Call for Participation

First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE) 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/

The final program can be found from: http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/techprog.html

Two workshops in conjunction with INFOSCALE 2006: 1. International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management (P2PIM06): http://p2p-im.org/ 2. Infoscale Work in Progress Workshop (I-WIPW): http://www.i-wipw.org/

For the main conference, there will be 14 sessions spanning 2.5 days (May 30 - June 1) and featuring 45 presentations. In the afternoon of June 1, participants are invited to join a guided local tour of the city free of charge.

=============== INFOSCALE 2006 First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/

As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this diversifying world of information.

Conference Scope ===============

* Parallel Information Retrieval * Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval * Scalable Grid Information Systems * P2P Systems * Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems * Index Compression Methods * Architectures for Scalability * Networking for Scalable Information Systems * Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology, military, etc.) * Evaluation Metrics for Scalability * VLDB * Data Mining * Information Security

Publications

Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. Selected papers will be published in The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications (http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/).

General Chair Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong (jia@cs.cityu.edu.hk)

PC Chairs Abdur Chowdhury, AOL (cabdur@aol.com) Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong (fcmlau@cs.hku.hk) Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facilities (f.wang@cranfield.ac.uk)

Steering Committee Chairs Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair

Publicity Chair Jinli Cao, La Trobe University

Publications Chair Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong

Workshops Chair Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair Hao Zhu, Vice Chair

Local Arrangement Chair Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong