Technical In-cooperation pending with IEEE CS and TCEC
Sponsored by e-Centre for Infonomics, University of East London (UeL), and in cooperation with Florida International University (FIU), Institute of Analyst Programmer, British Computer Society (BCS), Kansas State University (K-State), and IEE

Theme
The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2006) is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2006 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution
in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society.

Topics of interest
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
e-Society
e-Business
e-Security
e-Art
e-Education
e-Health
e-Intelligence
Foundations of Services Computing
Intellectual property rights in digital society
Internet security
New enabling technologies
Globalisation and developmental IT
Services-Centric Business Models
Web services and performance
Knowledge economy
Intelligent Organisations
Geographic information systems
Intelligent data management
Knowledge networks
Intelligent agents
Business Process Integration and Management

Paper submissions
26 February 2006 - Extended paper submission date
1 April 2006 - notification of acceptance
1 May 2006 - final paper submission

Poster submissions
15 March 2006 - poster submission
15 April 2006 - notification of acceptance
1 May 2006 - final poster submission

Proceedings
All papers accepted for the conference, including special sessions papers, will be published in the proceedings. The Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2006) will be published in a book (CD) with ISBN 0-9546628-1-4. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published as special issues in the following journals:

International Journal for Infonomics ([URL=http://www.i-journal.org.uk/]IJI[/URL]), Published by e-Centre for Infonomics, ISSN 1742-4712 (print), 1742-4720 (online)

International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions ([URL=http://www.inderscience.com/ijitst]IJITST[/URL]), Published by Inderscience, ISSN 1748-569X (print), 1748-5703 (online)

Paper submission guidelines
Submissions are invited in the following categories:
Full paper: 5 to 10 pages
Short paper: 3 to 5 pages
Posters: 3 pages
Workshop proposals: 1 to 2 pages

Executive committee
General chair
Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK
General vice-chairs
Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
Technical program co-chairs
Ignacio Aedo, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Kia Makki, Florida International University, USA
International co-chairs
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
Poster and Demo chairs
Kami Makki, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
Giovanni Sacco, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Local arrangements chair
Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, USA
Publicity co-chairs
Ziyang Duan, Credit Suisse First Boston, USA
Alex Logvynovskiy, London South Bank University, UK

International program committee members
Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Maaruf Ali, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Stuart Barnes, University of East Anglia Norwich, UK
Paolo Bellavista, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Shlomo Berkovsky, University of Haifa, Israel
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Peter Bieringer, Deep Space 6, Germany
Roy Boggs, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Christer Carlsson, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Malu G. Castellanos, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
Patrick Y.K. Chau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jeng-Chung (Victor) Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Wen-Chyuan Chiang, University of Tulsa, USA
Young B. Choi, James Madison University, USA
Ta-Tao Chuang, Gonzaga University, USA
Paul D. Clough, University of Sheffield, UK
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK
Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Mohammad Dastbaz, University of Greenwich, UK
Reggie Davidrajuh, University of Stavanger, Norway
Jaime Delgado, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Brian Detlor, McMaster University, Canada
Flavia Donno, European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Switzerland
Olaf Droegehorn, University of Kassel, Germany
Paloma Díaz, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Ephrem Eyob, Virginia State University, USA
Yaniv Eytani, University of Haifa, Israel
Tiziano Fagni, ISTI, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Cristiano di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Shiwa Fu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Akira Fukuda, Kyushu University, Japan
João Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
Claude Godart, University Henri Poincaré and INRIA, France
Fernando Gomez, University of Central Florida, USA
Mounira Harzallah, University of Nantes, France
Rena Hixon, USA
Sonja Hof, Samtis
Meng-Hsiang Hsu, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Tech, Taiwan
Lynne Humphries, University of Sunderland, UK
Fidelis Ikem, Virginia State University, USA
Pedro Isaias, Aberta University, Portugal
Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Makoto Kageto, Nihon Fukushi University, Japan
Hiromitsu Kato, Hitachi Systems Development Laboratory, Japan
Mounir Kehal, International University of Monaco, Monaco
Bach Hung Khang, National Centre for Natural Science and Technology, Vietnam
Fredrik Kilander, IT University in Kista, Sweden
Myoung Ho Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Seong Soo Kim, Texas A&M University, USA
Andy Koronios, University of South Australia, Australia
Herma van Kranenburg, Telematica Institute, The Netherlands
Atul Kumar, IBM India Research Lab, India
Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde, UK
Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Matthew K.O. Lee, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Liz Lee-Kelley, University of Surrey, UK
Dušan Lesjak, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Qianhui Althea Liang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Jay Liebowitz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Billy B.L. Lim, Illinois State University, USA
Geng Lin, Cisco Systems Inc., USA
Yaowei Liu, Alcatel Shanghai Bell, China
Claudio Lucchese, ISTI, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Zong-Wei Luo, E-Business Technology Institute, Hong Kong
Nazim H. Madhavji, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany
Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Barry McCollum, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Ron McFadyen, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Peter Milligan, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Nader F. Mir, San Jose State University, USA
Ali R. Montazemi, McMaster University, Canada
Daisuke Morikawa, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
Bernd Mrohs, Fraunhofer FOKUS , Germany
Daryl G. Nord, Oklahoma State University, USA
Shirley O'Neill, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
Salvatore Orlando, Università Ca' Foscari, Italy
Georgios Papadimitriou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Yang Park, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, USA
P. Pichappan, Annamalai University, India
Despina Polemi, University of Piraeus, Greece
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institut FIT, Germany
Dimitrios P. Ptochos, National Tecnhical University of Athens, Greece
Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven Technical University (TU/e), The Netherland
Oriana Riva, University of Helsinki, Finland
Maytham Hassan Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Karin Sallhammar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Samiaji Sarosa, Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, Indonesia
Caterina Maria Scoglio, Kansas State University, USA
Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA
Chi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Fabrizio Silvestri, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy
Andrew Simpson, University of Oxford, UK
Kwan-Ho Song, National Internet Development Agency of Korea, Republic of Korea
Michael Sonntag, FIM, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Heinz Stockinger, University of Vienna, Austria
Moiez A. Tapia, University of Miami, USA
Michael J. Tarn, Western Michigan University, USA
Ewe Hong Tat, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Samir Tata, Institut National des Télécommunications, France
Do van Thanh, Telenor R&D , Norway
Frédéric Thiesse, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Abdallah Tubaishat, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Bruno Tuffin, IRISA , France
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Richard Vidgen, University of Bath, UK
Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
David W. Wilson, University of London, UK
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
David Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Jian Yang, Macquaire University, Australia
David Yang, National Koohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Chee-Sing Yap, TM Net, Malaysia
George O. Yee, Institute for Information Technology, NRC, Canada
Ping Yi, Fudan University, China
Cui Yu, Monmouth University, USA

Steering committee
Jiangping Fan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Wellman, ACM SIGecom
Ephraim Feig, Kintera Inc.

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