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Call for Papers
ONLINE 2006, Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks

February 23-25, 2006
Guadeloupe, French Caribbean

This conference is under the umbrella of the International Conference on Internet & Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2006. 

Location:               Guadeloupe, French Caribbean
Submission deadline:  September 30, 2005
Notification:                   October 28, 2005
Camera ready:           November 15, 2005
Conference:             February 23-25, 2006

The ICIW 2006 will have the following conferences:

See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICIW06.html

ICIWA 2006              Internet and Web-based Applications and Services
ENSYS 2006              Entertainment Systems
P2PSA 2006              P2P Systems and Applications
WEBSA 2006              Web Services-based Systems and Applications
ONLINE 2006             Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks

We would like to cordially invite you to contribute to the ONLINE conference with some of the following:

- Distribute the Call for Papers and solicit contributions
- Submit papers
- Organize a special session
- Propose a panel or tutorial
- Review paper submissions

Submit: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html

GENERAL INFORMATION

The ICIW 2006 (International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services) inaugurates a series of co-located events that covers the complementary aspects related to designing and deploying of applications based on IP&Web techniques and mechanisms. The main conference focuses on several tracks concerning Web technologies, design and development of Web-based applications, and interactions of these applications with other types of systems. Management aspects related to these applications and challenges on specialized domains are aided at too. Evaluation techniques and standard position on different aspects are part of the expected agenda.

The call for submissions covers both theoretical and experimental topics. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

ONLINE 2006 TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to):

ONLINE 2006: Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks

Theory, frameworks, mechanisms, and tools for online communication

Methodologies and languages for on-line communications

Web services and XML use for online communications

Tools for assessing online work, distributed workload

Shared business processes

Collaborative groups and systems

Theory and formalisms of group interactions

Group synergy in cooperative networks

Online gambling, gaming, children groups

Identity features, risks, jurisdiction for online communications

Specifics emergency and e-coaching on online communications

B2B and B2E cooperation

Privacy, identify, security on online communications

Individual anonymity, group trust, and confidentiality on online groups

Conflict, delegation, group selection

Community costs in collaborative groups

Building online social networks with popularity contexts, persuasion, etc.

Technology support for collaborative systems

Techniques, mechanisms, and platforms for remote cooperation

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The ONLINE 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Important dates:
Submission deadline: September 30, 2005
Notification: October 28, 2005
Camera ready: November 15, 2005

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.
The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.

Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org

Panel proposals:
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.
For more information, petre@iaria.org

Looking forward for your contributions,

ONLINE 2006 Chairs:
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France, mellouk@ieee.org
Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada, vladat@computer.org
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