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ISPA-08 Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
by Conference Account 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA-08) December 10-12, 2008 Sydney, AUSTRALIA http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~ispa2008/ Introduction ==================== Following the traditions of previous successful ISPA conferences, ISPA-03 (held in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan), ISPA-04 (held in Hong Kong), ISPA-05 (held in Nanjing, China), ISPA-06 (held in Sorrento, Italy) and ISPA-07 (held in Niagara Falls, Canada), the objective of ISPA-08 is to provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, research results, and applications about all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and networking. It will feature session presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. ISPA-08 is sponsored by IEEE CS Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and IEEE Computer Society. Scope and Interests ==================== The Conference invites papers on all aspects of Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, and their applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Computer networks Network routing and communication algorithms Parallel/distributed system architectures Tools and environments for software development Parallel/distributed algorithms Distributed systems and applications Wireless networks, mobile and pervasive computing Reliability, fault-tolerance, and security Performance evaluation and measurements Grid and cluster computing Internet computing and Web services Database applications and data mining High-performance scientific and engineering computing Submission Information ==================== The conference and workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press to be indexed by EI. Papers not exceed 15 pages with free layout style should be submitted through: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa08 Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference. Otherwise papers will be removed from the IEEE CS digital library. Workshop Proposals ==================== In conjunction with the ISPA-08 conference, several workshops will be held. If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal including call for paper, organizing committee, important dates, contact person, short bio of the organizers to the ISPA-08 workshop chairs: Dr. Hai Jiang (hjiang(a)cs.astate.edu) and Dr. Tao Li (taoli(a)ece.ufl.edu) before February 28, 2008. The detailed guideline can be found at: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~ispa2008/workshops.html Proceedings of the ISPA-08 workshops will be published by IEEE CS Press. The workshops with more than 15 papers will be granted with a free complimentary registration for the leading workshop organizer. Important Dates ==================== Workshop proposals due: March 01, 2008 Paper submission due: June 01, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera-ready paper due: September 15, 2008 Registration due: September 15, 2008 Organizing and Program Committees ==================== Steering Chairs Minyi Guo, University of Aizu, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Chairs Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, USA Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK Program Vice-Chairs Algorithms and Applications Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide, Australia Architectures Keith Underwood, Intel, USA Middleware Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan Networks and Communications Hong Ong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Performance and Simulation Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick, UK Security Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow, UK Workshop Chairs Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Tao Li, University of Florida, USA Publicity Chairs Naixue Xiong, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Yide Zhang*, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China Chaoguang Men, Harbin Engineering University, China Kwo-Chan Huang*, National Taichung University, Taiwan * To be confirmed Local Chair Bing Bing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia Special Issues ==================== A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Supercomputing and International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), respectively. Conference Contact ==================== Bing Bing Zhou: b.zhou(a)usyd.edu.au Daniel S. Katz: d.katz(a)ieee.org -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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【再送】情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」
by Kazutoshi SUMIYA 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様：情報処理学会DBS研主査の角谷でございます．以前にご案内いたしました，情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」の推薦締切りが今週末18日(金)17:00となっております．よろしくお願い申し上げます． ----------------------- Original Message ----------------------- From: Kazutoshi SUMIYA <sumiya(a)shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp> To: dbjapan(a)gms.dbsj.org Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:58:11 +0900 Subject: [dbjapan] 情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」 ---- 日本データベース学会の皆様：以下のような情報処理学会誌の特集が予定されております．該当する博士論文がございましたら，是非ともご推薦いただきますようお願い致します．なお，DBS研運営委員会で検討し，ご推薦いただいた中から１〜３件程度を研究会推薦として学会へ報告する予定です．よろしくお願い申し上げます． --------------------------------------------------------------- 兵庫県立大学環境人間学部環境人間学科社会システム環境学大講座環境情報コース(情報メディア研究室) 角谷和俊〒670-0092 姫路市新在家本町 1-1-12 A棟305号室 URL: http://www.shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp/sumiya/sumiya.html Tel/Fax: 079-292-9339 E-mail: sumiy(at)shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」企画　博士論文は、新しい理論を開拓し優れた実現法を与えることにより情報処理研究の発展に大きく寄与しています。このような博士論文の研究成果を、専門家だけではなく情報処理学会誌の読者にいち早く紹介することは大きな意義があります。学会全体で学位取得者を歓迎する雰囲気を作ることで、新博士に学会への親近感を持たせ今後の研究会等での活躍を期待できます。また、会員企業にとっては人材調査、新博士にとっては就職等の機会にもなると思われます。さらに、若い学生会員に対してもよい刺激を与えることになります。　情報処理学会誌では、各研究分野をカバーする約40研究会の主査の推薦により、その年度に新規に授与された優れた博士論文を情報処理学会誌の「研究会推薦博士論文速報」特集を通して読者に紹介する企画がスタートしました。研究会主査推薦の制度により、情報処理の各分野から優れた論文を定期的に読者に紹介することが可能になり、研究会の特徴と活性を主張することもできます。また、研究会推薦の博士論文の研究内容を紹介することで、各研究分野の最新研究動向を読者に知らせることができ、次年度以降に博士取得を志望する研究者の目標設定を容易にするなどの効果が期待されます。 ■ 対象 2006年4月-2007年3月までの博士論文 ■ 各博士論文に関する掲載形式と内容（予定）博士論文1件あたり学会誌の1／2ページ程度とし、次の内容を含む。・著者情報氏名、学位論文タイトル、取得年月、学位種別、大学、掲載時の所属、会員・非会員の別・内容の要約（一般向けにわかりやすく書く。読者の理解を助ける為のポンチ絵があることが望ましい。）・研究背景 - 対象問題 - 学術的な貢献または応用・推薦研究会（一言、簡単なコメント） (第一回目として2008年7月号の特集として掲載する予定) ■ 締め切り 2008年1月18日(金) 17:00 ■ 宛先 DBS研幹事 dbs-kanji(a)shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp ----------------------------- 推薦フォーマット -------------------------- 被推薦博士論文：題目: 著者: 所属： (現)所属: e-mail: tel: 推薦理由： (1) 本研究会の研究を宣伝できる面白い論文として推薦する。 (2) 国際的に高く評価されている研究として推薦する。 (3) 斬新なアイデアで高く評価される論文として推薦する。 (4) 大きな将来性を持つ研究として推薦する。 (5) 大きな実用性を持つ論文として推薦する。 (6) 新人賞として表彰できる研究として推薦する。 (7) その他（　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　）推薦文（一言、100文字以内）：推薦者：所属: 氏名: e-mail: tel: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 以上 --------------------- Original Message Ends --------------------

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[FYI] 2008 年 1 月勉強会「 Linux でデータベースを使ってみよう！」
by KIMURA, Meiji 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様木村明治＠Firebird日本ユーザー会です。首記の件、日本UNIXユーザー会(http://www.jus.or.jp/)の主催で、木村が講師を担当し、下記のように行われます。日時:2008年1月31日(木曜) 18:30〜20:30 (受付開始 18:10) 会場:東京体育館第一会議室内容: データベースの概略を紹介して、実際にLinuxで使えるデータベースとして、オープンソースデータベース御三家(Firebird, MySQL, PostgreSQL) のひとつFirebirdについてご紹介します。詳細URL: http://www.jus.or.jp/benkyokai/08-01.html 通常、非会員での参加となりますが、今回に限り、Firebird日本ユーザー会及び、日本データベース学会の方は「協力団体会員」扱いで参加できますので、上記の詳細URLを参照のうえ、興味がある方は是非ご参加ください。ご参考まで。 -- キムラデービー代表　木村明治(KIMURA, Meiji) http://kimuradb.com [News]「オープンソースDBの成熟度を計る[前編]」がWebで読めます。 http://opentechpress.jp/enterprise/article.pl?sid=07/09/20/023210

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Pervasive08 Call for Demo and Video
by Zhiwen Yu 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Pervasive'08 Sydney, May 2008 Call for Demonstrations and Call for Videos Submission deadline: 1 March 2008 Call for Pervasive 2008 Demonstrations ====================================== Research Demonstrators offer a unique opportunity to showcase research prototypes, and to discuss them with an international audience of experts in pervasive computing. To promote this, Pervasive 2008 is seeking interesting and engaging demonstrations of pervasive computing technologies. Proposers are invited to submit Research Demonstrations under the general topics of the conference. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * New technologies and devices for pervasive computing * New applications of pervasive computing technologies * New interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * New models, tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing applications * Evaluations and evaluation methods, for assessing the impact of pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of pervasive computing We encourage combining a research demonstration with a short paper that describes the contribution and as an anchor point for future reference. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, up to 4 pages in length and conform to the OCG Format (http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/files/richtlinien_engl_07_04.rtf) All demonstration submissions should be sent to the demonstration chairs via e-mail (c.f. below) The authors should also provide a brief sketch of the planned demonstration on an additional page. Specific requirements concerning space, power, network, and security should be stated. It is planned that wireless internet access will be provided. Accepted contributions will be published in the adjunct proceedings of 2008 with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) series and online. The demonstrations will be introduced during a plenary session of the conference, and there will also be a reception dedicated to the presentation of posters and demonstrators. Important Dates: ---------------- March 1, 2008: Demonstations: Submission deadline March 15, 2008: Demonstrations: Acceptance notification Demonstrations Chairs: --------------------- Sebastien Ardon - NICTA, Australia. Email: <sebastien.ardon(at)nicta.com.au> Enrico Rukzio - Lancaster University, UK. Email: Enrico Rukzio <rukzio(at)comp.lancs.ac.uk> Call for Pervasive 2008 Videos =============================== Videos are an effective tool to showcase research results, to inspire other researchers, and to educate the general public about the latest developments in Pervasive Computing. With the category of Research Videos, Pervasive 2008 seeks research contributions, future visions, project descriptions, and concepts of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. The conference particularly values practical experience with design, deployment and use of pervasive systems and applications, and investigation of exciting and inspiring ideas and technologies. To be accepted, a video must be of an appropriate length for the content. It must contain no material subject to copyright (i.e., that the authors cannot grant Pervasive 2008 the right to redistribute freely), and must be easily comprehensible to English speakers. Finally, an accepted video must be standalone, i.e., the video itself (with audio soundtrack) must describe the work sufficiently, without requiring the viewer to read the abstract. Videos will be judged primarily on their communication of interesting research content (assuming appropriate technical quality). Each research video must be accompanied by a short paper describing the key research contribution. The paper should be written in a way that it can be understood by readers who have not or will not see the video. Accepted videos will be shown in a special video session at Pervasive 2008. We also plan to have video proceedings on CD-ROM. The accompanying short paper will be published in the adjunct proceedings of Pervasive 2008 which will be available in printed form as well as electronically on the conference web-site. Submission and Review Process Authors MUST submit a URL to the video and a PDF of the accompanying short paper. Videos need to be submited in mpeg (MPEG1/2) or AVI (MPEG-4) as PAL or NTSC (The final camera-ready version must be submitted as PAL). The accompaying paper must be no longer than 4 pages in OCG Format. Please send submissions to pervasive.2008.videos(a)gmail.com. Only submit a link to the video file, not the video. Important Dates: ---------------- March 1, 2008: Videos: Submission deadline March 15, 2008: Videos: Acceptance notification If authors have any queries regarding potential submissions, including copyright, please contact the co-chairs. Video Co-Chairs --------------- Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sydney, Australia Email: andrew(at)arch.usyd.edu.au Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Email: kortuem(at)comp.lancs.ac.uk --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen YU Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan TEL/FAX: (+81)075-753-7480 Email: yu(a)ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yu/ ---------------------------

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TIMERS Workshop Call for Papers
by Carl Lebsack 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

I apologize to anyone who receives multiple copies of this workshop announcement. Please distribute this Call for Papers to anyone who may be interested in participating. Please note the deadline of February 1st. A PDF version of the CFP is available on the website for anyone who wishes to print a copy for bulletin board display. Thank you for time. Sincerely, Carl Lebsack TIMERS CFP Workshop on Tools Infrastructures and Methodologies for the Evaluation of Research Systems (TIMERS-1) http://csl.ee.iastate.edu/~timers To be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software(ISPASS-2008), April 20, 2008 - Austin, Texas, USA Important Dates Paper submission: February 1, 2008 Author notification: February 29, 2008 Final version: March 14, 2008 This workshop focuses on bringing together researchers to exchange ideas on the measurement of system performance. A system is loosely defined as a group of interacting mechanisms to accomplish tasks. This may include conventional system areas including computer and networking systems but we also encourage submissions in other areas where performance analysis is tedious, complicated or ambiguous. We aim to assemble a program that covers a wide variety of techniques and perspectives in assessing and analyzing performance. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: o Software instrumentation o Static software profiling o Runtime software profiling o Hardware performance counters o Dynamic binary instrumentation o Leveraging hardware virtualization technology o Architecture analysis using benchmarks o Novel uses of available performance analysis tools o Measurement frameworks o Evaluating performance on heterogeneous platforms o Tuning applications to specific architectures o Evaluating effectiveness of compiler options o Methodologies for choosing tuning parameters o Evaluating performance with architecture emulators, and simulators o Development of benchmarks o Proposing and evaluating performance metrics o Measurement methodologies o Automating performance analysis o Performance of whole systems o Identifying performance bottlenecks o Comparisons of performance analysis approaches o Evaluation of accuracy and precision of measurement techniques One area we feel is lacking in the research community is venues to share ideas in the development and use of tools, frameworks and measurement methodologies used in research experiments for performance analysis. Specifically in systems areas, large frameworks are necessary to conduct research. We are looking for papers that share the how-to details of constructing these complicated infrastructures to help generate a public discussion on what available frameworks are lacking. We hope to provide researchers with common needs the initiative to collaborate on developing new tools for widespread use. Submissions We request papers to be submitted in PDF form using the IEEE standard two column format and not exceeding 8 pages in length. Papers will be reviewed by the committee for quality and relevance. Submissions should be made by attaching the PDF document to an email addressed to timers(a)iastate.edu which should include the following information for each author: o Name o Affiliation o Address o Telephone number o Email address The author in charge of correspondence should be specified. Organizer Carl Lebsack - Iowa State University Technical Program Committee o J. Morris Chang - Iowa State University o Chia-Tien Dan Lo - University of Texas at San Antonio o Robin Garner - Australian National University o Bashar Gharaibeh - Iowa State University o Edward Gehringer - North Carolina State University o Richard Hankins - Nokia o Matthew Hertz - Canisius College o Stephen Hines - Florida State University o Swamy Kandadai - IBM o Naveen Neelakantam - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign o Suresh Srinivas - Intel o Witawas Srisa-an - University of Nebraska at Lincoln o Mingqiu Sun - Intel o Dave Turner - Turner SuperComputing

