Event: The Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management

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The Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management
(ICDIM 2007)
Sponsored by IEEE and in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr
http://icdim.insa-lyon.fr
October 28-31, 2007
Lyon, FRANCE Hosted by the "Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon (INSA-Lyon)"

Description
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The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people from academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference invites original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations.

Topics
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We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):

* Information Management
* Multimedia Information Systems
* Information Retrieval
* Natural Language Processing
* Digital Libraries
* Data and Information Quality Management
* Data Grids
* Data and Information Quality
* Database Management
* Web Databases
* Temporal and Spatial Databases
* Data Mining
* Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
* E-Learning, eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment
* Web Metrics and its applications
* XML and other extensible languages
* Semantic Web and Ontology
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
* Knowledge Management
* Ubiquitous Systems
* Peer to Peer Data Management
* Interoperability
* Mobile Data Management
* Data Models for Production Systems and Services
* Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain
* Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes
* Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis
* Security and Access Control
* Information Content Security
* Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security

Paper Submission
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Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website. Submissions should be 3000-4000 words long (approx. 4-6 single-space printed pages). Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 qualified reviewers.

Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

The conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates
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Full Papers: June 15, 2007
Proposals for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2007 Notification of Workshop & Tutorial Acceptance: May 15, 2007 Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 03, 2007 Camera Ready Papers Due: August 17, 2007 Early Bird Registration: September 15, 2007 Late Registration: September 28, 2007 Conference Dates: October 28 - 31

Best Paper
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The BayesiaLab award will be granted to the best paper in the fields related to data mining.

Journal Publication
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Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals.

1. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (ISSN 0972-7272) 2. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) (ISSN 1554-1010) 3. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (ISSN
0973-1873)
4. International Journal for Infonomics (IJI) (ISSN 1742-4712) 5. International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions
(IJITST) (ISSN 1748-569X)
6. International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM) (ISSN:
1743-5110)

Committees
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Programme Chairs:
Youakim Badr, P (INSA-Lyon, France)
Pit Pichappan (Annamalai University, India)
Richard Chbeir (University of Bourgogne, France)

Programme Co-Chairs:
Ajith Abraham (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
Frederic Andres (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Antony Satyadas (IBM, USA)

Workshops Chairs
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Djamal Benslimane (Lyon 1 University, France) Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)

International Programme Committee
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Abramowicz Witold (Poznan University of Economics, Poland) Agrawal Dharma (University of Cincinnati, USA) Alpaslan Ferda Nur (METU University, Turkie) Badard Thierry (Universite Laval, Canada) Badica Costin (University of Craiova, Romania) Baresi Luciano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Berkovsky Shlomo (University of Haifa, Israel) Biennier Frederique (Insa de Lyon, France) Boulanger Danielle (University of Jean Moulin-MODEME, France) Boulicaut Jean-Francois (Insa de Lyon, France) Bourque Pierre (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada) Brunie Lionel (Insa de Lyon, France) C. Bhavsar Virendra (University of New Brunswick, Canada) CachedaSeijo Fidel (Universidad de a Coruna, Spain) Chandrasekhar Anantaram (Tata Consultancy Services) Chen Yuehui (University of Jinan, China) Corchado Emilio (University of Burgos, Spain) Corchado Juan (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) Crestani Fabio (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Cuzzocrea Alfredo (University of Calabria, Italy) Damiani Ernesto (University of Milan, Italy) Dusan Husek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic) Elnaffar Said (UAE University, UAE) El-Qawasmeh Eyas (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan) Fayolles Jacques (ISTASE University, France) Ferri Fernando (IRPPS-CNR, Italy) Flory Andr? (INSA de Lyon, France) Flory Laurent (University of Lyon 1, France) Franke Katrin (Gjovik University College, Norway) Frasincar Flavius (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Gabillon Alban (Pau Univeristy, France) Gasevic Dragan (Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada) Ghosh Hiranmay (Innovation Lab - TCS & Adjunct Faculty, India) Godart Claude (University Henri Poincare, France) Grifoni Patrizia (National Research Council of Italy, Italy) Grosan Crina (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Grosky William (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) Hacid Mohand-Said (University of Lyon 1, France) Hansen Preben (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Haraty Ramzi (LAU, Lebanon) HassanSafar Maytham (Kuwait University, Kuwait) Ishikawa Hiroshi (Shizuoka University, Japan) Jacobs Daisy(University of Zululand, South Africa) Jouffe Lionel (Societe Bayesia, Laval) K. Bhargava Bharat (Purdue University, USA) Kawatrakul Asanee (Kasetsart University, Thailand) Kazushi Ohya (Tsurumi University, Japan) Knapskog Svein (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Kosch Harald (University of Passau, Germany) Koukam Abder (UTBM University, France) Kozlak Jaroslaw (University of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland) Kretschmer Hildrun (Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany) Kwasnicka Halina (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Lu James J. (Emory University, USA) MarkowskaKaczmar Urszula (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Morad Benyoucef (University of Ottawa, Canada) Mostefaoui Ahmed (University of Franche Comte, France) Muthaiyah Saravanan (George Mason University, USA) Narendra Nanjangud (IBM India Research Lab, India) N. Ocholla Dennis (University of Zululand, South Africa) Oria Vincent (NJIT, USA) Painho Marco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Palade Vasile (Oxford University, UK) Palakal Mathew J. (Indiana University Purdue University, USA) Panda Brajendra (University of Arkansas, USA) Petit Jean-Marc (Insa de Lyon, France) Pokorny Jaroslav (FEE CTU Prague, Prague) R. Raje Rajeev (Indiana University, USA) Sanyal Sugata (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Shen Heng Tao (University of Queensland, Australia) Shoniregun Charles (University of East London, UK) Snasel Vaclav (FEECS, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic) Stanchev Peter (Kettering University, USA) Sung Y. Shin (South Dakota State University,USA) Thiran Philippe (Namur University, Belgium) Tiwary Uma Shankar (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India) VandeWeghe Nico (Ghent University, Belgium) Vangenot Christelle (EPFL of Lausanne, Switzerland) VargasSolar Genoveva (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Verdier Christine (University of Grenoble, France) Vijayakumar J.K. (American University of Antigua, Antigua) Yague Mariemma (University of Malaga, Spain) Yetongnon Kokou ( Bourgogne University, France) Yinghua Ma (Shanghai JiaoTong University, China)