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June 22-25, 2008 Pan American Congress on Plants & BioEnergy, Merida, Mexico The Pan American Congress on Plants & BioEnergy will bring plant biologists together with government policy makers, agronomists, microbiologists, economists and ecologists to forge a path toward Western Hemisphere bioenergy security that is sustainable and environmentally and economically sound. Attendees will learn from venture capitalists and industry leaders in bioenergy about the pathways to economic success and the development of new crops and approaches that will avoid competition between food and fuel. On days two and three of the conference, presenters will explore the breadth of bioenergy crops and the progress that is being made to introduce them into the agricultural landscape; the underlying biology of bioenergy plants; new ideas to enhance biomass yield and quality for the energy crops of the future; and approaches to lowering net greenhouse gas emissions. A key aim of the meeting is to catalyze collaborations between the American nations in developing scientific approaches leading to better and sustainable bioenergy systems; with particular emphasis on exploiting recent advances in plant biology. Conference web site June 23-25, 2008 Eighth International Conference on Computational Science - ICCS 2008, Krakow, Poland The theme for ICCS 2008, "Advancing Science through Computation", marks the continued progress in computational science theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications in science. This conference will be a unique event focusing on recent developments in novel methods and modelling of complex systems for diverse areas of science, scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and novel application areas where the above novel models, algorithms and tools can be efficiently applied such as physical systems, computational and systems biology, environmental systems, finance, and others. Conference web site June 23-25, 2008 Fourth Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation Grid - ETNGRID-2008, Rome, Italy The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. To date, the development of standards, such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), along with the introduction of new paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an environment that is not only suited for computational-intensive applications, but also for computing scenarios typical of distributed systems, like service and information providing, multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc. For these and other reasons, the Grid is becoming an interesting and challenging environment supporting both old and new services for co-operative applications. A relevant research effort is thus needed not only to investigate innovative Grid infrastructures but also to make the current Grid model suitable for these emerging usage scenarios. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers working on different emerging Grid computing aspects relevant to enterprise collaboration, covering issues ranging from the middleware layer to application development and user interaction. The goals of the workshop include but are not limited to discovering new application scenarios, proposing new programming abstractions and tools, identifying the challenging problem that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained by researchers in building Grid-based middleware, applications and alike. Papers must focus on collaborative aspects of the Grid, including, but not limiting to, the following topics: Middlewares for the Grid Multimedia applications with the Grid Reflective and Aspect-Oriented Grid systems Reliability and Quality-of-Service aspects Wireless and ubiquitous access to the Grid Co-operative Agents and the Grid Grids and Peer-to-peer systems Web integration with the Grid Peer-to-peer and self-organizing approaches for the Grid Abstractions and tools for collaborative application development in Grid environments Semantic Grid Experience reports on collaborative application development in Grid Scalability and Performance issues in the Grid Analysis of stability and bottlenecks for Grid applications Resource-aware applications in the Grid Architectures for Grid-oriented applications Security and Verification Issues in Large Distributed Systems Conference web site June 23-27, 2008 10th Annual Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) International Conference, Malmö, Lund, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark The 10th PCST-conference will be a slightly different one. Above giving you the chance to expand your network across cultures and professions and to share your knowledge in research communication with colleagues from all over the world, you will meet challenges of a different kind. Throughout the conference you will have the opportunity to be involved in communication assignments and dilemmas which by their nature are controversial and with an ethical edge. Together we can create a most serious and in the same time playful conference. Speakers at the PCST conference include Diego Golombeck, a scientist from Argentina specialising in science communication, and Anja C. Andersen, an astrophysicist at Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Key seminars at the conference include: Framing climate change and other controversial science communication topics European trends and challenges in science journalism "Medical messages in the media: reliable information or science for sale" Science communication transcending language barriers Visualisation in science and public communication The public engagement of science and web 2.0 Evaluating public engagement in science: why, how, and for whom? Conference web site June 24, 2008 International Workshop on High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments - HPDGrid 2008, Toulouse, France The objective of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the high-performance computing, scientific computing, distributed systems and database communities to discuss the challenges and propose novel solutions in the design and implementation of high-performance data management in Grid environments. The main topics of the workshop include: Data Grid infrastructures Data-intensive Grid applications Data Grids, Web services and P2P Data visualization Data security and privacy Grid data integration Grid data warehousing and data mining Grid data streaming Query processing and information retrieval in Grids Work flow management in Grids Replication and fault-tolerance in Grids Indexing, caching and load balancing in Grids Grid multimedia data management Grid performance evaluation Conference web site June 24-27, 2008 8th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2008, Toulouse, France Topics of interest include: Large Scale Simulations in CS&E (earth, environment, finance, geoscience, engineering, ...) Multiscale and Multiphysics Problems Parallel and Distributed Computing Cluster Computing Grid Computing (middleware, algorithms, performance evaluation, ...) Computing in Healthcare and Biosciences Computing for Aerospace and Engineering Data-Centric Computing High Productivity Computing Co-operative Engineering Problem-Solving Environments Numerical Algorithms for CS&E Discrete and Combinatorial Algorithms for CS&E Imaging and Graphics Conference web site June 25, 2008 Achieving Medicare Advantage Growth Just Got Harder - Webinar, USA The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a series of new marketing and sales standards for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug plans. It's likely these new rules will be ready for implementation for the upcoming open enrollment period. This means significant new compliance challenges and pressure to rethink approaches to sales and marketing. This Webinar will discuss interpretations and implications of these new rules. This practical, issue-driven forum will help participants as they consider their compliance readiness, marketing strategy and call centre distribution channels. Conference web site June 25-27, 2008 WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems: "Health Systems, Health and Wealth", Tallinn, Estonia This conference is part of the WHO Regional Office's continuing commitment to supporting Member States in strengthening their health systems and is being organized in response to resolution EUR/RC55/R8, adopted by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe at its fifty-fifth session in 2005. The Conference aims to place health systems high on the political agenda. Specifically, it will: lead to a better understanding of the impact of health systems on people's health and therefore on economic growth in the WHO European Region; and take stock of recent evidence on effective strategies to improve the performance of health systems, given the increasing pressures on them to ensure sustainability and solidarity. The conference will bring together ministers of health from the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region. Up to 500 participants are expected to attend the 2-day event. High-level delegations will be invited, as well as health systems partners, experts, observers and representatives of international and civil society organisations and the mass media. Particular emphasis will be placed on engaging ministries of finance through the ministries of health. Conference web site June 25-28, 2008 26th International EuroPACS Meeting - EuroPACS 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: PACS Planning and Purchasing Strategies PACS Evaluation and Economical Aspects PACS Beyond Radiology (Cardiology, Endoscopy, Ophthalmology, etc.) Image Distribution, Storage and Archiving Strategies Work flow and Data Flow in Radiology PACS/RIS/HIS Integration Issues Regional PACS and Teleradiology Security and Privacy, Quality Assurance, Legal Aspects Standardization (DICOM, HL7, IHE) PACS and E-Learning in Radiology and Medical Sciences Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress - CMI 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: New Imaging Devices and Novel Applications Evidence-based Selection Criteria in Digital Maxillofacial Imaging Craniomaxillofacial Computer-Aided Diagnosis Maxillofacial Image Enhancement Algorithms Cranial and Maxillofacial Image Guided Surgery Image Navigated Dental Implantology Orthodontic Applications of Computed Imaging Imaging and Modelling for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics Cone Beam CT 3D and 4D Imaging Multi-dimensional Maxillofacial Modelling Virtual Reality and Dental Robotics Interoperability Maxillofacial Applications in Integrating the Health care Enterprise Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 22nd International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Sugery - CARS 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: Medical Imaging, e.g. CT, MR, US, SPECT, PET, DR, Molecular Imaging, and Virtual Endoscopy Computer Assisted Cardiovascular Imaging Image Processing and Display Medical Workstations Interventional Radiology Minimally Invasive Spinal Therapy Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy of the Prostate Tumour Ablation Therapies Image Guided Radiation Therapy Nanotechnology for Imaging and Therapy Telemedicine, E-health and Multimedia EPR Expert Systems and Computer Assisted Education Economic and Management Issues Security, Legal and Ethical Aspects Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery - ISCAS 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: Computer Applications for e.g. Neurosurgery, Head and Neck, Orthopaedics, Ear Nose and Throat, Cardiovascular and Thoracoabdominal Surgery, and Plastic/Reconstructive Surgery Image Guided Therapy Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation Surgical Navigation Surgical Simulation 3D Modelling and Rapid Prototyping Postoperative Result Assessment Surgical Education and Training Haptics and Multimodal Devices in Medical Applications Methods of Validation and Verification Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 10th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis - CAD 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: CAD for Breast, Chest, Colon, Skeletal, Liver, Brain and Vascular Imaging CAD for Cancer Screening CAD for 3D Imaging CAD for Differential Diagnosis Image Databases for CAD Computer Vision, ANN and Modelling Computerized Detection and Characterization of Lesions in Radiological Images Quantitative Analysis of Image Information Visualization and Quantitation of 3D Images Intelligent Workstations and Decision Support Systems Observer Performance Studies and ROC Analysis Image Quality Issues and Evaluation Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 9th CARS/SPIE/EuroPACS Joint Workshop on Surgical PACS and the Digital Operating Room, Barcelona, Spain CARS is the premier annual international meeting�for�professionals with interest in�new developments�of computer-assisted medical systems�and their applications in radiology and surgery. The congress and exhibition�concentrate on advances in medical imaging, PACS and networking systems in health care, computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy, surgical robotics and instrumentation, image and model guided therapy as well as related imaging based technologies. CARS also emphasises the electronic medical record (EMR) and its integration into radiological and surgical settings. Topics include: Surgical Work flow Digital Operating Room Model Guided Therapy Therapy Imaging and Model Management Systems Surgical PACS DICOM in Surgery Surgical IHE Nanotechnology for Interventions Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 International Conference on The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity, Montréal, Canada The conference is a partnership between Italy's Fondazione Mariani, the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), as well as McGill University, which is co-hosting the meeting, the Montreal Neurological Institute, and Université de Montréal. Organized and supported by the Fondazione Mariani, the conference will revolve around seven symposia in which the world's foremost researchers will present their most significant and sometimes controversial research findings. Every lecture will relate to the main theme of the conference: the study of perception and processing of music in physiologic and pathologic conditions, with special focus on cerebral plasticity mechanisms - the way the human brain changes through experience and the acquisition of new knowledge or skills. In addition to the symposia, the programme includes two poster sessions and a workshop on methodological aspects of research, addressed to those seeking more in-depth information on research design in the field of neurosciences. Keynote lecturer Steven Mithen, author of the book "Singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind and body", will provide insights into the anthropological dimension of the relationship between music and neurosciences. Conference web site June 26, 2008 The Medical Home: The New Primary Care Model - Audio Conference, USA This session explores the Medical Home model in depth with respect to trends and issues driving the need and demand for such disruptive innovation; the components, critical features, stakeholders and key topics relating to the model; the impact on chronic care management and major stakeholders; and financial considerations. Conference web site June 26, 2008 The Future of Biometrics in Europe, Kent Brussels' Office This event, which has been organised by the University of Kent and the United Kingdom Biometrics Institute (UKBI), in association with the European Biometrics Forum, will debate the question of whether Europe is properly equipped to respond to the surge in demand for the biometrics technology that will soon be required by many of its citizens. This includes national security technologies as well as an ever increasing number of applications in the private and public sectors eg finance, social security and health care. Speakers will include: Professor Michael Fairhurst, Head of the Department of Electronics at the University of Kent and founder of UKBI; Nicolas Delvaux, Sagem; Dr. Bernadette Dorizzi, Université Paris Sud; Dr. Max Snijder, CEO European Biometrics Forum; Dr. Carmen Garcia, Universidade de Vigo; Martin George, Smart Sensors Ltd.; Simon Fance, Projects Officer, UKBI; Dr. Ben Schouten, Fontys University of Applied Science, Eindhoven; and representatives from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Directorate-General for Information Society and Media. Conference web site June 26-28, 2008 Third Neurosciences and Music International Conference - Neuromusic, Montréal, Québec, Canada The main theme of the conference is research on interactions between music and the human brain in healthy and pathologic conditions. The conference will focus on many topics such as the importance of music in the biologic and cultural evolution of man, differences between musicians trained at an early or late age, congenital amusia, absolute pitch, the relationship between the study of music and intellectual abilities in children, musical abilities in behavioural disorders and genetic syndromes, music perception in cochlear implant patients, dystonias in musicians, the effectiveness of music as a means to reduce the perception of pain, and music rehabilitation. The event is mostly targeted to medical professionals, neuroscientists, neurologists, psychologists, educators, music therapists, musicologists, and sound engineers. The conference will be preceded, on June 25th, by a Workshop on research design and methodology in music and neurosciences and will be opened by an introductory address by a renowned keynote speaker. The conference will include 5 or 6 symposia devoted to providing in-depth insights into the main themes. Also included in the programme are two poster sessions. Conference web site Conference e-mail June 26-28, 2008 ICAAM 2008 CANADA - International Congress On Anti-Aging Medicine, Montréal, Québec, Canada This congress in about well ageing and ageing in beauty. Topics include: Preventive, Life Span & Anti-Aging Medicine, Aesthetic Dermatology and Surgery. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics - WM-SCI'08, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of WMSCI 2008 is to promote discussions and interactions between researchers and practitioners focused on disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary issues, ideas, concepts, theories, methodologies and applications. The organizers are particularly interested in fostering the exchange of concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business, and the industrial community. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 First International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation - IMETI 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA Engineering activities are based on the development of new Knowledge (scientia), new "made things" (techné) and/or new ways of working and doing (praxis). Scientia, Techné and praxis are three important dimensions of a comprehensive conception of Engineering as a whole. Engineering, as Scientia, is mostly developed in academia; as techné is practised in industry generating technological innovations; and as praxis is carried out in technical and non-technical organisations, supporting managerial activities and technical procedures, via methodical and methodological design and implementation. This is why engineering provides one of the most solid academic and professional substrata for bridging among universities, industries and governments. Publications and conferences related to engineering are usually oriented to one of its three dimensions. While this is an adequate thing to do when disciplinary focus is sought, it does not represent engineering as a whole and it misses the very important synergic relationships among the three kinds of engineering activities mentioned above. This is why a group of scholars, professionals and consultants, in the field of engineering, considered the possibility of initiating a publishing process and organizing a conference where presentations will not be reduced to one of the engineering's dimensions, but to foster the participation of academics, practitioners and managers in the three dimensions of engineering, in the same conference, or in the same publication, so they can synergistically interact with each other. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Second International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management - KGCM 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA Generated knowledge is usually communicated. Implicit or explicit management of knowledge generation and communications is usually required for both: knowledge generation and communication. Knowledge management requires as well knowledge generation and/or communication, i.e. meta-knowledge regarding knowledge management, which has been explicitly being addressed on the organizational level. These three knowledge's dimensions are highly related among each other. Information and Communications Technologies are increasingly supporting the effectiveness and the efficiency on Knowledge generations, communication and management, as well as the relationships among them. Consequently, a main purpose of KGCM 2008 is to bring together researchers, professionals, academics, consultants and practitioners related to any of these three areas, to relationships among them as well as those who are related to the conception, design or implementations of systems, tools and technologies oriented to support knowledge generation, communications and/or management. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Third International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing - KCPR 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of KCPR 2008 Organizing Committee is: To extend this kind of reflections and research to other disciplines and to inter-disciplinary domains, so peer reviewing could be improved and/or complemented by other means of verification and validation of the knowledge to be communicated. To encourage reflections and research of the subject from a systemic and cybernetic perspective, where Peer Review is seen as a means for Knowledge Communication, not as an end in itself; and related through some positive and negative feedback loops, as well as, hopefully, feedforward ones. To encourage reflections on and designs of non-lineal models of publishing which are desirable, and might be feasible to be implemented by means of the new Communication Technologies and Information Systems. This is why KPCR 2008 is being held jointly with CITSA 2008 and CCCT 2008, EISTA 2008, etc. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Third International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences - KCC 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA It is a known fact that participation in conferences is one of the means of Knowledge Communication. On the other hand, Knowledge Communications regarding conferences' purposes, ends/means, quality standards and means for achieving them, etc. might be an effective way to improve conferences' organisation and quality. An increasing number of research, studies and reflections have been published with regards to knowledge communications by means of journals publications, but very few publications can actually be found with respect to knowledge communications via conference presentations. Consequently, the purpose is to use several means of knowledge communications in order to generate some reflections first, as well as studies and research later, on the subject of conferences' organisation and presentations as means of knowledge communication. With this purpose in mind, the conference team is thinking, as a first step, in organizing a symposium on the general theme of Knowledge Communications and its specific applications to the area of conferences' organisation, purposes, objectives/means, quality standards, etc. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Second Symposium on Academic Globalization - AG 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of AG 2008 is to bring together scholars, educators and practitioners with the objective of exploring, reflecting and sharing ideas with regards to the impact that the Globalization Phenomena is having or might have on universities (research, teaching and continuing education), and vice versa: the impact that academia is generating, or could generate on the phenomenon of globalization. Questions such as the following are examples of those that could be addressed at the Symposium in order to generate possible answers and/or reflections, as well as possible research: Will Academic Globalization emerge as part of the Globalization Phenomenon? Will Academic Globalization serve as a catalyst for General Globalization Phenomena? Will it be the inverse way? Will it be both ways catalyzing each other in a positive feedback loop? Are Academic Internationalization and/or Transnational Education parts of the forces driving and accelerating Academic Globalization? Are they in opposite and dialectical relationships with each other? How strongly related are Academic Globalization and the Knowledge Society? What kind relationships exist among Academic Globalization, Information and Communications Technology and the Knowledge Economy? How is the Globalization Phenomenon transforming academic objectives and activities? Questions like these require multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and multi-epistemological perspectives, so they can serve as input for integrative research, studies and approaches for a better understanding of what is or what might be the opportunities and threats/uncertainties, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of present trends in Academic Globalization and how this trend might be re-oriented for better and more desirable results. Conference web site June 30 - July 3, 2008 Sixth International Workshop on Computer Algebra Systems and Their Applications - CASA'2008, Perugia, Italy Computer Algebra - also known as Symbolic Computation or Computational Algebra - has found applications in many domains of science such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, computational biology, education, etc. The computer algebra systems (CAS) such as Mathematica, Maple, MuPAD, Reduce, Axiom, Lie, Matlab, Scilab, CoCoa, MuMATH, Derive, Pari-GP, SMP, MathCAD, Macsyma, Scratchpad, Magma, Singular, SARAG, Risa/Asir, GAP - and many others that have been developed so far - are becoming more and more popular and now they are valuable tools for teaching, research and industry. This workshop solicits high-quality papers for presentation describing original research results in Computer Algebra Systems and their Applications. This workshop is intended to cover recent developments (algorithms, programmes, packages, extensions, new tools, etc.) for computer algebra systems (CAS). Emphasis will be placed upon the applications of these systems for solving problems in science and engineering. Thus, papers are solicited describing research on actual or possible applications of CAS and techniques to other fields (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Computer Science, Education, Industry, etc.). A very remarkable feature of CAS is their capability to handle symbolic, numerical and graphical tasks within a uniform framework. Papers exploring the interaction of these CAS symbolic, numerical and graphical tools to solve complex problems as well as papers describing strategies to combine CAS with other programmes and/or packages are also welcomed. Finally, an exciting new feature of many CAS is the possibility to perform calculations by using remote kernels connected via Internet. Papers discussing the use of this new technology will also be considered. The topics to be addressed include but are not limited to: computer algebra applications to Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, Computer Science, Social Sciences, Arts, Entertainment, Architecture, etc. symbolic-numerical computations using computer algebra systems computer algebra systems and Internet industrial applications of computer algebra problem-solving environments symbolic-numeric interface computer algebra systems in Education computer algebra based simulations new computer algebra developments (packages, notebooks, etc.) new symbolic computation algorithms new issues in symbolic computation Conference web site June 30 - July 3, 2008 8th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications - CGA'08, Perugia, Italy The workshop, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, is intended as an international forum for researchers in all areas of computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. Submissions of papers presenting a high-quality original research are invited to one of the two Workshop tracks: theoretical computational geometry applied computational geometry. This year focus is on Robotics and its applications in Geometric Computations. Computational geometry in biometric is also of specific interest. Topics include: Design and analysis of geometric algorithms Geometric algorithms in Robotics Computational geometry in Biometrics Intelligent and evolutionary geometric computing Geometric algorithms in computer graphics Geometric modelling Geometric algorithms in Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence and Computational Geometry Voronoi Diagrams and generalizations Geometric computations in parallel and distributed environments Geometric data structures for surface reconstruction 3D Geometric modelling Geometric algorithms in GIS Computational methods in bioinformatics Geometric applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, etc. Visibility problems Discrete and combinatorial geometry Interpolation and surface reconstruction Geometric algorithms in Path planning and robotics Numerical computing Implementation issues and optimization Visualization of geometric algorithms Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. The design and implementation of geometric algorithms in parallel and distributed environments, and applications in biology, biometrics, physics, GIS and computer graphics are of special interest. Conference web site June 30 - July 3, 2008 Second International Workshop on High-Performance Computing and Information Visualization - HPCIV'08, Perugia, Italy High-performance computing often results in very large data sets, which are best interpreted by visualization. Very large data sets also naturally arise in many applications, such as computer-aided design, virtual-reality and geographic information systems. Researchers working on visualization of large data sets are facing problems not only arising in graphics and computational geometry, but also problems like load balancing, communication overhead and fault tolerance, which problems also arise in general in high-performance computing. This workshop attempts to bring together theoreticians and practitioners working in the areas of high-performance parallel, distributed and Grid computing and those working in the areas of high-performance computer graphics and information visualization. Areas of interest in no particular order include, but are not limited to: Algorithms and data structures for large geometric data sets Discrete and combinatorial geometry High-performance computer graphics Image compositing techniques Multi-resolution techniques Visualization of large data sets Interactive visualization Visualization for computer-aided design Visualization in virtual-reality systems Geographic information systems Geometric algorithms for robotics High-performance distributed computing Grid and cluster computing Load balancing and communication overhead Latency and scalability Multi-server architectures Cache-oblivious algorithms Out-of-core rendering Multicore parallel algorithms Realistic input Graphics in embedded systems Visual data mining Information visualisation in data mining Visualisation of software metrics Theoretical and experimental algorithm evaluation Algorithms and architectures for information visualization Conference web site June 30 - July 4, 2008 International Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing and Grids, Cetraro, Italy High Performance Computing (HPC) is a key Information Technology attracting a great deal of attention in USA, Europe, Japan and other economically raising Asian countries as a fundamental tool for scientific research, industrial production and business decision making. HPC is viewed as one of the most important technologies of the 21st Century. Significant amounts of energy and financial resources have been invested by governments and private sectors for building adequate infrastructures and human skills to enable the expected benefits. Yet, despite many spectacular accomplishments of HPC, this tool is still underutilized by many academic schools, industrial companies and businesses. There are several challenges that slow down deployment of HPC. Some are mentioned in the Section Programme. Some or all of these challenges may disappear or become less essential with the advent of Grid Computing. Most IT strategists and experts believe that Grid Computing is the future. So far there have been very successful attempts to connect globally individual computers and create large clusters that solved very compute and data intensive problems in physics, chemistry, life sciences, astronomy, etc. Grid Computing may be ready soon for industrial and business applications. It could be used for Enterprise deployment as soon as several technical challenges are solved. Among them are: security, standards, reliability an accountability. The aim of the Workshop is to discuss the future developments in the HPC technologies, and to contribute to assess the main aspects of Grids, with special emphasis on solutions to Grid computing deployment. Conference web site June 30 - July 4, 2008 Third International Conference "Distributed computing and Grid technologies in science and education" - Grid'2008, Dubna, Russia The Conference is a unique one conducted in Russia on the issues relating to the use of Grid technologies in various areas of science, education, industry and business. The Grid technologies transform the technique of scientific research and start exerting influence upon the commercial and financial world. Special attention is expected to be focused on Grid applications in science and education, in industry and business. Conference web site July 3-6, 2008 ESMO Conference, Lugano, Switzerland The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) will host around 600 doctors and researchers at a four-day meeting featuring highlights presentations on the most common tumour types plus educational sessions addressing key issues such as cancer and pregnancy, human papillomavirus vaccines, cancer stem cells and biomarkers. New data on cancer prevention, treatment and survival will be presented in poster symposia and other sessions, where highlights include: a study showing how changes in tumour cell count can identify which prostate cancer patients are benefitting from treatment; a large study of male breast cancer; and an analysis of data comparing treatments for aggressive non-Hodgkins lymphoma. On the opening day of the conference, a symposium hosted by the European School of Oncology (ESO) will focus on the important topic of treating breast cancer in young women, followed by a keynote lecture on how far we have come in terms of helping patients who survive cancer, by Professor Sophie Fossa from the Norwegian Radium Hospital. Over the following days, world leading experts will present the most recent updates on lung, prostate, colorectal, breast, head and neck cancers and brain tumours. Conference web site July 6-18, 2008 International Summer School on Grid Computing, Balatonfüred, Hungary The ISSGC'08 programme will include lectures, discussions, laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced Grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research. Reports from world leaders in deploying and exploiting Grids will complement lectures from research leaders shaping future e-infrastructure. Hands-on laboratory exercises will give students experience with widely used Grid middleware. The school will conclude with an integrating practical that will enable students, working in teams, to bring together all they have learnt. During the school, participants will meet like-minded students from