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第１回　大阪大学・京都大学・神戸大学連携シンポジウム
by Shojiro NISHIO 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様冠省高度なソフトウェア技術者育成に関します以下のようなシンポジウムを開催しますのでご案内申し上げます。ご多用とは存じますが、お一人でも多くの方にご参加頂けますように何卒ご高配賜りたく、よろしくお願い申し上げます。西尾章治郎 8><================================================================ 第１回　大阪大学・京都大学・神戸大学連携シンポジウム　　　　　 −ソフトウェア技術者教育：期待と国際的な潮流− このたび、関西から世界に通用する人材を育成し、世界に向けて「知」を創出し、発信していくために、京都大学、大阪大学及び神戸大学の三大学が連携して、国際シンポジウムを開催することになりました。第１回目の本年度は大阪大学が幹事となり、「情報科学」分野を対象とし、特に高度なソフトウェア技術者育成に関するテーマを設定しました。インターネットやWeb技術の急速な発展は、システム開発技術に大きな変遷をもたらし、それらに対応できる技術者の育成は急務となりつつあります。世界的にも高度で先端的な技術をもつソフトウェア技術者は不足しており、各国では競ってその育成に力を注いでいます。本シンポジウムでは、国内外からソフトウェアに関する著名な研究者や実務家に集まっていただき、ソフトウェア技術者教育の現状やその課題について議論しますので、奮って御参加ください（参加費無料、同時通訳有）。申込は、Webページからお願いします（先着順約200名）。第１回　大阪大学・京都大学・神戸大学連携シンポジウム　　　　　　−ソフトウェア技術者教育：期待と国際的な潮流− http://www.3univ.jp/ 日時：平成20年2月27日（水）場所：大阪国際会議場12階特別会議室大阪市北区中之島5-3-51 主催：第１回三大学連携シンポジウム実行委員会委員長：鷲田　清一大阪大学総長副委員長：丸山　正樹京都大学理事・副学長西尾章治郎大阪大学理事・副学長太田　博史神戸大学理事・副学長問合せ先：三大学連携シンポジウム事務局 3univ(a)secretariat.ne.jp プログラム 10:00 オープニング ○「関西におけるソフトウェア技術者教育に対する期待」大竹　伸一西日本電信電話株式会社副社長・組込みソフト産業推進会議理事 ○「欧州におけるソフトウェア工学教育の現状」 Dieter Rombach Software Engineering Chair, University of Kaiserslautern Executive Director, The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering Director, ICT Group of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany 休憩 ○「米国のソフトウェア技術者教育の現状」 Paul Nielsen Director and CEO, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University ○「韓国でのソフトウェア技術者教育の現状 −情報通信大学ICUの例を中心に−」 Dan Hyung Lee Director of Software Technology Institute, Information and Communication University, Korea ○「インドのソフトウェア産業と人材育成の現状」 Gargi Keeni Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India 休憩 ○ パネル討論「日本におけるＩＴ教育の実践と今後の展開」司会　西尾章治郎大阪大学理事・副学長 * 文部科学省「先導的ITスペシャリスト育成推進プログラム」の紹介筑波大学グループ：北川博之　筑波大学教授東京大学グループ：竹内郁雄　東京大学教授慶應義塾大学グループ：山本喜一　慶應義塾大学教授名古屋大学グループ：野呂昌満　南山大学教授大阪大学グループ：井上克郎　大阪大学教授九州大学グループ：福田　晃　九州大学教授 * パネル上記6グループの講演者をパネリストとし、海外からの招待講演者を交えた討論を行う。 17:45 クロージング以上

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ISAS2008論文募集期限延期のご案内
by Takashi Nanya 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

皆様：メーリングリストをお借りして、来年5月19-21日に東京大学・駒場リサーチキャンパスで開催される「サービス・アベイラビリティ国際シンポジウム (ISAS2008)」の論文募集のご案内を再度させていただきます。論文投稿締め切りは、１月27日に延期されました。南谷　崇東京大学 .................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2008) Komaba Convention Hall, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan May 19-21, 2008 http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/ IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 27, 2008 Notification: Feb. 20, 2008 Sponsored by RCAST, University of Tokyo (http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/) Service Availability Forum (http://www.saforum.org) In Cooperation with IEICE TC on Dependable Computing GI TC on Dependability and Fault Tolerance Who should attend? What are the issues? The objective of this Symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different "service" related areas within both industry and academia. We specially encourage original papers addressing problems of service availability at all layers, including experience on: * Dependability in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA): What dependability requirements are imposed by users and law? How are these requirements addressed in the SOA ? * Dependability in heterogeneous integrated systems: what is the state of the art in dependable heterogeneous systems? Do we need new standards? * Development and design tools for dependability: how can we support the day to day design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of dependable systems? Can we automatically "create" dependable solutions? How can we integrate dependability properties in common development environments? * Certified dependability: How can we certify service-level agreements (SLA) and dependability properties in ongoing development work? Topics: All areas of service availability are solicited, including but not limited to: * Robust services and infrastructure design/modeling/evaluation * Dependability and security requirements, design and test ofservices and SLA's * Availability/reliability models for composable systems * Service development, analysis, testing - models, environments, tools * Dependable solutions based on Java * Availability standards for service