The concepts of information society, information era, infosphere and
infostress have by now been widely accepted. But, what does it really mean
for societies, sciences, technology, education, governments, our lives? The
Information Society multiconference deals with information technologies,
which are of major importance for the development of Europe. IS 2009 will
serve as a forum for the world-wide and national community to explore
further research directions, business opportunities, governmental European
and American policies. Stated reasons require that we host a scientific
meeting in the form of a multiconference, which will consist of several
stand-alone independent conferences with specific themes essential for the
development of the information society. The main objective is the exchange
of ideas and developing visions for the future of information society. IS
2009 is a standard high-quality scientific conference covering major recent
achievements. Besides, it will provide maximum exchange of ideas in
discussions, and concrete proposals in final reports of each conference.

Independent Conferences within IS 2009:

* Intelligent Systems (http://is.ijs.si/Konference/Sistemi/IntSys09.html),
* Cognitive Sciences
(http://is.ijs.si/Konference/Kognitivna/IS2008-CFP-kognitivne.pdf),
* Data Mining and Data Warehouses (SiKDD 2009)
(http://kt.ijs.si/Dunja/SiKDD2009/),
* Slovenian Demographic Challenges in the 21st Century
(http://is.ijs.si/Konference/Demografija/IS2009-CFP-demografija.pdf),
* Collaboration, Software and Services in Information Society
(http://cot.uni-mb.si/css2009/cis_eng.html),
* Education in Information Society
(http://is.ijs.si/Konference/Vzgoja/IS2009-CFP-VIVID.pdf),
* Language Technologies (http://nl.ijs.si/is-ltc09/).

Each conference has:

* an independent program committee assigned
* one or more foreign lecturers taking part
* paper review and publishing

The contents of the papers, that will form the conference core, are to be
interesting and thematically oriented. They should stimulate the society
development and incorporate recent developments. Submitted papers should not
be too technical in nature. Calls for papers concerning individual
conferences are being sent out by mail.

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Leading objectives of Information Society multiconference:

* contribution and promotion of knowledge about the new information era in
information technology,
* the introduction of interdisciplinary information technologies and
sciences,
* analysis and introducing key changes which the politicians, government,
public, industry and society are going to face in the years to come.

Registration:

Registration shall be made not latter than October 1st on the next Website
http://is.ijs.si/Registration.html
Registration fee: 90 EUR / 40 EUR for students (BIOMA and Language
Technologies conferences have separate fees)
Registration fee covers conference materials, refreshments during
coffee-breaks.
Visitors have free entry to all conferences.

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Submission Procedure:

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience
reports in English or Slovene.
Paper format example can be downloaded at http://is.ijs.si/primer.doc
(Attention: For eventual specific information see a particular conference

The IS organizers intend to prepare the conference proceedings.