Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems Track

On-line submission and review site (click here)

DESCRIPTION

This track focuses on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management. The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance, while security threats are present more than ever before. This track will present an opportunity for researchers working in these different domains to get together and share recent developments and techniques in order to identify the critical  problems and the most promising research avenues.

TOPICS

We solicit original research papers in all areas of web-based information technologies and distributed systems with a special interest in the following topics:

• Information System Interoperability
  • Digital Libraries
  • Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators
  • Ontologies interoperability
  • Cooperative Database Systems and Workflow Management
  • Agent-oriented architectures for database interoperability
  • Data interoperability issues in advanced applications
    
• Emergent semantics
  • Context-Dependent Semantics
  • Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies
  • Communication in Multi-Agents Systems
  • Emergent Semantic Interoperability in Large-Scale Systems
  • Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems
  • Semantics for Trust Management
• Agent-based systems
  • Agents for Distributed Systems
  • Agent-based Approaches for Web Applications
  • Security of Systems using Agents
  • Agents for Grid Computing Solutions
  • Intelligent Agents for P2P Computing
  • Agent-oriented Software Engineering and methodologies
  • Ontologies and Agent systems
  • Agents Support for Applications (e-commerce, e-Gov, ..)
• Distributed, Parallel, GRID, P2P, Mobile information management
  • Information Sharing
  • Clusters/Data Grids/P2P computing and applications
  • Knowledge and Semantic Grid
  • Security Frameworks
  • Semantics Of Peer Data Management Systems
  • Mobile Systems and Computing
  • Distributed Trust Models
  • Distributed Architectures and Algorithms
  • Resources Allocation and Management
  • Reputation Information Management
  • Mobile Data Management and Mobile Database Systems
• Web-Centric Systems
  • Semantic Web/Web services
  • Web Services and Service Computing
  • Composition and integration of Web services
  • Web engineering/mining/searching and crawling
  • E-Commerce and E-Learning
  • Security and integrity issues for the Web
  • Web usability and accessibility
  • Formal methods for Web applications
    
    

SUIBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must be in electronic form as PDF or PS files and should be uploaded through the SITIS 2006 Web site. Electronic abstract submission is required. Submissions should be of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 double-space printed pages). Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 qualified reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

A selection of high quality papers will be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the upcoming special issue of an international journal.

On-line submission site (click here)

Click on "Submit a Paper" and fill in the entire form with the main information on your paper (do not forget the abstract) to create an account for you (an email with your password will be sent to confirm). Till the paper submission deadline, you will be able to log in as registered user and submit or reload your complete paper.

TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ferda Nur Alpaslan, METU University, Turkey
Bharat K. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, ISIM Institute, Tunisia
Nabila Benharkat, INSA Lyon, France
Fadila Bentayeb, Lyon 2 University, France
Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA
Rafik Bouaziz, ISIM Institute, Tunisia
Faouzi Boufares, University of Paris, France
Mario Bravetti, Universit` di Bologna, Italy
Sviatoslav Braynov, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA
Giacomo Cabri, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ana Cavalli, Institut National des Tilicommunications, France
Aziz Elfaziki, University of Marrakech, Morocco
Said Elnaffar, UAE University, UAE
Jacques Fayolles, ISTASE University, France.
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Stephen Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK
Faiez Gargouri, ISIM Institute, Tunisia
Chirine Ghedira, Lyon 1 University, France
Khaled Ghedira, Tunis University, Tunisia
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Aegean, Greece
Pedro Isaias, Portuguese Open University, Portugal
Nitya Karmakar, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Ousmane Koné, IRIT Toulouse, France
Abder Koukam, UTBM University, France
Jaroslaw Kozlak, University of Science and Technology,Krakow, POLAND
Philippe Laublet, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
Khaled Letaief, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Natalia Lopez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Nash'at Mansour, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Mercedes G. Merayo, UC de Madrid, Spain
Nanjangud C Narendra, IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore, India
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Ekow J. Otoo, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
Kalpdrum Passi, Laurentian University, canada
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Mario Piattini, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Cyril Ray, IRENav/Ecole Navale, France
Ismael Rodriguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Georges Stamon, Paris 5 University, France
Fabrizio Silvestri, Information Science and Technologies Institute, Italy
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
Philippe Thiran, Namur University, Belgium
Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada
Christelle Vangenot, EPFL of Lausanne, Switzerland
Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Catharine Wyss,Indiana University at Bloomington, USA
Osmar Zaiane, Alberta University, Canada
Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore

TRACK ORGANIZERS

Esma Aïmeur (University of Montreal, Canada)
Djamal Benslimane (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France)
Javier Lopez (Malaga University, Spain)
Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, U.A.E)
Manuel Nunez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)