implementation, certification, support * Service management - certification, rating, service agreements, support * Interfaces for service implementers - usability, security and availability * Modeling, measuring and implementing dependability and security of integrated information and communication services * Virtualization technologies and dependable services * User aspects of service availability - dependability, performance, security, privacy * Dependability tools integrated in Eclipse environment * Service discovery * Service improvement and enhancement * Highly available service system INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Manuscripts should be submitted (and clearly indicated) as either Regular Papers or Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original, unpublished work on current research and novel ideas. Practical Experience Reports should describe an experience or a case study. Submissions whose contributions are supported by experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. The title page should include the title of the paper, author name(s), affiliations, mailing address, e-mail address, a maximum of 150- word abstract, five keywords and the submission category. The format of submissions for review should be single-column, 11-point font size and double-spaced: Not more than 20 pages for Regular Papers and not more than 12 pages for Practical Experience Reports including figures, tables and references. Papers should be submitted electronically through the symposium web page. Accepted papers are planned to be published in the Symposium Proceedings in a Special Volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (please refer to the Authors Section "Information for LNCS Authors" at www.springer. com/lncs/ ). For further information, please visit our symposium web page: http:/ /www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac. jp/isas2008/ or contact M. Reitenspiess, the Steering Committee Chair of ISAS: Manfred. Reitenspiess@fujitsu- siemens.com . General Chair Takashi Nanya (U.Tokyo, Japan) Program Co-Chairs Andras Pataricza (Budapest U. Technology & Economics, Hungary) Fumihiro Maruyama (Fujitsu Lab., Japan) Finance Chair H. Nakamura (U.Tokyo, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair M. Imai (U.Tokyo, Japan) Registration Chair M. Kondo (U.Tokyo, Japan) Publicity Chair M. Reitenspiess (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Germany) Publication Chair M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany) Web Master H.Okamura (Hiroshima U., Japan) Steering Committee M. Reitenspiess (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Germany) S. Benlarbi (Alcatel, Canada) T. Dohi (Hiroshima U., Japan) M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany) D. Penkler (HP, France) F. Tam (Nokia, Finland) Program Committee A. Avritzer (Siemens, USA) D. Bakken (Washington S., USA) R. Baldoni (U. Roma, Italy) G. Chockler (IBM, Israel) C. Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany) F. Fraikin (SDM, Germany) R. Fricks (Motorola, USA) M. Funabashi (Hitachi, Japan) A. Gokhale (Vanderbilt, USA) K. Hidaka (IBM, Japan) M. Hiller (Volvo, Sweden) H. Ichikawa (UEC, Japan) K. Iwasaki (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan) Z. Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) T. Kikuno (Osaka Univ. Japan) A. Kovi (BME+OptXware, Hungary) S. Kuo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) V. Loll (Nokia, Denmark) M. R. Lyu (Chinese Univ., Hong Kong) V. Mendiratta (Lucent, USA) N. Milanovic (TU Berlin, Germany) A. Moorsel (U Newcastle, UK) A. Naseem (GoAhead, USA) A. Pasic (Atos Origin, Spain) H. Ramasamy (IBM Zurich, Switzerland) A. Romanovsky (U Newcastle, UK) S. Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan) P. Sinha (Philips India) H. Sun (Sun Microsystems, USA) N. Suri (TU Darmstadt, Germany) H. Szczerbicka (U Hannover, Germany) M. Toeroe (Ericsson, Canada) K. Trivedi (Duke U, USA) T. Katsuyama (Fujitsu Labs, Japan) K. Ueda (U. Tokyo, Japan) P. Urban (Google, Switzerland) S. Valcourt (U New Hampshire, USA) A. Wolski (Solid Tech., Finland) S. Yajnik (Avaya, USA) T. Yamanouchi (NEC, Japan) TBE For complete information on ISAS2008, please visit our website at <http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/> .....................................................................

