BCC_2010*Macedonia Case Challenge
International Case Study Competition and Recruitment Event

WUS Austria invites students from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, who study law, economics, political sciences, international relations, information technologies or related disciplines to take part in the BCC _2010*Macedonia Case Challenge.

On an international level the BCC International Case Study Competition will be held between 5th of July and 10th of July 2010 in Vienna. Thanks to the support of partners, the costs for the Balkan Case Challenge 2010 are covered. Thus, accommodation, international travel and insurance during the event will be covered by the organizers.

The around 140 winners out of all the Sub-Competitions will compete in the competition in Vienna. Prerequisite for participants to compete in the Sub-Competitions is a successful admission via an online process, following established criteria. Please find further details for the applications under www.bcchallenge.org.

The local competition in Macedonia will be held from 26 ? 28 March 2010. The official partner of WUS Austria in Macedonia is the Institute for Strategic Research and Education (ISIE).

Applications are to be submitted online until 1 March 2010.

At both competition levels students participate in of the four different disciplines:

Business Case Competition
Model European Council
Law Moot Court
ICT Case Competition

In addition, the Balkan Case Challenge 2010 facilitates recruitment processes during the Sub-Competitions and the BCC 2010 International Case Study Competition, where students present themselves to potential employers and representatives of international companies get the chance to recruit future staff from the region.

The Sub-Competitions consist of three parts: 1) Training modules; 2) Case Study Competition; 3) Recruitment Event.

The Balkan Case Challenge is financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation. In the implementation of the Balkan Case Challenge, WUS Austria is depending on the cooperation with partners that support the event financially or in-kind.

For further information: www.bcchallenge.org

Contact:
WUS Austria
Head Office
Lichtenfelsgasse 21
A-8010 Graz

Local Coordinator for Macedonia
Dr. Mi?o Dokmanovic
E-mail: bcc_macedonia@bcchallenge.org

Call for papers
ICWIT 2010


The Third International Conference on Web and Information Technologies
16-19 June, 2010, Marrakech - Morocco
http://www.ucam.ac.ma/icwit/

Program co-Chairs
El Hassan Abdelwahed, LISI, University of Caddi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco
Hassan Mountassir, LIFC, University of Franche-Comte, Besançon, France

Steering Committee
Ladjel Bellatreche, LISI, Poitiers University, France
Faiez Gargouri, MIRACL, Université de Sfax, Tunisia
Djamal Benslimane, LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Boualem Benatallah, SOC Research Group, University of New South Wales, Australia
Mimoun Malki, EEDIS Lab, Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria
Ahmed Lehireche, Computer Science Department, Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria

Presentation and Objective
The third edition of the International Conference on Web and Information Technologies (ICWIT'10) will be held from 16-19 June in the Marrakech - Morocco. Previous ICWIT conferences were held in Sidi Bel Abbèes, Algeria (2008) and in Kerkennah Island, Sfax Tunisia (2009). Like the previous successful ICWIT conferences, the ICWIT 2010 aims to synergistically connect the research community and industry practitioners.
It provides an international forum where both researchers and practitioners can share their findings in theoretical foundations, current methodologies, and practical experiences. ICWIT 2010 will focus on new research directions and emerging applications in Web technology and Information Systems.
The proceedings of ICWIT 2010 will be published in RNTI (Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information), with best papers to be recommended for publication in special issues of journals.

Topics of interests include

Foundations and applications of Web Services
  ● Service-Oriented Architecture and Evolutions
  ● Models, methodologies, and tools
  ● Validation, Verification of Web Services
  ● Service discovery and choreography
  ● Model-driven reengineering of Web applications
  ● E-Learning and e-Teaching
Databases and Information Systems
  ● Distributed and parallel Databases
  ● Data Warehouses and OLAP
  ● Multimedia Database Applications
  ● Web Databases
  ● Mobile Databases
  ● Database Security
Information System Engineering
  ● Software System Engineering and Methodologies
  ● Modeling of Distributed Systems
  ● Formal Methods and Verification
  ● Systems Component-Based Development
  ● Business Processes Re-engineering
  ● Security, Freedom and Privacy
Ontology Engineering and Applications
  ● Networked and modular ontologies
  ● Ontology-based databases
  ● Ontology query languages
  ● Ontology sharing and reuse
  ● Ontology matching and alignment

Important dates
Paper submission deadline : 27 February 2010
Acceptance/Rejection notification : 15 April 2010
Camera-ready version due : 1 May 2010

Online Submission guidelines
Papers must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this conference. Papers must not be longer than 12 pages and be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by RNTI in English and should be submitted electronically via the http://www.ucam.ac.ma/icwit2010