|  | The Fourth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information   Technology ICCGI 2009  August 23-29, 2009 - Cannes/La Bocca, French Riviera, France | 
     
     
       
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               | Submission (full paper) | March 20March 30, 2009 |  
               | Notification | April 25, 2009May 1, 2009 |  
               | Registration | May 15, 2009 |  
               | Camera ready | May 22, 2009 |  | Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
 Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services
 Posted: IEEE Digital Library
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     All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.
     Tracks:
     Industrial systems
     
       Control theory and systems; 
         Fault-tolerance and reliability; 
         Data   engineering; 
         Enterprise computing and evaluation; 
         Electrical and electronics   engineering; 
         Economic decisions and information systems; 
         Advanced   robotics; 
         Virtual reality systems; Industrial systems and   applications; 
         Industrial and financial systems; 
         Industrial control   electronics; 
         Industrial IT solutions
     
     Evolutionary computation
     
       Algorithms, procedures, mechanisms and applications; 
         Computer architecture   and systems; 
         Computational sciences; 
         Computation in complex   systems; 
         Computer and communication systems; 
         Computer networks; 
         Computer   science theory; 
         Computation and computer security; 
         Computer   simulation; 
         Digital telecommunications; 
         Distributed and parallel   computing; 
         Computation in embedded and real-time systems; 
         Soft   computing; 
         User-centric computation 
     
      Autonomic and autonomous systems
     
       Automation and autonomous systems; 
         Theory of Computing; 
         Autonomic   computing; 
         Autonomic networking; 
         Network computing; 
         Protecting   computing; 
         Theories of agency and autonomy; 
         Multi-agent evolution,   adaptation and learning; 
         Adjustable and self-adjustable autonomy; 
         Pervasive   systems and computation; 
         Computing with locality principles; 
         GRID networking   and services; 
         Pervasive computing; 
         Cluster computing and   performance; 
         Artificial intelligence 
         Computational linguistics; 
         Cognitive   technologies; 
         Decision making; 
         Evolutionary computation; 
         Expert   systems; 
         Computational biology
     
      Bio-technologies 
     
       Models and techniques for biometric   technologies; 
         Bioinformatics; 
         Biometric security; 
         Computer graphics and   visualization; 
         Computer vision and image processing; 
         Computational   biochemistry; 
         Finger, facial, iris, voice, and skin biometrics; 
         Signature   recognition; 
         Multimodal biometrics; 
         Verification and identification   techniques; 
         Accuracy of biometric technologies; 
         Authentication smart cards   and biometric metrics; 
         Performance and assurance testing; 
         Limitations of   biometric technologies; 
         Biometric card technologies; 
         Biometric wireless   technologies; 
         Biometric software and hardware; 
         Biometric standards 
     
      Knowledge data systems
     
       Data mining and Web mining; 
         Knowledge databases and systems; 
         Data   warehouse and applications; 
         Data warehousing and information   systems; 
         Database performance evaluation; 
         Semantic and temporal   databases; 
         Database systems 
         Databases and information retrieval; 
         Digital   library design; 
         Meta-data modeling
     
     Mobile and distance education 
     
       Human computer interaction; 
         Educational technologies; 
         Computer in   education; 
         Distance learning; 
         E-learning; 
         Mobile learning 
         Cognitive   support for learning; 
         Internet-based education; 
         Impact of ICT on education   and society; 
         Group decision making and software; 
         Habitual domain and   information technology; 
         Computer-mediated communications; 
         Immersing   authoring; 
         Contextual and cultural challenges in user mobility
     
      Intelligent techniques, logics,    and systems
     
       Intelligent agent technologies; 
         Intelligent and fuzzy information   processing; 
         Intelligent computing and knowledge management; 
         Intelligent   systems and robotics; 
         Fault-tolerance and reliability; 
         Fuzzy logic &   systems; 
         Genetic algorithms; 
         Haptic phenomena;
         Graphic   recognition; 
         Neural networks; 
         Symbolic and algebraic   computation; 
         Modeling, simulation and analysis of business processes and   systems
     
     Knowledge processing
     
       Knowledge representation models; 
         Knowledge languages; 
         Cognitive   science; Knowledge acquisition; 
         Knowledge engineering; 
         Knowledge   processing under uncertainty; 
         Machine intelligence; 
         Machine   learning; 
         Making decision through Internet; 
         Networking knowledge plan
     
     Information technologies
     
       Information technology and organizational behavior; 
         Agents, data mining and   ontologies; 
         Information retrieval systems; 
         Information and network   security; 
         Information ethics and legal evaluations; 
         Optimization and   information technology; 
         Organizational information systems; 
         Information   fusion; 
         Information management systems; 
         Information overload; 
         Information   policy making; 
         Information security; 
         Information systems; 
         Information   discovery
     
      Internet and web technologies
     
       Internet and WWW-based computing; 
         Web and Grid computing; 
         Internet   service and training; 
         IT and society; 
         IT in education and   health; 
         Management information systems; 
         Visualization and group decision   making; 
         Web based language development; 
         Web search and decision   making; 
         Web service ontologies; 
         Scientific web intelligence; 
         Online   business and decision making; 
         Business rule   language; 
         E-Business; 
         E-Commerce; 
         Online and collaborative work; 
         Social   eco-systems and social networking; 
         Social decisions on Internet; 
         Computer   ethics
     
      Digital information processing
     
       Mechatronics; 
         Natural language processing; 
         Medical imaging; 
         Image   processing; 
         Signal processing; 
         Speech processing; 
         Video   processing; 
         Pattern recognition; 
         Pattern recognition models; 
         Graphics   & computer vision; 
         Medical systems and computing
     
     Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems
     
       Cognitive support for e-learning and mobile learning; 
         Agents and cognitive   models; 
         Agents & complex systems; computational ecosystems; 
         Agent   architectures, perception, action & planning in agents; 
         Agent   communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics & protocols; 
         Agent-based   electronic commerce and trading systems
         Multi-agent constraint   satisfaction; 
         Agent programming languages, development environments and   testbeds; 
         Computational complexity in autonomous agents; 
         Multi-agent   planning and cooperation; 
         Logics and formal models of for agency   verification; 
         Nomadic agents; 
         Negotiation, auctions, persuasion; 
         Privacy   and security issues in multi-agent systems 
     
     Mobility and multimedia systems
     
       Mobile communications; 
         Multimedia and visual programming; 
         Multimedia and   decision making; 
         Multimedia systems; 
         Mobile multimedia   systems; 
         User-centered mobile applications; 
         Designing for the mobile   devices; 
         Contextual user mobility; 
         Mobile strategies for global   market; 
         Interactive television and mobile commerce
     
     Systems performance
     
       Performance evaluation; 
         Performance modeling; 
         Performance of parallel   computing; 
         Reasoning under uncertainty; 
         Reliability and   fault-tolerance; 
         Performance instrumentation; 
         Performance monitoring and   corrections; 
         Performance in entity-dependable systems; 
         Real-time performance   and near-real time performance evaluation; 
         Performance in software   systems; 
         Performance and hybrid systems; 
         Measuring performance in embedded   systems 
     
     Networking and telecommunications 
     
       Telecommunication and Networking; 
         Telecommunication Systems and   Evaluation; 
         Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Information   Technology; 
         Network and Decision Making; 
         Networks and   Security; 
         Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); 
         Specialized networks   (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor); 
         Advanced services   (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand; 
         Network and system monitoring and   management; 
         Feature interaction detection and resolution; 
         Policy-based   monitoring and managements systems; 
         Traffic modeling and monitoring; 
         Traffic   engineering and management; 
         Self-monitoring, self-healing and self-management   systems; 
         Man-in-the-loop management paradigm
     
     Software development and deployment 
     
       Software requirements engineering; 
         Software design, frameworks, and   architectures; 
         Software interactive design; 
         Formal methods for software   development, verification and validation; 
         Neural networks and   performance; 
         Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; 
         Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented   programming; 
         Empirical software evaluation metrics; 
         Software   vulnerabilities; 
         Reverse engineering; 
         Software reuse; 
         Software security,   reliability and safety; 
         Software economics; 
         Software testing and   debugging; 
         Tracking defects in the OO design; 
         Distributed and parallel   software; 
         Programming languages; 
         Declarative programming; 
         Real-time and   embedded software; 
         Open source software development methodologies; 
         Software   tools and deployment environments; 
         Software Intelligence; 
         Software   Performance and Evaluation
     
     Knowledge    virtualization
     
       Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; 
         Model-driven   architectures (MDA); 
         Service-oriented architectures (SOA); 
         Utility computing   frameworks and fundamentals; 
         Enabled applications through   virtualization; 
         Small-scale virtualization methodologies and   techniques; 
         Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and   segmentation; 
         Large-scale virtualization methodologies and   techniques; 
         Management of virtualized systems; 
         Platforms, tools,   environments, and case studies; 
         Making virtualization real; 
         On-demand   utilities 
         Adaptive enterprise; 
         Managing utility-based   systems; 
         Development environments, tools, prototypes
     
