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************************************************ * * * 6th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE * * WFS2005 * * * ************************************************
AS PART OF THE * FREE SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2005 *
Porto Alegre, RS - June 1-4, 2005 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Sponsored by Brazilian Computer SocietyRS
- CALL FOR PAPERS -
The software industry has been facing a significant move in recent years with the rising of the free software philosophy. Free software dramatically changed the way software is produced, distributed, supported, and used. The free software option not only imposes new challenges to software provides but also has a visible social impact enabling a richer digital inclusion.
The 6th International Workshop on Free Software (WFS2005), which will be co-located with the Free Software International Forum 2005, intends to present and discuss the developments and research activities related to free software carried out in academia and industry.
Authors are invited to submit papers describing finished or under development work related to relevant aspects of free software. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Free software-based research; - Comparing and evaluating free software solutions against proprietary solutions; - Adaptation and expansion of free software; - Academic experimentations using free software; - Use of free software in education; - Emerging technologies supported by free software; - Operating system distributions; - Networks and distributed systems; - Free software on databases, imaging processing, computer graphics; - Free software for artificial intelligence; - Digital inclusion; - E-government and free software; - E-Commerce and free software; - Public digital services; - Regional integration, and globalization.
Accepted papers will be included in the WFS 2005 proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper should register to the event and be present at WFS 2005 to present the work.
PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------
Papers should be written in English and formatted following the Brazilian Computer Society style. Paper templates are available at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/templates. Papers are limited to 8 pages. Authors should submit their work registering the paper and uploading a PDF file through the electronic submission Web site at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/wsf2005.
IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- - Paper submission due: March 14, 2005 - Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2005 - Camera-ready due: May 06, 2005
GENERAL CHAIR: - Celso Maciel da Costa - PUCRS, Brazil
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville - UFRGS, Brazil
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