C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

       The 2009 International Conference on Computer Design
                             CDES'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA


You are invited to submit a paper.  All accepted papers will be
published in the respective conference proceedings.

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/cdes09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

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

   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  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  Novel design and methodologies
   O  System-on-a-chip: design and methodologies
   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  Compiler technologies
   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  International Workshop on 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  International Workshop on Real-Time Computing and Systems:
      - Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
      - System-on-chip
      - Hardware software co-design
      - 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
      - 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
      - Knowledge-based real-time systems
      - Algorithms and emerging applications
      - Case studies

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/cdes09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC SPONSORS (a partial list):

The following are confirmed academic sponsors for 2009:
United States Military Academy, Network Science Center; Biomedical
Cybernetics Lab., HST of Harvard University & MIT; Argonne's
Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne National Lab; Functional
Genomics Lab., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; Intelligent Data
Exploration & Analysis Lab., U. of Texas at Austin, Texas; Harvard
Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab., Harvard
University; Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at
Austin, Texas; Center for the Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Institute of Discrete
Mathematics & Geometry, Vienna U. of Technology, Austria; BioMedical
Informatics & Bio-Imaging Lab., Georgia Institute of Technology and
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management &
Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany;
Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, College of Medicine, University of
Iowa, Iowa; Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab.
(MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, Iowa; SECLAB of University of Naples
Federico II, University of Naples Parthenope, and the Second
University of Naples, Italy; The University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, North Dakota; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Intelligent
Cyberspace Engineeing Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./Texas);
International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; European Commission;
and High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano).

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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 (CDES)
    must be mentioned 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 co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Computer
                       Design (CDES'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for CDES is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (CDES) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    CDES'09 is an annual research conference about computer design.  It is
    being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other
    conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
    and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    CDES'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

              The 2009 International Conference on
         Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
                            MSV'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/msv09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a paper; see below for submission
instructions.  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings (in printed books, DVD, as
well as online/web).

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

   O  Simulation languages
   O  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
   O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
   O  Molecular modeling and simulation
   O  Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
   O  Modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile
      environments
   O  Performance Evaluation and Simulation Tools
   O  Modeling and simulation tools for nanotechnology
   O  Real-time modeling and simulation
   O  Geometric modeling
   O  Information and scientific visualization
   O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
   O  Modeling methodologies
   O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
   O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
   O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
   O  Java-based modelers
   O  Scalability issues
   O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
   O  Finite and boundary element techniques
   O  Process simulation/modeling
   O  Device simulation/modeling
   O  Circuit simulation/modeling
   O  Multi-level modeling
   O  Simulation of machine architectures
   O  Simulation of wireless systems
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
   O  CAD/CAE/CAM
   O  Prototyping and simulation
   O  Biomedical visualization and applications
   O  Databases and visualization
   O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
   O  Parallel and distributed simulation
   O  Discrete and numeric simulation
   O  Internet, web and security visualization
   O  Virtual reality and simulation
   O  Virtual environments and data visualization
   O  Tools and applications
   O  Object-oriented simulation
   O  Knowledge-based simulation
   O  Emerging technologies and applications

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/msv09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

SPONSORS (confirmed as of Feb. 10, 2009):

    Academic Sponsors include:
    United States Military Academy, Network Science Center, USA;
    Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
    MIT, USA; Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne
    National Laboratory, USA; Functional Genomics Laboratory, University
    of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
    Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Intelligent Data
    Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin,
    Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics
    Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Texas Advanced Computing Center,
    The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Center for the
    Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
    Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Bioinformatics & Computational
    Biology Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Institute
    of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of
    Technology, Austria; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
    Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,
    Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System
    Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; Hawkeye Radiology
    Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Institute
    for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
    Russia; Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University
    of Iowa, USA; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II, University
    of Naples Parthenope, and the Second University of Naples, Italy;
    The University of North Dakota, North Dakota, USA; Intelligent
    Cyberspace Engineeing Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./Texas),
    USA; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
    Academy of Biomedical Sciences & Technologies; & European Commission.
    Other Sponsors include:
    High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
    HoIP - Health without Boundaries; The International Council on
    Medical and Care Compunetics; The UK Department for Business,
    Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; VMW Solutions Ltd.; Scientific
    Technologies Corporation; and Bentham Science Publishers.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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 (MSV)
    must be mentioned 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 co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Modeling,
                       Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for MSV is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (MSV) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    MSV'09 is an annual research conference about modeling, simulation
    and visualization methods.  It is being held jointly (same location
    and dates) with a number of other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).
    WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    MSV'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

              The 2009 International Conference on
                       Scientific Computing
                             CSC'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/csc09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a paper; see below for submission
instructions.  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings (in printed books, DVD, as
well as online/web).

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

   O  Inversion problems
   O  Computational fluid dynamics
   O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
   O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
   O  Computational physics
   O  Computational chemistry
   O  Mathematical modeling
   O  Computational models
   O  Scientific visualization
   O  Numerical methods and simulation
   O  Ordinary and partial differential equations
   O  Molecular dynamics
   O  Stochastic differential equations
   O  Optimization and optimal control
   O  Finite element methods
   O  Software architectures for scientific computing
   O  domain decomposition methods
   O  Seismic data processing
   O  Multi-level and Multi-grid methods
   O  Iterative methods
   O  Krylov methods
   O  Level-set methods
   O  Atmospheric science
   O  Integral equations
   O  Operational research
   O  Dynamical systems
   O  Generalized eigen-problems
   O  Coupled problems
   O  Nonsymmetric solvers
   O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
   O  Computational electromagnetics
   O  Computational electrodynamics
   O  Numerical linear algebra
   O  Approximation theory
   O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
   O  Mathematical software tools
   O  Splines and wavelets and applications
   O  Engineering problems and emerging applications
   O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, chemistry,
      biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production scheduling,
      automotive industry, ...

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/csc09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

SPONSORS (confirmed as of Feb. 10, 2009):

    Academic Sponsors include:
    United States Military Academy, Network Science Center, USA;
    Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
    MIT, USA; Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne
    National Laboratory, USA; Functional Genomics Laboratory, University
    of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
    Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Intelligent Data
    Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin,
    Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics
    Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Texas Advanced Computing Center,
    The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Center for the
    Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
    Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Bioinformatics & Computational
    Biology Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Institute
    of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of
    Technology, Austria; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
    Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,
    Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System
    Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; Hawkeye Radiology
    Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Institute
    for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
    Russia; Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University
    of Iowa, USA; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II, University
    of Naples Parthenope, and the Second University of Naples, Italy;
    The University of North Dakota, North Dakota, USA; Intelligent
    Cyberspace Engineeing Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./Texas),
    USA; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
    Academy of Biomedical Sciences & Technologies; & European Commission.
    Other Sponsors include:
    High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
    HoIP - Health without Boundaries; The International Council on
    Medical and Care Compunetics; The UK Department for Business,
    Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; VMW Solutions Ltd.; Scientific
    Technologies Corporation; and Bentham Science Publishers.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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 (CSC)
    must be mentioned 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 co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing
                       (CSC'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for CSC is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (CSC) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    CSC'09 is an annual research conference about scientific computing.
    It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of
    other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
    and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    CSC'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

qPCR NEWS February 2009 - update in real-time PCR cycler
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Dear researcher,
dear Gene Quantification page reader,

Our newsletter informs about the latest news in quantitative real-time
PCR (qPCR and qRT-PCR), which are compiled and summarised on the Gene
Quantification homepage. The focus of this newsletter issue is:

- qPCR 2009 Event   => http://www.qPCR2009.net
- we are proud to present 230 scientific contributions (86 talks & 144
posters) have a look on the preliminary online agenda =>
http://online-AGENDA.qpcr2009.net/
- real-time PCR Cycler page updated =>
http://cyclers.gene-quantification.info/
- webinar page updated => http://webinar.gene-quantification.info/
- Online translation service of the Gene Quantification =>
http://translation.gene-quantification.info/

New qPCR workshop modules at the TATAA Biocenter Germany =>
http://tataa.gene-quantification.info/
European wide qPCR application workshops =>  register now !
=> course program spring - summer 2009
=>
http://www.gene-quantification.de/bioeps-courses-spring-summer-2009.pdf


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real-time PCR Cycler

On this page the most prominent real-time PCR cycler are described.

