INFOSCALE 2007

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***** Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to
Feb. 19, 2007. 

CALL FOR PAPERS - INFOSCALE 2007

The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems 
June 6-8, 2007, Suzhou, China

Official Website: http://www.infoscale.org/
Mirror Website: http://www.infoscale2007.org/

As data and knowledge volumes keep increasing while global means for
information dissemination continue to diversify, new methods, modeling
paradigms, and structures are needed to efficiently support the
mounting scalability requirements for the large variety of current and
future data, information, and knowledge. 

Grid computing, P2P technology, data and knowledge bases, distributed
information retrieval technology, and networking technology should all
converge to address the scalability concern. The Second International 

Conference on Scalable Information Systems will focus on a wide array
of scalability issues and investigate new approaches for tackling
problems arising from the ever-growing size and complexity of
information of all kinds.
This year, Infoscale'07 is going to be held in Suzhou, China, which is
very close to Shanghai. 



Conference Scope:

* Parallel Information Retrieval
* Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval
* Scalable Grid Information Systems
* Scalable Peer-to-Peer Systems
* Scalable Mobile Systems
* Scalable Web Services
* Scalable Sensor Networks and Systems
* Scalable system and conceptual modeling
* Scalable multimedia information systems
* Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems
* Middleware technology for scalable computing
* Architectures for Scalability
* Networking for Scalable Information Systems
* Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
* Very Large Databases
* Data Mining
* Index Compression Methods
* Information Security
* Enterprise information systems and applications



Publications

* Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited 
for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. 


* The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM 
Digital Library, which automatically gets listed in EI and ISI Indexes. 


* Selected best papers will be invited for a special issue of the
Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (tentative).


Submission Instructions: 

Papers in PDF should be submitted via COCUS at 
http://cocus.create-net.org/cocus/welcome.do. (in IEEE conference
proceedings 
format, up to 10 pages in two-column, no less than 10 pt font). 



Important Dates:

* Paper Submission Deadline:	February 19, 2007 (Extended)
* Notification:			April 9, 2007
* Camera-Ready:			April 30, 2007




Organization Committee

Honorary Chair

Guoliang Chen
Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
[email protected]


General Chairs

Liusheng Huang (Co-Chair)
Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
[email protected]

Dov Dori (Co-Chair)
Technion, Israel
dori-1EHWewyrHDv7r6psnUbsSmZHpeb/A1Y/@public.gmane.org

Qing Li (Co-Chair)
City University of Hong Kong
[email protected] 



Program Chairs

Jianzhong Li (Co-Chair)
Harbin Inst. of Technology, China
[email protected]


Wang-Chien Lee (Co-Chair)
Penn State University, USA
[email protected]


Fabrizio Silvestri (Co-Chair)
ISTI, Italy 
[email protected]


Local Organization Chair

Enhong Chen (Co-Chair)
Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
[email protected]

Qiaoming Zhu (Co-Chair)
Soochow University, China
qmzhu-GO/[email protected]



Publication Chair

Hong Va Leong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
cshleong-s6Bh4yWHI9Qm86kyHbUEe1pr/1R2p/[email protected] 





Tutorial Chair

Wenyin Liu 
City University of Hong Kong
[email protected]



Workshop Chair

Prasenjit Mitra 
Penn State University, USA
[email protected] 


Publicity Chair

Mingjun Xiao (Co-Chair)
Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
[email protected] 


Andreas Wombacher (Co-Chair)
University of Twente, Netherlands 
a.wombacher-HVpl4/oQiP/[email protected]



Conference Coordinator

Kitti H. Kovacs
ICST
[email protected]



Steering Committee Chairs

Imrich Chlamtac (Chair)
CreateNet Research Consortium
chlamtac-2TmCWn7/[email protected]

Ophir Frieder (Co-Chair)
Illinois Inst. Tech., USA 
[email protected]



Program Committee (more to be announced)

Divy Agrawal, ASK.com, USA
James Allan, Univ. Mass. Amherst, USA
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Yahoo! Research, USA
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain & Chile
Ranieri Baraglia,  ISTI-CNR, Italy
Steven Beitzel, Telcordia Research, USA
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Jiannong Cao, HK Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
David Carmel, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Chung-Min Chen, Telcordia Research, USA
Lee-Feng Chien, Google & Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, L3S Research Center, Germany
Abdur Chowdhury, USA
Brian Cooper, Yahoo! Research, USA
Chita Das, Penn State University, USA
Zoran Despotovic, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Lee C. Giles, Penn State University, USA
Nazli Goharian, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA
Naijie Gu, Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA
Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Manfred Hauswirth, DERI & NUIG, Ireland
Hui-I Hsiao, IBM China Research Lab., China
Vincent Hu, NIST, USA
Ali Hurson, Penn State University, USA
Eric Jensen, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technology, China
Flavio P. Junqueira, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Vana Kalogeraki, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Francis C.M. Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dik Lee, Univ. of Sci. & Technology, Hong Kong
Domenico Laforenza,  ISTI-CNR, Italy
Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Yunhao Liu, Univ. of Sci. & Technology, Hong Kong
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
Gail Mitchell, BBN, USA
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy
Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research, UK
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research, China
Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
Raffaele Perego,  ISTI-CNR, Italy
Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Tieyun Qian, Wuhan University, China 
Weining Qian, Fudan University, China
Keith Ross, Polytechnic University, USA
Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China
Xueyan Tang,  Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
Nesime Tatbul, Brown University, USA
Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey
Haixun Wang, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
Hua Wang, Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia
Guiling Wang, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, USA
Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research, China
Kun-Lung Wu, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research, China
Jianliang Xu, Baptist University, Hong Kong
Zhichen Xu, Yahoo! Inc, USA
Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
Tao Yang," Ask Jeeves, Inc.", USA
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA
Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Tech., USA
Baihua Zheng , Singapore Management Univ., Singapore
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China