Call For Papers with Extended Deadline of March 23: WORLDCOMP'08 (25

Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  March 23, 2008

Call  For  Papers

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

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

Academic Sponsors include research labs at Harvard University, MIT,
UCLA, George Mason University, Georgia Institute of Technology,
University
of Texas at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University,
University
of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences, European
Union
at Institute of Discrete Mathematics, and others (see below).
Corporate
sponsors include Google, Salford Systems, and NIIT.

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

The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) will be held in Las Vegas, USA,
July 14-17, 2008.  It is composed of the following conferences (all
will
be held simultaneously, same location and dates):

GCA'08:     Grid Computing & Applications
PDPTA'08:   Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques &
Applications
CDES'08:    Computer Design
ESA'08:     Embedded Systems & Applications
CGVR'08:    Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality
ICOMP'08:   Internet Computing
SWWS'08:    Semantic Web & Web Services
GEM'08:     Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
CSC'08:     Scientific Computing
FCS'08:     Foundations of Computer Science
EEE'08:     e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information
Systems,
& e-Government
FECS'08:    Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer
Engineering
ICAI'08:    Artificial Intelligence
ICWN'08:    Wireless Networks
IKE'08:     Information & Knowledge Engineering
IPCV'08:    Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern
Recognition
BIOCOMP'08: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MLMTA'08:   Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications
MSV'08:     Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods
SAM'08:     Security & Management
SERP'08:    Software Engineering Research & Practice
ITSL'08:    Information Theory & Statistical Learning
DMIN'08:    Data Mining
ERSA'08:    Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms
CIC'08:     Communications in Computing

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


PURPOSE/HISTORY:

WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in
computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing.  In 2007, the
congress attracted over 2,000 scientists and researchers, including
148
sponsored students.  For 2008, we anticipate to have about 2,400
attendees from over 80 countries.

WORLCOMP'08 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
speakers
included Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H.
Holland
(U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State
U.);
Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California,
Berkeley); Prof. David Cheriton (Stanford U.), Prof. A. K. Dunker
(Indiana U. and Purdue U.); Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim
Gettys
(developer of X Window, ...); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO,
Tensilica, Inc.); and many other distinguished speakers.


FEATURED 2008 KEYNOTE LECTURES:

Prof. David A. Patterson
University of California at Berkeley, California, USA
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
Shared (with John Hennessy) the IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Prof. Ophir Frieder
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at
Georgetown University,
IITRI Chair Professor of Computer Science at Illinois Institute
of Technology,
Director, Information Retrieval lab (IIT)
Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS

(in addition to the above, there will be 30+ keynotes and invited
lectures.)


FEATURED TUTORIAL:

Prof. H. J. Siegel
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE
Professor of Computer Science
Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC)
Fellow of IEEE and ACM

(in addition to the above, there will also be 11 planned other
tutorials).


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper
(about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
H. R. Arabnia ( hra@cs.uga.edu ) by March 23, 2008. Email
submissions
in MS document or PDF formats are preferable.  All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their papers for publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and telephone
number for each author.  The first page should also identify the
name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that
would best represent the content of the paper.  Finally, the name
of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be
stated on the first page.

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
in the field who are independent of the conference program
committee.
The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of
the track that the paper has been submitted to.  The chair will
make
the final decision.


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 23, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 17, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
May 3, 2008:       Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
(WORLDCOMP'08 - 25 joint conferences)


GENERAL CO-CHAIR / COORDINATOR:

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

Tel: (706) 542-3480
E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu


LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
attractions, including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River,
wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
walking distance from most other attractions.


SPONSORS (this is a partial list):

Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

-->  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
-->  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
-->  Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
-->  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota,
USA
-->  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
-->  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
-->  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory,
University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
-->  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University
and
MIT, USA
-->  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
-->  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
-->  Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program
George Mason University, Virginia, USA
-->  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
-->  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
-->  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
-->  PSU - Prince Sultan University
-->  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
-->  NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
Geometry, TU Vienna

Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

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

Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

-->  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
-->  International Technology Institute (ITI)
-->  GridToday - enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization,
Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
-->  HPCwire - The Leading Source for Global News and Information
Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing
-->  Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK