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<font color="#000000"><font face="Corbel"><font size="-1"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Call for Papers – Pervasive Information Systems Workshop<br>
</span></b></font><font size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
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Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal</span></font><font size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><br>
1 - 3 April 2015</span></font><font size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Corbel"><font size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 -
3 April 2015, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. Azores is ranked as the second
most beautiful archipelago in the world by </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/photogalleries/island-pictures/photo4.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">National
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<font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasive Information Systems (PIS) extend the Information System paradigm by introducing a set of novel characteristics into the society. This workshop
aims to discuss topics related to PIS, evaluate the importance for the society and the creation of new knowledge overcoming temporal and local barriers.
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<font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">This workshop is focused on demonstrating how to take advantages from this new sort of information systems and which kind of solutions can be developed
in order to support the decision making process anywhere and anytime. PIS 2015 is the ideal place for bringing together the researchers who are working in this particular area of information systems in order to promote discussion and explore new scope of scientific
contributions.<br>
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<font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Having conscience of the most recent situation in Europe and the Horizon 2020 strategy, a deeper analysis should be made on this emerging topic. Authors
are invited to submit unpublished work, contributing with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of PIS. Authors should present
new trends, discuss future challenges and understand how information affects the way humans interact with the built environments occupied by them.</span></font></p>
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Topics</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"></span></font><font size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><br>
Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""></span></font><font size="-1"></font></font></font>
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<li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Ubiquitous Data Mining;</span></font>
</li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasive
Intelligent Systems; </span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasive
Intelligent Decision Support Systems;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasive
Systems Based on Cloud Computing;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Decision
Support Systems;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Interoperability
and Pervasiveness;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasive
Business Intelligence;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Sensor-based
systems;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Life-styling
pervasive solutions;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasive
environments and software architectures;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasiveness
and Security in Information Systems;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Mobile
and ubiquitous solutions;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Pervasive
Information Systems Applied to society solutions (e.g. Healthcare, Finances, </span>
</font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Education,
Government);</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Usability
and acceptability of pervasive system;</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Ubiquitous
devices in the storage, update, and transmission of data. </span></font></li></ul>
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<font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Submissions must be of one of two types:</span></font><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm"><br>
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Full paper:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Finished and consolidated R&D works. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit; and Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.</span><span style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"></span></font><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm"><br>
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Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none
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for Authors at Springer Website</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">or
download a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">DOC example</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="">)
be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference, workshop or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names, affiliations and bibliographic
references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/copyright.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Publication
for</span></a><a href="http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/copyright.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">m</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; border:1pt none
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out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system.</span></font><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm"><br>
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All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two/three members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">Conference Chairs. In the latter case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short
papers. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes
to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"></span></font><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><br>
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All papers should be submitted using the EasyChair system, available in the following link:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcist-ws2015" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0cm">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcist-ws2015</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"></span></font>
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Publication and Indexing</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><br>
Workshop papers will be published in the Springer Conference Proceedings. To ensure that a paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by 11th of January 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout
and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication
of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><br>
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Full and short papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Springer, in
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" target="_blank"><span style="">Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">. Published full and short papers
will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Extended versions of the best papers accepted and presented at this workshop may be considered for publication
in a Special Issue of a renowned international journal indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP (e.g.
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/aims" target="_blank"><span style="">Journal of Universal Computer Science - JUCS</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">).</span>
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Important Dates </span></b></font></font></font>
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<li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Deadline
for paper submission: December 7<sup>th</sup>, 2014 </span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Notification
of paper acceptance: January 4<sup>th</sup>, 2015</span></font> </li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%"><span style=""><span style="font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Deadline
for final versions and conference registration: January 11<sup>th</sup>, 2015</span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""></span></font>
</li><li><font color="#000000" face="Corbel" size="-1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; line-height:115%">Workshop / Conference dates: April 1<sup>st</sup> -3<sup>rd</sup>, 2015</span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""></span></font>
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PIS Workshop Organizing Committe</span></font> </font></div>
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