We are pleased to invite the academic and business community to submit their papers to CISTI'2012 (7th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies), to be held in Madrid, Spain, between the 20th and 23rd of June 2012. Authors are encouraged to submit original scientific contributions such as state-of-art reviews and new research perspectives, groundbreaking ideas and/or architectures, solutions and/or applications for real problems, empirical and/or evaluation works, case studies, etc., in conformity with the themes of this Conference.

Three types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned to a 6-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, opened to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, opened to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 2-page limit.

Papers submitted for the Scientific Committee’s evaluation must not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the early version. This information should only be included in the final version.

Submitted papers must not have been published and must not be under review for any other conference and national or international publication.

Papers must comply with the format standards (DOT, PDF) and be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English.

All papers will be subjected to a “blind review” by at least two members of the Scientific Committee.

Full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the proceedings publication.

The authors of accepted poster papers must build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5-minute limit per poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will dispose of a 15-minute presentation in the Conference Work Session, and approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers will dispose of an 11-minute presentation in the Conference Work Session, and approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.