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Re: [ogsa-wg] Materials for tomorrows call
by Subramaniam, Ravi 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi Andrew, I'd echo the points raised by Steve/Ian/Donal but appreciate what I think may be your motivation for this exercise (some simple definition of workflows that OGSA services can work with). I think the key is "that which OGSA services can work with". I think a simpler approach may be to define clearly what OGSA services expect (semantics, formats) from workflow services and what control points are to be exposed by these services to allow OGSA services to "manage" these workflow services and/or the workflows they instantiate and drive. Given this OGSA would specify an "OGSA"(?) query/command interface that services would additionally expose/implement (in addition to what they already implement/expose i.e. a composition). OGSA services would then issue requests (that adhered to this standard) and get responses (to this standard) which would describe just the elements that would be required for example in a scheduling decision. A response for scheduling for example would define the nodes and connections (which might look somewhat like your example) so that a scheduler can understand dependencies. The request/command interface may also support operations like to launch a workflow, rewind a workflow etc (some of these commands may also mimic BES requests). We need a standard (OGSA compatible) way to interact with workflow engines and workflows but probably not a new WFDL. Even in defining these interaction interfaces we should be careful not to "reinvent the wheel" if there is standards which we can define a *profile* to simplify for OGSA needs. Defining, building and describing these workflows would be outside the purview of this exercise and this is where the large body of work can be leveraged by the solution implementers. Ravi ________________________________ From: ogsa-wg-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:52 PM To: ogsa-wg(a)gridforum.org Subject: [ogsa-wg] Materials for tomorrows call All, Steve McGough and I were asked to prepare a discussion around workflow for the telecom tomorrow. Attached is a short slide deck and some XML examples - to be explained during the call. I have another meeting in which I am presenting that runs from 7-9 am eastern, so will miss the opening of the OGSA call. If for some reason I am late, Mark can present. A Andrew Grimshaw Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia 434-982-2204 grimshaw(a)cs.virginia.edu

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Nov 30 call minutes
by Michel Drescher 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Folks, the minutes of today's call are on Gridforge: http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14042?nav=1 Note that I copied the notes of Andreas more or less verbatim for the XQuery demo part. Cheers, Michel - -- Michel <dot> Drescher <at> uk <dot> fujitsu <dot> com Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe +44 20 8606 4834 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFbw78k0lMZTNKw4QRAv1GAKDDakuqb/wU6qcFrJy1HMFEMJIc/ACeJcF4 /kYkwYJKtq+HcQQeK0mSk0M= =K708 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Materials for tomorrows call
by Andrew Grimshaw 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

All, Steve McGough and I were asked to prepare a discussion around workflow for the telecom tomorrow. Attached is a short slide deck and some XML examples - to be explained during the call. I have another meeting in which I am presenting that runs from 7-9 am eastern, so will miss the opening of the OGSA call. If for some reason I am late, Mark can present. A Andrew Grimshaw Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia 434-982-2204 grimshaw(a)cs.virginia.edu

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OGSA workflow design team wiki page
by Hiro Kishimoto 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi all, During today's workflow discussion, I got an action item to create new wiki page for workflow requirement collection. I've set up new wiki page. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1653 Please add your workflow requirements to this page. We will have another workflow session on Dec. 14. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Proposed agenda for Nov. 30th call
by Hiro Kishimoto 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi all, The following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Nov. 30th. Thursday from 7am - 9am (CST). ** attention: new international number ** Dial-in numbers for Thursday: Free: +1-888-452-0308 Intl/Toll: +(210) 234-7446 PIN: 71815 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service will be provided. URL: http://ogsa.glance.net Session key: 1130 See more explanation: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 1) Early discussion (20 min) Note taker assignment Roll call Telecon minutes approval (if available) Action Items status review (see the bottom of this email) Agenda bashing 2) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Fred, 40 min) > Info model & Service Integration > ================================ > - The group discusses the details of Profile work > -- THere are diffferences in how the term Profile is actually used between > different organisaitons such as DMTF, OGF, etc. > - Tom Maguire proposes to use the BES specification as an exmple and how to > do serviice integration. > - Tom outlines the process how DMTF creates profiles > - How does this impact OGSA-WG as of what to do next? > -- Two options: > --- Update the service model in DMTF (which is at best tangential if > not parallel to OGSA-WG work) > --- Take the Container model and turn it into a normative specification > ---- on a service interface and a profiled information model > -- A new document is added to the list of group deliverables > --- Information Model Profile: BES Container document, in style of DMTF > ---- Ellen Stokes, Tom Maguire > ---- No particular document type, rather a proof-of-concept > --- Take BES as a protocol specification, and add an information model > profile as message specification > --- The document is actually a profile on the Information Model, with > associated protocol binding documents. > -- There needs explanation within the OGF community what this document effort > assumes to produce > - The group reaches consensus that this said document will probably inform > the "Information Modelling in OGSA" work effort, or even provide contents > for this Ellen will write up first draft before the call. 3) OGSA workflow discussion (Andrew, 40 min) Minutes from Nov. 10 am F2F > <ASM> Can we propose that we have multiple approaches and how to