many parts of the world, working in many disciplines, and form valuable long-term working relationships. Applications are invited from the target audience: enthusiastic and ambitious researchers who have recently started or are about to start working on Grid projects. Students may come from any country and from fields including computer science, computational science and any application discipline. The school will assume that students have diverse backgrounds, however, in order to fully participate in the practical exercises applicants should be confident programmers who have fulfilled certain prerequisite exercises. Conference web site July 7-11, 2008 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming - ECOOP'08, Paphos, Cyprus ECOOP 2008 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas of object-oriented technology. Workshops serve as a forum for exchanging late breaking ideas and theories in an evolutionary stage. They typically focus on either in depth analysis or broad-ranging approaches to areas related to object-oriented technology. Workshops may last one or two days and will be held on July 7 and 8, 2008. Conference web site July 7-11, 2008 CoreGRID Summer School 2008, Dortmund, Germany Building Grid infrastructures on the principles of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) has become an increasingly important topic during the last years: although a plethora of Grid middleware solutions have been proposed and many value-added systems have been successfully developed and deployed, key issues such as loose coupling, interoperation, and standardized protocols are yet to be addressed. The CoreGRID Summer School 2008 provides a platform for young researchers to discuss these issues and gives the perfect opportunity to network with colleagues from all over Europe in order to develop solutions to these mission-critical problems while at the same time talk to leaders from the industry. Within the larger topic of "Linking Grids and SOAs" internationally recognized experts in research and development will give lectures and tutorials on the following areas: State of the Art in Research and Development Key Issues in Design, Implementation and Deployment of Grid and SOAs Assessment and Evaluation of Grids and SOAs Security and Management for Resources, Services, and Applications Grid and SOA Frameworks, Developer Tools and Frontends Industry Impact and Standardization Community Approaches to Common Problems Additionally, standardization and industry impact will be discussed and a closer look on the state of the art of research as well as on community applications will be taken. Conference web site July 7-12, 2008 Advanced Course on Epidemiological, Clinical and Genomic Data Bases Statistical Software for Data Analysis in Biomedicine, Desio, Italy Topics include: Medical records; Clinical Databases; Genomics Databanks; Epidemiological archives and registers. Medical data integration; Hospital and Health Information Systems; Telecommunication and networking infrastructures; Internet in Biomedicine. Methods of Data Analysis (classification, clustering, discriminant, regression); Elements of applied Statistics in Biomedicine and Epidemiology. Data mining and neuronal networks. Survey and introduction to use of some statistical software packages: SAS, SPSS, S, Hyperstat, Statistica, Mathlab, etc.; Examples of applications, case studies and exercises. It is necessary to sent a pre-registration by e-mail to the Secretariat with personal data and address within June 15, 2008. Conference web site Conference e-mail July 8, 2008 Workshop - Lobbying in the EU: How to represent and defend your interests in Brussel, London, United Kingdom Understanding how the European Union (EU) works and how to influence policy direction is more crucial now than ever before. Key topics at this workshop include the EU institutional landscape, the relations between these institutions, the decision-making processes and the ways to work and influence the system. There is also a�focus upon the co-decision procedure. Conference web site July 8, 2008 Getting Started with WebSmart PHP - Webinar, USA This technical webinar is to help new WebSmart PHP users succeed as quickly as possible by giving a tour of the IDE and a review of all the key features. This webinar is useful for people who are evaluating WebSmart PHP, who have recently purchased the software and for anyone considering System i PHP development who wants a more in depth look at the product. In this Webinar you will learn: What WebSmart PHP is. Where to find tutorials, support and other steps to success. How to create a PHP application using templates. How to edit the HTML with WYSIWYG and text based tools. The PHP created by the template for a subfile application. Overview of integration with Nexus Portal for securing WebSmart applications and providing an application framework. WebSmart PHP is a rapid web application development tool used to create PHP applications that run on the System i and other PHP supported platforms such as Windows, Linux and Unix. Conference web site July 9, 2008 Getting Started with WebSmart ILE - Webinar, USA This technical webinar is to help new WebSmart ILE users succeed as quickly as possible by giving a detailed review of all the key features. This webinar is useful for people who are evaluating WebSmart ILE, who have recently purchased the software and for anyone considering System i web development who wants a more in depth look at the product. In this Webinar you will learn: What WebSmart ILE is. How to create applications using the WebSmart templates. How to modify the HTML with WYSIWYG HTML tools. Tour of the IDE. How to use the Central Repository. Brief overview of security, debugger and change management. WebSmart ILE helps you produce native System i-centric CGI web applications that access DB2400, MS SQL and MySql databases. WebSmart lets you extend or develop new web applications for any industry or application. Conference web site July 9-11, 2008 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz, Austria Over the last decades the advancement in Assistive Technologies (AT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have significantly influenced the life of people with disabilities. According changes in awareness and understanding of disability as well as social and legal frameworks, driven by Disability Rights and Independent Living Movements led to what is known as eAccessibility, Universal Design or eInclusion. The more ICT and AT increases the potential to enable people with disabilities to take part in almost any area of life, the more eInclusion and eAccessibility become a common responsibility of mainstream. In 2006 ICCHP summarised this process in the equation "equality = eQuality". "Equality", equal access and therefore equal chances in society are dependant on "eQuality", the quality of systems and services in taking the needs of all users into account including those with disabilities. The progress is outstanding - in most of the industrialized countries. But eInclusion in a global economy and world should also be seen as a global challenge. Due to this ICCHP'08 wants to give a special focus on problems of people with disabilities in countries in difficult economic and political situations. We must not neglect that people with disabilities often face the most difficult situations out of economic, political and social reasons. They do not have access to ICT, AT and the according eInclusion and emancipation. As a first highlight of the conference Jim Fruchterman will keynote ICCHP'08. Conference web site July 10-11, 2008 Second Rediscovering Biomarkers: Detection, Development and Validation, Boston, Massachusetts, USA This conference exposes attendees to the latest advancements and developments in biomarkers and predictive medicine. Attendees gain insight into the discovery and development processes, hear about new biomarkers and upcoming trends in the industry, as well as the status of biomarkers in clinical trials. Delegates will also receive highly valuable information on tools for improving reimbursement strategies and the efficacy and validation of biomarkers. Conference web site July 10-12, 2008 Fifth International eGovernement and eHealth Conference and Exhibition - eGeH 2008, Desio, Italy Topics include: Administrative Information Systems Electronic Documents and Protocols Digital Signature / Electronic Identity Cards Biometrics, Cryptography and Security Smart Cards in P.A. and Health Services Medical Information Systems Telemedicine (Radiology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology) Tele Home Care / P-Health, Biomedical Devices Internet in Health Care Grid Technology in Biomedicine Conference web site Conference e-mail July 12, 2008 Second International Workshop: From Biology To Concurrency and Back - FBTC 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland In computational theory, several formal approaches make use of biology as inspiration for the development of problem solving techniques. Most of them are taken from complex, inherently concurrent, systems. Some examples of "biologically inspired computing" are artificial immune systems, cellular automata, genetic algorithms, membrane computing, neural networks, organic computing, swarm intelligence. On the other hand, concurrency has begun to inspire an emerging research area in Biology. Regev and Shapiro coined the Cells-as-Computation metaphor as the "much-needed abstraction for biomolecular systems". Computers and biomolecular systems both start from a small set of elementary components from which, layer by layer, more complex entities are constructed with evermore sophisticated functions. In computational systems biology, the abstractions, tools and methods used to specify and study concurrent and distributed systems can therefore be naturally adopted to model and better understand the complex biomolecular systems. This workshop intends to explore this "cross-fertilization" between computational sciences and biology, with a special attention to concurrent models in biology and formal foundations in bio-inspired computing. Concurrency theory permits hypotheses generation and testing. Models can therefore be simulated, analysed, checked and validated. A growing "arsenal" of theoretical models, logics, and tools for understanding concurrent systems has been developed. Concurrency permeates not only computer systems but also nature and living organisms. Concurrency can be found at the molecular level as well as at those of cells, organs, individuals, communities and ecological systems. Also, biologically inspired computing could benefit from concurrency theory. Conference web site July 17-20, 2008 Professional Insurance Marketing Association's Summer Conference - PIMA 2008, Newport, Rhode Island, USA At PIMA, business development is the ROI. Meeting highlights include: Health care in 2009. Hear directly from Beltway insiders on the post-election legislative landscape for health care. Keynote Speakers: Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, AHIP and George Olsen, JD, Lobbyist at Williams and Jensen Identity Theft�Frank Abagnale, subject of the movie "Catch Me If You Can" Carrier Product Showcase Consumers & Branding - Rob Walker, The New York Times Magazine columnist Conference web site July 18-22, 2008 Euro Science Open Forum 2008, Barcelona, Spain The mission of the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is to provide both the European and the international science and business communities with an open platform for debate and communication. It presents and profiles Europe's leading research trends in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is an opportunity to discuss and influence the future of research and innovation in Europe by involving all main stakeholders: scientists, business executives and policy-makers. At ESOF2008 you can: Discover new trends and directions in research, business, science policy and funding Network with leaders of the international science and business community Communicate your research and ideas to an international audience Participate in the debate, discussion and excitement of European science and technology Meet and talk to scientific and business journalists from Europe and around the world Develop your career, your future projects and your contacts Conference web site July 20-23, 2008 2008 IT Leaders Forum, Denver, Colorado, USA Experts from the industry's leading companies including Gartner, IBM, System iNetwork, and others will present a series of forward-looking seminars and discussions that reflect the trends that are changing the way System i shops are run. This in-depth conference includes content designed specifically for the System i Professional: The future of server technology and application architecture Methods of aligning business and IT and developing a shared vision Acquiring and integrating software IT staffing challenges and how to overcome them Refresh and refine their project management skills Get business involved in continuity planning and asset protection Practical guide to real-world business intelligence Conference web site July 22-25, 2008 12th WSEAS CSCC Multiconference, Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece This multiconference includes the following conferences: 12th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits (July 22-24, 2008) 12th WSEAS International Conference on Systems (July 22-24, 2008) 12th WSEAS International Conference on Communications (July 23-25, 2008) 12th WSEAS International Conference on Computers (July 23-25, 2008) Engineering Education (July 22-24, 2008) Conference web site July 23-25, 2008 South African Grid School, Johannesburg, South Africa The South African Grid School is a 3-day course on large-scale and high-performance computing. The South African Grid School invites participants to learn more about Grid and high throughput computing and its implications in various research areas through this intensive OSG course that introduces the techniques of Grid and distributed computing for science and engineering with hands-on training in the use of large-scale Grid computing resources. The workshop will focus on enabling the use of OSG and TeraGrid cyberinfrastructure to perform large-scale computations and data-intensive processing in different application domains. Participants will learn how to use Grids of thousands of processors and will be able to continue to use these resources for their research after the course completion. The workshop will cover: Overview of distributed computing concepts and tools: Concepts, tools, and techniques of Grid computing and "Building a Grid" Discovering and using Grid resources Grid scheduling and distributed data management Web service and Grid service concepts including techniques for work flow and collaboration; Grid computing in a South African context; and various high-performance computing related topics. Conference web site July 28-30, 2008 Workplace Benefits Renaissance 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA The Workplace Benefits Association is a coalition dedicated to helping employers and employees with a total solution to financial planning and security. Members share a recognition that for many Americans, the hub of their finances and security are related to their employment including state and federal mandated programmes, employer funded programmes, and voluntary employee funded programmes. The Members of the Workplace Benefits Association strive to bring an integrated solution through a master plan that involves a standardized employer guide and checklist. This procedure ensures that no important area is overlooked while providing the flexibility for each employer and employee to create an individual solution to the financial planning puzzle. Conference web site August 4-7, 2008 First IEEE International Workshop on Computer Grids for Distributed Network and System Management - CGDNSM 2008, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, USA The main objective of this workshop is to exchange ideas on how to aggregate CPU and data resources within a computer grid, to face scalability, management data manipulation, and the complexity of management operations. Scalability problems are due to the growing size of transport networks, manageable connected sub-networks and devices (e.g. mobile devices, home networks, gateways and devices, etc.). Important amounts of data may be collected form large sets of devices and networks for management purpose, and complex management operations may be performed on these datasets to detect and remedy to non-trivial management problems, using for example optimization and distributed artificial intelligence techniques. Conference web site August 6-8, 2008 Australian College of Health Service Executives 2008 Congress, Alice Springs, Australia The Australian College of Health Service Executives (ACHSE) is the leadership and learning network for health professionals in management. It has been guiding Health Service professionals for over 60 years and is the largest multidisciplinary professional body representing health and aged care managers in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Thailand. Its national, annual Congress typically brings together over 400 emerging, middle and senior management health leaders drawn from its diverse membership base to consider health services research and how to improve health services management. Topics include: Change Management Information Technology and Management Recruitment and Retention of Staff Performance Development and Management Lean thinking Learning and Development Conference web site August 11-16, 2008 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques - SIGGRAPH 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA SIGGRAPH 2008 is evolving along with the computer graphics and interactive techniques community. The organizing team is dissolving the borders between traditional SIGGRAPH programmes to create a more fluid, interdisciplinary conference. And the organizers are offering presenters more flexible options for sharing their work. Conference web site August 20-22, 2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference - ChinaGrid 2008, Dunhuang, Gansu, China China Education and Research Grid Project - ChinaGrid, an important 211 project funded by the Chinese Ministry of Education, aims at constructing public service system. It is also supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Programme of China (863 Programme). The goal of ChinaGrid is to integrate heterogeneous mass resources distributed in the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), share those resources in the CERNET environment effectively and avoid the resource islands, provide useful services, finally form the public platform for research and education in China. The first phase mission of ChinaGrid had been successfully completed in December 2005. The accomplishments and advancements are unanimously confirmed by the expert committee organized by the Ministry of Education in July 2006. Accordingly ChinaGrid won the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Advancement Award in 2006. Now, the 2nd phase construction of ChinaGrid is under careful preparation, and hopefully will kick off the 2nd phase in the first half of 2008. To stimulate further exchanging experience and innovating idea between experts and users involved in ChinaGrid community, the 3rd ChinaGrid Annual Conference (ChinaGrid 2008) is now to be held. Conference web site August 25-26, 2008 Fifth International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models - GECON 2008, Las Palmas, Spain Although many companies and academic institutions have already developed Grid infrastructures, a global commercial Grid has not been created yet. The missing component for such a commercial Grid is a market, which allows trading of goods such as data, software, processing power, storage, and bandwidth. This market for Grid services would not only be the first step towards a global commercial Grid but would also turn the Grid into an environment where all users (i.e. the general public, academic institutions, SMEs, and large companies) can access Grid services in the same way. These Grid services are expected to range from simple services for mass usage, to complex services encapsulating e-Science or high-performance-computing (HPC) methods. This workshop invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss issues associated with the development of this global commercial Grid. The purpose of this workshop is also to suggest future directions of research and amendments to existing Grid technologies, aiming at the successful deployment of this global, commercial, service-oriented Grid system. Researchers and practitioners are invited to present current results and original research in the area of Grid economics, in particular, interdisciplinary research in the area of IT infrastructure and economics. The topics of interest are (but not limited to): Analysis of existing Grid middleware technology Business modelling Grid value chain and value networks Software-as-a-Service models Markets and market mechanisms for the Grid Service-orientation of Grid systems Utility computing models Knowledge utility models Incentives for participation and resource sharing Economic-enhanced Grid services Analysis of pricing schemes for Grid systems Reports on Grid test beds and operation Analysis of application scenarios (with stakeholders and roles) Resource (computing, bandwidth, storage) selection and allocation Metering, accounting, charging, billing systems Models for service-oriented computing Decision support systems for Grid users and providers Capacity planning systems Service level agreements (SLAs) Market models for the Grid Economic aspects of existing Grid applications Reports on national and international projects on Grid Trust, security, and risk management Standardization � Virtual organisations Impact of legal requirements on Grid operation Middleware support for real-time on-line interactive applications Economics-aware operation of Grid applications In addition to this, the workshop will feature an industry session in order to increase the knowledge transfer between academia and industry. Speakers of major utility computing providers are expected, describing the state-of-the-art of the commercial Grid and the customer acceptance of the shift from "buying computing resources" to "computing on demand". The workshop will also provide a forum for projects on Grid economics to present themselves. Conference web site August 25-26, 2008 CoreGRID Symposium 2008, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain Grids are revolutionising computing as profoundly as e-mail and the Web revolutionised communications and publishing in the last 15 years. Grids are a crucial enabling technology for Scientific and Industrial development in the decade. Grid, Peer-to-Peer and other types of networked distributed computing and storage technologies, as well as emerging web technologies, have provided new paradigms exploiting distributed resources. The CoreGRID Network of Excellence (NoE) is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Program. It aims at strengthening and advancing scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies. The Network is operated as a European Research Laboratory and brings together a critical mass of well-established researchers from 46 institutions. The CoreGRID Symposium aims at being the premiere European event on Grid Computing for the dissemination of the results from European and member states initiatives as well as other international projects in Grid research and technologies. It is organized jointly with the Euro-Par 2008 conference. The CoreGRID Symposium will focus on all aspects of Grid computing including service infrastructures and as such will bring together participants from Research and Industry. The symposium seeks contributions from Grid projects on, but not limited to, the following Grid topics: Applications Agent-mediated approaches and peer-to-peer technologies Dynamic composition and orchestration of ubiquitous Grid services Experimental testbeds Grid Portals Grid Services Grids and Pervasive Computing Grid Information Systems/Services Industrial and Business Applications of Grid technologies Knowledge and data management Network-centric Grid operating systems Problem solving environments Programming models