Call for papers

International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2006)

August 7–10, 2006, Miami, Florida, USA

The i-Society 2006 ‘Special sessions’ submission deadline is 5 May 2006.

Technical In-cooperation pending with CS and TCEC

Theme

The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2006) is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas.

The mission of i-Society 2006 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society.

The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society.

Keynote speakers

Wolfgang Gentzsch, managing director at MCNC Grid Computing & Networking Services; adjunct professor at Duke University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Luminita Vasiu, chair of Software Engineering department and Wireless Information Technology Research Centre (WITRC), University of Westminster; chair of the BCS Wireless Specialist Group, UK

Michael Thorne, professor of mathematics, vice-chancellor of the University of East London; board member of the University for Industry, and the London Urban Development Corporation, UK

Executive committee

General chair

Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK

General vice-chairs

Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand

Technical program co-chairs

Ignacio Aedo, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Kia Makki, Florida International University, USA

International co-chairs

Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

Poster and Demo chairs

Kami Makki, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
Giovanni Sacco, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Local arrangements chair

Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, USA

Publicity co-chairs

Ziyang Duan, Credit Suisse First Boston, USA
Alex Logvynovskiy, London South Bank University, UK

Topics of interest

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

e-Society
e-Government
e-Business
e-Security
e-Art
e-Education
e-Health
e-Intelligence

Intellectual property rights in digital society
Internet security
New enabling technologies
Globalisation and developmental IT
Web services and performance

Knowledge economy
Intelligent Organisations
Geographic information systems
Intelligent data management
Knowledge networks
Intelligent agents

Proceedings

All papers accepted for the conference, including special sessions papers, will be published in the proceedings. The Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2006) will be published in a book (CD) with ISBN 0-9546628-1-4.

Extended versions of the selected papers will be published as special issues in the following journals:

International Journal for Infonomics (IJI) , ISSN 1742-4712 (print), 1742-4720 (online)
International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST), ISSN 1748-569X (print), 1748-5703 (online)

Important dates

Paper submissions

26 February 2006 - paper submission
1 April 2006 - notification of acceptance
1 May 2006 - final paper submission

Poster submissions

15 March 2006 - poster submission
15 April 2006 - notification of acceptance
1 May 2006 - final poster submission

Conference venue

Sofitel Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

This call for papers is available to download as a PDF file .