First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE) 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.infoscale.org/ PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this diversifying world of information. Conference Scope: Parallel Information Retrieval Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval Scalable Grid Information Systems P2P Systems Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems Index Compression Methods Architectures for Scalability Networking for Scalable Information Systems Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology, military, etc.) Evaluation Metrics for Scalability VLDB Data Mining Information Security Important Deadlines (tentative): Paper submission: 1 Oct 2005 Notification: 31 Dec 2005 Final version: 15 Feb 2006 Publications: Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published in journal special issues. General Chair Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong PC Chairs Abdur Chowdhury, AOL Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facilities Steering Committee Chairs Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair Publicity Chairs Jinli Cao, La Trobe University Local Arrangement Chair Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Program Committee Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, Wales David Al-Dabass, University of Nottingham Trent, UK Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, France Andrei Broder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel Jose Manuel Garcia Carrasco, University of Murcia, Spain Scott Cost, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Arjen de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen, Cairo University, Egypt Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Siegmar Gross, University of Applied Sciences, Germany David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA David Hawking, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany Otthein Herzog, University of Bremen, Germany Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada George Ioannidis, University of Bremen, Germany Narayana Jayaram, London Metropolitan University, UK Guojun Jin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA Stefan Kirn, University of Hohenheim, Germany Aleksander Kolcz, AOL, USA Peter Komisarczuk, University of Wellington, New Zealand Axel Korthaus, University of Mannheim, Germany Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London, UK Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P. R. China Tao Li, University of Rochester, USA Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy Lingkui Meng, Wuhan University, P. R. China Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland, USA Greg Pass, AOL, USA Yale Patt, University of Texas, USA Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary University London, UK Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and information Systems Institute, Germany Ingo Timm, University of Bremen, Germany Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University London, UK Pavel Tvrdik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Herman Vandermulen, AOL, USA Zhichen Xu, Yahoo, USA Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jim Yip, University of Huddersfield, UK Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Zhu Zhang, University of Michigan, USA