• Collaborative Learning
• Curriculum Content Design & Development
• Delivery Systems and Environments
• Educational Systems Design
. E-Citizenship and Inclusion
• eLearning Organisational Issues
• Evaluation and Assessment
. Political and Social Aspects
• Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
• Web-based Learning Communities

«« New Media and E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
• Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence
• Interactivity and virtuality
• Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy
• Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome
• Internet Cultures and new interpretations of "Space"
• Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

«« Digital Services in E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
• Service Broadcasting
• Political Reporting
• Development of Digital Services
• Freedom of Expression
• E-Journalism
• Open Access

«« eGovernment /eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
• Accessibility
• Democracy and the Citizen
• Digital Economies
• Digital Regions
• eAdministration
• eGovernment Management
• eProcurement
• Global Trends
• National and International Economies
• Social Inclusion

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
• Data Security Issues
• eHealth Policy and Practice
• eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
• Legal Issues
• Medical Research Ethics
• Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Systems
• IS Security Issues
• Mobile Applications
• Multimedia Applications
• Payment Systems
• Protocols and Standards
• Software Requirements and IS Architectures
• Storage Issues
• Strategies and Tendencies
• System Architectures
• Telework Technologies
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Virtual Reality
• Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Content Development
• Cyber law and Intellectual Property
• Data Mining
• ePublishing and Digital Libraries
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Search and Retrieval
• Knowledge Management
• Policy Issues
• Privacy Issues
• Social and Organizational Aspects
• Virtual Communities
• XML and Other Extensible Languages
* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (extended): 21 December 2007
- Notification to Authors: 25 January 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 29
February 2008
- Late Registration: After 29 February 2008
- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 9 to 12 April 2008

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@.../
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
Mobile Learning 2008 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 11-13 April
2008
Applied Computing 2008 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 10-13 April
2008
Information Systems 2008 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 9-11 April 2008

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend
Mobile Learning, Applied Computing, and Information Systems'
conferences' sessions free of charge.

* apologies for cross-postings **

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 23 July
2007 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007
                     Vila Real, Portugal, 5 - 8 October 2007
                       (http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Co-organised by: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Senior Researcher Ken Kahn, Oxford University and London Knowledge
Lab, UK
Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of Bath, UK

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2007 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference
aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (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 of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (available online). The best paper
authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers
in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
and also in other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:
- Accessibility
- Adaptive Web Systems
- Collaboration
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Data Mining
- Database Planning and Development
- Digital Economy
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment
- Extensible Languages
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet
- Groupware
- Human Computer Interaction
- Hypermedia
- Information Architectures
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Agents
- Interfaces
- Internet & Customer Relationship Management
- Internet Payment Systems
- Internet Services
- Languages
- Metadata
- Multimedia
- Performance Issues
- Personalized Web Sites and Services
- Portal strategies
- Protocols and Standards
- Searching and Browsing
- Security Issues
- Semantic Web
- Social & Legal Issues
- Storage Issues
- System Integration
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness
- Technology Management
- Technology Strategies
- Tele-Work
- WWW/Internet Applications
- WWW/Internet Case studies
- WWW/Internet Impacts
- Web Engineering
- Web Personalization
- Web Software
- Wireless Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability
- User Modelling
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Reality
- XML

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (2nd call) â€" 23 July 2007
- Notification to Authors (2nd call) - 5 September 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call) -
Until 17 September 2007
- Late Registration (2nd call) - After 17 September 2007
- Conference: Vila Real, Portugal, 5 to 8 October 2007

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
João Barroso, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-
conf.org/committees.asp

* apologies for cross-postings **

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 11 June 2007 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007
                     Vila Real, Portugal, 5 - 8 October 2007
                       (http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Co-organised by: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Senior Researcher Ken Kahn, Oxford University and London Knowledge
Lab, UK
Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of Bath, UK

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2007 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference
aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (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 of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (available online). The best paper
authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers
in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
and also in other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:
- Accessibility
- Adaptive Web Systems
- Collaboration
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Data Mining
- Database Planning and Development
- Digital Economy
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment
- Extensible Languages
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet
- Groupware
- Human Computer Interaction
- Hypermedia
- Information Architectures
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Agents
- Interfaces
- Internet & Customer Relationship Management
- Internet Payment Systems
- Internet Services
- Languages
- Metadata
- Multimedia
- Performance Issues
- Personalized Web Sites and Services
- Portal strategies
- Protocols and Standards
- Searching and Browsing
- Security Issues
- Semantic Web
- Social & Legal Issues
- Storage Issues
- System Integration
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness
- Technology Management
- Technology Strategies
- Tele-Work
- WWW/Internet Applications
- WWW/Internet Case studies
- WWW/Internet Impacts
- Web Engineering
- Web Personalization
- Web Software
- Wireless Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability
- User Modelling
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Reality
- XML

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline extended - 11 June 2007
- Notification to Authors - 29 June 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 20
July 2007
- Late Registration - After 20 July 2007
- Conference: Vila Real, Portugal, 5 to 8 October 2007

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
João Barroso, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions 2nd call: 7 May 2007 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007
(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed)
Professor Mireia Fernández Ardèvol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Professor António Câmara, YDreams and FCT -  New University of
Lisbon, Portugal

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2007 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment /
eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information
Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are 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 of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The
best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in the IADIS Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
and other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eGovernment / eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
• Accessibility
• Democracy and the Citizen
• Digital Economies
• Digital Regions
• eAdministration
• eGovernment Management
• eProcurement
• Global Trends
• National and International Economies
• Social Inclusion

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
• Business Ontologies and Models
• Digital Goods and Services
• eBusiness Models
• eCommerce Application Fields
• eCommerce Economics
• eCommerce Services
• Electronic Service Delivery
• eMarketing
• Languages for Describing Goods and Services
• Online Auctions and Technologies
• Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
• Political and Social Aspects
     - Political Drivers and Barriers of e-Learning
     - Impact of e-Learning in the e-Society
     - Aspects of Globalisation of Education
     - Societal Expectations of e-Learning
     - Diversity, Globalisation and Cultural    Domination on the Web

• E-Citizenship and Inclusion
     - e-Learning in the Developing World
     - e-Learning to Support Life-Long Learning
     - e-Learning and the Digital Divide
     - e-learning and the Social Divide
     - e-Learning for e-Citizenship

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
• Data Security Issues
• eHealth Policy and Practice
• eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
• Legal Issues
• Medical Research Ethics
• Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Systems
• IS Security Issues
• Mobile Applications
• Multimedia Applications
• Payment Systems
• Protocols and Standards
• Software Requirements and IS Architectures
• Storage Issues
• Strategies and Tendencies
• System Architectures
• Telework Technologies
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Virtual Reality
• Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Content Development
• Cyber law and Intellectual Property
• Data Mining
• ePublishing and Digital Libraries
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Search and Retrieval
• Knowledge Management
• Policy Issues
• Privacy Issues
• Social and Organizational Aspects
• Virtual Communities
• XML and Other Extensible Languages
* Registration Rates: rates are available at the conference web
page. Please note that registration in this conference entitles
participation and access to all open sessions from the MCCSIS
conference (including more than 14 keynotes).

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (2nd call): 7 May 2007
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): Until 25 May 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call):
Until 8 June 2007
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 8 June 2007
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@.../
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

e-Society 2007 Conference Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

e-Society 2007 Track Chairs

eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia

  eLearning Track
Drew Whitworth, School of Education, University of Manchester, UK

Information Systems  Track
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, University Of South Australia, Australia

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Parallel event:
Postgraduate Summer School on Computer Science and Information
Systems 2007 â€" information available at http://www.mccsis.org/school/

** apologies for cross-postings **

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2007 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007
                     Vila Real, Portugal, 5 - 8 October 2007
                       (http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Co-organised by: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Ken Kahn, Oxford University and London Knowledge Lab, UK
Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of Bath, UK

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2007 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference
aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (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 of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The
best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet
(ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:
- Accessibility
- Adaptive Web Systems
- Collaboration
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Data Mining
- Database Planning and Development
- Digital Economy
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment
- Extensible Languages
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet
- Groupware
- Human Computer Interaction
- Hypermedia
- Information Architectures
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Agents
- Interfaces
- Internet & Customer Relationship Management
- Internet Payment Systems
- Internet Services
- Languages
- Metadata
- Multimedia
- Performance Issues
- Personalized Web Sites and Services
- Portal strategies
- Protocols and Standards
- Searching and Browsing
- Security Issues
- Semantic Web
- Social & Legal Issues
- Storage Issues
- System Integration
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness
- Technology Management
- Technology Strategies
- Tele-Work
- WWW/Internet Applications
- WWW/Internet Case studies
- WWW/Internet Impacts
- Web Engineering
- Web Personalization
- Web Software
- Wireless Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability
- User Modelling
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Reality
- XML

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline - 30 April 2007
- Notification to Authors - 29 June 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 20
July 2007
- Late Registration - After 20 July 2007
- Conference: Vila Real, Portugal, 5 to 8 October 2007

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
João Barroso, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 20 April
2007 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2007
Lisbon, Portugal, 5 to 7 July 2007
(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Martin Owen, Futurelab, United Kingdom
Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of
Michigan, USA
Professor Cathie Norris,University of North Texas in Denton, USA

* Conference background and goals
Big issues in Mobile Learning: An International Perspective

In June 2006, under the auspice of the Kaleidoscope Network of
Excellence Mobile Learning Initiative, European researchers convened
for the Big Issues in Mobile Learning Workshop. The Workshop aimed
to provide a forum for reflecting on the issues that have triggered
the staggering growth in mobile learning and for identifying what
are the big challenges facing mobile learning.

An outcome of the workshop is the Big Issues in Mobile Learning
Report which indicates that mobile learning is concerned with “a
society on the move�. It is learning across contexts rather than
just learning with portable devices. The report points to the need
to move away from ‘porting’ existing activities into mobile devices,
to design with evaluation in mind, to consider the complexity of the
dialectic relationship between learner & technology, to explore new
conditions & ways of learning supported by mobile technology, to
investigate innovation in a social context and to consider the
tensions between mobile technology and learning in schools, among
others (Sharples, 2006).

The IADIS Mobile Learning 2007 International Conference seeks to
provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile
learning research. In particular, but not exclusively, we aim to
enrich the Big Issues in Mobile Learning debate with an
international perspective and with empirical research that will
further contribute to forge understanding of the Big Issues in
Mobile Learning.
Sharples, M. (Ed.) (2006) Big Issues in Mobile Learning: Report of a
workshop by the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence Mobile Learning
Initiative. Available at http://telearn.noe-
kaleidoscope.org/warehouse/Sharples-2006.pdf
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The
best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692) and also in other selected
Journals.

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

* We invite researchers, practitioners, developers and all those
working in the mobile learning arena to submit work under the
following Big Issues in Mobile Learning Themes (Sharples, 2006) and
topics:

Themes
• How to Enhance the Experience without Interfering With It?
• Affective Factors in Learning with Mobile Devices
• How Can We Address the Conflicts between Personal Informal
Learning and Traditional Classroom Education?
• Evaluating Mobile Learning: What are Appropriate Methods for
Evaluating in Mobile Environments?
• How Should Learning Activities Using Mobile Technologies be
Designed to Support Innovative Educational Practice?
• How Can We Integrate Mobile Devices with Broader Educational
Scenarios?
• Other relevant themes to explore Big Issues in Mobile Learning

Topics
• Pedagogical approaches and theories for mLearning
• Collaborative, cooperative and Contextual mLearning
• Creativity and mLearning
• Gaming and simulations in mLearning
• mLearning in educational institutions: primary, secondary and
third level
• Informal and Lifelong mLearning
• mLearning in developing countries
• New tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning
• User Studies in mLearning
• The social phenomenon of mobile devices and mLearning
• Speculative ideas in mLearning: where next?

* Registration Rates: rates are available at the conference web
page. Please note that registration in this conference entitles
participation and access to all open sessions from the MCCSIS
conference (including more than 14 keynotes).

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (2nd call): 20 April 2007
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): Until 11 May 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 May
2007
- Late Registration: After 18 May 2007
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 5 to 7 July 2007

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING
2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Mobile Learning 2007 Program Chair
Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Steering Committee
Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham,  United Kingdom
Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan,
USA
Dan Sutch, Learning Researcher, Futurelab,  United Kingdom
Josie Taylor, The Open University, United Kingdom
Tom Brown, Telematic Learning and Education Innovation, University
of Pretoria, South Africa

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.mlearning-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Parallel event:
Postgraduate Summer School on Computer Science and Information
Systems 2007 â€" information available at http://www.mccsis.org/school/

pologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions extended: 5 April
2007 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007
(http://www. esociety-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed)
Professor Mireia Fernández Ardèvol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Professor António Câmara, YDreams and FCT -  New University of
Lisbon, Portugal

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2007 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment /
eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information
Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are 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 of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The
best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in the IADIS Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
and other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eGovernment / eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
• Accessibility
• Democracy and the Citizen
• Digital Economies
• Digital Regions
• eAdministration
• eGovernment Management
• eProcurement
• Global Trends
• National and International Economies
• Social Inclusion

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
• Business Ontologies and Models
• Digital Goods and Services
• eBusiness Models
• eCommerce Application Fields
• eCommerce Economics
• eCommerce Services
• Electronic Service Delivery
• eMarketing
• Languages for Describing Goods and Services
• Online Auctions and Technologies
• Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
• Political and Social Aspects
     - Political Drivers and Barriers of e-Learning
     - Impact of e-Learning in the e-Society
     - Aspects of Globalisation of Education
     - Societal Expectations of e-Learning
     - Diversity, Globalisation and Cultural    Domination on the Web
• E-Citizenship and Inclusion
     - e-Learning in the Developing World
     - e-Learning to Support Life-Long Learning
     - e-Learning and the Digital Divide
     - e-learning and the Social Divide
     - e-Learning for e-Citizenship

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
• Data Security Issues
• eHealth Policy and Practice
• eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
• Legal Issues
• Medical Research Ethics
• Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Systems
• IS Security Issues
• Mobile Applications
• Multimedia Applications
• Payment Systems
• Protocols and Standards
• Software Requirements and IS Architectures
• Storage Issues
• Strategies and Tendencies
• System Architectures
• Telework Technologies
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Virtual Reality
• Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Content Development
• Cyber law and Intellectual Property
• Data Mining
• ePublishing and Digital Libraries
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Search and Retrieval
• Knowledge Management
• Policy Issues
• Privacy Issues
• Social and Organizational Aspects
• Virtual Communities
• XML and Other Extensible Languages
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline extended: 5 April 2007
- Notification to Authors: Until 27 April 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 May
2007
- Late Registration: After 18 May 2007
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@.../
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

e-Society 2007 Conference Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

e-Society 2007 Track Chairs

eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia


eLearning Track
Drew Whitworth, School of Education, University of Manchester, UK

Information Systems  Track
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, University Of South Australia, Australia

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-
conf.org/committees.asp

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 26 February 2007 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007
(http://www. esociety-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2007 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment /
eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information
Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are 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 of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The
best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in the IADIS Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
and other selected Journals.

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

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eGovernment / eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
• Accessibility
• Democracy and the Citizen
• Digital Economies
• Digital Regions
• eAdministration
• eGovernment Management
• eProcurement
• Global Trends
• National and International Economies
• Social Inclusion

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
• Business Ontologies and Models
• Digital Goods and Services
• eBusiness Models
• eCommerce Application Fields
• eCommerce Economics
• eCommerce Services
• Electronic Service Delivery
• eMarketing
• Languages for Describing Goods and Services
• Online Auctions and Technologies
• Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
• Political and Social Aspects
     - Political Drivers and Barriers of e-Learning
     - Impact of e-Learning in the e-Society
     - Aspects of Globalisation of Education
     - Societal Expectations of e-Learning
     - Diversity, Globalisation and Cultural    Domination on the Web
• E-Citizenship and Inclusion
     - e-Learning in the Developing World
     - e-Learning to Support Life-Long Learning
     - e-Learning and the Digital Divide
     - e-learning and the Social Divide
     - e-Learning for e-Citizenship

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
• Data Security Issues
• eHealth Policy and Practice
• eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
• Legal Issues
• Medical Research Ethics
• Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Systems
• IS Security Issues
• Mobile Applications
• Multimedia Applications
• Payment Systems
• Protocols and Standards
• Software Requirements and IS Architectures
• Storage Issues
• Strategies and Tendencies
• System Architectures
• Telework Technologies
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Virtual Reality
• Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Content Development
• Cyber law and Intellectual Property
• Data Mining
• ePublishing and Digital Libraries
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Search and Retrieval
• Knowledge Management
• Policy Issues
• Privacy Issues
• Social and Organizational Aspects
• Virtual Communities
• XML and Other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 26 February 2007
- Notification to Authors: Until 27 April 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 May
2007
- Late Registration: After 18 May 2007
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-LEARNING 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@.../
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

e-Society 2007 Conference Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

e-Society 2007 Track Chairs

eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia


eLearning Track
Drew Whitworth, School of Education, University of Manchester, UK

Information Systems  Track
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, University Of South Australia, Australia

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-
conf.org/committees.asp

Submission (2nd call extension): 6 January 2007


*************************************************************
                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
                                         February 18-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN

http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

*************************************************************

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Jenny Preece, Dean, College of Information Studies,
University of Maryland, USA

* Conference background and goals

The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate
scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing
culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers,
review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in
particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.

Domain: It is increasingly important for our culture to bring people
together and to promote dynamics in professional organizations,
mutual understanding, learning and harmony. Creating "virtual
communities" is one major way to do this. The Web Based Communities
2007 conference aims at sharing and aggregating scientifically
proven methods on how to organize and moderate WWW-based
communities. These communities do not limit participants to
particular locations - the international and multicultural dimension
is a most challenging one. Good WWW communities undergo a continuous
evolution and adapt to the changing world. The nature of these
communities can be corporate, scientific, social or educational.
Pragmatic questions which need to be addressed include: What
software tools are the most adequate and how to use them? How to
promote your community so that new members can find it? How to
protect the members' privacy? How to moderate discussions and how to
provide information that people can use? How to create and maintain
a sense of trust and commitment among the members? In addition,
sociology, education, communication and philosophy issues are
addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building WWW-based
communities, although critical theories on societies and post-
modernism are also relevant starting points. New and imminent
technologies will be discussed.

Objectives: The Web Based Communities 2007 Conference aims at
bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and
what new initiatives mean. Each new perspective is potentially a
catalyst for finding new architectures. National and regional-
oriented communities may soon be relegated to a subordinate position
compared to interest-oriented communities. Multiculturalism,
critical thinking, expressing aesthetic aspects of our identity, and
finding sparring partners for sharpening our ideologies, are all
processes that need the new communication infrastructures.

The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators of
WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its quality and
effect.

