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PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + IC + METMBS + ERSA + ISE + CIC Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 25-28, 2001 (Submission Deadline: March 1, 2001)

Dear Colleagues:

I would be most grateful if you would distribute this announcement for the 2001 International MultiConference to your colleagues who might be interested. This will be a major international gathering in year 2001. It is anticipated that this international event will attract about 1500 participants. This MultiConference is composed of eight planned international conferences that will be held simultaneously (same dates and location). Attendees will have full access to all eight conferences. You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings.

The eight conferences are: (a link to each conference's URL is available from http://www.ashland.edu/%7Eiajwa/conferences)

1. The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

2. The 2001 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

3. The 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

4. International Conference on Internet Computing 2001 (IC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

5. The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

6. The First International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'01: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

7. The 2001 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

8. The 2001 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines.

MULTICONFERENCES CONTACT (all eight conferences): (who then may forward inquiries to respective chairs of conferences)

Hamid R. Arabnia General Chair, 2001 International MultiConferences 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

SCOPE OF PDPTA'2001: (The 2001 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 Web-based simulation and computing. O Education: parallel and distributed processing in computer science curriculum (both graduate and undergraduate levels.) O Distributed Software Architectures O Network Management Applications O Recent history (1990-2000) of parallel/distributed processing and what to expect during the next decade (2000-2010) if history repeats itself; New horizons. O Other aspects and applications relating to high-performance computations.

SCOPE OF CISST'2001: (The 2001 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 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'2001: (The 2001 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. Machine Learning 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'2001: (International Conference on Internet Computing 2001)

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 Social implications/Web history O Alternative Web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ... O Caching Algorithms for 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 Advanced Software Tools and Techniques for Internet Applications O Architectures for Monitoring & Management of Internet Applications O Other aspects & applications relating to internet-based computing

SCOPE OF METMBS'2001: (The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences)

O. Bioinformatics: This includes informatics techniques in genomics gene sequencing, gene pattern discovery, gene pattern-function studies, and other genomics related studies. 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, etc.) O. Image processing in medicine and biological sciences (e.g. biomedical image processing, biomedical imaging, etc.) 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, etc.) 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, etc.) O. Recent history (1990-2000) of Mathematics and engineering techniques in medicine and biological sciences, and what to expect during the next decade (2000-2009); New horizons. (Review articles.) O. Other aspects and applications relating to technological advancements in medicine and biological sciences.

SCOPE OF ERSA'2001: (The First International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms) http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/ERA/ersa.html

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, logical specification and verification, developing correct circuits, the impact of reconfigurable hardware architectures onto algorithm parallelization, biologically inspired methods, ... 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 ISE'2001: (The 2001 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering)

O. Information Systems Architectures Track: Hardware and software architectures for information systems; Component- and agent-based designs; Object-oriented designs; Information systems metrics, testing, reuse, and integration; Collaborative architectures; Decision support systems; Information discovery architectures; Autonomous information systems; Frameworks for information technologies; High performance networks/clusters for information infrastructures; mobile and wireless information systems; Middleware architectures and techniques (CORBA, JAVA/RMI, DCOM, etc); Architectures for interoperability; ... O. Information Systems Algorithms Track: Learning and intelligence algorithms for information systems; Knowledge representation and discovery algorithms; Multi-agent algorithms; Information coordination and collaboration algorithms; Algorithms for real-time, noisy and adversarial distributed information environments; Predictive techniques; Reasoning, search, warehousing, and mining; Data pre- and post-processing; Information exchange and fusion; Web query processing and optimization; Information network protocols, switching, and routing; Performance modeling, analysis, and evaluation of information systems; Reliability, fault tolerance, security and authentication; Information systems profiling and monitoring; Out-of-core computing; Interoperability of heterogeneous and geographic information systems; ... O. Information Systems Applications Track: Multimedia in information systems; Electronic and mobile commerce and business; Transaction management; Content delivery services; Telemetry services; Technologies for distributed applications; Web-based information systems and applications; Interoperability applications; Service level management; Integrated environments and applications; Quality of services; Integration of legacy applications with new technologies; Federated heterogeneous databases; ISE education; ...

SCOPE OF CIC'2001: (The 2001 International Conference on Communications in Computing)

O. High Performance Applications O. Distributed Systems and Advanced Applications O. Scalable and Interoperable Systems and Associated Standards O. Software Systems O. Architectures O. Interconnection networks O. ATM based networks O. Communications O. Visualization O. Photonics and Optical Computing O. Performance Issues O. Modeling and Simulation of High Performance Systems O. Advanced Compilation Techniques 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 and their applications O. Issues in High Performance Computing O. Internet technology, Web based processing, E-commerce, telecommunication network, cluster-based computing O. Computing grid technologies and applications

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages long) to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below) by the due date. E-mail and Fax submissions are also acceptable. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 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. Also state the name of the conference you would like your paper to be considered for.

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 appropriate 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 (address is given below); E-mail submissions are preferred.

Contact H. R. Arabnia, if you would like to organize international workshops.

EVALUATION PROCESS:

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. (ie, all submissions are peer-reviewed.)

PUBLICATION:

The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available at the conferences site. Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conferences). (In addition to the hardcopy, it is also planned to publish the papers on a CD.)

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 conferences. The conferences will be 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 Digitial Signal Processing Inc., the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech., ...)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free shuttles 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 conferences. We have reserved 20+ exhibit spaces. Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors of the conferences.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 1, 2001 (Thursday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due April 2, 2001 (Monday): Notification of acceptance May 1, 2001 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 25 - 28, 2001: PDPTA'2001 + CISST'2001 + IC-AI'2001 + IC'2001 + METMBS'2001 + ERSA'2001 + ISE'2001 + CIC'2001 Conferences

Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference.

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, a short biography together with research interests.

GENERAL CHAIR, THE 2001 MULTICONFERENCE:

Hamid 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 E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu

(a link to each conferences' URL is available from http://www.ashland.edu/%7Eiajwa/conferences)