********************************************************************************
Call for IFAAMAS-09 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award nominations
********************************************************************************

IMPORTANT: The contact person has changed.

Nominations are invited for the 2009 Victor Lesser Distinguished 
Dissertation Award sponsored by IFAAMAS, the International Foundation 
for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems ([[http://www.ifaamas.org]]).

This award includes a certificate signed by the IFAAMAS Chair and 
1500EUR. Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between 
January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009 in the area of Autonomous Agents 
or Multiagent Systems.

The award will be based on the originality, significance, and real or 
potential impact of the work.  Evidence of such impact may come from 
existing pre- or post-defense publications of the work at highly selective 
conferences and journals, and/or from comments of the supervisor and 
references.  Work that resulted primarily from the student's initiative 
will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the 
final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might decide 
to consult external assessors and reserves the right not to award the prize 
if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level.

The dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must 
be supported by the following documents:

*A.* A pdf file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written 
in English, the nomination must include a long paper in English, with the 
nominee as the first author, published in a journal or a prestigious conference.

*B.* A list of citations to published papers based primarily on work reported 
in the dissertation with links to corresponding pdf files.

*C.* A recommendation from the supervisor nominating the dissertation for 
the IFAAMAS-09 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation 
should argue the merit of the dissertation and highlight, where relevant, how 
the work resulted from the initiative of the student. This document, not to 
exceed 500 words, should also certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that 
the PhD was defended in calendar year 2009.

*D.* Up to three reference letters of no more than 500 words in length, signed and 
scanned as pdf files, from researchers familiar with the research of the candidate 
and with related research expertise.

These documents must be placed on a web page and only a link to this page e-mailed 
to the chair of the selection committee, Michael Huhns, at [[huhns@...]] on or 
before February 5, 2010.

Though the nomination is to be submitted by the student's supervisor, it is assumed 
that the student has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award 
and, if selected, commits to attend the AAMAS10 conference where he/she will receive 
the award and will give an hour-long presentation on this work in a special session. 
The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award.

Selection committee:
Michael Huhns (Chair)
Ana Bazzan
Ariel Procaccia
Mike Wooldridge
Makoto Yokoo

***** Call for Doctoral Mentoring Program Submissions *****

Ninth International Joint Conference on
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS 2010)
Toronto, Canada
Symposium Date: May 10, 2010
Conference Dates: May 10-14, 2010
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/

The AAMAS 2010 doctoral mentoring program is intended for Ph.D.
students in advanced stages of their research. This program will
provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with
established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on
their work and to get advice on managing their careers.  Specifically,
the goals of the program are:

- To match each student with an established researcher in the community
(who will act as a mentor). The mentor will interact closely with
the student, will provide feedback on research, help form new
contacts, etc.
- To allow students an opportunity to present their work to a
friendly audience of other students as well as mentors.
-To provide students with contacts and professional networking opportunities.

The doctoral mentoring program will consist of opportunities for
interactions between mentors and their mentorees prior to the
conference, as well as a one day doctoral symposium.

Submission Requirements

We encourage submissions from Ph.D. students at advanced stages of
their research within the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
field. Based on the submissions, the organizing committee will
select a group of students that will be invited to participate in
the program. Participants will be expected to take active part in
all doctoral mentoring program activities.

The submission package should include:
- A two-page extended abstract of the student's thesis (in the AAMAS
submission format)
- A personal research statement (one page)
- A short (2-page) resume (CV)
- A recommendation letter from the advisor.

Submissions should be sent via email to johnt@....

Important Dates

Jan 30, 2010: Submission package due
Feb 27, 2010: Acceptance notification
May 10, 2010: Doctoral mentoring symposium

For questions, please contact the doctoral mentoring co-chairs:

Gita Sukthankar
University of Central Florida
gitars@...

John Thangarajah
RMIT, Australia
johnt@...

Sorry for cross postings!

Call for papers
Normative Multiagent Systems (NorMAS 2010)
29th March– 30th March 2010, De Montfort University, Leicester
An AISB2010 Symposium

Workshop description
Normative systems are “systems in the behavior of which norms play a
role and which need normative concepts in order to be described or
specified.” A normative multi-agent system combines models for normative
systems (dealing for example with obligations, permissions and
prohibitions) with models for multi-agent systems. Normative multi-agent
systems provide a promising model for human and artificial agent
co-ordination, because they integrate norms and individual intelligence.
They are a prime example of the use of sociological theories in
multi-agent systems, and therefore of the relation between agent theory
- both multi-agent systems and autonomous agents - and the social
sciences - sociology, philosophy, economics, legal science, etc.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Norm representation:
- Formal languages for the representation of norms
- Legal reasoning
- Norm-aware cognitive architectures

* Norm dynamics:
- Formal models of the evolution of normative systems
- Norm creation and propagation
- Norm emergence

* Socio-economical foundations:
- Models of norm-related sociological notions (e.g., blame)
- Norms and social welfare
- Norm enforcement
- Institutions

* NorMAS applications

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2010.
Camera ready version: TBA
Symposium: 29th March - 30th March 2010

After the symposium a selection of papers will be published in a special
issue of a relevant journal.

Paper Submission Guidelines
- The paper should be written in English.
- The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format
    (format download:
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html).
- The paper should be in PDF format.
- The paper should present unpublished work.
- Please submit via the online paper submission system Easychair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas2010).

Program Committee
Thomas Agotnes, Bergen University College, Norway
Giulia Andrighetto, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
(ISTC), Italy
Guido Boella, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy
Olivier Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies (ISTC), Italy
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden (chair)
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia
Davide Grossi, ILLC University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (chair)
Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rodger Kibble, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Sanjay Modgil , King’s College, UK
Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen, UK
Pablo Noriega, IIIA - CSIC - Barcelona, Spain
Gabriella Pigozzi, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair)

Previous NorMAS Meetings
NorMAS05@AISB2005, selection of papers published in CMOT (vol 12, no
2-3, 2006)
NorMAS07@Dagstuhl, selection of papers published in JAAMAS (vol 17, no
1, 2008)
NorMAS08@Deon08, selection of papers to be published in Logic Journal of
the IGPL
NorMAS09@Dagstuhl, selection of papers to be published in Journal of
Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic

Contact
For further inquiries please contact Harko Verhagen via
verhagen@.... The workshop website is located at:
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~grossi/NorMAS10Site/home.html

     (apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call)

Final Call for Tutorial Proposals

Ninth International Joint Conference on
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
             (AAMAS 2010)

Toronto, Canada
May 10-14, 2010

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010

The AAMAS-10 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial
Program, to be held on May 10--11, immediately before to the technical
conference. AAMAS-10 Tutorials should serve one or more of the
following objectives:

    * Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research.
    * Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies.
    * Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice.
    * Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance.
    * Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area.
    * Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people
      from industry

Important Dates:
----------------
November 13, 2009: Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline
December  4, 2009: Tutorial Acceptance Notifications
April  4, 2010: Deadline for submitting tutorial materials
May  10--11, 2010: AAMAS-2009 Tutorials

Further Information:
---------------------
For further information on submission requirements and responsibilities with
respect to accepted proposals please refer to the full call for proposals
on the AAMAS 2010 website

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/#content=call4_tutorial_proposal

Dear colleagues, the COMSOC-2010 website is now live.  Please see the
CFP below & distribute as appropriate.  Please accept my apologies if
you receive multiple copies.

Best,
Vince & Joerg


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                              Call for Papers

       Third International Workshop on Computational Social Choice
                             (COMSOC-2010)

                Duesseldorf, Germany, September 13--16, 2010

             URL: http://ccc.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/COMSOC-2010/

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MISSION
**********************************************************************

Computational social choice  is  a  new  discipline  emerging  at  the
interface  of  social  choice  theory  and  computer  science.  It  is
concerned with the application  of  computational  techniques  to  the
study of social choice mechanisms, and with the integration of  social
choice paradigms into computing. The aim of this workshop is to  bring
together the different communities  that  have  been  addressing  such
issues: computer scientists  interested  in  computational  issues  in
social choice; people working in artificial  intelligence  and  multi-
agent systems who are using  ideas  from  social  choice  to  organize
societies of artificial software agents; logicians interested  in  the
logic-based specification and analysis of  social  procedures (social
software); and last but not least people coming from social choice
theory itself.

COMSOC-2010  will  be  held  in  association  with  the  COST   Action
``Algorithmic Decision Theory,'' and will also  be  accompanied  by  a
``LogICCC tutorial day'' with general introductory talks.  The invited
talks of the workshop and the tutorials will be presented by a  number
of prominent  scientists.   Registration  fees  will  cover  both  the
workshop and the LogICCC tutorial day and will be kept very low.

**********************************************************************
INVITED SPEAKERS
**********************************************************************

Invited speakers will include Gabrielle  Demange  (Paris;  tentative),
Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford), Bettina Klaus (Lausanne), Herve  Moulin
(Rice University), and Hannu Nurmi (Turku).

**********************************************************************
PAPER SUBMISSION
**********************************************************************

Submissions of full papers describing original or  recently  published
work on all aspects of computational social choice are invited. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:

  o complexity-theoretic analysis of voting procedures
  o computational aspects of fair division
  o multiagent resource allocation
  o cake-cutting algorithms
  o distributed negotiation in multiagent systems
  o preference representation in combinatorial domains
  o computational aspects of preference aggregation rules
  o preference elicitation
  o social choice and constraint programming
  o social choice and the web: ranking systems
  o social networks
  o belief and judgement aggregation
  o algorithmic game theory
  o computational aspects of coalition formation
  o social choice under uncertainty
  o logics for collective decision making
  o logic-based verification of social procedures
  o communication complexity of social choice mechanisms
  o computational issues in mechanism design

Paper submission is electronic via the workshop website. Papers should
not exceed 14  pages in length (roughly  5000  words)  and  should  be
formatted according to the  instructions  available  at  the  workshop
website. Accepted papers will be collected in informal workshop notes,
printed copies of which will be  available  at  the  workshop.  Please
contact either one of the program chairs in case of any questions:

  o Vince Conitzer (conitzer@...)
  o Joerg Rothe (rothe@...)

**********************************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
**********************************************************************

  o Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2010
  o Notification of authors: July 15, 2010
  o Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2010
  o Early registration deadline: August 1, 2010
  o LogICCC tutorial day: September 13, 2010
  o Workshop dates: September 14--16, 2010

**********************************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
**********************************************************************

  o Steven Brams
  o Felix Brandt
  o Vincent Conitzer (co-chair)
  o Edith Elkind
  o Ulle Endriss
  o Piotr Faliszewski
  o Michael R. Fellows
  o Marc Kilgour
  o Jerome Lang
  o Jean-Francois Laslier
  o Noam Nisan
  o Ariel Procaccia
  o Fran Rosamond
  o Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
  o Francesca Rossi
  o Joerg Rothe (co-chair)
  o Remzi Sanver
  o Arkadii Slinko
  o Kristen Brent Venable
  o Toby Walsh
  o Michael Wooldridge
  o William S. Zwicker

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




--
Vincent Conitzer
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics
Duke University
conitzer@...
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~conitzer/

Levine Science Research Center, office D207
Box 90129, Duke University
Durham, NC 27708, USA
Office phone: (919) 660-6503
Fax: (919) 660-6519

********************************************************************************
Call for IFAAMAS-09 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award nominations
********************************************************************************

Nominations are invited for the 2009 Victor Lesser Distinguished
Dissertation Award sponsored by IFAAMAS, the International Foundation
for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
([[http://www.ifaamas.org]]).

This award includes a certificate signed by the IFAAMAS Chair and
1500EUR. Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between
January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009 in the area of Autonomous Agents
or Multiagent Systems.

The award will be based on the originality, significance, and real or
potential impact of the work.  Evidence of such impact may come from
existing pre- or post-defense publications of the work at highly
selective conferences and journals, and/or from comments of the
supervisor and references.  Work that resulted primarily from the
student's initiative will be considered more favourably. The selection
committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The
selection committee might decide to consult external assessors and
reserves the right not to award the prize if the nominations do not
meet the expected quality level.

The dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must
be supported by the following documents:

*A.* A pdf file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not
written in English, the nomination must include a long paper in
English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a journal
or a prestigious conference.

*B.* A list of citations to published papers based primarily on work
reported in the dissertation with links to corresponding pdf files.

*C.* A recommendation from the supervisor nominating the dissertation
for the IFAAMAS-09 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The
recommendation should argue the merit of the dissertation and
highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative
of the student. This document, not to exceed 500 words, should also
certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was
defended in calendar year 2009.

*D.* Up to three reference letters of no more than 500 words in
length, signed and scanned as pdf files, from researchers familiar
with the research of the candidate and with related research
expertise.

These documents must be placed on a web page and only a link to this
page e-mailed to the chair of the selection committee, Peter Stone,
at [[pstone@...]] on or before February 5, 2010.

Though the nomination is to be submitted by the student's supervisor,
it is assumed that the student has consented that the dissertation be
considered for this award and, if selected, commits to attend the
AAMAS10 conference where he/she will receive the award and will give
an hour-long presentation on this work in a special session. The cost
of attending the conference is not covered by the award.

Selection committee:
Peter Stone (Chair)
Ana Bazzan
Ariel Procaccia
Mike Wooldridge
Makoto Yokoo

*******************************************************************************
Call for Papers: Industry and Applications track - AAMAS-2010
*******************************************************************************

**** Introduction

The AAMAS Industry Track is a special track of the AAMAS conference that offers
a globally unique opportunity to present and promote industrial and commercial
applications of agent technologies. Due to the growing maturity of the field there
are now agent-based applications in widespread use across multiple domains that
are responsible for the generation of significant revenue. This event provides
the ideal forum to present and discuss your work; to inform and inspire the
largest international gathering of agent technology researchers and practitioners
with presentations and demonstrations of your compelling applications, success
stories and new business ideas. It is our intention that the 2010 event actively
works to promote the fostering of mutually beneficial relationships between members
of the AAMAS community who are engaged in foundational scientific research and those
who are working to make autonomous agents and multi-agent systems a commercial reality.

**** Topics and Issues of Interest

The AAMAS Industry Track invites submissions of short (4-page) or long (8-page)
papers that describe autonomous agent and multi-agent systems that have been
incorporated into for-profit or non-profit products or services, or that demonstrate
a clear potential to be so included. Application domains of interest include, but
are not limited to:

    * telecommunication, media and entertainment
    * bio-technology, pharmaceutical and health care
    * financial systems and services
    * manufacturing, automation, and logistics
    * enterprise systems
    * large-scale and grid systems management
    * transportation and telematics
    * ambient intelligence, intelligent buildings and smart cities
    * surveillance and security
    * e-government

Authors are advised and encouraged to address the following questions in their paper:

    * Why is your chosen application domain important to industry and/or society?
What are typical use cases?
    * What is the rationale for using agent-based technology in your application,
as opposed to a more traditional approach?
    * If you have deployed your technology commercially, what specific or general
insights have you gained from the experience?
    * Have you experienced (or do you foresee) technical challenges or market-based
barriers to adoption, and if so how did (or might) you address them?
    * What improvements or external factors might facilitate wider-spread adoption of
your technology?
    * What improvements in fundamental agent technology might improve your application,
or enable it to be adopted more broadly?
    * In financial terms, or any other appropriate measure of benefit, what is the
present value of your technology to customers, industry, or government, and what is its
ultimate potential?

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                         Call For Papers

                    ***  EvoCOMNET 2010 ***

      7th European Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for
                Telecommunications Networks and
             other Parallel and Distributed Systems

              * Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010 *

          ----------------------------------------------
          Extended submission deadline: 11 November 2009
          Notification of acceptance:    6 January  2010
          Camera ready papers:          15 January  2010
          ----------------------------------------------

                    http://www.evostar.org/

    -- Part of the EVOSTAR 2010 events: http://www.evostar.org --
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Many biological systems and processes are characterized by a
parallel and distributed architecture in which a large number of
autonomous and minimalist units synergistically generate
global-level behaviors through local interactions,
communications, and the adoption of relatively simple stochastic
action policies. The resulting global-level behaviors usually
show a number of properties essential for success in natural
environments such as: adaptivity to environmental variations,
robustness to internal changes and failures, and effectiveness
and scalability of performance.

Because of all these architectural and performance properties,
the observation and reverse-engineering of successful processes
in organic, inorganic, and animal systems in nature, has drawn in
recent years the attention of many researchers and engineers
working in the fields of parallel and distributed systems, and,
more in particular, in telecommunications networks. In these
domains, nature has provided basic inspiration for the definition
of a number of novel algorithms and computational frameworks able
to deal effectively with the challenges of current networked
systems, which show a growing structural and computational
complexity and are made of a large number of highly dynamic and
heterogeneous components.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present cutting
edge research on nature-inspired approaches to problems arising
in the design, control, protection, and management of network
systems, and to outline new trends in parallel nature-inspired
computation for the solution of complex problems.

EvoCOMNET is part of EVOSTAR (EVO*), Europe's premier co-located
events in the field of evolutionary and nature-inspired
computing. EVO* includes the EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO
conferences and a number of workshops collectively entitled
EvoWorkshops. EVO* 2010 is the 12th edition of the event, details
and cfps can be found at: http://www.evostar.org


---------------------------
SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST
---------------------------

EvoCOMNET 2010 solicits contributions dealing with the
application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the
definition, analysis, and development of novel parallel and
distributed algorithms, and to the solution of problems of
practical and theoretical interest in all domains related to
network systems. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the
contribution of nature-inspired approaches to the following
domains:

    + Network analysis and design

    + Routing protocols

    + Transport protocols

    + Network protection systems

    + Load balancing

    + Quality-of-service provisioning

    + Mobile ad hoc networks

    + Sensor networks

    + Network robotics and sensor-actor networks

    + Distributed search and computation in P2P networks

    + Parallel and distributed optimization algorithms

    + Grid computing

    + Distributed data mining

    + Tuning and application of hybrid approaches


Particularly welcome are papers reporting:

     * Applications of nature-inspired techniques to novel
       problems in the domain of telecommunications networks and
       parallel and distributed systems

     * Detailed comparative studies of nature-inspired solutions
       versus more classical/established techniques

     * Definition of innovative techniques and/or computational
       frameworks based on biological systems or processes that
       have not been considered so far in the literature of
       nature-inspired systems

     * Analytical studies of the behavior of the proposed systems

     * Performance evaluation and visualization of parallel and
       distributed systems inspired by nature

     * Real-world implementations

     * Studies based on real-world data sets

     * Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior



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PUBLICATION DETAILS AND AWARDS
------------------------------

+ Conference Proceedings:
   ----------------------
   Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer
   Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with papers
   from other workshops of the EVO* conference.


+ Best Paper Award:
   ----------------
   A Best Paper Award will be given to the author(s) of the paper
   presented at the workshop that will receive the best evaluation
   marks from the reviewers and the Session Chairs.



--------------------
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
--------------------

Please refer to the http://www.evostar.org website for the
submission procedure. The maximum length for a paper is 10 PAGES
in LNCS format. Papers will be reviewed by at least three
reviewers according to a double blind peer process.



---------------
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
---------------

+ Gianni A. Di Caro
   IDSIA
   Lugano, Switzerland
   gianni AT idsia DOT ch

+ Muddassar Farooq
   NUCES
   Islamabad, Pakistan
   muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu

+ Ernesto Tarantino
   ICAR-CNR
   Naples, Italy
   ernesto DOT tarantino AT na DOT icar DOT cnr DOT it



---------------
IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

  * Submission deadline:         11 November 2009

  * Notification of acceptance:   6  January 2010

  * Camera ready papers:         15  January 2010

  * Events:                     7-9    April 2010


--------------------------
WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
--------------------------
Ozgur B. Akan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Enrique Alba (University of Malaga, Spain)
Qing Anyong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Payman Arabshahi, (University of Washington, USA)
Mehmet E. Aydin (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Iacopo Carreras, (CREATE-NET, Italy)
Arindam K. Das (University of Washington, USA)
Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Frederick Ducatelle (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Luca Gambardella (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, France)
Malcolm I. Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Byrant Julstrom (St. Cloud State University, USA)
Graham Kendall (University of Nottingham, UK)
Kenji Leibnitz (Osaka University, Japan)
Manuel Lozano-Marquez (University of Granada, Spain)
Domenico Maisto (ICAR CNR, Italy)
Ronaldo Menezes (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Martin Middendorf (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Roberto Montemanni (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Chien-Chung Shen (University of Delaware, USA)
Tony White (Carleton University, Canada)
Lidia Yamamoto (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
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     (apologies for multiple postings)

Kagan Tumer
Oregon State University
kagan.tumer@...

     (apologies for multiple postings)

Kagan Tumer
Oregon State University
kagan.tumer@...

(apologies for multiple postings)


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AAMAS 2010 - Call for Workshop Proposals
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop
Program to be held on May 10-11, 2010  immediately prior to the main technical
program of the AAMAS conference.

The main goal of the AAMAS-2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate
discussion,
interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to
specific
topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents
and
Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS-2010 workshops will provide an informal setting
where
participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in
an atmosphere
that fosters the active exchange of ideas. AAMAS 2010 will be co-located with
KR,
NMR, ICAPS, FOIS, (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada),
and welcomes proposals that cater to the broader community across these areas.

Members from all areas of the AAMAS community are invited to submit workshop
proposals for review. Workshops on new and emerging topics, applications, and on
broader topics catering to the broader community represented by the co-located
events are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will
be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register
for their workshop and preferably also for the  main AAMAS conference.
Attendance
is limited to registered participants only.

--------------------------------------------------------
Important Dates for Workshops
--------------------------------------------------------

   OCTOBER 31, 2009 - Proposal Submission Deadline
   NOVEMBER 30, 2009 - Acceptance Notification
   DECEMBER 11, 2009 - Deadline for posting Workshops Call for Papers
   DECEMBER 11, 2009 - AAMAS-2010 Workshops Program Announced
   FEBRUARY,  2, 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshops
   MARCH 2, 2010 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
   MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for complete workshop notes submission to the
workshop chair

Workshop chair

   MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation
   MAY 10-11, 2010 - AAMAS-2010 WORKSHOPS

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AAMAS-2010 Workshops Requirements for Submission
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
--------------

Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length (in plain
ASCII text), and should contain the following information:

- Title of the workshop.

- A technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the
technical issues that it will address,  and the relevance of the workshop to
the main conference.

- A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.

- A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and
their
relation to the proposed workshop.  Information about previous offerings of the
proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past  (i.e., with
AAMAS
or another conference?), organizers names and affiliations, number of
submissions,
acceptances and registered attendees, and follow-up publications, if any  (e.g.,
journal
special issue).

- A preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing the
workshop.
This should include a brief description of how the organizers intend to
encourage an
atmosphere appropriate for a workshop.

- Description of paper review process and acceptance standards.

- If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees.

- The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses
of the
proposed workshop  organizing committee. This committee should consist of three
or four
people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing
committee
should include individuals from multiple institutions.

-The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee (this person must
have an
email address).

- A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with
respect to
organizing an AAMAS  workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged
by any
members of the proposed organizing committee, if any.

- List of potential program committee members, including their title and
affiliations.

- Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day).

- A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the
workshop is
planned to be advertised.


