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Journal of Software (JSW, ISSN 1796-217X)
Special Issue on Information Education and Technological Application

THEME
In the information-oriented society, training nationals with IT knowledge and application ability has been the focus of
education development in countries. They have been promoting the program relevant to information education and
laying the foundation stone of the twenty-first century. Information education aims to help students develop the ability
of information retrieval, application and analysis and make them have the correct information learning attitude
including the ability of creational thinking, problem solving, active learning, communication cooperating and learning
how to use information technology well. Furthermore, it trains the sophisticated IT R&D talents with both theory and
practice and helps promoting the domestic industries. On the other hand, the application of information technology is
focused on exploring the industries' development trend and then mastering it requirement. Also, it accelerates the
originality and application technology towards to higher value. Finally, it creates the new value to national information
industries.

SCOPE
This special issue covers some important aspects of Information Education and Learning, Intelligent Life and
Information Application, Multimedia and Digital Content, Information System Technology and Management
Application, and Network Technology and Application. The technical issues to be addressed include, but are not
limited to:

    Information Education and Learning
    o Mobile Learning Technology
    o Knowledge Management Technology
    o Learning Science and Technology
    o Distance Education
    o E-Learning
    o Information Education Methods and Evaluation

    Intelligent Life and Information Application
    o Home Security and Environmental Surveillance
    o Home Care and Telemedicine
    o Mobile Communication and Application
    o Digital Home Network and Server
    o GPS/GIS Application
    o RFID Application
    o Health Industry Information Management

    Multimedia and Digital Content
    o Digital Learning Platform
    o Digital Content Technology
    o Multimedia Application
    o Multimedia Distance Education
    o Digital Archives
    o Virtual Reality and Game Design

    Information System Technology and Management Application
    o Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP)
    o Electronic Commerce(EC) and Electronic Operation Management
    o Information Security
    o System Development and Database Technology
    o Knowledge Base System and Data Mining
    o Customer Relationship Management

    Mobile Systems and E-Commerce
    o Protocol, applications, and middleware in mobile server
    o Applications in electronic markets and commerce
    o Mobile commerce
    o Artificial market systems and e-commerce
    o E-commerce animation, simulation
    o E-commerce development tools, programming
    o E-commerce interface, virtual reality
    o E-commerce interface agents
    o E-commerce security
    o Ergonomics in e-commerce and electronic marketplaces
    o Market-based control
    o Mobile agents for order processing, selling, transactions processing
    o Mobile agents for payment, financial processing
    o Resource management

    Semantic Web and Web Services
    o Semantic Web
    o RDF Applications
    o Ontology Researches
    o Web Services
    o Web 2.0
    o Web3.0


IMPORTANT DATEs







SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
The authors of the invited papers will be asked to revise and extend their papers and submit an electronic version
(PDF format) of the full paper via email to
jhung@ocit.edu.tw by September 20, 2009. Papers should be written in
English. All the papers except survey should ideally not exceed 12,000 words (14 pages) in length. Whenever
applicable, submissions must include the following elements: title, authors, affiliations, contacts, abstract, index
terms, introduction, main text, conclusions, appendixes, acknowledgement, references, and biographies. Papers
should be formatted into A4-size (8.27" x 11.69") pages, with main text of 10-point Times New Roman, in single-
spaced two-column format. Figures and tables must be sized as they are to appear in print. Figures should be placed
exactly where they are to appear within the text. There is no strict requirement on the format of the manuscripts.
However, authors are strongly recommended to follow the format of the final version. Thus, you should avoid using
special fonts. Submission email addresses as below, with a covering email clearly staring the name, address and
affiliation of the corresponding author. Paper submissions are accepted only in PDF.

CONTACT INFORMATION
    Dr. Jason C. Hung
    Department of Information Management
    The Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology
    No:100, Chiao Kwang Rd., Taichung 407, Taiwan,
    E-mail: jhung@ocit.edu.tw

Guest Editor(s)
    Dr. Jason C. Hung
    Department of Information Management, The Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology, Taiwan
    E-mail: jhung@ocit.edu.tw
Paper submission due                
Notification of acceptance
Final munuscript due
Publication date
September 20, 2009
October 1, 2009
November 1, 2009
1st Quarter, 2010