Call for Papers First International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies'(NDT 2009) (Technical co-sponsors - COMSOC of IEEE) Ostrava, Czech Republic, July 28-31, 2009 The proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx ============================================================================== The proposed conference on the above theme will be be held at the VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic from July 28 to July 31 2009 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. Currently a number of institutions across the countries are working to evolve better models to provide collaborative technology services for scholarship by creating shared cyberspace thro expert collaboration, but this is a challenge for the institutions for a number of reasons. In the last few years, the landscape of digital technology applications projects for the various disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences appears induced by many initiatives. For the creation of research clusters, the research community has thousands of databases, websites, local computing clusters, and web-based tools around individual themes, interests and projects. In most cases, these tools and resources are and were created to meet the specific needs of a particular community. In many cases, the funding and support for these critical initiatives is fragile and temporary, and directed in piecemeal fashion. There is a need to provide concerted efforts in building federated digital technologies that will enable the formation of network of digital technologies. Topics include but not limited to: Information and Data Management Data and Network mining Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems Internet Modeling User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling XML-based languages Security and Access Control Trust models for social networks Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design New architectures for web-based social networks Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation) Web Services Security Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks Indexing and query processing for moving objects User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications Mobile social networks Peer-to-peer social networks Sensor networks and social sensing Social search Social networking inspired collaborative computing Information propagation on social networks Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks Measurement studies of actual social networks Simulation models for social networks LOCATION NDT 2009 will be organized by VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, in cooperation with the Digital Information Research Foundation (DIRF) located in India. NDT is technically co-sponsored by the Communications Society of IEEE. All the activities of the conference will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Date:March 30, 2009 Notification of acceptance May 1, 2009 Camera-ready June 15, 2009 Registration June 15, 2009 Conference dates:July 28-31, 2009 COMMITTEES General Chairs Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Program Chairs Khalid Saeed, Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Science, Czech Republic Youakim Badr, INSA-Lyon, France Program co-Chairs Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Hefei Ling, University College London, UK Proceedings Chair Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Publicity Chair Pit Pichappan, AISB University, Saudi Arabia Industrial Chairs Soraya Mostefaoui, Open University, UK. If you are interested in organizing any workshop or special session, please send us email to ndt@dirf.org with the title of the session Would you like to be a reviewer? All the reviewing are online. Please visit http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx then select link be a reviewer. More details are listed there. SUBMISSION Submission instructions are listed at http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------