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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS (INCoS 2010)

November 24-26, 2010
Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Site: http://incos2010.web.auth.gr/

SUBMISSION Deadline: **June 28, 2010**
(please visit the conference web site for last minute deadline extension)


))) THE CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE (((

- INCoS-2010 covers the latest advances in intelligent and adaptive solutions for social networks and collaborative systems

- Proceedings by IEEE CSP (regular/workshop/PhD Forum papers and Posters)

- Technically co-sponsored by IEEE SMC Society, MIR Labs, and IEEE Computer Society Greece Chapter.

- Three Keynote speakers

- Three Tutorials

- Panel Discussion

- Four Workshops

- Industrial Track

- PhD Forum

- Conference post publication (Springer Edited books and Special Issues)

- Conference venue at Thessaloniki, Greece.

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1) SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
INCoS-2010 covers the latest advances in intelligent and adaptive solutions for 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.
The conference is technically sponsored by IEEE SMC Society, MIR Labs, and IEEE Computer Society Greece Chapter.

Topics of main interest include (but not restricted to) :
– Internet applications that shift to an emergent Web paradigm, which locates people at the very center of networks and exploits the value of people's connections and relations.
– Web 2.0 and its major role to enable a new generation of social networks and web-based communities.
– Social network analysis as a rapidly growing field to investigate the dynamics and structure of intelligent Web-based networking and collaborative systems.
– Virtual campuses and organizations that strongly leverage intelligent networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of formal and informal electronic relations (business-to-business, peer-to-peer and many types of online collaborative learning interactions).
– Latest and powerful technologies based on Grid and Wireless (Mobile) infrastructure as well as Cloud computing.
– Design and evaluation of Collaborative and Networking applications seen from various challenging perspectives, such as: effective and efficient knowledge management, context and user modelling techniques, exploitation of semantic web technologies, powerful adaptive solutions, design of personalized environments, dynamic formats of information shared among peers and full support for virtual communities of practice (organization, management, mobility and security).


2) CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference will comprise invited talks, plenary sessions (oral presentations), a panel session, workshops/tutorials, poster presentations and PhD forum.


3) PROCEEDINGS
The INCoS-2010 proceedings will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Service in the form of CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be accessible on-line.


4) POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS: SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES & EDITED BOOKS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their work in two edited volumes by Springer and Special Journal Issues.
(please visit the conference web site for updated information).


5) KEYNOTES
– Prof. Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
– Prof. Nikolaos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
– Prof. Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan


6) PANEL Discussion
"Intelligent cooperative systems: from nature inspired to social inspired approaches"
Chair Panelist: Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Fellow of IEEE, IFSA


7) WORKSHOPS
– Second International Workshop on Machine Intelligence for Geographic Information Systems (MIGIS 2010)
Chair: Jiří Dvorský (http://arg.vsb.cz/MIGIS2010/Default.aspx)

– Third International Workshop on Information Network Design (WIND 2010).
Chair: Mario Koeppen (http://www.ndrc.kyutech.ac.jp/WIND2010/)

– Second International Workshop on Adaptive Systems for Collaborative Learning (IWASCL-2010)
Chair: Stavros Demetriadis (http://mlab.csd.auth.gr/iwascl2010/)

– Computational Intelligence in Networks and Systems (CINS’10)
Chairs: Richard Hill, George Exarchakos (http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/cins10)



8) TUTORIALS
– "Computational Challenges with Cliques, Quasi-Cliques and Clique Partitions in Networks", Organizer: Panos Pardalos, Distinguished Professor and University of Florida Research Foundation Professor

– "Intelligent Tools for Networking and Collaborative Learning", Organizer: Santi Caballet Llobet, University of Cataluna, Spain

– “Creating, Sharing and Reusing Online Collaborative Pedagogy”
Organizers: Miky Ronen, Professor & Dan Kohen-Vacs, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel


9) PhD Forum
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 INCoS-2010 PhD CfP is available from http://incos2010.web.auth.gr/phd.html


10) CONFERENCE TRACKS
The main topics of interest of INCoS 2010 are organized in the following track areas:
– 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
– Collaborative Healthcare Systems: Issues, Solutions, and Trends
SPECIAL TRACKS
– Special track for Networking and Collaboration at School (educators’ track)
– Special track for Networking and Collaboration for People with Special Needs


11) SUBMISSION
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 28th, 2010 *** and electronic submission in PDF is required (see webpage of conference for details, http://incos2010.web.auth.gr/submission.html).

(Please visit the conference web site for last minute deadline extension)

The page limit for a Conference track paper is 8 pages.
Workshop papers are limited to 6 pages.
PhD Forum papers limit: 4 pages.
Poster papers limit: 2 pages.
All accepted submissions (regular, workshop, poster, PhD forum paper) will be included in the proceedings of the conference.
All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format (see webpage of the conference for guidelines).
All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration by at least one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings.


12) ORGANIZATION
After its kick-off in Barcelona, Spain (http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/incos2009 ) the 2nd INCoS will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece (http://incos2010.web.auth.gr/venue.html) a city with rich culture and history, second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre in Greece.
Organized by: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & University of Macedonia, Greece


13) IMPORTANT DATES
– June 28, 2010 Paper Submission
(Please visit the conference web site for last minute deadline extension)
– J uly 31, 2010 Notification of Acceptance
– September 20, 2010 Camera-Ready Submission
– September 20, 2010 Conference Registration
– November 24-26 2010, INCoS Conference days


14) COMMITTEES
-General Chairs
Fatos Xhafa, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Andreas Pombortsis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Vassilios Dagdilelis, University of Macedonia, Greece

-Programme Committee Chairs
Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nik Bessis, Bedfordshire University, UK

-International Co-Chairs
Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia
Angelique Dimirakopoulou, University of Aegean, Greece
Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Frank Fischer, University of Munich, Germany
Maria Grigoriadou, University of Athens, Greece
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Aegean, Greece
Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Charalampos Karagiannides, University of Thessaly, Greece
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
George Magoulas, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Michaela Ronen, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Maya Satratzemi, University of Macedonia, Greece
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Christine Solomonidou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

-Workshop Chairs
Youakim Badr, INSA, Lion, France
Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

-PhD Forum Chairs
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
George Palaigeorgiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

-Proceedings Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIRLabs), USA
Ioannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

-Steering Committee Chairs
Fatos Xhafa, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIRLabs), USA
Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

- Track Chairs
* Hamamache Kheddouci, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France (Chair : Intelligent networking for social networks)
* Saif Elnaffar, UAE University, United Arab Emirates (Chair: Intelligent networking for virtual organizations and campuses)
* Kyparisia Papanikolaou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (Chair: Intelligent collaborative systems for work and learning)
* Xavier Vilajosana, Open University of Catalonia, Spain (Chair: Wireless and sensor systems for intelligent networking and collaborative systems)
* Pilar Herrero, Technical University of Madrid, Spain (Chair: Grid and P2P distributed infrastructure for intelligent networking and collaborative systems)
* Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (Chair: Security, organization, management and autonomic computing for intelligent networking and collaborative systems)
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece (Chair: Data mining and knowledge management for intelligent networking and collaborative systems)
* Wathiq Mansoor, American University in Dubai, UAE (co-Chair) & Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates (co-Chair) (Collaborative Healthcare Systems: Issues, Solutions, and Trends)
* Charalambos Karagiannides, University of Thessaly, Greece (co-Chair) & Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece (co-Chair) (Special track for Networking and Collaboration for People with Special Needs)
* Tharennos Bratitisis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece (Chair: Special track for Networking and Collaboration at School (educators’ track))


-Committee Members: for full committee list please refer to
http://incos2010.web.auth.gr/committees.html