======================================================================== DATESO 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================== 12th Workshop on Databases, Texts, Specifications, and Objects April 18th to 20th, 2012 Zernov, Rovensko pod Troskami , Czech Republic For detailed information see: http://www.cs.vsb.cz/dateso/2012/ ------------------ Basic information ------------------ DATESO workshop is a meeting of people interested in databases, text processing, specifications, and objects. It is aimed at the theoretical and technical bases of information technologies, approved methods and development trends. DATESO is also intended as a meeting of PhD students and their supervisors. They can all discuss their new ideas, threads, and other subjects. The workshop proceedings will be distributed at the workshop as a collection of the accepted papers; they will also be made available as CEUR-WS.org proceedings and indexed by DBLP. ISI Web of Knowledge currently indexes DATESO papers from 2005 to 2009, the inclusion of year 2010 and 2011 is pending. This year's DATESO is mainly focused on: - Social networks - Semantic web - Retrieval of textual and weak-structured data - Data structure for similarity searching and indexing - Searching and indexing XML data - Databases (open-source, memory-based, new trends) - NoSQL databases - Search in multimedia and biological databases - Clustering - Data compression - Formal specifications - Agent-based modeling - Model-driven development (MDD, MDA) - Service-oriented architecture - Information security, trust, privacy, safety-critical systems - Bio-inspired computing and data processing - Bioinformatics - Machine intelligence for Geographic Information Systems - GPU data processing -------------------- Steering Committee -------------------- Jaroslav Pokorny, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague Karel Richta, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and Czech Technical University, Prague Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava -------------------- Conference Chair -------------------- Jaroslav Pokorny, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague ---------------------------- Guidelines for authors ---------------------------- All contributions must be written solely in English. The paper length should not exceed 12 pages of LNCS (Springer Verlag) format. We thank you for sending your offers in RTF, PS or PDF file formats whenever possible. The contributions will be subjected to peer review. If your contribution is accepted, you will be asked to make final arrangement of your text to let it be included in the printed proceedings. All abstracts and papers should be submitted via web interface found at: http://www.cs.vsb.cz/dateso/2012/ ---------------- Important dates ---------------- Submission of abstracts: February 17, 2012 Submission of papers: February 17, 2012 Notification of acceptance or rejection: March 11, 2012 Final camera-ready versions: March 18, 2012 Deadline for subscription (including payment): April 2, 2012 Workshop: April 18 to 20, 2012 ------------------ Contact Addresses ------------------ dateso12@cs.vsb.cz ------------------------ Organizing Institutions ------------------------ MFF UK Praha, Department of Software Engineering VSB-TU Ostrava,Department of Computer Science FEL CVUT Praha, Department of Computer Science & Engineering CSKI, Workgroup on Computer Science & Society ACM, Czech Chapter IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Czecho-Slovakia Chapter. ----------------- Invited Lectures ----------------- There are currently two invited lectures under negotiation, the actual invited lectures list will be available at DATESO 2012 web site. Registration form and fees will be available at DATESO 2012 web site.