8th Panhellenic Conference
on Informatics 

with international participation 

Nicosia, Cyprus
8-10 November 2001

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Greek Computer Society (GCS), in cooperation with the Cyprus Computer Society  (CCS), the University of Cyprus , and with the support of Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA) are organizing the 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics at Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus Republic during 8-10 November 2001.

The Panhellenic Conference on Informatics is a biannual event established by GCS. The 1st conference took place at Athens (1984), the 2nd at Thessaloniki (1988), the 3rd at Athens (1991), the 4th at Patras (1993), the 5th at Athens (1995), the 6th at Athens (1997) and the 7th at Ioannina (1999).

ORGANIZATION OF THE CONFRENCE

English will be the official language of the conference. The Greek language will be used only in satellite workshops, which will focus on topics of local  professional, industrial, business and political interests. The conference will run in parallel sessions, whereas invited talks,  panels,  and special interest workshops will be organized. Although the conference is a forum for information exchange between Greek scientists from Greece, Cyprus and Diaspora, the experience is that international participation is significant.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Research Topics
Authors are invited to submit research papers in any area of Computer Science and Engineering (as classified by ACM) including but not limited to:

Case Studies
Furthermore, there will be a separate track for papers reporting experiences from cases studies on modern IT applications, such as: Information for authors
We can only accept electronic submissions in Postscript, PDF, or RTF format to the address: epy8@cs.ucy.ac.cy.
Manuscripts should not exceed 5000 words. Additionally, authors should send the abstract of the paper in a plain (ASCII) page containing: title, authors, abstract, keywords and designated track (Research Track or  Case Studies Track). Also, the authors should declare the designated track in the first page of their manuscript. Style files (for MS Word and latex) will be available for the camera-ready final submission. English will be the official language of the conference.

Important dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts of papers:  9 April 2001
Deadline for submission of full papers: 23 April 2001
Notification on papers:  4 June 2001
Deadline for camera-ready version:  25 June 2001

Proceedings
The proceedings will be published by a local publisher. However, it is planned to publish a subselection of the best papers as a post-proceedings volume by a major publishing house.