December 2002 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

Christmas Greetings
by Augusto Casaca 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Dear TC6 members, Let me wish to you and your families a Merry Christmas and a very successful 2003! Augusto Casaca

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Christmas Greetings
by Radford, Peter 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Greetings everybody! I should like to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year Peter This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Christmas Greetings
by Jan Slavik 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

Dear Friends, I wish you and your families Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best regards, Jan

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FW: Elpub 2003 - Call for Papers (Reminder)
by Augusto Casaca 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

-----Original Message----- From: programmelpub(a)unb.br [mailto:programmelpub@unb.br] Sent: segunda-feira, 16 de Dezembro de 2002 14:50 To: selmar(a)unb.br Subject: Elpub 2003 - Call for Papers (Reminder) (Please, advert this CfP at your own institution and scholarly community): *** THIS MESSAGE IS CROSSPOSTED TO SEVERAL LISTS. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY DUPLICATION *** Call for Papers - ELPUB 2003 ICCC/IFIP 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, to be held in Guimarães, Portugal, 25 - 28 June 2003 ELPUB 2003 - From Information to Knowledge http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003 This 7th conference will be hosted by the Department of Information Systems at the University of Minho, in Guimarães, (Northern Portugal), a beautiful XII century city that recently became part of world's cultural heritage. The 7th ELPUB attempts to keep the tradition of the six previous international (annual) conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia (2000), and the Czech Republic (2002) which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, developers, industrials, businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in the most different contexts. These include human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and any other relevant aspect that such an exciting theme encompasses. Elpub 2003 offers a variety of new activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. So, the conference will bring about opportunities for attendants to participate in a number of activities, including: - The communication of papers specially prepared and selected (peer reviewed) for the conference; - Three prominent invited speakers who will be presenting their keynotes on the three first days of the conference programme; - Several workshops and tutorials that aim to provide opportunity for attendants to update themselves in topics of high interest within this community of experts; - Plenary sessions that aim to summarise the main ideas presented and discussed during the presentation of the conference papers; - Panel debates on selected topics - And at last but not least, the presentation of posters. The conference welcomes authors on the following topics: GENERAL TRACK: New publishing models New services for the Web Services and products for academics, executives, governors, media communicators, etc. The Semantic Web Multimedia and multimodal Web Web for the TV New services for disabled people Metadata use and interoperability The communication cycle of electronic scholarly publications: production, distribution, acquisition and use Infocracy / infoexclusion Copyright on the web Security, privacy and other issues regarding information availability on the web Digital preservation, reliability, quality, etc. Digital libraries for different communities of users Distance learning; Education and training Global collaboration through the information infrastructure internationally available. TECHNICAL TRACK The use of XML and its related technologies Development and use of XML applications Development and use of codification mechanisms, technologies and tools for the metadata encoding process: MHP, RDF, etc. Content search, analysis and retrieval on the Web Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications Electronic publishing for mobile devices Development and use of technologies for security, preservation and quality assurance of information sources and information access channels Technologies for the global information infrastructure Technologies for the integration of recommendations, standards, and standards proposals Technologies for the publication process in different contexts. PLEASE, NOTE THAT THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE. THEREFORE, SUBMISSIONS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME WILL BE CONSIDERED. ***AUTHOR GUIDELINES: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 15th, 2003 Abstracts submission include: Title of the paper; Authors' names; Authors' affiliation; Authors' full address (including phones, fax and email); Extended abstract in English - sent by email, using: text only format; no formatting; double space between paragraphs; Font type/size Arial 12 or similar; 1.200-1.500 words length. Keywords in English Abstracts should be sent to: <mailto:Programmelpub@unb.br> programmelpub(a)unb.br The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted papers by February 28th, 2003. The deadline for Full Papers will be April, 30th, 2003. Speakers will be given 20 minutes for their presentation, plus 10 minutes at most for discussion. All Full Papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Posters are due to be brought by their authors at the conference time and only their abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. GENERAL INFORMATION: Host: University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. General Chair: João Álvaro de Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal <mailto:jac@dsiiuminho.pt> jac(a)dsi.uminho.pt Programme Chair: Sely M. S. Costa, University of Brasilia, Brazil <mailto:selmar@unb.br> selmar(a)unb.br Programme Committee: Amaral, Luís, University of Minho, Portugal Berto, Rosa M. V. S. - Technology Research Institute, Brazil Bonn, Maria - University of Michigan, USA Borbinha, José Luiz National Library of Portugal, Portugal Bräscher, Marisa - Brazilian Institute of Science and Technology Information, Brazil Carvalho, Ana Amélia A. - University of Minho, Portugal Cetto, Ana Maria - National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico Chan, Leslie - University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada Costa, Sely M. S. - University of Brasilia, Brazil Delgado, Jaime - University Pompeu Fabra, Spain Diocaretz, Myriam - International Institute of Infonomics, Netherlands Engelen, Jan - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Fox, Edward - Virginia Tech, USA Guimarães, Nuno M. - University of Lisbon, Portugal Henriques, Pedro Rangel - University of Minho, Portugal Iyengar, Arun - IBM Research, USA Jezek, Karel - University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic Juhola, Helene - VTT Information Technology, Finland Kreulich, Klaus Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany Linde, Peter - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Moreira, Ana Cristina - University of Brasilia, Brazil Okerson, Ann - Yale University, USA Russell, Jane - National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico Schwänzl, Roland - University of Osnabrück, Germany Smith, John W. T. - University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Targino, Maria das Graças - University of Piauí, Brazil For additional information, please contact the Programme Committee: <mailto:programmelpub@unb.br> programmelpub(a)unb.br

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FW: LANC steering committee
by Augusto Casaca 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

Dear TC6 members, I have received the following proposal from Ramon for the Steering Commoittee of the future Latin American Networking Conference, which is jointly organised with ACM. We have agreed with ACM that we should have an equivalent representation in the Steering Committee, which seems to be the case with this proposal. Please let me have your comments, if any, until this Wednesday. Best regards Augusto Casaca -----Original Message----- From: Ramon Puigjaner [mailto:putxi@uib.es] Sent: sabado, 7 de Dezembro de 2002 18:50 To: Augusto Casaca Cc: Lyman Chapin; Craig Partridge; Julio Escobar Subject: LANC steering committee Dear Augusto, I have exchanged several messages with Lyman and Julio Escobar and we have agreed on the composition of a steering committee of just 5 members in order to facilitate the agreement on the different topics we have to decide. The members are: - Julio Escobar, proposed by ACM - Lyman Chapin, 1/2 ACM and 1/2 TC6 - Ricardo Baeza, President of Clei, jointly proposed by ACM and TC6 (rbaeza(a)dcc.uchile.cl) - Fatima Dolz, reponsible of the organisation of CLEI 2003, jointly proposed by ACM and TC6 (fdolz(a)inf.umsanet.edu.bo) - Ramon Puigjaner, proposed by TC6. Do you agree? If so, please could you send messages to the interested people appointing these persons? Best regards Ramon ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07071 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es =========================================================================

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FW: [IFIP] Special: The Event of the Year is ...
by Augusto Casaca 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quarta-feira, 11 de Dezembro de 2002 08:53 To: All Subject: [IFIP] Special: The Event of the Year is ... Dear All, We are impressed by all the support we received in selecting the IFIP Event of the Year 2002. From the email IDs and sign. lines of the participants we can say that they come from 27 [TWENTY SEVEN] countries -- Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany [very active participation!!], Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Rep. of Korea, Thailand, UK and USA. WOW, thank you very much!!! Just for comparison, at the end of 2001 participants from 13 countries chose "The IFIP-UNESCO Summit meeting" as the IFIP event of 2001. This year's ballot was called on the basis of 7 nominations [ref. http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00204.html ]. The large majority of participants expressed its preference for ***30th Anniversary of TC 6*** which is hereby DECLARED as the IFIP Event of 2002. [Our report on the 30th Anniversary of TC 6 is posted at http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/tc6.pdf ] CONGRATULATIONS to TC 6 - IFIP's Sailboat in the Wind! We wish them further inspiration so as to continue their remarkable activity in future. ***The IFIP-UNESCO partnership*** is the runner-up and ***The 17th World Computer Congress in Montreal*** is third. The Delivery Co. Fun zone - joke lovers only! We continue our end-of-year selection with another Special. If you wish to find what would have happened if it had been the 3 Wise Women instead of the 3 Wise Men click here >>> http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/jokeimages/3wisewomen.pps -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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Call For Papers: 2003 Int'l MultiConference in CS + CE + Math - Las Vegas, June 23, 2003
by Hamid Arabnia 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (15 Joint Int'l Conferences) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 23-26, 2003 Dear Colleagues: You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below) and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The names of technical session/workshop organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the proceedings/books as Associate Editors. Any help in distributing this announcement would be most appreciated. The 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering is composed of the following 15 conferences - each event is the premier conference for presentation of advances in its respective subject. All conferences will be held simultaneously (same location & dates: June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, USA): 1. The 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'03) 2. The 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'03) 3. The 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03) 4. The 2003 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'03) 5. The 2003 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'03) 6. The 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'03) 7. The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA) 8. The 2003 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'03) 9. The 2003 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'03) 10. The 2003 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'03) 11. The 2003 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'03) 12. The 2003 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'03) 13. The 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'03) 14. The 2003 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'03) 15. The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines. You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconference chair whose address appears below (The Chair may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). CONFERENCES CONTACT: H. R. Arabnia, Ph.D. Chair, The 2003 Int'l Multiconference in CS & CE 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 Multiconference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering is a major annual international research event. The last Multiconference attracted over 1,550 computer science and Engineering researchers from 72 countries. It is anticipated that The 2003 Int'l Multiconference will attract about 2000 participants. The 2003 event is composed of 15 (planned) major conferences - attendees will have full access to all 15 conferences' sessions & tracks. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages - single space, 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 & 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, & Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) & a maximum of 5 keywords. EVALUATION PROCESS: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, & 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/book. 