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>Call for papers
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>THAI-ETIS
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>European Symposium on Telematics, Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence
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>in education and training for the new professions in the Information
>Society
>
>Varese, Italy, June 21-22 1999
>
>This two-day Symposium is organised jointly by the Universita' degli
>Studi dell'Insubria at Varese and the European Consortium of the
>THAIland project (Telematics, Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence).
>Members of the Consortium are the Universities appearing as affiliations
>of the program committee members listed below. The THAIland project is
>concerned with preparing a Master-level curriculum that focuses on the
>artist-engineer of the future, from either a technical/information
>systems or media background, developing specialists who will make a
>valid contribution to the growing telematics "content" sector.
>
>OBJECTIVES
>
>The aim of the Symposium is to bring together experts from different
>areas of computer science, artificial intelligence and other
>disciplines, both from the academic environment and from public/private
>enterprise, who have a common interest in exploring the new employment
>opportunities that arise from the recent trends in ICT: the
>interdisciplinary professions combining creative and technological
>capabilities in producing content material for the Information Society
>and the type of education and training needed to qualify for these
>innovative positions.
>
>CONTRIBUTIONS REQUIRED
>
>The contributions requested describe proposals, projects and experience
>underway, within educational institutions and research centres as well
>as in public and private enterprise, in defining, implementing and
>experimenting content and education for the new multimedial professions
>of the Information Society.
>
>Contributions are expected that emphasise one or more of the following
>aspects:
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>- the innovative aspects of the pedagogical, methodological and content
>provision approach;
>- the interdisciplinary character of the combination of technological
>and creative aspects;
>- the technological aspects that support the educational proposal;
>- the context (regional, national or transnational) of the educational
>proposal;
>- the relationship between the educational institution and the
>productive environment;
>- the advantages and the business opportunities provided to enterprises
>by the new professional profiles;
>- the relationship between residential education and open and distance
>learning;
>- the use by enterprises of the new educational means in the process of
>continuously updating their employees' professional capacities;
>- the contributions made by these innovative educational means to
>keeping the individual citizens in pace with the evolution of society
>through a lifelong learning process.
>
>The requested contributions concern the opportunities for cultural,
>professional and occupational development, and the competitive
>advantage, offered by information and communication technologies, with
>respect to the preparation of content. A non-exhaustive and open list of
>main sectors of activity follows.
>
>MAIN SECTORS
>
>- creation and diffusion of electronic publishing (multimedia CD's,
>on-line newspapers and magazines, ...), digital and virtual libraries;
>- development of Internet information services (municipal networks,
>telematic squares, virtual cities, value added services like brokering
>and information collection/interpretation through intelligent agents,
>multimedia  information  retrieval, electronic commerce, …);
>- virtual education (no longer distance learning but learning "without
>distances"!); virtual classrooms and virtual campuses;
>- arts and entertainment (design and maintenance of virtual worlds,
>electronic art, virtual performances, …).
>
>PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
>
>Chris Hutchison, Kingston University (U.K.) (Co-Chairman)
>Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone, University of Insubria at Varese (Italy)
>(Co-Chairman)
>
>Phillip Burrel, Southbank University (U.K.)
>Ulises Cortes, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)
>Matti Hamalainen, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland)
>Daniele Herin, University of Montpellier II (France)
>Veli-Pekka Liflander, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland)
>Daniele Marini, University of Milan (Italy)
>Wolf Paprotte', Munster University (Germany)
>Ramon Sanguesa, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)
>Christian Wolf, University of Leipzig (Germany)
>
>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
>
>Send either a full paper (of max. 16 double spaced pages) or a short
>paper  (of max. 8 double spaced pages) to one of the Program Committee
>co-chairs. Electronic mail submission in self contained Postscript
>format is encouraged. Alternatively one hard copy may be submitted by
>post (contact one co-chair first). The paper must be must be written in
>English, must be original and not submitted or accepted by any
>conference or journal.. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at
>least two members of the program committee. The acceptance will be based
>on originality of work, on the relevance of the topic for the Symposium
>and on the overall quality.
>
>DEADLINES
>
>- by 20 February: submit the paper;
>- by 20 March: acceptance response;
>- by 20 April: send the final camera-ready paper.
>
>PROCEEDINGS
>
>The accepted (both full and short) papers will be included in the
>pre-prints, distributed at the Symposium. The papers actually presented
>at the Symposium will be published, possibly in a version revised after
>the Symposium, in a collective book by an international publisher.
>
>SYMPOSIUM VENUE
>
>The Symposium will be held in the city of Varese in northern Italy,
>which can be reached in 30 minutes from the new Milan airport, Malpensa
>2000. A historic city founded by the Gauls, Varese is known as the
>"Garden City" because of the many villas and parks distributed
>throughout its territory, spread out along the foothills of the Alps and
>in the midst of many lakes. Important also from the artistic-cultural
>point of view, the area offers the typical Lombard architecture, castles
>with frescoes, Renaissance villas and many 18th century palaces with
>splendid gardens in the Italian style of the period. Consult the
>Internet for the site of the Varese province to navigate in four
>languages through this interesting area: http://www.provincia.va.it even
>before coming to the Symposium.
>
>Related events and preliminary arrangements
>
>During the two days of the symposium, time will be allocated for
>discussion. Two invited speakers are planned. A related exhibition will
>take place in the same site on projects, products and demonstrations on
>all the topics covered by the symposium. Authors wishing to show a
>demonstration are requested to submit (in the same way as for the paper)
>a 200 word abstract describing the application.
>
>Contact addresses:
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>Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone:
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>Chris Hutchison:
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