[ie-announce] ECSS 2013 - Deadline for Submitting Contributions in a week

[Cristina Pereira]

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*9th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2013*
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013.html>
*Informatics and Innovation*

*8-9 October, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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*Pre-Summit Workshops on October 7, 2013 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/pre-summit-workshops-2013.html>
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_/* *Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2013*

*/_ *Deadline for Early Registration: August 20, 2013*
*Register Now!* <https://www.cwi.nl/forms/ecss>
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The 9th European Computer Science Summit 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013.html>, ECSS 2013, with 
the theme "Informatics and Innovation", is soliciting contributions on 
<#topics>topics of interest to the ECSS audience <#topics> throughout 
Europe: heads (or deans, chairs, etc.) of informatics/computer 
science/IT departments (schools, faculties); research directors and 
managers of research centers and laboratories in industry or in public 
institutions; as well as senior faculty and senior researchers from both 
academia and industry.

Like its predecessors, the 9th European Computer Science Summit, is a 
unique opportunity to meet some of the leading decision makers in 
informatics research and education, and discuss the critical issues of 
the discipline. The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, filled with 
culture, art, and innovation.

The Summit is devoted to important and timely strategic issues and 
trends regarding all aspects of informatics: education, research, 
funding, entrepreneurship, management, career development, and policies. 
This year’s speakers have been selected in connection to the ECSS 2013 
theme “Informatics and Innovation”. We are proud to announce that the 
following thought leaders in research and education in informatics and 
innovation have agreed to deliver a keynote presentation:

  * *Francois Bancilhon*
    <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/keynote-speakers2013.html#FB>*,*Data
    Publica*, *France
  * *Carl-Christian Buhr*
    <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/keynote-speakers2013.html#CCB>*,*European
    Commission, Belgium
  * *Frank van Harmelen*
    <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/keynote-speakers2013.html#FVH>*,
    *Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  * *Heleen Kist*
    <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/keynote-speakers2013.html#HK>*,
    *Independent Strategy Consultant, United Kingdom
  * *Erik Meijer*
    <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/keynote-speakers2013.html#EM>*,*Delft
    University of Technology, Netherlands and Applied Duality Inc., USA
  * *Anka Mulder*
    <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/keynote-speakers2013.html#AM>*,
    *Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  * *Pamela Zave*
    <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/keynote-speakers2013.html#PZ>*,
    *AT&T Laboratories, USA


The  special theme of this year’s summit is /*Informatics and 
Innovation*/. As stated by Peter Denning, 
<http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/PUBS/CACMcols/cacmMar12.pdf> “an idea that 
changes no one’s behavior is only an invention, not an innovation.” 
  Thus, ECSS 2013 will be devoted research and education in informatics 
that is aimed at societal impact. ECSS 2013 aims to enable educators, 
researchers, managers, and other experts in the field to assess and 
discuss organizational matters that are needed to stimulate innovation 
in computer science education and research. Therefore, specific 
attention will be devoted to such topics as entrepreneurship, impact via 
open source, publishing via open access, impact via patents, and online 
learning and massively online open courses (MOOCs).

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*Topics for Contributions*

ECSS 2013 is soliciting contributions on all topics of interest to its 
intended audience, including (but not limited to) the following:

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    Organizational leadership and policies in research and education in
    informatics.

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    Inter-university collaboration and coordination to promote and
    strengthen informatics in Europe.

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    Research funding in informatics: availability, coordination,
    experience reports, policies, personal grants, role of the
    government, role of industry.

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    Interdisciplinary research and education for informatics.

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    Informatics and education: MOOCs, open learning, online learning,
    peer evaluation, engineering skills.

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    Informatics and society: Ethics, awareness, image, importance,
    school education, student enrollment.

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    Academic careers in informatics: performance indicators in research
    as well as in education, personal growth, international perspectives.

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    Informatics and scholarly publishing: Open access, conferences and
    journals, preprint practices, social media.

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    Informatics and innovation: entrepreneurship, patents, open source,
    and societal impact.

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*Submitting Contributions*

To contribute to the Informatics Europe 2013 Summit program, please 
submit an extended abstract of your position paper *by August 1, 2013.* 
Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the ECSS 2013 program 
committee on the basis of relevance to (and capacity of) the program. 
Proposals may aim at a 15 minute presentation or demonstration, and 
should consist of an extended abstract containing:

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    A header with the title of your contribution, your name, position,
    and affiliation.

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    A clear description of your contribution.

Extended abstracts should be formatted in the IEEE Formatting 
Guidelines.  You can use this MS Word template 
<http://www.conference-publishing.com/templates/MSW_USltr_format.doc> or 
this LaTeX class 
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls>. 
Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in length, and submitted in pdf to 
the Easy Chair ECSS 2013 conference submission site:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ECSS-ams-2013

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    Deadline for submissions: August 1, 2013.

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    Author's Notification: August 15, 2013.

The selected extended abstracts will be made available to the conference 
attendees and on the Informatics Europe site 
(http://www.informatics-europe.org).

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*Registrations & Accommodation*

Registration to the conference is now open. Register early to benefit 
from the discounted fees. The deadline for early registration is 20 
August 2013.

For details on the fees and current offers as well to register visit the 
conference registration page. 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/registration-2013.html>

Reserve your accommodation in advance, October is a busy month for the 
Amsterdam Hotels. The local organizing committee have already pre-booked 
a number of rooms to ECSS participants. To benefit of the discounted 
prices negotiated with the hotels, please make your reservation as soon 
as possible, deadlines for discount prices are August 6, 7 or 25 
depending on the hotel. See details and links for reservations at the 
Accommodation page of the ECSS website. 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/accommodation-2013.html>



      Come join this exciting and important event in the field of
      Informatics and participate by submitting your contribution!


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