Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with
those who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, CDES'08
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Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008

C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
CDES'08

Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O Processor and co-processor design
O VLSI systems design and scaling techniques
O ASIC design and architectures
O Arithmetic circuits + Logic and circuit design
O Microarchitectures
O Power-efficient computer design and power management
O Parallel/multi-processor computer architectures
O Innovative hardware/software architectures
O Scheduling techniques
O Prefetching techniques
O Architecture simulation systems
O Branch prediction
O Superscalar and dataflow design
O Interconnect and interface design
O Performance analysis and evaluation
O Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core systems and processors
O Benchmarking and measurements
O Quantum computing
O Novel design and methodologies
O System-on-a-chip: design and methodology
O Complexity issues
O Cache and memory systems
O Reliable architectures
O Computer systems design and applications
O High-level design methodologies
O Support of operating systems and languages
O Interaction between compilers and computer architectures
O Synthesis
O Pipelining
O Mixed-signal design and analysis
O Electrical/packaging designs and co-designs
O FPGA-based design
O Impact of novel technologies on computer architecture
O Case studies
O Emerging technologies

O Topics in Nanotechnology - all areas of nanotechnology are of great
interest:
- Integration of high-performance computing in nanotechnology
- Bio-inspired and nano-scale integrated computing
- Material science
- Nanodevices and nanostructures
- Biomolecular machinery
- Nanomaterials
- Nanomedicine
- Nanobiotechnology
- Scanning probes
- Nanoelectronics
- Nanosensors
- Self-assembly
- Nanoscale structures and nanosystems
- Biomedical engineering and nanotechnology
- Supramolecular chemistry and technology
- Supercomputing and nanotechnology
- Nanotech and space exploration
- Miniaturization of science
- Nanotechnology and bioinformatics
- Nanotechnology challenges
- Case studies and emerging applications

O Topics in Real-Time Computing and Systems:
- Hardware software co-design
- System-on-chip
- Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
- Quality of service and scheduling
- Software engineering for real-time computing and systems
- System design and analysis (probabilistic analysis,
quality of service support, validation technologies,
survivability and security, reliability issues, ...)
- Infrastructure and hardware (embedded devices, resource
constrained methods, time synchronization, ...)
- Software technologies (real-time operating systems,
middleware and distributed technologies, compiler support,
component-based technologies, ...)
- Fault-tolerance
- Embedded systems and ubiquitous computing
- Real-time network connection scheduling
- Feed-back scheduling
- Multiprocessor scheduling
- Resource management
- Scheduling algorithms and analysis
- Real-time kernel support
- Modeling and synthesis techniques
- Real-time data-flow applications/computing
- Real-time control and sensing
- Real-time and embedded distributed algorithms and systems
- Simulation of real-time systems
- Multimedia and QoS support
- Real-time middleware systems
- Object oriented methods for real-time systems
- Knowledge-based real-time systems
- Algorithms and emerging applications
- Case studies

Web site of SWWS'08:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/cdes08
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

CDES'08 is part of WORLDCOMP'08. WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
and applied computing; it is composed of a number of joint conferences.
Many of these joint conferences are the premier conferences for
presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate
to have over 2,600 attendees from over 80 countries participating in
the 2008 event. CDES'08 will be composed of research
presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
(about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Mar. 10, 2008 (hra@...). email
submissions in MS Doc 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, and email address of each author as well as the name
of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, CDES'08).
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.

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 one member of the program
committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the track.
The track chairs will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready
papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

GENERAL CO-CHAIR / COORDINATOR:

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
E-mail: hra@...

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

CDES 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, 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.

MULTICONFERENCE 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
--> 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

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

The program committee includes members of the chapters of World
Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;
AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
computer security; and bioinformatics.) The names of the members
of the program committee will soon be posted on the web site.
Those interested in joining the program committee should email
Prof. H. R. Arabnia (hra@...) the following information: Name,
affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address,
tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests.

For the list of the members of program committee of CDES'07, refer to:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CDES07/committee
Many members of the program committee include renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many
are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various societies,
heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 10, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 7, 2008: Notification of acceptance
April 28, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
(CDES'08)
URL:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/cdes08




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