Call for Special Sessions
Special sessions are intended to harmonize the main technical program of the conference. Special sessions should address topics that are related to IT but applied to areas not covered in the main technical program sessions. Prospective organizers of special sessions should submit proposals that include the following:
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Title of the special session.
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Abstract of the topic.
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Name, affiliation, contact information and a short biography of the session organizer(s).
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At least five paper proposals. Each paper proposal should include the title, authors, contact information of the corresponding author, and an abstract.
Proposals must be submitted via e-mail on or before the deadline shown below to the Special Sessions Co-chair:
Dr. Harmain Mohammed (harmain@uaeu.ac.ae)
All proposals will be evaluated by the Technical Program Committee of the conference. Selection will be based on the quality of the proposal and relevance.
Notification of acceptance will be sent to the organizer(s) by the notification of acceptance of proposals deadline shown below.
Authors of accepted proposals must then submit their papers through the on-line paper submission system by the deadline shown below.
Special session papers must conform to the same formatting and submission guidelines as specified in the conference website (http://www.it-innovations.ae) and will go through the same review process of regular papers. Final version of accepted papers must be submitted on or before the submission of camera ready paper deadline shown below.
A special session paper will appear in the conference proceedings provided that at least one of the authors registers at the author rate using the on-line registration system. This must be carried out on or before the author registration deadline shown below. The local organization committee reserves the right to cancel a given special session if the number of accepted/registered papers within the session is less than five.
Important Special Sessions dates
Submission of special session proposal Notification of acceptance of special session proposal Papers submissions deadline extended: Notification of acceptance of papers Final camera ready paper Author registration |
September 22, 2007 October 27, 2007 October 27, 2007 |