|  | The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society ICDS 2013  February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France | 
     
          
       
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               | Submission (full paper) | Sept 29Oct 23, 2012 |  
               | Notification | Nov 24Nov 29, 2012 |  
               | Registration | Dec 7Dec 13, 2012 |  
               | Camera ready | Dec 22Dec 25, 2012 |  ISSN: 2308-3956ISBN: 978-1-61208-249-3
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     All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.
     Tracks:
     Citizen-centric disruptive and enabling technologies
     
        Wireless and user mobility; 
         Ubiquitous systems; 
         On-line interactions; 
         User-centric services, applications, eLearning; 
         High speed electronics, storage, networking 
         eHealth and nano medicine; 
         Biological informatics and computing
     
      Internet and Web services
     
        IP-based networking and applications; 
         Best effort and QoS/SLA; 
         WWW, Web Services, Semantic Web; 
         eLearning and mobile learning; 
         Service-oriented platforms; 
         Peer-to-Peer Systems and applications; 
         Web-advertising and Web-publishing 
         Multimedia and Webcasting
     
     eGovernment services in the context of digital society
     
        e-Government strategies; 
         Citizen-Government eModels; 
         Special applications and services of eGovernment; 
         ePayment, eTax administration; 
         eVoting, eCitizen identity cards; 
         Social e-financial projects; 
         Educating eHealth; 
         Homeland security and public records; 
         eGarbage collection of private records; 
         Metrics for eGovernment projects and services; 
         Benefits of eGovernment; 
         On-line social networking; 
         Financing e-Government
         e-Governance; From e-Government to m-Government (mobile-Governemet);   e-Environment
     
     eCommerce and eBusiness
     
        On-line shopping frameworks; 
         Trust, privacy, security; 
         Internet macro and micro payment systems; 
         On-line banking; 
         Agent-based e-commerce; 
         eBusiness models and costs; 
         eBusiness applications; 
         Infrastructure for e-Commerce; 
         Mobile commerce
     
     Citizen-oriented digital evidence
     
        Processing citizen-oriented electronic evidence (acquisition,   preservation, analysis); Multimedia documents ( X-rays, radiology,   biometrics, and surveillance data); Medical digital forensics; Classic   and 3D medical documents; DNA profiling; Genetic and biocomputing;   Forensic and data mining; Predictive data modeling; Biological data and   privacy; Digital forensics tools
     
     Consumer-oriented devices and services
     
        Mobile TV and IPTV; 
         Consumer-oriented e-commerce; 
         Smart and digital homes; Wearable devices; 
         Smart consumer appliances; 
         Speech enable appliances; 
         Consumer accessibility appliances and services
     
     Intelligent computation
     
       Theories of agency and autonomy; 
         Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems; 
         Evolutionary computation; 
         Autonomic and autonomous systems; 
         Autonomic computing and autonomic networking; 
         Ubiquitous and ambient computing; 
         Computational economics; 
         Protecting and preventing computing; 
         High performance computing; 
         Service-oriented computing; 
         Multi-agent based computing; 
         Cluster computing and performance; 
         Artificial intelligence
     
     Networking and telecommunications
     
        Networking and telecommunications technologies; 
         Wireless, mobility and multimedia systems; 
         Internet and Web Services technologies; 
         Systems performance, security, and high availability; 
         Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); 
         Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor); 
         Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand); 
         Advanced paradigms (SOA/WS/on-demand)
     
     eDefense for security and protection
     
        Knowledge for global defense; 
         Security in network, systems, and applications; 
         Trust, privacy, and safeness; 
         Business continuity and availability; 
         Cryptography and algorithms encryption; 
         Rapid Internet attacks and network; 
         Applications and network vulnerabilities
     