do each of these? > - <AG> Set up a design team to look into this? > - Do we have consensus for this (design team)? > -<DS> Should be short lived design team > - <JU> Don't do the work just figure out what can be done > - <ASM> Sort out what is out there and what could potentially be done > - <AG> to lead > - Initial deadline - preliminary report for January meeting https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14033 4) Wrap up (10 min) AOB <*NEXT CALL*> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Dec. 4 (Mon) <No call> Management Developer Conference Dec. 7 (Thu) <No call> GFSG F2F meeting Dec. 11 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong) Roadmap document (Chris Jordan) EMS Arch scenarios document review (Andreas Savva) Dec. 14 (Thu) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Fred) OGSA security (Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw) OGSA workflow (Andrew Grimshaw) <*ACTION ITEMS*> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1569 > From Nov. 9 am F2F. AI-1109am-a: Ellen and Tom will review the error code/faults issue further with a view to put a proposal forward to DMTF. > From Nov. 9 pm F2F. AI.11.09.pm-a: Ellen and Tom to write up a "Information Model profile document: BES Container" AI.11.09.pm-c: Andrew to produce a document drafting the definition of QoS AI.11.09.pm-d: Andrew to contact the HPCP WG regarding future involvement to create profile(s) on, e.g. BES, JSDL etc. > From Nov. 10 am F2F AI-1110am-a: Ellen to look into WS-Policy and relationships to what has been defined so far Tom to Look at how to avoid overlap with WS-Policy group > From Nov. 2nd call. AI-1102a: Hiro to ask whole group by email if it is OK to have one-way (presentation only, no discussion) SML session on future telecon. > From Oct. 30 call. AI-1030a: Ellen will contact the DAIS-WG chairs and request they arrange a review DSP0225 > From Sept. 15 OGSA F2F AI-0915d: Tom will post BP base faults issue to tracker > From Aug. 17 call AI-0817a: Dave Berry and Jay Unger will approach groups (GIN, Globus, etc) that have implemented practical grids and start a discussion on how they handle data: - how data is treated as a resource that can be scheduled - how transfers are modeled - how files are advertised - how applications find files (query, by knowledge,?) (Due Oct. 9) > From July 20 F2F - EGR-WG (Ravi) will contact Geoffrey Fox and invites him to contribute use cases. - Andreas to go through the minutes and formulate a reply mail to Geoffrey on each artifact covered in these minutes. Postponed: Until next reference model call (Nov. 20): AI-1023c: Tom volunteered to review Hiro's HPC Cluster use case slides and make appropriate changes to indicate where the CIM Profile would fit in and how it would link into the Reference Model. AI-1023g: Hiro will look at other parts of slide 5 and identify further possible refinements of this use case. Until next EMS call (Nov. 2): AI-0914a (Andreas Savva): Integrate the simple Data scenario just presented into the scenarios document AI-0913a: Andreas to update function names of BES. AI-0913b: Andrew to write-up a couple of such JM functionalities (short paragraph for each, e.g. time constraint as JSDL extension.) AI-0913c: Andreas to add another scenario to use this “terminate” method of activity interface. AI-0913e: Andreas to separate un-deployment as a separate scenario. AI-0913f: Andreas to describe relation between ACS and CDDLM. AI-0913g: Donal to provide his proposal on "ActivityExecutionCandidate." AI-0831e: (A Savva) Talk to ACS working group for refining this scenario. AI-0831f: (A Savvva) Research RNS and probably update the EMS Arch Scenarios document ---- Hiro Kishimoto

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One-way SML session
by Hiro Kishimoto 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi all, In July 2006, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel and several other companies have published "service modeling language (SML)." This is a XML based language specification and expected to be used to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. SML is based on a profile on XML Schema and Schematron. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/serviceml.mspx This spec is still proprietary and authors are going to submit it to one of SDOs maybe early next year (Q1). OGSA-WG has discussed benefits and risks to learn and evaluate this proprietary specification at Nov. 2nd call and the last F2F meeting. Benefits includes knowing emerging technology in advance and risks includes IPR issues. The authors can give us education but Microsoft's Web Services Workshop rules apply, meaning they can talk but no feedback allowed unless OGF signs a contributer agreement form (which is not permitted). My proposal is to have one-way educational session under authors auspices (most likely special dial-in but may be one of our weekly day/time slots). And then we will switch to our regular dial-in and start to discuss without authors. Please let me know your thoughts. If we can get rough consensus of having such one-way session. I will schedule it in the week of Dec. 11 or January. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Updated: OGSA Teleconference
by Andreas Savva 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:ogsa-wg@ogf.org ORGANIZER:MAILTO:andreas.savva@jp.fujitsu.com DTSTART:20061130T130000Z DTEND:20061130T145900Z TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:1 UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000C02817A2A314C7010000000000000000100 000000A9F6E6F07E5A643983BDD34C67048E9 DTSTAMP:20061130T082303Z DESCRIPTION:When: 2006年11月30日木曜日 22:00-23:59 (GMT+09:00) 大阪、札幌、東京.\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n<pre>\n\nThe following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Nov. 30th.\nThursday from 7am - 9am (CST).\n\n** attention: new international number **\n\nDial-in numbers for Thursday:\n Free: +1-888-452-0308\n Intl/Toll: +(210) 234-7446\n PIN: 71815\n See more information:\n - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477\n\nScreen share service will be provided.\n URL: http://ogsa.glance.net\n Session key: 1130\n See more explanation:\n https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584\n\n1) Early discussion (20 min)\n Note taker assignment\n Roll call\n Telecon minutes approval (if available)\n Action Items status review (see the bottom of this email)\n Agenda bashing\n\n2) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Fred\, 40 min)\n\n> Info model & Service Integration\n> ================================\n> - The group discusses the details of Profile work\n> -- THere are diffferences in how the term Profile is actually used between\n> different organisaitons such as DMTF\, OGF\, etc.\n> - Tom Maguire proposes to use the BES specification as an exmple and how to\n> do serviice integration.\n> - Tom outlines the process how DMTF creates profiles \n> - How does this impact OGSA-WG as of what to do next?\n> -- Two options:\n> --- Update the service model in DMTF (which is at best tangential if \n> not parallel to OGSA-WG work)\n> --- Take the Container model and turn it into a normative specification\n> ---- on a service interface and a profiled information model\n> -- A new document is added to the list of group deliverables\n> --- Information Model Profile: BES Container document\, in style of DMTF\n> ---- Ellen Stokes\, Tom Maguire\n> ---- No particular document type\, rather a proof-of-concept\n> --- Take BES as a protocol specification\, and add an information model\n> profile as message specification\n> --- The document is actually a profile on the Information Model\, with\n> associated protocol binding documents.\n> -- There needs explanation within the OGF community what this document effort\n> assumes to produce\n> - The group reaches consensus that this said document will probably inform \n> the "Information Modelling in OGSA" work effort\, or even provide contents\n> for this\n\n Ellen will write up first draft before the call.\n\n3) OGSA workflow discussion (Andrew\, 40 min)\n\nMinutes from Nov. 10 am F2F\n> <ASM> Can we propose that we have multiple approaches and how to do each of these?\n> - <AG> Set up a design team to look into this?\n> - Do we have consensus for this (design team)?\n> -<DS> Should be short lived design team\n> - <JU> Don't do the work just figure out what can be done\n> - <ASM> Sort out what is out there and what could potentially be done\n> - <AG> to lead\n> - Initial deadline - preliminary report for January meeting\n\n https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14033\n\n4) Wrap up (10 min)\n AOB\n\n<*NEXT CALL*>\nhttps://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477\n\nDec. 4 (Mon) <No call> Management Developer Conference\nDec. 7 (Thu) <No call> GFSG F2F meeting\nDec. 11 (Mon) EGA reference model(Hiro Kishimoto and Paul Strong)\n Roadmap document (Chris Jordan)\n EMS Arch scenarios document review (Andreas Savva)\nDec. 14 (Thu) Information/data modeling (Ellen and Fred)\n OGSA security (Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw)\n OGSA workflow (Andrew Grimshaw)\n\n<*ACTION ITEMS*>\nhttps://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1569\n\n > From Nov. 9 am F2F.\n AI-1109am-a: Ellen and Tom will review the error code/faults issue\n further with a view to put a proposal forward to DMTF.\n\n > From Nov. 9 pm F2F.\n AI.11.09.pm-a: Ellen and Tom to write up a "Information Model\n profile document: BES Container"\n AI.11.09.pm-c: Andrew to produce a document drafting the definition\n of QoS\n AI.11.09.pm-d: Andrew to contact the HPCP WG regarding future\n involvement to create profile(s) on\, e.g. BES\, JSDL\n etc.\n\n > From Nov. 10 am F2F\n AI-1110am-a: Ellen to look into WS-Policy and relationships to\n what has been defined so far\n Tom to Look at how to avoid overlap with WS-Policy\n group\n\n > From Nov. 2nd call.\n AI-1102a: Hiro to ask whole group by email if it is OK to have\n one-way (presentation only\, no discussion)\n SML session on future telecon.\n\n > From Oct. 30 call.\n AI-1030a: Ellen will contact the DAIS-WG chairs and request they\n arrange a review DSP0225\n\n > From Sept. 15 OGSA F2F\n AI-0915d: Tom will post BP base faults issue to tracker\n\n > From Aug. 17 call\n AI-0817a: Dave Berry and Jay Unger will approach groups (GIN\,\n Globus\, etc) that have implemented practical grids and\n start a discussion on how they handle data:\n - how data is treated as a resource that can be scheduled\n - how transfers are modeled\n - how files are advertised\n - how applications find files (query\, by knowledge\,?)\n (Due Oct. 9)\n\n > From July 20 F2F\n- EGR-WG (Ravi) will contact Geoffrey Fox and invites him to\n contribute use cases.\n- Andreas to go through the minutes and formulate a reply mail to\n Geoffrey on each artifact covered in these minutes.\n\nPostponed:\nUntil next reference model call (Nov. 20):\n AI-1023c: Tom volunteered to review Hiro's HPC Cluster use case\n slides and make appropriate changes to indicate where the\n CIM Profile would fit in and how it would link into the\n Reference Model.\n AI-1023g: Hiro will look at other parts of slide 5 and identify\n further possible refinements of this use case.\n\nUntil next EMS call (Nov. 2):\n AI-0914a (Andreas Savva): Integrate the simple Data scenario just\n presented into the scenarios document\n AI-0913a: Andreas to update function names of BES.\n AI-0913b: Andrew to write-up a couple of such JM functionalities\n (short paragraph for each\, e.g. time constraint as JSDL\n extension.)\n AI-0913c: Andreas to add another scenario to use this “terminate”\n method of activity interface.\n AI-0913e: Andreas to separate un-deployment as a separate scenario.\n AI-0913f: Andreas to describe relation between ACS and CDDLM.\n AI-0913g: Donal to provide his proposal on\n "ActivityExecutionCandidate."\n AI-0831e: (A Savva) Talk to ACS working group for refining this\n scenario.\n AI-0831f: (A Savvva) Research RNS and probably update the EMS Arch\n Scenarios document\n\n</pre>\n\n SUMMARY:Updated: OGSA Teleconference PRIORITY:5 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 CLASS:PUBLIC BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR

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Teleconference minutes - 27 November 2006
by Andreas Savva 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Minutes attached. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14041?nav=1 -- Andreas Savva Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd

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ARES 2007 Last Call for papers - Submission due is today - (30-11-2006)
