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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 3 September 2010 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2010

October 14 - 16, 2010 – TIMISOARA, ROMANIA
(http://www.computing-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Dr. Alina Andreica, Associate Professor, Head of IT Department, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Applied Computing 2010 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the applied computing area and related fields. This conference covers essentially technical aspects. The applied computing field is divided into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that don't fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in specific journals, and in the IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to Applied Computing are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Agent Systems and Applications
- Algorithms
- Applied Information Systems
- Bioinformatics
- Case Studies and Applications
- Communications
- Data Mining
- Database Systems
- E-Commerce Theory and Practice
- Embedded Systems
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Global Tendencies
- Grid Computing
- Information Retrieval
- Intelligent Systems
- Mobile Networks and Systems
- Multimedia
- Networking
- Object Orientation
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Payment Systems
- Programming Languages
- Protocols and Standards
- Security
- Semantic Web
- Software Engineering
- Storage Issues
- Technologies for E-Learning
- Wireless Applications
- WWW Applications
- WWW Technologies
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability Issues
- Virtual Reality
- Visualization
- XML and other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call): 3 September 2010
- Notification to Authors (last call): 20 September 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 28 September 2010
- Late Registration (last call): After 28 September 2010
- Conference: Timisoara, Romania, 14 to 16 October 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Timisoara, Romania.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@computing-conf.org Web site: http://www.computing-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Hans Weghorn, BW Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Radu Vasiu, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania

Committee Members:
for the full Committee Members list please access http://www.computing-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events WWW/Internet 2010 (http://www.internet-conf.org/) - 14 - 17 October 2010 and CELDA 2010 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 15 - 17 October 2010.

* Registered participants in the Applied Computing conference may attend the WWW/Internet and CELDA conferences’ sessions free of charge.