BCI 2012 - 5th Balkan Conference in Informatics - BCI 2012

Dear colleague,

we are sending you Announcement & Preliminary Call For Papers for the “5th Balkan Conference in Informatics - BCI 2012” (http://bci2012.bci-conferences.org/) that will be held on September 16-20th, 2012 in Novi Sad, Serbia

We would be glad if you could distribute it among your colleagues.

Sincerely yours,
BCI 2012 team

ANNOUNCEMENT & PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

5th Balkan Conference in Informatics - BCI 2012
September 16-20th, 2012
Novi Sad, Serbia
http://bci2012.bci-conferences.org/
e-mail: bci2012-AT-bci-conferences.org

AIMS AND SCOPE
The main objective of the BCI series of conferences is to provide a forum for discussions and dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration among scientists from the Balkan countries and the rest of the world, and to encourage involvement of young researchers from the region.
The 5th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI) continues the BCI conferences held in Thessaloniki (2009), Sofia (2007), Ohrid (2005), and Thessaloniki (2003).
This year (2012) conference will take place at Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. The city of Novi Sad (http://perun.dmi.rs/novisad/, http://www.novisad.rs/) is the capital of Vojvodina (the northern province of Serbia). It is easily reachable from the region (by car, by bus or by train) and from all over the world (by plain ? the nearest airport is 70 km away). http://bci2012.bci-conferences.org/?venue
The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. Different workshops will be held in line with the main conference. The official language of the conference will be English.

TOPICS
Papers in all well established and modern areas of informatics are welcome. Please visit http://bci2012.bci-conferences.org/?topics for the list of conference topics.

SUBMISSIONS
Contributions are solicited for the following categories:
- full research papers
- short research papers, i.e. experience reports, project overviews, etc. which do not fully adhere to the standards of a first rate scientific publication, but are nevertheless of interest and value for the participants of the conference.

Further details will be regularly updated at http://bci2012.bci-conferences.org/?submission

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of abstracts: March 1st, 2012
Submission of workshop proposals: March 1st, 2012
Submission of tutorial proposals: March 1st, 2012
Submission of papers: March 15th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: May 1st, 2012
Early registration: May 10th, 2012
Camera-ready papers: May 30th, 2012
Regular registration: May 30th, 2012
Late registration September 1st, 2012
Conference September 16th ? 20th, 2012

GENERAL CHAIR
Mirjana Ivanović,
University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
e-mail: mira-AT-dmi.uns.ac.rs

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Zoran Budimac, chair,
University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia,
e-mail: zjb-AT-dmi.uns.ac.rs

Members: http://bci2012.bci-conferences.org/?pcmembers

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (all from University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia)
Mirjana Ivanović, chair, e-mail: mira-AT-dmi.uns.ac.rs
Dejan Mitrović, co-chair, e-mail: dejan-AT-dmi.uns.ac.rs
Gordana Rakić, co-chair, e-mail: goca-AT-dmi.uns.ac.rs

Members: http://bci2012.bci-conferences.org/?organization

CONTACT
Please use official conference e-mail addresses as your primary choice to contact us:
bci2012-AT-easychair.org
bci2012-AT-bci-conferences.org

Phones
+381 21 458 888
+381 21 485 2852

Fax
+381 21 6350 458

Address
Department of Mathematics and Informatics
Faculty of Science
University of Novi Sad
Trg Dositeja Obradovica 4
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia