Dear TC6 members,
This is a follow up of action point AP 57/19 of the Zurich meeting:
"G.Leduc will investigate whether it will be possible to have a pointer
from Kevin's web site to the TC6 site, where our statistics can be kept".
Kevin Almeroth is quite open to this. See below.
Therefore, as a first step, I will send him information about WG6.1 conferences.
We'll have to decide if we set up a separate IFIP web page with statistics.
Best regards,
Guy
>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:05:01 -0800 (PST)
>From: almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu (Kevin C. Almeroth)
>To: leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
>Subject: Re: [itc] Preliminary List of Conferences
>
>Hello Guy! We've been on the same PCs a couple of times... I don't
>think we've met though.
>
>>>I'm the chairman of IFIP TC6/WG6.1 which sponsors or co-sponsors quite a
>>>number of conferences in the field of Networking, Middleware and Formal
>>>Methods applied to networked and distributed systems. For example: IWQoS,
>>>PfHSN, Middleware, DAIS, TestCom, FORTE/PSTV, FMOODS. Other WGs of IFIP TC6
>>>(on Communications Systems) also sponsor many other conferences.
>>>
>>>Would you agree to add data on your web page about these conferences ?
>
>Absolutely.
>
>>>I can provide the statistics in the form you want.
>
>That would be great.
>
>>>An alternative would be to add a link to an IFIP web page where those
>>>statistics will be maintained. Actually both solutions are not mutually
>>>exclusive. For example, the IFIP page could contain extra information, or
>>>else some IFIP conferences would not be part of your page because their
>>>scopes are not close enough to what you're looking for.
>
>I think doing both would be helpful, i.e. I'll list whatever you send
>and I can put a pointer to the IFIP pages.
>
>-Kevin
________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Universite de Liege Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Reseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/users/leduc.html
Dear TC6 members,
Here is my contribution to action point AP 57/4 of the Zurich meeting: "A
report on the use of software packages for paper reviewing was asked to
A.Iyengar, V.Tschammer, G.Leduc, R.Boutaba and A.Danthine".
TC6 recommends two tools:
- Confman http://confman.unik.no/~confman/whats_new.html
- CyberChair http://www.cyberchair.org/requestUse.html
Both seem quite adequate. Here are some more detailed comments.
It is a mixture of my personal viewpoint and some views I collected other
WG members. It is by no means a fully objective assessment. Therefore, I
would be a bit reluctant to put something like this on the IFIP web page
for instance. If we intend to do it, we need to find a larger consensus on
that.
Best regards,
Guy
Confman
-------
The ConfMan tool is good. It allows PC members to state their areas of
expertise, to fill out the review form, to read other reviewers comments
anonymously, to sort the papers according to several criteria, to vote for
papers and discuss them.
The nice thing with ConfMan is that you can evaluate the tool by accessing
their web pages, even before any actualisation.
Confman provides a convenient support for the PC discussion and ballot. PC
members can read the abstract, all reviews and if they want they can print
out the paper.
Each PC member can comment each paper and the reviews. These comments
become immediately visible to other PC members. There is one important
EXCEPTION: PC members cannot follow the discussion of their own papers.
They also do not see their places in the paper ranking.
An important feature is the ballot. Usually there are two ballots:
a preliminary ballot for reducing the number of papers to discuss and the
final ballot. Each PC member can vote to accept, reject the paper or
abstain.
There are different lists offered to get an overview of the papers and the
state of the ballot. (Of course, access is only by personal
authentification). Furthermore it is possible to rank the papers according
to the conference chair decisions (overall or weighted marks).
Confman provides a manual for newcomers, but the system is simple to use.
BUT
PC members cannot bid for reviewing papers though ConfMan can be extended
(and has been) with some facilities (such as the paper selection table for
reviewers).
Other tools (e.g. Cyberchair) have more flexible functionality in this
respect: potential reviewers are allowed to express strong, weak
preferences, and exclusions. The program then allocates papers with a
'clever' algorithm.
Also, if the tool is badly configured, PC members can read comments on
their own submitted papers during the selection process. This has happened
several times.
Cyberchair
----------
Cyberchair is comparable to ConfMan in that it allows PC members to state
their areas of expertise, to fill out the review form, to read other
reviewers comments, and to discuss them.
An interesting point regarding Cyberchair is that it provides a more
sophisticated algorithm to show up relations/contradictions between reviews
compared to Confman. Colors are used to identified different categories of
conflicts between reviewers.
An enhanced version of Cyberchair is also available at the official site at
the University of Twente. This version, which mainly comprises a new chat
feature. Using this feature the system manages a chat web page for each
paper, containing all comments provided for that paper and allowing PC
members to provide their comments, either anonymously or openly. This chat
feature is also endowed with a notification service: the reviewers of a
paper are immediatly notified by an e-mail containing the new comment. It
is worth noting that with this feature we experienced a better involvement
of the PC in the discussion phase.
BUT
Cyberchair does not preserve the anonymity of the reviewers completely. A
PC member can see the names of the reviewers for all papers, during the
discussion. Perhaps this can be hidden, but I'm not sure.
There is no voting scheme.
________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Universite de Liege Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Reseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/users/leduc.html
Dear friends,
In my previous message I said that the decission about the number of
tutorials for the next year was yet taken. However, strictly speaking,
they are just planned because it is still pending the decission of the
TC6 that we will take once our chairman have finished the negotiation
with the DCSC about the source of funding.
However, in order to advance the work, it will be useful for me to know
your disponibility for giving the tutorials in the proposed dates. Thank
you in advance for help.
Best regards
Ramon
==========================================================================
Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears
Phone: +34-971173288 Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i
Informatica
+34-971173401 Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5
Fax: +34-971173003 07071 PALMA
e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es Spain
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Dear friends,
Next year it has been aproved that TC6 will fund the travels for giving
tutorials at the following conferences in Sout America:
- August 19-23, Montevideo (Uruguay). CLEI conference. 2 tutorials
- September 7-8, Santa Fe (Argentina). Latin America Conference on
Networking organised by the TC6 in cooperation with SADIO (Argentinian
member of IFIP). 3 tutorials.
Those of you interested in giving a tutorial in any one of this two
activities, please, let me know by sending an outline of the tutorial,
its objectives and a brief CV of the tutorialist.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Best regards
Ramon
==========================================================================
Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears
Phone: +34-971173288 Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i
Informatica
+34-971173401 Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5
Fax: +34-971173003 07071 PALMA
e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es Spain
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TC6 members,
The following note was sent last week to the members of the program
committee for the TC6 stream at WCC 2002. Augusto pointed out that
three members of the PC were not included in the distribution list
(an error on my part), and suggested that all of the TC6 members
would be interested in this information.
- Lyman
TC6 PC members,
I understand from Augusto that there is still some uncertainty about
what is required for the TC6 stream at WCC'02, so I have collected
the essential information into this one note for easy reference.
Please let me know if I have overlooked something - thanks.
- Lyman
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1. The deadline for submission of papers (in our case, the deadline
for submission of "state of the art" presentation proposals) is
December 3, 2001. Our program committee (which consists of the TC6
chair, the chairs of each of our WGs and TG, Lorne Mason, and me)
must select a program of between 12 and 14 90-minute sessions by
February 23, 2002.
2. I don't expect to receive useful "state of the art" presentation
proposals through the general Call for Papers, although we may see a
few. Thus, it is very important for each of you to actively recruit
someone who is qualified to give a comprehensive "state of the art"
survey of the area covered by your WG. We have identified a few of
these, but we still have a long way to go before we have a complete
program.
