Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the Program Committee. Criteria for the selection of papers will include: high quality, clear presentation, novelty of research, relevance to the topics, coverage of relevant state of the art and the practical implementation of the infrastructures and tools presented.

Submissions must follow the itmas-latex-file and should be a maximum of 14 pages.

Papers must be submitted in pdf format via the conference management system, available at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itmas2012

Proceedings will be published with ISBN and following an open access policy. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the paper to be include in the proceedings.

Selected papers will also be invited to submit extended and revised versions to a special issue in the SCI-indexed journal: Information Systems Frontiers, which is ranked with a JCR Impact factor 1.596 (2010).