Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2008 Call For Papers WORLDCOMP'08 The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University, MIT, UCLA, George Mason University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University, University of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences, European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics, and others (see below). Corporate sponsors include Google, Salford Systems, and NIIT. You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008. It is composed of the following conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates): GCA'08: Grid Computing & Applications PDPTA'08: Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications CDES'08: Computer Design ESA'08: Embedded Systems & Applications CGVR'08: Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality ICOMP'08: Internet Computing SWWS'08: Semantic Web & Web Services GEM'08: Genetic & Evolutionary Methods CSC'08: Scientific Computing FCS'08: Foundations of Computer Science EEE'08: e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government FECS'08: Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering ICAI'08: Artificial Intelligence ICWN'08: Wireless Networks IKE'08: Information & Knowledge Engineering IPCV'08: Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition BIOCOMP'08: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology MLMTA'08: Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications MSV'08: Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods SAM'08: Security & Management SERP'08: Software Engineering Research & Practice ITSL'08: Information Theory & Statistical Learning DMIN'08: Data Mining ERSA'08: Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms CIC'08: Communications in Computing (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org) PURPOSE/HISTORY: WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. In 2007, the congress attracted over 2,000 scientists and researchers, including 148 sponsored students. For 2008, we anticipate to have about 2,400 attendees from over 80 countries. WORLCOMP'08 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers included: Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley); Prof. David Cheriton (Stanford U.), Prof. A. K. Dunker (Indiana U. and Purdue U.); Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (developer of X Window, ...); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and many other distinguished speakers. FEATURED 2008 KEYNOTE LECTURES: Prof. David A. Patterson University of California at Berkeley, California, USA Member, National Academy of Engineering Member, National Academy of Sciences Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS Shared (with John Hennessy) the IEEE John von Neumann Medal Prof. Ophir Frieder Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown University, IITRI Chair Professor of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology, Director, Information Retrieval lab (IIT) Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS (in addition to the above, there will be 30+ keynotes and invited lectures.) FEATURED TUTORIAL: Prof. H. J. Siegel Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE Professor of Computer Science Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC) Fellow of IEEE and ACM (in addition to the above, there will also be 11 planned other tutorials). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia ( hra@cs.uga.edu ) by March 23, 2008. email submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable. All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.) 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, email address, and telephone number for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are independent of the conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the final decision. IMPORTANT DATES: March 23, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) April 17, 2008: Notification of acceptance May 3, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08 - 25 joint conferences) GENERAL CO-CHAIR / COORDINATOR: Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA Tel: (706) 542-3480 E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions. SPONSORS: (this is a partial list) Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) --> Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA --> International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine --> Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA --> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA --> Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA --> BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA --> Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA --> Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and MIT, USA --> Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA --> Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA --> Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program George Mason University, Virginia, USA --> Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA --> Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, Iowa, USA --> The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA --> PSU - Prince Sultan University --> Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. --> NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Vienna Corporate Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) --> Google, Inc. --> Salford Systems --> NIIT Technologies Other Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) --> High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano) --> International Technology Institute (ITI) --> GridToday - enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization, Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT --> HPCwire - The Leading Source for Global News and Information Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing --> Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK