[ecoop-info] Call for Tutorials RCIS 2012

[Ignacio Panach Navarrete]

CALL FOR TUTORIALS


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Sixth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES in INFORMATION 
SCIENCE (RCIS 2012)

MAY 16-18, 2012, Valencia, SPAIN

Tutorial submission deadline: December 16, 2011

http://rcis-conf.com/
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RCIS 2012 is a conference of RCIS Conference Series and is sponsored by 
IEEE SPAIN section and IEEE Spain Section CS/IA Joint Chapter

SCOPE AND TOPICS
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The Sixth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION 
SCIENCE (RCIS 2012) aims at providing an international forum for 
scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of 
information science areas to exchange ideas and approaches in this 
evolving field. While presenting research findings and state-of-art 
solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new 
research challenges in these main topics:
-Information System Engineering
-Business applications
-Database and Information System Integration
-Decision Information Systems
-Data Management
-Internet computing
-Knowledge Management
-Knowledge Discovery from Data
-Management applications
-Spatial Information Systems
-Software Testing
-Human-Computer Interaction

Tutorials may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although 
authors should not feel limited by them. Target tutorials are tutorials 
with clear applicability to industry. Therefore, we encourage industry 
to send proposals to prepare a tutorial on a very innovative and 
practical subject.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
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Tutorial proposals must be no more than 5 pages. The tutorial must be 
scheduled 3 hours or 1h30.  3 hours proposals are oriented to more well 
established techniques and approaches explained in a pedagogical way 
while 1h30 proposals are intended to deal with more innovative 
techniques exposition.
The proposal must clearly include:
1.A short bio of the presenter
2.A title
3.A short abstract
4.Scope
5.Background of the attendees
6.Which material will be provided to attendees
7.Timetable

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Notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent by February 27, 2012.
The deadline for the tutorial submissions is December 16. To submit the 
proposal, you can send it by e-mail to:
-Selmin Nurcan (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France): 
nurcan at univ-paris1.fr
-Tanja Vos (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain): tvos at pros.upv.es
-Ignacio Panach (Universitat de València, Spain): jpanach at pros.upv.es
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All authors of accepted tutorials will be asked to sign a contract and 
will also receive further instructions about how to prepare and submit 
the tutorial notes, the tutorial summary (for the website) and speaker 
biographies.

RCIS organizers reserve the right to cancel tutorials that fail to 
attract a minimum of 10 registrants by the close of early registration. 
Presenters will be notified within one week of the conclusion of early 
registration whether their tutorials have sufficient registrations to be 
held.

Tutorial speakers will receive a fix honorarium of 350 Euros per 
tutorial (i.e., multiple speakers must share the honorarium). 
Additionally, all speakers (if more than one) receive free registration 
only for their tutorial, while one free registration for the main 
conference will be offered to the main presenter (one speaker).