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Brief report on tools for paper reviewing and selection
by Guy Leduc 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

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

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tutorials
by Ramon Puigjaner 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

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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tutorials
by Ramon Puigjaner 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

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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[Fwd: [WWW2002-ANNOUNCE:3] CFP deadlines on Nov. 13, 2001]
by Augusto Casaca 12 Nov '01

12 Nov '01

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WCC'02 TC6 program
by Lyman Chapin 09 Nov '01

09 Nov '01

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 ============================================================================= 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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[Fwd: News from IFIPland]
by Augusto Casaca 09 Nov '01

09 Nov '01

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[Fwd: New IFIP TC6/TC8/TC11 book]
by Augusto Casaca 09 Nov '01

09 Nov '01

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Call For Papers: 2002 Int'l Conferences; Las Vegas, June 2002: PDPTA /CISST/IC-AI/IC/METMBS/CIC/ERSA/VLSI/IKE/CMSRA/ICMLA/ICWN
by hra＠cs.uga.edu 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

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.)

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CFP: Conference on Wireless LANs and Home Networks
by Benny Bing 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

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.

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[Fwd: IFIP Press Release -- IFIP & UNESCO]
by Augusto Casaca 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

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