INSTICC

The Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, or INSTICC, is a non-profit association for the development and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the areas of information systems and technologies, control and communications.
History
INSTICC was created in 2003 and started its activity in 2004 with the organization of 3 conferences: ICINCO (International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics), ICEIS (International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems) and ICETE (International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks).
Subsequently, several other conferences have been created: WEBIST (International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), started in 2005; ICSOFT (International Conference on Software and Data Technologies), started in 2006; VISIGRAPP (International Joint Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Computer Vision Theory and Applications) and BIOSTEC (International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies), started in 2008; ICAART (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence), CSEDU (International Conference on Computer Supported Education), (International Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management) and
IJCCI (International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence), started in 2009.
INSTICC conferences are frequently located at a small number of designated hotels including sites in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal (e.g. BIOSTEC 2012, ICAART 2012, VISGRAPP 2011), Rome, Italy (e.g. BIOSTEC 2011, ICINCO 2012, ICETE 2012, ICSOFT 2012), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (e.g. BIOSTEC 2008, VISGRAPP 2008, ICEIS 2007 and 2010, ICINCO 2008 and 2010, IC3K 2009) and Valencia, Spain (e.g. BIOSTEC 2010, IJCCI 2010, IC3K 2010).
Activities
INSTICC's activities include research projects, software engineering, conference organization, consulting and publishing of journals and books.
Sponsored Activities
Conferences co-sponsored or supported by INSTICC
WISTP - Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices (, and )
IBIC - International Business Informatics Challenge (, and )
Projects co-sponsored by INSTICC
- "Recognition of Cognitive and Affective Patterns in Human-Computer Interaction"
This project focused on the investigation of possible ways to complement the typically cognitive nature of human-computer interaction with other interaction forms, namely affective, involving the knowledge area of pattern recognition.
The project was developed in collaboration with (IT) and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).
- "Scientific Network Identification through Ontology Building using Unsupervised Learning Techniques"
This project is centered on using unsupervised learning techniques, namely clustering and text mining, to infer from poorly structured information sources the scientific characterization of an organization belonging to a given scientific ontology.
- "AGERE II - An Approach to an Organisational Audit: Evaluating Effectiveness through Innovative Perspectives"
This project aims at developing, implementing and testing a methodology for conducting Organizational Audits.
Collaboration and technical co-sponsorship agreements
INSTICC is in permanent cooperation with several national and international research bodies connected to the development and promotion of science and technology:
*IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
*ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
*AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
*APPIA - Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
*IEICE - Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
*IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control
Publications
Every INSTICC conference and workshop has its proceedings published on paper under an ISBN reference, and a selection of most conferences' best papers is published by Springer-Verlag in one of its series.
Conferences
The INSTICC team has started up and maintains several scientific conferences on different areas of engineering and technology:
BIOSTEC - International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies
:*HEALTHINF - International Conference on Health Informatics
:*BIODEVICES - International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices
:*BIOSIGNALS - International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing
:*BIOINFORMATICS - International Conference on Bioinformatics
ICAART - International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
VISIGRAPP - International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
:*VISAPP - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
:*IMAGAPP - International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications
:*GRAPP - International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
:*IVAPP - International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications
WEBIST - International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
CSEDU - International Conference on Computer Supported Education
ICEIS - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
ICINCO - International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
ICETE - International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications
:*DCNET - International Conference on Data Communication Networking
:*ICE-B - International Conference on e-Business
:*OPTICS - International Conference on Communication Systems
:*SECRYPT - International Conference on Security and Cryptography
:*SIGMAP - International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications
:*WINSYS - International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems
ICSOFT - International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
IJCCI - International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence
:*ICEC - International Conference on Evolutionary Computation
:*ICFC - International Conference on Fuzzy Computation
:*ICNC - International Conference on Neural Computation
- International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
:*ICKD - International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
:*ICKE - International Conference on Knowledge Engineering
:*ICKM - International Conference on Knowledge Management
Membership of International Associations
INSTICC is an institutional member of the following international associations:
OMG - Object Management Group
WfMC - Workflow Management Coalition
FIPA - Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
SEFI - European Society for Engineering Education
APDIO - Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional
EATEL - European Association of Technology-Enhanced Learning
IGIP - International Society for Engineering Education

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