Thursday, November 29, 2007

ISOPE 2008: FER-2008 Vancouver, Canada

Date and Venue:
July 6-11, 2008, Vancouver, Canada

Important Dates:
Abstracts Due: December 15, 2007
Manuscript for Review: January 31, 2008
Final Manuscript Due: March 31, 2008

ISOPE Frontier Energy Resources Symposium (FER)

First CALL FOR PAPERS at The 18th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference
ISOPE Frontier Energy Resources Symposium (FER-2008) will focus on the range of alternative energy sources other than conventional fossil fuels such as oil and gas. These alternative sources are receiving a great deal of attention, span a wide range of origin and, like fossil fuels are also not evenly distributed around the world.
The purpose of this symposium is to provide a timely forum to provide the state-of-the-art knowledge in the business outlook and technology in the development of these resources. The symposium, the first of its kind in ISOPE, is envisioned to consist of prominent speakers who are leading authorities in the respective fields to discuss the status, issues and challenges in the various types of Frontier Energy Resources.

Suggested Topics:
• Oil Sands / Heavy Oil
• Oil Shale
• Tight Gas
• Coal (liquefaction/gasification)
• Gas Hydrates
• Coal Bed Methane
• Bio Fuels
• Geothermal

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN 2008)

Date and Venue :
May 5, 6 and 7, 2008, Surabaya, East Java Indonesia

Important Dates
Paper Submissions Deadline: January 31, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: February 29, 2008
Camera Ready Version Due: March 15, 2008

Information for Contributors
Contributions are invited on all topics concerning wireless and optical communications networks and components. We are soliciting original papers describing the state-of-the-art research and development in the areas of wireless and Optical Communication and Networks, including, but not limited to the following topics:


Optical Networking Technologies

Optical network planning, design and modelling
Optical access/metro networks
IP over optical networks
Network protection/restoration
Generalised multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS)
Planning and design tools for optical networks
QoS issues in optical networks
Routing and wavelength assignment
Multiple access technique and fairness control in optical LANs and MANs
Optical Switching and Network Elements
Photonic switching system architectures
Optical cross-connects and add-drop multiplexers
Optical IP routers
Photonic packet switching
Network signalling and monitoring techniques
Optical signal processing
Wavelength conversion techniques
Optical Transmission Technologies
WDM Ultra-long haul transmission systems
OTDM transmission systems
Soliton transmission systems
Transmission system experiments
Radio over fibre-optics
Optical interconnections
Optical interfaces and terminals
Optical Passive Components
Fiber-Bragg-grating-based devices
Fiber-grating dispersion compensators
Optical circulators and isolators
Optical waveguide-based devices
Fiber and waveguide filters
Microstructured waveguides and devices
Arrayed waveguide devices
Optical splitting and directional couplers
Optical Active Components and Modules
Optical modulators and switches
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Semiconductor lasers and detectors
Fibre amplifiers and lasers
Raman and Brillouin amplifiers
Automatic gain control of optical amplifiers
Optical MEMS
Photonic integrated circuits/modules
Optical tunable filters
Optical logics and memories
Mobile and Wireless Communications topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
1. Management
Resource and Information Management
Pricing and Billing Issues

2. Architecture
Convergence of Fixed and Mobile
Hybrid Communications System

3. Devices
Low-Power End-Devices and Wireless Communications

4. Security
Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks

5. QoS
Adaptive Quality of Service Provisioning
End-to-end Quality of Service

6. Mobility Support
Handoff Algorithms
IP and Mobility
Mobility and Connection Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Policy-based Mobility Management

7. Applications
Personal Communications
Location and Context Management
Smart Media
Mobile Code
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Applications

8. Access
Wireless IP
Wireless Multimedia Services
Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
Multiple Access Technology
Broadband Wireless Access

9. Networking
Wireless Personal Area Networks
Wireless Local Area Networks
Mobility and Nomadic Computing
Analysis and Simulation of Mobile Network Protocols
Home Networking
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and the Internet
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Routing
Satellite Networks

10. INTERNET
Access and broadband technologies
Agent technologies, Distributed games
Hypertext and hypermedia
Multimedia on the Web
Audio/video/voice coding for Internet service
Internet security , Multicast
Virtual private networks
Web navigation strategies, Quality of service
Scalability aspects , Traffic characterization


Paper Submission Guidelines
Authors are requested to submit electronically a PDF file paper(s) only to the following link: http://papers.mssis.com:8888/
Elsevier publishing house will be receiving all the titles of the accepted papers from IEEE WOCN2008 conference for inclusion in its databases, including Engineering Index (EI) and EI Compendex.

