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                         2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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      5th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference
           Information & Communication Technologies Track
               Special theme: "Software Engineering"
                       September 13-14, 2010
                       Thessaloniki, Greece
               http://www.seerc.org/dsc2010/rt2.html
                          rt2@seerc.org

            South-Eastern European Research Centre - SEERC
                        http://www.seerc.org
   City College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield
                     http://www.city.academic.gr

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                         IMPORTANT DATES
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           ABSTRACT SUBMISSION :   March 30, 2010 (expression of intention to submit a paper)

       		    FULL PAPER :   April 15, 2010

    NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE :   May 15, 2010 

           CAMERA READY PAPERS :   June 15, 2010

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                       TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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 Computing
  * Health Informatics
  * Geographical Information Systems
  * Simulation
  * Databases
  * Robotics
  * Graphics
    
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                    CONFERENCE INFORMATION
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE:
The official language of the workshop is English.

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Abstract submission is just an expression of interest; it should contain a title, 
the authors and affiliations and it should not exceed 300 words. 

Full papers should be not more than 8 pages. Camera-Ready papers should be set out 
in accordance with Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format 
for Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes. Templates for MS Word and LaTeX 
as well as further instruction for authors are available at Springer's website.

***Please ensure that you follow the LNCS template consistently in order to avoid 
delays. For more information regarding the format and links to the 
right template files you can visit the conference website.***

Abstract and paper submissions will be conducted electronically through the 
EasyChair Conference Management System which you can access at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsc2010

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 web site.

REGISTRATION:
Participants can register during the conference at the secretariat.

The registration fee for DSC2010 is 50€ and includes:

    * A copy of the Conference Proceedings
    * Coffee Breaks
    * Daily Conference Lunches


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                     SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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CHAIRMEN:
  * Dr George Eleftherakis, City College - The University of Sheffield, Greece
  * Dr Tony Simons, University of Sheffield, UK

MEMBERS:
  * Dr Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
  * Prof Tudor Balanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania
  * Dr Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  * Prof Nick Basiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  * Prof Betim Cico, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
  * Dr Tony Cowling, University of Sheffield, UK
  * Prof John Garofalakis, University of Patras, Greece
  * Dr Christos Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, Greece
  * Prof Gheorghe Grigoras, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
  * Dr Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King's College London, UK
  * Prof Florentin Ipate, University of Pitesti, Romania
  * Prof Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  * Prof Roger Moore, University of Sheffield, UK 
  * Prof Roumen Nikolov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  * Dr Miguel Nunes, University of Sheffield, UK
  * Dr Ilias Sakellariou, University of Macedonia, Greece
  * Dr Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, 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 website: 
http://www.seerc.org/dsc2010

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                   APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS