CFP: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2003 , June 3-6, 2003 - LISBON, PORTUGAL

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 8 January 2003 (all 
contributions) --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2003
                   June 3-6, 2003  -  LISBON, PORTUGAL
                       (http://www.iadis.org/es2003)

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS e-Society 2003 conference aims to address the main issues of 
concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the 
technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information 
Society. Broad areas of interest are E-Commerce, E-Learning and 
E-Government. These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas 
(see below). However innovative contributes that don?t fit into these areas 
will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference 
attendees.

* Format of the Confernce
The conference will comprise of invited talks and  oral  presentations. 
  The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a 
book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended 
versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal of the 
Information Society.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and 
Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing 
process.

* Topics related to e-Society are of interest. These include, but are 
not limited to the following areas:
- Collaborative Learning
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Cyber Law
- Data Mining
- Digital Regions
- E-Business Models
- E-Commerce Economics
- E-Economy
- E-Government
- E-Healthcare
- E-Learning
- E-Marketing
- E-Publishing and Digital Libraries
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Extensible Languages
- Global Tendencies
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information Retrieval
- Information Society Case studies  
- Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent Systems 
- Knowledge Management
- Learning Communities
- Multimedia
- Payment Systems
- Privacy Issues
- Protocols and Standards
- Security Issues
- Storage Issues
- Tele-work
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Organisations
- Virtual Reality
- Wireless Communications

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 8 January 2003
- Notification to Authors: 24 February 2003
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 8 March 2003
- Late Registration: After 8 March 2003
- Conference: Lisbon, 3 to 6 June 2003

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-Society 2003
Rua Tomas Ribeiro, 45 1-Dto
1050-225 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@iadis.org
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/es2003

* Scientific Committee

Conference & Program Co-Chairs
Antonio Palma dos Reis, ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

for the full Committee Members list please access 
http://www.iadis.org/es2003/committees.asp
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE research group on 
networks,  and the COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic 
simulation, at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New zealand, 
and anybody else interested in research in these areas

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		Associate Prof. Dr  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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