17th -19th December, 2008, Venice, Italy
Sponsored by ICST, Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE and Create-Net
CALL FOR PAPERS
General Chair: Prof. Mihaela Ulieru, Canada Research Chair, Canada
Honorary Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, President of CreateNet, Italy
SCOPE
Mitigating Paradox at the eSociety Tipping Point
In December 2008 (17-19th, Venice, Italy) IT Revolutions will bring together funding agencies and government representatives from around the world - with companies and the most visionary academic contributors to the IT Revolutions - to set the future directions in ensuring a smooth transition while enabling IT to unleash its full power in serving the world. The premier conference of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications (ICST) - IT Revolutions - will account yearly on the progress made in building critical mass for the radical shift towards an IT-driven future while ensuring that we embark responsibly onto the momentum that will be turning the world around.
The Conference is clustered around major Themes concerned with the disconnect between old and new ways reshaping critical aspects of our world at this turning point – in search for innovative solutions that can capitalize on the impact of the tumultuous IT enabled transformations.Championed by a prominent leader each Theme will:
* Evaluate where we are on the path to turnover. As this requires coordinated efforts - government S&T representatives and research funding agencies from all continents will address the major areas of concern in dedicated panels whose deliberations will be published as joint recommendations
* Ensure a smooth transition. Exploring the core elements needed to encourage sustainable change as new systems are introduced and grounded in the practice environment. Motivational factors, incentives to embrace the change as well as alignment with the societal needs will be debated in panels and workshops with industry and academia including funding agency and government representatives.
* Point to the Future. Foresight presentations from most visionary contributors to the major areas will push the limits of the achievable through keynotes and position papers that underline factors enabling the IT revolution to redesign the world economy and society.
THEMES/CHAIRS
SYSTEMS THINKING Chair: Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
E-HEALTH Chair: Christian Coutourier, National Research Council, Canada
COMPLEXITY Chair: Yaneer Bar-Yam, NECSI, USA
E-LEARNING Chair: Graham Glass, EDU2.0, USA
SOCIAL INTERACTION Chair: David Benyon, Napier University, UK
E-COMMERCE Chair: Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs, USA
ENTERPRISE ORGANIZATION Chair: Walter Derzko, Smart Economy, Canada
CABER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS Chair: D K Arvind, Director, Speckled Computing, UK
ENERGY WEB Chair: Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
NANOTECHNOLOGY Chair: Allan Syms, AntNano, UK
SAFETY AND SECURITY Chair: Tim Rosenberg, White Wolf, USA
CLIMATE CHANGE Chair: Richard Somerville, Scripps Institute, USA
AUTOMATION 2.0 Chair: Jose Lastra, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
AI 2.0 Chair: Peter Palensky, University of Pretoria, South Africa
E-NETWORK DESIGN Chair: Peter Chapman, Canada
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Position Papers debating the paradox as it relates to a Theme, are solicited. We seek technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution. All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by the committee set up by the Theme Chairs. Conference language is English. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website for submission details related to each Theme.
Publication: The peer reviewed position papers will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). In addition – the recommendations and guidelines resulted from the Forum deliberations will be published by ICST. At least one listed author on the final paper must register for and attend the IT Revolutions Forum.
Exhibit: In addition to the Workshops and Panels – industry will have the opportunity to expose their latest products and present to corporate attendees, industries and the highest level of academics, forging the way for the IT Revolution in society. For further information please contact ICST at exhibition@icst.org
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
General Guidelines
Please prepare your paper using the guidelines and templates in DOC or PDF format, or format downloaded from Springer's LNICST website.
For invited papers, please add the line "(Invited Paper)" after the title of your paper. Any reference to 'sending files to' and 'Contact Volume Editor' in Springer's instructions should be ignored. Please use the submission instructions on the submissions page instead. Failure to meet the formatting guidelines set by Springer's LNCS, could result in your paper not being included in the Proceedings CD.
Submit Your Manuscript via the submissions page include:
a) Completed copyright form
b) All Source (input) files, for example, LaTeX2e files for the text and PS/EPS or PDF/JPG files for all figures. Any further style files and fonts you have used together with your source files and that are not generally available at CTAN. Final DVI file (for papers prepared using LaTeX/TeX). A Final PDF file is required (for reference). A PDF creator can be downloaded for Windows here. RTF files (for word-processing systems other than LaTeX/TeX). The texts in all files must be identical.
* position Papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series
* short Papers will be published in Springer's CCIS series (Communications in Computer and Information Science)
* Please include the following text at the bottom left hand side of the first page of your document. This is the ICST copyright and document/conference identification.
Lenght Guidlines
Standard Papers and Invited Papers are allowed up to Eight (8) pages, Short Papers are allowed up to Four (4) pages and Work-In-Progress Papers Two (2) pages, including all figures, tables and references. Extra pages will incur additional charges on the registration pages.
For more information please visit www.itrevolutions.org
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 30th September, 2008
Acceptance notification: 1st November, 2008
Camera Ready: 1st December, 2008
SPONSORS/PARTNERS
Technical Co-Sponsors: IEEE and Creat-Net
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION please
send a message to: itrevolutions@icst.org
or visit: www.itrevolutions.org
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