The following identification numbers, the IEEE catalog number and ISBN will be assigned to WOCN2008 accepted papers.

WOCN2008 Conference Technical Program chairs are:
Dr. Muhammad Ary Murti, STTTelkoms, Indonesia
Associate Professor Vincent Guyot, ESIEA/LIP6, France
Dr. Daniel O. Siahaan, ITS Surabaya, Indonesia
Professor Alok Kumar Das, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, India
Assistant Professor Valencia M. Joyner, Tufts University, USA
Professor Asoke Talukder, IIIT, Bangalore, India
Associate Professor Ping Shum, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Papers should be written in English and should preferably follow the instructions in Template.pdf

Preferred maximum paper length is 5 printed pages (10-point font) including figures. IEEE will accept papers for review up to 7 pages in length. Accepted papers that are longer than 5 pages will be charged an over length fee of $100 USD for 6 pages and $200 USD for 7 pages. Under no circumstances may any submission should exceed 7 pages. Papers in excess of 7 pages shall not be considered for review or publication. The cover page is not included in the page count. The title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, complete return address, telephone number, facsimile number and e-mail address should appear at the top of the first page followed by an abstract with a maximum of 100 words. Authors must state that their paper has neither been published before nor currently being submitted elsewhere. The language of the conference is English and papers must be in this language. Accepted papers will be published in the conference's proceedings and/or CD-ROMs and the publication will be available on IEEE XploreTM. Selected papers will also be published in a journal. Please note that final submission of accepted papers must be in accordance to publisher's formatting standard which will be updated shortly.

For additional information concerning paper submission, Please contact general chair: Guy.Omidyar@IEEE.org

Note that final submission of accepted papers (Camera ready) must be in accordance to publisher’s formatting standard IEEE Xplore at: http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=pubs/confpubcenter&file=index.xml&xsl=generic.xsl


For complete information, please visit : http://www.wocn2008.org/

The IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2008), Taichong, Taiwan

Date & Venue :
June 11-13, 2008 Taichung, Taiwan

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society in cooperation with Asia University

Important Dates:

• Paper abstract registration: 11/13/2007 extended to 12/04/2007
• Paper submission: 11/20/2007 extended to 12/04/2007
• Paper notification: 01/28/2008 extended to 02/04/2008
• Camera ready: 03/14/2008

Introduction:
The rapid research and technological advances in wireless communications and increasing availability of sensors, actuators, and mobile devices have created an exciting new ubiquitous computing paradigm that facilitates computing and communication services all the time, everywhere. This emerging paradigm is changing the way we live and work today. Via a ubiquitous infrastructure consisting of a variety of global and localized networks, users, sensors, devices, systems and applications may seamlessly interact with each other and even the physical world in unprecedented ways. To realize this continually evolving ubiquitous computing paradigm,trustworthy computing that delivers secure, private, and reliable computing and communication services plays an essential role.

The IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2008) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of sensor networks, ubiquitous and trustworthy computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of sensor networks, ubiquitous and trustworthy computing. The technical program of SUTC2008 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. A number of best papers presented in the conference will be selected for possible publication in a special issue of journals.

Topics of Interest:

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include, but are not limited to the following aspects of sensor networks, ubiquitous, and trustworthy computing:

• Applications (novel use cases, deployment experience)
• Algorithms and Protocols (topology, coverage, routing, distributed coordination)
• Data Management and Processing (gathering, storage, fusion, dissemination)
• Deployment, Testing, and Debugging
• Design and Programming Methodologies
• Energy management
• Embedded processors, sensors, and actuators
• Management aspects (configuration, adaptation, healing)
• Mobility, Location, and Context
• Modeling and Performance Evaluation (simulation, complexity analysis, user studies)
• Networking Technologies (ad hoc networks, personal area networks)
• Operating Systems and Middleware
• Privacy
• Protocol Design, Modeling, and Implementation Experiences
• QoS aspects
• Reliability
• Security (authentication, access control, intrusion detection and tolerance)
• Social Issues
• System and Network Architectures
• Trust (establishment, negotiation, management)
• User Interface Technologies

Paper Submission:
The conference solicits original and previously unpublished research and industrial papers. Submissions should be prepared in IEEE conference proceedings format, up to 8 pages in two-column, no less than 10 pt font and uploaded in pdf at the conference submission site (detailed submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage).

