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First Call for Submissions

We inaugurate a series of co-located events that covers complementary aspects related to designing and deploying of applications based on "IP&Web techniques and mechanisms". The umbrella conference (ICIW 2005, International Conference on IP&Web) consists of serval mini conferences 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 mini conferences under this event are:

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

Proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Industry is also welcome with special contributions (see the web site mentioned below.)

The conference will take place in Guadeloupe, French Caribbean.

The submissions deadlines are:

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

The Call for Submissions for ONLINE 2006 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas.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.

Topis that are expected to be covered, but not limited to are:

ONLINE 2006: Online Communications, 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 ICIW 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

ICIW ADVISORY COMMITTEE Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada-Reno, USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Karim El Guemhioui, Université du Québec en Outaouais , Canada Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Mário Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France Varol Yaakov, University of Nevada – Reno, USA

Looking forward for your contributions,

ONLINE 2006 Chair Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France, mellouk@ieee.org ICIW 2006 Chair, Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA, pdini@cisco.com

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