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In this scenario, it becomes very useful to understand how consumers’ and products/stores knowledge has to be managed and digitally represented. Besides, it is important to understand how this knowledge will influence customers’ experience once converted in digital content. This special issue solicits papers that contribute to deeply understand the applications of new technologies in retailing and their impact on the design, development and modelling of consumers’ and products’ knowledge in order to improve consumers’ shopping experience and, as consequence, influence their buying behaviour. Submissions can focus on theoretical and applied research in topics including, but not limited to: The deadline for submitting manuscripts is January 15, 2010 and authors will be notified of the decision by April 15, 2010. The final manuscripts will be due June 30, 2010. Those interested in submitting a paper are invited to send it to vincenzo.corvello@unical.it AND eleonora.pantano@unical.it6. Digital contents management for improving consumers
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Guest Editors: Dr. Eleonora Pantano1 and Dr. Vincenzo Corvello2
1Department of Linguistics, cubo 17,b
University of Calabria
87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
eleonora.pantano@unical.it
2Department of Business Science, cubo 3,b
University of Calabria
87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
vincenzo.corvello@unical.it
In recent years, many studies are focusing on the best practices which make stores more attractive and interesting for consumers. The use of advertising addressed to specific consumers is an important topic of research. Furthermore, a growing interest has been put on the ways producers’ and retailers’ knowledge is used to add value to customers’ experiences. The application of new technologies to the point of sales is a promising and relatively unexplored field of study, in particular when considering the introduction of digital content and technologies allowing consumers to interact with products in new ways. Many e-retailers already exploit the opportunities offered by interactive technologies, such as 3D virtual models, in order to enhance consumers shopping experience. Their use in stores, however, is still limited. The development and use of new shopping assistants for supporting and influencing consumers during their shopping experience plays a key
role for both retailers and researchers.
The existing shopping assistant systems are based on shopping trolleys and handled devices. In particular, most of them focus on mobile and ubiquitous computing. Adding digital content to these tools can be a powerful means to influence customers’ experience. The aim is to support consumers, through a user-friendly interface, by giving them information related to products, promotions, new arrivals and so on. The main characteristics are the interactivity and the multimodality, in order to
achieve an efficient, flexible and meaningful feeling of human-computer interaction.
- Content management for ubiquitous computing in retailing
- Consumer-computer interaction related to digital content
- New systems for consumers’ profiling
- New interfaces for consumers’ personalized communication
- Consumers’ input modelling
- Consumers’ knowledge representation
- Impact of new technologies on consumers’ behaviour in the retail context
- Segmentation and tracking of consumers’ buying behaviour
- Transfer of product knowledge to consumers
- Customized digital contents for supporting consumers’ decision making
Submissions should be of high standard for an international, archival research journal, and will be reviewed according to the strict standards of the International Journal of Digital Content: Technology and its Applications. Papers should not have been submitted or published elsewhere but could be extended or refined versions of conference papers with significant new, original material. Extended versions or refined versions o conference papers are expected to differ from the conference version by at least 30% across all sections . authors are requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscript preparation guidelines can be obtained from the International Journal of Digital Content: Technology and its Applications’ web page: http://www.aicit.org/jdcta.
7. 1st International Workshop on SOFTWARE SECURITY PROCESS
http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/sspw09/
Description
There is the growing need for software security processes, which are interleaved with the software development processes and aim at ensuring a certain degree of security in the software under development or maintenance. This calls for methods and techniques for: modelling security, designing for security, coding secure code, testing for security, and measuring security.
The workshop aims at discussing proposals and contributions from academia and industry in order to consolidate guidelines, empirical evidence, and methodologies concerning the processes for evaluating, assessing, and managing software security into software development.
The long-term goal is to build a scientific community that tackles and promotes research about the process for
systematically introducing security into software under development.
The workshop contributes to bringing the Software Engineering perspective in the discussion about software security.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Security requirements management
- Cost model for software security
- Security Knowledge management
- Architecture and design for security
- Model driven security
- Security testing
- Measurement of Security Process
- Maintenance process for security
- Benchmark for security assessment
- Secure software/process certification
- Modelling security for software development
Guest editors:
Prof. Gerardo Canfora, Prof. Corrado Aaron Visaggio,
Dept. of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, {canfora,visaggio}@unisannio.it
Expected date:
August 29, 2009 (this is the date of the workshop).
For publishing, I plan to have the paper ready for publication in April 2010.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for any necessity.
Sincerely,
Aaron.
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ing. Corrado Aaron Visaggio, PhD
assistant professor Engineering Department
University of Sannio, Italy
Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology -CeRICT scrl
tel: +39 0824 305529
fax: +39 0824 50552
9. SOFTWARE METRICS AND MODELS
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GUEST EDITORS:
- Dr. Dhavachelvan Ponnurangam, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
- Dr. Baskaran Ramachandran, Anna University, Chennai, India.
In each growing stage of the individual Software Engineering paradigm, it is realized that each paradigm has its own influence in the software engineering field on the support of its proficiency. Particularly, each paradigm sands on its ability in providing manageable solution to the new problem domains. The degree of manageability is depends on the degree of quantification over the solutions, whereas the quantification consists of the process of measurement and control. Hence the process of the measurement is the key factor for quantification, control and management and from this point of view, it has been recognized that the role of software metrics plays a vital role in the field of software engineering. As new requirements arise, on the one hand, from the increasing complexity of modern software systems, and on the other hand, from dispense of todays information economies, the filed of software metrics must be enhanced along with the versatile developments in software engineering paradigms. However the field software metrics holds its prospective rank in the field of software engineering, more essentially, we still have inadequate knowledge on software metrics and its associated fields and how they can advance the related fields. In this perspective, this special issue is designed with the motivation of revealing the core and associated research directions and outcomes in software metrics discipline. The objectives of this special issue are to bring out the present developments in software metrics and the enhanced practices of researchers and practitioners to promote, advertise and share the knowledge related to the associated fields of software metrics.
This special issue is dedicated to cover a broad range of titles with all of them presenting original and innovative ideas on the Software Metrics discipline.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following;
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- Theory of Measurement and Control in Software Systems
- Roles of Metrics in SDLC phases and practices
- Software Metrics Models and Standards
- Software Metrics and Tools
- Validation Frameworks of Software Metrics
- Quality Metrics and Models
- Software Metrics for Process and Product Control
- Qualitative and Quantitative Studies on Software Metrics
- Generic and Domain Specific Metrics and Models
- Cognitive Metrics and Roles
- Uncertainty Studies in Software Metrics Practices and Systems
- Other Related Titles
Papers can be submitted through e-mailed to the guest editors at dhavachelvan@gmail.com and baskaran.ramachandran@gmail.com. Submissions must follow the journal guidelines (http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/page01.html) and the same should be conformed before its submission. For more details, visit http://www.aicit.org/jdcta.
Important Dates:
Submission of papers : March 1, 2010 (firm)
Notification of first round review: April 10, 2010
Sumbission revised papers: April 30, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2010
Publication dates: September, 2010
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10. Special Issue On Electrical and Control Engineering
Guest Editors:
Yanduo Zhang , Wuhan Institute of Technology, China
Shihong Qin, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China
Description:
The International Conference on Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE) will be held from June 25-27, 2010 in Wuhan, China. ICECE aims to provide a high-level international forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances, new techniques and applications in the field of Electrical Engineering and Automation Control.
This special issue is dedicated to cover a broad range of titles with all of them presenting original and innovative ideas on the electrical and control engineering. The best papers of the conference have the preferential chance to be recommended into the special issue. We invite high quality research papers which neither have been published previously nor under consideration currently for publication in any other journals or conferences. Significant extensions to substantive research papers published in reputed conferences are also invited with a special note on contribution over the extension part. Survey papers with superior quality are also invited.
Topics of interest include the following (detail can be found at http://www.icecemeeting.org/topics.html):
- Electrical Engineering
- Automation Control Electronic Technology and Information
- Computer Engineering
- Other Related Titles
Important dates:
June 25-27, 2010 (date of the conference).
Publication: Publication in April 2011 (will be confirmedg).
Papers can be submitted through e-mailed to the conference editor at icece.spes.issu@gmail.com. The manuscripts submit to special issues must follow the journal guidelines (http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/page01.html) and the same should be conformed before its submission. For more details, visit http://www.aicit.org/jdcta.
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Guest Editors:Aly A. Farag, Professor of University of Louisville, USA
Jun Zhang, University of Kentucky, USA.
Neal. N. Xiong, Georgia State University, USA.
Description:
The International Conference on Multimedia Technology (ICMT) will be held from Oct. 2-4, 2010 in Ningbo, China. ICMT aims to provide a high-level international forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances, new techniques and applications in the field of image&video processing and multimedia technology.
This special issue is dedicated to cover a broad range of titles with all of them presenting original and innovative ideas on the electrical and control engineering. The best papers of the conference have the preferential chance to be recommended into the special issue. We invite high quality research papers which neither have been published previously nor under consideration currently for publication in any other journals or conferences. Significant extensions to substantive research papers published in reputed conferences are also invited with a special note on contribution over the extension part. Survey papers with superior quality are also invited.