by Nguyen Manh Tho 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. Call for Papers +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS) ARES 2007 - "The International Security and Dependability Conference" April 10th – April 13th,2007 Vienna University of Technology, Austria http://www.ares-conf.org http://www.ares-conference.eu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Conference ---------------- The 1st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security conference (ARES 2006) has been successfully organized in Vienna, AUSTRIA from April 20 to April 22, 2006 by the Technical University of Vienna in cooperation with the European Network and Security Agency (ENISA). We have attracted 250 participants for this conference with its 3 keynotes speakers and its 9 workshops held in conjunction with. In continuation of the successful 1st ARES conference, The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES 2007 – The International Security and Dependability Conference”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of IT-Security and Dependability. ARES 2007 will highlight the various aspects of security – with special focus on secure internet solutions, trusted computing, digital forensics, privacy and organizational security issues. ARES 2007 aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. Important Dates ---------------------- * Submission Deadline: November, 30th 2006 (firm deadline) * Author Notification: January, 7th 2007 * Author Registration: January, 21st 2007 * Proceedings Version: January, 21st 2007 Workshops -------------- In conjunction with the ARES 2007 conference, a number of workshops will be organized. We are very indebted for the effort of workshop's organizers and workshop's PC members. Proceedings of the ARES 2007 workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. * Workshop 1: Second International Workshop “Dependability Aspects on Data WArehousing and Mining applications” (DAWAM 2007), Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada + Josef Schiefer, Senactive IT-Dienstleistungs GmbH, Austria + Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria .DAWAM 2007 http://dawam.ares-conference.eu/ Submission Deadline: December, 17th 2006 * Workshop 2: Second Workshop on “Dependability and Security in e-Government” (DeSeGov 2007), A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria + Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria + Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria DeSeGov 2007 http://desegov.ares-conference.eu/ Submission Deadline: December, 15th 2006 * Workshop 3: Workshop on Foundations of Fault-tolerant Distributed Computing (FOFDC 2007), Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Oldenburg, Germany + Matthias Rohr, University of Oldenburg, Germany + Christian Storm, University of Oldenburg, Germany + Oliver Theel, University of Oldenburg, Germany + Timo Warns, University of Oldenburg, Germany. FOFDC 2007 http://trustsoft.uni-oldenburg.de/fofdc07/ Submission Deadline: December, 1st 2006 * Workshop 4: "Secure Software Engineering" (SecSE 2007), Torbjørn Skramstad, Norwegian University of Science and technology (NTNU) + Lillian Røstad, Norwegian University of Science and technology (NTNU) + Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF ICT, Norway. SecSE 2007 http://secse.ares-conference.eu/ Submission Deadline: December, 17th 2006 * Workshop 5: Workshop on "Event-Based IT Systems", Modeling, Designing, and Testing Correct, Secure, and Dependable Event-Based System, Stefan Biffl, Vienna University of Technology + Eva Kühn, Vienna University of Technology + Alexander Schatten, Vienna Univeristy of Techology EBITS http://ebits.ares-conference.eu/ Submission Deadline: November, 19th 2006 * Workshop 6: "Distributed Healthcare Availability, Reliability and Security" (DIHARES 2007), Thomas Clark, Complete Cardiology Services Ltd, USA. DIHARES 2007 http://dihares.ares-conference.eu/ Submission Deadline: November, 17th, 2006 * Workshop 7: "First International Workshop on Advances in Information Security" (WAIS 2007), Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan + Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA + Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai university, Japan.WAIS 2007 http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~durresi/wais2007/index.html Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2006 * Workshop 8: Second International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Security (BIOS 2007), Hochreiter Sepp, University of Linz, Bioinf, Austria + Küng Josef, University of Linz, FAW Austria + Wagner Roland, University of Linz, FAW Austria. BIOS 2007 http://bios.ares-conference.eu/ Submission Deadline: November 20, 2006 * Workshop 9: Second International Workshop on Security and E- Learning, Edgar Weippl, Secure Business Austria. SEL 2007 http://sel.ares-conference.eu/ Submission Deadline: November 19, 2006 * Workshop 10: Second Workshop on Information Security Risk Management (ISRM), Professor Dr. D. Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria + Dr. L. Marinos, ENISA, Greece . ISRM http://www.ares-conference.eu/ares2006/www.ares-conf.org/index47da.html?q=i… * Workshop 11: The First International Workshop on Spoofing, Digital Forensics and Open Source Tools (SDFOST), Judie Mulholland, Florida Cybersecurity Institute, USA. SDFOST http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&i… Submission Deadline: November 20, 2006 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------------ * Process based Security Models and Methods * Autonomous Computing * Authorization and Authentication * Availability and Reliability * Common Criteria Protocol * Cost/Benefit Analysis * Cryptographic protocols * Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) * Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) * Dependability administration * Dependability in Open Source Software * Designing Business Models with security requirements * Digital Forensics * E-Commerce Dependability * Failure Prevention * IPR of Security Technology * Incident Response and Prevention * Information Flow Control * Internet Dependability * Interoperability aspects * Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection * Legal issues * Mobile Security * Network Security * Privacy-enhancing technologies * RFID Security and Privacy * Risk planning, analysis & awareness * Safety Critical Systems * Secure Enterprise Architectures * Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems * Security and Privacy in E-Health * Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications * Security and privacy issues for sensor networks, wireless/mobile devices and applications * Security as Quality of Service * Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases * Security in Electronic Payments * Security in Electronic Voting * Software Engineering of Dependable Systems * Software Security * Standards, Guidelines and Certification * Survivability of Computing Systems * Temporal Aspects of Dependability * Trusted Computing * Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation * Trust Models and Trust Management * VOIP/Wireless Security Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit research and application papers following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm The Web site for paper registration and electronic submission is available at: http://www.ares-conf.org/confdriver/?q=confdriver/papers/add Please refer to ARES website (http://www.ares-conf.org or http://www.ares-conference.eu) for