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SAICSIT'07 is the premier forum for research in South Africa into computer science, information systems, software engineering and informatics. The conference is held under the auspices of the national society, SAICSIT. Following a history of very successful SAICSIT conferences, we invite you to take part in the 2007 event. SAICSIT'07 is an international conference and contributions from all parts of the world are warmly welcomed.

SAICSIT'07 will be co-hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems and the School of ICT, both from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. This year’s conference will be held on the Sunshine Coast, close to both Port Elizabeth and East London. The conference will be hosted over 3 days, with the first day (Monday) being restricted to the presentation of research offered by Masters and PhD students to their peers and supervisors only. The remainder of the conference will include research papers and a student research poster session, plus the opportunity to organise special tracks, panel sessions and tutorials.

The wave of technology is a metaphor for the rapid development, uptake, evolution and obsolescence of technology (and computer technology in particular) in modern societies. Technology transforms societies, provides new ways of communicating and interacting, creates opportunities for economic growth and betters the lot of humanity when used in an ethical way. The wave of technology is ridden by those who do research and development and those who use technology. It is exciting to ride and full of change and turmoil.

Computer Scientists and Information Technologists are at the forefront of the researchers who ride the wave. SAICSIT has showcased the research of these researchers, both emerging and established, since 1982. The non-exhaustive list of topics for SAICSIT 2007 appears below. We encourage local and international researchers to submit fundamental and applied papers for this premier conference of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists.

Topics

A list of topics, is given below, but it is not exclusive. This conference will showcase research into all these topics from within South Africa and beyond.

Bioinformatics software Human computer interaction
Community informatics Indigenous knowledge systems
Computer supported co-operative work Model driven architectures
Datamining and knowledge discovery Natural language understanding and technology
Digital forensics Next generation networks
Digital repositories and libraries Security and trust management
E-government, e-commerce, globalization Social contexts of computing
Ethics and informations systems Software construction and architecture
Health informatics The knowledge society
High performance and grid computing Ubiquitious and pervasive computing
   
Papers

Research papers for the main conference present significant intellectual and technical contributions by researchers and practitioners to basic research, development, and practice in all areas of computer science and information systems. Accepted full papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings as well as on the ACM Digital Library after the conference where they will be accessible to the international audience. Papers should address the conference theme and should be directed at a reasonably general audience. Please take note of the following requirements:

  • Papers are limited to 10 pages in the ACM Proceedings Format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html)
  • Deadline for submission extended to 1 June 2007 (14:00 GMT-12)
  • Electronic submissions must be made at https://www.softconf.com/starts/saicsit07/submit.html, please choose "Main Conference"
  • Submissions can be as PDF, postscript or Word files
  • Papers will be reviewed by three PC members. We use a single blind process; reviewer identities not released to authors, but reviewers know who authors are
  • Papers will be published in a proceedings with an ISSN, indexed by the ACM
  • There is no connection between the conference and SACJ
  • Submission implies a commitment to attend if accepted
  • Authors and PC members are required to declare potential conflict of interests. See the interpretation of the term for this conference below.

Papers for the post-graduate symposium should be the work of in-progress post-graduates. While supervisors may co-author, emphasis is on feedback on and discussion of work in progress. Students wishing to submit final results of their post-graduate work are expected to submit to the main conference. Accepted papers and posters will be distributed on the conference web-site, but does not form part of the official conference proceedings. Since the focus of the symposium is on development papers will undergo a much less rigorous review process and would in South African terms not qualify for subsidy claim purposes.

Conflict of Interest

We believe that all authors would want to get an as unbiased opinion on their work as possible. In order to facilitate this authors and PC members will have to declare potential conflicts of interests. In essence a conflict of interest is anybody who could potentially be biased (positively or negatively) towards your work. Examples of conflicts of interest are:

  • Your colleagues at your institution
  • Current active collaborators on work related to the topic of your paper
  • Family members
  • PC members whose general philosophical standpoint is completely incompatible with yours
  • Your PhD promoter (especially if recent).

Important Dates

21 September 2007:
Final date for registration

1 October 2007:
M&D symposium

2-3 October
SAICSIT