ICSIT 2010 - International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2010

International Conference on
Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2010
Jointly with

The 16th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS 2010
and

The 8th International Conference on Computing, Communications
and Control Technologies: CCCT 2010
2010
April 6th - 9th, 2010 ? Orlando, Florida, USA

http://www.iiis2010.org/icsit/

Honorary President: William Lesso
Program Committee Chairs: Friedrich Welsch
General Chairs: Nagib Callaos and Jorge Baralt
Organizing Committee Chairs: Angel Oropeza and José Vicente Carrasquero




Conference’s Major Themes

? Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Societies
? The Academic Sector and the ICT
? The Private Sector and the ICT
? The Public Sector and the ICT

Program Committee
The Program Committee has about 18 members, who are complemented by about 688 reviewers, from about 83 countries. The names, affiliations and countries of the PC’s members as well as the additional reviewers could be found at the Conference’s web site, or more specifically at www.iiis2010.org/icsit/PCommitte.asp.

Virtual Participation
Given the Global Recession, and thinking of those scholars, researchers and professionals related with the conference topics but unable to attend it personally (usually due to insufficient funding for the traveling costs) a Virtual Participation mode has been established, with the same peer reviewing and validity than face-to-face ones.
Submissions made for Virtual Participation would go through the same reviewing processes of the regular papers (double-blind, non-blind, and participative peer reviewing) and, if accepted (according to the same acceptance policy), they will be included in the proceedings and will be eligible for journal publication, with no additional cost, if they are, according to their reviewers, among the best 10%-20% of those physically and virtually presented at the conference.

Each regular session, included in the conference program, will be associated to a corresponding virtual session where all final versions of the articles to be presented will be displayed and authors can comment them via electronic forums. Registered authors of virtual participations will have access to all conference program sessions (and papers). Their article will be displayed as the regular ones. Virtual authors also have the option of sending, besides the final version of their article in a PDF document, an electronic presentation (PowerPoint, flash, etc. and/or a 15-20 minutes video)

After paying the respective shipping and handling costs, registered authors of virtual participation, who have paid their registration fee, can get delivered the same conference material that the regular attendees receive at the registration desk.

Ways of Participation and Support

Participation in the conference could be done by means of one or several of the following activities:
? The submission of a paper/abstract.
? The organization of Invited Session(s)
? Tutorial proposals
? The organization of Focus Symposium.
? The reviewing process.
? The conference promotion.
? Recommending scholars/researchers in order to have an active participation and/or submit the papers.
? Panel Presentation.
? Proposing Organizations/Institutes/Universities as Academic/Scientific Co-Sponsors.

Kinds of Participants
Participation of both, researchers and practitioners is strongly encouraged. Papers may be submitted on: research in science and engineering, case studies drawn on professional practice and consulting, and position papers based on large and rich experience gained through executive/managerial practices and decision-making. Hence, the Program Committee has been conformed according to the criteria given above.

Deadlines
October 28th, 2009: Submission of draft papers (2000-5000), extended abstracts (400-2000) and abstracts for inter-disciplinary communication (200-600 words)
October 28th, 2009: Invited Sessions proposals. Acceptance of invited session proposals will be done in about one week of its proposal via the respective conference web form, and final approval will be done after the inclusion of at least five papers in the respective session
November 23th, 2009: Notifications of acceptance.
December 16th, 2009: Submission of camera-ready or final versions of the accepted papers.
April 6th, 2010: Conference Starts
April 9th, 2010: Conference Ends

Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its organizer and chair, but in any case the camera ready deadline should be met.

Types of Submissions Accepted
1. Papers/Abstracts
? Research papers
a. in science
b. in engineering, including systems analysis, design, implementation, synthesis, deployment, maintenance, etc.
? Review papers
? Case studies
? Position papers
? Reports: technical reports, engineering reports, reports on a methodological application, etc.
2. Invited Sessions
Data regarding invited session to be organized by the submitter (title of the invited session, name of the organizer, affiliation, titles of the papers accepted for the invited session, authors’ names, etc.). More details could be found below or at the conference web site.
3. Panel Presentation and/or Round Table Proposals. Panel or round table proposals can be made using the web page related to invited sessions proposals.
4. Focus Symposia (which should include a minimum of 15 papers). Focus symposia proposals can be made using the web page related to invited sessions proposals.
5. Tutorial or workshop presentation, which can be proposed sending an email to icsit-AT-mail.iiis2010.org