update information. If you have any difficluty in submitting the papers, please do not hesitate to send them to tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Honorary Co-Chairs --------------------------- Norman Revell, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria General Co-Chairs ------------------------ Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Program Co-Chairs ------------------------ Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Southern Australia, Australia A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshops Co-Chairs --------------------------- Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Abdelkader Hameurlain, University of Toulouse, France Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan International Liaison Co-Chairs --------------------------------------- Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Charles Shoniregun, University of East London, United Kingdom Publicity Chair ------------------ Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Publication Chair --------------------- Monika Lanzenberger, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Local Organizing Chairs ------------------------------ Maria Schweikert, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Markus Klemen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Programme Committee ------------------------------ Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Abiola Abimbola, Napier University, UK Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Andre Adelsbach, Telindus PSF S.A., Luxembourg Vasilis Aggelis, PIRAEUS Bank (WINBANK), Greece John Andrews, Loughborough, University, UK Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan Lisa Bartlett, Loughborough University, UK Massimo Bartoletti, Universita' di Pisa, Italy Darcy G. Benoit, Acadia University, Wolfville, Canada Helmut Berger, E-Commerce Competence Center - EC3, Austria Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Christophe Blanchet, CNRS IBCP, France Alexander Böhm, University of Mannheim, Germany Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Luciano Burgazzi, ENEA, Italy Kevin Butler, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jesper Buus Nielsen , University of Aarhus, Denmark Catharina Candolin, The Finnish Defence Forces. Finland Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China Simon Christophe, Nancy University, France Soon-Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK Joey Coleman, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Gao Cong, University of Edinburgh, UK Ricardo Corin, INRIA-MSR & University of Twente, The Netherlands George Davida, University of Wisconsinat Milwaukee, USA Robert H. Deng , Singapore Management University, Singapore Jochen Dinger, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Lucia Draque Penso, University of Mannheim, Germany Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Yung-Chin Fang, Dell Inc., USA Hannes Federrath, University of Regensburg, Germany Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy Sergio Flesca, DEIS – University of Calabria, Italy Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium Vladimir Fomichov, K.E. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological University, Russia Jordi Forné, Technincal Universtiy of Catalonia, Spain Huirong Fu, Oakland University, MI, USA Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK Javier Garcia-Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Matthew Gebski, University of New South Wales, Australia Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Swapna S. Gokhale, University of Connecticut, USA Marcin Gorawski, Silesian University of Technology, Poland Stephan Groß, Technische Universität Dresde, Germany Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA Michael Grottke, Duke University, USA Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA Qijun Gu, Texas State University, USA Yong Guan, Iowa State University, USA Ibrahim Haddad, Open Source Development Labs, USA Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University, France Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, USA Naohiro Hayashibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Xubin (Ben) He, Tennessee Technological University, USA Yanxiang He, Wuhan University, China Rattikorn Hewett, Texas Tech University, USA Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada Thomas Jensen, IRISA/CNRS, France Zhen Jiang, West Chester University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Oliver Jorns, ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria Audun Josang, School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Australia Jan Jurjens, Munich University of Technology, Germany and Open University, UK Holger Kenn, University of Bremen, Germany Dogan Kesdogan, RWTH Aachen, Germany Brian King, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Ted Krovetz, California State University, USA Raphael Kunis, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Helmut Kurth, Atsec Information Security, USA Marc Lacoste, France Télécom R&D, France Kwok-Yan Lam, Tsinghua University, China Chokchai Box Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA Yih-Jiun Lee, Department of Information Management, CTU, Taiwan Chin-Laung Lei, National Taiwan University, China Philippe Leray, INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Rouen, France Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA Sam Lightstone, IBM Canada Ltd., Canada Chae-Hoon Lim, Sejong University, Korea Ching Lin, Macquarie University, Australia Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Alex Zhaoyu Liu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Tong Liu, Dell Inc, USA Hua Liu , Xerox labs, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Sanglu Lu, Nanjing University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Qiang Ma, NEC, Japan Josef Makolm, Federal Ministry of Finance, Austria Carsten Maple, University of Luton, UK Keith Martin , University of London, UK Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council - C.N.R, Italy BeniaminoDi Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Santiago Melia, University of Alicante, Spain Nasrullah Memon, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK George Mohay, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Marina Mongiello, Technical University of Bari, Italy Stefania Montani, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia Junghyun Nam, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jesper Nielsen, University of Århus, Denmark Thomas Nowey, University of Regensburg, Germany Tomas Olovsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Hong Ong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Maria