* 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 better papers will be candidate for the "International
Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC);  ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4
issues per year]

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

* Subject indications (but not limited to)
The history, architecture and future of virtual communities
1. From mobility to connectivity
2. Identity and augmented ideologies
3. Visionary web architectures, implanted computers
4. Network revolutions, post-colonial and post-modern societies
5. Escaping from reality, virtual reality and multi-user games
6. Towards alternative ways of presence

Group processes and self-organization
1. Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette
2. Social networks, tribal- and open communities, peace education
3. Computer mediated-, hyper- and narrative communication, woven
stories
4. MUDs, MOOs and avatars
5. Hosting web-based communities
6. Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects

Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and learning
communities
1. Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship
2. Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and constructivism
3. Community directories
4. Mechanic world, organic computer
5. Agents and the vectorized self
6. Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation
7. Communizing as a marketing approach

Expanding markets through virtual communities
1. The WWW as digital market place
2. The enterprise as a learning community
3. The learning as a road map for business
4. Universities as online communities
5. Business-to-business communication in profit- and non profit
sectors

Virtual communities for people with special needs
1. Access to public spaces
2. Accessibility and long-term disabilities
3. Virtual communities in health care

* Important Dates:
- Submission (2nd call extension): 6 January 2007
- Notification to Authors (2nd call extension): 23 January 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call
extension): Until 30 January 2007
- Late Registration (2nd call extension): After 30 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.webcommunities-
conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2007
http://www.computing-conf.org/ - 17-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

Submission (2nd call): 18 December 2006


*************************************************************
                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
                                         February 18-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN

http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

*************************************************************

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Jenny Preece, Dean, College of Information Studies,
University of Maryland, USA

* Conference background and goals

The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate
scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing
culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers,
review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in
particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.

Domain: It is increasingly important for our culture to bring people
together and to promote dynamics in professional organizations,
mutual understanding, learning and harmony. Creating "virtual
communities" is one major way to do this. The Web Based Communities
2007 conference aims at sharing and aggregating scientifically
proven methods on how to organize and moderate WWW-based
communities. These communities do not limit participants to
particular locations - the international and multicultural dimension
is a most challenging one. Good WWW communities undergo a continuous
evolution and adapt to the changing world. The nature of these
communities can be corporate, scientific, social or educational.
Pragmatic questions which need to be addressed include: What
software tools are the most adequate and how to use them? How to
promote your community so that new members can find it? How to
protect the members' privacy? How to moderate discussions and how to
provide information that people can use? How to create and maintain
a sense of trust and commitment among the members? In addition,
sociology, education, communication and philosophy issues are
addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building WWW-based
communities, although critical theories on societies and post-
modernism are also relevant starting points. New and imminent
technologies will be discussed.

Objectives: The Web Based Communities 2007 Conference aims at
bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and
what new initiatives mean. Each new perspective is potentially a
catalyst for finding new architectures. National and regional-
oriented communities may soon be relegated to a subordinate position
compared to interest-oriented communities. Multiculturalism,
critical thinking, expressing aesthetic aspects of our identity, and
finding sparring partners for sharpening our ideologies, are all
processes that need the new communication infrastructures.

The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators of
WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its quality and
effect.

* 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 better papers will be candidate for the "International
Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC);  ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4
issues per year]

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

* Subject indications (but not limited to)
The history, architecture and future of virtual communities
1. From mobility to connectivity
2. Identity and augmented ideologies
3. Visionary web architectures, implanted computers
4. Network revolutions, post-colonial and post-modern societies
5. Escaping from reality, virtual reality and multi-user games
6. Towards alternative ways of presence

Group processes and self-organization
1. Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette
2. Social networks, tribal- and open communities, peace education
3. Computer mediated-, hyper- and narrative communication, woven
stories
4. MUDs, MOOs and avatars
5. Hosting web-based communities
6. Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects

Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and learning
communities
1. Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship
2. Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and constructivism
3. Community directories
4. Mechanic world, organic computer
5. Agents and the vectorized self
6. Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation
7. Communizing as a marketing approach

Expanding markets through virtual communities
1. The WWW as digital market place
2. The enterprise as a learning community
3. The learning as a road map for business
4. Universities as online communities
5. Business-to-business communication in profit- and non profit
sectors

Virtual communities for people with special needs
1. Access to public spaces
2. Accessibility and long-term disabilities
3. Virtual communities in health care

* Important Dates:
- Submission (2nd call): 18 December 2006
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 10 January 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call):
Until 23 January 2007
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 23 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.webcommunities-
conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2007
http://www.computing-conf.org/ - 17-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":


STIMULATE
= Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and
Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 7)


Announcement


Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium,
for 3 months from May 2 to July 27, 2007
Language used is English.
Our motto is
“Helping educators and innovators to advance knowledge and to enrich lives”


Context and evolution of the program:

The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council
(VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international
training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree
(Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and
documentation centres, and libraries, including of course university
libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program
reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is
stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the
infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".


Aim / goal of the training program:

The main aim and goal of this International Training Program is to offer a
stimulating learning environment to the participants. These are young
scientists and professionals who have a function as information
intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their
skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing
information. This can be of great benefit to the teaching and research
activities going on in their institute and to the further development of
their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic, general aim of all VLIR
the International Training Programs: to train young scientists and
professionals from developing countries in a domain that is relevant for
the further development of the country, and to stimulate the participants
to transfer their increased knowledge and skills to their colleagues and
other stakeholders in their home country.


More specific objectives of the training program:

-- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of
information in general and for their environment in particular, and on how
to manage information:
summarised: ”Management in libraries and information centres”
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern technology, in view of the
increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: “Information and communication technology for libraries and
information centres”
-- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on
an international scale:
summarised: “Information retrieval/searching”
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information
resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: “Information architecture”

After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every
participant will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for
their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate
information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and management of information,
using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an
information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users of information,
information providers, colleagues,…
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information
systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users,
using information technology


Contents of the program:

3 months means about 10 weeks or about 50 days.

During about 3 days per week for 10 weeks = 30 days, the participants will
be guided by professors and other experts.

During the other 2 days per week for 10 weeks = 20 days, they will work on
tasks=assignments as individuals or in groups, and their reports will be
presented and discussed afterwards again guided by professors and other
experts.
The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month = introduction level,
--the second month = intermediate level, and
--the third month = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate
exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons
who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the
University and the University Library. Then some of the following subjects
are covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the
mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a
SELECTION will be made by the organisers. The concrete content of each
training program depends on the availability of suitable expert lecturers
from Belgium and from abroad during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made available through the WWW
site of the program.


1. Management in libraries and information centers:

Statistics to support decision making for information science and for
library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and
databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems,
ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology
transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an
information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.


2. Information and communication technology for libraries and information
centers:

Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a
computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50
and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.


3. Information retrieval/searching:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and
strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.


4. Information architecture:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage
and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of
selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing
data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of
ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).


Study visits:

In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study
visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum
on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library
science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp
city, Belgium
--to the old central library and to the modern science and technology
library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation centre near the
sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen
/ Antwerp, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical
Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and
information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the National, Royal Library in Den
Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag / The Hague, in
Nederland / The Netherlands
More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may
include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam,
Paris, and to the North Sea coast.
Soon after the start of the program, each participant presents to the other
participants and to interested lecturers his/her interests, working
environment, planning, tasks, experience. This is organised with printed
posters in a small poster exhibition with time allotted for stimulating and
ice-breaking discussions.
At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation
supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the
training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the
organisers of this training program and to the director of their own
organisation.

About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are
invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems,
to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare
discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access
like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs
with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

At the end of the program all participants obtain a certificate stating
that they have indeed participated, with a reference to the full detailed
overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are followed by an evaluation by
the responsible expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by each
participant; this can lead to a certificate of active and successful
participation.

Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they
have one available.
Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as
they arrive, assisted by the program organisers.


Poster session by participants:

Each participant is expected to create a poster about ongoing activities
related to information management in their home institution. This poster is
presented in a poster session early in the program. In this way,
participants and some professors get to know each other efficiently and the
participants learn to present information in the format of a scientific
poster. Therefore, participants are encouraged to bring supporting
materials like folders, leaflets, photos, maps, etc… for inclusion in their
poster.


Scientific tutorial presentations by participants:

Each participant is expected to present a tutorial presentation during the
program of maximum 15 minutes, with 10 minutes of questions and answers
plus discussion foreseen. The audience is composed of the other
participants. The topic of each presentation is one aspect of their
expertise. The aims are the following:
- participants improve their scientific presentation, teaching and
communication skills,
- they share their knowledge with the other participants,
- participants get to know each other better,
- the session may form a basis for possible later co-operation, etc…


Teachers, professors, experts, resource persons:

The following will be invited. They may contribute as they did in previous
programs, if their agenda and the limited duration of the training program
allow this:
Collier, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
Dekeyser, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
De Keyser, Hogeschool, and Library School, Belgium
Dell'Orso, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
De Smet, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and INASP, UK
Egghe, Hasselt University and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Koninckx, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Holans, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
Hopkinson, London, England, UK
Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Quiroga, University of Hawai, USA
Rousseau, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Vanden Berghe, VLIZ, Oostende, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel,
Belgium
Vanderpijpen, Royal/National Library, Brussel, Belgium


Social activities planned:

- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers. (first evening of the program)
- Evening with the possibility to taste some of the world-famous Belgian
beers and some Belgian food.
- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks. (final evening of the program)


Participation, registration=tuition fee and costs:


Grants=scholarships:

Participation is free of charge (!) for 12 participants from developing
countries. They are selected by the Steering Committee of the program, by
VLIR (the Flemish Inter-university Council) section for University
Co-operation VLIR-UOS, and by DGOS. They also receive a grant to cover the
costs of accommodation and a return flight ticket. The detailed forms
needed to request a grant=scholarship should be available through the
Internet from the WWW site of VLIR-UOS. Their site is http://www.vliruos.be/
At the time of writing this text, the required forms could be downloaded
from
http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=380&direct_to=Scholarships_Programme
and from
http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=322&direct_to=Downloads
Grant applications must be received by VLIR before the end of January! (and
NOT before the end of February as in previous years up to 2005)
Official and formal requests for a grant-scholarship or any other
correspondence about the grants should be sent to VLIR-UOS in Brussels, and
NOT to the organizers/co-ordinators of this specific program.
If this procedure is not suitable for you, you can contact your local
Belgian embassy or VLIR-UOS. The e-mail address is scholarships@...
The ideal participant applying for a grant is younger than 40 years, and
will be able to apply what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.


Normal registration:

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through
VLIR, 8 persons can participate after paying a registration=tuition fee
that is small in comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but
do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study
visits and social activities.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can
nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1 month
only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend for instance the first month or
the first two months only. It makes less sense to participate only during
the second or the third month, as introductions to some activities or
topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euro per
half day.

To register and pay the registration=tuition fee, send the form (see below)
by classical mail or by private courier, together with an international
bank transfer / bank cheque / bank draft, payable to
University Library Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL,
Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple and fast procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you
can transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark:
for internal account VOPA21 BIBLINK3 University Library STIMULATE
International Training Program
The money received by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel financial department
must be transferred internally; this transfer takes about 1 week, which
means a delay in the registration procedure that is better avoided.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)
Realize that some bank transfer costs are involved and that these should be
paid besides the requested participation fee that is transferred.

There is no formal deadline. However, we recommend you to register as early
as possible, because “first come, first served”: the arrival of your
participation fee determines who can participate. Furthermore the later a
participant is registered, the more difficult it becomes to find cheap and
suitable accommodation.

There is NO need to “apply” prior to the registration, to request
permission to participate or to be accepted, from the organizers of the
program or from their universities. The decision if the program is suitable
and appropriate for an interested person is to be made by that person and
not by the organizers. This is similar as participation to a conference.
Invitation letters can be sent on request if needed, but in principle only
when the participation = registration fee has been received. This
announcement is in fact an invitation.

It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of the program about sponsors
besides VLIR mentioned above.

Medical insurance:

Participants are covered during their stay by a full medical insurance.
This costs about 40 Euro per month.
This is formalised as soon as possible after arrival in Belgium, with the
secretariat of the program.


Accommodation:

The organisers of this program normally book in advance a single, cheap,
basic room with access to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each
participant, unless a participant writes us that he/she wants to take care
of accommodation personally, for instance by staying with a friend or by
renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their accommodation directly to the person or
organisation providing accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive in
Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance, then we can normally find
basic accommodation for about 300 euro per month, meals not included;
however, a late receipt of the registration=tuition fee forces us probably
to book a more expensive room.


The cost of living in Belgium

According to previous participants and in agreement with the grants
provided by VLIR-UOS, 1100 euro per month should be enough to cover all
expenses, including accommodation, transport, food…


How to contact the organizers?

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in case that this does not
seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax  32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429  or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University Library, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM


Location:

The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro
(subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see
for instance:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in Brussels (in French and in
Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/ offers information on Brussels
and some photos, based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm offers an interactive map
and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Interesting trips are possible to places in neighbouring countries like The
Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a
visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).


Program and Steering Committee:

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science
and technology librarian of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/
An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the
co-operating universities in Flanders,
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the organisation, the program and the
budget. This committee reports formally to VLIR.

Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated November 12, 2006.


____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter AND I pay the
registration=tuition fee as described in the announcement of the
International Training Program on INFORMATION.
(So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant.
Use this form only when you pay the registration=tuition fee.)
   a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of
husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
Personal address: ...................................
     .....................................................
Country:.............................................
Electronic mail address
Telephone, fax, telex:

Date of birth:                                     Place of birth:
Nationality:                                       Sex: male / female

Present employment:
a. Name and address of employer: .................
        ...............................................
        ...............................................
b. Since: ../../..
c. Position – function - specialization
d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:

Education - studies:
     Name of institute   Degree   Date





Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:


Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
.................................................................
.................................................................

Please book a room for me   OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation

Date and signature:………………………………………….

Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you
upon arrival.

Submission Deadline extended: 13 November 2006


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                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
                                         February 18-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN

http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

*************************************************************

* Conference background and goals

The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate
scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing
culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers,
review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in
particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.

Domain: It is increasingly important for our culture to bring people
together and to promote dynamics in professional organizations,
mutual understanding, learning and harmony. Creating "virtual
communities" is one major way to do this. The Web Based Communities
2007 conference aims at sharing and aggregating scientifically
proven methods on how to organize and moderate WWW-based
communities. These communities do not limit participants to
particular locations - the international and multicultural dimension
is a most challenging one. Good WWW communities undergo a continuous
evolution and adapt to the changing world. The nature of these
communities can be corporate, scientific, social or educational.
Pragmatic questions which need to be addressed include: What
software tools are the most adequate and how to use them? How to
promote your community so that new members can find it? How to
protect the members' privacy? How to moderate discussions and how to
provide information that people can use? How to create and maintain
a sense of trust and commitment among the members? In addition,
sociology, education, communication and philosophy issues are
addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building WWW-based
communities, although critical theories on societies and post-
modernism are also relevant starting points. New and imminent
technologies will be discussed.

Objectives: The Web Based Communities 2007 Conference aims at
bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and
what new initiatives mean. Each new perspective is potentially a
catalyst for finding new architectures. National and regional-
oriented communities may soon be relegated to a subordinate position
compared to interest-oriented communities. Multiculturalism,
critical thinking, expressing aesthetic aspects of our identity, and
finding sparring partners for sharpening our ideologies, are all
processes that need the new communication infrastructures.

The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators of
WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its quality and
effect.

* 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 better papers will be candidate for the "International
Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC);  ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4
issues per year]

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

* Subject indications (but not limited to)
The history, architecture and future of virtual communities
1. From mobility to connectivity
2. Identity and augmented ideologies
3. Visionary web architectures, implanted computers
4. Network revolutions, post-colonial and post-modern societies
5. Escaping from reality, virtual reality and multi-user games
6. Towards alternative ways of presence

Group processes and self-organization
1. Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette
2. Social networks, tribal- and open communities, peace education
3. Computer mediated-, hyper- and narrative communication, woven
stories
4. MUDs, MOOs and avatars
5. Hosting web-based communities
6. Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects

Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and learning
communities
1. Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship
2. Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and constructivism
3. Community directories
4. Mechanic world, organic computer
5. Agents and the vectorized self
6. Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation
7. Communizing as a marketing approach

Expanding markets through virtual communities
1. The WWW as digital market place
2. The enterprise as a learning community
3. The learning as a road map for business
4. Universities as online communities
5. Business-to-business communication in profit- and non profit
sectors

Virtual communities for people with special needs
1. Access to public spaces
2. Accessibility and long-term disabilities
3. Virtual communities in health care

* Important Dates:
- Submission extended: 13 November 2006
- Notification to Authors: 15 December 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 8
January 2007
- Late Registration: After 8 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.webcommunities-
conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2007
http://www.computing-conf.org/ - 17-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

Submission Deadline: 9 October 2006


*************************************************************
                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
                                         February 18-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN

http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

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* Conference background and goals

The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate
scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing
culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers,
review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in
particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.

Domain: It is increasingly important for our culture to bring people
together and to promote dynamics in professional organizations,
mutual understanding, learning and harmony. Creating "virtual
communities" is one major way to do this. The Web Based Communities
2007 conference aims at sharing and aggregating scientifically
proven methods on how to organize and moderate WWW-based
communities. These communities do not limit participants to
particular locations - the international and multicultural dimension
is a most challenging one. Good WWW communities undergo a continuous
evolution and adapt to the changing world. The nature of these
communities can be corporate, scientific, social or educational.
Pragmatic questions which need to be addressed include: What
software tools are the most adequate and how to use them? How to
promote your community so that new members can find it? How to
protect the members' privacy? How to moderate discussions and how to
provide information that people can use? How to create and maintain
a sense of trust and commitment among the members? In addition,
sociology, education, communication and philosophy issues are
addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building WWW-based
communities, although critical theories on societies and post-
modernism are also relevant starting points. New and imminent
technologies will be discussed.

Objectives: The Web Based Communities 2007 Conference aims at
bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and
what new initiatives mean. Each new perspective is potentially a
catalyst for finding new architectures. National and regional-
oriented communities may soon be relegated to a subordinate position
compared to interest-oriented communities. Multiculturalism,
critical thinking, expressing aesthetic aspects of our identity, and
finding sparring partners for sharpening our ideologies, are all
processes that need the new communication infrastructures.

The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators of
WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its quality and
effect.

* 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 better papers will be candidate for the "International
Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC);  ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4
issues per year]

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

* Subject indications (but not limited to)
The history, architecture and future of virtual communities
1. From mobility to connectivity
2. Identity and augmented ideologies
3. Visionary web architectures, implanted computers
4. Network revolutions, post-colonial and post-modern societies
5. Escaping from reality, virtual reality and multi-user games
6. Towards alternative ways of presence

Group processes and self-organization
1. Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette
2. Social networks, tribal- and open communities, peace education
3. Computer mediated-, hyper- and narrative communication, woven
stories
4. MUDs, MOOs and avatars
5. Hosting web-based communities
6. Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects

Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and learning
communities
1. Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship
2. Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and constructivism
3. Community directories
4. Mechanic world, organic computer
5. Agents and the vectorized self
6. Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation
7. Communizing as a marketing approach

Expanding markets through virtual communities
1. The WWW as digital market place
2. The enterprise as a learning community
3. The learning as a road map for business
4. Universities as online communities
5. Business-to-business communication in profit- and non profit
sectors

Virtual communities for people with special needs
1. Access to public spaces
2. Accessibility and long-term disabilities
3. Virtual communities in health care

* Important Dates:
- Submission: 9 October 2006
- Notification to Authors: 15 December 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 8
January 2007
- Late Registration: After 8 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.webcommunities-
conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2007
http://www.computing-conf.org/ - 17-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

Grants are not available anymore,
but we can accept 8 more participants without a grant.


An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":

STIMULATE
= Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and
Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 6)


Announcement


Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium,
from Monday morning October 2 to Thursday evening December 21, 2006.
Language used is English.





Context and evolution of the program:

The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council
(VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international
training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree
(Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and
documentation centers, and libraries, including of course university
libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program
reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is
stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the
infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".





Aim / goal of the training program:

The main aim and goal of this International Training Program is to offer a
stimulating learning environment to the participants. These are young
scientists and professionals who have a function as information
intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their
skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing
information. This can be of great benefit to the teaching and research
activities going on in their institute and to the further development of
their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic, general aim of all VLIR
the International Training Programs: to train young scientists and
professionals from developing countries in a domain that is relevant for
the further development of the country, and to stimulate the participants
to transfer their increased knowledge and skills to their colleagues and
other stakeholders in their home country.





