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Web site: http://tinyurl.com/ijcsis-user-is or

http://www.pecusi.smyll.net/

To be fully adopted, every Information System (IS) should to be

designed “by” and “for” end-users. Indeed, an IS must fit the users’
needs, must help users to achieve information-related tasks, and
must be compatible with resources and constraints implied by every
user’s work situation.

To do this, two trends can be identified:

> One is bottom-up: that is to say that it is a “standardized” IS,
which relies on features and functionalities that allow it to be adapted
to every user. It is based, for instance, on the user profile associated
with a dynamic adaptation process. We can say that the system is
adaptive.
> One is top-down: that means that it relies on cognitive analysis
of users’ behavior, the way users make a decision, the way they
select relevant information, the way that users share information with
others in order to make the right decision, to design an IS taking into
account these characteristics. We can say that in this case that the
system is adapted.

The challenge of future works is to make these two approaches more

deeply merged to make IS more adapted and adaptive to users.
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This special issue of the IADIS International Journal on Computer

Science and Information Systems seeks original articles describing
theoretical and practical methods and techniques that focus on the
user’s tasks acceptance thanks to the adaptation capabilities of the
IS. Typical contributions can consider user modeling (individuals or
groups), tasks and behavior modeling as well as contexts modeling,
to be integrated in Information Systems. The presentation of the
design and exploitation of such models is central for this IADIS
special issue.

Topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not limited to, the
following:
* Personalization,
* Adaptation,
* Recommender systems,
* Context modeling,
* Task modeling,
* User/Community modeling,
* Cognitive activity and processes in situation of work via a computed
IS,
* Groupware,
* User-based Information System design method

These topics can concern various contexts like:

* Virtual and dynamic documents,
* Information retrieval and access,
* Community of Practice,
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* Hypermedia navigation,
* Social Networks,
* E-learning,
* Medical Information System,
* Virtual Identity,
* Web services

Note that every paper must tackle the way the user is integrated in the
IS. Authors should try to discuss the way end-users appreciate the
proposed IS (i.e. end users evaluations are encouraged).

REVIEWING and ACCEPTANCE

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All manuscripts must be submitted in English. Submitted manuscripts
that do not conform to the Journal guidelines
(http://www.iadis.org/ijcsis/submission.asp) will be returned to
authors.
Manuscripts submitted for publication are reviewed according to the
usual policies of the IADIS International Journal on Computer Science
and Information Systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. A
double-blind review will be conducted.
Submission Website: http://www.smyll.net/openconf
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CONTACT/INFORMATION
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Max.Chevalier@irit.fr, lopis@iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr,
Andre.Tricot@univ-tlse2.fr

GUEST EDITORS
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* Max CHEVALIER, Université de Toulouse, IRIT, UMR 5505, France,
* Philippe LOPISTEGUY, IUT de Bayonne, LIUPPA, EA 3000, France,
* André TRICOT, Université de Toulouse, LTC, UMR 5263, France

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
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* Paper submission deadline: 2 november 2010
* First round notification: 15-December-2010
* Revised version due: 30-February-2011
* Camera ready papers: 15-May-2011
* Publication: 2011

IADIS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND

INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IJCSIS)
Editors-in-Chief: Pedro ISAIAS; Marcin PAPRZYCKI
ISSN: 1646-3692 (electronic version)