The First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008) Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008 http://www.dirf.org/diwt2008/ ======================================================================== Sponsored by IEEE. All the ICADIWT 2008 papers will be published by IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore and EI. The First International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Web Content Mining, Health Informatics, Bioinformatics and IT Applications across disciplines. The ICADIWT 2008 will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following research topics: Information Retrieval Wireless network Signal processing, pattern recognition and applications Digital image processing Speech processing Parallel and distributed computing and networks Information retrieval and internet applications Software engineering E-technology Artificial intelligence and applications Databases and applications Genetic algorithms Data mining Real time systems Computer and network security E-commerce and E-applications Programming languages Multi-Agent systems Each submission undergoes review for originality, technical merit, methods, experiments etc. Modified versions of the selected papers of the conference will be published in the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (ISSN 0972 7272) (http://www.dirf.org/jdim) 2. International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=110 ) 3. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (http://www.dynamicpublishers.com/JIAS/openconf.php) 4. Neural Network World (http://www3.cs.cas.cz/nnw) There will be special sessions on the following topics. SPECIAL SESSION Session Name: Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management Session Chair: Ezendu Ariwa London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Email e.ariwa@londonmet.ac.uk Session Name: Social Information Retrieval Session Chair: Dion Goh Nanyang Technological University Singapore Email ashlgoh@ntu.edu.sg LOCATION : ICADIWT 2008 will be organized by VSB- Technical University of Ostrava, located in Czech Republic in cooperation with the Digital Information Research Foundation (DIRF) located in India. All the activities of the conference will take place at the Czech Republic. IMPORTANT DATES : Submission of papers deadline: May 5, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready submission and registration: June 15, 2008 Conference date: August 4-6, 2008 COMMITTEES: General Chairs: Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Program Chairs Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Khalid Saeed, Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Science, Czech Republic Publicity Chair Pit Pichappan, Al Imam Saud Bin University, Saudi Arabia Organising Committee Jan Martinovi - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-TU Ostrava,Czech Republic Submission :All submissions will be at: http://www.dirf.org/diwt2008/submission.asp _______________________________________________