CIST’2012 is part of the IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SERIES that are held in Morocco, and is co-sponsored by the IEEE Morocco Section and the IEEE Morocco Computer & Communication Joint Chapter. The 2012 second edition will be held in Fez, Morocco from the 22 to the 24 of October 2012.

After holding in fez the second edition of the Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium (ICTIS'07) and the third IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS'09), the IEEE international Colloquium in Information Science and Technology is emerging as a key annual event that aims to serve as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances achieved by IT researchers, IT decision makers, IT managers, application designers and software engineers in the domain of computer based information and communication sciences. Computing challenges, conceptual models, implementation techniques and tools, applications architectures, and IT solutions will be discussed from the perspectives of academia, businesses, industry and government. The 2012 edition will also include tutorials and keynote sessions from world class speakers.

CIST’2012 will also provide a platform for supporting innovative and original contributions. The Technical English Committee will help bringing the accepted papers to the standards required by journals with a good impact factor.

CIST’2012 will include tutorials, presentations of contributed papers, posters, a research panel, an industrial track and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers.

We solicit submission of original ideas and papers describing significant results and developments from both researchers and practitioners in a specific range of fields addressing the following topics:

1. Requirement Engineering and Information Modeling Concepts
2. Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Modeling, Corporate and IS governance
   
3. Databases, Datawarehousing, Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
4. Ambient Intelligence, Cloud computing, SOA, Multi-Agent Systems, distributed architectures and applications
5. Social Context and Learning Environments
6. Systems and methodologies for Learning / Teaching and Assessement
7. Web Information Systems and Ontologies
8. Information System Engineering and Cross-Disciplinary Applications

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The IEEE CIST'12 is organized over three days (October 22-24) with key lectures, shorter communications and poster sessions. Accepted papers will be published in the proceeding in the IEEE Xplore Library. Furthermore, Authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for potential publication in a special issue/section of an international journal.

Prof. Steffano Spaccapietra

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne, Switzerland
Tutorial: "Conceptual Modeling: from the basic to the most advanced concepts"
Keynote: "Conceptual Modeling versus Ontologies"

Prof. Nasser Assem

School of Science & Engineering, Al Akhawayn university, Morocco
Keynote: "Data & Knowledge Management, Data retrieval and Pattern Recognition"

Industrial Track on Business Technology Management & Enterprise Strategy

Prof. Mohammad Essaaidi, IEEE MS Chair, ENSIAS Director
"Technology &  Innovation  Towards Moroccan Entrepreneurial University"

Prof. Yahia Antar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RM College, Canada

"Entrepreneurship and innovation at Canada Royal Military College"

Mr. Mohamed Lakhlifi , Moroccan Federation of IT, Telecom and offshoring (APEBI)
"Innovation, Competitiveness and Governance"

Mr. François Bourzeix, Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Research and Innovation, Morocco
"Business & Technology Orientation"

Mr. Amine Rachdi, Synaptique Maghreb, Morocco
"Founding startups and launching successful ventures"

IEEE CIST'12 papers are published on Xplore: click here

Special hotel rate for CIST12 participants at Volubils Hotel:

- 500DH /night for single room, breakfast included

- 650DH/night for double room, breakfast included