In the cycler descriptions the specifications and the advantages of
the displayed systems are shown. Which real-time platform meets your
requirements best, depends on your research application. Some of the
systems are designed for research with low capacities and others are
for high-throughput applications, most in combination with pipetting
robots. Most of them use solid-block for thermal cycling, other use
hot- and cooled-air. Most differences are obviously in the application
software, especially in the way of data analysis and how the derived
crossing points or threshold levels are computed. Each of these
systems employs either one of several general types of fluorescent
probes for detection. There are also big differences how data are
displayed. Some of the limitations of end-point detection in (RT-) PCR
have been assuaged in real-time PCR systems, a number of which are now
on the market. These systems offer many general technical advantages,
including reduced probabilities of variability and contamination, as
well as online monitoring and the lack of need for post reaction
analyses. Further, some of these systems were developed with
contemporary applications such as quantitative PCR, multiplexing, and
high-throughput analysis in mind. Initial template levels can be
calculated by analysing the shape of the curve or by determining when
the signal rises above some threshold value. Several commercially
available real-time PCR systems are overviewed on this page and/or
summarized in the accompanying table.
=> http://cyclers.gene-quantification.info/


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Real-Time PCR: Current Technology and Applications
http://www.horizonpress.com/realtimepcr

Editor: Julie Logan, Kirstin Edwards and Nick Saunders Applied and
Functional Genomics, Health Protection Agency, London (2009)  ISBN:
9781904455394    Publisher: Caister Academic Press

Chapter 4 - Reference Gene Validation Software for Improved Normalization
J. Vandesompele, M. Kubista and M. W. Pfaffl  (2009)
http://www.gene-quantification.de/Vandesompele-Kubista-Pfaffl-real-time-PCR-chap\
ter-4.pdf

Real-time PCR is the method of choice for expression analysis of a
limited number of genes. The measured gene expression variation
between subjects is the sum of the true biological variation and
several confounding factors resulting in non-specific variation. The
purpose of normalization is to remove the non-biological variation as
much as possible. Several normalization strategies have been proposed,
but the use of one or more reference genes is currently the preferred
way of normalization. While these reference genes constitute the best
possible normalizers, a major problem is that these genes have no
constant expression under all experimental conditions. The
experimenter therefore needs to carefully assess whether a certain
reference gene is stably expressed in the experimental system under
study. This is not trivial and represents a circular problem.
Fortunately, several algorithms and freely available software have
been developed to address this problem. This chapter aims to provide
an overview of the different concepts.

Chapter 5 - Data Analysis Software
M. W. Pfaffl, J. Vandesompele and M. Kubista  (2009)
http://www.gene-quantification.de/Pfaffl-Kubista-Vandesompele-real-time-PCR-chap\
ter-5.pdf

Quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) is widely and increasingly
used in any kind of mRNA quantification, because of its high
sensitivity, good reproducibility and wide dynamic quantification
range. While qRT-PCR has a tremendous potential for analytical and
quantitative applications, a comprehensive understanding of its
underlying principles is important. Beside the classical RT-PCR
parameters, e.g. primer design, RNA quality, RT and polymerase
performances, the fidelity of the quantification process is highly
dependent on a valid data analysis. This review will cover all aspects
of data acquisition (trueness, reproducibility, and robustness),
potentials in data modification and will focus particularly on
relative quantification methods. Furthermore useful bioinformatical,
biostatical as well as multi-dimensional expression software tools
will be presented.

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Webinars  in  qPCR  &  RNAinterference  &  Molecular-Biology

Here you find a huge summary of webinars in the field of qPCR &
RNAinterference & Molecular-Biology
=> http://webinar.gene-quantification.info/


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Since October 2008 we provide an online translation service of the
Gene Quantification pages to several languages. Please recognize this
is an automatic and robotic based translation service, and therefore
we can give NO guarantee about the generated content. It should help
to understand the "rough" content of the Gene Quantification pages,
but still the original is the ENGLISH version:

http://translation.gene-quantification.info/

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With the new qPCR INFO PORTAL and all the presented tools we will help
you with to find the right information about qPCR and related topics
in Molecular Biology in the literature and in the World Wide Web.
=>  Papers / Protocols / Methods / Databases / Alets / Feeds / Books /
Forums / E-mail / Directory

http://infoportal.gene-quantification.info/


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Upcoming Events World-wide academic and commercial qPCR Events
http://events.gene-quantification.info/

Symposia, Meetings, Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, Online-Seminars,
qPCR Education Program, etc.
Please submit your qPCR event here  =>  events@...


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qPCR 2009 EVENT - 9 - 13 March 2009

more news here  =>  http://www.qPCR2009.net
download event FLYER  =>
http://www.bioeps.com/qpcr2009/qPCR-2009-3rd-announcement.pdf

We are proud to present 230 scientific contributions (86 talks & 144
posters) have a look on the preliminary online agenda =>
http://online-AGENDA.qpcr2009.net/

It is a pleasure to announce the Nobel Prize Laureate Kary Mullis at
the qPCR 2009 event in an own session "25th Anniversary of PCR"

List of confirmed speakers  =>  http://speakers.qpcr2009.net/
An industrial exhibition with the 30 world leading companies will be
held during the qPCR Symposium March 9-11  =>
http://exhibition.qpcr2009.net/

Our sponsors  =>  http://sponsors.qpcr2009.net/

Please register until 31st December to get the early registartion fee
=>  http://registration.qpcr2009.net/


Keynote lectures

The Pioneer in PCR   Kary B. Mullis   1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 25th Anniversary of PCR


Stephen A. Bustin
Professor of Molecular Science, Institute of Cell and Molecular
Science, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of
London, UK

- A new qPCR assay for the detection of Clostridium difficile
- MIQE- guidelines for publication of qPCR data


Ken Livak
Senior Scientific Fellow, Fluidigm Corporation,San Francisco, CA, US
- Moving from qPCR Assays to qPCR Arrays.


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qPCR WORKSHOP

BioEPS GmbH / TATAA Biocenter Germany - qPCR Application workshops

At the TATAA Biocenter Germany we offer qPCR application workshops, a
3-day qPCR Core Module and a 2-day qPCR Biostatistics Module.  All
courses are held regularly in Göteborg, Sweden, in English and in
Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, in German and English, and in Prague,
Czech Republic in English and Czech.
Depending on the occasion the workshop language and the different
prices may apply. Further customized workshops and specialized
trainings will be held as well across Europe and world-wide.
TATAA Biocenter Germany workshops are held in cooperation with BioEPS
GmbH, located at the campus of the Technical University of Munich, in
Freising-Weihenstephan, very close to the Munich Airport (MUC). For
more information and registration, please see our web page:
=> http://TATAA.gene-quantification.info/


Course Occasions 2009:

3-day qPCR Core Module  (Mon. - Wed.)
2-day BioStatistics Module (Thu. - Fri.)
3-day single-cell qPCR Module  (Mon. - Wed.)
3-day microRNA Module   (Mon. - Wed.)


20 - 22 April 2009  (E)      NEW microRNA qPCR

27 - 29 April 2009  (E) NEW singel-cell qPCR Application Workshop

11 - 15 May 2009 (Deutsch)
3-day qPCR Core Module (Mon. - Wed.) & 2-day BioStatistics Module
(Thu. - Fri.)

15 - 19 Juni 2009  (E)
3-day qPCR Core Module (Mon. - Wed.) & 2-day BioStatistics Module
(Thu. - Fri.)

13 - 15 Juli 2009  (E)         NEW microRNA qPCR

27 - 31 Juli 2009  (E)
3-day qPCR Core Module (Mon. - Wed.) & 2-day BioStatistics Module
(Thu. - Fri.)

=>
http://www.gene-quantification.de/bioeps-courses-spring-summer-2009.pdf


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who are interested in qPCR !


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Michael W. Pfaffl
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CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                        =================

            Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2009

                           WORLDCOMP'09
           The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing
        Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

             http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

You are invited to submit a paper; see below for submission
instructions.  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings (in printed books/proceedings).

WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
Berkeley); 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. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys
(OLPC + developer of X Window); and many other distinguished
speakers.  For this year's conference, the keynote speakers include:
Prof. Ian Foster (Father of Grid Computing), Dr. Eric Drexler
(Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. Brian Athey (Head, NIH National
Center for Computational Medicine & Biology), Dr. Jose Munoz (Deputy
Director, National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure),
and many other distinguished speakers.

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and
dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA). A link to each conference's URL can
be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

BIOCOMP'09: International Conf. on Bioinformatics &
             Computational Biology
CDES'09:    International Conf. on Computer Design
CGVR'09:    International Conf. on Computer Graphics & Virtual
             Reality
CSC'09:     International Conf. on Scientific Computing
DMIN'09:    International Conf. on Data Mining
EEE'09:     International Conf. on e-Learning, e-Business,
             Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government
ERSA'09:    International Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable
             Systems and Algorithms
ESA'09:     International Conf. on Embedded Systems & Applications
FCS'09:     International Conf. on Foundations of Computer Science
FECS'09:    International Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Computer
             Science & Computer Engineering
GCA'09:     International Conf. on Grid Computing & Applications
GEM'09:     International Conf. on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
ICAI'09:    International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence
ICOMP'09:   International Conf. on Internet Computing
ICWN'09:    International Conf. on Wireless Networks
IKE'09:     International Conf. on Information & Knowledge
             Engineering
IPCV'09:    International Conf. on Image Processing, Computer
             Vision, & Pattern Recognition
MSV'09:     International Conf. on Modeling, Simulation &
             Visualization Methods
PDPTA'09:   International Conf. on Parallel and Distributed
             Processing Techniques & Applications
SAM'09:     International Conf. on Security and Management
SERP'09:    International Conf. on Software Engineering Research
             and Practice
SWWS'09:    International Conf. on Semantic Web and Web Services


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.


IMPORTANT DATES:

    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia, USA
    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    email: hra@...


SPONSORS (confirmed as of Feb. 20, 2009):

    Academic Sponsors include:
    United States Military Academy, Network Science Center, USA;
    Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
    MIT, USA; Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne
    National Laboratory, USA; Functional Genomics Laboratory, University
    of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
    Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Intelligent Data
    Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin,
    Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics
    Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Texas Advanced Computing Center,
    The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Center for the
    Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
    Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Bioinformatics & Computational
    Biology Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Institute
    of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of
    Technology, Austria; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
    Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,
    Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System
    Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; National Institute
    for Health Research; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, College of
    Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Institute for Informatics Problems
    of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image HPC
    & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; SECLAB of
    U. of Naples Federico II, U. of Naples Parthenope, and Second U. of
    Naples, Italy; U. of North Dakota, USA; Intelligent Cyberspace
    Engineering Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./Texas), USA;
    International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
    Academy of Biomedical Sciences & Technologies; and European Commission.
    Other Sponsors include:
    High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
    HoIP - Health without Boundaries; The International Council on
    Medical and Care Compunetics; The UK Department for Business,
    Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; VMW Solutions Ltd.; Scientific
    Technologies Corporation; and others.


TUTORIALS:

    12 to 15 tutorials are currently being planned - all tutorials are
    free to conference registrants.  Tutorial subjects include, ABET
    accreditation as it relates to computing, various aspects of
    supercomputing (parallel and distributed systems and processing),
    visualization, preparation for teaching online courses, various
    areas of security, sensor networks, bioinformatics for computer
    scientists, web services for mobile and wireless systems, ...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their
    respective fields.  We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees
    from over 85 countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
    lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
    poster presentations.  One registration fee provides full access to
    all events/sessions of all conferences (including tutorials).  The
    registration fee is set at the low end of the academia range for
    Academic Conferences.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of 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 Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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, and program directors of various
    funding agencies.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below
with those who might be interested.  The paper submission deadline
is extended to March 11, 2009.


                         Call For Papers

         Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 11, 2009

                           WORLDCOMP'09
           The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing
        Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

             http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline has been
extended to March 11, 2009.  You are invited to submit a paper; see
below for submission instructions.  All accepted papers will be
published in the respective conference proceedings (in printed books).

Academic Sponsors include: United States Military Academy, Network
Science Center; various research laboratories and centers affiliated
with Harvard U. / MIT; Argonne National Lab.; U. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign; Minnesota Supercomputing Institute; U. of Texas at
Austin; George Mason U.; Vienna U. of Technology; U. of Siegen;
National Institute for Health Research; U. of Iowa; Russian Academy
of Sciences; U. of North Dakota; Texas A&M U./Com.; The European
Commission, and many others.  For the complete list of sponsors,
refer to
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/sponsors

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and
dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA). A link to each conference's URL can
be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

BIOCOMP'09: International Conf. on Bioinformatics &
             Computational Biology
CDES'09:    International Conf. on Computer Design
CGVR'09:    International Conf. on Computer Graphics & Virtual
             Reality
CSC'09:     International Conf. on Scientific Computing
DMIN'09:    International Conf. on Data Mining
EEE'09:     International Conf. on e-Learning, e-Business,
             Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government
ERSA'09:    International Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable
             Systems and Algorithms
ESA'09:     International Conf. on Embedded Systems & Applications
FCS'09:     International Conf. on Foundations of Computer Science
FECS'09:    International Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Computer
             Science & Computer Engineering
GCA'09:     International Conf. on Grid Computing & Applications
GEM'09:     International Conf. on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
ICAI'09:    International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence
ICOMP'09:   International Conf. on Internet Computing
ICWN'09:    International Conf. on Wireless Networks
IKE'09:     International Conf. on Information & Knowledge
             Engineering
IPCV'09:    International Conf. on Image Processing, Computer
             Vision, & Pattern Recognition
MSV'09:     International Conf. on Modeling, Simulation &
             Visualization Methods
PDPTA'09:   International Conf. on Parallel and Distributed
             Processing Techniques & Applications
SAM'09:     International Conf. on Security and Management
SERP'09:    International Conf. on Software Engineering Research
             and Practice
SWWS'09:    International Conf. on Semantic Web and Web Services


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by March 11, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.