Resource brokering, management and scheduling Resource Virtualization Scalability Issues Semantic Grid Service Oriented Architectures System architectures and middleware systems Tools Trust & Security Validation and take-up of Grid environments and tools Conference web site August 25-27, 2008 17th International Conference on Information Systems Development - ISD 2008, Paphos, Cyprus Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts and approaches emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice. Over the past 16 years, the ISD conference has acted as an international forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences between researchers, academy and industry, and as a means to stimulate exploration of new solutions. The theme of ISD 2008 is "Towards a Service-Provision Society". The conference features a number of tracks covering a wide spectrum of contemporary topics in the field of Information Systems Development. These tracks are the following ones: Information Systems Research Methodology Service-Oriented Analysis and Design of Information Systems IT Service Management Philosophical and Theoretical Issues in ISD Model-Driven Engineering in ISD Enterprise Systems Development and Adoption Intelligent Information Systems Public Information Systems Development Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods Information Systems Engineering and Management Business Systems Analysis and Design Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in ISD ISD Education ISD in Developing Nations Legal and Administrative Aspects of ISD Conference web site August 26, 2008 UNICORE Summit 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain The goal of the UNICORE Summit is to bring together researchers and practitioners working with UNICORE in the areas of Grid and distributed computing, to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of UNICORE. Topics of interest for the UNICORE Summit should be related to UNICORE and include but are not limited to: High-performance scientific and engineering Grid applications End user experiences Service-oriented designs adopting Grid and Web standards Grid scheduling, resource management, and brokering Theoretical models and algorithms Reliability, fault-tolerance, and autonomy Interoperability Security Performance evaluation Architecture extensions and new components Scientific and economic scenarios Business models and service provisioning Tools and environments for development, deployment, and configuration Conference web site August 26-29, 2008 Euro-Par 2008 Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Euro-Par focuses on all aspects of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for parallel and distributed computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel and distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. Conference web site August 28-30, 2008 20th International Conference of Medical Innovation and Technology, Vienna, Austria The 2008 SMIT International Conference is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and important meetings in the medical innovation field with a particular focus on image guided interventional oncology and endoluminal surgery NOTES and NOSCAR. Topics for SMIT 2008 include: Tumour Ablation and Interventional Oncology Endoluminal Surgery NOTES and NOSCAR Surgical Manipulators and Image-guided Robotics Hybrid OR, Work Flow and Systems Integration Nanotechnology and Microsystems in Medicine New Instruments and New Materials Rapid Prototyping in Medicine E-Health MRI Safety Navigation and Augmented Reality Molecular Imaging and Targeted Drug Delivery Model based Therapy, Numerical Simulation and Training These topics will be presented by an international forum of outstanding endoscopic surgeons, interventional radiologists, biomedical engineers and industrial instrument manufacturers. Session will be organized in collaboration with TATRC, MMVR, Scottish Northern Research Partnership NRP. Conference web site August 30 - September 3, 2008 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology's 21th ECNP Congress 2008, Barcelona, Spain Over 6000 psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists and neuroscience researchers and practitioners from all over the world will join to present and discuss the latest breakthroughs, the progress and the future perspectives in the fields of the origin and treatment of mental disorders, disorders of the brain, neuropsychopharmacology and related fields. This largest high scientific standard meeting in Europe will provide all participants with the latest achievements and future perspectives in neuropsychopharmacology and closely related fields of virtually all disorders of the brain. The ECNP Congress is also expected to raise awareness about the size and burden of mental disorders in Europe and the availability of new treatments and to stimulate discussion about ways of implementing new knowledge and new therapeutic approaches. The ECNP Congresses, playing a leading role in bringing together distinguished scientists identifying and testing promising new medications with novel mechanisms, are currently paving the groundwork for the next generation of pharmacological treatments, which will improve the lives of the millions of people who suffer from mental disorders. Conference web site August 31 - September 2, 2008 HISA HIC'08: The Person in the Centre, Melbourne, Australia The conference will take a fresh look at the changing role of consumers and providers in health care and the systems that support them. This evolution,fuelled by advances in the acquisition, communication and application of information, has brought us to a point where many agree that the next great advance in healthcare will come from the assisted use of existing knowledge and the empowerment of the consumer with this knowledge. Conference web site September 3, 2008 Health-e-Nation 2008, Melbourne, Australia This event will explore the theme "Health-e-Quality - Quality of Health Care and Equality of Access - ICT making a difference". You can connect with international and national leaders, policymakers, vendors and peers. you will learn from industry thought leaders in developed and emerging markets and see the latest health ICT solutions on the exhibition floor.�You will be able to network with professionals who face the same issues you face and learn how others are solving common issues. Conference web site September 3-5, 2008 Tenth Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications - ZA-WWW 2008 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa The year 2008 sees the 10th consecutive World Wide Web Applications Conference. To highlight this milestone anniversary, the event will be celebrated in two places. The programme will kick-off in Cape Town and then continues the week after in Nairobi - reinforcing the Conference's engagement with African Web developments as a whole. Although papers will not be duplicated, both conferences will reflect the same features and themes: Prominent keynote speakers from abroad as well as from the local scene Various appropriate and applicable programme tracks Peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as invited presentations Poster presentations Proceedings published in electronic format Selected papers published in a special 10th anniversary conference issue of The Electronic Library: International Journal for the Application of Technology in Information Environments Papers are solicited with original and unpublished work, research results innovations, ideas, and problems or issues that require solutions from any field in which the World Wide Web is applied or used as a tool or system. Topics might relate to trends and developments over the last ten years; for example the growing number of "foreign" language sites; the politics of the Web; censorship and legal issues; new methods of access and device and network convergence; search engines and search techniques; emerging Web technologies, developments and trends; Web 2.0; and e-anything (government, commerce, marketing, learning, society, entertainment). Conference web site Conference e-mail September 3-5, 2008 Seventh International Confence on Distributed and Parallel Systems - DAPSYS 2008, Debrecen, Hungary DAPSYS is an international biannual conference series dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing. DAPSYS 2008 is a major international event for presenting original research, novel concepts and methods, and outstanding results. Contributions that investigate parallel and distributed techniques, algorithms, models and applications; present innovative software tools, environments and middleware; focus on various aspects of Grid computing; introduce novel methods for development, deployment, testing and evaluation are invited. DAPSYS 2008 will feature a special focus on desktop Grid computing. Contributions that investigate desktop grids and volunteer computing systems, large-scale computing applications, present recent advances of scalability, fault-tolerance and security in desktop grid systems are especially welcome. Topics of interest of DAPSYS include but are not limited to the following: Featured topic: Desktop Grid computing Cluster and Grid systems Distributed and Grid middleware Parallel and distributed programming languages and algorithms Formal models for parallel and distributed computing Software engineering and development tools Autonomous and self-distributed systems Problem solving environments Grid architectures Grid resource management Grid workflow Grid application support tools Distributed information management Distributed storage systems Advanced cluster/Grid applications Conference web site September 4-6, 2008 14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems - DMS'2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers a wide spectrum of paper presentations, technical discussions and demonstrations in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The themes of this year's conference and workshops take advantage of the rich cultural history and artistic tradition of the great city of Boston, and also reflect the emphases of DMS and the co-locating workshops. The main themes of the DMS2008 conference are: network and systems, emergency management and security, situated computing, multimedia software engineering, and multimedia information retrieval, mining and fusion. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing various aspects of distributed multimedia systems and applications, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: audio and video compression MPEG, Quicktime, Windows API standards image, video, audio content analysis and indexing/retrieval image, video and audio watermark 3D audio and video computer graphics and animation modelling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems OS support for distributed multimedia systems distributed multimedia databases and computing distributed object management multi-paradigmatic information retrieval multimedia human-computer interaction multimedia communications and network architectures mobile networks and mobile computing multimedia stream synchronization and QoS control/scheduling multimedia software engineering multimedia processors and ASIC multimedia technologies for people with disability intelligent multimedia computing intelligent multimodal interaction multi agents, mobile agents and their applications communication encryption security of distributed computer systems sensor networks for multimedia computing Web servers and services XML applications Java, VRML and multimedia languages visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications multimedia digital libraries and mail systems multimedia applications for CSCW multimedia authoring tools and intelligent tutoring cultural heritage multimedia applications tele-conferencing, tele-medicine and tele-lecture virtual reality, distributed virtual environment, and their applications virtual school, virtual university, and virtual learning community distance learning methodology, tools and systems e-commerce, e-education and e-entertainment Conference web site September 4-6, 2008 International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing - VLC 