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Call for Workshops

31th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2012)
Florence, Italy  -  15 - 18 October, 2012


Call for Workshops
The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling is a leading 
international forum for presenting and discussing current research and 
applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. 
Topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling 
including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts 
and ontologies underlying conceptual modeling, methods and tools for 
developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for 
transforming conceptual models into effective implementations.
ER 2012 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas 
related to conceptual modeling that complement the main ER 2012 
conference. Workshops are intended to serve as an intensive 
collaborative forum for exchanging late breaking ideas and theories in 
an evolutionary stage. We encourage prospective workshop organizers to 
submit proposals for highly interactive workshops focusing on either 
in-depth analysis or broad-ranging approaches to areas related to 
conceptual modeling.

Important Dates
    * Workshop proposal submission: December 1st, 2011
    * Notification of acceptance: December 23, 2011
    * Full paper submission: will depend upon the workshop
    * Camera-ready paper submission: June 6th, 2012

Submission Guidelines
A workshop proposal should be about 3-5 pages long and contain the 
following information:
    * Title;
    * Topics;
    * Format and duration;
    * Type (academic and/or industrial);
    * Significance in relation to topics of the main conference;
    * Organizers (attach short CVs, limit of 2 pages each and pointing 
out their experiences in organizing events);
    * Proposed program committee;
    * Expected submission volume and number of expected participants;
    * Any available information of any previous organization of the 
workshop, with an emphasis to submission and registration volumes.

Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, 
its relation to the main ER topics, and the likelihood to attract enough 
participants as well as the hosting capacity of the venue.

Exact workshop paper submission and author notification due dates are at 
the discretion of workshop organizers but must fit within the time-line 
indicated.

Proceedings of all ER workshops are to be published as a single volume 
of Springer LNCS to be distributed at the ER 2012 conference. All the 
workshop papers should be limited to no more than 10 pages in LNCS 
format. It is expected that the organizers of ER workshops conform to 
the rules imposed by the ER steering committee such as the acceptance 
rate for all workshops will not exceed 40% and organizers are not 
allowed to submit their own papers to their workshop. Workshop proposals 
should be submitted by email to either of the workshop chairs listed below.

Workshop Co-Chairs
    * Silvana Castano (University of Milano) - silvana.castano@unimi.it
    * Panos Vassiliadis (University of Ioannina) - pvassil@cs.uoi.gr


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Panos Vassiliadis
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Assistant Professor
University of Ioannina
Dept. of Computer Science
Ioannina, 45110, Hellas

mail: pvassil@cs.uoi.gr
web: www.cs.uoi.gr/~pvassil
tel: +30-265100-8814
fax: +30-265100-8890