Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the 3rd edition of the SKIMA 2009 International Conference, related to Knowledge Management and Applications. Please forward this call to your team members and to potentially interested people. Please do not hesitate to contact the conference program co-chairs for any additional information.

A. Seklouli, Universit? de Lyon
O. El Beqqali, Universit? de F?s

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1st Call for Papers
SKIMA 2009
International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications
Oct 21-23, 2009, Fes, Morocco
http://iutcerral.univ-lyon2.fr/SKIMA09/




AIMS AND SCOPE:
The aim of SKIMA is to bring together researchers and industrial experts in knowledge management, software Engineering and Information Systems to share their knowledge, ideas and experience. The main focus is at topics currently of interests having practical benefits for society. This conference, supported by IEEE, has been started in an international collaboration context between European and Asian professionals within some European programs. It is also intended from the beginning to be an open forum between researchers from developed and emerging countries to communicate and discuss research findings, and propose possible solutions to better enhance their future collaboration.

This year, the conference will be held in Fes - Morocco, October 21-23, 2009, just after the CPI'2009 conference on Design, Production and Innovation (http://www.supmeca.fr/cpi2009/) that will be held in the same city at the beginning of the same week. This will give to SKIMA and CPI participants a unique opportunity to interact, build relationship and exchange ideas about new applications and methodologies. A common strategic CPI/SKIMA session will be held on the first day of SKIMA 2009, related to fostering collaboration and leveraging research outcomes through specific international research programs. SKIMA participants, who are interested in CPI topics and would like to attend, will have special and affordable rates.

TOPICS:
The topics of the conference are, but not limited to the following (other topics that have regional research and industrial relevance are also welcome):

Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Representation Techniques to Semantic Modeling
- Knowledge Acquisition, Retention, Sharing, Refinement, Use or Re-Use
- Knowledge Management Tool: Data Mining, Document Management, Intranets and Workloads
- Knowledge Management and Risk Management Tacit, Codified and Explicit
Knowledge
- Knowledge and Organization Theory
- Management of Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases

Software Engineering
- Software Agents and Soft Computing Application
- Software Requirements Engineering, Design, Testing
- Software Security and Reliability
- Knowledge Based Software Engineering

Information Systems
- Database and Information System Integration
- Artificial Intelligent, Decision Support System and Optimization
Techniques
- Information System Analysis and Specification
- E-Learning, E-Government and E-Tourism

Applications
- Network Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Manufacturing Systems
- E-Commerce, E-business, M-Commerce, M-business
- Life-cycle Engineering and PLM
- Agile Systems
- Logistics
- Power systems and Telecommunications
- Intelligent Control and Robotics
- Education

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Paper submission will be reviewed and evaluated based on its originality, technical quality, and relevance to the conference. All submissions must follow the format provided by IEEE (instruction at http://www.ieee.org). Submission of papers will be carried out electronically via the web in PDF, Word Document or postscript format. After acceptance, the authors are required to prepare a 8-pages (maximum) paper for the inclusion in the proceedings of the conference. All accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings. The extended version of some selected best papers will be proposed for publication in special issues of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), the International Journal of Product Development (IJPD) and the International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM).

IMPORTANT DATES:
- March, 09th, 2009: Submission of abstracts (minimum 200 words)
- March, 30th, 2009: Preliminary acceptance
- April 24th, 2009 : Full paper submission
- June 12th, 2009: Final acceptance of papers
- July 3rd, 2009: Registration confirmation
- September 4th, 2009: Final revisions submission

CONTACTS:
Program Co-Chairs:
Prof. Omar EL BEQQALI
Prof. A?cha SEKHARI

E-mail : skima2009@gmail.com

HOST INSTITUTION:
Fes University, Morocco
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