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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IEEE DEST 2013</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Special Theme - Complex Environment Engineering</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>24-26 July 2013 – Menlo Park, California, USA</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call for Papers</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About IEEE DEST 2013:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What are Digital Ecosystems?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Digital Ecosystems inherit concepts of open, loosely coupled, demand-driven, domain clustered, agent-based self-organized collaborative environments where species/agents form a temporary coalition (or longer term) for a specific purpose or goals. Within this environment everyone is proactive and responsive for their own benefit or profit. The essence of digital ecosystems is the adoption of ecological system concepts, and creating value by making connections through collective intelligence and promoting collaboration instead of unbridled competition and ICT-based catalyst effects in a number of domains, to produce networked enriched communities and solutions. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What are Digital Ecosystem Technologies?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In the present Digital Age, strong development of digital network infrastructure has dominated our service delivery, economic growth and life style. Future applications in domains such as Health-Science, Energy, Social Networks and Logistics demand infrastructures that are more agile than those operated currently. Digital Ecosystems aim to capture the notion of such agile and adaptive infrastructures. Digital Ecosystem Technologies encompass the advent of the whole spectrum of Internet technologies, starting from the hyperlinked web towards pervasive internet applications, from Peer-to-Peer systems to Grid middleware, followed by Cloud Services, Agent technologies, Sensor Networks and Cyber Physical Systems, which has become a major theme for business process digitalization. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Complex Environment Engineering</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Special Theme for IEEE-DEST 2013</span></em></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Today's global challenges such as in Energy and Sustainability, Healthcare and an Aging Society, Public Safety and Security, or Democracy and Participation/Involvement confront us with the most Complex Environments. Traditional ICT-support has often increased complexity, thus making the challenges even more severe. The Digital Ecosystem perspective aims to address the two-fold challenge of Complex Environment Engineering and Digital Ecosystem Technology mapping. The complexity of both the challenges and the technological solutions has to be acknowledged. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IEEE DEST 2013 with its special theme of - Complex Environment Engineering recognizes the key role of business process data modeling, representation and privacy-aware analysis for Digital Ecosystems, and vice versa. In 2013, the distinguished <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SEED Inauguration Workshop </span></strong>"Building a Digital Ecosystem for Societal Empowerment" will take place in cooperation with IEEE DEST 2013. Further, the <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Innovation Adoption Forum</span></strong> underpins the importance of public-private partnership as the key for delivering sustainable solutions for our Complex Living and Business Environment – and thus our Digital Ecosystem Habitat. Our Keynotes, Panels and Sessions will tackle the multifaceted challenges and solutions from various stakeholders’ perspectives.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Important Dates:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submission of Tutorial: Dec 15, 2012</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Notification of Acceptance of<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Tutorial/Workshop/Special Session: Jan 15,<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>2013</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paper Submission: April 15, 2013</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Author Notification: May 6, 2013</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Camera Ready Version: May 20, 2013</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact Information:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conference Secretary & Treasurer</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gaurangi Potdar</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Dest2013@digital-ecology.org" target="_blank">Dest2013@digital-ecology.org</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Gaurangi@digital-ecology.org" target="_blank"><span lang=FR>Gaurangi@digital-ecology.org</span></a></span></u><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Webmaster & Graphic Designer</span></b><b><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Samin Mirgheshmi <a href="mailto:Samin@digital-ecology.org" target="_blank">Samin@digital-ecology.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paper Submission:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Papers should be original works and up to 6 pages in length. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers. Papers submitted for this conference must be formatted to fit on A4 paper in a two column format. The author should use a word processor or desktop publishing system to produce a "camera ready'' paper on A4 paper.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All manuscripts submitted for this conference must be in IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF format. To assist authors in meeting this requirement , IEEE has established a web based service called PDF Xpress. We strongly suggest that you use this service. Complete information on the papers submission system for IEEE DEST 2013 will be made available shortly on </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://dest2013.digital-ecology.org/index.php/paper-submission" target="_blank">http://dest2013.digital-ecology.org/index.php/paper-submission</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conference Location and Context:</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The IEEE DEST-CEE 2013 will be hosted in Menlo Park, California. Situated in the heart of the Silicon Valley, it´s right in the epicenter of the Digital Ecosystem revolution. The research and innovation ecosystem here is legendary, fuelled by the unique spirit and entrepreneurship of The Valley and The Bay Area. Bridging the Bay, UC Berkeley and Stanford University are world renown for their global impact in science and technology, trends setting in society and ecology/sustainability, and economic development. Companies such as IBM, Intel, Google, Facebook linked-in and numerous other technology drivers are in direct proximity. From San Jose to Woodside to Berkeley, the spirit is “in the air” – today as much as in the past decades. IEEE DEST-CEE 2013 will take place in the heart of the Silicon Valley, at stunning conference locations in Menlo Park and at Stanford University. People around the globe enjoy the Californian Way of Life, blending it´s vibrant socio-technological momentum with the tranquillity of the Pacific, it´s redwood forests, and San Francisco and Berkeley as the spirited places for those who still see it as the counter-culture centre of the Sixties. Free Speech and “Flower Power” are forever in Berkeley´s and San Francisco´s “DNA,” as much as Venture Capital Companies and technology leaders team up in The Valley. IEEE DEST-CEE 2013 taps and gets involved into this ecosystem. We look forward to your involvement!</span><o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=158 valign=top style='width:118.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=158 valign=top style='width:118.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=158 valign=top style='width:118.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=158 valign=top style='width:118.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=158 valign=top style='width:118.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=158 valign=top style='width:118.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SEED Inauguration Workshop</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Building a Digital Ecosystem for Societal Empowerment</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pre-conference symposium: July 23, and then with IEEE DEST 2013</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conference Tracks:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AREA I: FOUNDATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Area I deals with the basic ICT foundations of digital ecosystems, including large-scale, virtualized infrastructures, hosting ecosystem services and processes. Ecosystems require a novel approach to ICT technology development, closely related to the engineering of complex systems. Area I includes two one-day tracks that feature contributions on how the technological support for digital ecosystems is emerging. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track A: Foundations of Digital Ecosystems & Complex Environment Engineering </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track B: Convergence of Technologies for Sustainable Infrastructures</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AREA II: SUSTAINABLE DOMAIN SOLUTIONS</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Area II presents contributions in various application domains, Just as the development of Smart Grids required the convergence of energy and information system infrastructures, radically new approaches to the design, convergence, and adoption of systems are required for future solutions in a variety of domains. Radically increasing the involvement of stakeholders with complex environments is one potential route for providing solutions in these domains, for example in energy systems or healthcare. In the longer term, approaches for enabling collaborative ecosystems may lead to high-impact solutions for today´s most pressing challenges. The “Sustainable Domain Solutions” tracks will identify domain requirements, research challenges and systems solutions with respect to the concept of Digital Ecosystems and Complex Environment Engineering, as outlined in the background and objectives of IEEE DEST 2013. Within this context, the tracks will focus on, but not be limited to, the issues like - Scalability and availability, with respect to large infrastructure platforms; evolvability, with respect to the introduction and life-cycle of service platforms; and usability, with respect to human factors and user benefits. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track C: Digital Humanities</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track D: Cyber-Security Ecosystem</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track E: Hybrid Biological-Digital Systems</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track F: Healthcare and Sustainable Living</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track G: Track I: Platforms for Social and Community Involvement / Engagement</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track H: Cyber-Physical Energy Systems</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track I: Collaborative Platforms for Sustainable Logistics and Transportation</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track J: Fuzzy Semantic computing in digital ecosystems</span></strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Track K: Big Data Ecosystems<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>