[UAI] SIT'02 Announcement and Call for Papers

From: SIT'02 Organising Committee (sit02-announcement@manowar.lsi.us.es)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 09:28:12 PST

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                          SIT'02

                   Simposio de Informática
                    y Telecomunicaciones
                 http://tdg.lsi.us.es/~sit02

                                25-27 de Septiembre del 2002
                                              Sevilla, Spain

    Estimado/a colega:

    Es un privilegio para nosotros invitarte al Simposio de
    Informática y Telecomunicaciones (SIT'02) que se llevará
    a cabo del 25-27 de Septiembre en la Escuela Técnica
    Superior de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de
    Sevilla.

    El simposio, celebrado anualmente, se ha convertido en
    un foro en el que investigadores involucrados en
    proyectos o líneas de trabajo aplicables en el campo de
    la tecnología de la información y las telecomunicaciones
    pueden presentar sus últimos resultados, discutir sobre
    ellos y establecer una red de contactos con personas
    interesadas en temas similares. En este sentido, una de
    nuestras mayores motivaciones es poder entablar
    contactos que promuevan el intercambio y el contraste de
    opiniones, así como la transferencia de resultados de
    investigación hacia las empresas de nuestro entorno
    industrial.

    También es un honor celebrar el SIT'02 en Sevilla, una
    ciudad a la que sus calles llenas de colorido, sus gentes
    y sus monumentos convierten en el lugar ideal para la
    celebración de un simposio de estas características.

    En caso de estar interesado en contribuir, rogamos visite
    la página http://tdg.lsi.us.es/~sit02/ En esta encontrará
    información sobre la conferencia, así como las instruc-
    ciones necesarias para hacernos llegar su contribución.
    Para cualquier aclaración, no dude en ponerse en contac-
    to con nosotros mediante la dirección de correo electró-
    nico sit02@tdg.lsi.us.es. Por favor, no utilice para ello
    la dirección remitente de este mensaje.

    Atentamente,

     
     
     
    Senén Barro Miguel Toro Rafael Corchuelo

    Presidente Vicepresidente Presidente
    del Comite del Comité del Comité
    de Programa de Programa Organizador

    _________________________________________________________

                           CALL FOR PAPERS SIT'02
          Symposium on Informatics and Telecommunications

                    Organised under the auspices of DINTEL
                              (www.fundacion-dintel.org)

                    Sevilla, Spain, September 24-27, 2002

                               http://tdg.lsi.us.es/~sit02

                                         ~~ooOoo~~

    SIT'02 is the Spanish Symposium on Informatics and
    Telecommunications. During previous editions, it has consolidated as
    a mature event in which researchers from Spain, surrounding
    countries, and Latin America meet to discuss new findings, make
    contacts and consolidate ideas. Its focus is on exchanging new
    research results in the broad field of informatics and
    telecommunications. It is not a pure scientific meeting, but a mixed
    gathering where people from the industry and the academia are
    expected to exchange ideas, experiences and foster lively discussions
    on topics ranging from pervasive computing to real-time distributed
    systems or security concerns.

    The Distributed Group (http://tdg.lsi.us.es) has the honour to
    organise the 2002 edition of SIT, which is going to be held under the
    auspices of DINTEL in Sevilla (Spain).

    Motivation
    - --------------

    Users of information systems are increasingly demanding higher
    performance, mobility, inter-connectivity, friendlier interfaces to
    heterogeneous data sources, personalisation, and so forth in order to
    realise the dream to have access to their information anywhere,
    anytime.

    Furthermore, companies seek for complex software-based, distributed
    systems that rely on the Internet as a means for effective, fruitful
    co-operation with other organisations. It is not surprising then that
    many such companies have explored a new trend in shifting from being
    component and system developers to being service providers on the
    Internet.

    Summing up, distributed systems are becoming pervasive in every field
    of information technology, from high-performance scientific
    applications to embedded systems, from web-based enterprise solutions
    to mobile end-user programmes over wireless infrastructures. Thus,
    there is increasing agreement amongst researchers and practitioners
    about the importance and potential of such systems and the advances
    in this area made in recent years.

    The future success of distributed systems will not only be dependent
    on how the basic requirements are met, but also how the underlying
    distributed technology can be integrated with existing complementary
    technologies and applications such as the Web, multi--media,
    telecommunications, agents or databases. The new development requires
    research on new architectures, frameworks, processes, and
    inter-connectivity of information systems at society, organisation,
    team, and personal levels.

    Contributions
    - -----------------

    This symposium aims to combine presentations of scientific work and
    workshops with both academic and commercial product demonstrations
    that focus on how distributed systems and telecommunications can
    provide engineers with efficient tools for developing information
    systems that can meet the above-mentioned requirements and promises.

    The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

    Pervasive Computing Network Intelligence
    Mobile Computing Internet Software Engineering
    Tele-working Distance Learning
    Tele-medicine Tele-detection
    Tele-robotics Mobile Agents
    Quality Awareness On-line Distributed Systems
    Cluster Computing Advanced Interaction Models
    Telecommunications Databases
    Real-time Systems Security

    SIT'02 seeks for high-quality contributions in four categories,
    namely:

    * Technical papers: We are chiefly interested in papers that report
    on experiences using standard frameworks, new development platforms,
    interdisciplinary integration, research findings, or disastrous
    experiences as long as they present original, unpublished results.
    Papers should discuss one issue and argue about what the problems
    are, what the solutions can be, and what the keys to successfulness
    or unsuccessfulness are. Standard extended abstracts that are pure
    descriptions of yet another prototype are strongly discouraged; only
    contributions that describe outstanding techniques or solutions and
    can foster vivid discussion will be accepted.

    * Workshops: One-day workshops affiliated with the symposium will be
    held as parallel events. Their purpose is to provide a forum for
    presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way
    than the symposium itself. As such, it also offers a good opportunity
    for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback
    from an interested community. The organisers must write a report on
    the main results and conclusions so that it can be published at the
    symposium's web site.

    * Special sessions: Many sessions will be arranged by the organisers
    of SIT'02, and they will group bunches of related papers on the
    above-mentioned topics. However, we also seek for special session
    proposals focusing on a well-defined topic related to informatics
    and/or telecommunication not mentioned previously.

    * Product demonstrations: Both academic and commercial product
    demonstrations are welcome as long as they provide a piece of
    praiseworthy work in the field of distributed systems or
    telecommunications. This brings developers an opportunity to show
    their results in practice, which is difficult in other conferences
    and symposia.

    Committees
    - --------------

    * Steering committee

    Chair
        J. Rivero (Chair of Fundación DINTEL)

    Vice-chairs
        S. Barro (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)
        R. Corchuelo (Univ. de Sevilla)

    Members
        J.L. Freire (Univ. Coruña, Organiser of SIT'01)
        J.M. Corchado (Univ. Salamanca, Organiser of SEID'00)

    * Prospective programme committee

    Chair
        S. Barro (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)

    Vice-chair
        J. Pérez (Univ. Politécnica Madrid)
        M. Toro (Univ. Sevilla)

    Members:
        TBA (Consult the web page)

    * Organising committee

    Chair
        R. Corchuelo (Univ. Sevilla)

    Members
        J.L. Arjona (Univ. Sevilla)
        A. Durán (Univ. Sevilla)
        A. Gómez (Univ. Sevilla)
        O. Martín (Univ. Sevilla)
        J. Peña (Univ. Sevilla)
        J.A. Pérez (Univ. Sevilla)
        A. Ruiz (Univ. Sevilla)
        D. Ruiz (Univ. Sevilla)

    Submissions
    - ---------------

    Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for
    papers, workshops, special sessions and product demonstrations to
    SIT'02. Such proposals must be written in either Spanish or English
    and must be typeset using the author kit by Springer Verlag. We do
    not encourage the use of MS Word, particularly as the layout of the
    pages (the position of figures and paragraphs) can change from
    printout to printout. We would like to stress that the style files
    should not be manipulated and that the guidelines regarding font
    sizes and format should be adhered to.

    The following guidelines must be taken into account depending on the
    proposal:

    * Technical papers: They must include a one-hundred--word abstract
    and up to five key words. They should not exceed 12 printed pages
    including figures, tables and references. (60 EURO will be charged for
    each extra page.) Prospective authors are kindly asked to contact the
    organisers as early as possible and to communicate a title and a
    short abstract of their intended submission. Note that the abstract
    and/or the title may change slightly in the final version.

    * Workshops: The proposal should not be longer than three pages and
    should describe the topic of the workshop (that should relate broadly
    to distributed systems and/or telecommunications), the names and
    contact information of the organisers, the expected number of
    participants, and any other factors relevant to its selection.

    * Special sessions: The above guidelines are also applicable to
    special
    sessions.

    * Product demonstrations: The proposal should not be longer
    than three pages and should describe the main features of the product
    and other factors relevant to its selection.

    We strongly encourage electronic submission in Adobe's Portable
    Document Format using the our electronic submission centre. If you
    can only submit a hardcopy, please mail four copies to:

    The Distributed Group (SIT'02)
    Dep. de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos.
    Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos
    Universidad de Sevilla
    Avda. de la Reina Mercedes, s/n
    Sevilla, 41.012

    Important dates
    ------------------

    Please, note that in keeping with the convention established in the
    last few years, the deadlines are firm and no extensions will be
    given.

    Start of submissions:
            December 1, 2001

    Deadline for workshop and special session proposals:
            January 11, 2002

    Decision on workshop and special session proposals:
            February 4, 2002

    Deadline for paper submissions and product demonstration proposals:
            May 3, 2002

    Decision on papers and product demonstrations:
            June 15, 2002

    Final camera-ready versions:
            July 15, 2002

    Venue
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    Please, take a look at http://tdg.lsi.us.es/~sit02/doc/venue.html to
    learn about the venue and a look at
    http://tdg.lsi.us.es/~sit02/doc/sevilla.html to enjoy a virtual visit
    to Sevilla with panoramic, interactive pictures.



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