Conference: Tuesday 10th - Friday 13th September 2013, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, North Wales, UK

Call for Submissions

The fifth in a highly-successful series of biennial international conferences on INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (ITA 13) will be held in Wrexham, North East Wales, UK from Tuesday 10th to Friday 13th September 2013.  The conference will draw together researchers, artists and developers from academia and industry across all fields of Internet computing, creative digital media, moving image and engineering.  All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.  There will be a range of events from keynote addresses, technical and poster sessions, workshops, tutorials and for the first time we will be hosting a specially curated exposition of artworks relating to the conference proceedings.  The formal sessions will be supplemented by an excellent social programme including a visit to the historic English city of Chester, a boat trip on the River Dee and a medieval Welsh banquet at Ruthin Castle.  See the conference website (http://www.ita13.org) for full details of submission and registration.  ITA 05, ITA 07, ITA 09 and ITA 11 (www.ita11.org) were thoroughly enjoyed by all the many participants.  Come and join us in Wales in September 2013 and be part of ITA 13!

Conference Location

The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Creative and Applied Research for the Digital Society (CARDS) (www.cards-uk.org) at Glyndŵr University, Wrexham (www.glyndwr.ac.uk).  Wrexham is a beautiful Welsh town conveniently situated between the metropolitan centres of Manchester and Liverpool in England and the tranquility of the North Wales countryside and mountains of Snowdonia.

Nearby are the historic city of Chester and the international festival centre of Llangollen. Wrexham is served by two international airports (Manchester and Liverpool) both comfortably less than an hour away by road or train.

Key dates

Submission deadline: Friday 1st February 2013
Notification to authors: Friday 5th April 2013
Camera-ready version due: Friday 3rd May 2013
Early registration by: Friday 10th May 2013
Conference dates: Tuesday 10th - Friday 13th September 2013

The scope of the ITA conference series is wide and covers all aspects of Internet activity ranging from technical hardware and software solutions to applications and creative digital media, and the wider issues arising from them.

Papers (and multimedia artefacts where relevant) are invited on any of the topics below or related fields and should be submitted, via the submission page of the conference website. (www.ita13.org)  Final, camera-ready papers must conform to the author guidelines and must not exceed eight pages in length. Please contact the conference organizers directly for guidance on multimedia submission by e-mail ita@glyndwr.ac.uk.

Topics of Interest

• Accessibility/Assisted Living  
• AI/Expert systems                   
• Art with Science                     
• Creative entrepreneurs
• Creative expressions   
• Creative technologies  
• Cultural ecologies                   
• Cultural environments
• Cultural sustainability 
• Data-mining                
• Digital art                    
• Digital modelling
• Distributed systems                 
• e-Business/e-Commerce
• e-Learning/e-Society   
• Environmental applications
• Ethical, social, legal issues      
• Filtering                                  
• HCI                             
• Health Informatics      
• Health Technologies               
• High-performance computing                         
• Integration                  
• Internet applications
• Internet languages                   
• Internet technologies   
• Music and audio                     
• Network algorithms
• Network architectures 
• Network management 
• Network optimisation 
• Network performance
• Protocols and standards          
• Routing                                   
• Security                                  
• Semantics
• Services                                  
• Storage                        
• Systems failure                       
• Traffic
• Ubiquitous computing
• Visualisation               
• Web hardware/software          
• Wireless networks

These topics, however, are only intended as an illustrative guide. Please contact the conference chair or programme chair for additional guidance.  (See www.ita13.org)

ITA 09 hosted the First International Workshop on Web and Semantic Technology (WeST-2009) and the First International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA’09). ITA 11 hosted the First British Computer Society (BCS) Health in Wales/E-Health Industries Innovation (EHI2) Workshop and EERT 2011 – the 2nd International Workshop on Energy Efficient and Reconfigurable Transceivers: Towards a Green Wireless Internet. Potential workshop or seminar organizers are also encouraged to suggest suitable topics including creative and digital arts/technologies.