INVITATION:
You are cordially invited to participate in and attend the 2013 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering to be held in conjunction with HPCS 2013, July 1-5, 2013 in Helsinki, Finland.  The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in information technology, engineering, and systems, their design and use, modeling and simulation, and their impact.  Participation is encouraged for all researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all ISE disciplines and specialties. 

PURPOSE:
The Symposium will include invited presentations from experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work that address the current state of research in information technologies and related issues.  The meeting’s intent is to bring together scientists, engineers, practitioners, computer users, and students to share and exchange their experiences, ideas, and research results about all aspects of Information Systems and Engineering modeling, simulation and evaluation, and to discuss challenges encountered and potential solutions sought. 

Symposium topics include, but are not limited to:

Information Systems and Architectures:

Agent-Based Systems and Designs Case- and Component-Based Systems Object-Oriented Modeling and Simulation Information Discovery Architectures Collaborative Systems Architectures Frameworks for Information Technologies Architectures for Info-Interoperability Knowledge-Based Systems Soft Computing (NN, Fuzzy, Evolutionary) Virtual Worlds Architectures and Design Adaptive and Intelligent User Interfaces Intelligent Sensors for Information Systems Middleware Architectures & Techniques (CORBA, JAVA/RMI, DCOM, etc) Architectural Description Formalisms Architecture Evaluation

Hardware & Software Architectures for Information Systems Data, Domain, and Information Systems Integration Information Systems Metrics and Testing Autonomous Information Systems Decision Support and Decision Making Information Systems Mobile and Wireless Information Systems IS Requirements and Specifications Engineering High Performance Networks for Information Infrastructures Cluster and Grid Based Information Systems Information Systems Reuse Human-Machine Interactive Systems Pervasive Computing Textual, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Web Data Information Systems Development of Executable Model Analysis Tools Metrics for Measuring the "goodness" of a Given Architecture

Information Systems Algorithms and Techniques:

Multi-Agent Algorithms Information Exchange and Fusion Information Sharing and Knowledge Creation Reasoning, Search, Warehousing, and Mining Out-of-Core Computing Predictive Techniques Information Systems Profiling and Monitoring Algorithms for Real-time, Noisy & Adversarial Distributed Information Environments Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Management, and Discovery Algorithms

Learning & Intelligence Algorithms for Information Systems Information Coordination and Collaboration Algorithms JUST-IN-TIME Information Delivery Web Query Processing and Optimization Information Network Protocols, Switching, and Routing IS Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Security and Authentication Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Evaluation of IS Interoperability of Heterogeneous and Geographic Information Systems Data Pre- and Post-Processing Techniques Information Assurance

Information Systems Applications: 

Electronic and Mobile Commerce & Business Federated Heterogeneous Databases Bioinformatics & Biocomputing Integrated Environments and Applications Multimedia in Information Systems Content Delivery Services Service Level Management Interoperability Applications Intelligent Learning Database Systems Environmental Systems and Information Technologies

Web-Based Information Systems, Mining, and Applications Integration of Legacy Applications with New Technologies Distributed Mission Training and Support Technologies for Distributed Applications (e-C, e-B, P2P) Transaction Management Telemetry Services Quality of Services in Information Systems Web Services and Service-Based Approaches Information Systems in Manufacturing Unified Modeling Languages and Applications Web Semantics and Applications

Information Systems and Education:

ISE Discipline and Challenges ISE Curricular Issues ISE Research Directions Intelligent Tutoring Systems Knowledge Testing and Evaluation e-Learning Designs and Techniques

Social, Legal, Ethical, and Cultural Issues in IS ISE Accreditation Distance and Collaborative learning Integrated Learning Environments Innovative Teaching and Learning Strategies Innovative Course and Lab Design

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on above and related ISE topics are solicited.  Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere.  Submission should include, on the cover page, authors names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email addresses.  Please indicate clearly the corresponding author.  Include up to 6 keywords (topic area) from the above list, and an abstract of no more than 400 words.  The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.  Additional pages will be charged additional fee.  Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to  http://hpcs2013.cisedu.info/home/posters  for the submission details) will also be accepted for submission.  Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.
 
Authors are invited to submit a PDF copy of their manuscript to the special session using the following link:  http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/13/users/upload.jsp .  In the form you fill out, please indicate that the submission is for ISE 2013 in the Notes field  of the uploading form.   If the submission is for a poster paper or short paper, indicate that as well on the manuscript and in the form's Notes field. 

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the link above.  Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation.  Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.  At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2013 conference to present the paper at the symposium.  

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.  Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2013 Conference web site.  It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference.  The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.  

If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium, please contact the conference organizers. 


Important Dates:


For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2013.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs13  or contact one of the Conference's organizers.