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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd Call): 21 September 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2009

November 19-21, 2009 – ROME, ITALY
(http://www.computing-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy

Professor Dinesh Kumar, Associate Professor of Biosignals at RMIT University, Australia

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Applied Computing 2009 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 (2nd Call): 21 September 2009
- Notification to Authors (2nd Call): 16 October 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd Call): Until 30 October 2009
- Late Registration (2nd Call): After 30 Octobe 2009
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 19 to 21 November 2009

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2009
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 Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

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 2009 (http://www.internet-conf.org/) - 19-22 November 2009 and CELDA 2009 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 20-22 November 2009

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