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                        lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers – Pervasive
                        Information Systems Workshop<br>
                        <o:p></o:p></span></b></font><font size="-1"><span
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                      lang="EN-GB">WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference
                      on Information Systems and Technologies <o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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                      Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal<o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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                      1 - 3 April 2015<o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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                        for paper submission</b>: <u>December 14th,
                        2014 </u><u><br>
                      </u>*******************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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                      lang="EN-GB">Scope<o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
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                    size="-1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height:
                      115%;" lang="EN-GB">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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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                          Geographic</span></a></span><span
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                    lang="EN-GB">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. <br>
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                    lang="EN-GB">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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                    style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"
                    lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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                      Data Mining;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Pervasive Intelligent Systems; <o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Pervasive Intelligent Decision
                      Support Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Pervasive Systems Based on Cloud
                      Computing;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Decision Support Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Interoperability and Pervasiveness;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Pervasive Business Intelligence;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Sensor-based systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Life-styling pervasive solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Pervasive environments and software
                      architectures;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Pervasiveness and Security in
                      Information Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Mobile and ubiquitous solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Pervasive Information Systems Applied
                      to society solutions (e.g. Healthcare, Finances, <o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Education, Government);<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Usability and acceptability of
                      pervasive system;<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Ubiquitous devices in the storage,
                      update, and transmission of data. <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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                        Paper Format<br>
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                    must be of one of two types:<o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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                    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;
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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
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                    target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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                      Authors at Springer Website</span></a><span
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                    style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; border:
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                    download a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
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                    href="http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc"
                    target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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                      padding: 0cm;" lang="EN-US">DOC example</span></a><span
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                    lang="EN-US">) 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
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                    href="http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/copyright.pdf"
                    target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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                    target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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                    out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference
                    management system.<o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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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
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                    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 style="font-size:
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                    lang="EN-GB"><br>
                    All papers should be submitted using the EasyChair
                    system, available in the following link:<span
                      class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
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                    target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
                      line-height: 115%; border: 1pt none windowtext;
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                        Publication and Indexing<o:p></o:p></span></b><span
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                      lang="EN-GB"><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.<o:p></o:p></span><span
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                      <br>
                      Full and short papers will be published in the
                      Conference Proceedings by Springer, in </span><span
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                          Intelligent Systems and Computing</span></a></span><span
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                      lang="EN-GB">. 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
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                          Universal Computer Science - JUCS</span></a></span><span
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                        Important Dates <o:p></o:p></span></b> </font>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Deadline for paper submission:
                      December 14<sup>th</sup>, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Notification of paper acceptance:
                      January 4<sup>th</sup>, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></li>
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                      lang="EN-GB">Deadline for final versions and
                      conference registration: January 11<sup>th</sup>,
                      2015</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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                      -3<sup>rd</sup>, 2015</span><span
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                    lang="EN-GB">est regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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                    PIS Workshop Organizing Committee<br>
                    Manuel Filipe Santos,<br>
                    Filipe Portela</span></font></font><br>
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