Topics of interest include the following:
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- Multimedia coding and transmission
- Multimedia storage, retrieval, and authentication Digital Libraries
- Multimedia Data Mining
- Digital Watermarking
- Content-based Multimedia Retrieval
- Multimedia Performance and Management
- Multimedia Broadcasting Systems on the Web
- Multimedia Communication Systems
- Multimedia Networking
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Multimedia Transport/Routing Protocols
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Digital Video Broadcasting
- Multimedia Technologies and Games
- Graphics and Virtual Worlds
- Virtual Reality
- Mobile Multimedia
- Video-on-Demand
- Human-Computer Interfaces
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For publishing, I plan to have the paper ready for publication in Aug. 2011.
Papers can be submitted through e-mailed to the conference editor at icmt.spes.issu@gmail.com. The manuscripts submit to special issues must follow the journal guidelines (http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/page01.html) and the same should be conformed before its submission. For more details, visit http://www.aicit.org/jdcta. GO TO THE TOP
12. Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Applications for E-services
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Chen-Shu Wang, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
Deng-Yiv Chiu, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
Wen-Chih Chang, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
Description:
Service-Oriented age is coming. User could achieve more and more emerging eservice applications and service via various digital carriers, such as mobile phone, personal digital assistor (PDA), and the GPS of vehicle. To realize user’s behaviors of service-oriented age is becoming an important issue. A lot of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been applied to related researches, such as recommender system, search engine, information retrieve, etc. Thus, we completely believe that applications of those e-service AI topics show great research potential.
Submissions can focus on theoretical and applied research in topics including, but not limited to:
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- AI Applications for E-commerce Customer Behaviour Analysis & Prediction
- AI Applications for M-commerce
- AI Applications for Digital Content Design
- AI Applications for Learning Behaviour Analysis
- AI Applications for E-learning
- AI Applications for E-banking
- AI Applications for Fraud and Misuse Detection
- AI Applications for Search Engine
- AI Applications for Knowledge Management
- AI Applications for Blog Analysis
- AI Applications for Personalization and Recommendation System
- Hybrid AI Approaches Applications
- Case Study of E-Service Applications Practices
- Business Model for E-Service Applications
Submission of papers: September 20, 2010
Submission of revised papers: October 20, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 20, 2010
Publication dates: January, 2011
Papers can be submitted through email to the conference editor at cswang@chu.edu.tw or earnest@chu.edu.tw. The manuscripts submitted to special issues must follow the journal guidelines (http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/page01.html). And the author should conform the submission. For more details, please visit http://www.aicit.org/jdcta. GO TO THE TOP
13. Special Issue on ICCIT2009/ICIS2009
http://www.aicit.org/iccit09 , http://www.aicit.org/icis09
Mission and Aims
ICCIT fosters the development of Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technologies needed in various application areas. Convergence Information Technologies in partnership with Computational Science are essential in solving many real-world problems. Through publications, research, and community, the mission of ICCIT is to build cooperation between informatics and the worlds of science and technology.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Yunji Na (AICIT, Korea)
Submission due:
will be announce to the selection email
* Selected papers from the conferences will be included to the special issue
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14. Special Issue on NISS2010/INC2010
http://www.aicit.org/niss , http://www.aicit.org/inc
Description
We welcome diverse innovative ideas towards the development of multidisciplinary and Hybrid/Convergent researches with consumer-oriented and service-oriented technologies. We believe that this conference will enable fulfillment of the most outstanding and promising ideas in convergence information technologies. The participant will have a chance to exchange ideas and establish new social ties with other conference participants. We believe that discussions sparked by this conference will enrich the participants with precious knowledge and experiences.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Yunji Na (AICIT, Korea)
Submission due:
will be announce to the selection email
* Selected papers from the conferences will be included to the special issue
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15. Special Issue on SEDM2010/ICIS2010
http://www.aicit.org/sedm , http://www.aicit.org/icis
Introduction
SEDM stands for International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Ming. It is a premium international conference on Theory, Development, Applications, Experiences, and Evaluation related to Software engineering, and Data mining. SEDM is intended to attract fellow researchers, practitioners, and students to present and discuss current state of the art in software engineering and/or data mining.
ICIS has brought together software engineers, developers, performance analysts and software/performance modelers who are addressing the challenges of increasing system complexity, rapidly evolving information technologies, short time to market, incomplete documentation, and less-than-adequate methods, models and tools for developing, modeling, and measuring scalable, high-performance applications in Information Sciences and Interaction Sciences. The focus of ICIS is therefore in the Multidisciplinary and Hybrid/Convergent research rather than one discipline in isolation.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Yunji Na (AICIT, Korea)
Submission due:
will be announce to the selection email
* Selected papers from the conferences will be included to the special issue
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16. Special Issue on NCM2010/IDC2010
http://www.aicit.org/ncm , http://www.aicit.org/idc
Mission and Aims
Our mission is to facilitate meetings of distinguished scholars and interested researchers from all around the world in order to exchange knowledge and experiences, present new ideas. We believe that global nature of our conference, active participation of most prominent speakers and delegates, and cutting edge ideas will create a stimulating atmosphere for further active development of Multidisciplinary and Hybrid/Convergent research in the areas of Networked Computing and Information Management.
Our aim is to gather and share innovative ideas, precious knowledge and unique experiences for mutual benefit of researchers and explore possible prospects for development of Multidisciplinary and Hybrid/Convergent research in the areas of Digital Content, Multimedia Technology and its Applications.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Yunji Na (AICIT, Korea)
Submission due:
will be announce to the selection email
* Selected papers from the conferences will be included to the special issue
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17. Special Issue on NISS2009
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Paper submission and review process:
The authors of the Best Papers presented on the CCCM2010/ISIIP2010 conference will be invited to send extended versions of their papers after the conference to the Guest Editors of IJTCDA/JCIT Journals. These extended versions might be published in the Journals after the conference with additional review.
- All the papers must be presented on CCCM2010/ISIIP2010 conferences.
- All the presented papers will be strictly peer reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.
Based on the reports by the reviewers and recommendation of the section chair, the final decision on papers submitted to this Special Issue will be taken by Lead Guest Editor, Dr J.W. ZHU
Important Dates
Notification of revision: 31 August 2010
Final revised paper due: 30 September 2010
Acceptance Notification: 10 October 2010
Tentative publication date: Winter 2010
Guest Editors with affiliation
Ling Chen, Yangzhou University, China
Bin Li, Yangzhou University, China
Xinin Li, University of Guelph, Canada
Yixin Chen, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Xuelong Hu, Yangzhou University, China
J.W. ZHU, Yangzhou University, China.
Contact Details of Lead Guest Editor
J.W. ZHU
School of Information Engineering
Yangzhou University
China
Address: 136#, Jiangyangzhong Road, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China
Zipcode: 225009
Fax: +(86)514-87880596
Tel: +(86)13382700001
Email: jwzhu@yzu.edu.cn, zjwjy@hotmail.com
20. Special issue on DSAI2010
DSAI - Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a major role in our lives. However, ICT development which is indifferent to the concerns of social inclusion may raise barriers and increase the gap between the average user and those with special needs, instead of contributing to eliminating this gap and promoting equal rights and opportunities for all.
Senior citizens and others with special needs are often faced with multiple minor disabilities that prevent them from enjoying the benefits of technology and higher quality of life standards. According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, technology design should take into account accessibility and usability features for the protection and promotion of the human rights of persons with disabilities, in all policies and programmes.
Scope
- Software and Web accessibility
- Interfaces and interaction
- Technologies
- Case studies
Submission due:
January 31th 2011
Guest Editors:
Paul Gnanayutham - University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Hugo Paredes - University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
João Barroso - University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
21. Special Issue on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming
Overview
Recent years have witnessed significant advances in high-performance and parallel computing. This special issue will contain best papers selected from the 3rd International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP 2010). PAAP is an international forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present the latest research ideas, developments and applications in all areas of parallel computing. PAAP 2010 is to be held in
Scope
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Architectures:
-Multi/many-core architectures
-Interconnection networks
-Parallel/distributed architectures
-Reliability and fault-tolerance
-Ubiquitous computing systems
-Communication and telecommunication
-Cluster and Grid computing systems
-Cloud Computing
-Reconfigurable architectures
Algorithms:
-Parallel/distributed algorithms
-Task mapping and job scheduling
-Parallel/Distributed databases and knowledge discovery
-High-performance scientific computing
-High-performance reconfigurable computing
-Power-aware Computing
-Secure distributed computing
-Resource allocation and management
-Network routing and traffic control
-Bioinformatics
-Quantum computing
-Social Computing
-Cloud Computing
Programming:
-Multi/many-core programming
-Parallel programming theory and models
-Formal methods and verification
-Middleware for parallel systems
-Parallel programming languages
-Compilers and runtime systems
-Automatic parallelization
-Parallel libraries and application frameworks
-Performance analysis, debugging, and optimization
-Development, analysis, and management tools
-Parallel applications
-Concurrent data structures
-Synchronization and concurrency control
-Software engineering for parallel programs
Important Dates
Paper submission due: January 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2011
Final manuscript due: March 1, 2011
Submission Instructions
The authors of invited papers will be asked to revise and extend their conference papers. The manuscripts should be formatted by referring the submission guidelines as found at the JDCTA website (http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/). An electronic version in PDF should be submitted to the Guest Editors via email.
Guest Editors
Xianchao Zhang,
Email: xczhang@dlut.edu.cn
Wenxin Liang
Email: liang@computer.org
Feng Xia (corresponding editor)
Email: f.xia@ieee.org; fxia@dlut.edu.cn
http://fengxia.net