|  | The Ninth  International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information  Technology ICCGI 2014 June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain | 
     
     
     
     The Ninth International Conference on Computing in the Global  Information Technology (ICCGI 2012) continues a series of international events  covering a large spectrum of topics related to global knowledge concerning  computation, technologies, mechanisms, cognitive patterns, thinking,  communications, user-centric approaches, nanotechnologies, and advanced  networking and systems. The conference topics focus on challenging aspects in  the next generation of information technology and communications related to the  computing paradigms (mobile computing, database computing, GRID computing,  multi-agent computing, autonomic computing, evolutionary computation) and  communication and networking and telecommunications technologies (mobility,  networking, bio-technologies, autonomous systems, image processing, Internet  and web technologies), towards secure, self-defendable, autonomous,  privacy-safe, and context-aware scalable systems.
     This conference intends to expose the scientists to the latest  developments covering a variety of complementary topics, aiming to enhance  one’s understanding of the overall picture of computing in the global  information technology.
     The integration and adoption of  IPv6, also known as the Next Generation of the Internet Protocol is happening  throughout the World at this very moment. To maintain global competitiveness,  governments are mandating, encouraging or actively supporting the adoption of  IPv6 to prepare their respective economies for the future communication  infrastructures. Business organizations are increasingly mindful of the IPv4  address space depletion and see within IPv6 a way to solve pressing technical  problems while IPv6 technology continues to evolve beyond IPv4 capabilities.  Communications equipment manufacturers and applications developers are actively  integrating IPv6 in their products based on market demands. 
     IPv6 continues to represent a fertile  area of technology innovation and investigation. IPv6 is opening the way to new  successful research projects. Leading edge Internet Service Providers are  guiding the way to a new kind of Internet where any-to-any reachability is not  a vivid dream but a notion of reality in production IPv6 networks that have  been commercially deployed. National Research and Educational Networks together  with internationally known hardware vendors, Service Providers and commercial  enterprises have generated a great amount of expertise in designing, deploying  and operating IPv6 networks and services. This knowledge can be leveraged to  accelerate the deployment of the protocol worldwide.
     ICCGI 2014 comprises a series of independent tracks that  complement the challenges on various facets of computation, systems solutions,  knowledge processing, system implementation, and communications and networking  technologies.
     Industrial systems
     Evolutionary computation
      Autonomic and autonomous systems
      Bio-technologies 
      Knowledge data systems
     Mobile and distance education 
      Intelligent techniques, logics,    and systems
     Knowledge processing
     Information technologies
      Internet and web technologies 
      Digital information processing
     Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems
     Mobility and multimedia systems
     Systems performance 
     Networking and telecommunications 
     Software development and deployment 
     Knowledge    virtualization
     Systems and networks on the chip
     Context-aware systems
     Networking technologies 
     Security in network, systems, and applications 
     Knowledge for    global defense
     Information Systems [IS]
     IPv6 Today - Technology and deployment 
     Modeling
     Optimization
     Complexity
     We solicit both academic, research, and industrial          contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
     Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
     Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
     The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
     All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
     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
       Learning process of digital nationality
       M-learning's function in business training and in higher education
     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
       Content-consumer IT applications for mobile platforms
       New ICT-based applications in the digital society
       Micro-contents' function on the way of the Web 3.0  
     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
       Performance      modeling
       Decision support systems
       Multiple criteria decision      aiding
       Problem structuring methods
     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 applications
      
     INSTRUCTION FOR THE  AUTHORS
     Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
     Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
     Important deadlines:
     
       
         | Submission (full paper) | January 28, 2014February 28, 2014 | 
       
         | Notification | March 31, 2014 | 
       
         | Registration | April 15, 2014 | 
       
         | Camera ready | May 10, 2014 | 
     
     Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
     Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article)
     Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at  additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available. 
     Your paper should also comply with the additional  editorial rules.
 Once you receive the notification of paper  acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author  kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version.  The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
We would recommend that you not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 papers per event are recommended, as each paper must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings.
Work in Progress (short paper up to 4 pages long)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the  contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions  using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the  contribution type as work in progress.  Authors  should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column  format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts.  Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early  research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.
     For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page
     Posters (poster or collection of 6 to 8 slides) 
     Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. Acceptance will be decided based on a 1-2 page abstract and/or 6-8 .pdf slide deck submitted through the conference submission website.  The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments. One big Poster and/or the associated slides should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
     For more details, see the Posters explanation page.
     Ideas (2 page proposal of novel idea)
     This category is dedicated to new ideas in their early stage. Contributions might refer to PhD dissertation, testing new  approaches, provocative and innovative ideas, out-of-the-box, and out-of-the-book thinking, etc. Acceptance will be decided based on a maximum 2 page submission through the conference submission website. 
       The contributions for Ideas will be presented in special sessions, where more debate is intended. The Idea contribution must be comprehensive, focused, very well supported (details might miss, obviously). 
       A 6-8 slide deck should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
     For more details, see the Ideas explanation page.
     Technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations
     The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.
     Tutorials
     Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org
     Panel proposals
      The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize  dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and  paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and  manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines.  Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating  their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the  panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be  posted on the IARIA's site.
     For more information, petre@iaria.org
     Workshop proposals
     We  welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this  conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.