S3T 2010 - International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies S3T 2010

S3T 2010: International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic
Technologies

September 11-12, 2010, Varna, Bulgaria

http://s3t.uni-sofia.bg/



S3T 2010 will provide a forum for connecting researchers and international
research communities for worldwide dissemination and sharing of ideas and
results in the areas of Software and Services and Intelligent Content and
Semantics. Five coherently interrelated tracks will be arranged in the
two-day conference including Software and Services, Intelligent Content and
Semantics, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Knowledge Management, Business
Intelligence and Innovation. Researchers and graduate students are welcomed
to participate in paper presentations and panel discussions under the theme=
s
of the conference tracks. The conference is supported by F7 EU SISTER
Project and hosted by Sofia University.



Conference Tracks and Topics

We invite original contributions addressing (but not limited to) one or mor=
e
of the following topics:

*Track: Software and Services

- Software Quality and Testing

- Software Architectures

- Software Processes and Management

- Software Design Tools and Techniques

- Reusable Software and Interoperability

- Software Security

- Mobile Software Applications

- e-Services

- e-Infrastructure

- Software Intensive Systems

*Track: Intelligent Content and Semantics

- Ontologies and Semantic Web Technologies

- Web Data and Knowledge

- Social Networks Analysis and Collective Intelligence

- Information Extraction and Visualisation

- Semantic Search and Retrieval

- Data and Text Mining

- User Modelling and Personalization

*Track: Technology Enhanced Learning

- Building Learning Communities

- Lifelong Competence Development

- Pedagogical and Organizational Frameworks

- Learning Content Management Systems and Services

- Educational Digital Repositories

- Serious games and virtual reality

- Learning theories and innovative learning scenarios

- Mash-up learning systems and services

- Learning standards and innovative system implementation

*Track: Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence and Innovation

- Knowledge Management Technologies

- Business Intelligence Architecture

- Strategic Knowledge Management

- Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Intelligence

- Business Intelligence Solutions

- Knowledge Audit and Business Performance Management

- Innovation Management

- Open Innovation and Living Labs

- Innovation and Regional Development

- Knowledge Management Models, Patterns and Case Studies



Important Dates

Submission of papers May 9, 2010

Notification of acceptance June 20, 2010

Submission of final versions July 10, 2010



Submission

We invite the submission of full papers (8 pages), short papers (5 pages),
and poster abstracts (2 pages).

Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Important: Authors should clearly indicate the track and the type of the
contribution (e.g. as sub-title). Papers must be submitted as PDF or MS Wor=
d
documents through the EasyChair submission system at
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=3Ds3t2009

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee. At least one author should attend the conference to present the
paper.



Awards

Best paper awards are set up to encourage submission of high-quality papers
on related research. Awards will be presented to the Best Student Paper and
the Best Conference Paper. Ten travel awards (covering the conference fee
and accommodation) will be offered to young researchers /PhD students to
present their research at the conference.



Committees

Conference Chair

Krassen Stefanov, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Program Chair

Christo Dichev, Winston-Salem State University, USA

Referred Papers Track Chairs

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Elisaveta Gurova Sofia University, Bulgaria (Knowledge Management and
Innovation)

Sylvia IlievaSofia University, Bulgaria (Software and Services)

Ivan Koychev Sofia University, Bulgaria(Intelligent Content and Semantics)

Krassen Stefanov Sofia University, Bulgaria (Technology Enhanced Learning)

Program Committee

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Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Carole Adam, RMIT University, Australia

Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria

S=F6ren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany

Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki,
Greece

Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy

Daniel Borrajo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Daniel Burgos, ATOS Origin, Spain

Pavel Boytchev, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Svetla Boytcheva, State University of Library Studies and Information
Technologies, Bulgaria

Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China

Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA

Milena Dobreva, University of Strathclyde, UK

Danail Dochev, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria

Gabriella Dodero, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Albert Estrline, A&T State University, USA

Tatiana A. Gavrilova, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia

Alexander Grigorov, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Tudor Groza, DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Panos Hahamis, University of Westminster, UK

David John, Wake Forest University, USA

Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Jason J. Jung, Inha University, Korea j

Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, Netherlands

Rob Koper, Open University, Netherlands

Chendong Li, University of Connecticut, USA

Franz Lehner, Universit=E4t Passau, Germany

Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA

Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore

Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara

Roumen Nikolov, State University of Library Studies and Information
Technologies, Bulgaria

Iliana Nikolova, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Maria Nisheva, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Alexandre Passant, DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Radoslav Pavlov, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria

Allan Ramsay, University of Manchester, UK

Atanas Radenski, Chapman University, USA

Giovanni Semeraro, Universita' di Bari, Italy

Rossi Setchi, Cardiff University, UK

Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, USA

Slavi Stoyanov, Open University, Netherlands

Ingo Simonis, Institute, CSIR, South Africa

Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento, Italy

Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey

Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA

Julita Vasileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

I=F1aki V=E1zquez, University of Deusto, Spain

Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, UK

Vladimir Zanev, Columbus State University, USA

Local Organising Committee

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Local Committee Chair: Eliza Stefanova

Sponsorship: Victoria Damyanova

Publishing: Eugenia Kovatcheva

Finances: Marin Barzakov

Local Arrangements: Stanimira Yordanova

Technical Support & Equipment: Atanas Georgiev



Inquiries:

s3t-AT-fmi.uni-sofia.bg