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 & 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 & co-sponsored by Computer Science Research, Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953) together with research centers, international associations, international research groups, & developers of high-performance machines & systems. The complete list of sponsors & co-sponsors will be available at a later time. (Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA, the National Supercomputing Center for Energy & the Environment - DOE, The Int'l Association for Mathematics & Computers in Simulation, The Int'l Technology Institute (ITI), Java High Performance Computing research group, World Scientific & Engineering Society, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc., Computer Vision R&A Tech., Hewlett-Packard Inc., Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ), IEEE, a number of publishers of books & journals, ...) 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 & over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with 24-hour shuttle service to & from the airport. This hotel has many vacation & 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 & most are suitable for families & 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 & night clubs, free street shows, ...). IMPORTANT DATES: (Some tracks have different deadlines - check the web site) Feb. 17, 2003 (Monday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 21, 2003 (Friday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2003 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 23-26, 2003: All 15 Int'l Conferences Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Each technical session will have at least 6 papers. 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 & address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, & a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues & researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia; E-mail submissions are preferred. 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 & position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax numbers, name of the conference offering to help with, a short biography together with research interests. EXHIBITION & ROBOTICS COMPETITION: 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. There will also be a Robotics Competition (refer to the following url for regulations and more information: www.cs.uga.edu/~potter/robotics/RoboticsCompetition.htm TOPICAL SCOPE FOR EACH CONFERENCE APPEARS BELOW (the list of topics that appear below should be regarded as a partial list of topics. each conference considers papers in ALL ASPECTS of its domain.) SCOPE OF PDPTA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications) O Parallel/Distributed applications O Parallel/Distributed architectures O Building block processors O Networks & Interconnection networks O Reliability & fault-tolerance O Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ... O Real-time & embedded systems O Parallel/Distributed algorithms O Mobile computation & communication O Object Oriented Technology & related issues O Multimedia Communications, Systems, & Applications O Software tools & environments for parallel & distributed platforms O High-performance computing in Computational Science O Information & data fusion O Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools & applications O Web-based simulation & computing O Education: parallel & distributed processing in computer science curriculum O Recent history (last decade) of parallel/distributed processing & what to expect in the next decade: New Horizons O Other aspects & applications relating to high-performance computations SCOPE OF CISST'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, & Technology) O Image generation, acquisition, & processing O Image display techniques O Image data structures & databases O Convergence of imaging media (video & computer) O Virtual reality O Image compression, coding, & encryption O Multimedia / Applications O Tools for multimedia production & services O Digital imaging for film & television O Visualization O Scene & 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 & vision systems (including parallel architectures & algorithms) O Neural network techniques & fuzzy logic O Performance analysis & evaluation O Software tools & environments for imaging O Animation O Geometric modeling & 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 & multi-spectral image processing O Image sequence processing O Information fusion O Other aspects & applications relating to imaging science SCOPE OF IC-AI'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l 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 & Techniques O. Distributed AI Systems & 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 & Programming Techniques for AI O. Software Tools for AI O. Natural Language Processing O. Neural Networks & Applications O. Multisource Information Fusion: Theory & Applications O. Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion O. Learning & Adaptive Sensor Fusion O. Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural & Fuzzy Techniques O. Integration of AI with other Technologies O. Evaluation of AI Tools O. Social Impact of AI O. Applications: Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Military, Surveillance, Robotics, Medicine, Pattern Recognition, Face Recognition, Finger Print Recognition, Finance & Marketing, Stock Market, Education, Emerging Applications SCOPE OF IC'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Internet Computing) O Internet Security O Internet Applications & Appliances O Performance Evaluation of the Internet O Resource Management & Location O Design & Analysis of Internet Protocols O Web based computing O Network Management O Network Architectures O Network Computing O Network Operating Systems O Quality of Service O Wide Area Consistency O Electronic Commerce O The WWW & Intranets O Metacomputing O Grid based Computing & Tools O Languages for Distributed Programming O Cooperative Applications O Tele-Medical & 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 & Coordination O Other aspects & applications relating to internet-based computing SCOPE OF ESA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications) O Object Oriented Technologies for Embedded Systems O Assemblers & Cross Assemblers O Bluetooth & Embedded Systems O Languages for Embedded Systems O Memory Management Issues in Embedded Systems O Communication Tools O System-on-a-Chip Technologies O Embedded Programming Issues O Designing for Low-Power Operations O Development Tools O Distributed Real-Time Systems O Embedded Processors O Next Generation of Handheld Devices O Embedded Programming Standards O Testing Techniques O Embedded Microcontrollers O Emulators & Simulators O Flash Memory Chips O Managing Embedded Projects O Embedded Engineering O Multitasking Design for Embedded Systems O Embedded Internet Tools O Optimization Issues O Power Management Circuits O Real-Time Kernels O Real-Time Operating Systems O Safety Critical Systems O Signal Processors O System Design Tools O Task Scheduling Techniques O Compilers O DSPs O Debuggers SCOPE OF ICWN'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Wireless Networks) O Mobile wireless QoS, radio resource management O Mobile wireless Internet, IPv6 O Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access networks O OFDM O W-CDMA, cdma2000, TD-SCDMA O MIMO, adaptive antenna O Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks O Wireless security O Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, wireless multimedia O Modeling, simulation, and measurement of wireless systems O Satellite-based systems O Broadcast networks O High altitude platform O GPS, location-based service O Mobile agents O Wireless & mobile applications O Multiple access O Routing, multicasting, ... O Resource management, wireless QoS O Mobile Internet O Transport-layer issues O Wireless security O Wireless network architectures O Mobile computing O Modeling, simulation, & measurement of wireless systems/networks O Ad hoc networks, sensor networks, ... O 4G, 3.5G, and 3G wireless systems O Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth O Wireless sensor networks O Coding & modulation O Multi-user detection O Power management & control, low-power protocols O OFDM O Wireless IP networks, interworking O Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation O WAP, mobile e-commerce O Location-based service, GPS O Distributed algorithms for wireless networks SCOPE OF MLMTA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications) O Artificial Neural Networks & Learning O Fuzzy Logic O Fusion & Learning O Information Retrieval & Data Mining O Inductive Learning & Applications O Knowledge Representation & Management O Knowledge Acquisition & Discovery Techniques O Machine Learning in Problem Solving O Statistical Methods in Learning O Evolutionary Algorithms O Bayesian-Based Methodologies O Reinforcement Learning Methods O Grammatical Inference O Learning Models O Multi-Agent Learning O Cognitive Modeling O Hybrid Techniques O Hierarchical Learning Models O Collaborative Filtering O Case-Based Reasoning O Semantic Indexing O Natural Language Processing O Machine Translation O Markov Decision Processes (including Semi-Markov DM) O ODE Methods & Machine Learning O Multi-Criteria Reinforcement Learning O Temporal Abstractions O Relational Learning Models O Feature Selection & Classification O Speedup Learning Techniques O Computational Needs of Learning Models O Learning by Examples O Formal Learning Methods O Graph-Based Learning O Theory Refinement Methodologies O Probabilistic Reasoning O Decision Trees O Learning Based on Adaptive Techniques O Learning Topological Maps O Verification Models O Mobile Robotics O Learning in Planning O Query Learning O Active Learning O Memory-Based Learning O Instance-Based Learning O Self-Adaptation Techniques O Requirements Models O Machine Learning & Software Engineering O Game Playing (Chess, ...) O Performance Analysis O Transformation-Based Learning O Simulated Annealing & Learning O Life-Long Learning O Q-Learning O Predictive Learning Models O Text Categorization & Classification O Machine Learning Applications (Medicine, Games, Biology, Industrial Applications, Robotics, Security & Terrorism Prevention, ...) SCOPE OF METMBS'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Mathematics & Engineering Techniques in Medicine & Biological Sciences) O Bioinformatics O Cheminformatics O Data mining in medicine & biological sciences O Pattern recognition in medicine & biological sciences O Signal processing in medicine & biological sciences O Image processing in medicine & biological sciences O Medical decision-making O Medical Physics O Biomedical Engineering O Biomedical Electronics O Biosignal interpretation O Any application of computers in Medicine & biological sciences (protein structure-function analysis, drug & protein design, molecular modeling & simulation, ...) O Application of information technology in biomedicine (e.g. medical database management, information retrieval & use of computers in hospitals) O Application of Computational Intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, & evolutionary computing) in medicine & biological sciences O Medical & bio-computing O High-performance computing as applied to natural & medical sciences O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...) O Recent history (last ten years) of Mathematics & engineering techniques in medicine & biological sciences, & what to expect during the next decade; New horizons. Review articles ... O Other aspects & applications relating to technological advancements in medicine & biological sciences SCOPE OF CIC'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Communications in Computing) O High Performance Applications (e.g. scientific, commercial, ...) O Distributed Systems & Advanced Applications (e.g. multimedia, cooperative systems) O Grid computing O Scalable & Interoperable Systems & Associated Standards O Software Systems (e.g. operating system support, middleware, ...) O Architecture (e.g. VLSI, SIMD, MIMD, vector, systolic, reconfigurable, ...) 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 & load balancing tools) O Photonics & Optical Computing O Performance Issues (e.g. benchmarks, performance measurement, evaluation & prediction) O Modeling & Simulation of High Performance Systems O Advanced Compilation Techniques (e.g. parallelizing compilers) O Programming Languages for Parallel & other High Performance Computing O Parallel/Distributed/Vector Algorithms O Reliability & Fault Tolerance O Embedded & Real Time Systems O Digital Signal Processing O Neural Computing, Genetic Algorithms O Issues in High Performance Computing (e.g. evolving paradigms, O Internet & web based processing, E-commerce, telecommunication network, cluster-based computing SCOPE OF ERSA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms) O Theory, Mapping & Parallelization: Theoretical models of computing in space-time & adaptive computing. Mapping algorithms into hardware & synthesis of regular arrays. Parallelization & (space-time) partitioning of algorithms. System architectures using configurable computing platform. Newly developed algorithms for efficient implementation on reconfigurable systems. O Software, CAD & Operating Systems: CAD, specification, partitioning & verification. Hardware compilation, hardware/software codesign, developing correct circuits. High & low-level languages & compilers, design environments. Operating systems & run-time reconfiguring. IP-based & object oriented models & mapping methods. O Adaptive Hardware Architectures: Adaptive & dynamically reconfigurable systems. Reconfigurable processor architectures. Complex systems using reconfigurable processors. Application-tailored reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip. Low power systems on reconfigurable platform. O Applications: Wireless communication systems. Multimedia & virtual reality. Automotive industry. Security systems. Classical image & signal processing. O Focus Sessions: High-level Synthesis of Reconfigurable Systems. Operating System for Reconfigurable Hardware. Java-based Environment for Reconfigurable Systems. Configurable Computing Architectures & Hardware. Configurable Systems-on-Chip. Emerging Devices for Reconfigurable Systems. Low Power Systems Using FPGAs. Reconfigurable Floating Point Processing. Software Defined Radio. Custom Computing Machines for Image Processing. SCOPE OF VLSI'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on VLSI) O Quantum Computing O Nanoelectronics O Molecular & Biological Computing O MEMS O Circuits & Systems O Novel Design & Methodologies O System-on-a-Chip: Design & 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 & Circuits O Emerging Trends O High-Performance Circuits O Reusable Architectures O Test & Verification O Synthesis O Mixed-Signal Design & Analysis O Electrical/Packaging Designs & Co-Designs O Applications (all applications will be considered) SCOPE OF IKE'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering) O Client-Server Architectures O Information & Knowledge Engineering O Mobile Agents O Web-Based Design & Development O Knowledge & Information Management Techniques O Data Mining Techniques O Database Engineering & Systems O Knowledge Delivery Methods O Data Security O Knowledge Life Cycle O Business Architectures O Formal & Visual Specification Languages O Software Tools & Support O Performance Evaluation Techniques O Knowledge-Based Systems O Clustering Techniques O Web Technology & Systems O Dataweb Models & Systems O Data Warehouses O Workflow Management O Knowledge & Information Extraction & Discovery Techniques O Service Recovery O Large-Scale Information Processing Methods O Data & Knowledge Processing O Database Engineering & Systems (Distributed, Video, ...) O Information Quality (Quality Metrics) O E-Libraries (Digital Libraries) O Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems O Agent-Based Techniques & Systems O Content Management O Information Reliability & Security O Hardware Architectures O Modeling & 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 Object-Oriented Modeling & Systems O Knowledge Classification Tools O Case-Based Reasoning O Bayesian Techniques O Managing Copyright Laws O Digital Watermarking O Data/Information/Knowledge Models O Digital Typography O Electronic Publishing O Data Fusion O Applications (Image Processing, OCR, Artistic Imaging, e-Commerce, Multimedia, Business, GIS, Banking, ...) SCOPE OF SERP'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice) O Software architectures O Object-Oriented technology O Measurement, metrics & 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 & parallel systems O Legal issues & standards O Configuration management (issues & tools) O Automated software specification O Automated software design & synthesis O Theoretic approaches (formal methods, graph, ...) O Domain modeling & meta-modeling O Evolution & maintenance O Knowledge acquisition O Reflection & 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 & 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 & environments SCOPE OF SAM'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Security and Management) O Security Protocols O Mobility Management O Security Algorithms O Location Management O QoS Management O Key Management Techniques O Security in E-commerce & M-commerce O Security Policies O Resource Management O Mobile Network Security O Channel Management O AAA O Encryption O Security in Mobile IPv4/IPv6 O VPN O Firewall O IDS (Intrusion Detection System) O Digital contents copyright protection techniques O Watermarking O Secure OS O Honeypot O Virus Issues (Detection, Prevention, ...) O Tracing Techniques in Internet O Active Networks O Security in CDN (Contents Distribution Networks) O Hacking Techniques & Related Issues O Security in GRID O Biological Security Technologies O Surveillance Technologies O High-Tech Systems at Airports O Face Recognition Systems O Signature Recognition Systems O Network Management O System Management O Network Security Management O Management in Network Equipments O SAN (Storage Area Networks) Management O GRID Middleware O GRID Applications O GRID Networks O Security for Protocol Management O Management Protocol (SNMP, CMIP, etc) SCOPE OF ICWS'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The The First International Conference on Web Services) O Web Services architecture O Web Services security O Frameworks for building Web Service applications O Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures O Web Services discovery O Resource management for web services O Solution Management for Web Services O Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services O Quality of service for Web Services O Web Services modeling O UDDI enhancements O SOAP enhancements O Case studies for Web Services O E-Commerce applications using Web Services O Grid based Web Services applications (e.g. OGSA) O Business process integration and management using Web Services O Multimedia applications using Web Services O Communication applications using Web Services O Interactive TV applications using Web Services

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Happy new year
by Koos Koen 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Dear all, Whishing you a happy Christmas and may you all have a great 2003. Hope to see you again next year. Kind regards. Koos ========================================== Prof. Koos Koen Wits Business School University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. E-Mail: koen.k(a)wbs.wits.ac.za or koos(a)knowinter.com Tel: +27(0)824436430 Fax: +27(0)821314436430 http://wbs.mgmt.wits.ac.za ==========================================

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Merry Christmas , Happy New Year and some info from Slovakia
by Karol Fabian 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Dear friends, I wish You and Your families Merry Christmas and Happy New Year . I have enjoyed with You many nice meetings and events , which I will never forgett. Unfortunatelly I was not able to participate on some last meetings, than, when finaly I was able and on the road to TC6, Swissair collapsed, same as later also my travel budged for the next meetings. With these unhappy circumstances I have informed Slovak IFIP commitee and asked for replacement as I could not see that things are getting much better for the future. Until not decided, I stay as Slovak representative to TC6 and participate in IFIP and TC6 activities. Best regards/S pozdravom Karol Fabian ____________ IBM Slovakia Banska Bystrica, Partizanska 3 Slovakia tel. : 421-48-4144901, 421-48-4141705, 421-48-4143173, 421-48-4115207, fax: 421-48-4141200, mob.: 421- 903 710181 e-mail : karol.fabian(a)sk.ibm.com

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call for partecipation
by Michela de Concini 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Dear all, I apologies if you receive multiple copies. To participate to the Workshop on Computational Methods in Systems Biology to be held in Rovereto - Italy next february, please check the URL http://www.unitn.it/convegni/cmsb.htm Please note that reservation of hotels and inscription at a reduced fare is only possible until the end of this year! The programme of the workshop and the list of accepted papers will be available by the end of the month. Recall that the deadline for hotel reservation for the review and CMSB meeting is 31st of december Best wishes, Michela de Concini Organizing Committee CMSB --

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