International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2010)

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The 12th @WAS International Conference on Information Integration and
Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2010)

         8-10 November, 2010
           Paris, France

http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2010/
     email: iiwas2010@iiwas.org



*** IMPORTANT DATES ****

June 21, 2010 (EXTENDED)      : Full papers submission
August 30, 2010               : Acceptance Notification
September 15, 2010            : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration
November 8-10, 2010           : Conference


Barely more than ten years after the birth of the World Wide Web, the Global Information Infrastructure is daily reality. In spite of the many applications in all domains of our societies: e-business, e-commerce, e-learning, e-science, and e-government, for instance, and in spite of the tremendous advances by engineers and scientists, the seamless integration of information and services remains a major challenge. The current shared vision for the future is one of semantically rich information and service oriented architecture for global information systems. This vision is at the convergence of progress in technologies such as XML, Web services, RDF, OWL, of multimedia, multimodal, and multilingual information retrieval, and of distributed, mobile and ubiquitous computing.
The goal of iiWAS2010 is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in information and service integration.

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics:

Web Engineering and Web Services Track:
- Web Data Integration, Monitoring and Management
- Web Data Models, Metrics, Tools, Languages and Performance
- Web Agents, Intelligence and Mining
- Web Security and Trust Management
- Web Visualization, Rich Web UI and Deep/Hidden Web
- Web-based Enterprise Systems and Business Processes
- Web-based Auction and Negotiation
- Federated and cross-organizational Web engineering
- Web Services Architectural styles
- Web Services performance
- Dependability, security and privacy of web services (blogs, RSS, wikis, etc.)
- Orchestration, choreography and composition of web services
- Tools and technologies for Web Services development, deployment and management
- The impact of Web Services on enterprise systems
- Impact of formal methods on Web Services

E-applications Track (e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Payment, e-Government, e-Learning, e-science, e-communities):
- E-application design models and methods
- E-application development processes, standards and methodologies
- E-application usability, accessibility, reuse and integration
- E-application localization and internalization
- E-applications case studies and best practices
- E-applications social and legal issues
- E-applications service architectures
- E-applications competition and collaborations
- E-applications data analytics and visualization
- Digital libraries
- Innovative E-Frameworks & E-Applications
- Innovative E-applications in Web 2.0, AJAX, E4X and other new developments
- Model-driven E-application development
- Workflow and E-services

Web Data and Semantic Web Track:
- XML data and schema integration
- XML data models, query processing and data management
- XML data privacy and security
- Web databases and warehousing
- Web data mining, exploration, and visualization
- Document Engineering and Integration
- Web Data Markup Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
- Web Semantics content creation, annotation, and extraction
- Web Semantics brokering, integration and interoperability
- Web Semantics search, query, and visualization
- Web Semantics middleware and services
- Web Semantics provenance, trust & security
- Ontology creation, searching, extraction, and evolution
- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment

Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Track:
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Information and Service Integration
- Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Systems
- Grid and P2P architectures for service and information integration
- Agent-based ubiquitous applications
- Location and context-aware applications and services
- Infrastructure support for mobility and pervasive Web
- Web proxies and content adaptation
- Service creation and management environments for pervasive web
- Low-cost web access devices and networking for emerging regions
- Privacy-enhancing technologies in pervasive web
- Social search and the use of "human computing" in web search
- Experience report on ubiquitous computing implementation
- Visionary scenario on ubiquitous computing

*** PUBLICATION ***
iiWAS2010 Proceedings will be published by ACM in cooperation with the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and will be indexed and included in ACM Digital Library.

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of :

[1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS)
[2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS)
[3] International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (IJBDCN)
[4] Information Systems Frontiers (ISF)
[5] International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS)
[6] International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)
[7] … more to come

*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***
Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at ((http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2010/)
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM (pending approval) and the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages and must follow the ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).


*** COMMITTEES ***
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2010/committee.html

*** ORGANIZATION ***
The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS) in cooperation with ACM SIGWEB (approval pending), hosted and organized by University Paris 8, France and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the 8th international conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010 (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/).

*** CONTACT ***
David Taniar
@WAS Scientific Committee Chair
Clayton School of Information Technology
Monash University
Australia
Email: david@iiwas.org

Special Issue on Agent Communication

Call for Papers
Special Issue on Agent Communication
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Agent communication research seeks to address challenges in the
development of applications involving multiple autonomous and
heterogeneous agents. Agent communication differs from communication
as studied in traditional distributed systems in its emphasis of
high-level abstractions that enable flexible interaction yet support
verifying compliance. Broad applications include business
interactions, contracts and compliance, virtual enterprises,
negotiation, argumentation and decision support, and so on.

We invite quality submissions that develop new insights, high-level
abstractions, patterns, languages, formal theories, reasoning, and
methodologies for communication in multiagent systems.

Broad topics include

Protocols
Dialogs and argumentation
Virtual organizations, institutions
Commitments, norms, and other social concepts
Trust and deception
Correctness properties and their verification
Tying communication with agent design and execution strategies
Architecture, middleware, patterns, and programming language support
Standardization of communication primitives
Application-specific modeling and insights

Key Dates
*July 25, 2010 - Submissions*
October 15, 2010 - Decisions
December 15, 2010 - Final versions
Publication - Early 2011

Submission
On-Line Submission (will be available before July 25, 2010):
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select Special Issue:
Agent Communication as the manuscript type).

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers.
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on at
http://tist.acm.org/

Guest Editors

Amit K. Chopra (also Contact editor)
University of Trento, Italy
chopra@disi.unitn.it

Alexander Artikis
National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece
a.artikis@iit.demokritos.gr

Jamal Bentahar
Concordia University, Canada
bentahar@ciise.concordia.ca

Frank Dignum
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
dignum@cs.uu.nl 

International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010)

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The 8th @WAS International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010)

   8-10 November, 2010
      Paris, France

Conference Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/
   email: momm2010@iiwas.org



*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
June 21, 2010 (EXTENDED)   : Full papers submission
August 30, 2010            : Acceptance Notification
September 15, 2010         : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration
November 08-10, 2010       : Conference


The speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio has brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers. Due to constant changing environments, limited battery life and diverse data types, Mobile Multimedia implies considerable challenges to operators, infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast, reliable services and accommodating the quick growing global customer needs.
MoMM2010 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in mobile computing and multimedia.


*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***
Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics:

Mobile Computing Track

- Mobile Applications & Services
- Mobile Computing Software Architectures
- Mobile Network Traffic Engineering, Performance & Optimization
- Wireless & Mobile Network Management and Service Infrastructure
- Database and Data Management Mobile Computing
- Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Computing
- Mobile Computing Markets & Business Models
- Provisioning of Mobile Services
- Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Computing
- Mobility and Location Management
- Transaction Processing in Mobile Environments
- Integration and Interworking of Wired and Wireless Networks 
- Distributed Systems Aspects of Mobile Computing 
- Operating System and Middleware Support for Mobile Computing 
- Security and Privacy of Mobile/Wireless Systems 

Multimedia Track

- Multimedia Databases
- Multimedia streaming and services
- Multimedia Coding and Encryption
- Multimedia for Learning
- Multimedia Description Language and Standard
- Image Clustering
- Content-Based Image Retrieval
- Interfaces for Multimedia Creation
- Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation
- Audio Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
- Video Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
- Video Mining and MPEG
- Image Modeling and Editing
- AI and Image Recognition
- Distributed Multimedia System

Mobile Multimedia Track

- Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services
- Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures
- Wireless & Mobile Multimedia Network Management
- Mobile Multimedia Network Traffic Engineering & Optimization
- Enabling Infrastructures for Mobile Multimedia
- Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia Markets & Business Models
- Provisioning of Mobile Multimedia Services
- Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Multimedia

*** PUBLICATION ***
MoMM2010 Proceedings will be published by ACM (pending approval) in cooperation with the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and will be indexed and included in ACM Digital Library. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of :
[1] Journal of Mobile Multimedia 
[2] International Journal of Mobile Information Systems
[3] International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communication
[4] Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)
[5] Springer Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MSJ)
[6] International Journal of Wavelets, Multi-resolution and Information Processing (IJWMIP)
[7] … more to come


*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***
Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/)
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM (pending approval) and the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages and must follow the ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

*** COMMITTES ***
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/committee.html

*** ORGANIZATION ***
The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS) in cooperation with ACM SIGWEB (approval pending), hosted and organized by the University of Paris 8, France and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the 12th international conference on Information Integration and Web-based applications & Services (iiWAS2010 - http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2010/).

*** CONTACT ***
David Taniar
@WAS Scientific Committee Chair
Clayton School of Information Technology
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800
Australia
Email: david@iiwas.org

International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011)

ICAART 2011 (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - http://www.icaart.org) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is set for next July 08. The conference will be held in Rome, Italy next year, on January 28-30, 2011 and we hope you can participate in this prestigious conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research.

The conference is sponsored by INSTICC and held in cooperation with the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). INSTICC is member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Object Management Group (OMG). 

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand. HTCO

The conference program features a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers, including those listed below.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers, including INSPEC, DBLP and we are awaiting the confirmation of indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index and EI.
Additionally, a short list of the best presented papers of the conference will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
Best paper awards will be given during the conference closing session.
All published papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital Library.

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please contact the secretariat.


Kind regards,
Patricia Alves
ICAART Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8556
Email: icaart.secretariat@insticc.org



ICAART website: http://www.icaart.org/

IMPORTANT DATES:
  Regular Paper Submission: July 08, 2010
  Authors Notification: October 06, 2010
  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 26, 2010


In cooperation with: APPIA, AEPIA and AAAI 
Sponsored by: INSTICC
INSTICC is Member of: WfMC, FIPA and OMG

Proceedings indexed by INSPEC and DBLP
Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index and EI (awaiting the confirmation of indexation)
  
Best papers published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series Book
 


TOPIC AREAS:

 AREA 1: Artificial Intelligence 
  - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Ontologies
  - Model-Based Reasoning
  - Uncertainty in AI
  - Ambient Intelligence
  - Reactive AI
  - Hybrid Intelligent Systems
  - Planning and Scheduling
  - Case-Based Reasoning
  - Machine Learning
  - Pattern Recognition
  - Vision and Perception
  - AI and Creativity
  - Logic Programming
  - Expert Systems
  - Soft Computing
  - Fuzzy Systems
  - Neural Networks
  - Evolutionary Computing
  - Intelligent User Interfaces
  - Natural Language Processing
  - Cognitive Systems
  - State Space Search
  - Constraint Satisfaction
  - Data Mining
  - Industrial applications of AI

 AREA 2: Agents
  - Distributed Problem Solving
  - Agent Communication Languages
  - Agent Models and Architectures
  - Multi-Agent Systems
  - Brokering and Matchmaking
  - Cooperation and Coordination
  - Conversational Agents
  - Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
  - Programming Environments and Languages
  - Task Planning and Execution
  - Autonomous Systems
  - Cognitive Robotics
  - Group Decision Making
  - Web Intelligence
  - Web Mining
  - Semantic Web
  - Grid Computing
  - Agent Platforms and Interoperability
  - SOA and Software Agents
  - Simulation
  - Economic Agent Models
  - Social Intelligence
  - Security and Reputation
  - Mobile Agents
  - Pervasive Computing
  - Privacy, Safety and Security


KEYNOTES SPEAKERS:
- Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Italy
- Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Didier Dubois, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), France
(list not yet complete)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Please check the program committee members at http://www.icaart.org/program_committee.asp


SPECIAL SESSION:
Regular paper submission deadline: September 09, 2010
- Workflow and Event Analysis for Industrial Environments Manipulation through Multi-Agent Systems (WeAIMtMAS)
 http://www.icaart.org/special_sessions.asp

International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010)

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The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) 
  
                                               8-10 November, 2010
                                                  Paris, France

                       Conference Website:  http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/ant2010    
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IMPORTANT DATES
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• Full Paper Submission:      June 21, 2010    (Extended)
• Acceptance Notification:    August 30, 2010     
• Camera-Ready Submission:    September 15, 2010         

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding to be published by ACM in-cooperation with ACM SIGART and the Austrian Computer Society in book series. All accepted papers will be included and indexed in ACM digital library and selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of:

(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652 
(2) Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications
http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761 
(3) Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems
http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15741702 
(4) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779 


Conference Tracks:
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- Ambient-oriented Autonomic Networks and Communications
- Ambient Systems Software Engineering
- Ambient Systems Security and Privacy
- Distributed Ambient Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging Ambient Networking, Tracking & Sensing Technologies
- Multimodal Interfaces for Ambient Systems
- Service Oriented Computing for Ambient Systems
- Smart Environments and Applications in Ambient Systems
- Social Networking in Ambient Environments


ANT2010 Organizing Committee
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Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK