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Greetings from me, too!
by Radford, Peter 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

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Greetings
by Augusto Casaca 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

Dear TC6 members, I wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year! Looking forward to the continuation of our TC6 activities in 2002 Augusto Casaca

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CfP: Internet Pricing and Charging
by Martin Karsten 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement! Please feel free to distribute a copy of this call to those who might be interested. This CfP is also available as PDF, Postscript and ASCII from http://www.kom.e-technik.tu-darmstadt.de/~mkarsten/cfp/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Computer Communications Internet Pricing and Charging: Algorithms, Technology and Applications Guest Editors: Martin Karsten (Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany) Peter Reichl (FTW Vienna, Austria) Burkhard Stiller (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) PUBLICATION: WINTER 2002 With the advent of differentiated Internet services, both at the transport as well as at the application layer, the need for differentiated pricing and efficient charging options has become apparent. Within the emerging area of Network Economy, an explicit view on the integration of technological and economic aspects for Internet services provisioning is essential for achieving a better understanding of today's dramatic changes and close-ups between Internet technology and economics in the field of networking. The future evolution of the Internet will crucially depend on the development of sound business models and an economic understanding of technological alternatives. Therefore, it is increasingly important to develop an integrated view of technical proposals and their economic implications, and vice versa. Another important research field is given by the potential for economy-based market management of networks and services. This special issue of Computer Communicationsis seeking new and unpublished contributions addressing issues on Internet Pricing and Charging including, but not limited to: * Internet Charging Technology * Economy-based Policy Management Mechanisms * Internet Pricing and Tariffing * Economy-based Resource Management and Congestion Control * Internet Accounting and Billing Tasks * Internet Service Level Agreements and their Management * Security Mechanisms for Charging Systems * Internet Service Characterizations * ISP Business Models * Internet Bandwidth Exchange Models * Application Service Provider Models The main goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for the most recent results on technology and algorithms for pricing and charging Internet services and their economic effects in an open Internet services market. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: June 1 2002 Notification of acceptance: September 1 2002 Publication: Winter 2002 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Guidelines on how to present your paper are given at http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/authors (Step 2). Authors are invited to submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) to: Dr Martin Karsten FG KOM, FB 18 Darmstadt University of Technology Merckstr.25 64283 Darmstadt Germany Email: Martin.Karsten(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de Full details of submission or further information are available from the journal's web site (www.elsevier.nl/locate/comcom), or from the General Editor, Jeremy Thompson (comcom(a)troubador.co.uk). Electronic submission guidelines are available at www.elsevier.nl/homepage/authors.

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WITASI 2002 Call for Papers
by Arun Iyengar 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

Dear IFIP TC 6: Please distribute the following Call for Papers announcement for WITASI 2002. This workshop is being sponsored by IFIP WG 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering. Best Regards, Arun Iyengar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact WITASI'02 Wroclaw, Poland October 10 - 11, 2002 Submission Deadline: April 7, 2002 http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/ Announcement and Call for Papers The 2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact (WITASI'02) will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, on October 10 - 11, 2002. WITASI'02 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors, and users to review, discuss and learn about new concepts, approaches, technologies and experiences related to the Internet. Attendees will participate in a high quality scientific and technical workshop with specialists in Internet technology from all over the world. The scope of WITASI'02 includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: Internet technologies: coding multimedia data, security, multicast techniques, virtual private networks, agent technologies. Internet performance: caching, quality of service, scalability aspects, traffic characterization. Web technologies: searching and querying, navigation strategies, multilingual services, markup languages, virtual reality. Applications: communications, collaboration, commerce, virtual enterprises, education, healthcare, entertainment, etc. Impact on: society, economy, education, culture, etc. The WITASI'02 program will contain invited and regular papers. The event is organised by the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology and sponsored by IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering. Submissions Authors are invited to submit papers relevant to the scope of the workshop. The submitted papers must be original, unpublished and must not be considered for publication elsewhere. Submissions of papers according to Kluwer style guidelines available at http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/ is strongly encouraged but not required. All submitted papers should be in pdf format, not exceeding 4500 words (comparable to 10 pages prepared according to Kluwer style). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Schedule Deadline for full paper submissions: April 7, 2002 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2002 Final versions and Authors registration July 1, 2002 Submission method Papers should be submitted electronically via the URL: URL: http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/submission E-mail submission is also possible at: witasi-papers(a)ists.pwr.wroc.pl Proceedings All papers accepted for publication and presentation at the workshop will appear in the conference proceedings published by Kluwer. Final versions of accepted papers have to be formatted according to guidelines specified by Kluwer. Instructions for authors of accepted papers will be on the WITASI'02 web site. General Chair Adam Grzech Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Program Co-Chairs Wojciech Cellary Poznan University of Economics, Poland Arun Iyengar IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee Leszek Borzemski Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Soumen Chakrabarti Indian Institute of Technology, India Yi-Farn Robin Chen AT&T Labs, USA Tadeusz Czachorski Silesian University of Technology, Poland Dave De Roure University of Southampton, UK Nicolas D. Georganas University of Ottawa, Canada Claude Godart LORIA, France Adam Grzech Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Sumi Helal University of Florida, USA Katsuo Ikeda Kyoto University, Japan Henryk Krawczyk Technical University of Gdansk, Poland Kazimierz Krzysztofek Research Institute for Culture, Warsaw, Poland Winfried Lamersdorf University of Hamburg, Germany Steve Lawrence NEC Research Institute, USA Jozef Lubacz Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Michael Lyu Chinese University of Hong Kong Tadeusz Morzy Poznan University of Technology, Poland San Murugesan University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Australia Wee Keong Ng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marian Niedzwiedzinski Technical University of Lodz, Poland Guenther Pernul University of Essen, Germany Franz-Josef Radermacher FAW Ulm, Germany Cormac Sreenan University College Cork, Ireland Zdzislaw Szyjewski Technical University of Szczecin, Poland Volker Tschammer GMD Fokus, Germany Joseph Urban Arizona State U., USA Krzysztof Zielinski University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland Jaroslaw Zendulka Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Mary Ellen Zurko IBM Software Group, USA Further information Information and new developments are described at the WITASI'02 web site. Questions may be directed to the Organizing Committee using the addresses below. Address for correspondence Postal address: WITASI 2002 Institute of Control and Systems Engineering Wroclaw University of Technology Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27 50-370 Wroclaw Poland E-mail: witasi2002(a)ists.pwr.wroc.pl Phone: +48 71 320 33 28, +48 71 3212 62 26 Fax: +48 71 320 38 84 URL: http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/

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TC6 calendar
by Augusto Casaca 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Dear TC6 members, Please find in attach an updated version of the TC6 calendar of events. Best regards Augusto Casaca

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Merry Christmas
by Kiril Boyanov 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Dear Friends, To all of you I wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best regards Kiril ======================================= Prof. Kiril Boyanov BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing (CLLP) Sofia 1113, acad.G.Bonchev str.Bl.25A phone (+359 2) 703260 fax (+359 2) 707273 E-Mail boyanov(a)acad.bg =======================================

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2002 Int'l. Joint Conferences in Computer Science & Engineering; Las Vegas, June 24-27, 2002
by hra＠cs.uga.edu 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science (13 Joint Int'l Conferences) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 24-27, 2002 Dear Colleagues: You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a technical session. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION ORGANIZERS/CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. The thirteen conferences are: 1. The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 2. The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 3. The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 4. The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 5. The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 6. The 2002 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 7. The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 8. The 2002 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 9. The 2002 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 10. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 12. The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) 13. The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) (a link to each conference's URL is available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines. You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconferences chair whose address appears below. CONFERENCES CONTACT: H. R. Arabnia Chair, The 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in Computer Science The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 email: hra(a)cs.uga.edu HISTORY: The International Multiconferences in Computer Science is a major annual international research event. The last Multiconferences attracted over 1400 computer science researchers. It is anticipated that The 2002 International Multiconferences will attract about 2000 participants. The 2002 event will be composed of 13 (planned) international conferences - attendees will have full access to all 13 conferences' sessions and tracks. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages - single spaced and font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by the due date (who may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). E-mail and Fax submissions are also acceptable. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Each technical session will have at least 6 paper presentations. The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors on the cover of the conference proceedings. After the conference, some sessions will be considered for publication in relevant journals as Special Issues with the session proposer as the Guest Editor of the journal. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia; E-mail submissions are preferred. EVALUATION PROCESS (General): Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one person. PUBLICATION: The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conference). (In addition to the hardcopy, it is also planned to publish the papers on a CD.) All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to provide easy access to the current literature of the sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC, ...). ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS: A number of university faculty members and their staff in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division, Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conferences. The conferences will be sponsored by World Academy of Sciences and co-sponsored by Computer Science Research, Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953) together with research centers, international associations, international research groups, and developers of high-performance machines and systems. The complete list of sponsors and co-sponsors will be available at a later time. (Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA, the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment - DOE, The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, The International Technology Institute (ITI), The Java High Performance Computing research group, World Scientific and Engineering Society, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc., the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech., The Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), Information Processing Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ), ...) LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for families and children. The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra charge for double occupancy) for the duration of the conference. The hotel is within walking distance from most other Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street shows, ...). For the benefit of our international colleagues: the state of Nevada neighbors with the states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Las Vegas is only a few driving hours away from other major cities, including: Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ... EXHIBITION: An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conferences. Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors of the conferences. IMPORTANT DATES: Feb. 22, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 24-27, 2002: All 13 Int'l Conferences: PDPTA'02 + CISST'02 + IC-AI'02 + IC'02 + METMBS'02 + CIC'02 + ERSA'02 + VLSI'02 + IKE'02 + CMSRA'02 + ICMLA'02 + ICWN'02 + SERP'02 Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The Program Committees are currently being formed. Those interested in joining the Program Committees should email H. R. Arabnia (hra(a)cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax numbers, name of the conference offering to help with, a short biography together with research interests. SCOPE OF PDPTA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications) O Parallel/Distributed applications: Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and fuzzy logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer vision, computer graphics and virtual reality, parallel/distributed databases, banking, financial markets, ... O Parallel/Distributed architectures: Clusters and parallel systems of various topologies, supercomputers, shared memory, distributed memory, general- and special-purpose architectures, instructional level parallelism, ... O Building block processors: Applications of processors that can be used as basic building blocks for multicomputer systems. O Networks and Interconnection networks: Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing issues, general-purpose network performance for distributed applications, network protocols, ATM-based systems, internet technology, Optical interconnections and computing, ... O Reliability and fault-tolerance: Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance measurement. O Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ... O Real-time and embedded systems: Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance control, data acquisition, and analysis; configuration, routing, scheduling, performance