More specific objectives of the training program:

-- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of
information in general and for their environment in particular, and on how
to manage information:
summarised: ”Management in libraries and information centers”
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern technology, in view of the
increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: “Information and communication technology for libraries and
information centers”
-- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on
an international scale:
summarised: “Information retrieval/searching”
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information
resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: “Information architecture”

After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every
participant will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for
their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate
information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and management of information,
using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an
information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users of information,
information providers, colleagues,…
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information
systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users,
using information technology





Contents of the program:

The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month               = introduction level,
--the second month           = intermediate level, and
--the third month              = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate
exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons
who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the
University and the Library. Then some of the following subjects are
covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the
mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a
SELECTION will be made by the organisers. The concrete content of each
training program depends on the availability of suitable expert lecturers
from Belgium and from abroad during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made available through the WWW
site of the program.





1. Management in libraries and information centers:

Statistics to support decision making for information science and for
library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and
databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems,
ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology
transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an
information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.





2. Information and communication technology for libraries and information
centers:

Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a
computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50
and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.





3. Information retrieval/searching:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and
strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.





4. Information architecture:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage
and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of
selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing
data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of
ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).





Study visits:

In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study
visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum
on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library
science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp
city, Belgium
--to the old central library and to the modern science and technology
library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation centre near the
sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen
/ Antwerp, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical
Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and
information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the National, Royal Library in Den
Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag / The Hague, in
Nederland / The Netherlands
More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may
include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam,
Paris, and to the North Sea coast.
Short after the start of the program, each participant presents to the
other participants and to interested lecturers his/her interests, working
environment, planning, tasks, experience. This is organised with printed
posters in a small poster exhibition with time allotted for stimulating and
ice-breaking discussions.
At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation
supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the
training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the
organisers of this training program and to the director of their own
organisation.

About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are
invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems,
to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare
discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access
like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs
with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

At the end of the program all participants obtain a certificate stating
that they have indeed participated, with a reference to the full detailed
overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are followed by an evaluation by
the responsible expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by each
participant; this can lead to a certificate of active and successful
participation.

Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they
have one available.
Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as
they arrive, assisted by the program organisers.





Poster session by participants:

Each participant is expected to create a poster about ongoing activities in
their home institution. This poster is presented in a poster session early
in the program. In this way, participants and professors get to know each
other efficiently and the participants learn to present information in the
format of a scientific poster. Therefore, participants are encouraged to
bring supporting materials like folders, leaflets, photos, maps, etc… for
inclusion in their poster.





Scientific tutorial presentations by participants:

Each participant is expected to present a tutorial of maximum half an hour
to the other participants, about one aspect of their expertise, during the
program. The aims are that participants improve their presentation and
teaching skills, that they share their knowledge with the other
participants, that participants get to know each other better, that they
form a basis for possible later co-operation etc…





Social activities planned:

-- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers (on the first evening of
the program)
-- Evening with the possibility to taste some of the world famous Belgian
beers and some Belgian food.
-- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks (on the final evening of the
program)





Participation and registration; tuition fee and costs:

The cost of living in Belgium is not exceptional.





Normal registration:

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through
VLIR, 8 persons can participate after paying a tuition fee that is small in
comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but
do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study
visits and social activities.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can
nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1 month
only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend for instance the first month or
the first two months only. It makes less sense to participate only during
the second or the third month, as introductions to some activities or
topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euro per
half day.
To register and pay the tuition fee, send the form (see below) by classical
mail together with an international bank transfer / bank cheque / bank
draft, payable to
University Library V.U.B., Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you can
transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the V.U.B.:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark: for WD006240 BIBL WER3
The money received by the VUB must be transferred internally to this account.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)

There is no formal deadline. However, we recommend you to register as early
as possible, because “first come, first served”: the arrival of your
participation fee determines who can participate.

There is NO need to “apply” prior to the registration, to request
permission to participate from the organizers of the program or from their
universities. The decision if the program is suitable and appropriate for
an interested person is to be made by that person and not by the organizers.

It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of the program about sponsors
besides VLIR mentioned above.




Medical insurance:

It is recommended that participants are covered during their stay by a full
medical insurance.
This costs 40 euro per month, if you want that the program organisers take
care of this; in that case this should be arranged as soon as possible
after arrival in Belgium, with the secretariat of the program.





Accommodation:

The organisers of this program normally book in advance a single, cheap,
basic room with access to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each
participant, unless a participant writes us that he/she wants to take care
of accommodation personally, for instance by staying with a friend or by
renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their accommodation directly to the person or
organisation providing accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive in
Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance, then we can normally find
basic accommodation for about 300 euro per month, meals not included;
however, a late receipt of the tuition fee forces us probably to book a
more expensive room.





How to contact the organizers?

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in case that this does not
seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax  32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429  or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University Library, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM





Location:

The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro
(subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see
for instance:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in Brussels (in French and in
Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/ offers information on Brussels
and some photos, based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm offers an interactive map
and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Trips are perhaps organised to places in neighbouring countries like The
Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a
visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).





Program and Steering Committee:

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science
and technology librarian of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/index.html
An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the
co-operating universities in Flanders,
-Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
-Universiteit Antwerpen
-Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the organisation, the program and the
budget; this committee reports formally to VLIR.

Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated July 14, 2006.


____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.),
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter AND I pay the
registration fee as described in the announcement of the International
Training Program on INFORMATION.
(So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant.
Use this form only when you pay the registration fee.)
   a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of
husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
Personal address: ...................................
     .....................................................
Country:.............................................
Electronic mail address
Telephone, fax, telex:

Date of birth:                                     Place of birth:
Nationality:                                       Sex: male / female

Present employment:
a. Name and address of employer: .................
        ...............................................
        ...............................................
b. Since: ../../..
c. Position ­ function - specialization
d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:

Education - studies:
     Name of institute   Degree   Date





Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:


Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
.................................................................
.................................................................

Please book a room for me   OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation

I take care of a medical insurance myself          OR
Please see that I am covered by a medical insurance for my stay in Belgium,
which costs 40 euro/month, to be paid upon arrival.

Date and signature:………………………………………….

Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you
upon arrival.

International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries(IWRIDL 2006)
12th - 15th December, 2006, Kolkata, India

Please check the workshop website
  http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/

Call For Participation

The number of Digital Library initiatives worldwide has been
increasing in recent times. The problem of organizing and accessing
information from these digital libraries has given rise to research
issues like indexing and retrieval, multilingual and multimedia
information processing, natural language processing and many others.
This workshop is intended to give participants a better understanding
of these issues, along with an awareness of state-of-the-art tools and
technologies involved in digital libraries, through invited lectures
by internationally renowned researchers, practitioners, and
developers. Interested participants from academia, government and
industry are invited to attend the workshop to exchange views and to
help formulate future directions of research in this exciting area.

The workshop will address the following sub-areas:

Indexing/Retrieval
Multilingual Information Access
Natural Language Processing
Document Analysis and  Processing
IR/DL Tools
Standardization Issues (Archiving, Annotation, Metadata)


We are delighted to have among us as

Contributors :

Karen Sparck Jones (confirmed)
Donald H. Kraft (confirmed)

Contributors and Speakers :

Stephen Robertson
Gerard Huet
Carol Peters
Michel Beigbeder
Stephen M. Griffin
Brigitte Grau
Hiromichi Fujisawa
David Doermann
William I. Grosky
Joemon M. Jose
Prateek Sarkar
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Edward A. Fox
Ian H. Witten
Michael S. Hart
Henry S. Baird


Important Dates:

Position Paper- 4th Oct. 2006
Registration- 31st Oct. 2006
Workshop- 12th - 15th Dec. 2006

For details:
http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/
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Dear Colleague

This is a call for participation for the e-Society conference to be
held in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 13–16 July 2006, organised
by IADIS and co-organised by Trinity College.

Please find the preliminary program below. The 2006 edition of the e-
Society conference will comprise three keynote talks from well known
world experts:
Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Daniel Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA
Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of
Michigan, USA
Professor Cathie Norris,University of North Texas in Denton, USA

For registration details please access
http://www.iadis.org/es2006/rates.asp .

If you feel this email might be of interest to a colleague or
student please re-send it to him or her. Thank you.

Best regards,
Prof. Pedro Isaías, Prof. Maggie McPherson and Prof. Frank Bannister


Here is the Preliminary program:

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Thursday 13th, July 2006
************************

08:30-19:00 Welcome Desk

09:30-10:00 Session O – Opening Session (Theatre LB04)
Prof. Pedro Isaías, Prof. Maggie McPherson and Prof. Frank Bannister

10:00-11:00 Session KL1 – Keynote Presentation (Theatre LB04)
E-GOVERNMENT AND ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Daniel Rainey. Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FP 13.1: eLearning (Collaborative Learning)
(Theatre LB01)

UTILISING CSCL COMMUNITIES TO ADVANCE PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS'
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TEACHING MATHEMATICS (F_049)
Rod Nason, Chris Chalmers and Andy Yeh

FOSTERING LEARNING COMMUNITIES WITH GAME-BASED LEARNING (F_061)
Stephan Lukosch

DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND INITIAL EVALUATION OF A CASE-BASED
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION (F_265)
Ma. Pamela D. Patdu and Alvin B. Marcelo

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 13.2: Information Management (Human Computer
Interaction) (Theatre LB04)

E-CREATIVITY: INVESTIGATING COMPUTER-SUPPORTED CREATIVITY (F_166)
R. T. Jim Eales, Sophie Nichol and Dharani Perera

UNVOICED SPEECH CONTROL BASED ON VOWELS DETECTED BY FACIAL SURFACE
ELECTROMYOGRAM (F_172)
Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan, Dinesh Kant Kumar, Wai Chee Yau and Hans
Weghorn

SUPPORTING PARTICIPATORY URBAN PLANNING SYSTEMS WITH MOBILE DEVICES
(S_295)
Teija Vainio

FIND THE INFORMATION YOU WANT ON THE WEB, HOW LIKELY COULD BE GET IT
SUCCESSFULLY? (S_296)
Mª Teresa González Aparicio, Ángel Neira Álvarez and Jose Antonio
López Brugos

11:30-12:10 Session SP 13.3: Information Management (Information
Search And Retrieval) (Theatre LB08)

INCREASING RELEVANCE OF INTERNET SEARCH RESULTS USING A TOPIC
NETWORK (S_025)
Stephen C F Chan, Terry C H Lai, Edward K F Dang, Michael M K Chan
and Cane W K Leung

IMPROVING WEBSITE VISIBILITY AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL OF E-COMMERCE
VENTURES: A SPECIFICATION TO PLEASE THE CRAWLERS (S_047)
M. Weideman and R. Chamber

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 FP 13.4: eGovernment/eGovernance (eGovernment
Management) (Theatre LB01)

EGOVERNMENT: CARROT OR STICK? (F_023)
Frank Bongers and Rex Arendsen

CONSIDERATION TO IMPROVE E-GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE (F_116)
Flavio Corradini, Francesco De Angelis, Chiara Ercoli, Alberto
Polzonetti and Barbara Re

DISTRIBUTED SERVICE AND DATA EXCHANGE: A CASE OF STUDY OF THE
ECUADORIAN LEGAL SYSTEM (F_148)
Sergio Ruiz and Paul A. Watters

POLITICAL ADMINISTRATIONS ON THE INTERNET: WHAT KIND OF TERRITORIAL
NETWORK REPRESENTATION? (F_077)
Guillaume Perrin and Eric Boutin

14:30-16:30 FSP 13.5: eLearning (Curriculum Content Design &
Development) (Theatre LB04)

SERVICE LEARNING - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION THROUGH
COMMUNITY SERVICE (F_027)
Stephen C F Chan, Vincent T Y Ng, Grace Y Y Ngai and Cane W K Leung

MEETING THE DIVERSE TECHNOLOGY NEEDS OF PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY
TEACHERS IN A SCIENCE METHODS COURSE (F_198)
Connie Doyle

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF WEBLOGS FOR REFLECTION IN LEARNING
(S_270)
Muireann O'Keeffe, Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Anita Flanagan

JAVA APPLETS TO PROMOTE ACTIVE LEARNING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE CONEPTS
(S_121)
Casey W. Manion and Michael J. Quinn

PERSPECTIVES OF LECTURERS, STUDENTS, AND PRACTITIONERS ON
INFORMATION ECONOMICS (S_136)
Noa Aharony and Daphne R. Raban

14:30-16:40 Session FSP 13.6: eLearning (Web-based Learning
Communities) (Theatre LB08)

PRESENTING A KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT PORTLET FOR USE WITHIN COMMUNITY
ORIENTED INFORMATION PORTALS (F_089)
Albertus Abraham, Kruger Buitendag and Jacobus Sefanus van der Walt

WHAT IS AN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY? (F_181)
Ieda Santos and Michael Hammond

SOCIOLOGY OF STUDENT-CENTRED E-LEARNING COMMUNITIES: A NETWORK
ANALYSIS (F_230)
Andrew Laghos and Panayiotis Zaphiris

CITATIONS IN ONLINE PATIENT GROUPS (S_131)
Roy Rada

MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT FOR WEBSITE PROMOTING THAI HERB LEARNING
(S_098)
Suwanna Sombunsukho

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:40 Session FSP 13.7: eGovernment/eGovernance (Democracy And
The Citizen) // (eProcurement) (Theatre LB01)

USING BALANCED SCORECARDS FOR SUPPORTING PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATIONS (F_277)
Francesco Guerra

ON-LINE CONSULTATION - ENHANCING THE SENSE OF CIVIC INTEGRATION
AMONGST CITIZENS (F_308)
Philip J. Weston

A DISTRIBUTED-RESPONSIBILITY ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM (S_233)
Alan Ward

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ADAPTIVE DECISIONING FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN
PROCESS (D2P) (F_152)
N. M. Mohamad Noor, K.N. Papamichail and B. Warboys

17:00-18:30 Session FSP 13.8: eLearning (Virtual Learning
Environments And Issues) (Theatre LB04)

MULTIMEDIA STORY-TELLING: ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF LIVING BOOKS TO
INCIDENTAL LEARNING (F_037)
Yoram Eshet

UNDERSTANDING LEARNERS' TRUST WITHIN AN ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING
CONTEXT  (S_094)
Sónia Sousa, David Lamas and Brian Hudson

CANDADIAN NATIVE LITERACY AT A DISTANCE: CHALLENGE, INNOVATION, AND
SUCCESS (S_229)
Michelle Eady

GENDER AND LEARNING STYLE IN THE USE OF HYPERTEXT FOR READING IN AN
EFL PROGRAM (S_305)
Patricia Haseltine

17:00-18:50 Session FSP 13.9: eBusiness / eCommerce (eBusiness
Models) (Theatre LB08)

EXTENDING A WEBSHOP WITH A FUZZY CLASSIFICATION MODEL FOR ONLINE
CUSTOMERS (F_252)
Andreas Meier and Nicolas Werro

A SUBVENTION MODEL FOR THE ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER: REQUIREMENTS AND
SCENARIO ANALYSIS (F_137)
Dirk Braun and Jürgen Karla

UNDERSTANDING BENEFITS AND IMPEDIMENTS OF B2E E-BUSINESS SYSTEMS
ADOPTION: EXPERIENCE OF TWO LARGE AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES (F_269)
Md Mahbubur Rahim and Mohini Singh

A NEW MOBILE DEVICE FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF AN ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER
(S_158)
Jürgen Karla


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Friday 14th, July 2006
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08:30-19:30 Welcome Desk

09:00-10:00 Session KL2 – Keynote Session (Theatre LB04)
EDUCATIONAL INFORMATICS: A FORCE FOR CONVERGENCE OR CREATIVITY?
Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

10:00-10:40 Session SP 14.1: eLearning (Delivery Systems And
Environments) (Theatre LB04)

A TRAINING FILE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR THE LEARNER OF FEATURE-
BASED DESIGN SYSTEMS (S_178)
Li-Chieh Chen and Yen-Fu Chen

SACS - PILOT IMPLEMENTATION OF SYSTEM PROVIDING AICC-COMPLIANT
REUSABLE ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA E-LEARNING CONTENT (S_289)
Miroslav Bures and Ivan Jelinek

10:00-11:00 Session FP 14.2: eLearning (Educational Systems Design)
(Theatre LB08)

RESEARCHING ADULT DISTANCE STUDENTS SATISFACTION (F_028)
P Valasidou Areti, Sidiropoulos Dimitrios and Bousiou-Makridou
Despina

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: SUPPORTING
TEACHING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (F_115)
Olivera Marjanovic

10:00-11:00 Special Talk (Theatre LB11)
ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS BENEFITS THROUGH OPEN SOFTWARE
STANDARDS
Patrick Gannon

10:00-11:00 Session D 14.3: Doctoral Papers (Room 1.07)

COMPLEX LEARNING COMMUNITIES & EMERGENCE (D_054)
Diane M. McDonald

BANK BRANCHES' PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (D_193)
Fernando Alberto Freitas Ferreira

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FSP 14.4: Information Systems (Intelligent
Agents) // (Storage Issues) (Theatre LB04)

INFORMED AGENTS FOR E-MARKET TRADING (F_032)
John Debenham and Simeon Simoff

AD HOC GROUP NEED IDENTIFICATION FOR NOMADIC COMMUNITY (S_103)
Ohbyung Kwon and Keunho Choi

DBAA/ACL - A DATABASE AGENT ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE
(S_092)
Markus Kirchberg

COMPRESSION METHODS FOR ARCHIVING SCIENTIFIC QUALITY ASTRONOMICAL
IMAGES (S_084)
C. D. Grünler, H. Weghorn and C. C. Chibelush

11:30-13:00 Session FP 14.5: eLearning (Educational Systems
Design) // (Evaluation And Assessment) (Theatre LB08)

THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS (F_183)
Tassos A. Mikropoulos and Joan Bellou

MEASURED EVALUATION MODEL IN E-LEARNING ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS (F_119)
Houda Zouari Ounaie, Yassine Jamoussi and Henda Hajjami Ben Ghezala

FACTORS AFFECTING TEACHERS' VIEWS AND PERCEPTIONS OF ICT IN
EDUCATION (F_189)
Athanassios Jimoyiannis and Vassilis Komis

11:30-13:00 Session FP 14.6: Information Systems (Wireless
Communications) // (Ubiquitous Computing) (Theatre LB11)

AWARENESS OF WIRELESS SECURITY BY HOME AND BUSINESSES USERS (F_297)
Carsten Maple, Helen Jacobs and Matthew Reeve

MOBILE TICKET CONTROL SYSTEM WITH RFID CARDS FOR ADMINSTERING ANNUAL
SECRET ELECTIONS (F_129)
Hans Weghorn, Cahya Kusuma Ratih, Hans Peter Grossmann, Dieter
Hellwig, Andreas Schmeiser and Heiko Hutschenreiter

MOBILE LOCATION-BASED GAMING AS ENABLER FOR LOCATION-BASED SERVICES
(LBS) (F_071)
Jörg Lonthoff and Erich Ortner

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 14.7: Information Management (Computer-
mediated Communication) // (Virtual Communities) (Room 1.20)

THE ASOCIAL RESPONSELESSNESS OF UNFOCUSED INTERACTION IN COMPUTER
MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (F_191)
Stefan Nilsson

A FRAMEWORK TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING INFLUENCES ON THE TYPOGRAPHIC
QUALITY OF TEXT (F_303)
Gerhard Bachfischer, Toni Robertson and Agnieszka Zmijewska

MEMBERSHIP AND ONLINE GROUPS (S_132)
Roy Rada

BOUNDARY CROSSING IN ONLINE GAMING COMMUNITIES: PHENOMENON AND
ANXIETY (S_167)
Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 Session SP 14.8: eHealth (Healthcare Strategies and
Provision) (Theatre LB04)

PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION PORTALS: CHALLENGES OF ACCESS VS. TRUST
IN E-HEALTH (S_038)
Sharon Tabor and Rob AnsonS

TOWARDS AN INFORMAL ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR STUDENT MENTAL
HEALTH AT UNIVERSITY (S_052)
Derek Richards and Brendan Tangney

FIRST AID INFORMATION WEBSITE IN THAI LANGUAGE AVAILABLE ON THE
INTERNET NETWORK (S_157)
Alisa Songsriwittaya, Adison Tamumnuaychoke, Jirawat Huyakorn and
Werayuth Chumpalee

A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM TO ASSIST RETRAINING OF MEMORY IN PATIENTS
SUFFERING FROM ALZHEIMER'S  DISEASE (S_165)
Gill Jones, Gillian Pearce and Ian Winchurch

TEXT MESSAGING AS A MEANS TO LOWERING BARRIERS TO HELP-SEEKING IN
STUDENTS WITH DEPRESSION (S_195)
David Joyce and Stephan Weibelzahl

INTEGRATING ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION SYSTEMS WITH HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
(S_106)
Juha Puustjärvi and Leena Puustjärvi

14:30-16:30 Session FSP 14.9: eBusiness / eCommerce (eCommerce
Application Fields) // (eCommerce Services) (Theatre LB08)

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE ADOPTION OF E-BUSINESS IN THE CHINESE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY (S_ 026)
Yan Deng, Jian Chen, Stephen C F Chan and Cane W K Leung

TOWARDS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN 3D E-TOURISM ENVIRONMENT (S_159)
Helmut Berger, Michael Dittenbach and Dieter Merkl

USING AN INTERNET ARCHIVE TO ANALYZE E COMMERCE TRENDS: A CASE STUDY
IN THE ONLINE APPAREL INDUSTRY (S_200)
Hsui-lin L. Winkler and Dennis Anderson

E-COMMERCE AND E-BUSINESS: A NEW PARADIGM OR OLD BUSINESS IN NEW
CLOTHES? (S_278)
Mike Brayshaw and Neil Gordon

A METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING THE LEVEL OF UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
SERVICES (S_102)
Ohbyung Kwon and Jihoon Kim

ACCEPTANCE OF THE DIGITAL SIGNATURE IN CEE: FINDINGS OF A SURVEY IN
FIVE COUNTRIES (S_194)
Michaela Denk

14:30-16:10 Session SP 14.10: eLearning (Collaborative Learning)
(Theatre LB11)

UNIVERITY COLLABORATION - INTERUNIVERSITY STUDIES AND STUDENT
VIRTUAL MOBILITY (S_300)
Bedrich Zimola, Jan Hán and Petra Poulová

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIONS OF GROUP WORK
(S_272)
Patrícia A. E. Dias Alves and António Moreira

THE USABILITY OF WEB-BASED COLLABORATIVE PLATFORMS AT THIRD LEVEL: A
LECTURER PERSPECTIVE (S_079)
James A. Redmond, Adrian Parkinson, Dudley Dolan, Catherine
O'Connor, Alan Mullally and Audrey Jennings

COLLABORATIVE PORTAL EXAMPLE FOR EDUCATIONAL OPERATORS (S_177)
Flavio Corradini, Alberto Polzonetti and Romeo Pruno

A NETWORKED MULTIPLAYER GAME TO FACILITATE PUPIL TO PUPIL CONTACT
WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A SCHOOL TWINNING SCHEME (S_293)
Rob Manton and Carsten Maple

ONLINE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (COP) AS A COLLECTIVIST LEARNING TOOL
FOR A CULTURALLY DIVERSE POSTGRADUATE STUDENT GROUP (S_215)
Charmaine Ryan and Vijaya Gururajan

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-19:20 Session FSP 14.11: eGovernment/eGovernance (Social
Inclusion) (Theatre LB04)

PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA TRIBAL COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT:  INNOVATION
THROUGH WIRELESS TRIBAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE DELIVERY ON A NATIVE
AMERICAN RESERVATION (F_184)
Dara O'Neil and Jeff Evans

USING WEB FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: A CASE STUDY
(S_160)
Martin Svihla and Ivan Jelinek

SOCIAL INCLUSION, E COMMERCE AND LAW THE CASE OF LATIN AMERICAN
SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (S_179)
Noemí L. Olivera and Araceli N. Proto

EXTENDING E-GOVERNMENT TO E-SOCIETY: USABILITY LESSONS FROM THE UK
ID CARD TRIAL (F_307)
Peter Norrington and Carsten Maple

CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN CYBERSPACE, DETECTION PREVENTION AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITIES (S_039)
Paul Wright and William Fone

ALHAKEN: AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR THE SESSION DIARIES OF
THE PARLIAMENT OF ANDALUCÍA (S_099)
Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete and Sonia
Linares

17:00-19:00 Session FP 14.12: eLearning (Collaborative Learning)
(Theatre LB08)

COMMUNITY SPACE IN COMPLEX LEARNING COMMUNITIES: LESSONS LEARNT
(F_070)
Diane M. McDonald and George R.S. Weir

FROM SURFACE TO MEANINGFUL COLLABORATION: AN ACTIVITY-THEORY
PERSPECTIVE (F_161)
Christian Voigt and Paula M.C. Swatman

LEARNING ICT IN A FACULTY OF HUMANITIES: ROLE OF WEB-BASED
COLLABORATIVE TOOLS FOR WRITING (F_209)
Paolo Davoli and Matteo Monari

E-PORTFOLIOS: SUPPORTING REFLECTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY TEACHER
EDUCATION (F_182)
Victor McNair and Kevin Marshall

17:00-19:00 Session FP 14.13: Information Management (Policy
Issues) // (Social and Organizational Aspects) (Theatre LB11)

CONSTRUCTING THE MEANING OF DOCUMENT RETENTION: A POLICY RESEARCH
AGENDA (F_118)
Susan P. Williams and Catherine A. Hardy

POLICY FACTORS INFLUENCING CHINA'S INTERNET ACCESS MARKET (F_133)
Liang Xuefeng, Zhang Rui, Li Yijun and Guo Yong

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE ATTITUDE OF ADULT ICTS TRAINEES TOWARD
SOFTWARE PIRACY (F_063)
Konstantakis Nikos, Palaigeorgiou George and Tsoukalas A. Ioannis

ENACTING THE E-SOCIETY (S_130)
Björn Abelli

17:00-18:30 Session FSP 14.14: Information Management (Room 1.07)

BROADBAND IN TELEWORK, HEALTH AND SAFETY: THE USER PERSPECTIVE
(F_263)
Karianne Vermaas

KNOWLEDGE OF COMPLEX INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND
SUPPORT (S_138)
Richard Kingsford and Leone Dunn

ARE SOME INTERVALS BETTER THAN OTHERS? (S_078)
John Byrne

DISTRIBUTED.MAP – APPLYING WIKIWIKI CONCEPT TO SPATIAL DATA (S_074)
Piotr Gawrysiak

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Saturday 15th, July 2006
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08:30-16:00 Welcome Desk

09:00-10:00 Session KL3 – Keynote Session (Room Theatre LB01)

TECHNOLOGIES THAT MOTIVATE CHILDREN TO LEARN
Professor Cathie Norris, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
Professor Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

10:00-11:00 Session– Panel (Theatre LB04)

14:30-16:00 POSTER SESSIONS (Room 1.07)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FSP 15.1: Information Systems (System
Architectures) (Theatre LB04)

INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT FOR ARCHITECTURE AND INTEGRATION OF
NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISES (F_042)
Nauman Javed, Adnan Javed and Amjad Umar

AN APPROACH TO MANAGE FLEXIBLE COMPONENT-BASED APPLICATION SYSTEMS
(S_086)
Tobias Grollius, Jörg Lonthoff and Erich Ortner

PATTERNS IN DATA MODELING AND THE DYNAMIC EXTENSION PATTERN AS
EXAMPLE (S_128)
Birthe Böhm, Norbert Gewald, Gerold Herold and Dieter Wißmann

THE INTERPRETATIONS OF INFORMATION ENGINEERS AND ARCHIVISTS IN
CONSTRUCTING A DIGITAL MUSEUM (S_140)
Peng-heng Tsai, Tien-Yu Huang - Hsungrow Chen

11:30-12:50 Session FSP 15.2: Information Systems (Security Issues)
(Theatre LB08)

A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF AND FRAMEWORK FOR BENCHMARKING ONLINE SECURITY
(F_283)
Graeme Pye and Matthew J. Warren

NETWORK SECURITY DESIGN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISES (F_046)
Adnan Javed, Kamran Khalid and Amjad Umar

THE DERIVATION OF A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR OUTSOURCING IT SECURITY
(S_302)
W. D.Wilde, M.J.Warren and W.Hutchinson

11:30-13:0 Session FP 15.3: eLearning (eLearning Organisational
Issues) (Theatre LB11)

YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE: USING DISTANCE LEARNING TO FACILITATE
AND ENHANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT THROUGH DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP (F_197)
Kenneth D. Jenkins, Sara O. Zimmerman and Doris M. Jenkins

A HYBRID MODEL FOR MANAGING ACADEMIC STAFF IN AN INTERNATIONAL
ONLINE ACADEMIC PROGRAMME (F_105)
Yoram M Kalman and Paul H Leng

ONLINE TEACHING OF LARGE GROUPS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: A SURVEY
OF STRATEGIES (S_154))
Agnieszka Zmijewska, Elaine Lawrence, Gordana Culjak and Julia Prior

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:30 Session FP 15.4: eHealth (Data Security Issues) (Theatre
LB04)

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (F_192)
Sean Pollonais and Carsten Maple

A PARTICIPATIONAL SECURITY METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS
(F_268)
M.J.Warren and S.Leitch

14:30-15:10 Session SP 15.4: Information Management (Cyber Law And
Intellectual Property) // (Privacy Issues) (Theatre LB08)

COPYRIGHT ISSUES IN SECURING DIGITAL EVIDENCE (S_311))
Michael E. Bright and William Fone

DATA PROTECTION IMPLEMENTATION: GENERAL REGULATIONS AND CASES STUDY
(S_135)
Messía de la Cerda, J. A , Fernández, E. and Arévalo, G.

