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Call for Papers

The IADIS e-Society 2003 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are E-Commerce, E-Learning and E-Government. These broad areas are 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.

All areas related to the e-Society are of interest, including, but not being limited, to the following areas:

  • Collaborative Learning

  • Computer-Mediated Communication

  • Cyber Law 

  • Data Mining

  • Digital Regions

  • E-Business Models

  • E-Commerce Economics

  • E-Economy

  • E-Government

  • E-Healthcare

  • E-Learning

  • E-Marketing

  • E-Publishing and Digital Libraries

  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

  • Evaluation and Assessment

  • Extensible Languages

  • Global Tendencies

  • Human Computer Interaction

  • Information Retrieval

  • Information Society Case studies  

  • Intelligent Agents

  • Intelligent Systems 

  • Knowledge Management

  • Learning Communities

  • Multimedia

  • Payment Systems

  • Privacy Issues

  • Protocols and Standards

  • Security Issues

  • Storage Issues

  • Tele-work

  • Ubiquitous Computing

  • Virtual Communities

  • Virtual Organisations

  • Virtual Reality

  • Wireless Communications

The Conference will be composed of several types of contributions:

  • Full Papers – These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000 words).

  • Short Papers – These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh developments and have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).

  • Posters / Demonstrations – These have one page at the maximum (625 words) besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed at the conference.

  • Tutorials – Tutorials can be proposed by scholars or company representatives. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.

  • Panels – Discussions on selected topics will be held. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.

  • Invited Talks – These will be made of contributions from well-known scholars and company representatives. An abstract will be included in the conference proceedings.

  • Doctoral Consortium - A Doctoral Consortium will discuss in group, individual projects and on going work of PhD students. Prospective students should send a report of their PhD projects and work so far with a maximum of 4 pages (2,500 words).

  • Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions – The former enables Companies to present recent developments and applications, inform a large and qualified audience of your future directions and showcase company’s noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot for companies to make their presentation in a room. The latter enables companies the opportunity to display its latest offerings of hardware, software, tools, services and books, through an exhibit booth. For further details please contact the publicity chair - publicity@iadis.org.

All submissions, except invited talks, are subject to a blind refereeing process.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline (Second CFP) - 19 February 2003 (for Short Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium only) (Closed)

Notification to Authors - 24 February 2003 (All papers are currently being reviewed. Although several authors have already been notified, if you still didn't get your notification please allow a few more days to get it (we want each submission to have at least two independent reviews).

Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 8 March 2003

Late Registration - After 8 March 2003

Conference – Lisbon, 3 to 6 June 2003