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AToMS's presentation documents
by Motomu Naito 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様 (重複して受け取られた場合はご容赦ください) ナレッジ・シナジーの内藤と申します。お蔭様で、AToMS (Asian Topic Maps Summit) 2007 は、無事終了致しました。ありがとうございました。発表資料を以下のサイトでご覧いただけます。 http://www.knowledge-synergy.com/news/atoms2007-presentations-en.html ご参考にしていただければと思います。 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Motomu Naito <motom(a)green.ocn.ne.jp> CEO, Knowledge Synergy Inc. 3-747-4-203, Kusunokidai, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-0037 Japan http://www.knowledge-synergy.com/ phone: +81-4-2993-0519 cell phone: +81-90-4926-1306 Delegate to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 (Topic Maps WG) from Japan

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CFP of HPCC-08
by Keqiu Li 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

-------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08) Organized by Dalian University of Technology, China Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing Dalian, China, September 25-27, 2008 http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION HPCC-08 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), previously held as HPCC-07 (Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, Germany, September 2006), HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, December 2004), PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02 (Charlottesville, USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2001), HPNCA-00 (Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1999). The HPCC-08 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include but are not limited to the following: * Languages and compilers for high performance computing * Parallel and distributed system architectures * Parallel and distributed software technologies * Parallel and distributed algorithms * Embedded systems * Peer-to-peer computing * Grid and cluster computing * Web services and internet computing * Performance evaluation and measurement * Tools and environments for software development * Distributed systems and applications * High-performance scientific and engineering computing * Database applications and data mining * Biological/molecular computing * Collaborative and cooperative environments * Network protocols, routing, algorithms * Mobile computing and wireless communications * Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence * Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance * Trust, security and privacy IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal: February 28, 2008 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2008 Authors Notification: June 01 , 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 01, 2008 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the HPCC-08 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc08/ PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the several international issues such as Journal of Supercomputing, IJHPCN, IJCSE, IJCSSE and WWW. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL In conjunction with the HPCC-08 conference, several workshops will be held. If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal including call for paper, organizing committee, important dates, contact person, short bio of the organizers to the HPCC-08 workshop chairs before February 28, 2008. Proceedings of the HPCC-08 workshops will be published by IEEE CS Press. The workshops with more than 15 papers will be granted with a free complimentary registration and local accommodation for one leading workshop organizer. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITEEES Honorary Chairs Jinping Ou, Dalian University of Technology, China General Chairs Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Program Chairs Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK Mitsuhisa Sato,University of Tsukuba, Japan Hans P. Zima, California Institute of Technology, USA Program Vice Chairs Shi-Jinn Horng, National Taiwan University of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rajeev Raje, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan Ahmed Y. Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Mario Guarracino, Italian National Research Council, Italy Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK Cheng-Xiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Steering Chairs Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Committee Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA Ronald Perrott, Queen~s University of Belfast, UK Michael Gerndt, Technische University of München, Germany Dieter Kranzlmüller, John Kepler University Linz, Austria Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Workshop Chairs Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China Publicity Chairs Yu Liang, Central State University, USA Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Naples, Italy Publication Chairs Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Web Administrator Chair Liu Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chair Yong Zhang, Dalian University of Technology, China Program Committee See HPCC-08 web site: http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn Further questions, please contact with Dr. Keqiu Li, Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dalian University of Technology No 2, Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, China Email: keqiu(a)dlut.edu.cn; hpcc2008(a)gmail.com Tel/Fax: 86-411-84709242 ABOUT DALIAN AND CITY TOUR Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, lies in Northeast of China. Dalian, named as "Northern Hong Kong of China", has a world-class reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the best season for tourism and enjoying seafood. Dalian is also well-connected via air to major cities in the world. One day post-conference city tour on September 28, 2008 will be included into the conference package. --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fw: the updated CFP of HPCC-08
