Submission Deadline: 7 October 2005 ************************************************************* IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2006 February 25-28, 2006 - SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN (http://www.iadis.org/ac2006) ************************************************************* * Conference background and goals The IADIS Applied Computing 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the applied computing area and related fields. This conference covers essentialy 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 Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems. * Types of submissions Full and Short 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: 7 October 2005 - Notification to Authors: 5 December 2005 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 17 December 2005 - Late Registration: After 17 December 2005 - Conference: San Sebastian, Spain, 25 to 28 February 2006 * Conference Location The conference will be held in University of Mondragon, San Sebastian, Spain. * Secretariat IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPLIED COMPUTING 2006 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: ac_sec@iadis.org Web site: http://www.iadis.org/ac2006 * Program Committee Conference Co-Chairs Nuno Guimarães, Faculdade de Ciências - University of Lisbon, Portugal Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Program Chair Ambrosio Goikoetxea, University of Mondragon, Spain Committee Members (not yet complete): Achim Basermann, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Adam Wong, Deakin University, Australia Ahmed Mostefaoui, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Franche-Comté, France Ahmet Cosar, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Al Salam, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Aleksandar Lazarevic, University of Minnesota, USA Ali Asghar Shiri, University of Alberta, Canada Amitava Datta, University of Western Australia, Australia Andreas Andreou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Arndt Bode, Technical University München, Germany Aurelio Bermúdez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Bertil Folliot, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Burkhard Englert, California State University Long Beach, USA Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universität München, Germany Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Christian Zirpins, University of Hamburg, Germany Dan J. Kim, Michigan State University, USA Daniel S. Katz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA David Losada, University de Santiago de Compostela, Spain Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy Elie Fadier, INRS, France Enrique Árias, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Ezendu Ariwa, University of North London, United Kingdom Fernando Rubio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Filippo Furfaro, Universita' della Calabria, Italy Francisco Agustín Gutiérrez Tornes, Instituto Poltécnico Nacional, Mexico Francisco Garcia Peñalvo, University of Salamanca, Spain Franco Turini, University of Pisa, Italy Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Giacomo Cabri, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy Gongzhu Hu, Central Michigan University, USA Graça Abrantes, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal H. R. Rao, University at Buffalo, USA Hai Jin, University of Southern California, USA Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada Halina Kwasnicka, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland Hamid Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA Harald Kosch, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Helmar Burkhart, University of Basel, Switzerland Hermann Hellwagner, University Klagenfurt, Austria Hongjian Fan, University of Melbourne, Australia Ismael Rodríguez Laguna, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jacek Plodzien, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Jahan Hassan, University of Sydney, Australia Jan Ljungberg, Gothenburg University, Sweden Jesús García Herrero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jiann-Liang Chen, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Jie Tao, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Joaquim Jorge, INESC-ID, Portugal John Brooke, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Jonathan Lawry, University of Bristol, United Kingdom José Manuel Molina López, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Juan J. Pardo, Escuela Politecnica Superior de Albacete, Spain Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada Key Pousttchi, University of Augsburg, Germany Koen De Bosschere, University of Gent, Belgium Linda Seiter, John Carroll University, USA Lorenza Saitta, Amedeo Avogadro University, Italy Luís Carriço, University of Lisbon, Portugal Malik Magdon-Ismail, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel E. Acacio Sánchez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA Marco Aiello, University of Trento, Italy Marek Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers University, Sweden Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom Massimo Mecella, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Nashat Mansour, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Norbert Kroll, DLR, Germany Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Pasqua D~ Ambra, ICAR-CNR, Italy Paula Brito, University of Porto, Portugal Pedro Antunes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Qin Ding, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, USA Rafael Casado, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Richard Lai, La Trobe University, Australia Robert Wrembel, Poznan University Of Technology, Poland Ruibing Hao, Bell Labs Research China, China Salima Benbernou, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria, Italy Sherri Harms, University of Nebraska-Kearney, USA Sorin D. Cotofana, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Stéphane Maag, Institut National des Télécommunications, France Tomàs Margalef, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Tor Skeie, University of Oslo, Norway Wei Wang, Fudan University, China Wolfgang Karl, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Yi Zhang, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Yoshifumi Manabe, NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Japan Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Zaher Aghbari, University of Sharjah, UAE Zhengxin Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA for the full Committee Members list please access http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/committees.asp