guarantees. O Parallel/Distributed algorithms: Algorithms exploiting clusters and general-purpose distributed and parallel systems, new vector/pipeline issues, shared memory, distributed memory, virtual memory, ... O Mobile computation and communication. O Object Oriented Technology and related issues. O Multimedia Communications, Systems, and Applications: High-speed networking, multimedia architectures and protocols, multimedia applications, quality of service support, operating system and networking support, internet tools and applications, audio/video delivery over the internet, ... O Software tools and environments for parallel and distributed platforms: Operating systems, compilers, languages, debuggers, monitoring tools, software engineering on parallel/distributed systems, ... O High-performance computing in Computational Science: Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research programs and applications. O Information and data fusion. O Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools and applications O Web-based simulation and computing. O Education: parallel and distributed processing in computer science curriculum (both graduate and undergraduate levels.) O Recent history (last decade) of parallel/distributed processing and what to expect during the next decade if history repeats itself; New horizons. O Other aspects and applications relating to high-performance computations. SCOPE OF CISST'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology) O Image generation, acquisition, and processing O Image display techniques O Image data structures and databases O Convergence of imaging media (video and computer) O Virtual reality O Image compression, coding, and encryption O Multimedia / Applications O Tools for multimedia production and services O Digital imaging for film and television O Visualization O Scene and object modeling O Knowledge acquisition O Visual inspection O Document image understanding O Image algebra O Optical image processing systems O Mathematical morphology O Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including parallel architectures and algorithms) O Neural network techniques and fuzzy logic O Performance analysis and evaluation O Software tools and environments for imaging O Animation O Geometric modeling and Fractals O CAD/CAM systems O Rendering techniques O Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS, remote sensing, industrial inspection (or machine vision), nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ... O Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing O Image sequence processing O Information fusion O Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science SCOPE OF IC-AI'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) O Intelligent Information Systems O Intelligent Software Engineering O Intelligent Agents O Intelligent Networks O Intelligent Databases O Brain Models O Evolutionary Algorithms O Data mining O Reasoning Strategies O Automated Problem Solving O Distributed AI Algorithms and Techniques O Distributed AI Systems and Architectures O Expert Systems O Fuzzy Logic O Genetic Algorithms O Heuristic Searching O Knowledge Acquisition O Knowledge Discovery O Knowledge Representation O Knowledge-Intensive Problem Solving Techniques O Languages and Programming Techniques for AI O Software Tools for AI O Natural Language Processing O Neural Networks and Applications O Multisource Information Fusion: Theory and Applications O Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion O Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion O Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural and Fuzzy Techniques O Integration of AI with other Technologies O Evaluation of AI Tools O Evolutionary Computation O Social Impact of AI O Applications - Computer Vision O Applications - Signal Processing O Applications - Military O Applications - Surveillance O Applications - Robotics O Applications - Medicine O Applications - Pattern Recognition O Applications - Face Recognition O Applications - Finger Print Recognition O Applications - Finance and Marketing O Applications - Stock Market O Applications - Education O Emerging Applications SCOPE OF IC'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing) O Web based computing O Network Management O Design and Analysis of Internet Protocols O Network Architectures O Performance Evaluation of the Internet O Network Computing O Network Operating Systems O Quality of Service O Resource Management and Location O Wide Area Consistency O Internet Security O Internet Applications and Appliances O Electronic Commerce O The WWW and Intranets O Metacomputing O Grid based Computing and Tools O Languages for Distributed Programming O Cooperative Applications O Tele-Medical and other applications O Internet Telephony O Mobile Computing O Educational Applications O Digital Libraries/Digital Image Collections O Web Interfaces to Databases O User-interface/Multimedia/Video/Audio/User Interaction O Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML O Java Applications on Internet O Alternative Web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ... O Caching Algorithms for the Internet O Traffic Models & Statistics O Server Space/Web Server Performance O Web Monitoring O Web Documents Management O Web Site Design and Coordination O Other aspects & applications relating to internet-based computing SCOPE OF METMBS'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences) O Data mining in medicine and biological sciences O Pattern recognition in medicine and biological sciences O Signal processing in medicine and biological sciences (e.g. biomedical signal processing, ...) O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences (e.g. biomedical image processing, biomedical imaging, ...) O Medical decision-making O Medical Physics O Biomedical Engineering O Biomedical Electronics O Biosignal interpretation O Any application of computers in Medicine and biological sciences (protein structure-function analysis, drug and protein design, molecular modeling and simulation, ...) O Application of information technology in biomedicine (e.g. medical database management, information retrieval and use of computers in hospitals) O Application of Computational Intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computing) in medicine and biological sciences O Medical and bio-computing O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...) O Recent history (1990-2001) of Mathematics and engineering techniques in medicine and biological sciences, and what to expect during the next decade (2001-2010); New horizons. Review articles) O Other aspects and applications relating to technological advancements in medicine and biological sciences SCOPE OF CIC'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Communications in Computing) O High Performance Applications (e.g. scientific, commercial, ...) O Distributed Systems and Advanced Applications (e.g. multimedia, cooperative systems) O Grid computing O Scalable and Interoperable Systems and Associated Standards O Software Systems (e.g. operating system support, middleware, environments, tools, distributed objects) O Architecture (e.g. VLSI, SIMD, MIMD, vector, systolic, reconfigurable, special-purpose) O Interconnection networks (e.g. bus-based, optical) O ATM based networks O Communications (e.g. routing, wireless, mobile) O Visualization (e.g. scientific visualization, debugging and load balancing tools) O Photonics and Optical Computing O Performance Issues (e.g. benchmarks, performance measurement, evaluation and prediction) O Modeling and Simulation of High Performance Systems O Advanced Compilation Techniques (e.g. parallelizing compilers) O Programming Languages for Parallel and other High Performance Computing Environments O Parallel/Distributed/Vector Algorithms O Reliability and Fault Tolerance O Embedded and Real Time Systems O Digital Signal Processing O Neural Computing, Genetic Algorithms O Issues in High Performance Computing (e.g. evolving paradigms, grand challenge problems) O Internet & web based processing, E-commerce, telecommunication network, cluster-based computing SCOPE OF ERSA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms) O Theory, Mapping and Parallelization. Mapping algorithms into hardware, space-time mapping and synthesis of regular arrays, IP based methods, dataflow and functional programming approaches, formal methods using logical specification and verification, developing correct circuits, the impact of reconfigurable hardware architectures onto algorithm parallelization, biologically inspired methods etc. O System Architectures, Aspects and Evaluation. Complex systems using reconfigurable processors, application-tailored reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoC), architectures of SoCs, adaptive and evolvable systems, rapid system prototyping, ... O CAD: Specification, Partitioning and Synthesis. Hardware compilation, hardware/software codesign, IP-based specification and mapping methods for reconfigurable systems, object oriented models and mapping methods, hardware description languages, design environments and interfaces, ... O Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures. Dynamically reconfigurable hardware architectures, reconfigurable processor architectures, compiled accelerators, performance evaluation of reconfigurable SoCs, application-specific communication interfaces of reconfigurable SoCs, low power evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable systems, fault-tolerance using reconfigurable hardware, trade-offs measurements, ... O Algorithms and Optimization. Newly developed algorithms for efficient implementation on reconfigurable systems, in hardware, in space and time, algorithms for design optimization, ... O Applications. Possible applications areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Classical image and signal processing - digital filters, edge and line detection, morphological operators, motion and stereo estimation, discrete transformations, linear algebra, radar systems, object recognition, ... Multimedia and virtual reality - telecommunication, data compression, video imaging, image databases, computational geometry and computer graphics, software radio, digital libraries, genetic databases, ... Automotive industry - lane detection and obstacle detection, vehicle guidance, traffic systems, object recognition, navigation of robots, ... Security systems - object recognition and tracking, cryptology, Internet and security, ... SCOPE OF VLSI'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on VLSI) O Quantum Computing O Nanoelectronics O Molecular and Biological Computing O MEMS O Circuits and Systems O Novel Design and Methodologies O System-on-a-Chip: Design and Methodology O Low Power VLSI System Design O Complexity Issues O Simulation Tools O Algorithm Design Approaches (AI, Genetic, ...) O High-Level Design Methodologies O ASIC Architectures O Reconfigurable Systems Design O Novel Devices and Circuits O Emerging Trends O High-Performance Circuits O Reusable Architectures O Test and Verification O Synthesis O Mixed-Signal Design and Analysis O Electrical/Packaging Designs and Co-Designs O Applications (all applications will be considered) SCOPE OF IKE'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering) O Client-Server Architectures O Information and Knowledge Engineering O Mobile Agents O Web-Based Design and Development O Knowledge and Information Management Techniques O Data Mining Techniques O Database Engineering and Systems O Knowledge Delivery Methods O Document Processing O Data Security O Knowledge Life Cycle O Business Architectures O Formal and Visual Specification Languages O Software Tools and Support O QoS issues O Performance Evaluation Techniques O Knowledge-Based Systems O Clustering Techniques O Web Technology and Systems for Information and Knowledge Based Applications O Dataweb Models and Systems O Data Warehouses O Workflow Management O Knowledge and Information Extraction and Discovery Techniques O Service Recovery / Fault-Tolerance O Large-Scale Information Processing Methods O Data and Knowledge Processing O Data Structures O Video Databases O Distributed Databases O Information and Knowledge Structures O Databanks - issues, methods, and standards O Information Quality (Quality Metrics) O E-Libraries (Digital Libraries) O Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems O XMI O Agent-Based Techniques and Systems O Content Management O Information Reliability and Security O Hardware Architectures O Modeling and Simulation O Decision Support Systems O Expert Systems O Aspect-Oriented Programming O Re-usability of Software/Knowledge/Information O Privacy Issues O Interoperability Issues O Transaction Systems O Object-Oriented Modeling and Systems O RAID Architectures O Knowledge Classification Tools O Case-Based Reasoning O Bayesian Techniques O Ubiquitous Computing O Managing Copyright Laws O Digital Watermarking O Data/Information/Knowledge Models O Applications (e-Commerce, Multimedia, Business, Banking, ...) SCOPE OF CMSRA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications) O Inference Procedures: Ampliative Inference Argumentative and Defeasible Reasoning Analogy, Induction and Abduction Paraconsistent Logics Plausible and Hypothetical Reasoning Causal and Explanatory Reasoning Hypothesis Formation, Learning and Discovery Coherence, Explanation and Acceptance Procedural Rationality O Philosophical Aspects of the Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning: Computational Epistemology and Theory of Science Cognitive Theory Formation Acceptance and Decision Making Reasoning as opposed to Logic Concept Formation and Conceptual Change Design in Scientific Method The Growth of Knowledge O Social Metaphors: Science as Distributed Computing Internet Epistemology Self-Organizing Agents Team Theory Rules of Negotiation Social Choice Sociology of Knowledge Evolutionary Epistemology O Applications: New Information Technologies Computational Theories in the Sciences Intelligent Data Mining Agent-Based Scientific Discovery Modelling Agreement Intelligent Protocols for E-Commerce SCOPE OF ICMLA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications) O multistrategy learning O statistical learning O neural network learning O bayesian network O case-based reasoning O evolutionary computation O reinforcement learning O machine learning of natural language O grammatical inference O knowledge acquisition and learning O knowledge discovery in databases O knowledge intensive learning O knowledge management and learning O information retrieval and learning O theories and models for plausible reasoning O cooperative learning O planning and learning O multi-agent learning O web navigation and mining O inductive logic programming O computational learning theory O cognitive-modeling O hybrid algorithms SCOPE OF ICWN'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks) O Wireless network architectures O Wireless communications O Multiple access O Routing O Signaling O Mobile Internet O Transport-layer issues O Wireless security O Wireless and mobile applications O Mobile computing O Modeling, simulation, and measurement of wireless systems/networks O Mobile ad-hoc networks O 3G, 4G, and beyond O Satellite-based systems O Wireless LAN and home networks O Wireless sensor networks O Wireless mobile ATM (wmATM) O MIMO O Adaptive antennas O Coding and modulation O Synchronization O Multi-user detection O Power management and control, low-power protocols O IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, Bluetooth O OFDM O CDMA, B-CDMA O QoS routing, power-aware routing, location-aware routing O Resource management, wireless QoS O Wireless IP networks, interworking O Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation O WAP, mobile e-commerce O Location-based service, GPS O Mobile agents O Distributed algorithms for wireless networks SCOPE OF SERP'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice) O Software architectures O Object-Oriented technology O Measurement, metrics and analysis O Survivable systems O Requirements engineering O Reverse engineering O Software domain modeling O Software process modeling O Workflow - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) O Project management issues O Distributed and parallel systems O Legal issues and standards O Configuration management (issues and tools) O Automated software specification O Automated software design and synthesis O Theoretic approaches (formal methods, graph, ...) O Domain modeling and meta-modeling O Evolution and maintenance O Knowledge acquisition O Reflection and metadata methodologies O Artificial intelligence approaches to Software Engineering O Automated software engineering O Component-based engineering O Data mining O Interoperability O Intelligent CASE tools O Multimedia in software engineering O Hypermedia O Software reuse O Verification, validation and quality assurance O Performance critical systems O Engineering practices O Programming languages O Program understanding issues O Education (software engineering curriculum design) O Software engineering versus Systems engineering O Software documentation O Technology adoption O Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) O Architecture tradeoff analysis O Novel software tools and environments

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best wishes
by N.Frasheri 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Dear Colleagues, Merry Christmass and Happy New Year Neki Frasheri #======================================================# # Prof.Dr. Neki Frasheri, Vice-Director # # INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS # # ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF ALBANIA # #======================================================#

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WG: CMS'2002
by Herbert Leitold 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Dear IFIP TC6 & TC11 colleagues, I'm forwarding the call for papers of the 2002 joint TC6 and TC11 Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS'2002) Best regards, Herbert _________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS The seventh IFIP Communications and Multimedia Security Conference (CMS 2002) Joint working conference IFIP TC6 and TC11 September 26-27, 2002 Portoroz, Slovenia http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/ _________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Submission of full papers: March 08, 2002 Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2002 Camera-ready papers: May 24, 2002 CONFERENCE INFORMATION: CMS 2002 is the seventh working conference on Communications and Multimedia Security since 1995. State-of-the-art issues as well as practical experiences and new trends in the areas will be the topics of interest again, as proven by preceding conferences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Applied cryptography * Biometry * Combined multimedia security * Communications systems security * Cryptography - steganography * Digital signatures * Digital watermarking * Internet, intranet and extranet security * Legal, social and ethical aspects of communication systems security * Mobile communications security * Multimedia systems security * New generation networks (NGN) security * Possible attacks on multimedia systems * Secure electronic commerce The conference is jointly organised by SETCCE, Institut "Jozef Stefan" and ISOC-SI. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. Please email your submission in postcscript or PDF format to cms02(a)setcce.org. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 5 (five) copies of an anonymous paper to the General Chair at the postal address below. Submissions must be received by the General Chair on or before March 8, 2002. The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the names and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author including e-mail and postal addresses. Authors are asked to submit original papers only. Papers that have previously been published and papers that are currently being considered for publication by another journal or conference are not eligible. All submitted papers will be refereed by members of the International Program Committee for correctness, originality, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. All submissions must be in English. The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 5000 words long. A full page figure is 500 words. Conference proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Therefore authors are encouraged to use for their submissions the Kluwer IFIP templates for LaTeX or Word. Style templates are available at http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/ or http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/styles/ Copies of the proceedings will be available at the conference. To submit a paper, or for further details, please contact: Prof. Borka Jerman-Blazic Institut Jozef Stefan Jamova 39 SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia e-mail: cms02(a)setcce.org www: http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/ VENUE: The conference will take place in Portoroz, the beautiful Mediterranean seaside resort in Slovenia (http://www.portoroz2002.ki.si/portoroz.htm). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * Organizing Chair: Alenka Pahor Zvanut, SETCCE Address: Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia E-mail: centre(a)setcce.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * General Chair: Borka Jerman-Blazic, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia * Program Co-Chair: Tomaz Klobucar, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia * Augusto Casaca, INESC, chairman IFIP TC6, Portugal * David Chadwick, University of Salford, UK * Bart de Decker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Yves Deswarte, LAAS CNRS, France * Dieter Gollmann, Microsoft Research, UK * Ruediger Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany * Patrick Horster, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria * Steve Kent, BBN, USA * Klaus Keus, BSI, Germany * Herbert Leitold, IAIK, Austria * Peter Lipp, IAIK, Austria * Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Guenther Pernul, University of Essen, Germany * Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Microsoft Research, UK * Wolfgang Schneider, SIT Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany * Leon Strous, De Nederlandsche Bank, chairman IFIP TC11, Netherlands

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[Fwd: [ifip-tc6] CFP: PfHSN'2002 EXTENDED Submission Deadline November 26, 2001]
by Augusto Casaca 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

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