The Eighth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2014) is to be held at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK on July 2-4. The Conference will be held in conjunction with IMIS-2014 conference.


Please consider supporting the conference, your support and contribution would be very much appreciated and would we are sure enhance the quality of the event. The important dates and information relating to the 17 Tracks is set out below and in the attached pdf copy of the call for papers. The full conference details can be found at the URL: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2014/.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline (extended): January 15, 2014
Authors Notification: February 28, 2014
Author Registration: March 28, 2014
Final Manuscript: March 28, 2014

The Aim and Scope of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to deliver a platform of scientific interaction between three interwoven challenging areas of research and development of future ICT-enabled applications: Software Intensive Systems, Complex systems, Intelligent Systems. CISIS-2014 is aimed at delivering a forum for in-depth scientific discussions among the three communities leading to significant contributions in areas such as:
Monitoring and Control of Large Systems or Environments.
Managing the Heterogeneity of Knowledge by Means of Ontologies
The use of Service Oriented Architectures for Complex Applications in Business and Industries
Consideration of Software Intensive Systems as Complex Systems
Enabling of Systems Biology Concepts as Software Intensive Complex Systems
Knowledge Management of Complex IT-systems
Pervasive, Ubiquitous, Ad Hoc and Mobile Systems
Heterogeneous Networking
Socially Inspired Complex Systems
Complex Systems and Dependability
Usability of Complex Systems
Program Tracks
The Tracks included in the conference program are:

Parallel Computing

Database and Data Mining Applications

Artificial Intelligence and Optimization

Multimedia Systems and Virtual Reality

Systems for Biological and Medical Applications

E-learning and Groupware Systems

Wireless Sensor, Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks

Semantic Web, Web Services and Data Integration

Autonomic Computing and Communication

Socially Inspired and Computational Intelligence

Security and Trusted Computing

Energy Aware Information Systems and Green IT

Complex Systems, Software Modeling and Analytics

P2P & Grid Data Technologies

Adaptive and Evolvable Human Computer Interaction Interfaces

High Performance Modelling and Simulation

Collaborative Learning using Social Networks

The Organizing Committee



Honorary Co-Chair:
Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan

General Co-Chairs:
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Philip Moore, Birmingham City University, UK
Olivier Terzo, Mario Boella Istitute, Italy
Helio Santos Silva, Regional University of Blumenau, Brazil


Workshops Co-Chairs
Andrew M. Thomas, Wales Centre for Behaviour Change, UK
Juggapong Natwichai, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Hsing-Chung Chen, Asia University, Taiwan

International Advisory Board
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
Arjan Durresi, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA


Award Co-Chairs
Mohammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, Korea
Markus Aleksy, ABB AG Corporate Research Center, Germany

International Liaison Co-Chairs
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy

Publicity Co-Chairs
Jagdev Bhogal, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan
Farookh Hussain, University Technology Sydney, Australia


Local Organizer Co-Chairs

Mak Sharma, Birmingham City University, UK
Hanifa Shah, Birmingham City University, UK

Web Administrator Chairs
Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Tetsuya Oda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan




Submission Guidelines:
A full paper must not more than eight pages (Proceedings Manuscripts: letter, two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can find instructions for authors how to format the manuscript at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/


Please prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and submit it electronically to the CISIS-2014 web page:http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2014/. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.


Proceedings of the CISIS-2014 will be published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS). Presented papers at CISIS-2014 will be considered for publication in several Special Issues in International Journals.


We look forward to receiving your support and contribution which will greatly enhance the quality of the conference. If however you are not able to contribute on this occasion, we would be grateful if you could forward this Cfp to your colleagues. In the meantime if you have any queries please feel free to contact us at any time at:
jagdev.bhogal@bcu.ac.uk
ptmbcu@gmail.com

Kind regards

Jagdev

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Dr. Jagdev K. Bhogal,

Oracle Certified Associate - Oracle Database 11g Administrator

Academic Lead Oracle Academy

Birmingham City University

Faculty of TEE

Department of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks

Millennium Point

Curzon Street


Birmingham, B4 7XG

Tel: (0121) 331-7518



jagdev.bhogal@bcu.ac.uk