by Keqiu Li 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

-------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08) Organized by Dalian University of Technology, China Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing Dalian, China, September 25-27, 2008 http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION HPCC-08 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), previously held as HPCC-07 (Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, Germany, September 2006), HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, December 2004), PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02 (Charlottesville, USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2001), HPNCA-00 (Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1999). The HPCC-08 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include but are not limited to the following: * Languages and compilers for high performance computing * Parallel and distributed system architectures * Parallel and distributed software technologies * Parallel and distributed algorithms * Embedded systems * Peer-to-peer computing * Grid and cluster computing * Web services and internet computing * Performance evaluation and measurement * Tools and environments for software development * Distributed systems and applications * High-performance scientific and engineering computing * Database applications and data mining * Biological/molecular computing * Collaborative and cooperative environments * Network protocols, routing, algorithms * Mobile computing and wireless communications * Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence * Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance * Trust, security and privacy IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal: February 28, 2008 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2008 Authors Notification: June 01 , 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 01, 2008 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the HPCC-08 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc08/ PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the several international issues such as Journal of Supercomputing, IJHPCN, IJCSE, IJCSSE and WWW. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL In conjunction with the HPCC-08 conference, several workshops will be held. If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal including call for paper, organizing committee, important dates, contact person, short bio of the organizers to the HPCC-08 workshop chairs before February 28, 2008. Proceedings of the HPCC-08 workshops will be published by IEEE CS Press. The workshops with more than 15 papers will be granted with a free complimentary registration and local accommodation for one leading workshop organizer. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITEEES Honorary Chairs Jinping Ou, Dalian University of Technology, China General Chairs Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Program Chairs Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK Mitsuhisa Sato,University of Tsukuba, Japan Hans P. Zima, California Institute of Technology, USA Program Vice Chairs Shi-Jinn Horng, National Taiwan University of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rajeev Raje, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan Ahmed Y. Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Mario Guarracino, Italian National Research Council, Italy Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK Cheng-Xiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Steering Chairs Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Committee Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA Ronald Perrott, Queen~s University of Belfast, UK Michael Gerndt, Technische University of München, Germany Dieter Kranzlmüller, John Kepler University Linz, Austria Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Workshop Chairs Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China Publicity Chairs Yu Liang, Central State University, USA Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Naples, Italy Publication Chairs Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Web Administrator Chair Liu Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chair Yong Zhang, Dalian University of Technology, China Program Committee See HPCC-08 web site: http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn Further questions, please contact with Dr. Keqiu Li, Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dalian University of Technology No 2, Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, China Email: keqiu(a)dlut.edu.cn; hpcc2008(a)gmail.com Tel/Fax: 86-411-84709242 ABOUT DALIAN AND CITY TOUR Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, lies in Northeast of China. Dalian, named as "Northern Hong Kong of China", has a world-class reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the best season for tourism and enjoying seafood. Dalian is also well-connected via air to major cities in the world. One day post-conference city tour on September 28, 2008 will be included into the conference package. --------------------------------------------------------------------

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