Kindly share the appended announcement with your groups; we
would be most grateful.  Paper submission deadline is extended
to March 11, 2009.  Thank you so much.
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                      Call For Papers
    Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 11, 2009

       The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning,
           e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
                       and e-Government
                            EEE'09

      Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper; see below for submission
instructions.  All accepted papers will be published in the
EEE conference proceedings (in printed books/proceedings).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  O  e-Learning:
     - e-Learning design and methodologies
     - e-Learning technologies and tools
     - Authoring tools
     - e-Learning portals
     - Instructional design methodologies
     - Social impact and cultural issues in e-Learning
     - Content management and development
     - Policy issues in e-Learning
     - On-demand e-Learning
     - e-Learning standards
     - Assessment methodologies
     - Knowledge management
     - Virtual learning environments
     - Audio and video technologies for e-Learning
     - Usability issues
     - AI and e-Learning
     - On-line education (all levels: elementary, secondary, ...)
     - Open-source e-Learning platforms
     - Training and evaluation strategies
     - e-Universities
     - Case studies and emerging applications

  O  e-Business:
     - e-Business systems integration and standardization
     - Electronic negotiation systems and protocols
     - Internet payment systems
     - e-Retailing and web design
     - e-Procurement methods
     - Techniques for B2B e-Commerce
     - Global e-Commerce and e-Business
     - Service-oriented e-Commerce
     - Trust, security, and privacy in e-Commerce and e-Business
     - Intelligence in e-Commerce
     - Databases and e-Commerce applications
     - Business-oriented and consumer-oriented e-Commerce
     - Development of e-Business and applications
     - e-Business in developing countries
     - Marketing on the web
     - Organizational and management issues
     - Supply chain management
     - e-Business models and architectures
     - Applications of new technologies to e-Business
     - Middleware technologies to support e-business
     - Case studies and applications

  O  Enterprise Information Systems:
     - Enterprise resource planning and e-Business
     - Strategic decision support systems
     - Organizational semiotics and semiotics in computing
     - Data warehouses and technologies
     - middleware integration
     - Intranet and extranet business applications
     - Databases and information systems integration
     - Intelligent agents
     - Enterprise-wide client-server architectures
     - Knowledge management
     - Information systems analysis and specification
     - Ontology engineering
     - CASE tools for system development
     - B2B and B2C applications
     - Business processes re-engineering
     - Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions, ...
     - Semantic web technologies
     - Web interfaces and usability
     - Human factors and e-Learning
     - Case studies and applications

  O  e-Government:
     - Legal aspects of e-Government
     - Risk management
     - Methods and tools for e-Government
     - Policies and strategies
     - Designing web services for e-Government
     - e-Democracy and e-Voting
     - Trust and security in e-Government
     - Enterprise architecture for e-Government
     - Interoperability frameworks in e-Government
     - Inter-administration and G2G issues
     - Public and private partnership
     - Teaching e-Government
     - Case studies

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/eee09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
   uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
   Submissions must be received by March 11, 2009 and they must be in
   either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
   font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
   acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
   follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
   publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
   to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
   published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
   first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
   name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference that
   the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page.

   Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
   impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
   in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
   The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
   the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of
   the track that the paper has been submitted to.  The chair will make
   the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
   by one member of the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   March 11, 2009:    Extended deadline for Submission of papers
                      (about 5 to 7 pages)
   April 9, 2009:     Notification of acceptance
   May 1, 2009:       Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning,
                      e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and
                      e-Government (EEE'09)

TUTORIALS:

   12 to 15 tutorials are currently being planned - all tutorials are
   free to conference registrants.  Tutorial subjects include:
   various aspects of supercomputing (parallel and distributed systems
   and processing), visualization, preparation for teaching online
   courses, various areas of security, sensor networks, bioinformatics
   for computer scientists, web services for mobile and wireless systems,
   ABET accreditation as it relates to computing, inverse problems in
   computer vision, data mining, ...


SPONSORS (confirmed as of Feb. 20, 2009):

   Academic Sponsors include:
   United States Military Academy, Network Science Center, USA;
   Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
   MIT, USA; Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne
   National Laboratory, USA; Functional Genomics Laboratory, University
   of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
   Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Intelligent Data
   Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin,
   Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics
   Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Texas Advanced Computing Center,
   The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Center for the
   Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
   Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Bioinformatics & Computational
   Biology Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Institute
   of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of
   Technology, Austria; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
   Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,
   Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System
   Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; National Institute
   for Health Research; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, College of
   Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Institute for Informatics Problems
   of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image HPC
   & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; SECLAB of
   U. of Naples Federico II, U. of Naples Parthenope, and Second U. of
   Naples, Italy; U. of North Dakota, USA; Intelligent Cyberspace
   Engineering Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./Texas), USA;
   International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
   Academy of Biomedical Sciences & Technologies; and European Commission.
   Other Sponsors include:
   High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
   HoIP - Health without Boundaries; The International Council on
   Medical and Care Compunetics; The UK Department for Business,
   Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; VMW Solutions Ltd.; Scientific
   Technologies Corporation; and others.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

   EEE'09 is one of the premier research conferences in e-learning,
   e-business, enterprise information systems, and e-government.
   It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number
   of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is the
   largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
   computer engineering and applied computing.

   The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
   topics into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at
   a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of
   ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The model used
   facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world
   in different fields of communication, computer science, computer
   engineering, applied computing, and higher education. Both inward
   research and outward research will be covered during EEE'09.

   EEE'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations,
   keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
   and poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
   speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California, Berkeley);
   Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland (U. of
   Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry
   Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley); Prof. Jun
   Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X Window); and many
   other distinguished speakers.  For this year's conference, the keynote
   speakers include: Prof. Ian Foster (Father of Grid Computing),
   Dr. Eric Drexler (Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. Brian Athey (Head,
   NIH National Center for Computational Medicine & Biology), Dr. Jose Munoz
   (Deputy Director, National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure),
   and many other distinguished speakers.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

   The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
   Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
   a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
   rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
   service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
   attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
   River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
   a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
   conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
   walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
   destinations, Golf courses, ...)