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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=78 height=147 src="cid:image002.png@01CD0484.F213CAF0" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Apart from research papers, the call for papers is also open to practice-driven experience reports that reflect upon openness and flexibility in the context of the acquisition, implementation, use and management of EIS in organizations. The conference is hosting an industry & service track aimed at exploring emerging topics in depth. We therefore particularly welcome contributions from starters, SME’s, social profit organizations, organizations within non-business sectors or any other kind of organization that was not targeted by the standard monolithic enterprise system software packages of the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038'>Topics of interest</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Enterprise Information System (EIS): evolution in concept, technology, and application<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>EIS classifications and typologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Design of EIS: approaches to variability, adaptability and flexibility<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Acquiring, implementing and managing EIS: approaches, experiences, lessons learned<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Success of EIS: satisfaction, acceptance, adoption<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Integration and interoperability of enterprise systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Enterprise modelling, ontology, architecture, and engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Business process management and service-oriented architecture for enterprise systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>New platforms for EIS: Web-based EIS, cloud computing for enterprise systems, platform/infrastructure as a service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>New EIS delivery and commercial models, e.g., Software as a Service (SaaS), software on demand, from proprietary to open source in enterprise system packages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>IT governance and EIS: trust, security and privacy issues in EIS, compliance issues, risk management, value delivery, alignment of business and enterprise systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Quality assurance of enterprise systems and enterprise information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ERP and social media (social ERP): integration of social media software in EIS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Market trends, opportunities, and future strategies for EIS software vendors, integrators and implementers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Making sense of EIS: application of theories used in organization studies and the social sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Behavioural and social studies of the impact of EIS on individuals, teams, and organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mar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le='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>(<b><u>academic track</u></b>) report on completed EIS research that complies with rigorous scientific standards. These papers present original results of completed research studies with the aim of obtaining feedback from fellow researchers. <b><span style='color:#C40038'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>       </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C40038'>Work-in-progress papers</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (<b><u>academic track</u></b>) are short papers that present the design and preliminary results of ongoing EIS research studies with the aim of obtaining early feedback and further guidance from experts and peers. Work-in-progress papers will be evaluated using the same academic standards as regular research papers (except for completeness requirements).<b><span style='color:#C40038'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>       </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C40038'>Conceptual or visionary papers</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (<b><u>industry & service track</u></b>) are papers that may target practitioners, researchers, or both. Their aim is to convey a clear message based on well-founded arguments, though not necessarily based on the results of specific scientific studies. The ideas expressed may be driven by experience with the practice of EIS or research in EIS. These papers will be evaluated mainly for their readability, innovativeness, and soundness of the ideas expressed.<b><span style='color:#C40038'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>       </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C40038'>Experience reports</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (<b><u>industry & service track</u></b>) describe real-life experiences with EIS that authors wish to share with fellow practitioners and EIS researchers. They focus on specific problems and solutions in specific contexts. Their aim may be to help other practitioners facing similar problems or to solicit help and possible solutions from other practitioners (or EIS researchers). </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>We especially welcome papers aiming at following domains<b><span style='color:#C40038'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>media<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>healthcare IT <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>sme’s and ERP: from design for large enterprises towards adaptation for smaller organizations (sme’s) and social profit organisations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>from transactional systems to decision-making systems, from ERP and SCM over CRM, Office Systems towards Business Intelligence and Web 2.0   <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>approaches for training and communication when implementing ERP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>change management in the context of planning and/or implementing ERP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>sources of success and failure when selecting, planning, implementing ERP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>evaluation and benefits management of EIS projects<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>○<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>    </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>characteristics, skills and competencies of planning and/or implementation teams <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The evaluation of these papers will be based mainly on readability, relevance to the conference, and potential interest to the conference participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The submission process will be handled by the EasyChair conference management system. Only submission of electronic manuscripts via EasyChair (</span><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf-confenis2012"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>www</span></a><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf-confenis2012"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>.</span></a><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf-confenis2012"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>easychair</span></a><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf-confenis2012"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>.</span></a><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf-confenis2012"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>org</span></a><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf-confenis2012"><span la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s2012.be/index.php/call-for-papers-confenis-2012/submission-guidelines"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>guidelines</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> provide further information on the submission requirements for these different tracks and types of paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038;font-weight:normal'>Publication</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-weight:normal'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Accepted papers will be published as full or short papers in a </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'> (LNBIP </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>www</span></a><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>.</span></a><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>springer</span></a><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>.</span></a><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>com</span></a><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>/</span></a><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>series</span></a><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>/7911</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>) volume by Springer. At least one author of each accepted paper should register for the conference and attend to present the paper. Failure to comply with this rule means that the paper will be refused for publication in the proceedings.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038'>Important dates</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>EasyChair submission system open: 1 February 2012<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Paper submission deadline: 1 May 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Camera-ready version deadline: 1 August 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Conference: 19-21 September 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C40038'>Program committee <o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Program chair & chair academic track: Geert Poels</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (Ghent University - Belgium)<b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ig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u - China)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Seyyed Mohsen Hashemi (IAU University – Iran)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hongxun Jiang (Renmin University of China - China)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Björn Johansson (Lund University – Sweden)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Subodh Kesharwani<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Rob Kusters (The Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology - Austria)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Luc Lambrecht (Belgium)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Lu Liu (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics – China)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Mehran Misaghi (Brazil)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Charles Møller (Aalborg University - Denmark)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>●<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Young Moon (Syracuse University – USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><s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