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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2><FONT size=3>Apologies for cross-postings. Please
send to interested colleagues and students.<BR><BR><STRONG>-- LAST CALL FOR
PAPERS - New Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2010 --</STRONG><BR><BR><BR>The
sixth edition of the <STRONG>VSST symposium</STRONG> 25, 29 October, Toulouse 3
University (France).<BR><BR>Symposium Background and Goals<BR><BR>This symposium
brings together, for already 15 years, the public and<BR>private actors in the
domain of <STRONG>technology watch</STRONG> and <STRONG>competitive
intelligence.<BR></STRONG><BR>Universities, public administrations, SME and
large groups are invited,<BR>every 3 years, in this event to exchange
viewpoints, methodologies, tools<BR>and experiences.<BR><BR><U>Besides the
traditional topics</U> :<BR><BR>. Data Mining<BR>. Text Mining<BR>. Web
Mining<BR>. Knowledge Management<BR>. Knowledge Discovery </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2><FONT size=3>. Competitive Intelligence<BR>.
Strategic Watch<BR>. Technologic Watch<BR>. Territorial Intelligence<BR>.
Regulatory Watch<BR>. Annotation and ontology’s<BR>. Information retrieval<BR>.
Decision Support Systems<BR>. Low Signal<BR>. Crisis Management<BR>. Place of
the watchman in the decision process<BR><BR><U>We will particularly focus on
this year, followings lines</U>:<BR><BR>. Metadata and Interoperability<BR>.
Treatment of heterogeneous information<BR>. Security of access to data and
treatments<BR>. Online analysis<BR>. Mining temporal data<BR>.
Cartographies<BR>. Social Networks<BR>. Online Intelligence Community, Web
Intelligence<BR>. Multilingualism<BR>. Geostrategic Mapping<BR>. Web new
structured data<BR>. New sources of patents (China, Korea, Japan, India
...)<BR>. Web 2.0 and Web 3.0<BR>. Contributions of 3G technology in competitive
intelligence<BR>. Innovations in the decision process<BR>. Risk Management and
Governance<BR><BR>* but this list is not exhaustive<BR><BR><U>We also
organize</U>:<BR><BR>. Forum between businesses, students and young
graduates<BR>. Presentations training in competitive intelligence<BR>. Tutorials
and workshops<BR>. Demonstrations of software<BR>. Presentations of strategic
analysis<BR>. Exchanges on the effective establishment of watch cell<BR>.
Exhibition for professionals.<BR><BR><STRONG>1/</STRONG> <STRONG><U>Electronic
submission of papers for VSST'2010:<BR></U></STRONG><BR>Front page:<BR>Title,
authors and contact details (organization, address, phone, e-mail)<BR>15 lines
french abstract, french keywords, english abstract and keywords.<BR><BR>Text for
submission of papers (in French or English):<BR>Minimum 5 pages addressing the
problem, methods or tools presented and<BR>their
validation.<BR><BR><STRONG>Important Dates</STRONG>:<BR><BR>. <STRONG>Deadline
for receipt of paper proposals: May 31, 2010<BR></STRONG>. Deadline for
acceptance of papers: June 30, 2010<BR>.<STRONG> Date of publication of final
program: June 30, 2010</STRONG><BR>. Deadline for receipt of papers for
publication on CD / ROM and online:<BR>September 15,
2010<BR><BR><STRONG>2/</STRONG> <STRONG><U>Final format of
papers:<BR></U></STRONG><BR>Front page:<BR>Title, authors and contact details
(organization, address, phone, e-mail)<BR>15 lines French abstract, French
keywords, English abstract and keywords.<BR><BR>Final text (in French or
English):<BR>12 to 20 pages (landscape A4) including figures and
references.<BR><BR>Email submission:<BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT
size=3>vsst2010@irit.fr</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT size=3>For more
information:<BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT
size=3>http://atlas.irit.fr</FONT></A><BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>URL for
online registration:<BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT
size=3>http://www.ampere-asso.org/Register.asp?ID=08122006145351&LG=FR</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=3>Best regards,</FONT><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Professeur Bernard DOUSSET UPS/IRIT/SIG<BR>118, route de
Narbonne 31062 Toulouse cedex 9<BR>tél: (33) 5 61 55 67 81 gsm: (33) 6 12
57 19 49<BR>fax irit: (33) 5 61 55 62 58 perso: (33) 5 61 55 67 81<BR>w3: <A
href="http://atlas.irit.fr">http://atlas.irit.fr</A> et <A
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