C A L L F O R P A P E R S (12 International 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 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 24-27, 2002 (Paper Submission Deadline: Feb. 22, 2002 Session Proposal Deadline: ASAP) Dear Colleagues: I would be most grateful if you would distribute this announcement for the 2002 International MultiConference in Computer Science to your colleagues who might be interested. This will be a major international gathering in year 2002. It is anticipated that this international event will attract about 2,000 participants. This MultiConference is composed of twelve (planned and more will likely be added) international conferences that will be held simultaneously (same dates and location). Attendees will have full access to all twelve conferences. 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 CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. (contact hra@cs.uga.edu if you would like to propose international workshops to be held simultaneously with the above conferences.) The twelve conferences are: (a link to each conference's URL is or soon will be available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) 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) Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines. You are encouraged to refer to individual conference URLs for specifics (for example, some conference's deadlines, number of pages to be submitted, ..., might slightly be different from what is being stated in this announcement. In any event, if you are not sure where to send your submissions, send it to MultiConference Chair whose address appears below. CHAIR, THE 2002 INTERNATIONAL MULTICONFERENCES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (12 conferences): H. R. Arabnia 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@cs.uga.edu 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 will then 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 conference. The conference 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), ...) LOCATION OF CONFERENCE: The conference 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 conference. Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors of the conference. 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 12 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 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@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 OTHER INFORMATION: It is planned to add other related conferences, symposiums, and workshops to be held simultaneously (same location and dates) for the 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science. Each new conference will have it's own proceedings and technical/research sessions. Contact H. R. Arabnia (hra@cs.uga.edu) if you are interested in organizing a conference, symposium, or a workshop. (The 2001 International Multiconference in Computer Science attracted over 1,400 participants from over 52 countries.) Refer to http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/ for up-to-date information (currently under construction; will be available soon.)