News: [Artificial Intelligence Group] IAR 2012: submissions until 23 January 2012

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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 23 January 2012 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERNET APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH 2012
Lisbon, Portugal, 17- 19 July 2012
(http://www.iar-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2012)
Lisbon, Portugal 17 – 23 July 2012
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Internet Applications and Research 2012 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within Internet and WWW.
Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don't fit into these areas will also be considered
since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (accessible on-line).
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.

* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International
Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Types of submissions
Full papers, Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are
subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to Internet and WWW applications and research are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

- Accessibility
- Adaptive Web Systems
- Collaboration
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Data Mining
- Database Planning and Development
- Digital Economy
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- E-Business and E-Commerce Technologies
- E-Government Technologies
- e-Health Technologies
- E-Learning Technologies
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment
- Extensible Languages
- Game Technologies
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet
- Groupware
- Human Computer Interaction & Usability
- Hypermedia
- Information Architectures
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Agents
- Interfaces
- Internet & Customer Relationship Management
- Internet Payment Systems
- Internet Services
- Languages
- Metadata
- Mobile Web
- Multimedia
- Performance Issues
- Personalized Web Sites and Services
- Portal strategies
- Protocols and Standards
- Searching and Browsing
- Security Issues
- Semantic Web
- Social & Legal Issues
- Storage Issues
- System Integration
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness
- Technology Management
- Technology Strategies
- Tele-Work
- Web 2.0 Technologies & Applications
- Web 3.0 Technologies & Applications
- WWW/Internet Applications
- WWW/Internet Case studies
- WWW/Internet Impacts
- Web Engineering
- Web Personalization
- Web Software
- Wireless Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability
- User Modelling
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Reality
- XML

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 23 January 2012
- Notification to Authors: 24 February 2012
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 26 March 2012
- Late Registration: After 26 March 2012
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 17 - 19 July 2012

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERNET APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH 2012
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@iar-conf.org
Web site: http://www.iar-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Internet Applications and Research 2012 Conference Program Chair:
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

MCCSIS 2012 General Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.iar-conf.org/committees.asp

* Registered participants in the Internet Applications and Research 2012 Conference may attend the other conferences part
of MCCSIS 2012 free of charge.