-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] RCIS 2012 - Call for Tutorials Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:30:17 +0100 From: Selmin Nurcan nurcan@univ-paris1.fr To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
**************************************************************************************** Sixth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES in INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS 2012)
MAY 16-18, 2012, Valencia, SPAIN
Tutorial submission deadline: December 16, 2011
http://rcis-conf.com/ ****************************************************************************************
RCIS 2012 is a conference of RCIS Conference Series and is sponsored by IEEE SPAIN section and IEEE Spain Section CS/IA Joint Chapter
SCOPE AND TOPICS ================ The Sixth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS 2012) aims at providing an international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of information science areas to exchange ideas and approaches in this evolving field. While presenting research findings and state-of-art solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new research challenges in these main topics: -Information System Engineering -Business applications -Database and Information System Integration -Decision Information Systems -Data Management -Internet computing -Knowledge Management -Knowledge Discovery from Data -Management applications -Spatial Information Systems -Software Testing -Human-Computer Interaction
Tutorials may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Target tutorials are tutorials with clear applicability to industry. Therefore, we encourage industry to send proposals to prepare a tutorial on a very innovative and practical subject.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ===================================
Tutorial proposals must be no more than 5 pages. The tutorial must be scheduled 3 hours or 1h30. 3 hours proposals are oriented to more well established techniques and approaches explained in a pedagogical way while 1h30 proposals are intended to deal with more innovative techniques exposition. The proposal must clearly include: 1.A short bio of the presenter 2.A title 3.A short abstract 4.Scope 5.Background of the attendees 6.Which material will be provided to attendees 7.Timetable
*************************************************************************************************************** Notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent by February 27, 2012. The deadline for the tutorial submissions is December 16. To submit the proposal, you can send it by e-mail to: -Selmin Nurcan (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France): nurcan@univ-paris1.fr -Tanja Vos (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain): tvos@pros.upv.es -Ignacio Panach (Universitat de València, Spain): jpanach@pros.upv.es ***************************************************************************************************************
All authors of accepted tutorials will be asked to sign a contract and will also receive further instructions about how to prepare and submit the tutorial notes, the tutorial summary (for the website) and speaker biographies.
RCIS organizers reserve the right to cancel tutorials that fail to attract a minimum of 10 registrants by the close of early registration. Presenters will be notified within one week of the conclusion of early registration whether their tutorials have sufficient registrations to be held.
Tutorial speakers will receive a fix honorarium of 350 Euros per tutorial (i.e., multiple speakers must share the honorarium). Additionally, all speakers (if more than one) receive free registration only for their tutorial, while one free registration for the main conference will be offered to the main presenter (one speaker).