16:00 -Tour and Conference Dinner

Sunday 16th, July 2006

08:30-14:30 Welcome Desk

09:00-11:00 Session FSP 16.1: eBusiness / eCommerce (eMarketing)
(Theatre LB04)

MANAGING RETURNS IN E-BUSINESS (F_285)
Dushantha Dissanayake and Mohini Singh

DOES ETHICS MATTER TO E-CONSUMERS? (F_312)
Avshalom M. Adam, Avshalom Aderet and Arik Sadeh

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES FOR E-BRANDING (S_211)
Darren R. Hayes

E-MARKETING AND WEBSITE PRACTICES: A STUDY OF SMALL AUSTRALIAN
WINERIES (F_095)
Carmine Sellitto

IMPORTANCE OF WEB USABILITY TESTS FOR INTERNET MARKETING AND PROCESS
INTEGRATION IN STRATEGIC E-BUSINESS PROJECTS – A CASE STUDY (S_126)
Birgit Hämmerling, Dirk Frosch-Wilke and Lars Wolter

09:00-11:00 Session FP 16.2: eLearning eLearning Organisational
Issues (Theatre LB08)

PREREQUISITES AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE E-LEARNING
PROJECTS (F_080)
Raul V. Ramirez-Velarde, Dudley Dolan and Jose R. Perez-Cazares

CALCULATING THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES USING DANTE
METHODOLOGY (F_212)
Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett and Stefan Weber

LEADERSHIP FOR A FORCED MARCH TO E-LEARNING: LURCHING TO THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE VALLEY (F_147)
Anna McFadden and John LeBaron

DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL DELIVERY MODES: MEETING STUDENTS' NEEDS (F_149)
Christine Bruff, Bruce Cheek, Alison Dean and John Nolan

09:00-11:00 Session FSP 16.3: Information Management (Knowledge
Management) // (Data Mining) (Theatre LB11)

MINING DOMAIN ONTOLOGICAL INFORMATION FROM ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
(F_101)
Chung-Yuan Huang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Fu-Ming Shih and Ji-Lung Hsieh

FOCUS ON AN ONTOLOGY BASED REPOSITORY (S_058)
Marcus Elzenheimer, Erich Ortner and Joachim Sternhuber

IMPRECISE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS (S_083)
A. Mateos, A. Jiménez and S. Ríos-Insua

ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERS PERFORMANCE USING SEPARATION ACTIVES/INACTIVES
AND MEAN INTER-CLUSTER DISSIMILARITY (F_151)
M. Rosmayati, A. B. Zuriana, C. A. Arifah, C. M. Noor Azliza

USER PROFILING FROM CITIZEN WEB PORTAL ACCESSES USING THE ADAPTIVE
RESONANCE THEORY NEURAL NETWORK (S_111)
José D. Martín-Guerrero, Emilio Soria-Olivas, Paulo J.G. Lisboa,
Alberto Palomares and Emili Balaguer-Ballester

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:40 Session FSP 16.4: eGovernment/eGovernance (eGovernment
Management) // (Accessibility) (Theatre LB04)

IMPLEMENTING E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES FOR AGRICULTURE: THE GREEK CASE
(F_187)
M. Ntaliani, S. Karetsos and C. Costopoulo

GRID ENABILING E-GOVERNMENT THROUGH A UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY GRID
LAYER (F_207)
Soha Maad, Brian Coghlan, Eamonn Kenny and Pierantoni Gabriele

RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY AND SECURITY OF WIRELESS NETWORKS IN THE
COMMUNITY (F_291)
Geraint Williams, Carsten Maple and Yong Yue

A STANDARD METHOD OF PROFILING ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS (USING THE CAP)
(S_036)
David Fourney and Jim Carter

DASHGOV: DEVELOPING AN E-GOVERNMENT DASHBOARD (S_069)
Greet Jans and Pieter Verdegem

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 16.5: Information Systems (Software
Requirements and IS Architectures) // (Strategies and Tendencies)
(Theatre LB08)

A SURVEY ON OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN IMPROVEMENT (F_219)
Juan José Olmedilla Arregui

COMPUTER AIDED IT PLANNING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISES
(F_045)
Kamran Khalid, Nauman Javed and Amjad Umar

IN PURSUIT OF AN AGILE PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM DESIGN WITH SOA
AND SOFTWARE AGENTS (S_280)
Asghar Bokhari and Skip Poehlman

DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING WWW-BASED MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT:
CASE YOUTH WORK (S_060)
Anssi Jääskeläinen and Kari Heikkinen

11:30-13:40 Session FSP 16.6: eLearning (Collaborative Learning) //
(eLearning Organisational Issues) (Theatre LB11)

A MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURE FOR GROUP LEARNING (F_276)
Eliane Pozzebon, Janette Cardoso, Guilherme Bittencourt and Chihab
Hanachi

FACILITATING COLLABORATION AMONG STUDENTS IN E-LEARNING BY SOFTWARE
AGENTS (S_031)
Weidong Pan, Igor Hawryszkiewycz and Dongbei Xue

EFFECTIVENESS OF WEBQUEST ON HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS OF
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (S_173)
Mei-Ching Su and Ya-Ting Carolyn Yang

AN E-LEARNING ORGANIZATION FOR ADULTS ONLY: A CASE STUDY (S_022)
P. Henry R. van Zyl and Esther H. Pais

PRESENCE OF E-LEARNING IN SLOVENIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
(S_043)
Viktorija Sulcic and Dušan Lesjak

A STUDY OF INNOVATIVE TRENDS ON NETWORK COMMUNICATION MODELS IN
THAILAND DURING B.E. 2545-2550 (S_145)
Kalayanee Jitgarun, Jariya Neanchaleay, Rattanatip Mongkonwat,
Charathip Chunkul and Anuvat Tongsakul

13:45 Best Paper Awards Ceremony and Closing Session (Theatre LB01)
Prof. Pedro Isaías and Prof. Frank Bannister

we want to get together to build apresentation for this conf. have a
model. will sppend money. but don't know how to do it. anyone willing
to join

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006
                     13–16 July 2006 - Dublin, IRELAND
                      (http://www.iadis.org/es2006)
   co-located with IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2006
                      (http://www.iadis.org/ml2006)

* Co-organised by Trinity College, Dublin

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Daniel Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA
Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of
Michigan, USA
Professor Cathie Norris, University of North Texas in Denton, USA

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2006 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment /
eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information
Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are 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.

* Publication of Extended Versions in Journals
Appropriate best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of their papers in selected Journals, including:
- IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
- Interactive Learning Environments Journal (Print ISSN: 1049-4820;
Online ISSN: 1744-5191)
- Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and
Informatics (ISSN (print): 0350-5596 and ISSN (Online): 1854-3871)
- International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured
Transactions (ISSN (Online): 1748-5703 and ISSN (Print): 1748-569X)
- e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-JIST) (ISSN:
1324-0781)
- Journal of Digital Information Management (ISSN 0972-7272)

* 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 e-Society are of interest. These include best
practice, case studies, strategies and tendencies in the following
areas:

«« eGovernment / eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
· Accessibility
· Democracy and the Citizen
· Digital Economies
· Digital Regions
· eAdministration
· eGovernment Management
· eProcurement
· Global Trends
· National and International Economies
· Social Inclusion

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
· Business Ontologies and Models
· Digital Goods and Services
· eBusiness Models
· eCommerce Application Fields
· eCommerce Economics
· eCommerce Services
· Electronic Service Delivery
· eMarketing
· Languages for Describing Goods and Services
· Online Auctions and Technologies
· Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
· Collaborative Learning
· Curriculum Content Design & Development
· Delivery Systems and Environments
· Educational Systems Design
· eLearning Organisational Issues
· Evaluation and Assessment
· Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
· Web-based Learning Communities

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
· Data Security Issues
· eHealth Policy and Practice
· eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
· Legal Issues
· Medical Research Ethics
· Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
· Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
· Intelligent Agents
· Intelligent Systems
· IS Security Issues
· Mobile Applications
· Multimedia Applications
· Payment Systems
· Protocols and Standards
· Software Requirements and IS Architectures
· Storage Issues
· Strategies and Tendencies
· System Architectures
· Telework Technologies
· Ubiquitous Computing
· Virtual Reality
· Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
· Computer-Mediated Communication
· Content Development
· Cyber law and Intellectual Property
· Data Mining
· ePublishing and Digital Libraries
· Human Computer Interaction
· Information Search and Retrieval
· Knowledge Management
· Policy Issues
· Privacy Issues
· Social and Organizational Aspects
· Virtual Communities
· XML and Other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (second call): 8 May 2006
- Notification to Authors (second call): until 31 May 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration at Early Rates
(second call): Until 7 June 2006

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland at Trinity College.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: es-sec@...
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/es2006

* Program Committee

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Maggie McPherson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Program Chair
Frank Bannister, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Track Chairs
eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia

eLearning Track
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Information Systems  Track
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, University Of South Australia, Australia

eHealth Track
Jane Grimson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Committee Members (not complete):
Please check http://www.iadis.org/es2006/committees.asp for full list

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Mobile Learning 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/ml2006/) - 14-16 July 2006

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend the
Mobile Learning conference sessions free of charge.