CALL FOR PAPERS : SAINT2009
The 9th IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet
Seattle, USA, 20 - 24 July 2009

http://www.saintconference.org/

Co-sponsored by:
the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) and
the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Co-located with:
The 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2009)

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Symposium Paper Submission: January 31, 2009
Symposium Author Notification: March 31, 2009
Symposium Final Manuscript: April 30, 2009

Workshop Proposals: November 15, 2008
Workshop Call for Papers: December 15, 2008
Workshop Paper Submission: February 28, 2009
Workshop Author Notification: March 31, 2009
Workshop Final Manuscript: April 30, 2009

Authors Registration Due: April 30, 2009
(ONE and FULL Registration per ONE paper)

Panel Proposals: December 15, 2008
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THEME : The Pervasive Internet
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Researchers are encouraged to submit papers related to theme of this
year: The Pervasive Internet:

The Internet has been revolutionizing and changing the way we
communicate, access information and conduct businesses. Today, the
Internet is evolving into a pervasive and highly distributed
ecosystem of connected computers, mobile devices, sensors, home
appliances, and a variety of other Internet devices. This evolution
is leading to deep intertwining of the physical and digital worlds,
raising new research agendas and challenging our understanding of the
requirements for networked computing and Internet based Service
Oriented Architectures. SAINT focuses on emerging research challenges
raised by the pervasive Intenet, and its future applications and
services, as well as their enabling technologies. The symposium
provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from the academic,
industrial, public and governmental sectors to share their latest
innovations on Internet technologies and applications. Areas of
particular interest include, but are not limited to:

A. Internet Application Areas:
*Content Management: semi-structured data, information integration,
search and retrieval, data mining, semantic web, mobile and local
search
*Content Delivery: media streaming, web caching, QoS, universal
access and interfacing
*Web Services: architecture & middleware, information agents,
brokering and negotiation, service discovery, service composition,
context-aware services
*E-Business: Internet-based workflow, virtual enterprises, B2B,
auctioning systems
*Collaboration: fixed, mobile & ad-hoc groupware, social network
software, trust & IPR technologies
*Internet communities: peer-to-peer platforms and applications,
folksonomies, protocols for self-organizing communities, social
networks
*Wireless Access: content adaptation, location-based services, mobile
transactions, personalization, mobile service discovery & delivery
*Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: smart space architecture and
middleware, sensor networks and sensor web, pervasive programming
models and tools,

B. Enabling technologies for the Internet:
*Software Architectures: service-oriented architectures, GRID
computing, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, mobile agents, very
large scale server systems
*Standards: including XML, WSDL, WSFL, ebXML, Java, JXTA, .NET,
EchoNet, SODA, etc.
*Internet Security: architecture, threats, detection,
countermeasures, trust models, others.
*Network and Protocol Architectures: routing, performance, ad-hoc,
sensor and mobile networks, broadband wireless access, IPv6
*Information Appliances: smart phones, PDAs, mobile Internet device,
sensor platforms, RFID based and embedded computers
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Paper Submission and Reviews
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Symposium paper submission will be done electronically. Information
for prospective authors, including paper format and instructions can
be found on the SAINT Web page. Symposium Papers will be reviewed by
at least three reviewers, and SAINT has been keeping its acceptance
ratio less than 30% from the beginning.
Workshop papers will be sent to each Workshop's Organizers and
should be reviewed by each Workshop's Program Committee, taking
account of a reasonable acceptance ratio.
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Publications
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The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one full registration is
required for publication of Symposium and Workshops Proceedings.
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Best Paper Award
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A best paper and student best papers will be selected and recognized
by the Program Committee and the Awards Chairs.
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Workshops and Panels Proposals
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Full- and/or half-day workshop and panel proposals related to SAINT
theme are solicited. Workshop proposals should be submitted to
Workshops Chairs. After the review of proposals, the accepted
Workshop Call For Papers must be sent to the Workshop Chairs.
Workshops Call For Papers will then be announced on the SAINT web
page. Panel proposals should be submitted to Panel Chairs. E-mail
addresses for submission will be announced later at the SAINT Web
page.
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