Papadaki, University of Plymouth, UK Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland MariaS. Perez, UPM, Spain Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Rob Peters, University of Amsterdam, The Neitherland Thomas Phan, IBM Research, USA Mario Piattini, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Makan Pourzandi, Ericsson Canada, Canada Christopher Price, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Domenico Rosaci, University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy Heiko Rossnagel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Kenji Saito, Keio University, Japan Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan BiplabK. Sarker , University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl, FH OÖ Campus Hagenberg, Austria Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - USA Dharmaraja Selamuthu, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA Thomas Shrimpton, Portland State University, USA Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow, UK Amund Skavhaug, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Agusti Solanas, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Alexander Speirs, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, University St. Gallen, Switzerland Ketil Stølen, SINTEF & University of Oslo, Norway Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA Peter Struss, Munich University of Technology, Germany Tsuyoshi Takagi, Future University - Hakodate, Japan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Oliver Theel, University of Oldenburg, Germany Björn Thuresson, KTH Computer Science and Communication, Sweden A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Juan Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain Alexander W. Tsow, Indiana University, USA Tomas Uribe, SRI International, USA Kalyan Vaidyanathan, Sun Microsystems, USA Luca Vigano, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Melanie Volkamer, DFKI - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Michael Waidner, IBM Software Group, Switzerland Carine Webber, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Robert Willison, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Matthew Wright, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Qinghan Xiao , Defence R&D Canada, Canada Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, USA Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA Mariemma.I. Yagüe, University of Malaga, Spain Jeff Yan, Newcastle University, UK Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Alec Yasinsac, Florida State University, USA George Yee, National Research Council, Canada Sung-Ming Yen, National Central University, Taiwan Xun Yi, Victoria University, USA Meng Yu, Monmouth University, USA William Yurcik, University of Illinois, USA Nicola Zannone, University of Trento, Italy Jianhong Zhang, North China University of Technology, China Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Xudong Zhu, Alcatel shangHai Bell Co. LTD., China Enrico Zio, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy

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Call for papers:CISIS 2007- "First International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems"-Submission Deadline extended to 15-12-2006
by Nguyen Manh Tho 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Due to many requests, the submission deadline of CISIS-2007 conference is extended to December 15, 2006. (Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) Call for Papers ##################################################################### First International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2007) http://www.cisis-conference.eu/ April 10 - April 13, 2007 Vienna, Austria ##################################################################### To be held in conjunction with: ARES-2007 International Conference http://www.ares-conference.eu/ Aim ====== The aim of the conference is to deliver a platform of scientific interaction between the three interwoven challenging areas of research and development of future ICT-enabled applications: - Software Intensive Systems - Complex systems - Intelligent Systems Software Intensive Systems are systems which heavily deal with other systems, sensors, actuators, devices, other software systems and users. More and more domains are involved with software intensive systems, i.e. automotive, telecommunication systems, embedded systems in general, industrial automation systems, business applications. The outcome of web services delivers a new platform for enabling software intensive systems. The conference will focus on tools, practically relevant and heoretical foundations for engineering software intensive systems. Complex Systems Research is focused on the overall understanding of systems rather than its components. The ICT-enabling aspect of Complex Systems is the focus of the contributions to be presented at CISIS 2007. Complex Systems are very much characterised by the changing environments in which they act and by their multiple internal and external interactions. They evolve and adapt through internal and external dynamic interactions. The development of Intelligent Systems and agents which is more and more characterised by the use of ontologies and their logical foundations build a fruitful impulse for both Software intensive Systems and Complex Systems. Recent research in the field of intelligent systems –robotics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences- builds an important factor for the future development and innovation of software intensive and complex systems. CISIS 2007 is aiming at delivering a forum for in-depth scientific discussions amongst the three communities leading to significant contributions in areas such as: - Monitoring and Control of Large Systems or Environments. - Managing the hetrogeneity of knowledge by means of ontologies - Use of Sevice Oriented Architectures for complex applications in business and industries - The consideration of Software Intensive Systems as Complex Systems - Enabling of Systems Biology concepts as software intensive conmplex systems - Knowledge management of complex IT-systems etc. Scope ========= Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution. Different kinds of systems with different characteristics are emerging and they are integrating in heterogeneous networks. For these reasons, there are many interconnection problems which may occur at different levels in the hardware and software design of communicating entities and communication networks. These kinds of networks need to manage an increasing usage demand, provide support for a significant number of services, guarantee their QoS, and optimize the utilization of network resources. Therefore, architectures and algorithms in these networks become very complex and it seems imperative to focus on new models and methods as well as mechanisms, which can enable the network to perform adaptive behaviors. Many new computing technologies have emerged as new paradigms for solving complex problems by enabling large-scale aggregation and sharing of computational, data and other geographically distributed resources. Rapid advances are being reported by many researchers and forums as regards understanding numerous issues in such paradigms, from theoretic to application aspects. Moreover, the continuous development of Internet and the construction of new infrastructures are making possible the development of large scale applications from many fields of science and engineering. To deal with complexity, we should construct physically instantiated systems that can perceive, understand, and interact with their environment – but also evolve in order to achieve human-like performance in activities requiring context-specific knowledge. This is far beyond the current state of the art and will remain so for many years to come. Therefore, many research efforts are required to make headway towards this vision. The strategic challenges are motivated by recent research in the field of intelligent systems – robotics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. In recent years, a large community of researchers has begun to realize the importance of brain-body interaction for understanding intelligence and its central role in a wide range of processes including perception, object manipulation, movement, and high-level cognition. The research challenges include theoretical frameworks based on the notions of embodiment, the dynamical systems metaphor, complete agents rather than individual components, self-reconfiguration and self-repair, morphology and development. Progress in the theoretical underpinnings of embodied intelligence will have strong technological implications in areas including robotics, actuator technology, materials, self-assembling systems. Research in intelligent and cognitive systems is an interdisciplinary field requiring the cooperation of researchers from artificial intelligence, neuroscience (including cognitive and computational), psychology (cognitive and developmental), linguistics, developmental biology, robotics (and engineering in general), biomechanics, and dynamical systems. Software has become a central part of a rapidly growing range of applications, products and services from all sectors of economic activity. Systems in which software interacts with other software, systems, devices, sensors and with people are called software- intensive systems. Examples include large-scale heterogeneous systems, embedded systems for automotive and avionics applications, telecommunications, wireless ad hoc systems, business applications with an emphasis on web services. Our daily activities increasingly depend on complex software-intensive systems that are becoming ever more distributed, heterogeneous, decentralized and inter-dependent, and that are operating more and more in dynamic and often unpredictable environments. There exist different kinds of complexity in the development of software. Software systems grew larger, the focus shifted from the complexity of developing algorithms to the complexity structuring large systems, and then to the additional complexities in building distributed, concurrent systems. In the next ten to fifteen years we will have to face another level of complexity arising from the fact that systems have to operate in large, open and non- deterministic environments: the complexity of knowledge, interaction and adaptation. Instead of developing computer-oriented systems where people have to adapt to the computer we have to develop human- oriented systems into which computers integrate seamlessly. Also, the requirements for software quality will dramatically increase. But our current methods are not sufficient to deal with adaptive software in a dynamic environment, especially not for large systems with complex interactions. We need to develop practically useful and theoretically well founded principles, methods and tools for engineering future software-intensive systems. All the complex systems depend on software that controls the behavior of individual components and the interaction between components, and on software which interacts with other software, systems, devices, sensors and with people. In other words: they depend on software- intensive systems. The CISIS-2007 seeks original contributions in all relevant areas, including but not limited to the following topics. Topics of interest ====================== • Agent Technology • Human-Oriented Systems • Evolving Systems • Intelligent and Cognitive Systems and Applications • Genetic Programming and Algorithms • Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Systems • Neuro-computing and Applications • Knowledge-based Systems • Dynamic Systems • Parallel and Distributed Algorithms • Databases and Data Mining • Grid and P2P Infrastructures • Data Intensive and Computing Intensive Applications • Scheduling, Resource Discovery and Allocation • JXTA-based Applications • Large-scale Collaborative Problem Solving Environments • Methodology and Practice of Semantic Grid and Web • Web and Grid Service-based Applications • Ubiquitous Computing Applications • Pervasive Computing and Applications • Multimedia Systems and Applications • Human-Robots • Embedded Systems • Overlay Networks for P2P Systems • Autonomous Systems • Autonomic Computing • Bio-inspired Systems and Applications • Fault-Tolerant Systems • Heterogeneous Networks • Heterogeneous Wireless Networks • Sensor Networks • Ad Hoc Networks • Sensor and Actor Networks • High-Speed Networks • Routing Algorithms • Software QoS • Adaptive Software-Intensive Systems • Self-Modifying Software Systems • Self-Designing and Self-Maintaining software Important Dates ================== • Submission Deadline: December 15, 2006 (extension) • Author Notification: January 10, 2007 • Author Registration: January 21, 2007 • Proceedings Version: January 21, 2007 • Workshop Dates: April 10-April 13, 2007 Submission Guidelines ========================= Authors are invited to submit research and application papers following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at one of the following web pages: * http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html * or http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/IEEE/Format/instruct.htm Submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes (1) full paper (8 pages), (2) short paper (5 pages), and (3) poster (2 pages) representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Contact