A number of best papers presented in the conference will be selected for possible publication in a special issue of International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks and International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems.

For complete information, visit : http://SUTC2008.csie.ncu.edu.tw/

3rd International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR-2008)

Date & Venue :
June 7-12, 2008, Moscow, Russia

Important Dates :
Submission deadline: December 9, 2007 (EasyChair is now open).
Notification to authors: February 8, 2008.
Symposium: June 7–12, 2008.

CSR 2008 is the third conference in a series of regular events started with CSR 2006 in St. Petersburg (see LNCS 3967) and CSR 2007 in Ekaterinburg (see LNCS 4649). It intends to reflect the broad scope of international cooperation in computer science. CSR 2008 consists of two tracks: Theory Track and Applications and Technology Track.

Organizers: Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for System Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Open Education, Institute of New Technologies.

Poster of the symposium (pdf) Please distribute the information about CSR 2008 and inform everybody who is likely to be interested in this event.

Opening lecture: Avi Wigderson (IAS, Princeton, USA).

Invited speakers include

Eric Allender (Rutgers University, USA)
Leonid Levin (Boston University, USA)
Pavel Pudlák (Math. Inst. AS CR, Czech Republic)
Uri Zwick (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Theory Track topics include
* algorithms and data structures;
* complexity and cryptography;
* formal languages and automata;
* computational models and concepts;
* proof theory and applications of logic to computer science.

Applications and Technology Track topics include
* programming and languages;
* artificial intelligence;
* bio-informatics;
* computer architecture, hardware design, nanotechnology;
* databases and knowledge bases, information retrieval and search, Web technologies;
* numerical and symbolic computing;
* programming for parallel computing;
* software development and software validation methods and tools.

The symposium will include also special sessions: In memoriam Andrey Muchnik and Teaching Computer Science.

Submissions: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 10 pages preferably in the LNCS format. Proofs and other material omitted due to space constraints are to be put into a clearly marked appendix to be read at discretion of the referees. Papers must present original (and not previously published) research. Simultaneous submissions to journals or to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed.


Submissions are to be made via EasyChair no later than on December 9th, 2007. Notifications will be sent by February 8th, 2008.

Proceedings: The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Springer's LNCS series.

Contact e-mail: info@csr2008.ru

For complete information, visit : http://csr2008.ru/HomePage

Friday, November 23, 2007

Seminar Open Source di ITS, Surabaya

Bagi yang tertarik terhadap open source, berikut ini ada serangkaian acara seminar dan workshop tentang open source yang diselenggarakan oleh Puslit ICT dalam hal ini adalah bidang POSS-ITS (Pusat Pemberdayaan Open Source Software - ITS) yang bekerja sama dengan beberapa pihak.

Adapun rangkaian acara tsb antara lain:

1. Seminar Migrasi Software Berlisensi menuju Software Open Source
Tgl 24 November 2007 pukul 09.00 di Pascasarjana ITS
Keynote speaker : Bp. Romi Satrio Wahono (owner situs Ilmu Komputer)

2. Seminar Sukses berenterpreneurship dengan software open source
Tgl 1 Desember 2007 pukul 09.00 di Pascasarjana ITS
Keynote speaker : Bp. Rusmanto (owner Infolinux)

3. Seminar Pintar dengan open source
Tgl 8 Desember 2007 pukul 09.00 di Pascasarjana ITS
Pembicara : Bp. Kemal Prihatman (Asisten Deputi Ristek RI)

4. Workshop Full open source warnet
Tgl 14 & 15 Desember 2007 pukul 09.00 di Hi-Tech Mall
Pembicara : Bp. Beny Nasution (Dosen SI)

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The 9th Seminar on Intelligent Technology and Its Applications SITIA 2008

Date and Venue :
8 May 2008
Surabaya, Indonesia

Important Date:
Deadline for paper submission: Desember 24th 2007
Notification of acceptance/pengumuman hasil review: January 28th,2008
Deadline of final paper submission: March 17th,2008
Payment and registration of author and participant / pembayaran dan pendaftaran penyaji dan peserta: April 7th, 2008

