[ieeetcsc-discuss] [INFO-CFP] Preliminary CfP: IDC'2008

[Marcin Paprzycki]

***************** IDC'2008 - preliminary call for papers **************

2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC'2008
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                     September 18-20, 2008, Catania, Italy

                         http://idc08.diit.unict.it
       Contact: gmangioni at diit.unict.it, badica_costin at software.ucv.ro



Organized by
   Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni,
Universita di Catania, Italia
   Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Romania


Call for Papers
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Intelligent computing is a quite mature field of information and
communication technology covering a hybrid palette of methods and
techniques derived from classical artificial intelligence,
computational intelligence, multi-agent systems a.o. Intelligent
computing is generally known to be computationally intensive from
the point of view of resources required: time, memory, bandwidth. As
this is usually thought to be a drawback, distributed computing is
expected to give an impetus to its practical applications. Moreover,
intelligent techniques have also proved their usefulness to core
distributed computing technologies like: planning & scheduling, load
balancing, replication, resource allocation and management, etc.
Therefore, the emergent field of intelligent and distributed
computing is expected to pose new challenges of adaptation and
fruitful combination of both areas. The aim of this symposium is to
bring together researchers involved in intelligent and distributed
computing to allow cross-fertilization and synergy of ideas and to
enable advancement of researches in the field.

The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all
aspects of intelligent and distributed computing ranging from
concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and
innovative applications. Papers acceptance and publication will be
judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of
presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed
solutions. Topics include, but are not limited to, broadly
understood:
- Intelligent service composition and orchestration
- E-service and Web intelligence
- Multi-agent systems
- Information extraction and retrieval in distributed environments
- Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed environments
- Semantic and knowledge grids
- Intelligent integration of data and processes
- Distributed problem solving
- Ontologies and meta-data for describing heterogeneous resources and
services
- Autonomic and adaptive distributed computing
- Intelligence in mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Intelligence in cooperative information systems, groupware and
   workflows, virtual enterprises, social networks
- Intelligent applications in e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health,
   e-science, e-government
- Self-organising and adaptive distributed systems
- Intelligence in Peer-to-Peer systems
- Emerging behaviours in complex distributed systems
- Modelling and simulation of intelligent distributed systems



Paper Submission and Publication
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All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which
will be published by Springer as part of their series Studies in
Computational Intelligence. Papers should have at most 10 pages length and
must be formatted according to Springer format.

Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by a system provided by
the organizers.

Extended versions of the best papers accepted and presented at this
symposium may be considered for publication in a Special Issue of an
internationally recognized journal.


Important dates
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Full paper submission: March 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2008
Final (camera ready) paper due: June 15, 2008
Symposium: September 18-20, 2008


Steering Committee
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Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Michele Malgeri, Universita di Catania, Italy
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland


Organizing Committee
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Vincenza Carchiolo, Universita di Catania, Italia
Michele Malgeri, Universita di Catania, Italia
Giuseppe Mangioni, Universita di Catania, Italia
Alessandro Longheu, Universita di Catania, Italia
Vincenzo Nicosia, Universita di Catania, Italia
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Mihai Mocanu, University of Craiova, Romania


Program Committee Chairs
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Giuseppe Mangioni, Universita di Catania, Italia
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Advertising and Publicity Chairs
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Vincenza Carchiolo, Universita di Catania, Italia
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania


Program Committee
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Razvan Andonie, Central Washigton University, USA
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Giacomo Cabri, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
David Camacho, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Gabriel Ciobanu, "A.I.Cuza" University of Iasi, Romanian Academy, Romania
Valentin Cristea, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Vadim A. Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Adina Magda Florea, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
Chris Fox University of Essex, UK
Maria Ganzha, Elblag University of Humanities and Economics, Poland
Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
De-Shuang Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Ioan Alfred Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Alessandro Longheu, Universita di Catania, Italy
Heitor Silverio Lopes, Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Mihai Mocanu, University of Craiova, Romania
Alexandros Nanopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Peter Noerr, MuseGlobal, Inc., USA
Viorel Negru, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Western University of
Timisoara, Romania
Vincenzo Nicosia, Universita di Catania, Italy
Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Dana Petcu, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Western University of
Timisoara, Romania
Shahram Rahimi, Southern Illinois University, USA
Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Laurentiu Vasiliu, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Lucian Vintan, Academy of Technical Sciences, Romania
Nikos Vlassis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, USA