-  Call For Papers -

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE
SYSTEMS (INCoS 2009).

November 4-6, 2009
Open University of Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain
http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/incos2009

Submission deadline: **June 25, 2009**

CONFERENCE SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

With the fast development of the Internet, we are experiencing a shift
from the traditional sharing of information and applications as the
main purpose of the Web to an emergent paradigm, which locates people
at the very center of networks and exploits the value of people's
connections and relations. Web 2.0 has come to play a major role in
this context by enabling a new generation of social networks and
web-based communities and dramatically changing the way we use and
interact with the Web. Social network analysis is also a rapidly
growing field to investigate the dynamics and structure of intelligent
Web-based networking and collaborative systems.

Virtual campuses and organizations strongly leverage intelligent
networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of formal and
informal electronic relations, such as business-to-business,
peer-to-peer and many types of online collaborative learning
interactions. This has resulted in entangled systems that need to be
managed efficiently and in an autonomous way. In addition, latest and
powerful technologies based on Grid and Wireless  infrastructure as
well as Cloud computing  are currently enhancing collaborative and
networking applications a great deal but also facing new issues and
challenges. Well-known social networks lack of knowledge management
and adaptive solutions and the information shared among peers is
rather static. Virtual communities of practice also provide poorly
interactive solutions and lack of  full support for organization,
management, mobility and security.

This conference covers the latest advances in intelligence social
networks and collaborative systems that lead to gain competitive
advantages in business and academia scenarios. The ultimate aim is to
stimulate research that will lead to the creation of responsive
environments for networking and, at longer-term, the development of
adaptive, secure, mobile, and intuitive intelligent systems for
collaborative work and learning. Industry and academic researchers,
professionals and practitioners are invited to exchange their
experiences and present their ideas in this field.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submitted papers should be original and contain contributions of
theoretical, experimental or application nature, or be unique
experience reports. Papers must be submitted no later than June 25th,
2009 and electronic submission in PDF is required. The page limit for
a Track paper is 8 pages. Workshop and Special Session papers
describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature
results are limited to 6 pages. The PhD Forum is an opportunity for
PhD students to present their ongoing dissertation and to discuss
their research with experts in academia and industry. The page limit
for PhD Forum papers is 4 pages. Finally, Poster sessions provide an
excellent possibility for authors to present in an informal and
interactive way their original and unpublished work that demonstrates
current research about the conference topics. The page limit for
Poster papers is 2 pages. All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5
two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will
be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness,
and will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.

It is assumed that all accepted manuscripts would be presented at the
conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid
registration to appear in the proceedings. All full papers are to be
submitted in PDF electronically via the conference web site.

Proceedings of the INCoS 2009 conference will be published by IEEE
Computer Society Press. Selected papers will be published in several
Journal Special Issues (to be announced).


MAIN TOPICS AND TRACKS

The main topics of interest of INCoS 2009 include but are not limited
to the following:

-Intelligent networking for virtual organizations and campuses

Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Mashups
eHome/Smart Home networking
Virtual environment architecture
Virtual Museum, Electronic library, Tele-Medicine
Evaluation of Network-Oriented application systems
Community Building and Communities of Practice
Design, model and framework of e-Learning Systems
E-learning metadata and standards
Educational Gaming and Multimedia for Learning
Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Systems
Lifelong Learning: continuing professional training & development
Theoretical bases of e-Learning environments
Distance and e-Learning in a global context
Context dependent learning

-Intelligent networking for social networks

Social Network Sites and Collective Intelligence
Social Software for Technology Enhanced Learning
Information diffusion in social networks
Virtual and Web Communities
Intelligent Search engines
Intelligent networking between Web Sites
Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
Infrastructure and Tools for e-Social network
Interdisciplinary Research and e-Social network
International Collaborations in e-Social network
Online communities and computer networks

-Intelligent collaborative systems for work and learning

Collaborative computing
Web-Based Cooperative Work
Collaborative Learning
Computer Supported Cooperative Care/Health
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative practices
Ethnographic and case studies of work practice
Data management for collaborative systems
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications
Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in
large scale digital libraries
Human/robot collaboration
Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration

-Security, organization, management and autonomic computing for
intelligent networking and collaborative systems

Autonomic computing
Case studies for autonomic computing
Learning algorithms for autonomic computing
Autonomic monitoring and management
Autonomic policy and QoS management
Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management
Self-organization, and Intra- and inter-organizational networks
Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
Workflow technology and workflow management for collaborative network management
Network management systems
Security and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and
applications
Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations
Security and privacy in collaboration
Network security, intrusion detection
Energy management for collaborative networks
Network measurements and testbeds

-Grid and P2P distributed infrastructure for intelligent networking
and collaborative systems

Computer Supported Collaborative Work with distributed systems
Distributed technologies and architectures to support group
collaboration, activity, and awareness
Grid and high-performance networking
Convergence of Web services, Grid computing and Autonomic computing
for Networking
Intelligent Cloud Computing & Networking
P2P platforms for supporting collaboration
P2P and overlay networks, systems, and applications
Web services technologies for collaborative networking and applications
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
Middleware support for collaborative information systems
Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative
computing networks and systems
Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative
networking and applications

-Wireless and sensor systems for intelligent networking and
collaborative systems

Collaborative sensor systems
Collaborative mobile networks, sensor networks, unmanned air and
ground vehicle networks & applications
Collaboration with and through advanced sensing systems
Ad hoc and sensor Networks
Handoff, Mobile networks and Wireless Web
Mobile Internet architectures
Mobility models for networking
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new
mobile services
Collaborative, location aware mobile systems
Sensor array structure and signal processing
Technology and system for collaboration in real-time enterprises

-Data mining and knowledge management for intelligent networking and
collaborative systems

XML mining for Networking
Social Network Mining
Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks.
Intelligent Visualization of Social Network Analysis
Intelligent agents and interfaces for Personalization and Adaptivity
Adaptive hypermedia systems
Computational models and agent-based simulations of networks
Web Services modeling for Networking
Modeling for Collaboration
Knowledge Community Formation and Support
Network evolution and growth mechanisms

IMPORTANT DATES

-March 15, 2009 Workshop Proposal
-March 30, 2009 Workshop Proposal Notification
-June 25, 2009 (8 pages IEEE format for tracks/ 6 pages IEEE format
for workshops/ 2 pages IEEE format for posters)
-July 5, 2009 PhD Workshop (4 pages in IEEE format)
-July 25, 2009 Notification of Acceptance
-September 10, 2009 Camera-Ready Submission and Fee-Payment
-November 4, 2009 Conference Opening
-November 6, 2009 Conference Closing


COMMITTEES

Conference Chairpersons
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Programme Committee Chairs
Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France

International Co-Chairs
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Aegean, Greece
Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia

Organizing Chair
Antoni Ponce, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Industrial & Exhibitions Track Chairs
Josep Pique, 22@ Barcelona, The Innovation District, Spain
Anna Majo, 22@ Barcelona, The Innovation District, Spain
Ricard Jimenez, RD&I, ICTs, ASCAMM, Spain

Publicity Chair
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain


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