IMPORTANT DATES:

    March 11, 2009:    Extended deadline for Submission of papers
                       (about 5 to 7 pages)
    April 9, 2009:     Notification of acceptance
    May 1, 2009:       Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

TUTORIALS:

    12 to 15 tutorials are currently being planned - all tutorials are
    free to conference registrants.  Tutorial subjects include:
    various aspects of supercomputing (parallel and distributed systems
    and processing), visualization, preparation for teaching online
    courses, various areas of security, sensor networks, bioinformatics
    for computer scientists, web services for mobile and wireless systems,
    ABET accreditation as it relates to computing, inverse problems in
    computer vision, data mining, ...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their
    respective fields.  We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees
    from over 85 countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

    WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); 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. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys
    (OLPC + developer of X Window); and many other distinguished
    speakers.  For this year's conference, the keynote speakers include:
    Prof. Ian Foster (Father of Grid Computing), Dr. Eric Drexler
    (Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. Brian Athey (Head, NIH National
    Center for Computational Medicine & Biology), Dr. Jose Munoz (Deputy
    Director, National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure),
    and many other distinguished speakers.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

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, MSV'09
-----------------------

                  C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

              The 2009 International Conference on
         Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
                            MSV'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/msv09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

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

   O  Simulation languages
   O  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
   O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
   O  Molecular modeling and simulation
   O  Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
   O  Modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile
      environments
   O  Performance Evaluation and Simulation Tools
   O  Modeling and simulation tools for nanotechnology
   O  Real-time modeling and simulation
   O  Geometric modeling
   O  Information and scientific visualization
   O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
   O  Modeling methodologies
   O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
   O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
   O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
   O  Java-based modelers
   O  Scalability issues
   O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
   O  Finite and boundary element techniques
   O  Process simulation/modeling
   O  Device simulation/modeling
   O  Circuit simulation/modeling
   O  Multi-level modeling
   O  Simulation of machine architectures
   O  Simulation of wireless systems
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
   O  CAD/CAE/CAM
   O  Prototyping and simulation
   O  Biomedical visualization and applications
   O  Databases and visualization
   O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
   O  Parallel and distributed simulation
   O  Discrete and numeric simulation
   O  Internet, web and security visualization
   O  Virtual reality and simulation
   O  Virtual environments and data visualization
   O  Tools and applications
   O  Object-oriented simulation
   O  Knowledge-based simulation
   O  Emerging technologies and applications

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/msv09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

The sponsors of the congress include (this is a partial list but it also
includes the 2008 sponsors pending their final approval for 2009),
Academic Sponsors: Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (of Argonne
National Lab); United States Military Academy Network Science Center (NSC);
SECLAB, Unina/Italy; Computational Biology & Functional Genomics Lab.,
Harvard U.; Int'l. Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; Horvath Lab.,
UCLA; Minnesota Supercomputing Institute; Functional Genomics Lab.,
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
Lab., Georgia Institute of Tech. and Emory U.; Intelligent Data Exploration
and Analysis Lab., U. of Texas at Austin; Biomedical Cybernetics Lab., HST
of Harvard U. & MIT; Center for the Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Tech.; Harvard Statistical Genomics & Computational
Lab., Harvard U.; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program, George
Mason U.; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, U. of Iowa; Medical Image HPC &
Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), U. of Iowa; U. of North Dakota; PSU of Saudi;
and NEMO/European Union. Corporate Sponsors include: Google, Inc.; Salford
Systems; Synplicity, Inc.; Supermicro, Inc.; NIIT Technologies.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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 (MSV)
    must be mentioned 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 co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  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 in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, MSV'09), 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).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Modeling,
                       Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for MSV is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (MSV) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    MSV'09 is an annual research conference about modeling, simulation
    and visualization methods.  It is being held jointly (same location
    and dates) with a number of other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).
    WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    MSV'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

                           WORLDCOMP'09
           The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 22 Joint Conferences)


You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
22 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA):

o BIOCOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CSC'09: The 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'09: The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'09: The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'09: The 2009 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o MSV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org )

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    WORLDCOMP included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees from over 85
    countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  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 in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, 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).  email your session proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals
    by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of 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 Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

                           WORLDCOMP'09
           The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 22 Joint Conferences)


You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
22 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA):

o BIOCOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CSC'09: The 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'09: The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'09: The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'09: The 2009 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o MSV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org )

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    WORLDCOMP included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees from over 85
    countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  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 in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, 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).  email your session proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals
    by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of 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 Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

              The 2009 International Conference on
                       Scientific Computing
                             CSC'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/csc09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

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

   O  Inversion problems
   O  Computational fluid dynamics
   O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
   O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
   O  Computational physics
   O  Computational chemistry
   O  Mathematical modeling
   O  Computational models
   O  Scientific visualization
   O  Numerical methods and simulation
   O  Ordinary and partial differential equations
   O  Molecular dynamics
   O  Stochastic differential equations
   O  Optimization and optimal control
   O  Finite element methods
   O  Software architectures for scientific computing
   O  domain decomposition methods
   O  Seismic data processing
   O  Multi-level and Multi-grid methods
   O  Iterative methods
   O  Krylov methods
   O  Level-set methods
   O  Atmospheric science
   O  Integral equations
   O  Operational research
   O  Dynamical systems
   O  Generalized eigen-problems
   O  Coupled problems
   O  Nonsymmetric solvers
   O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
   O  Computational electromagnetics
   O  Computational electrodynamics
   O  Numerical linear algebra
   O  Approximation theory
   O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
   O  Mathematical software tools
   O  Splines and wavelets and applications
   O  Engineering problems and emerging applications
   O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, chemistry,
      biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production scheduling,
      automotive industry, ...

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/csc09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

The sponsors of the congress include (this is a partial list but it also
includes the 2008 sponsors pending their final approval for 2009),
Academic Sponsors: Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (of Argonne
National Lab); United States Military Academy Network Science Center (NSC);
SECLAB, Unina/Italy; Computational Biology & Functional Genomics Lab.,
Harvard U.; Int'l. Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; Horvath Lab.,
UCLA; Minnesota Supercomputing Institute; Functional Genomics Lab.,
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
Lab., Georgia Institute of Tech. and Emory U.; Intelligent Data Exploration
and Analysis Lab., U. of Texas at Austin; Biomedical Cybernetics Lab., HST
of Harvard U. & MIT; Center for the Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Tech.; Harvard Statistical Genomics & Computational
Lab., Harvard U.; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program, George
Mason U.; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, U. of Iowa; Medical Image HPC &
Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), U. of Iowa; U. of North Dakota; PSU of Saudi;
and NEMO/European Union. Corporate Sponsors include: Google, Inc.; Salford
Systems; Synplicity, Inc.; Supermicro, Inc.; NIIT Technologies.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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 (CSC)
    must be mentioned 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 co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  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 in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, CSC'09), 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).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing
                       (CSC'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for CSC is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (CSC) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    CSC'09 is an annual research conference about scientific computing.
    It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of
    other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
    and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    CSC'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

Press Release: No Recession for Biogas Industry 2009. High growth for Biogas
Plants expected.
 
 
Environmental Markets like Water, Wastewater, and Drinking water, Waste, Air and
others Slowdown in 2009 worldwide by the financial crisis
The biggest projected slowdown in projects is occurring in North America with 22
percent, Europe with 16 percent, Eastern Europe with 45 percent, China with 19
percent, Japan
with 23 percent to name the leading countries in the world. Alternative Energies
like wind, solar and others will depend on the support and programs on the
governments around the world which are not clear yet. But Biogas Plant Markets
and the Biogas Operator Markets increase also 2009 worldwide.  
Biogas Plant Markets Worldwide. 2009 high growth expected. (hkc22.com)
 
8.900 new plants will be built in 2009 with over 2700 MW worldwide. Asian is
leading with 34 percent and Europe with 26 percent, followed by NAFTA and
Others. Increasing investments in biogas businesses by energy companies
 
The world markets for Biogas and Biogas Plants increase since some years with 20
to 30 percent depending on the country. Biogas from by-products and combinations
is the most efficient form of renewable energy and therefore not affected from
the financial crisis like other renewable energy technologies. Biogas production
comes from at least three sources: agriculture wastes, sewage sludge and solid
domestic wastes.
 
8.900 new plants will be built in 2009 with over 2700 MW worldwide.
Asian is leading with 34 percent and Europe with 26 percent, followed by NAFTA
and Others. These are some results of a survey end of November 2008 by Helmut
Kaiser Consultancy with 145 experts worldwide. The survey updated a study for
the biogas plants market worldwide http://www.hkc22.com/biogas.html  
 
The markets worldwide are expected with 25 billion euro by 2020 from 3 billion
in 2007. There is the development of a new industry worldwide: Biogas-Industry.
 
The amount of 800 million tons of waste produced every year worldwide has the
potentials for 64 billion cubic meters of biogas, which is the equivalent of 32
billion tons of gasoline or diesel fuel or 110 gig watt/hour of electric energy.
 
Dragon Power Co, China's biggest biogas - biomass energy company (50 power
plants) plans to build about 30 biogas power plants by 2010, with an estimated
total investment of 1.5 billion euro.
 
In Europe more and more operating companies are built and developed as the
priority is going from technology to business. The same in USA and Canada
currently 40 companies are operating 80 power plants in 20 states throughout
USA. Companies listing include Renegy Holdings Inc. and Covanta Central Valley
Biomass and more. Korean investment firm plans to build a multi-function corn
processing plant in Gowa, South Sulawesi, with an investment of US$ 300 million
in a project that it says with high profit potential.
 
There more and more Investment companies prepared to invest high values in
biogas markets. The key is the knowledge in biotechnology, molecular science and
optimization in the future for operators to make profit. Biogas is one of the
fast growing industries
in renewable industries. For more please see http://www.hkc22.com/biogas.html
or write to email hkc22@...
 
Helmut Kaiser Consultancy
December 2008




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Call for Papers - qPCR 2009 Event

4th international qPCR Symposium  &  Industrial Exhibition  &
Application Workshop
9 - 13th March 2009,  in  Freising-Weihenstephan, Technical University
of Munich,  Weihenstephan, Germany

http://talk-and-poster-call.qpcr2009.net/

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Dear colleagues,
dear researchers,
dear company representatives,

On behalf of the Organisation Committee and the Scientific Board it is
a great pleasure to invite you to the 4th International qPCR Symposium
& Industrial Exhibition & Application Workshop  to be held at the
Center of Life Science in Freising Weihenstephan, Technische
Universität München (Germany). The great international interest in the
previous meetings qPCR 2004 qPCR 2005 and qPCR 2007 ] with up to 600
participants coming from over 40 countries, and 30 international
companies in the qPCR Industrial Exhibition led us to the decision to
repeat the Symposium in spring 2009.

We have set the date for the qPCR 2009 Event  to 9 - 13th March 2009.
The event location is the central lecture hall complex and the foyer
at TUM (Technical University of Munich) in Freising Weihenstephan,
Germany. The TUM and the Biotech region around Munich is part of the
largest Biotech cluster in Europe, located close to the Munich airport
in the heart of Bavaria.

Leading academic researchers and industrial contributors in the field
will be participate in the symposium, which will be an arena for
fruitful discussions between researchers of different backgrounds. The
Symposium Talks, various Poster Sessions, Industrial Exhibition and
associated qPCR Application Workshops offer an overview of the present
knowledge and future developments in qPCR technology and its wide
applications.

The symposium will focus on approximately 40-50 lectures presented by
internationally recognised experts in their field. The emphasis will
be on unbiased, didactic information exchange.  Internationally renown
speakers will be participating in a lively and exciting programme
enabling the valuable exchange of information in the qPCR field. One
third of the talks will be presented by selected invited speakers, one
third will be selected from the submitted abstracts and one third will
be presented by qPCR company R&D representatives. All scientific
contributions will be published in the qPCR 2009 Symposium Proceedings.

It is a pleasure to announce the Nobel Prize Laureate Kary Mullis in
an own session "25th Anniversary of PCR"




The qPCR 2009 Event contains several parts:
1.     qPCR Symposium taking place March 9 - 11, 2009

=>   Talk and Poster sessions     http://sessions.qpcr2009.net/
=>   confirmed Speakers           http://speakers.qpcr2009.net/
=>   download FLYER
http://www.bioeps.com/qpcr2009/qPCR-2009-3rd-announcement.pdf

2.     A parallel qPCR Industrial Exhibition taking place March 9 -
11, 2009

3.     Followed by four qPCR application Workshops taking place March
12 -13,
        powered by the TATAA Biocenter Germany
        - Basis Module qPCR Application Workshop  (2-days)
        - qPCR Biostatistics & Expression Profiling  (2-days)
        - Sample Preparation  (2-days)
        - High Resoultion Melt (day 1)  &  Immuno-qPCR (day 2)

        http://workshops.qpcr2009.net/

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CALL for TALK & POSTERS

Deadline  =>  31st December 2008
Referee process will be finished until   15th January 2009

http://talk-and-poster-call.qpcr2009.net/

Please register and submit your abstract here =>
http://registration.qpcr2009.net/






qPCR 2009  Talk & Poster sessions

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Main topic:      Diagnostics  &  Molecular Markers
Markers in diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic, markers on DNA,
RNA, microRNA, protein, and metabolite level, disease markers, tissue
specific markers, cancer markers, stem-cells markers, differentiation
markers, methylation markers, diagnostic quantification methods,
epigenetics, SNP analysis, HRM = high resolution melt applications, …..

Main topic:      Diagnostics & Molecular Markers in agricultural and
veterinary Science
Diagnostics & Molecular Markers in White-, Green-, Blue-, and Brown-
Biotechnology and in agricultural and veterinary Science.  Marker
genes on diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic markers on on DNA,
RNA, microRNA, pProtein, and metabolite level, in animals and plants, … …

"25th Anniversary of PCR"  Session held by Nobel Prize Laureate Kary
Mullis
sponsored by Bioserch Technologies

Single-Cell qPCR
single-cell sampling, pre-amplification techniques, laser micro
dissection, sub-cellular PCR, micro-manipulation of cell clusters,
cellular micro injection, FACS spotting, single cell handling, ……

RNAi - microRNA - siRNA Applications
RNAi mechanism, microRNA extraction, qRT-PCR technologies to detect
microRNA, siRNA applications in combination with qRT-PCR, microRNA
targets and microRNA precursors, new siRNA manipulation and microRNA
technologies, .....

High Throughput quantitative PCR
384 well applications, new high throughput platforms, qPCR robotics,
digital PCR, SNP application, gene expression real-time RT-PCR arrays
(mRNA and microRNA), quantitative multiplexing, …..

Pre-analytical Steps
Pre-amplification, sampling technologies, DNA / RNA purification,
extraction efficiency, DNA / mRNA / microRNA quality control, Reverse
Transcription, RT quality control, external references, …..

Immuno qPCR
development, establishment, optimization of immuno-qPCR, innovative
immuno qPCR applications, …..

qPCR NOS Session  -  Normalization & Optimization & Standardization
sponsored by LONZA

new types of normalization, one vs. multiple reference genes, genomic
DNA as standard, external standards, optimization of the real-time
PCR, inhibition of negative effects, optimization of real-time PCR
efficiency, qPCR robotics, multiplexing, establishment of DNA / RNA
standards, inter-run standards, national and international studies on
qPCR standardization, new quantification strategies, ........

qPCR BioStatistics & BioInformatics
software applications, data mining, calculation of relative
expression, primer and probe design on mRNA and microRNA level,
real-time PCR efficiency determination, mathematical modelling,
Multivariate expression profiling raw data analysis, statistics in
real-time PCR, data management, multiway expression profiling,
multiple regression analysis,  3D data visualization, ........

