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DART 2009
3rd International Workshop on Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools
(http://www.dart-project.org/dart2009)

15 September 2009
held in conjunction with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI 2009) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009)
(http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/)
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The Web is changing into a vehicle of structured and heterogeneous contents.
In our vision, the goal of next generation information retrieval tools 
will be
to support semantics, personalization, context awareness and seamless 
access to
highly variable data and messages coming both from document repositories and
ubiquitous sensors and devices. DART'09 is aimed at putting together 
practitioners
and researchers working on pervasive and intelligent access to web 
services and
distributed information.

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Important Dates
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30 April 2009 - Paper submissions
08 June 2009 - Notification to authors
10 June 2009 - Final acceptance
30 June 2009 - Camera ready
15 September 2009 - DART'09

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Submission guidelines
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Submissions must be original contributions that neither have been 
published nor have
been under review for publication elsewhere.

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 4 pages in the IEEE 
2-column format,
and will have a peer review by the Program Committee on the basis of 
technical quality,
relevance to the workshop topics, originality, significance, and clarity.
To submit a paper please visit:
http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat09/scripts/ws_submit.php 
(workshop #17).

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the 
IEEE Computer
Society Press. The corresponding-authors will be notified at all time, 
for the submission,
notification, and confirmation on the attendance.

Submitting a paper to the workshop means that, if the paper is accepted, 
at least one
author should attend the conference to present the paper and should then 
register to the
conference with a regular fee.

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Special Issue
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version 
of their work for
inclusion in the book: Information Retrieval and Mining in Distributed 
Environments
(Alessandro Soro, Eloisa Vargiu, Giuliano Armano and Gavino Paddeu, 
eds.) to be published
by Springer Verlag within the series Studies for Computational 
Intelligence (Series Ed.:
Kacprzyk, Janusz, ISSN: 1860-949X).

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Style file for submission
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IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (8.5? 
x 11?):
DOC: 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.doc
PDF: 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf

LaTex Formatting Macros:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip 


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Topics of interest
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- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Services and Applications
- Intelligent Web Interaction
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Web Personalization and Recommendation
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Sensor and Multimedia Mining

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Workshop Organizers
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Alessandro Soro
CRS4, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia.
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Eloisa Vargiu
DIEE, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering -- Univ. of Cagliari
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Program Committee
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- Andrea Addis, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Giuliano Armano, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
- Federico Bergenti, University of Parma, Italy
- Salvatore M. Carta, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy
- José Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Arisitides Gionis, Yahoo! Research, Spain
- Sylvain Giroux, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
- Jose Antonio Iglesias, Universitad de Madrid Carlos III, Spain
- Claude Moulin, University of Technology of Compiègne, France
- Vincenzo Pallotta, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
- Francesco Ricci, Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Sebastian Rodriguez, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
- Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
- Rainer Unland, University Duisburg/ Essen, Germany
- Piek Vossen, Global WordNet Association, the Neterlands
- Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy