********************************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS (INCoS 2009). November 4-6, 2009 Open University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/incos2009 Submission Deadline: **June 25, 2009** ---EXTENDED July 25**** PUBLICATIONS Proceedings of the INCoS 2009 conference will be published by Conference Publishing Services. Selected papers of the conference will be published in the following journals and books. Special issues of journals to be announced: <--ELSEVIER International Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory (indexed by ISI JCR) <--INDERSCIENCE International Journal of Social Network Mining (IJSNM) <--INDERSCIENCE International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC) <--INDERSCIENCE International Journal of Autonomic computing (IJAC) <--International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM) <--Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) <--SPRINGER Book Series Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) (indexed by DBLP). Volume "Intelligent Networking, Collaborative Systems and Applications" <--SPRINGER Book Series Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) (indexed by DBLP). Volume "Technology-Enhanced Systems and Tools for Collaborative Learning Scaffolding" KEYNOTE SPEAKERS <--Prof. PANOS PARDALOS, University of Florida, USA <--Prof. JANUSZ KACPRZYK, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, POLAND <--Prof. HELEN KARATZA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE CONFERENCE SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES With the fast development of the Internet, we are experiencing a shift from the traditional sharing of information and applications as the main purpose of the Web to an emergent paradigm, which locates people at the very center of networks and exploits the value of people's connections and relations. Web 2.0 has come to play a major role in this context by enabling a new generation of social networks and web-based communities and dramatically changing the way we use and interact with the Web. Social network analysis is also a rapidly growing field to investigate the dynamics and structure of intelligent Web-based networking and collaborative systems. Virtual campuses and organizations strongly leverage intelligent networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of formal and informal electronic relations, such as business-to-business, peer-to-peer and many types of online collaborative learning interactions. This has resulted in entangled systems that need to be managed efficiently and in an autonomous way. In addition, latest and powerful technologies based on Grid and Wireless infrastructure as well as Cloud computing are currently enhancing collaborative and networking applications a great deal but also facing new issues and challenges. Well-known social networks lack of knowledge management and adaptive solutions and the information shared among peers is rather static. Virtual communities of practice also provide poorly interactive solutions and lack of full support for organization, management, mobility and security. This conference covers the latest advances in intelligence social networks and collaborative systems that lead to gain competitive advantages in business and academia scenarios. The ultimate aim is to stimulate research that will lead to the creation of responsive environments for networking and, at longer-term, the development of adaptive, secure, mobile, and intuitive intelligent systems for collaborative work and learning. Industry and academic researchers, professionals and practitioners are invited to exchange their experiences and present their ideas in this field. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission system is located at: http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/incos2009/submission.html Submitted papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical, experimental or application nature, or be unique experience reports. Papers must be submitted no later than June 25th, 2009 and electronic submission in PDF is required. The page limit for a Track paper is 8 pages. Workshop and Special Session papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are limited to 6 pages. The PhD Forum is an opportunity for PhD students to present their ongoing dissertation and to discuss their research with experts in academia and industry. The page limit for PhD Forum papers is 4 pages. Finally, Poster sessions provide an excellent possibility for authors to present in an informal and interactive way their original and unpublished work that demonstrates current research about the conference topics. The page limit for Poster papers is 2 pages. All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. It is assumed that all accepted manuscripts would be presented at the conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration to appear in the proceedings. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the conference web site. MAIN TRACKS The main tracks and topics of INCoS 2009 are (but not limited to) the following: <--Intelligent networking for virtual organizations and campuses <--Intelligent networking for social networks <--Intelligent collaborative systems for work and learning <--Security, organization, management and autonomic computing for intelligent networking and collaborative systems <--Grid and P2P distributed infrastructure for intelligent networking and collaborative systems <--Wireless and sensor systems for intelligent networking and collaborative systems <--Data mining and knowledge management for intelligent networking and collaborative systems WORKSHOPS List of workshops: <--International Workshop on Intelligent e-Learning Systems (IWILS 2009) <--International Workshop on Adaptive Systems for Collaborative Learning (IWASCL 2009) <--International Workshop on Machine Intelligence for Geographic Information Systems (MIGIS 2009) <--International Workshop on Information Network Design (WIND 2009) IMPORTANT DATES <--June 25, 2009 ---extended July, 25 ***(8 pages IEEE format for tracks/ 6 pages IEEE format for workshops/ 2 pages IEEE format for posters) <--July 5, 2009 PhD Forum (4 pages in IEEE format) <--July 25, 2009 ---extended August, 20 ***Notification of Acceptance <--September 10, 2009 Camera-Ready Submission and Fee-Payment <--November 4, 2009 Conference Opening <--November 6, 2009 Conference Closing COMMITTEES Conference Chairpersons Begoña Gros, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Programme Committee Chairs Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France International Co-Chairs Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, United Kingdom Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Aegean, Greece Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia Workshop Chair Julià Minguillón, Open University of Catalonia, Spain PhD Forum Chair David Megías, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Organizing Chair Antoni Ponce, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Web Administrator Chair Carlos Lavatelli, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Industrial & Exhibitions Track Chairs Josep Pique, 22@ Barcelona, The Innovation District, Spain Anna Majo, 22@ Barcelona, The Innovation District, Spain Ricard Jimenez, RD&I, ICTs, ASCAMM, Spain Publicity Chair Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain PAST EVENTS CelGrid 2008, Ostrava, Czech Republic. Web site: http://arg.vsb.cz/cisim/workshop.aspx CONTACT Prof. Santi Caballé Open University of Catalonia Rambla Poblenou, 156 08018 Barcelona SPAIN Tel: +34 93 3263439 Fax: +34 93 3568822 Email: scaballe@uoc.edu