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Internet based REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT submission platform  =>
http://registration.qpcr2009.net/


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qPCR 2009 Industrial Exhibition

An industrial exhibition will be held during the qPCR 2009 Event from
Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th March 2009 in the foyer of the central
lecture hall complex (green frame) and in two side rooms S1 and S2
(blue frame).  According to the booth location we have 30 booth in
different prize categories. They are all grouped around the central
lecture hall H14 that can fit up to 650 people.

http://exhibition.qpcr2009.net/

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

                           WORLDCOMP'09
           The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 22 Joint Conferences)


You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
22 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA):

o BIOCOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CSC'09: The 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'09: The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'09: The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'09: The 2009 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o MSV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org )

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    WORLDCOMP included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees from over 85
    countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  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 in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, 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).  email your session proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals
    by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of 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 Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

       The 2009 International Conference on Computer Design
                             CDES'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA


You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

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

   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  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  Novel design and methodologies
   O  System-on-a-chip: design and methodologies
   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  Compiler technologies
   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  International Workshop on 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  International Workshop on Real-Time Computing and Systems:
      - Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
      - System-on-chip
      - Hardware software co-design
      - 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
      - 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
      - Knowledge-based real-time systems
      - Algorithms and emerging applications
      - Case studies

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/cdes09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    CDES included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  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 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 (CDES)
    must be mentioned 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 co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  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 in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, CDES'09), 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).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Computer
                       Design (CDES'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for CDES is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (CDES) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    CDES'09 is an annual research conference about computer design.  It is
    being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other
    conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
    and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    CDES'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 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. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

Call For Papers - Deadline:  June 1, 2008

                        WORLDCOMP'08
         The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
         Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

      Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
          http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a paper (see instructions below).

WORLDCOMP'08 is composed of a number of tracks (joint conferences,
tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008.  See
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/  for the complete
list of joint conferences.

This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition
of the conference proceedings.  All papers submitted in response
to this announcement will be evaluated for publication in the
Final Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon
after the conference (publication date: late August 2008).
This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity
to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements
(authors who have already been notified that their papers have
been accepted/not-accepted should ignore this announcement.)

IMPORTANT DATES:

    June 1, 2008:       Submission of full papers (less than 8 pages)
    June 14, 2008:      Notification of acceptance
    June 27, 2008:      Registration
    July 14-17, 2008:   WORLDCOMP'08 Congress (all joint-conferences)
    July 20, 2008:      Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication in the
                        Final Edition of the proceedings.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to
    hra@... (no more than 7 pages, single spaced and font
    size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable).

    Authors should write the following in the subject header of
    their email:
    "Submission for Consideration in Final Edition of Proceedings" +
    name of conference that the paper is being submitted to.

    Papers should be attached to emails and must be either in
    Word Doc or PDF formats.

    Papers must not have been previously published or currently
    submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of the paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
    address, and email address for each author.  The first page
    should also include the name of the conference the paper is
    being submitted to (the list of conferences appears below.)
    Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the
    respective proceedings/books.

    All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two
    researchers in the topical area.

    The authors of accepted papers will later be asked to follow a
    particular typing instructions to prepare their final paper for
    publication.

LIST OF CONFERENCES:

    PDPTA:   Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
             Applications
    GCA:     Grid Computing and Applications
    CDES:    The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
    CSC:     Scientific Computing
    ICAI:    Artificial Intelligence
    GEM:     Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
    MLMTA:   Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications
    BIOCOMP: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
    SERP:    Software Engineering Research and Practice
    ICWN:    Wireless Networks
    IPCV:    Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
    MSV:     Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
    CGVR:    Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
    ICOMP:   Internet Computing
    SWWS:    Semantic Web and Web Services
    SAM:     Security and Management
    DMIN:    Data Mining
    IKE:     Information and Knowledge Engineering
    EEE:     e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
             and e-Government
    ESA:     Embedded Systems and Applications
    FECS:    Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer
             Engineering
    FCS:     Foundations of Computer Science
    CIC:     Communications in Computing

PLANNED TUTORIALS:
    See the following web site for a partial list:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/tutorials

KEYNOTE LECTURES:
    See the following web site for a partial list:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/keynotes

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

    WORLDCOMP 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.

SPONSORS:

    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
    -->  Synplicity
    -->  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

Biodegradable Plastic Markets with high growths to 2015 over 6 Billion US Dollar
and 12.5 bn 2025

   65 Percent of Bioplastics in 2007 is Packaging and Food related and in 2025
still 40 Percent but Automotive and Electronics reach over 25 Percent by 2025
with higher Profit potential. Innovations, Consumer demand and Legislation drive
the markets.

   Bioplastics are biodegradable and can be made from a wide range of different
plants. In the future genetically modified plants will need less water and
reduce the costs. Bioplastics has the potential to reduce the petroleum
consumption for plastic by 15 to 20 percent in 2025. Improved technical
properties and innovations open new markets and applications with higher profit
potentials in automotive, medicine and electronics.

When bioplastic companies change there strategy from just replacing today's
products to new applications, product conceptions and production processes with
the advantage of bioplastics the profitability and saleability increase
dramatically.

   In 2025 Europe will count for 31 percent, USA 28 percent and Asian for 32
percent of the total markets. Asian has the advantage that genetically modified
plants are easier to realize and new outlets for agriculture are faster to build
up.
These are some results of a new released market study by Helmut Kaiser
Consultancy
http://www.hkc22.com/bioplastics.html

Bioplastics fast market growth of more than 8-10% per year. Bioplastics cover
approximately 10-15% of the total plastics market and will increase its market
share to 25-30% by 2020. The market itself is huge, it reached over 1bn US$ in
2007 and will be over 10 billion by 2020. More and more companies are entering
and investing in this market. New applications and innovations in the Automotive
and Electronics Industry lead to market boom. Over 500 bioplastics processing
companies are already available, more than 5000 is expected by 2020.


   Bioplastics Market Worldwide with high growth through Consumer Demands for
Nontoxic Products. Nontoxic is the key image, sustainable and environmentally
friendly products is the driving force. Less than 3 percent of all waste plastic
worldwide gets recycled, compared with recycling rates of 30 percent for paper,
35 percent for metals and 18 percent for glass, according to a study by helmut
kaiser consultancy 2006.  The world’s resources are depleting at an amazing
speed. Fossil fuels are exhaustible and due to the increasing population, these
will not be sustainable in the future. Plastics are produced from by products of
the fossil fuel processing. Fossil fuels are limited and are non renewable,
bioplastics on the other hand could be a solution for the future.


   Bioplastics are plastics produced from biomass sources. Biomass sources are
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the only difference is that, bioplastics use renewable resources in their
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   The advantages of bioplastics are the uses of plant sources as renewable
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   The currently available bioplastics cover approximately 10-15% of the plastics
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toys and textile industries. With new innovations expected in the near future,
there would be more and more applications for bioplastics, such as the
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Car companies know that plastic parts made from plants will appeal to 'green'
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   Bioplastics production companies are relatively small plants and are still in
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   The new study discusses the market structure of bioplastics, its development
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For more information email : hkc22@...
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Asian water markets grow in 2007 to over 65 billion US Dollar, in 21 Asian
countries

Water Markets, Technologies and Projects in Asia 2007-2025. The first sewage
plant to produce and supply drinking water from sewage build in asia will be in
singapore. New York Conferene in July, Zurich September and Beijing October 2008

Helmut Kaiser Consultancy released a new study: Asia Water. For more
information, please see  http://www.hkc22.com/asiawater.html



Several Asian countries like China, Japan, India, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam
increased their Investments in drinking water, waste water and water treatment
in the last 24 month dramatically. The other Asian countries followed. Some
countries have too much water and some countries not enough, but all Asian
countries together face quality problems. Drinking water is bought at
supermarkets by 60 percent of the population since years, but now more and more
the water contaminants come back over the daily food and environment. Companies
in China will have to close down if the water pollution problem is not solved at
a given time. The regulations are there since years but now the government care
for the compliance. Result is the water market in industrial segments double
within 3 years.

   apans investments in waste water treatment will increase within the next years
to secure food from the sea. Contaminated fish and other seafood directed the
decision. Drinking water is dangerous in all the countries and high priority for
actions and investments. These examples are typical for all Asian countries and
show only some of many problems to be solved over the next 15 years. Less than
10 percent of the waste water is treated today.

The market for waste water and drinking water in Asian reached over 50 billion
US$ in 2007 and will reach 117.3 $ in 2015. Than still less than 30 percent of
the waste water will be treated from 10 percent today and the drinking water
still will come from the super markets. Only slowly after 2015 the situation is
getting better and partly the water quality increase and contaminations decrease
according to a new study from helmut kaiser consultancy. Japan is leading the
total markets with about 30 percent today and followed by China with 20 percent.
In 2015 Japan will lead with 25 percent and followed by China with 35 percent.
But the markets are nearly two times from today. The others are 19 more Asian
countries.

Only some years ago it was difficult to earn money in this market but today the
profit potential is higher than in Europe with the right portfolio and
technology. Therefore the competition from all over the world is already there
or coming. 250 companies lead 60 percent of the whole Asian markets. 45 percent
is the import still in 2007 but will decrease to less than 30 percent in 2015.
To buy innovations and new technologies is the interest of the leading Asian
countries and not materials and work. Joint venture and technology transfer is
the booming business. Membrane technologies, intelligent sewage plans , water
desalination are key technologies and BOT models are the successful business
instruments. Water disinfection show the highest growth rates with 16 percent in
2007 and Service with 14 percent.

Water efficiency in many asian countries will need to follow the example of
Singapore with 70 percent goal, reuse water from sewage as industry or drinking
water, collecting rain water, use water desalination plants and recycle all
kinds of water.
There will be a conference on this in July in New York, September in Zurich and
October in Beijing
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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@... ) 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@...


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



      
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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
------------------------

         Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008

               C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
               ===============================

    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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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, MSV'08
-----------------------

         Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  March 10, 2008

               C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
               ===============================

        The 2008 International Conference on Modeling,
            Simulation and Visualization Methods
                          MSV'08

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

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, 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 conference proceedings.

MSV'08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.  The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).

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

   O  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
   O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
   O  Simulation languages
   O  Molecular modeling and simulation
   O  Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
   O  Modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile
      environments
   O  Performance Evaluation and Simulation Tools
   O  Modeling and simulation tools for nanotechnology
   O  Real-time modeling and simulation
   O  Geometric modeling
   O  Information and scientific visualization
   O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
   O  Modeling methodologies
   O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
   O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
   O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
   O  Java-based modelers
   O  Scalability issues
   O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
   O  Finite and boundary element techniques
   O  Process simulation/modeling
   O  Device simulation/modeling
   O  Circuit simulation/modeling
   O  Multi-level modeling
   O  Prototyping and simulation
   O  Biomedical visualization and applications
   O  Databases and visualization
   O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
   O  Parallel and distributed simulation
   O  Discrete and numeric simulation
   O  Internet, web and security visualization
   O  Virtual reality and simulation
   O  Virtual environments and data visualization
   O  Tools and applications
   O  Object-oriented simulation
   O  Knowledge-based simulation
   O  Simulation of machine architectures
   O  Simulation of wireless systems
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
   O  CAD/CAE/CAM
   O  Emerging technologies and applications

Web site of MSV'08:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/msv08
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    MSV'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.  MSV'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 March 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, MSV'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.


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 Modeling,
                       Simulation, and Visualization Methods (MSV'08)


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:

    MSV 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



      
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Dear Colleagues:

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those who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, CSC'08
-----------------------

         Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008

               C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
               ===============================

            The 2008 International Conference on
                   Scientific Computing
                         CSC'08
    Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

            http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, 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 conference proceedings.

CSC'08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.  The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).

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

   O  Inversion problems
   O  Computational physics
   O  Computational chemistry
   O  Mathematical modeling
   O  Computational models
   O  Computational fluid dynamics
   O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
   O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
   O  Scientific visualization
   O  Numerical methods and simulation
   O  Ordinary and partial differential equations
   O  Molecular dynamics
   O  Stochastic differential equations
   O  Optimization and optimal control
   O  Finite element methods
   O  Software architectures for scientific computing
   O  Scientific computing and supercomputing benchmark design
   O  domain decomposition methods
   O  Seismic data processing
   O  Multi-level and Multi-grid methods
   O  Iterative methods
   O  Krylov methods
   O  Level-set methods
   O  Atmospheric science
   O  Integral equations
   O  Operational research
   O  Dynamical systems
   O  Generalized eigen-problems
   O  Coupled problems
   O  Nonsymmetric solvers
   O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
   O  Computational electromagnetics
   O  Computational electrodynamics
   O  Numerical linear algebra
   O  Approximation theory
   O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
   O  Mathematical software tools
   O  Splines and wavelets and applications
   O  Engineering problems and emerging applications
   O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, chemistry,
      biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production scheduling,
      automotive industry, ...

Web site of CSC'08:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/csc08
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    CSC'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.  CSC'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 March 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, CSC'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.


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 Scientific
                       Computing (CSC'08)


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:

    CSC'08 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



      
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The infection problems increase dramatically worldwide and affects the markets
for disinfection products and systems, mainly in food and beverage preservation,
pharmaceutical and chemical and water disinfection.


Helmut Kaiser Consultancy has released a new study: The Markets for
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http://www.hkc22.com/antimicrobials.html


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problems with microbial contaminations. Bacteria, fungi and algae can be major
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growth of bacteria in surfaces, such as plactics and other materials. The market
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market share for the food and beverages industry.

The highest markets in the total markets for plasctic additives are in the field
of fire protection and anitmicrobials. USA, Europe, China and other Asia Pacific
Countries consume about a third of the plastic additive volume, followed by
other Countries. The market is relatively new and will develop in the near
future. Major developments and growth will be seen in China, India, and the rest
of the Asian countries. With the increasing awareness of disinfection and
potential liabilties for microbes and foodbourne pathogens, we can also expect a
high growth in the food Industy (Food and Beverages), pharmaceutical and
chemical and water disinfection.

In the future nanotechnology will play a more crucial role in the development of
this market. With nanotechnologies, we will be able to produce particles small
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Antimicrobial additives and coating will experience a high growth in the future,
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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below
with those who might be interested.  The paper submission deadline
has been extended until March 10, 2008.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'08
-----------------------------

         Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  March 10, 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/
               (composed of 25 Joint Conferences)

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, 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) is composed of the following
25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA):

o PDPTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o CDES'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CSC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o EEE'08: The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ESA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'08: The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o BIOCOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o MLMTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning;
   Models, Technologies and Applications

o MSV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o SAM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

o ITSL'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory
   and Statistical Learning

o DMIN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining

o ERSA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o CIC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Communications in
   Computing

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org)


PURPOSE/HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80
    countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences.