author must provide the following information at the CISIS- 2007 web site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200- 250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Proceedings of the CISIS-2007 conference will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Based on quality and referee reviews, some papers not suitable for acceptance as full paper will be accepted for presentation at CISIS-2007 in Poster category and will be also included in the IEEE Proceedings. The best papers selected by CISIS- 2007 program committee out of papers accepted for presentation at CISIS-2007 will be further published in some International Journals. The submission site for CISIS-2007 paper is available at http://www.ares-conf.org/confdriver/?q=confdriver/papers/add If you have any difficluty in submitting the papers, please do not hesitate to send them to tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at. Conference Chairpersons ============================ Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria International Liaison Co-Chairs ================================= Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Publicity Chairs ===================== Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Publication Co-Chairs ======================== Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Local Organizing Chairs ========================== Maria Schweikert, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Markus Klemen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee ===================== • Chandra Krintz, University of California, USA • Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Canada • Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Laboratory, India • Tomoya Enokido, Risho University, Japan • Joan Manel Marquès, Open University of Catalonia, Spain • Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan • Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria • Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain • Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA • Naohiro Hayashibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan • Claudi Paniagua Maci, IBM GTS, Virtualization and Grid Computing EBO, Spain • Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK • Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan • Jin Hwan Park, State University of New York New Paltz, USA • Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK • Muhammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK • Bhed Bahadur Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan • Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan • Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia Univiversity, Canada • David Taniar, Monash University, Australia • Nobuyoshi Sato, Toyo University, Japan • Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan • Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada • Fumiaki Sato, Toho University, Japan • Kaoru Sugita, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan • Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan • Markus Aleksy, University of Mannheim, Germany • Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan • Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan • Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia • Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Giuseppe De Marco, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan • Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany • Andrei Doncesku, University Paul Sabatier, France • Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK • Frank Ball, Bournemouth University, UK • Ahmed Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK • Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK • Juan Jose Alcaraz Espin, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain • Winston Seah, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore • Antonio Pescape, University of Napoli, Italy • Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia • Lawrence Y. Deng, St. John's and St.Mary's Institute of Technology, Taiwan • Xiangen Hu, University of Memphis, USA • Ching-Sheng Wang, Aletheia University, Taiwan • Kuei-Ping Shih Tamkang University, Taiwan • Been-Chian Chien, National University of Tainan, Taiwan • Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan • Vincent Lee, Monash University, Australia • Michael Sheng, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia • Soraya Kouadri M., Oxford Brookes University, UK • S.C. Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong • Karl R.P.H. Leung, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) HKIVE, Hong Kong • Victor C.S. Lee, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong • Henry Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong • Hon-Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong • Qing Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong • Thomas Grill, University of Linz, Austria • Fabio Postiglione, University of Salerno, Italy • Said Mirza, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan • Ajith Abraham, Yonsei University, Korea • Takuo Nakashima, Kyushu Tokai University, Japan • Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Paul G. Spirakis, Research and Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI) and Patras University , Greece • Yijun Yu, The Open University, UK • Robin Laney, Open University, UK • Matthias Hölzl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany • John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada • Stefan Jaehnichen, Technical University Berlin, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany • Bosiljka Tadic, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia • Albert Diaz-Guilera,Universitat de Barcelona, Spain • David H. Wolpert, NASA Ames Research Center, USA • Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France • Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy For any further questions or inquiries please contact Conference Organizers: Conference Organizers: ========================= Leonard Barolli Department of Information and Communication Engineering Faculty of Information Engineering Fukuoka Institute of technology (FIT) 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295 Japan Email: barolli at fit.ac.jp A Min Tjoa Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology, Austria Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria E-mail: tjoa(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Nguyen Manh Tho Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology, Austria Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria E-mail: tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at

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