ITSS 2014 - 2nd International Workshop on Information Technology Systems and Services

ITSS: 2nd International Workshop on Information Technology Systems and Services
ITSS Background
Information Technology has become increasingly pervasive in everyday life. It has empowered people from different sectors of society. People interact with one another through various information systems in all sorts of media such as text, sound, or video. This greater connectivity among individuals have also ushered different applications and services in the areas of telecommunications, governance, health, education, business transactions, entertainment and social services.
With information technology becoming central to each of these systems and services, there arises wide variety of issues such as usability, performance, security, adaptability and personalization, concurrency and integrity of data. Careful analysis and establishment of standards and protocols are inherent to address this variety of issues. Emerging trends and advances on how these systems and services are best delivered to the users is also of great interest.
The goal of this special Workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners to discuss the different relevant issues pertaining to the information technology systems and services mentioned.
Call for Papers:
Topics include but are not limited to: (Track IV)
Affective Computing
E-governance
E-health
E-learning
Electronic Commerce
Emphatic Computing
Entertainment Computing
Humanities Computing
Information Systems
Information Visualization
Multimedia Systems
Social Network Analysis
Universal Access
Business Process Management
Applications
Instructions for Authors
The Workshop solicits two types of original papers: (a) full papers and (b) short papers such as work-in-progress or position-papers. Submitted papers must not substantially duplicate previously published work or have been submitted in parallel to any journal, conference or workshop with proceedings.
Papers submitted to ITSS should be in pdf and follow the IEEE CPS format, according to the general Instructions for Authors of IISA 2014. See the IISA2014 Instructions for Authors page for appropriate templates, in both Latex and MS Word environments. Papers for ITSS should be submitted through the general IISA2014 paper submission system (EasyChair).
All submissions will be blind-reviewed. The reviewers are not required to read possible appendices. Papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Papers will be submitted in pdf format using the EasyChair conference management system.
Important notice: While submitting a paper for ITSS login to the EasyChair system, select TRACK IV on the easychair system and then check the ITSS Workshop Group box below the abstract section, otherwise the paper will not be marked as a ITSS paper submission.
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Proceedings of IISA2014 and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library (IEL, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Clear instructions for the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers.
In addition, best papers of the ITSS will be considered for publication in the SpringerPlus Journal (Springer).
ITSS Committee
Program Co-Chairs:
Jaime Caro, University of the Philippines Diliman
Henry Adorna, University of the Philippines Diliman
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus
Program Committee:
Patrice Boursier, University of La Rouchelle
Yung-Cheol Byun, Jeju National University
Kurt Junshean Espinosa, University of the Philippines Cebu
Rommel Feria, University of the Philippines Diliman
Dave Marcial, Silliman University
Shinya Nishizaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Allan Sioson, Ateneo De Naga University
Merlin Teodosia Suarez, De La Salle University
Christos Troussas, University of Piraeus
Important Dates
Submission of Full Papers: Friday February 28, 2014
Notice of Acceptance: Monday March 31, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper submission: Friday April 18, 2014
Conference Dates: July 7-9, 2014
Contact Us
Prof. Kurt Junshean Espinosa
Department of Computer Science, University of the Philippines, Philippines
kpespinosa-AT-up.edu.ph
Mr. Christos Troussas
Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece
ctrouss-AT-unipi.gr