Call for Workshops Proposals

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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The 9th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 27-29, 2012
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-12/
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The MobiWIS-2012 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of MobiWIS-2012 and its related areas.

Proceedings
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the MobiWIS-2011 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in MobiWIS-2011Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.

All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

Publicity
Workshops organizers will be responsible for posting and advertising their workshop CFPs to relevant groups and mailing lists. Our publicity chairs will also help in distributing the CFPs to our groups and people.

Submission and Reviewing
Submission and reviewing of the papers will be managed by the workshops organizers. The workshop organizers can use one of the available conference management systems, such as EasyChair. The workshops organizers will send the details of the accepted papers to the conference organizers for publication. The reviewing guidelines given at MobiWIS-12 website must be followed in the review process.

Proposal Format
* Title of the workshop
* Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable)
* Workshop scope
* Full contact of workshop organizer(s)
o Name, Affiliation, University, Email, Website, Phone
* Expected number of paper submissions
* Draft Call for paper of the workshop
* Tentative list of TPC members

The deadline for proposal submission is December 10, 2011.

Workshops co-chairs
Dr. Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Email: natalia.kryvinska@univie.ac.at

Dr. Do van Thanh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Email: thanh-van.do@telenor.com