[ecrea] The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems - (MEDES 2011)

The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

(MEDES 2011)

In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6

http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/11/

November 21-24, 2011

San Francisco, California

Description and Objectives

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In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of

digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely

digital ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as

individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one

or several missions and focusing on the interactions and interrelationships

among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing

environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital

components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly

conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend

data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and 
selforganizing

platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital

ecosystems and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and

design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing

resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and 
valuecreating.

The application of Information Technologies has the potential to

enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately

interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices

and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques,

models and methodologies for fields such as data management, web

technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial

intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the

establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources.

The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital

EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community

from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring

the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of

Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be

evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original

research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations.

Topics

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In this call, we solicit original research and technical papers not

published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and

application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):

- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure

- Web Technologies

- Service systems and Engineering

- Emergent Intelligence

- Data & Knowledge Management Systems

- Multimedia Information Retrieval

- Ontology Management

- Social Networks

- Game Theory

- Networks and Protocols

- Green computing

- Security & Privacy

- Standardization and Extensible Languages

- Human-Computer Interaction

- Business Intelligence

- E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government

- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement

- Digital Library

- Open Source

Paper Submission

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Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be

uploaded using the conference website.

The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages.

Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions

will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary

notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer

inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers

notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include:

relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and

quality of presentation.

Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging

positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At

least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM

Digital Library and DBLP.

Important Dates

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- Submission Date: June 20th, 2011

- Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September, 5th 2011

- Rebuttal Date: September 15th, 2011

- Final Notification of Acceptance: September, 20th 2011

- Camera Ready: September 30th, 2011

- Conference Dates: November 21-24, 2011

Special issues and Journal Publication

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Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the

following reviewed journals.

-International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC)

-International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)

-International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM)

General Chair

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William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA

Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA

Program Chair

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Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France

International Advisory Board Members

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Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Philippe De Wilde, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Yasuo Matsuyama, Waseda University, Japan

Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Steering Committee Members

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Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy

Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France

Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan

Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand

Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK

Keynote Speakers

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Paul Hofmann, VP Office of the Chief Scientist at SAP Labs

Ruoyi Zhou, Senior Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center

Publicity Chair

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Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK

Publication Chair

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Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France

International Program Committee:

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(Please check the web site for the full list)