CF Workshop Proposals - ICDIM 2009 - IEEE Co-sponsored

Call for Workshop Proposals

Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM
2009)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
November 1-4, 2009
(http://www.icdim.org)

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE

Proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and
Indexed in dblp. (
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html)

ICDIM 2009 (IEEE Sponsored) will host a number of workshops addressing
different areas related to digital information management that complement
the main
ICDIM 2009 conference.

We invite workshop organizers to send proposals as instructed below.
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 digital information management.

Important Dates

Workshop proposal submission -  March 31, 2009
Notification of Workshop Acceptance  -  April 15, 2009
Submission of Papers - June 30, 2009
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection  July 31, 2009
Camera Ready Paper due  September 1, 2009

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

A workshop proposal should be about 2-5 pages long and contain the following
information:

Title;
Summary;
Topics;
Format and duration;
Organizers (attach short CVs, limit of 2 pages each);
Proposed program committee;
Expected submission and acceptance rate;
Type (academic and/or industrial) and number of expected participants;
Significance in relation to topics of the main conference; and
Details of any previous workshops

Proceedings of all ICDIM 2009 workshops will be published as a single volume
of IEEE to be distributed at the ICDIM 2009 conference. The workshop papers
of
ICDIM 2009 will be indexed in dblp. (
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html)
Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, its
relation to the main ICDIM topics, and the likelihood to attract enough
participants.

Exact workshop paper submission and author notification due dates are at
discretion of workshop organizers but must fit within the time-line
indicated.
All the workshop papers should be limited to 6 pages in IEEE format.
It is expected that the organizers of ICDIM 2009 workshops conforms to the
rules imposed by the steering committee such as the acceptance rate for all
workshops will not exceed 50% 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
chair listed below.

Workshop Chairs:

Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK
E.Kapetanios@westminster.ac.uk

Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
ishikawa@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of
the following peer reviewed journals.

1. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM)
2. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS)
3. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR)
4. International Journal of Autonomic Computing, Inderscience Publishers
5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
(IJITWE)
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