All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, to
the AAMAS-2010
Workshop Chair:

Kagan Tumer ( kagan.tumer@... )

as soon as possible but no later than: Saturday October 31, 2009.

Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision
no later than: Monday November 30, 2009.

The selection of the workshops to be included in the final AAMAS program will be
based upon
multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics,
the clarity of
the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness  of
workshop topics,
the cross-disciplinary nature of the workshop, and the capacity of the
conference workshop
program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping
content areas
and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
---------
Responsibilities of AAMAS and workshop organizers
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
---------

For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for:

- Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.

- Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop.

- Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.


Workshop organizers will be responsible for:

-Setting up a website for the workshop.

-Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers (by DECEMBER 11,  2009)
and
a call for participation (by MARCH 19, 2010).

-Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or
rejection
on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All
workshop
organizers commit themselves to adopt the same deadlines for paper submissions
and
notifications of acceptance, i.e.,  FEBRUARY 2, 2010: Submissions of
contributions
to workshops; MARCH 2, 2010: Notifications

- Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshops chair by
MARCH 19,
2010, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room
requirements.
The AAMAS-2010 workshop notes will be included in the  flash drive containing
the AAMAS-2010
conference proceedings. To that end, please include the following sentence in
your call for
papers: "Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to
AAMAS-2010
registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made
available to workshop
participants."

- Ensuring that the workshop notes or individual papers are available from the
workshops
websites, as appropriate. Though the workshop notes will appear on the flash
drive distributed
to conference attendees, the workshop notes will not be hosted on the IFAAMAS
website.

- Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the
workshop and
are invited to register  to the main conference (at least one author must
register for the
workshop in order for a paper to appear in the  workshop proceedings).

AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities
are not fulfilled,
or if too few paying attendees register for the workshop to support its running
costs.

----------------------------------------------
Submissions and Inquiries
----------------------------------------------

Please send proposals and inquiries to:

Kagan Tumer
Oregon State University
kagan.tumer@...

(Apologize for multiple postings)

Dear all,

This e-mail is just to inform you that we have extended the submission
deadline
for the Seventh European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2009)

The new deadline is now

Abstracts ---- September 22
Full papers -- September 25

(there will be no further extensions!)

You can find the CfP with the instructions for the submission in
http://www.eumas09.cs.ucy.ac.cy/cfp.html

Remember that EUMAS-2009 also welcomes papers that are under submission,
will be presented or have already been
presented at relevant international conferences.

Best regards,
Jordi Sabater-Mir
Programme chair EUMAS-09.

                (apologies if you receive multiple copies)

Dear all,

This is just a gentle reminder that the deadline for papers submission
to the Seventh European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2009) is
aproaching.

Abstracts ---- September 14th
Full papers -- September 18th

You can find the CfP with the instructions for the submission in
http://www.eumas09.cs.ucy.ac.cy/cfp.html

Remeber that you can submit original papers but also papers that are
under submission,
will be presented or have already been presented at relevant
international conferences.

Best regards,
Jordi Sabater-Mir

______________________________________________________________________________

  _/ _/ _/_|   Dr. Jordi Sabater Mir
  / _/ _/ _|   IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
   _/ _/___|   CSIC - Spanish National Research Council
  _/ _/____|   Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
  / _/    _|   08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
               Ph.: +34 935809570 (ext. 261)      Fax.: +34 935809661
               jsabater@...      http://www.iiia.csic.es
______________________________________________________________________________

( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE )

Call for Workshops, Tutorials, Posters, and Demos

Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009)

6-9 December, 2009

Shanghai, China

http://www.aswc2009.org/

The Asian Semantic Web Conference is the yearly conference on
theoretical foundations, technological building blocks and practical
applications of semantic technologies on the Asian continent. Targeted
at both academia and industry, the conference will present the latest
research and development of the Semantic Web and its related
technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant
disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling,
logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed
computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language
processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction.

Besides presenting papers including latest research in the Semantic
Web area, this year the conference will also include workshops,
tutorials and a poster and demo session.

For these three events, we welcome submissions that are aligned with
the topics of the conference
(http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track).

Further details about the calls for workshops, tutorials, posters, and
demos can be found in the conference web page:

* ASWC2009 Call for Workshops
(http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callworkshops)
* ASWC2009 Call for Tutorials
(http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/calltutorials)
* ASWC2009 Call for Posters and Demos
(http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callpostersdemos)

===Important dates===

'Workshop Track
* Proposal due: 27 Aug 2009
* Notification : 3 Sept 2009
* The important dates for accepted workshops are:
   ** Paper Submissions: 3 Oct 2009
   ** Paper Notification: 15 Oct 2009
   ** Paper Camera-ready: 22 Oct 2009
   ** Workshop days: 6-7 Dec 2009

Tutorial Track

* 10 Sept 2009:  Proposal submission
* 17 Sept 2009: Notification
* 5 Nov 2009: Tutorial notes (handouts) to tutorial chair
* Tutorial days: 6-7 Dec 2009

Poster and Demo Track

* Poster and demo submission: 17 Sept 2009
* Notification of acceptance: 1 Oct 2009
* Camera-ready version: 15 Oct 2009
   ** Poster and Demo days: 8-9 Dec 2009

===Contacts===

* ASWC2009 Workshop Chair: Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University,
Korea (hgkim@...)
* ASWC2009 Tutorial Chair: Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
USA (baojie@...)
* ASWC2009 Poster and Demo Chair: Raúl García-Castro, Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (rgarcia@...)

====================================================

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups

the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific

results.

======================================================

2^nd Call for Papers 

AAECS’09

1^st international workshop on 

Applied Agent based simulator Engineering

for Complex System study

 Nagoya, Japan December 13-16 2009

http://www.ird.fr/ur079/aaecs09/

 Located at PRIMA 2009, the 12^th International conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems Nagoya, Japan December 13-16 2009

(apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call)

Call for Tutorial Proposals

Ninth International Joint Conference on
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
              (AAMAS 2010)

Toronto, Canada
May 10-14, 2010

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010

The AAMAS-10 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial
Program, to be held on May 10--11, immediately before to the technical
conference. AAMAS-10 Tutorials should serve one or more of the
following objectives:

     * Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research.
     * Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies.
     * Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice.
     * Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance.
     * Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area.
     * Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people
       from industry

AAMAS 2010 will be co-located with KR, NMR, ICAPS, FOIS (all in
Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo), and welcomes proposals that cater
to the broader community across these areas.

Submission Requirements:
------------------------
Proposals should be two to four pages in length, and should contain
the following information:

     * A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in
       the conference registration brochure.

     * A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length
       (half or full day).

     * Characterization of the potential target audience for the
       tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.

     * A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to
       a substantial part of the AAMAS audience.

     * A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name,
       postal address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address,
       background in the tutorial area, any available example of work
       in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the
       subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references
       that address the proposer's presentation skills), and evidence
       of scholarship in the area.

     * The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The
       corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail
       correspondence during the evaluation process, in the case
       clarifications and discussions on the scope and content of the
       proposal are needed.

The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general
interest for AAMAS attendees, the quality of the proposal as well as
the expertise and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that the
primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is
interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the perceived
experience/standing of the proposer.

Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are
intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present
reasonably well established information in a balanced way.  Tutorials
should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should
they promote a product.

The selection of the tutorials to be included in the final AAMAS
program will be based upon a number of factors, including: the
scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the
proposal, the need to avoid strictly overlapping tutorials, and the
unavoidable need to limit the overall number of selected tutorials.

Responsibilities (with respect to accepted proposals):
-----------------------------------------------------
AAMAS will be responsible for:

     * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial.
     * Together with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time.
     * Duplicating tutorial material and distributing them to the participants.

Tutorial organizers will be responsible for:
----------------------------------------------------------
     * Providing AAMAS with a legible PDF copy of their tutorial notes
       by April 4, 2010.
     * Presenting the tutorial at AAMAS-2010.

AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if the above
responsibilities are not fulfilled, if deadlines are missed, or if too
few attendees register for the tutorial to support the costs of
running the tutorial.


Important Dates:
----------------
November 13, 2009: Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline
December  4, 2009: Tutorial Acceptance Notifications
April  4, 2010: Deadline for submitting tutorial materials
May  10--11, 2010: AAMAS-2009 Tutorials

Submissions and Inquiries:
--------------------------
Proposals and inquiries should be sent by email (in ASCII or pdf) to the
tutorials chair:

Kate Larson
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
klarson@...




--

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

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd Call): 21 September 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2009

November 19-21, 2009 – ROME, ITALY
(http://www.computing-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy

Professor Dinesh Kumar, Associate Professor of Biosignals at RMIT University,
Australia

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Applied Computing 2009 conference aims to address the main issues of
concern within the applied computing area and related fields. This conference
covers essentially technical aspects. The applied computing field is divided
into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that don't
fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to
conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The best
paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in
specific journals, and in the IADIS International Journal on Computer Science
and Information Systems.

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

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (2nd Call): 21 September 2009
- Notification to Authors (2nd Call): 16 October 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd Call): Until 30
October 2009
- Late Registration (2nd Call): After 30 Octobe 2009
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 19 to 21 November 2009

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

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Hans Weghorn, BW Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany

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

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

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events WWW/Internet 2009
(http://www.internet-conf.org/) - 19-22 November 2009 and CELDA 2009
(http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 20-22 November 2009

* Registered participants in the Applied Computing conference may attend the
WWW/Internet and CELDA conferences' sessions free of charge.

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

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd Call): 21 September 2009 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2009
                     Rome, Italy, 19 - 22 November 2009
                       (http://www.internet-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Daniel Schwabe, Professor, Department of Informatics, Catholic University in Rio
de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 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 arisen. 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
- Social Networks
- Folksonomies
- Enterprise Wikis and Blogging
- Mashups and Web Programming
- Tagging and User Rating Systems
- Citizen Journalism


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

Applications and Uses
- e-Learning
- e-Commerce / e-Business
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Procurement
- e-Society
- Digital Libraries
- Web Services/SaaS
- Application Interoperability
- Web-based multimedia technologies

Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Wireless Web
- Mobile Web
- Cloud/Grid Computing
- Web Metrics
- Web Standards
- Internet Architectures
- Network Algorithms
- Network Architectures
- Network Computing
- Network Management
- Network Performance
- Content Delivery Technologies
- Protocols and Standards
- Traffic Models

Research Issues
- Web Science
- Digital Rights Management
- Bioinformatics
- Human Computer Interaction and Usability
- Web Security and Privacy
- Online Trust and Reputation Systems
- Data Mining
- Information Retrieval
- Search Engine Optimization

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (2nd Call): 21 September 2009
- Notification to Authors (2nd Call): 16 October 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd Call): Until 30
October 2009
- Late Registration (2nd Call): After 30 October 2009
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 19 to 22 November 2009

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Rome, Italy.

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

* Program Committee

Program Co-Chairs
Bebo White, Stanford University, USA
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

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

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

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2009
(http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 19-21 November 2009 and CELDA 2009
(http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 20-22 November 2009

* Registered participants in the WWW/Internet conference may attend the Applied
Computing and CELDA conferences' sessions free of charge.

====================================================

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups

the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific

results.

======================================================

Call for Papers

AAECS’09

1^st international workshop on 

Applied Agent based simulator Engineering

for Complex System study

 Nagoya, Japan December 13-16 2009

http://www.ird.fr/ur079/aaecs09/

 Located at PRIMA 2009, the 12^th International conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems Nagoya, Japan December 13-16 2009

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

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (extension): 31 July 2009 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2009
                     Rome, Italy, 19 - 22 November 2009
                       (http://www.internet-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Daniel Schwabe, Professor, Department of Informatics, Catholic University in Rio
de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 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, but other aspects have
arisen. 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 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
- Social Networks
- Folksonomies
- Enterprise Wikis and Blogging
- Mashups and Web Programming
- Tagging and User Rating Systems
- Citizen Journalism


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

Applications and Uses
- e-Learning
- e-Commerce / e-Business
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Procurement
- e-Society
- Digital Libraries
- Web Services/SaaS
- Application Interoperability
- Web-based multimedia technologies

Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Wireless Web
- Mobile Web
- Cloud/Grid Computing
- Web Metrics
- Web Standards
- Internet Architectures
- Network Algorithms
- Network Architectures
- Network Computing
- Network Management
- Network Performance
- Content Delivery Technologies
- Protocols and Standards
- Traffic Models

Research Issues
- Web Science
- Digital Rights Management
- Bioinformatics
- Human Computer Interaction and Usability
- Web Security and Privacy
- Online Trust and Reputation Systems
- Data Mining
- Information Retrieval
- Search Engine Optimization

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (extension): 31 July 2009
- Notification to Authors (extension): 7 September 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (extension): Until 25
September 2009
- Late Registration (extension): After 25 September 2009
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 19 to 22 November 2009

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Rome, Italy.

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

* Program Committee

Program Co-Chairs
Bebo White, Stanford University, USA
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

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

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

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2009
(http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 19-21 November 2009 and CELDA 2009
(http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 20-22 November 2009

* Registered participants in the WWW/Internet conference may attend the Applied
Computing and CELDA conferences' sessions free of charge.

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

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (extension): 31 July 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2009

November 19-21, 2009 – ROME, ITALY
(http://www.computing-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy


* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Applied Computing 2009 conference aims to address the main issues of
concern within the applied computing area and related fields. This conference
covers essentially technical aspects. The applied computing field is divided
into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that don't
fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to
conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The best
paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in
specific journals, and in the IADIS International Journal on Computer Science
and Information Systems.

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

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (extension): 31 July 2009
- Notification to Authors (extension): 7 September 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (extension): Until 25
September 2009
- Late Registration (extension): After 25 September 2009
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 19 to 21 November 2009

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

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Hans Weghorn, BW Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany

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

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

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events WWW/Internet 2009
(http://www.internet-conf.org/) - 19-22 November 2009 and CELDA 2009
(http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 20-22 November 2009

* Registered participants in the Applied Computing conference may attend the
WWW/Internet and CELDA conferences' sessions free of charge.