i.TECH 2005

Third International Conference

Information Research, Applications and Education

June 27 - 30, 2005, Varna (Bulgaria)

Supported by
The International Journal "Information Theories and Applications"^®

General sponsor: FOI Bulgaria

Conference organizers

- Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA (Bulgaria)
- V.M.Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS (Bulgaria)
- Association of Developers and Users of Intelligent Systems(Ukraine)
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar” (Bulgaria)

Aims and Scope

The conference is devoted to discussion of current research, applications and education regarding the basic directions of computer science.

Topics of interest

- Applied program systems
- Business Informatics
- Education informatics
- Extreme programming
- Hyper technologies
- Information Modelling
- Information systems
- Multimedia systems
- Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
- Quality of the programs
- Software engineering
- Statistical systems

Program Committee

Victor Gladun (Ukraine) - co-chair
Avram Eskenazi (Bulgaria) – co-chair
Krassimir Markov (Bulgaria) -co-chair

Adil Timofeev (Russia)
Alexey Voloshin (Ukraine)
Alexander Gerov (Bulgaria)
Alexander Kuzemin (Ukraine)
Alfredo Milani (Italy)
Anna Kantcheva (Bulgaria)
Arkady Zakrevskij (Belarus)
Frank Brown (USA)
Hans Joachim Nern (Germany)
Ilia Mitov (Bulgaria)
Irina Jeliazkova (Bulgaria)
Ivan Popchev (Bulgaria)
Jan Vorachek (Finland)
Jennifer Trelewicz (USA)
Juan Castellanos (Spain)
Koen Vanhoof (Belgium)
Krassimir Manev (Bulgaria)
Krassimira Ivanova (Bulgaria)
Larissa Zaynutdinova (Rusia)
Laura Ciocoiu (Romania)
Levon Aslanian (Armenia)
Luis Fernando de Mingo (Spain)
Maria Kasheva (Bulgaria)
Maria Nisheva (Bulgaria)
Martin Mintchev (Canada)
Milena Dobreva (Bulgaria)
Natalia Ivanova (Rusia)
Nelly Maneva (Bulgaria)
Neonila Vashchenko (Ukraine)
Nikolay Lutov (Bulgaria)
Peter Stanchev (USA)
Petia Asenova (Bulgaria)
Plamen Mateev (Bulgaria)
Radoslav Pavlov (Bulgaria)
Rumiana Kirkova (Bulgaria)
Stanimir Stoianov (Bulgaria)
Stefan Dodunekov (Bulgaria)
Stoyan Poryazov (Bulgaria)
Tatiana Atanasova (Bulgaria)
Tsvetanka Kovacheva (Bulgaria)
Vitaliy Lozovskiy (Ukraine)
Vladimir Ryazanov (Russia)

Language

The official languages of the Conference are English, Bulgarian and Russian.

Thematic sessions

The i.TECH 2005 Program Committee invites proposals for half-day thematic sessions.

The guidance of these sessions will be entrusted to authoritative scientists who have actively participated in the ITA conferences and have established and published theirs own systems of ideas (philosophy) and have created own scientific schools of followers.

The thematic session need to include one survey, at least two additional papers, which extend some topics of the survey and/or present any new results, and discussion.

Papers

Papers need to be up to 8 pages in the IJ ITA format given on the web www.foibg.com.
Papers accepted by the Program Committee will be published in I.TECH proceedings.

The Program Committee will recommend the accepted papers in English for free publishing in the International Journal on Information Theories and Applications (IJ ITA). For this purpose, please follow the IJ ITA requirements for manuscripts.

Deadlines

January 15, 2005 - thematic sessions proposal submission
January 30, 2005 - thematic sessions acceptance notification
March 30, 2005 - submission of final paper
April 15, 2005 - notification of the paper acceptance
April 30, 2005 - submission of registration form and requests for visa and invitations
May 15, 2005 - registration and hotel reservation

Registration fee

Registration fee is EURO 200.
Sponsored fees:
- For participants from East Europe FS and FSU countries – EURO 100
- For active members of ADUIS- and ADIS-participants of the previous ITA conferences - EURO 80
- For participants with short papers (up to 3 pages) - EURO 50
- For young researchers - EURO 50

Registration fee for accompanying persons - EURO 40.
Additional exemplar of i.TECH 2005 proceedings - EURO 15.

Registration fee in EUROS should be paid to:

Bank name: Bulbank AD
Bank address: 7 Sveta Nedelya Sq., Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
SWIFT: BFTBBGSF
Tlx: 22031
Bank code: 62176307
Bank account: 1475743808
Account holder:  Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA

The corresponding bank may be any of:
- Credit Lyonnais, New York
- The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
No additional information for corresponding bank is needed.

Registration fee in Bulgarian Leva should be paid to:

Bank name: Bulbank AD
Bank address: 7 Sveta Nedelya Sq., Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Bank code: 62176307
Bank account: 1076650080
Account holder: Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA

Accomodation

i.TECH conference will take place in the International Home of Scientists "Frederic Joliot-Curie" in
St. Constantine and St. Helena Resort - Varna.

Preliminary prices for the hotel (***):
- For foreigners:
     Double room: EURO 20 BB
     Single room: EURO 26 BB
- For Bulgarians:
     Double room: Leva 25 BB
     Single room: Leva 33 BB

BB : Bed + Breakfast

Contact Address

Krassimir Markov
e-mail: foi@nlcv.net

P.O. Box 775
1090 Sofia, Bulgaria

Phone/fax: (++ 359 2) 920 19 69