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Call for Papers CSTST Student Workshop 2008
in conjunction with CSTST 2008 27-31 October, 2008, Cergy Pontoise - Paris, France **********************************************************************
Important Dates
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Full Paper Submissions: July 30, 2008 (The submission system is open now !)
Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 1, 2008
Camera Ready Papers Due: September 17, 2008
Author Registration: September 17, 2008
Conference & Workshop Dates: October 27-31, 2008

Description
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We propose a half-day workshop of presentations to facilitate the involvement of PhD Master degree students in the research area. The Student Workshop aim is twofold :for PhD Student, the Workshop will offer the opportunity to present current PhD work. The aim is not to have straight presentations, but to grant enough time to discuss central issues of each thesis for the benefit of the student. A motivation for the research in the selected area and a review of related work (approaches, standards, etc) are required. The latter one needs to reveal deficits of the state-of-the-art that require further investigation.
for Master degree Student, the Workshop will offer the opportunity to present pre-doctoral work and introduce new research topics. One target for this attendance is to help them to meet future advisors or labs.
Topics
The topics of the Student Workshop are similar to the ones of the main conference. Therefore, the topics of interest include the following, but are not limited to them.?

* Information and Data Management
* Intelligent Hybrid Systems
* Fusion of Soft and Hard Computing
* Data and Web mining
* Decision Support Systems
* Natural Language Processing
* Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
* Internet Modeling
* Multimedia Information Systems
* Information Retrieval
* Human-Computer Interface
* XML-based languages
* Security and Access Control
* Information Content Security
* Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
* Applications
o E-Learning, eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment
o Image and speech signal processing, prediction, and control ?
o Robotics
o Biology and medicine
o Business and management
o Artificial societies
o Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials
o Environment engineering

Submissions
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Each submission needs to have a student as the sole author. The proceedings of the workshop will be published online and on a special extra proceedings. Each submission is reviewed by at least two members of the technical program committee according innovativeness and contribution, relevance the call for papers, technical content, paper organization and presentation, as well as reference related work.
Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website.
Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages.
Poster submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 2 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected.


Workshop Website : http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/workshops/student/
Submission site : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cstst08

"Best student paper" will be awarded of 400 euros and a special edition of a journal is planned to be published with selected student papers.

Contact Organizers
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nicolas.lumineau@liris.cnrs.fr, virginie.sans@u-cergy.fr, cststsw@sigapp.fr


Technical Program Committee
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Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy Pontoise, ETIS/CNRS Laboratory, France
Ghils Mostafaoui, University of Paris 13, LIPN Laboratory, France
Bertrand Cuissart, University Of Caen, Greyc Laboratory, France
Tobias Schreck, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Cline Fiot, INRIA, France