SITIA (Seminar on Intelligent Technology and Its Applications) adalah konferensi tahunan yang diselenggarakan oleh Jurusan Teknik Elektro, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember ( ITS ), dengan tujuan untuk turut mendorong pertumbuhan kegiatan penelitian di bidang Intelligent Technology dan Electrical Engineering pada umumnya. Berlangsung di Kampus ITS Sukolilo, Surabaya. Para peneliti diundang untuk berpartisipasi mempresentasikan makalahnya dalam bidang yang meliputi, namun tidak terbatas pada:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer and Communication Networks
- Computer Appl. in Power Systems
- Computing Algorithms
- Education in IT and EE
- Electric Drives and Energy Conversion
- Electromagnetic Compatibility
- Electromagnetic and Radio Propagation
- Industrial and Power Electronics
- High Voltage Engineering
- Intelligent Control System
- Material and Electronic Devices
- Measurement and Instrumentations
- Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation
- Microelectronic Circuits and System
- Mobile Computing
- Multimedia Information Processing
- Information Systems and Management
- Optoelectronics and Laser Applications
- Power System Stability and Power Quality
- Remote Sensing and GIS
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- Vision, Graphics, and Visualization
- Wireless and Mobile Communications

Monday, November 12, 2007

International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation 2008 (ICEEDM08) Jakarta, Indonesia

Date & Venue :April 14-15, 2008
Jakarta, Indonesia

Important Dates
Deadline for abstract submission: October 19, 2007
Abstract acceptance notification: November 19, 2007
Deadline for full paper submission: January 31, 2008
Conference Dates: April 14-15, 2008

Call for Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended
abstracts of conference topics. The abstract should be
no more than 500 words. The official language is
English. Please send the abstract to:
iceedm08_paper@si.itb.ac.id.
Workshop
A half day workshop on Aceh disaster lesson-learned
and future disaster mitigation will be held after the
conference.
Technical Tours
Technical Tours to cities of Banda Aceh and Yogyakarta
will be organized for interested participants.

Conference Theme
The main theme of the conference is: Earthquake
Disaster Risk Reduction: Engineering Challenges after
Recent Disasters.
The topics include the followings:
• Probabilistic and Deterministic Seismic Hazard
Assessment
• Seismic Zonation and Microzonation
• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• Soil-Structure Interaction
• Performance-based Design
• Case Histories in Recent Earthquakes
• Case Histories in Earthquake Engineering Design
and Construction
• Tsunami Modeling
• Tsunami Early Warning System
• Seismic and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation and Management
• Retrofit, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction
• Non-engineered Buildings
• Community-based Disaster Risk Management

ICEEDM08 Secretariat
c/o Dr. D. Kusumastuti
Structural Engineering Lab., Institut Teknologi Bandung
Jalan Ganesha 10 Bandung 40132, INDONESIA
Phone +62-22-251-0715
Facsimile +62-22-251-2403
Email: iceedm08@si.itb.ac.id
Web site: http://www.si.itb.ac.id/iceedm08
Registration Fees:
International participants:
On or Before Jan 14, 2008: USD 250
After Jan 14, 2008: USD 300
Local participants:
On or Before Jan 14, 2008: Rp 1.200.000,-
After Jan 14, 2008: Rp 1.500.000,-

Organized by:
Indonesian Earthquake Engineering Association (IEEA)
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)

Supported by:

Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency of Aceh-Nias
International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE)
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Eng. - ITB
Center for Disaster Mitigation - ITB
Mid-America Earthquake Center

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Seminar Nasional Biokimia 2008 di Universitas Indonesia

Date: Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Venue : Pusat Studi Jepang Universitas Indonesia
Kampus Baru UI Depok

Peserta
Perguruan Tinggi Negeri/ Swasta (dosen dan mahasiswa)
Lembaga Penelitian (departemen dan non-departemen)
Lembaga Pemerintah/ BUMN
Industri
Umum

Sekretariat Panitia
Himpunan Mahasiswa Departemen Kimia FMIPA UI
Gedung G, Lt. 1, Kampus Baru-UI, Depok 16424
Telp. (021) 7884 9005 (Kantor Tata Usaha Dept.Kimia FMIPA UI)
Fax. (021) 786 3432
E-mail: semnas_biokimia_2008@yahoo.com
Contact Person: Camelia (0856 7655 875), Alex L.S (0818 0782 6722)

