[ecrea] 6th International Conference on Digital Society, Valencia (Spain), January 30-February 4, 2012

Call for papers
*The Sixth International Conference on Digital Society
ICDS 2012*
January 30 - February 4, 2012 - Valencia, Spain


*Submission (full paper)  September 5, 2011 *
Notification October 23, 2011
Registration November 7, 2011
Camera ready  November 7, 2011

Call for Papers

Nowadays, most of the economic activities and business models are driven 
by the unprecedented evolution of theories and technologies. The 
impregnation of these achievements into our society is present 
everywhere, and it is only question of user education and business 
models optimization towards a digital society. Digital devices conquer 
from kitchen to space vessels most of the functionality commonly 
performed by human beings. Telecommunications, advanced computation, 
miniaturization, and high speed devices make telepresence-presence easy. 
Wireless and mobility allow ubiquitous systems to be developed. Progress 
in image processing and exchanging facilitate e-health and virtual 
doctor teams for patient surgeries. Naturally, issues on how to monitor, 
control and manage these systems become crucial to guarantee user 
privacy and safety. Not only devices, but also special software features 
must be enforced and guaranteed in a digital society.
The variety of the systems and applications and the heterogeneous nature 
of information and knowledge representation require special technologies 
to capture, manage, store, preserve, interpret and deliver the content 
and documents related to a particular target. In response to this 
challenge, Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems have now grown in 
prominence to such an extent that they are now considered a vital 
component for any enterprise organisation serious about network 
defence.  However the numerous recorded attacks against high profile 
organizations is continuing evidence that many of these controls are 
not, at present, a panacea for dealing with the threats.  Having 
themselves learnt the mechanisms employed by IPDS malicious parties are 
becoming particularly adept at evading them through inventive 
obfuscation techniques.  These challenges need to be addressed using 
increasingly more innovative, creative and measurable IPDS mechanisms 
and methods.
Progress in cognitive science, knowledge acquisition, representation, 
and processing helped to deal with imprecise, uncertain or incomplete 
information. Management of geographical and temporal information becomes 
a challenge, in terms of volume, speed, semantic, decision, and delivery.
Information technologies allow optimization in searching an interpreting 
data, yet special constraints imposed by the digital society require 
on-demand, ethics, and legal aspects, as well as user privacy and safety.
Nowadays, there is notable progress in designing and deploying 
information and organizational management systems, experts systems, 
tutoring systems, decision support systems, and in general, industrial 
systems.
The progress in difference domains, such as image processing, wireless 
communications, computer vision, cardiology, and information storage and 
management assure a virtual team to access online to the latest 
achievements. Processing medical data benefits now from advanced 
techniques for color imaging, visualization of multi-dimensional 
projections, Internet imaging localization archiving and as well as from 
high resolution of medical devices. Collecting, storing, and handling 
patient data requires robust processing systems, safe communications and 
storage, and easy and authenticated online access.
National and cross-national governments' decisions for using the digital 
advances require e-Government activities on developmental trends, 
adoption, architecture, transformation, barrier removals, and global 
success factors. There are challenges for government efficiency in using 
these technologies such as e-Voting, eHealth record cards, citizen 
identity digital cards, citizen-centric services, social e-financing 
projects, and so on.

The Sixth International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2012) 
continues a series of international events covering a large spectrum of 
topics related to advanced networking, applications, and systems 
technologies in a digital society.

ICDS 2012 comprises a series of independent tracks that complement 
various facets of digital society.

*Citizen-centric disruptive and enabling technologies*
*Internet and Web Services
eGovernment services in the context of digital society
eCommerce and eBusiness
Citizen-oriented digital evidence
Consumer-oriented devices and services
Intelligent computation
Networking and telecommunications
eDefense for security and protection
Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems
Enforced citizen-centric paradigms
Computational advertising
Management and control
Digital analysis and processing
Mobile devices and biotechnologies
Software and system robustness for digital society
Consumer-oriented digital design
Social networking
ICT support and applications for eCollaboration*

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We 
welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, 
position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such 
as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, 
survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the 
above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content 
constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long 
presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are 
encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of 
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, 
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. 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 to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

*Citizen-centric disruptive and enabling technologies*
Wireless and user mobility
Ubiquitous systems
On-line interactions
User-centric services, applications, eLearning
High speed electronics, storage, networking
eHealth and nano medicine
Biological informatics and computing
*
Internet and Web services*
IP-based networking and applications
Best effort and QoS/SLA
WWW, Web Services, Semantic Web
eLearning and mobile learning
Service-oriented platforms
Peer-to-Peer Systems and applications
Web-advertising and Web-publishing
Multimedia and Webcasting

*eGovernment services in the context of digital society*
e-Government strategies
Citizen-Government eModels
Special applications and services of eGovernment
ePayment, eTax administration
eVoting, eCitizen identity cards
Social e-financial projects
Educating eHealth
Homeland security and public records
eGarbage collection of private records
Metrics for eGovernment projects and services
Benefits of eGovernment
On-line social networking
Financing e-Government
e-Governance
From e-Government to m-Government (mobile-Governemet)
e-Environment
*
eCommerce and eBusiness*
On-line shopping frameworks
Trust, privacy, security
Internet macro and micro payment systems
On-line banking
Agent-based e-commerce
eBusiness models and costs
eBusiness applications
Infrastructure for e-Commerce
Mobile commerce

*Citizen-oriented digital evidence*
Processing citizen-oriented electronic evidence (acquisition, 
preservation, analysis)
Multimedia documents ( X-rays, radiology, biometrics, and surveillance data)
Medical digital forensics
Classic and 3D medical documents
DNA profiling
Genetic and biocomputing
Forensic and data mining
Predictive data modeling
Biological data and privacy
Digital forensics tools
*
Consumer-oriented devices and services*
Mobile TV and IPTV
Consumer-oriented e-commerce
Smart and digital homes
Wearable devices
Smart consumer appliances
Speech enable appliances
Consumer accessibility appliances and services
Intelligent computation
Theories of agency and autonomy
*
Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems*
Evolutionary computation
Autonomic and autonomous systems
Autonomic computing and autonomic networking
Ubiquitous and ambient computing
Computational economics
Protecting and preventing computing
High performance computing
Service-oriented computing
Multi-agent based computing
Cluster computing and performance
Artificial intelligence

*Networking and telecommunications *
Networking and telecommunications technologies
Wireless, mobility and multimedia systems
Internet and Web Services technologies
Systems performance, security, and high availability
Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP/
Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor)
Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand)
Advanced paradigms (SOA/WS/on-demand)

*eDefense for security and protection *
Knowledge for global defense
Security in network, systems, and applications
Trust, privacy, and safeness
Business continuity and availability
Cryptography and algorithms encryption
Rapid Internet attacks and network
Applications and network vulnerabilities

*Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems*
Reducing false positives and improving true positives
Automating IPDS responses
Innovative signature writing and processing
Improving IPDS usability
Successful approaches to Anomaly IPDS (Statistical; Fuzzy logic; 
Bayesian; Neural networks, etc.)
Inventive behavioural based IPDS methods
Inventive host based IPDS methods
Improving the performance of IPDS
Multiple sensor IPDS
Tuning IPDS
The business cases supporting IPDS
Network traffic normalization techniques
Cost/Benefit of IPDS
Combining IPDS with other hardware e.g. firewalls, routers etc.
Inventive methods of using IPDS to counter specific attack types (Web 
attacks; Buffer overflow attacks; Brute force attacks, etc.)
Comparisons of different IPDS mechanisms
Combining multiple IPDS approaches

*Enforced citizen-centric paradigms *
Data-centered information systems
User-centric information systems
Pervasive and ubiquitous systems
Mobile learning and communications
Open and distance education systems

*Computational advertising*
Computational linguistics
Linguistic signal processing
Statistical properties of community structures
Semantic contextual advertising
Relevance and click feedback
Searching dense and isolated submarkets
Latent factor models
Semantic relatedness
Personalized ad delivery
Processing over query-dependent functions
Inverse document frequency
Query-biased summarization
Pseudo-relevance feedback
Classification of rare queries
Page ranking

*Management and control *
Digital telecommunications management
Control and monitoring systems
Measurement and management systems
Human/Machine interface and man-in-the-loop control
Energy and power systems control
Self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, self-management systems

*Digital analysis and processing *
Digital information processing (Voice/Data/Video)
Computer graphics and animation
Virtual reality/3D graphics/Games
Computer modeling/simulation
Graphic/Image/Photo/Hand-writing analysis and processing
Pattern recognition / Computer vision
Natural language processing / robust processing
Speech recognition and processing

*Mobile devices and biotechnologies*
Robotics/Mobile devices/ Mobile networks
Handled and wearable computing and devices
Vehicular navigation and control
Nanotechnologies/Systems-on-the-chip/Networks-on-the-chip/ Haptic phenomena
Biotechnologies/Bioinformatics/Biometrics/Biomedical systems
Computational biochemistry
Biological data management

*Software and system robustness for digital society*
Portals and user-oriented systems
Software as a service
Software specification and design methodologies
Software development and deployment
Programming languages and supporting tools
Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks
Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming
Neuronal networks/Fuzzy logic/Temporal logic/ Genetic Algorithms
Reasoning models/Model checking/Modular reasoning/
Program verification/validation/correctness
Embedded and real-time systems

*Consumer-oriented digital economics*
Online consumer decision support & advertising
Semiotic engineering of online services
Human factors in computer systems
Personal information management
Consumer trust in digital society
Interaction in smart environments
Mobile consumers and interactive spaces
Hedonic and perceived digital quality
Usability, aesthetics, and accessibility
Multimodal and interactive interfaces
Intelligent user interfaces

*Social networking*
Social networking technologies (Web 2.0, faceBook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
Enterprise social networking
General informative webcast
Government information webcast
State-of-the-art for chat, blogs, wikis, etc.
Text-audio-video blogs
Virtual tradeshows
Social profiling
Contextual social network analysis
Personalization for search and for social interaction
Dynamics, evolution, and trend prediction patterns,
Social interactions
Medical assistance in social networking
Data protection inside communities
Misbehavior detection in communities
Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
Evolution of communities in the Web
Online and offline social networks
Information acquisition and establishment of social relations

*ICT support and applications for eCollaboration*
Touch screen voting
Local e-Participation
Portals and eGovernment websites
eGovernment platforms and benchmarks
Business process management
Interoperable frameworks (national and cross-countries)
Private-public eCollaboration
Regional and cross-nation competitiveness


*INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS*

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions 
to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Submitted for indexing:
- ISI Thompson Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)
- Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index
- DBLP, IET INSPEC, and other relevant specialized indexes.
- Other indexes are being considered

*Important deadlines:*

Submission (full paper)  September 5, 2011
Notification October 23, 2011
Registration November 7, 2011
Camera ready  November 7, 2011

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All 
received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 
4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions 
can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper 
formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be 
provided by the publisher 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.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the 
instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" 
button and selecting the contribution type as poster.  Submissions are 
expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the 
Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for 
discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display 
the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks 
will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Poster Forum explanation page.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the 
contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions 
using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as 
work in progress.  Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text 
manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, 
affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference 
deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the 
areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the 
conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page

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 not be 
published in the conference's CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks 
will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to 
(petre /at/ iaria.org).

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals 
should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, 
the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The 
tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send 
your proposals to (petre /at/ 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. The panel's slide deck will be 
posted on the IARIA's site.

For more information, (petre /at/ iaria.org)

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of 
this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to (petre /at/ iaria.org).

More information: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICDS12.html