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               ACM MEDES 2009  CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
           Technically sponsored by both ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter
                            with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6
                                http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
                                     October 27-30, 2009
                                        Lyon - France



The MEDES 2009 (The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems) will be held in Lyon, France from 27th October to 30th October, 2009. MEDES 2009 aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. 

Proposals for workshops are invited for consideration in MEDES 2009. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. As such, they also offer a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion. The preference is for one-day workshops, but other schedules will also be considered.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit workshop proposals to the MEDES 2009 Workshop co-chair, Yinghua Ma (ma-yinghua@sjtu.edu.cn), NO LATER THAN April First, 2009.  Submission can be made in Postscript, PDF, or ASCII with "MEDES2009 Workshop Submission" in the subject header. 
Proposals must be about 2--5 pages long and include:
  * Name of workshop;
  * Summary;
  * Topics;
  * Organizers (attach short CVs, limit of 2 pages each);
  * The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the workshop.
  * The names of potential participants, such as program committee members.
  * Expected submission and acceptance rate (workshops only);
  * Type (academic and/or industrial) and number of expected participants;
  * Significance in relation to topics of the main conference and details of previous workshops.

Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, its relation to the main conference topics, and the likelihood to attract enough participants. Notification of acceptance will be made by May First, 2009. 

Topics of MEDES 2009(not limited to):
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Web Technologies
- Social Networks
- Data & Knowledge Management Systems
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Ontology Management
- Services systems and Engineering
- E-Services, E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government
- Emergent Intelligence
- Game Theory
- Networks and Protocols
- Security & Privacy
- Standardization and Extensible Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Business Intelligence
- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement 
- Digital Library
- Open Source

Any further information needed for preparing a workshop proposal can be obtained by sending email to the workshops co-chairs.

Important Dates
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- Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 1st, 2009
- Notification of Workshop & Tutorial Acceptance: May 1st , 2009
- Workshops Dates: October 27-30, 2009

Proceedings of all MEDES'09 workshops are to be published as a single volume to be distributed at the conference. All the workshop papers should be limited to 6 pages in ACM format. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals.
- International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC)
- Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
- Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI) - Special issue
- International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC)

Workshops Chairs
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Yinghua Ma, University of Jiaotong, China   (ma-yinghua at sjtu.edu.cn)
William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA (wgrosky@umich.edu)