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Second Call for Papers and Conference Updates
I International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and
Technologies, InSciT2006
Mérida, SPAIN, October 25th-28th, 2006
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/
Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: May 15th, 2006
Dear colleague,
In addition to the features informed in the CFP, InSciT2006 is pleased to
announce some exciting and relevant news about the conference, including
new keynote speaker, workshops, journal special issues and accommodation
arrangements. Please read it through to know more....
PLENARY SPEAKERS (confirmed)
Dr. Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA. JASIS&T Editor.
Lecture: Intelligent Methods in Models of Text Information Retrieval:
Implications for Society
Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Scietometrics Co-Editor (Title to be announced)
Dr. Felix de Moya Anegón, University of Granada, SPAIN. Main researcher of
SCImago Research Group. (Title to be announced)
Dr. Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, Editor of Information Visualization,
USA. Lecture: Visual analysis of concept change and information diffusion
CONTRIBUTIONS
Incoming contributions are following a good rate, acceptance letters have
started to be sent. A 400 papers proceedings book is expected to be
distributed among the attendees. In addition to regular papers, it is also
possible to submit proposals to the half-day International Workshop on
Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge,
led by Dr. Chaomei Chen and to the full-day Specialized Session on
Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life Sciences, led by Dr. A. Fazel
Famili. More info:
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm
http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm
WORKSHOPS / SESSIONS
InSciT2006 is pleased to announce the inclusion of one workshop and one
specialized session into the conference scientific program. Both sessions
have been set up in order to extend the conference target audience, as
reaching the widest range of research communities is one of the major
goals of the conference. Find below full details about these new and
exciting tracks of InSciT2006.
-- International Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and
Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge
http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/inscit2006workshop
October 26th (half-day workshop)
-- Specialized Session on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life
Sciences: Current Trends and Future Directions
October 27th (full-day session)
http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm
THEMES
Major topics include the following, for a comprehensive list of topics
covered by InSciT2006 visit:
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/topics.htm
Information Retrieval
Digital Libraries
Hypertext and Hypermedia Systems
Metadata
Electronic Publishing
Knowledge and Information Management
Science and Information Mapping
Data Mining
Human-Computer interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Information Visualization
Social Networks
Databases
CONFERENCE PUBLICATION - PROCEEDINGS
All accepted papers presented at InSciT2006, both in the regular tracks
and specialized sessions and workshops will be published as book chapters
in the Conference Proceedings Book, which will be jointly edited by the
University of Extremadura and the Open Institute of Knowledge. The title
of the publication is expected to be "Current Research in Information
Sciences and Technologies. Multidisciplinary approaches to global
information systems" and it will contain an International Serial Book
Number (ISBN).
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS SPECIAL ISSUES
Confirmed journals: (being updated)
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/publication.htm
-- Information Visualization.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan Journals. ISSN: 1473-8716
5-7 selected papers of the Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution
and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge will form a special issue of this
journal.
-- The International Information and Library Review
Published by Elsevier. ISSN: 1057-2317
A selection of high quality papers presented in InSciT2006 will undergo an
extension and revision process to become journal articles of a IILR
special issue.
At this moment is also being considered to produce a special issue of
Information Sciences, published by Elsevier. ISSN: 0020-0255
ACCOMMODATION
InSciT2006 has agreed with Rural Plan (a local travel agency) an
accommodation service available for the conference attendees. Please, note
that through this service a wide hotel category range is provided in order
to adapt the offer to the widest range of budgets. Thus, from five-stars
hotels to two-stars and hostels are offered through the conference
organization. All hotels showed have been checked for a standard of
quality.
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/accommodation.htm
Thank you in advance and do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestion
or inquiry.
We would also appreciate it if you could disseminate this Call for Papers
within your Department or Institution.
Dr. Vicente Guerrero Bote
InSciT2006 Conference Chairman
University of Extremadura
http://alcazaba.unex.es/~vicente
Borja Gonzalez
InSciT2006 Secretariat
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/secretariat.htm
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