     Intrusion Prevention   and Detection Systems
     
       Reducing false positives and improving true positives; Automating IPDS responses; Innovative signature writing and processing; Improving IPDS usability; Successful approaches to Anomaly IPDS (Statistical; Fuzzy logic; Bayesian; Neural networks, etc.); Inventive behavioural based IPDS methods; Inventive host based IPDS methods; Improving the performance of IPDS; Multiple sensor IPDS; Tuning IPDS; The business cases supporting IPDS; Network traffic normalization techniques; Cost/Benefit of IPDS; Combining IPDS with other hardware e.g. firewalls, routers etc.; Inventive methods of using IPDS to counter specific attack types (Web attacks; Buffer overflow attacks; Brute force attacks, etc.); Comparisons of different IPDS mechanisms; Combining multiple IPDS approaches
     
     Enforced citizen-centric paradigms
     
        Data-centered information systems; 
         User-centric information systems; 
         Pervasive and ubiquitous systems; 
         Mobile learning and communications; 
         Open and distance education systems
     
     Computational advertising
     
        Computational linguistics; 
         Linguistic signal processing; 
         Statistical   properties of community structures; 
         Semantic contextual   advertising; 
         Relevance and click feedback; 
         Searching dense and isolated   submarkets; 
         Latent factor models; 
         Semantic relatedness; 
         Personalized ad   delivery; 
         Processing over query-dependent functions; 
         Inverse document   frequency; 
         Query-biased summarization; 
         Pseudo-relevance   feedback; 
         Classification of rare queries; 
         Page ranking
     
     Management and control
     
        Digital telecommunications management; 
         Control and monitoring systems; 
         Measurement and management systems; 
         Human/Machine interface and man-in-the-loop control; 
         Energy and power systems control; 
         Self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, self-management systems
     
     Digital analysis and processing
     
        Digital information processing (Voice/Data/Video); 
         Computer graphics and animation; 
         Virtual reality/3D graphics/Games; 
         Computer modeling/simulation; 
         Graphic/Image/Photo/Hand-writing analysis and processing; 
         Pattern recognition / Computer vision; 
         Natural language processing / robust processing; 
         Speech recognition and processing
     
     Mobile devices and biotechnologies
     
        Robotics/Mobile devices/ Mobile networks; 
         Handled and wearable computing and devices; 
         Vehicular navigation and control; 
         Nanotechnologies/Systems-on-the-chip/Networks-on-the-chip/ Haptic phenomena; 
         Biotechnologies/Bioinformatics/Biometrics/Biomedical systems; 
         Computational biochemistry; 
         Biological data management
     
     Software and system robustness for digital   society
     
        Portals and user-oriented systems; 
         Software as a service; 
         Software specification and design methodologies; 
         Software development and deployment; 
         Programming languages and supporting tools; 
         Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; 
         Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming; 
         Neuronal networks/Fuzzy logic/Temporal logic/ Genetic Algorithms; 
         Reasoning models/Model checking/Modular reasoning/; 
         Program verification/validation/correctness ; 
         Embedded and real-time systems;
     
     Consumer-oriented digital design
     
       Online consumer decision support & advertising;
         Semiotic engineering of online services; 
         Human factors in computer systems; 
         Personal information management; 
         Consumer trust in digital society; 
         Interaction in smart environments; 
         Mobile consumers and interactive spaces; 
         Hedonic and perceived digital quality; 
         Usability, aesthetics, and accessibility; 
         Multimodal and interactive interfaces; 
         Intelligent user interfaces
     
     Social networking
     
       Social networking   technologies (Web 2.0, faceBook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.); Enterprise social networking; General informative webcast; Government information webcast; State-of-the-art for chat, blogs, wikis, etc.;   Text-audio-video blogs; Virtual tradeshows; Social profiling; Contextual social network analysis; Personalization for search and for social interaction;   Dynamics, evolution, and trend prediction   patterns; Social interactions;   Medical assistance in social networking;   Data protection inside communities;   Misbehavior detection in communities; Pattern presentation for end-users   and experts; Evolution of communities in   the Web; Online and offline social networks; Information   acquisition and establishment of social relations
     
     ICT support and applications for eCollaboration
     
        Touch screen voting; 
         Local e-Participation; 
         Portals and eGovernment websites; 
         eGovernment platforms and benchmarks; 
         Business process management; 
         Interoperable frameworks (national and cross-countries); 
         Private-public eCollaboration; 
         Regional and cross-nation competitiveness