     Systems and networks on the chip
     
       Microtechnology and nanotechnology; 
         Real-time embedded   systems; 
         Programming embedded systems; 
         Controlling embedded systems; 
         High   speed embedded systems; 
         Designing methodologies for embedded   systems; 
         Performance on embedded systems; 
         Updating embedded   systems; 
         Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip; 
         Testing embedded   systems; 
         Technologies for systems processors; 
         Migration to single-chip   systems
     
     Context-aware systems
     
       Context-aware autonomous entities; 
         Context-aware fundamental concepts,   mechanisms, and applications; 
         Modeling context-aware   systems; 
         Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral   contexts; 
         Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and   subsystems; 
         User awareness requirements
         Design techniques for interfaces   and systems; 
         Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying   context-aware systems; 
         Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations
     
     Networking technologies 
     
       Next generation networking; 
         Network, control and service   architectures; 
         Network signalling, pricing and billing; 
         Network   middleware; 
         Telecommunication networks architectures; 
         On-demand networks,   utility computing architectures; 
         Next generation networks [NGN]   principles; 
         Storage area networks [SAN]; 
         Access and home   networks; 
         High-speed networks; 
         Optical networks; 
         Peer-to-peer and overlay   networking; 
         Mobile networking and systems; 
         MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN   networks; 
         GRID networks; 
         Broadband networks
     
     Security in network, systems, and applications 
     
       IT in national and global security; 
         Formal aspects of security; 
         Systems and   network security; 
         Security and cryptography; 
         Applied   cryptography; 
         Cryptographic protocols; 
         Key management; 
         Access   control; 
         Anonymity and pseudonymity management; 
         Security management; 
         Trust   management; 
         Protection management; 
         Certification and accreditation; 
         Virii,   worms, attacks, spam; 
         Intrusion prevention and detection; 
         Information   hiding; 
         Legal and regulatory issues
     
     Knowledge for    global defense
     
       Business continuity and availability; 
         Risk assessment; 
         Aerospace   computing technologies; 
         Systems and networks vulnerabilities; 
         Developing   trust in Internet commerce; 
         Performance in networks, systems, and applications; 
         Disaster prevention and recovery; 
         IT for anti-terrorist   technology innovations (ATTI); 
         Networks and applications emergency   services; 
         Privacy and trust in pervasive communications; 
         Digital rights   management; 
         User safety and protection 
     
     Information Systems [IS]
     
       Management Information Systems; 
         Decision Support Systems; 
         Innovation and   IS; 
         Enterprise Application Integration; 
         Enterprise Resource   Planning; 
         Business Process Change; 
         Design and Development Methodologies and   Frameworks; 
         Iterative and Incremental Methodologies; 
         Agile Methodologies; 
         IS Standards and Compliance Issues; 
         Risk Management in IS Design and   Development; 
         Research Core Theories; Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS; 
         Research Ontological Assumptions in IS Research; 
         IS Research Constraints,   Limitations and Opportunities; 
         IS vs Computer Science Research; 
         IS vs   Business Studies 
     
     IPv6 Today - Technology and deployment 
     
       IP Upgrade - An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?; 
         Worldwide IPv6   Adoption - Trends and Policies; 
         IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge   Dissemination; 
         IPv6 Technology - Practical Information; 
         Advanced Topics and   Latest Developments in IPv6; 
         IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case   Studies; 
         IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices
     
     Modeling
     
       Continuous and Discrete Models; 
         Optimal Models; 
         Complex System   Modeling; 
         Individual-Based Models; 
         Modeling Uncertainty; 
         Compact Fuzzy   Models; 
         Modeling Languages; 
         Real-time modeling; 
         Peformance modeling  
     
     Optimization
     
       Multicriteria Optimization; 
         Multilervel Optimization; 
         Goal   Programming; 
         Optimization and Efficiency; 
         Optimization-based   decisions; 
         Evolutionary Optimization; 
         Self-Optimization; 
         Extreme   Optimization; 
         Combinatorial Optimization; 
         Disccrete Optimization; 
         Fuzzy   Optimization; 
         Lipschitzian Optimization; 
         Non-Convex   Optimization; 
         Convexity; Continuous Optimization; 
         Interior point   methods; 
         Semidefinite and Conic Programming 
     
     Complexity 
     
       Complexity Analysis; 
         Computational Complexity; 
         Complexity   Reduction; 
         Optimizing Model Complexity; 
         Communication Complexity; 
         Managing   Complexity; 
         Modeling Complexity in Social Systems; 
         Low-complexity Global   Optimization; 
         Software Development for Modeling and Optimization; 
         Industrial   applicationsÂ