--------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference RESEARCH TRACK 2: Information & Communication Technologies July 6-7, 2009 Thessaloniki, Greece http://www.seerc.org/dsc2009 dsc2009@seerc.org City College http://www.city.academic.gr South East European Research Centre - SEERC http://www.seerc.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: February 28, 2009 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: March 15, 2009 CAMERA READY PAPERS: April 15, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------------------------------------------- Suggested, but not exclusive, research areas that contributors may address include: * Software Engineering * Information Security * Intelligent Systems * Educational Informatics * Information & Knowledge Management * Service Oriented Software Engineering * Semantic Web Technologies * Testing & verification of software systems * Modeling and Model Checking * Multi-Agent Systems * Biologically Inspired Computation * Health Informatics * Geographical Information Systems * Simulation * Databases * Robotics * Graphics ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: The official language of the workshop is English. PAPER SUBMISSION: Full papers should be not more than 5,000 words and extended abstracts should not exceed 3,000 words. Camera-Ready papers should be set out in accordance with the provided template (check the website). Abstract and paper submissions will be conducted electronically through the EasyChair Conference Management System, at the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsc2009 (Research Track 2: Information and Communication Technologies) PROCEEDINGS: The Conference Proceedings will be published by SEERC. LOCATION: The workshop will take place in Thessaloniki, one of the oldest cities in Europe and the second largest city in Greece. The easiest way to get to Thessaloniki is by a direct flight to the city's airport named "Macedonia" (13km from city's centre). For location maps and more travel directions please check the conference's web site. REGISTRATION: Participants can register during the conference at the secretariat. The registration fee for DSC2009 is 40€ and includes: * A copy of the Proceedings * Coffe Breaks * Daily Conference Lunches -------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIRMEN: * Dr. Konstantinos Dimopoulos, City College - The University of Sheffield, Greece * Dr. George Eleftherakis, City College - The University of Sheffield, Greece MEMBERS: * Dr. Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania * Prof. Tudor Balanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania * Dr. Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Prof. Nikos Basiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Prof. Vera Behar, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Prof. Betim Cico, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania * Dr. Antony Cowling, University of Sheffield, UK * Prof. Bekim Fetaji, South East European University, FYROM * Dr. Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King's College London, UK * Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Prof. Roumen Nikolov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria * Dr. Miguel Nunes, University of Sheffield, UK * Dr. Ilias Sakellariou, University of Macedonia, Greece * Dr. Anthony Simons, University of Sheffield, UK * Prof. Demosthenes Stamatis, Alexander TEI, GREECE * Prof. Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Dr. Ana Vasconcelos, University of Sheffield, UK * Dr. Anca Vasilescu, University of Brasov, Romania * Prof. Katerina Zdravkova, University of Ss Cyril & Methodius, FYROM -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information you can visit the conference's website: http://www.seerc.org/dsc2009 For questions and further information, do not hesitate to contact us at RT2@seerc.org