Nomor Rekening Sekretariat Panitia:
No. Rekening: 1 637 009 575 a.n. Lusi Trywulan Dewi
Bank Syariah Mandiri KC FMIPA UI, Depok

For complete information, visit: http://www.chem.ui.ac.id/snb2008/

8th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2008) in China

Date and Venue : 23-27 June 2008, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

Important Dates• Paper submission deadline: 4 January 2008
• Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2008
• Deadline for final version: 11 April 2008

The International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD) serves as a forum for disseminating theoretical results with application potential and advanced methods and tools for the design of complex concurrent systems. While there are already quite a few success stories in the field, there is still a strong need to bring theory and practice closer together. The conference aims at cross-fertilizing both theoretical and applied research on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
• Design methods, tools and techniques based on models of computation and concurrency (dataflow
models, communicating automata, Petri nets, process algebras, state charts, MSCs, etc.),
(performance) analysis, verification, testing and synthesis.
• Hardware / software co-design, platform-based design, component-based design, refinement
techniques, hardware / software abstractions, co-simulation and verification.
• Synchronous and asynchronous design, asynchronous circuits, globally asynchronous locally
synchronous systems, interface design, multi-clock systems, functional and timing verification.
• Concurrency issues in Systems on Chips, massively parallel architectures, networks on chip,
task and communication scheduling, resource, memory and power management, fault-tolerance
and Quality of Service issues.
• (Industrial) case studies of general interest, gaming applications, consumer electronics and
multimedia, automotive systems, (bio-)medical applications, internet and grid computing, etc.
• Concurrency issues in ad-hoc, mobile and wireless networking, sensor networks,
communication protocols, cross-layer optimization, resource, power and Quality of Service
management, fault-tolerance, concurrency-related security issues.
• Business process modeling, simulation and verification, (distributed) workflow execution,
business process (de-) composition, interorganizational and heterogeneous workflow systems,
computer-supported collaborative work systems, web services.
• Synthesis and control of concurrent systems, (compositional) modeling and design, distributed
simulation and implementation, (distributed) controller synthesis, adaptive systems,
supervisory control.

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ACSD 2008 will be co-located with 29th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency and the two conferences will share invited speakers as well as the satellite workshops and tutorials. The joint web site for the two conferences is given above.

Regular PapersSubmitted papers should be in IEEE Computer Society Press 2-column format available from ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf. Both long papers (with no more than 10 pages) and short papers (with no more than 6 pages) can be submitted. Submitted papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. More information can be obtained through the conference web site (see above).

Tool Papers and Demonstrations Submissions for tool demonstrations should be no more than 5 pages in IEEE CS Press format.
Acceptance of a tool paper implies that a tool demonstration should be given at the conference.

Proceedings
Proceedings containing accepted regular papers, invited papers and tool papers are planned to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Best Paper Award
An award will be given to the author(s) of the best regular paper presented at ACSD 2008.
Special Issue Fundamenta Informaticae
Best papers of ACSD will be considered for publication in extended and revised form in a special issue of the Fundamenta Informaticae journal.

For complete information visit : http://ictt.xidian.edu.cn/acsd2008/Pages/ACSD_CFP.jsp

Friday, November 9, 2007

Call For Paper - BIOTECHNO 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Date and Venue : June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania

Important deadlines:
Submission deadline February 5, 2008
Notification March 15, 2008
Registration and camera ready April 15, 2008

International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies
June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania
Bio-oriented technologies became very popular in various research topics and industrial market segments. Current human mechanisms seem to offer significant ways for improving theories, algorithms, technologies, products and systems. A myriad of theoretical models, dedicated software solutions, and mathematical algorithms and calculi helps improving gathering and representing knowledge on human being. Bioengineering and biomedical computation and representation techniques rely on special biocomputing techniques inspired from this process. Bioinformatics itself constitutes a vast area of research and specialization, as many classical domains such as databases, modeling, and regular expressions are used to represent, store, retrieve and process a huge volume of knowledge. Large scale biosystems opened the need for specific devices, such as biomechanical, biorobotics, nanosensors, human-oriented control systems, etc. As progress is extremely fast, there is a continuous need to keep pace with the developments and achievements, as well as with challenging issues. BIOTECHNO brings together achievements and challenges for practical software and hardware support, highlighting the advances in biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical technologies.

The BIOTECHNO 2008 initiates a series of events targeting traditional and advanced paradigms for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical technologies and systems. The conference covers also fundamentals on bio-ontologies and theoretical support, and highlights new challenging industrial applications and research topics.

Topics
Bio-ontologies

Software environments for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical applications
Medical informatics
Epidemic models
Biological data mining
Biomedical knowledge discovery
Pattern classification and recognition
Mathematical biology
Graph theory and bioinformatics
Stochastic modeling
Biological databases and information retrieval
Processing mutation information
Archiving of mutation specific information
Biocomputing
Computational biology
Bioengineering
Biomedical image computing and informatics
Biomedical automation and control
Image-based diagnosis and therapy
Modeling and simulation of systems biology
Applications of large-scale bio-systems
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics modeling
Bioinformatics databases
Genomics
Biostatistics
Structural and functional genomics
Molecular sequence and structure databases
Molecular interactions and structure predictions
RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
Gene regulation and expression databases
Gene identification and pattern discovery
Gene expression analysis
Modeling and simulation of biomarkers
Biomechanical devices
Biomaterials
Biomedical Instrumentation
Biomedical metrology and certification
Biomedical sensors
Biomedical monitoring devices
Biological data integration
Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
Biological data visualization
Biometric screening techniques
Biorobotics
Biomedical devices with embedded computers
Biocomputing and Biochips
Synthetic Biological Systems
Chemoinformatics
combinatorial chemistry
graph theory in chemistry
drug design
concepts, methods, and tools for drug discovery
prediction of drug toxicity
property prediction
molecular mechanics and quantum chemical calculations
modeling and measurements of solid-liquid and vapor-liquid equilibria
metabolomics and machine learning
blood-brain barrier penetration
comparison of the similarity/diversity of chemo-data libraries
chemoinformatics applications
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
The BIOTECHNO 2008 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page (http://www.iaria.org/instructions.html#format). Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the IEEE Authors Tools (http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html).

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers.

Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials.

Panel proposals:
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

Workshop proposals
Workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference are welcome.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/CfPBIOTECHNO08.html

Thursday, November 8, 2007

10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2008, Barcelona, Spain

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Full Paper Submission: November 30, 2007
Authors Notification: February 25, 2008
Final Paper Submission and Registration: March 14, 2008

ICEIS 2008 will be organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control.


CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. Databases and Information Systems Integration
2. Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
3. Information Systems Analysis and Specification
4. Software Agents and Internet Computing
5. Human-Computer Interaction

WORKSHOPS


ICEIS provides interesting support and synergy for holding related workshops. In 2007, 10 successful workshops were held in connection with ICEIS.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICEIS 2008 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors should submit a paper in English up to 5.000 words, using the paper format indicated below. The program committee will review all papers and the contact author of each paper will be notified of the result, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the conference track to which the paper is submitted. The paper must be carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling.

Authors should use the ICEIS web-based submission facility available at the conference web site, to enter the contact information of all paper authors plus the file containing the paper. The facility will automatically send a submission acknowledgement, by email, to the author indicated as “contact author.

A “blind” paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, WITHOUT any reference to the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in any part of this file.

If the author is unable to use the web-based procedure then he/she can send the paper by email to the secretariat attaching a second file containing: the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact details, a list of keywords and an abstract.

The camera-ready format should be strictly used for all submitted papers. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided.

Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the camera-ready version will be limited to 8 (eight) pages for full papers, 6 (six) for short papers (progress reports) and 4 (four) for poster presentations. If absolutely needed, it will be allowed to increase the total number of pages, by 4 extra pages. However, for each excess page the author will have to pay an additional fee.

ICEIS 2008 Secretariat

E-mail: secretariat@iceis.org
Web:http://www.iceis.org/

VENUE

The conference will be held in Barceló Hotel Sants. The Barceló Hotel Sants is a deluxe hotel located in the heart of Barcelona. It stays about 15 minutes from the airport, 4 minutes to Plaza de Catalunya and 500 metres to the Fira de Barcelona. Considering the hotel is exactly above the train station, it allows traveling to anyplace. Most important is the fact that all the noise from the train station is undetected because the hotel is soundproofed. The Barcelo Hotel Sants also offers on site dining and is convenient to many shopping and entertainment venues.