Appel: InSciT2006

Tue May 9 15:10:02 UTC 2006

Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 22:03:31 +0200
From: "InSciT2006 Conference" <inscit2006 at instac.es>
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Second Call for Papers and Conference Updates

I International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences
and Technologies, InSciT2006
Mérida, SPAIN, October 25th-28th, 2006
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/

Accepted Papers:
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/search.php

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: May 15th, 2006

Dear colleague,

In addition to the features informed in the CFP, InSciT2006 is pleased
to announce some exciting and relevant news about the conference,
including new keynote speaker, workshops, journal special issues and
accommodation arrangements. Please read it through to know more...

PLENARY SPEAKERS (confirmed)
Dr. Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA. JASIS&T
Editor. Lecture: Intelligent Methods in Models of Text Information
Retrieval: Implications for Society
Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium. Scietometrics Co-Editor (Title to be announced)
Dr. Felix de Moya Anegón, University of Granada, SPAIN. Main
researcher of SCImago Research Group. (Title to be announced)
Dr. Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, Editor of Information
Visualization, USA. Lecture: Visual analysis of concept change and
information diffusion

CONTRIBUTIONS
Incoming contributions are following a good rate, acceptance letters
have started to be sent. A 400 papers proceedings book is expected to
be distributed among the attendees. In addition to regular papers, it
is also possible to submit proposals to the half-day International
Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of
Scientific Knowledge, led by Dr. Chaomei Chen and to the full-day
Specialized Session on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life
Sciences, led by Dr. A. Fazel Famili. More info:
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm
http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm

WORKSHOPS / SESSIONS
InSciT2006 is pleased to announce the inclusion of one workshop and
one specialized session into the conference scientific program. Both
sessions have been set up in order to extend the conference target
audience, as reaching the widest range of research communities is one
of the major goals of the conference. Find below full details about
these new and exciting tracks of InSciT2006.

-- International Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and
   Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge
http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/inscit2006workshop
October 26th (half-day workshop)

-- Specialized Session on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life
   Sciences: Current Trends and Future Directions
October 27th (full-day session)
http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm

THEMES
Major topics include the following, for a comprehensive list of topics
covered by InSciT2006 visit:
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/topics.htm

Information Retrieval
Digital Libraries
Hypertext and Hypermedia Systems
Metadata 
Electronic Publishing
Knowledge and Information Management 
Science and Information Mapping
Data Mining
Human-Computer interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Information Visualization
Social Networks
Databases

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION - PROCEEDINGS 
All accepted papers presented at InSciT2006, both in the regular
tracks and specialized sessions and workshops will be published as
book chapters in the Conference Proceedings Book, which will be
jointly edited by the University of Extremadura and the Open Institute
of Knowledge. The title of the publication is expected to be "Current
Research in Information Sciences and Technologies. Multidisciplinary
approaches to global information systems" and it will contain an
International Serial Book Number (ISBN).

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS SPECIAL ISSUES 
Confirmed journals: (being updated)
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/publication.htm

-- Information Visualization. 
Published by Palgrave Macmillan Journals. ISSN: 1473-8716
5-7 selected papers of the Workshop on Visual Analytics of the
Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge will form a special
issue of this journal. 

-- The International Information and Library Review 
Published by Elsevier. ISSN: 1057-2317
A selection of high quality papers presented in InSciT2006 will
undergo an extension and revision process to become journal articles
of a IILR special issue.

At this moment is also being considered to produce a special issue of
Information Sciences, published by Elsevier. ISSN: 0020-0255

ACCOMMODATION
InSciT2006 has agreed with Rural Plan (a local travel agency) an
accommodation service available for the conference attendees. Please,
note that through this service a wide hotel category range is provided
in order to adapt the offer to the widest range of budgets. Thus, from
five-stars hotels to two-stars and hostels are offered through the
conference organization. All hotels showed have been checked for a
standard of quality.

http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/accommodation.htm

Thank you in advance and do not hesitate to contact us for any
suggestion or inquiry.
We would also appreciate it if you could disseminate this Call for
Papers within your Department or Institution.

Dr. Vicente Guerrero Bote
InSciT2006 Conference Chairman
University of Extremadura
http://alcazaba.unex.es/~vicente

Borja Gonzalez
InSciT2006 Secretariat
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/secretariat.htm
Email: inscit2006 at instac.es

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