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), IC3K (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).
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