Call for Papers

The Fourth International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2012)
April 24-26, 2012
Canadian University of Dubai, Dubai
Proceedings will be published by Springer CCIS series (7899)
(http://www.ndtconf.org)

The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at the Canadian University of Dubai, UAE from April 24-26, 2012 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications.

Currently, a number of institutions across the countries are working to evolve better models to provide collaborative technology services for scholarship by creating shared cyberspace thro expert collaboration, but this is a challenge for the institutions for a number of reasons. In the last few years, the landscape of digital technology applications projects for the various disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences appears induced by many initiatives. For the creation of research clusters, the research community has thousands of databases, websites, local computing clusters, and web-based tools around individual themes, interests and projects. In most cases, these tools and resources are and were created to meet the specific needs of a particular community. In many cases, the funding and support for these critical initiatives is fragile and temporary, and directed in piecemeal fashion. There is a need to provide concerted efforts in building federated digital technologies that will enable the formation of network of digital technologies.


Information and Data Management
Data and Network mining
Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling
XML-based languages
Security and Access Control
Trust models for social networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New architectures for web-based social networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
Indexing and query processing for moving objects
User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications
Mobile social networks
Peer-to-peer social networks
Sensor networks and social sensing
Social search
Social networking inspired collaborative computing
Information propagation on social networks
Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks
Measurement studies of actual social networks
Simulation models for social networks
Green Computing
Grid Computing
Cloud Computing

All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be published in the “Communications in Computer and Information Science” (approval pending) of Springer Lecture Notes Series (www.springer.com/series/), and will be indexed in many global databases including ISI Proceedings and Scopus.

The NDT proceedings are indexed by dblp (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ndt/)

In addition, selected papers after complete modification and revision will be published in the following special issues journals.

1. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI) (Scopus and EI Indexed)
2. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (Scopus and EI Indexed)
3. International Journal of Learning Technologies (IJLT)(INSPEC indexed)
4. International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC) (Scopus Indexed)
5. Information Journal (ISI/SCI Indexed)

General Chairs

Rachid Benlamri
Lakehead University, Canada
Driss Guerchi
Canadian University of Dubai, UAE

Program Chairs

Abdallah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Eric Monacelli, Versailles University, France
Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK

Workshop Chairs

Russel Pears, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zeland
Sun Aixin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
Boubaker Boufama, Windsor University, Canada

Publicity Chair

Essa Ibrahim Basaeed, Khalifa University, UAE

Local Arrangements Chair

Emad Eldin, Canadian University of Dubai

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs

Talal Kursany, Canadian University of Dubai
Sherif Moussa, Canadian University of Dubai
Siwar Rekik, Canadian University of Dubai
Hussam Abuazab, Canadian University of Dubai

Important Dates

Submission of Papers: December 01, 2011
Notification: January 10, 2012
Camera ready: February 10, 2012
Conference dates: April 24-26, 2012

Conference mail: ndt at ndtconf.org