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Call for contributions to the 6th Balkan Conference in
Informatics
Keynote Speaker: Professor
Joseph SIFAKIS,
ACM-Turing Award winner 2007 and da Vinci Medal in 2012.
In a nutshell: The Informatics Conference of South-East
Europe (BCI) will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 19-21
September 2013. Papers are due in March 2013. Accepted full papers
will be published in ACM ICPS. Short papers will be published in
local proceedings. Apart from the main conference, we encourage
submission of full single-author papers in our three special
sessions: "Experts Talk", "10 young researchers to keep an eye
on", and "IT in South-East Europe". We will have a number of
outstanding invited speakers; Joseph Sifakis is one of them. We
will keep the registration fee very low for international
standards. Conference will take place in 5* Met hotel
http://www.themethotel.gr/. Participants can
also attend for free the 17th Panhellenic Conference in
Informatics which is held in parallel. For more info see the CfP
below or visit the site
http://bci2013.bci-conferences.org/
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6th Balkan Conference in Informatics
The Informatics Conference of South-East Europe
Thessaloniki, Greece
19-21 September 2013
Information:
http://bci2013.bci-conferences.org/
Contact e-mail:
bci2013@bci-conferences.org
-------------- Aims and Scope: ----------------------------------------------
The main objective of the BCI series of conferences is to provide
a forum for discussions and dissemination of research
accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration among
scientists from the Balkan/South-East European countries and the
rest of the world, and to encourage involvement of young
researchers from the region. The 6th Balkan Conference in
Informatics (BCI) continues the BCI conferences held in Novi Sad
(2012), Thessaloniki (2009), Sofia (2007), Ohrid (2005), and
Thessaloniki (2003). The conference will consist of regular
sessions with technical contributions (regular papers) reviewed
and selected by an
international program committee, as
well as of
invited talks and tutorials presented by
leading scientists. The official language of the conference will
be
English.
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The areas of interest include all topics listed in the
ACM
classification
http://www.acm.org/about/class/ccs98-html
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a)
Main conference: Original full or short papers dealing
with both theory and/or applications of wide areas of ICT are
solicited.
b)
Experts Talk: A review, position or opinion full paper
dealing with advances in ICT. These are single author submissions.
Author's origin or position must be related to South-East Europe.
c)
10 young researchers to keep an eye on: A research full
paper authored by a young researcher who is about to finish or
have recently completed a Doctorate degree. These are single
author submissions. Author's origin or position must be related to
South-East Europe. Authors must be under 30 years old. Ten best
submissions will be accepted and published.
d)
IT in SEE: A short paper on developments, reviews,
proposals, projects in South-East Europe in the following areas:
(a) Governance (e.g. systems in place, policies etc), (b)
Education (curricula issues, secondary and higher education etc),
(c) Professional Issues (e.g. employment, Computer Societies etc),
(d) European ICT Priorities (e.g. enterprise, smart
specialization, aging etc).
-------------- Submission: --------------------------------------------------
Contributions are solicited for the following categories:
(a)
full research papers (8 pages) describing research
accomplishments in the themes listed above.
(b)
short research papers (4 pages), i.e. papers within
the themes listed above which do not fully adhere to the standards
of a first rate scientific publication, but are nevertheless of
interest and value for the participants of the conference. All
submitted papers should be formatted according to the
ACM CPS
style templates:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
Research papers should be original contributions and should not be
accepted or submitted elsewhere until the decisions of the BCI
2013 programme committee are announced. At least one author from
every submission accepted to appear in proceedings is obliged to
register and attend the conference in order to present the paper.
All contributions should be in
PDF format and should be
submitted electronically via the
EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bci2013).
-------------- Publication: -------------------------------------------------
All accepted full papers and some high-quality short papers will
be included in the main BCI 2013 Proceedings (published by
ACM
in the International Conference Proceedings Series:
http://www.acm.org/publications/icp_series).
Other accepted papers will be published in local proceedings (with
ISBN).
A selection of outstanding papers from the conference will be
invited for publication in
internationally recognized journals
(subject to additional reviewing).
-------------- Important Dates:----------------------------------------------
Submission of abstracts:
March 1, 2013
Submission of papers:
March 17, 2013
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2013
Camera-ready papers: May 31, 2013
Conference September 19, 2013
-------------- Organization:-------------------------------------------------
Department of Informatics - Aristotle University
Department of Applied Informatics - University of Macedonia
Department of Information Technology - Alexander Technological
Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
South East European Research Center
The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College
Greek Computer Society (Macedonia-Thrace Chapter)
-------------- Conference General Chairs:
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Kostas Diamantaras,
Department of Information Technology,
Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
Georgios Evangelidis,
Department of Applied Informatics,
University of Macedonia
Yannis Manolopoulos,
Department of Informatics, Aristotle
University
-------------- Programme Committee
Co-chairs:--------------------------------
Christos Georgiadis,
Department of Applied Informatics,
University of Macedonia
Petros Kefalas,
Computer Science Department, The University of
Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College
Demosthenes Stamatis,
Department of Information Technology,
Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
-------------- Organizing Committee:-----------------------------------------
George Poulakas,
Greek Computer Society (Macedonia-Thrace
Chapter)
Lia Terzidou,
Greek Computer Society (Macedonia-Thrace
Chapter)
Kostas Rousis,
South-East European Research Center.
-------------- Conference Venue:---------------------------------------------
The BCI2013 Conference will take place in the 5* hotel
Met
hotel in Thessaloniki
http://www.themethotel.gr/