News: [Artificial Intelligence Group] AC 2012 (Madrid, Spain): last call: until 31 August July 2012

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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 31 August 2012 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2012
October 19 - 21, 2012 – Madrid, Spain
(http://www.computing-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Prof. Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado, SISDIAL Research Group, Dept. of Languages and Computer Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Granada, Spain

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Applied Computing 2012 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the applied computing area and related fields. This conference covers essentially technical aspects. The applied computing field is divided into more detailed areas (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 invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book.
The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) (ISSN: 1941-6237).
Selected best papers will be invited to extend their papers into chapters for inclusion in the "Studies in Computational Intelligence" series from Springer. This series is indexed by DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: MetaPress and Springerlink. The best paper authors will also be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in specific journals, and in the IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems.
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.

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

* Topics related to Applied Computing are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Agent Systems and Applications
- Algorithms
- Applied Information Systems
- Bioinformatics
- Case Studies and Applications
- Communications
- Data Mining
- Database Systems
- E-Commerce Theory and Practice
- Embedded Systems
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Global Tendencies
- Grid Computing
- Information Retrieval
- Intelligent Systems
- Mobile Networks and Systems
- Multimedia
- Networking
- Object Orientation
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Payment Systems
- Programming Languages
- Protocols and Standards
- Security
- Semantic Web
- Software Engineering
- Storage Issues
- Technologies for E-Learning
- Wireless Applications
- WWW Applications
- WWW Technologies
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability Issues
- Virtual Reality
- Visualization
- XML and other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call): 31 August 2012
- Notification to Authors (last call): 24 September 2012
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 1 October 2012
- Late Registration (last call): After 1 October 2012
- Conference: Madrid, Spain, 19 to 21 October 2012

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Madrid, Spain.

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

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Hans Weghorn, BW Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany

Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Committee Members:
for the full Committee Members list please access http://www.computing-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events WWW/Internet 2012 (http://www.internet-conf.org/) - 18 - 21 October 2012 and CELDA 2012 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 19 - 21 October 2012.

* Registered participants in the Applied Computing conference may attend the WWW/Internet and CELDA conferences' sessions free of charge.