    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, each of the 25 conferences will have at least
    one keynote and one invited lecture).


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 by March 10, 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 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 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)
    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 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
    -->  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



      
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CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                          WORLDCOMP'08
           The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 25 Joint Conferences)

Academic Sponsors: Three technical chapters of IEEE, research labs
at Harvard University, MIT, UCLA, 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, and others (see below).  Corporate sponsors include
Google 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) is composed of the following
25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA):

o BIOCOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CIC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Communications in
   Computing

o CSC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'08: The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'08: The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o ITSL'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory
   and Statistical Learning

o MLMTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning;
   Models, Technologies and Applications

o MSV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org)


PURPOSE/HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80
    countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    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, each of the 25 conferences will have at least
    one keynote and one invited lecture).


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 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 by Feb. 25, 2008. email submissions in MS document
    or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal submissions are also
    fine.)  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.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.


IMPORTANT DATES:

    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 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)
    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@...


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of 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 Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being compiled.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.


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 Lab, 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.
    -->  Telecommunications Task Force of the Intelligent Systems
         Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) of IEEE
         Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
    -->  IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE TCSC)
    -->  IEEE Task force of Ubiquitous Intelligent Computing of IEEE
         Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

    Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    -->  Google, Inc.
    -->  NIIT Technologies

    Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    -->  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
    -->  International Technology Institute (ITI)
    -->  GridToday
    -->  HPCwire
    -->  Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK



      
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C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
               ===============================

            The 2008 International Conference on
                   Scientific Computing
                         CSC'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  Inversion problems
   O  Computational physics
   O  Computational chemistry
   O  Mathematical modeling
   O  Computational models
   O  Computational fluid dynamics
   O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
   O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
   O  Scientific visualization
   O  Numerical methods and simulation
   O  Ordinary and partial differential equations
   O  Molecular dynamics
   O  Stochastic differential equations
   O  Optimization and optimal control
   O  Finite element methods
   O  Software architectures for scientific computing
   O  Scientific computing and supercomputing benchmark design
   O  domain decomposition methods
   O  Seismic data processing
   O  Multi-level and Multi-grid methods
   O  Iterative methods
   O  Krylov methods
   O  Level-set methods
   O  Atmospheric science
   O  Integral equations
   O  Operational research
   O  Dynamical systems
   O  Generalized eigen-problems
   O  Coupled problems
   O  Nonsymmetric solvers
   O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
   O  Computational electromagnetics
   O  Computational electrodynamics
   O  Numerical linear algebra
   O  Approximation theory
   O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
   O  Mathematical software tools
   O  Splines and wavelets and applications
   O  Engineering problems and emerging applications
   O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, chemistry,
      biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production scheduling,
      automotive industry, ...

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 Feb. 25, 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, CSC'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.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

    The list of co-sponsors of CSC'08 will soon be finalized which
    will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with major
    institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the
    2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the
    conference which included:

    Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Lab.,
    Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
    Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical Cybernetics
    Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center, University
    of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab.,
    Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and
    Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis
    (IUPUI) + University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. + BioMedical
    Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology
    and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab.,
    University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group
    of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics Problems
    of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota
    (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

    Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.
    Other Co-sponsors: Int'l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday, HPCwire,
    HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges' Health.

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 CSC'07, refer to:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CSC07/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:

    January 16, 2008:  Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Scientific
                       Computing (CSC'08)

    URL:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/csc08



      
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C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
               ===============================

        The 2008 International Conference on Modeling,
            Simulation and Visualization Methods
                          MSV'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  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
   O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
   O  Simulation languages
   O  Molecular modeling and simulation
   O  Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
   O  Modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile
      environments
   O  Performance Evaluation and Simulation Tools
   O  Modeling and simulation tools for nanotechnology
   O  Real-time modeling and simulation
   O  Geometric modeling
   O  Information and scientific visualization
   O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
   O  Modeling methodologies
   O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
   O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
   O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
   O  Java-based modelers
   O  Scalability issues
   O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
   O  Finite and boundary element techniques
   O  Process simulation/modeling
   O  Device simulation/modeling
   O  Circuit simulation/modeling
   O  Multi-level modeling
   O  Prototyping and simulation
   O  Biomedical visualization and applications
   O  Databases and visualization
   O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
   O  Parallel and distributed simulation
   O  Discrete and numeric simulation
   O  Internet, web and security visualization
   O  Virtual reality and simulation
   O  Virtual environments and data visualization
   O  Tools and applications
   O  Object-oriented simulation
   O  Knowledge-based simulation
   O  Simulation of machine architectures
   O  Simulation of wireless systems
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
   O  CAD/CAE/CAM
   O  Emerging technologies and applications

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 Feb. 25, 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, MSV'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.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

    The list of co-sponsors of MSV'08 will soon be finalized which
    will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with major
    institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the
    2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the
    conference which included:

    Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Lab.,
    Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
    Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical Cybernetics
    Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center, University
    of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab.,
    Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and
    Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis
    (IUPUI) + University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. + BioMedical
    Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology
    and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab.,
    University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group
    of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics Problems
    of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota
    (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

    Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.
    Other Co-sponsors: Int'l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday, HPCwire,
    HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges' Health.

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 MSV'07, refer to:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/MSV07/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:

    January 16, 2008:  Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Modeling,
                       Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'08)

    URL:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/msv08



      
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CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
                   Call For Workshop Proposals

                          WORLDCOMP'08
           The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 25 Joint Conferences)

ACADEMIC SPONSORS: Research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin,
University of Iowa, and others (see below).

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  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) is composed of the following
25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA):

o BIOCOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CIC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Communications in
   Computing

o CSC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'08: The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'08: The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o ITSL'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory
   and Statistical Learning

o MLMTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning;
   Models, Technologies and Applications

o MSV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org)

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    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@...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80
    countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    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.

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 by Feb. 25, 2008. email submissions in MS document
    or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal submissions are also
    fine.)  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.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  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 in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, 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).  email your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address
    is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals by
    January 16, 2008.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2008:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 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)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of 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 Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are 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.

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: waterfalls, 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 (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

SPONSORS: (this is a partial list)

    Academic Co-sponsors include:
    - Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
      Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
      http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/
    - Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
      http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/
    - BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute
      of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
      http://www.bio-miblab.org/
    - Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of
      Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
      http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/
    - Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
      Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
      http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/
    - Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
      College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
      http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/
    - Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa,
      Iowa, USA
      http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/
    - The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
      http://www.und.edu
    - International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
      http://www.isibm.org/
    - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
      Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
    Other Co-sponsors:
    - NIIT Technologies
      http://www.niit-tech.com/
    - High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
      http://www.hpcnano.org
    - International Technology Institute (ITI)
      http://www.itiworld.org/
    - GridToday
      http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html
    - HPCwire
      http://www.hpcwire.com/
    - Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK
      http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk

Future Announcements: If you do not wish to receive future announcements
about this event, please send an email to hra@....



      
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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

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 Feb. 25, 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.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

    The list of co-sponsors of CDES'08 will soon be finalized which
    will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with major
    institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the
    2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the
    conference which included:

    Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Lab.,
    Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
    Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical Cybernetics
    Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center, University
    of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab.,
    Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and
    Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis
    (IUPUI) + University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. + BioMedical
    Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology
    and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab.,
    University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group
    of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics Problems
    of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota
    (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

    Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.
    Other Co-sponsors: Int'l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday, HPCwire,
    HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges' Health.

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:

    January 16, 2008:  Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 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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