3. Speakers are not required to submit papers. Each session should
produce a publishable record that captures the state of the art in
that area, which could be either a paper or a set of slides (with or
without accompanying notes). Comments from the PC members on the
specific requirements for the publishable record would be welcome! I
have asked Gordon Davies, the overall editor for the WCC'02 series of
Kluwer volumes (one for each stream, including the TC6 stream), if he
thinks there is any problem with including a variety of materials
other than traditional technical papers in the TC6 book.
4. The program for WCC'02 as a whole will have 12-14 presentation
sessions, each 90 minutes long, distributed over 4 days. Although the
conference organizers do not expect to fill every slot with 10
parallel sessions (one from each stream), in principle we (TC6) have
12-14 available slots in the 4-day agenda. As TC6 has 9 WGs and 1 TG,
even if every WG/TG chairman is able to recruit a good "state of the
art" presenter we will have 2-4 extra slots available. One of our
tasks as a program committee for the TC6 stream will be to allocate
our slots; we start with the assumption that each WG/TG has one, but
there may be one or more WG/TG chairmen who do not propose a speaker.
5. In most cases (maybe all), each 90-minute slot will be filled by
one state-of-the-art presentation. Depending on the area being
covered, I can imagine dividing that presentation into two or more
parts (sub-topics of the main topic), and I can also imagine having
more than one speaker in a single 90-minute session. We should
configure each session to best cover each area; there is no fixed or
mandated structure for the sessions.
6. Whether or not a paper is submitted, I expect the TC6 program
committee to review all of the proposals for presentations in our
stream, whether solicited by us or contributed to the general CfP.
This is essential not only to ensure that the quality of the program
is high, but also to ensure that the TC6 stream is balanced and
complete as a whole.
7. The main criterion for speakers is that they be able to present an
authoritative summary and assessment of the state of the art in a
particular area. This is an opportunity to present the most important
new ideas in each of our technical areas to the large and diverse
audience of the WCC, and also an opportunity to promote TC6. Getting
well-respected, prominent speakers would help with both the
"authoritative" aspect of the presentation and the "promote TC6"
opportunity, but I don't expect to fill the stream with a dozen
"famous people." An example of the basic idea for the stream is the
series of annual State of the Art special issues that
Telecommunications Magazine has produced since the mid-1990s (see for
example
http://www.telecoms-mag.com/marketing/articles/jan95/toc.html) - they
recruit well-known people in six or eight areas to write short
articles describing the most important/interesting/significant
developments over the past year. These pieces are much more
superficial than we expect for the TC6 stream at WCC, but they
illustrate the basic idea.
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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(a)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(a)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(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
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(a)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.)
Call for Participation
IEEE International Conference on Wireless LANs and Home Networks
5 - 7 December 2001, Singapore.
Conference web page: www.icwlhn.org
You are invited to participate in the IEEE International Conference on
Wireless LANs and Home Networks. Attendees can look forward to a
jam-packed, high-quality technical program loaded with information on
the latest technology innovations. The morning technical sessions will
feature keynote, plenary, and technology speakers who will cover
in-depth tutorials on the future directions of mobile wireless networks.
The afternoon sessions are dedicated to state-of-art research and
development.
Conference Highlights:
- Keynote speech from Dr. Leonard Kleinrock (Inventor of Internet
Technology)
- Plenary speech from Dr. Bob Heile (Chairman, IEEE 802.15 Wireless PAN
Working Group)
- Mobile Internet Office Plenary Session from Cisco Systems
- Technology speakers from Intermec, Network Associates, 3Com, Agere
Systems, Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel, ReefEdge, Atheros and more
- 32 quality paper presentations carefully selected from over 100
submissions
In addition to the conference proceedings, a specially edited book
titled Wireless LANs: The New Wireless Revolution is published by John
Wiley in conjunction with the conference.
Technical Co-sponsors: IEEE and IEEE Communications Society
Sponsors: Cisco Systems (Platinum), Singapore Information Technology
Federation (Gold), Intermec Technologies (Silver), Network Associates
(Silver) and 8 supporting sponsors.