CALL FOR PAPERS


Track on Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS)

The Fourth International Conference on SIGNAL-IMAGE TECHNOLOGY &
INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS

In cooperation with ACM Sigapp.fr, IEEE (pending)

November 30th to December 3rd, 2008
Bali, Indonesia
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis



The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to
represent,
share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal,
image, and multimedia
data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the
web.
SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a
key role in connecting
systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing
and information sharing.

The track "Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems
(WITDS)" is devoted to
emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for creating
an interconnected
world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed
collaboratively,
and communities of users with similarly interests can be formed while
addressing security threats
that are present more than ever before.



Topics
------

The main topics of interest include (but not limited to):


*Information system interoperability
- Digital librairies
- Semantic interoperability and semantic mediators
- Ontologies interoperability
- Cooperative database systems and workflow management
- Agent-oriented architectures for database interoperability
- Data interoperability issues in advanced applications

*Emergent semantics
- Context-dependent semantics
- Contextual reasoning in distributed ontologies
- Communication in multi-agents systems
- Emergent semantic interoperability in large-scale systems
- Emergent semantics in content retrieval systems
- Semantics for trust management

*Agent-based systems
- Agents for distributed systems
- Agent-based approaches for web applications
- Security of systems using agents
- Agents for grid computing solutions
- Intelligent agents for p2p computing
- Agent-oriented software engineering and methodologies
- Ontologies and agent systems
- Agents support for applications (e-commerce, e-gov, ..)

*Distributed, parallel, grid, P2P, mobile information management
- Information sharing
- Clusters/data grids/P2P computing and applications
- Knowledge and semantic grid
- Semantics of peer data management systems
- Mobile systems and computing
- Distributed architectures and algorithms
- Resources allocation and management
- Mobile data management and mobile database systems
- Geographic data management

*Web-centric systems
- Semantic web/web services
- Web services and service computing
- Web services personalization, context-aware Web services
- Composition and integration of web services
- Web engineering/mining/searching and crawling
- E-commerce and e-learning

*Security and integrity issues for the web
- Web usability and accessibility
- Formal methods for web applications
- Security modeling, architectures and protocols
- Intrusion avoidance, detection, response and prevention
- Web services security
- Ecommerce, ebusiness and egovernment security
- Distributed trust models
- Digital Rights Management
- Reputation information management


Submissions and publication
---------------------------

SITIS 2008 invites submission of high quality and original papers. All
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for
technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics.

Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication
format.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and
published IEEE CSP.
Proceedings published by IEEE CSP are referenced in IEEE Xplore, EI,
INSPEC and
other engineering indexes. Selected accepted papers will be considered for
publication in a major journal.

Tutorial proposals should be submitted to sitis@u-bourgogne.fr.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

Paper Submission: Jun 30th, 2008
Acceptance/Reject notification: Aug 20th, 2008
Camera ready: Sep 08th, 2008
Author registration due date: Sep 08th, 2008
Tutorial proposals: Sep 08th, 2008


Track Chairs
----------------

Alban Gabillon, University of Polyn?sie Fran?aise, France
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, AUstralia
Wathiq Mansoor, American University in Dubai, UAE


Publicity Chair
----------------
Michael Mrissa, University of Namur, Belgium


Local Committee

---------------

I Wayan Simri Wicaksana (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)
I Made Wiryana (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)
Eri Prasetyo (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)


Program Committee
---------------

To be completed...