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Visual computing involves theory, methods and application of enhancing the visual space, along with human interaction, within the field of computing. One may visualize unstructured data, simple information structures, and more complicated structures such as automata, programmes, and databases. Moreover, visual computing is a field that involves representation of artifacts and their behaviours or executions. Thus, it is possible to visualize heaps, their execution or entire programmes in which the heap plays an algorithmic role. The ways in which the human interacts with the heap through pure visualization, touch, or sound becomes a relevant issue. The concept of transformation is integral to visual computing, where it is often convenient to transform one type of object into another sometimes for a specific group or individual. Aspects of visual computing are multi-facetted in goals that are to be achieved during information or language design. The following represents a short list of qualities that are of importance to the study within visual computing: efficiency, aesthetics, pleasure, emotion, engagement, immersion, collaboration, and culture. Aspects of art, engineering, and science play key roles where certain practitioners focus on design and engineering of visual interactions whereas others analyse and study these interactions (i.e., science). The International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing will explore these issues. Papers on all aspects and approaches to visual languages and computing are solicited, including interactive visual computing, computer-empowered visual computing, human-empowered visual computing, transformation algorithms for visual computing, and visual languages for visual computing. The following topics are of special interest: Visual Languages Visual Programming Visual and Spatial/Temporal Reasoning Visual Computing for Expert Communities Visual Computing on Sensed Data Gestural Computing Aesthetic Computing Ambient Information Interaction Visual Computing in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Fusion of Vision with Audio and Other Modalities Human-Machine Interface Design Human Vision Systems and Models Visualization of Computational Processes Large-Scale Scientific Visualization Parallel/Distributed/Neural Computing and Representations for Visual Information Pictorial Databases and Information Systems Biomedical Imagery Computer-Assisted Visual Art and Design Conference web site September 4-6, 2008 2008 International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies - DET 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA DET 2008 focuses on creative solutions on distance education. It combines several advanced topics on design, implementation, and applications of e-learning systems. Submissions may cover novel approaches on distance learning tools, communication mechanisms, distance learning and culture, new educational technologies, distance learning and the arts, and so on. Special attention will be devoted to intelligent tools in various distance education systems. Distance education technologies cover important aspects of Communication Technologies, distance learning and culture improvement and arts by using Intelligent Technologies and Educational Technologies. The technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to: E-learning based on mobile device New network infrastructures Real-time protocols Broadband and wireless communication tools Open source tools Quality-of-Services issues Multimedia streaming technology Intelligent learning agent Multi-agent system/platform Applications Case studies Multi-agent collaboration process Intelligent information delivery/reuse Search engines Data mining for e-learning system Applications Case studies Environment Eclipse Open source ecosystem and E-learning Eclipse intelligent resources Eclipse intelligent projects Eclipse intelligent environment Applications Case studies and best practice Eclipse community for e-learning Intelligent Technologies Intelligent tutoring Individualized distance learning Approaches to behavior analysis Automatic FAQ reply methods Application soft computing methodologies Visual computing Educational Technologies practical and new learning models Assessment tools Authoring systems Distance learning and knowledge management Societal, Legal and Ethical Considerations Copyright protection Authentication mechanisms Intelligent resources Learning objects (LO) and LO reusability Tracking activities Concept assessment problems Advanced tools Collaboration tools Remote lab Knowledge management tools Advanced Distance Education Projects Theory Methodology Tools Distance Education Management Distance education design Virtual classroom organisation Tutoring Practice communities World wide LO management Instructional design Distance Learning for culture and arts Improving culture and art by distance learning methodologies Culture and art practice communities Web 2.0 tools for culture and art improvement Tutoring in distance learning arts World wide L0 management Instructional design Conference web site September 4-6, 2008 Pan-American Congress On Anti-Aging Medicine - PACAAM 2008, Montréal, Canada This event will be one of a kind in America for its unique approach regarding the concept of "Global Aging Management". The main purpose of the congress is to assign two parallel scientific programmes of high quality in both Anti-Aging Medicine - Life Span and Quality of Life - and Aesthetic Dermatology and Surgery, presented International renowned experts from all continents. The lifespan medicine programme - a new terminology for Anti-Aging medicine - will give to the participants a unique experience presenting great scientific progresses for a longer and healthier lifespan and controversial debates when the anti-aging leaders will debate with several of the fieriest opponents to the anti-aging movement. The controversy and contradiction that permit us to disclose are solid scientific arguments. Among the invited speakers you will meet the most knowledgeable ones. Each of the sessions will be followed by an enthusiastic debates with the experts and the audience, that will allow the physicians not only to get to know more about this medical approach, but to form their own opinion regarding the Anti-aging Medicine. The aesthetic surgery and dermatology programme will present excellent opportunities to bring the participants up to date information as the experts will present the latest treatments as well as their own techniques to share with you their know how and professionnal experience. The physicians attending this programme will find practical advices they are seeking to apply in their everyday practice for the best results. The practical and interactive character of the advanced sessions and live demonstration workshops run by a world class faculty of opinion leaders will provide a real educative action to the audience. More than 1000 attendees from all over the world will join the PACAAM this year. Conference web site September 6, 2008 MICCAI-Grid Workshop, New York, New York, USA Medical image computing raises new challenges related to the scale and complexity of the required analysis. An increasing number of studies require the federation of large data sets (epidemiology, statistical analysis, computational anatomy and physiology...). Furthermore, the complexity of models and processing is increasing. Grid technologies are addressing problems related to large data set manipulation over wide Internet and computing networks. Grid infrastructures have been exploited in many scientific areas to foster collaborations at a large scale and address problems that are difficult to tackle using limited resources available in a single centre. Grids are not only providing tools for exchanging data and computing power, they are also a vector for structuring the user communities as they enable cross-enterprises collaborations. In the medical imaging area, Grids provide a foundational layer that can be exploited e.g., to build patient-specific models and to reduce computing time for meeting time constraints of clinical practice. The emergence of Grid technologies in the medical area also opens new opportunities such as computing algorithms validation and optimization or collaborative studies on rare diseases. Specific Grids initiatives are emerging worldwide, demonstrating a growing interest from the health community for such infrastructures and impacting the way to conduct medical research. Some projects are also targeting large scale data federation and structuring for provision to the community. However, deploying medical image analysis applications on Grid infrastructures requires a proper understanding of the specific needs in this area. Close collaboration between Grid and medical image analysis researchers is needed. The scientific objectives of this workshop are both to demonstrate the current achievements of Grid technologies within the medical imaging community and to precisely identify the fundamental problems limiting the adoption of existing systems and methods. The workshop intends to help medical imaging scientists to become familiar with Grid technologies and their possible usage to support research. It also aims at stimulating the community to build new collaborations by taking advantage of the sharing capabilities of Grids. Topics of interest include: Medical image analysis application using Grids Medical image pipelines and work flows Distributed and heterogeneous medical databases Medical data representation, structure and annotation Large scale and statistical studies Content-based retrieval and data mining Methods evaluation and parameter sweep studies Medical data visualization using Grid resources Dedicated Grid infrastructures Standards for exchanging data and algorithms Success stories and show stoppers Conference web site September 6-10, 2008 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, New York, New York, USA MICCAI typically attracts over 600 world leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery. Conference web site September 8-9, 2008 eHealth 2008, London, United Kingdom This ICST Conference is organized to be the meeting point for Government Ministers, Health Care Industry Policy Decision-makers, Academics, Clinicians, Homecare Providers, Telecare product vendors, Hospital Managers, Housing Association representatives, Medical Researchers, Investors and IT architects.�� As well as the opportunity to examine and share ideas with the key people involved in the delivery of health care records across the globe there will also be the opportunity to see in action the latest telecare solutions at the exhibition which will be running in conjunction with the conference. Topics to be covered will include: How patients and care providers' lives are being transformed by the eHealth solutions What pitfalls and challenges need to be considered (e.g. data management policies, legacy environments, system to system integration and reliability, testing) What architecture considerations, infrastructure and supporting common process are required? What have we learned from our implementation efforts to-date: commercial and governmental? How to monitor and evaluate the benefits of eHealth solutions? Privacy legislation updates on current implementation achievements and challenges Security services what are the identity management requirements? Professional Confidentiality and Trust what ethical and legal obligations must be considered? Getting stakeholders involved in planning and development and sharing the benefits as new technologies are realized Motivation, incentive and alignment - connections between the will and the way, exploration of the core elements needed to encourage sustainable change as new systems are introduced and grounded in the practice environment Conference web site September 8-9, 2008 Second Protein Therapeutics Discovery & Development Conference, San Diego, California, USA This conference brings together leaders, directors, vice presidents, heads, managers, academics and researchers, from all over the world to collaborate and discuss the latest developments in Protein Therapeutics. Protein discovery is a crucial step toward drug discovery. Over the past few years, new technologies and methodologies, such as bioinformatics, x-ray crystallography and protein microarrays, have been used to determine the structures and mechanisms of novel proteins. Now that new proteins have been discovered, the question is, how do we use them? GTCbio's 2nd Annual Protein Therapeutics Discovery and Development Conference will explore the therapeutic applications of proteins, with a look at discovery and design of therapeutics, overcoming challenges associated with protein based drugs, and new tools and strategies in process development. Finally, attendees will get an update on novel developments in protein therapeutics. Sessions will include: Therapeutic Drug Discovery and Design Novel Developments in Protein Based Therapeutics Discovery to Production: New Trends in Protein Expression and Process Development Overcoming Challenges in Developing Protein Based Drugs Conference web site September 8-11, 2008 UK e-Science 2008 All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Theme is the event is "Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures". To shape the meeting into one which truly achieves the aims implied by its title, their is a need to attain a genuine synergy between computer scientists and computational scientists and researchers in all domains, achievable by facilitating access to, and exploitation of, all kinds of distinct resources across disparate administrative boundaries. Conference web site September 8-12, 2008 International GridKa School, Karlsruhe, Germany Established in 2003, the International GridKa School is one of the leading summer schools for Grid computing and e-science. The school co-operates with the D-Grid Project SuGI - Sustainable Grid Infrastructures, which is part of D-Grid's educational strategy, and the Helmholtz Alliance 'Physics on the Terascale'. In addition, it is associated with EGEE. GridKa School offers a broad range of topics, which are chosen from the realm of these projects and beyond. Because of its parallel hands-on sessions, GridKa School targets different groups of people involved in Grid computing: Grid novices, advanced users and administrators, scientists and other users of Grid, graduate students, PhD students and post-docs involved in Grid computing. Before July 31st, registrants can take advantage of an early bird discount. The organizing team reserves the right to limit the number of participants, if necessary. Conference web site September 8-12, 2008 International Conference on Parallel Processing 2008 - ICPP 2008, Portland, Oregon, USA The International Conference on Parallel Processing provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Architecture Network-Based / Grid Computing Algorithms and Applications Peer-to-Peer Technologies Cluster Computing Performance Evaluation Compilers and Languages Software Systems and Tools OS / Resource Management Wireless and Mobile Computing Conference web site September 10-12, 2008 Tenth Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications - ZA-WWW 2008 Conference, Nairobi, Kenya The year 2008 sees the 10th consecutive World Wide Web Applications Conference. To highlight this milestone anniversary, the event will be celebrated in two places. The programme will kick-off in Cape Town and then continues the week after in Nairobi - reinforcing the Conference's engagement with African Web developments as a whole. Although papers will not be duplicated, both conferences will reflect the same features and themes: Prominent keynote speakers from abroad as well as from the local scene Various appropriate and applicable programme tracks Peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as invited presentations Poster presentations Proceedings published in electronic format Selected papers published in a special 10th anniversary conference issue of The Electronic Library: International Journal for the Application of Technology in Information Environments Papers are solicited with original and unpublished work, research results innovations, ideas, and problems or issues that require solutions from any field in which the World Wide Web is applied or used as a tool or system. Topics might relate to trends and developments over the last ten years; for example the growing number of "foreign" language sites; the politics of the Web; censorship and legal issues; new methods of access and device and network convergence; search engines and search techniques; emerging Web technologies, developments and trends; Web 2.0; and e-anything (government, commerce, marketing, learning, society, entertainment). Conference web site Conference e-mail September 11-12, 2008 10th International Conference on Visual Information Systems - Visual 2008, Salerno, Italy The International Conference series on Visual Information Systems is designed to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from different areas of computer science including, computer vision, database, human computer interaction, image processing, information visualization, knowledge and information management, to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, present their latest results and to advance research and development in visual information systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Web visual information systems Web visual information search Web visual information indexing and retrieval Web visual information semantics Web visual data mining Ubiquitous visual information management Pervasive multimedia information systems Mobile visual information systems Visual information for location-based services Applications of visual information systems Visual information systems for security and antiterrorism applications Visual information systems for e-learning and e-government applications Ranking techniques and algorithms Visual information indexing and retrieval Visual query models and languages Semantic models for visual information Fusion of visual and non-visual information Machine learning and pattern recognition techniques for visual information management Interactive and content-based image and video retrieval Knowledge and ontology visualization Visual data mining Information and data visualization Visual information system architectures Storage design and data management issues Information Modeling in Immersive Environments Visual summary of Spatial databases Visual database systems Visual data analysis Methodologies and approaches for visual information systems engineering Image and video databases Gestural information systems Interoperability in visual information systems Visual information systems for disabled people Image database structuring Human interfaces for GIS Earth-wide information systems Virtual 3D cities Conference web site September 11-13, 2008 Oxford e-Research Conference 2008, Oxford, United Kingdom The Oxford e-Research Conference 08 seeks to stimulate and inform multi-disciplinary research on the development, use and implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs), like the Internet, in shaping research across the disciplines. It will bring together research from key e-Research projects from around the world examining the role of the Internet, Web and the Grid in research. The conference seeks to facilitate scholarly communication and publication on this topic, and help foster a broader public understanding of the significance of this area to the sciences and humanities as well as to the public at large. Conference web site September 14-16, 2008 Annual IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization - IISWC 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA This symposium is dedicated to the understanding and characterization of workloads that run on all types of computing systems. New applications and programming paradigms continue to emerge as the diversity and performance of computers increase. On the one hand, computing workloads evolve and change with advances in microarchitecture, compilers, programming languages, and networking/communication technologies. On the other hand, improvements in computing technology are usually based on a solid understanding and analysis of existing workloads. Whether they are PDAs, wireless and embedded systems at the low end or massively parallel systems at the high end, the design of future computing machines can be significantly improved if we understand the characteristics of the workloads that are expected to run on them. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Characterization of applications in areas including Search engines, e-commerce, web services, databases, file/application servers Embedded, mobile, multimedia, real-time, 3D-Graphics, gaming, telepresence Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing Security, reliability, biometrics Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behaviour Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases Graphics libraries, scientific libraries Characterization of system behaviour, including Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads Effects due to virtualization and dynamic optimization Hardware accelerators (GPGPU, XML, crypto, etc.) Failures, availability, and reliability User behaviour and system-user interaction Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems Implications of workloads in design issues, such as Power management, reliability, security, performance Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks Benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues, including Multithreaded benchmarks Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces Validation of benchmarks Abstract modelling of programme behaviour Emerging and future workloads Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core systems Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads Conference web site September 15-19, 2008 24th Open Grid Forum - OGF24, Singapore OGF24 will show how Grids have become a key enabling technology in a broad spectrum of IT environments. Participants will hear how researchers and scientists in both academic and commercial settings find Grids useful to scale their compute capabilities and data analysis while enhancing their ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries. Participants will also hear how commercial users find grids to enable better business agility, reduce costs, and aid in the deployment of a shared, service-oriented infrastructure. OGF24 will also provide a unique forum for discussion on how grids form a necessary underpinning for emerging technologies such as virtualization and clouds. Conference web site September 18-19, 2008 Seventh MedTech Investing Europe Conference, London, United Kingdom Campden's MedTech Investing Europe conferences are the leading events in Europe for showcasing cutting-edge medical technology and highlighting the latest opportunities for investors. The events are catalysts for ensuring the continued development of the European medical industry, providing industry intelligence, platforms for innovative medical technology companies and savvy investors, and an ideal environment for business networking. Produced in collaboration with Imperial College London and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, these events bring together industry leaders from across the world. Attendance for this event is primarily focused at the investor community and major health care corporations. Conference web site September 18-19, 2008 PHI2008: Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low-Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies, Seattle, Washington, USA This second annual conference will feature: Keynote addresses by leading international experts Plenary presentations: National approaches from countries leading the development of integrated public health information systems Creative approaches to collecting and linking data and systems to improve public health practice Strategies for compiling and delivering contextually relevant information for decision support Poster sessions presenting research and applied methodologies and results from public health informatics interventions in low resource settings throughout the world Panelist discussions of funding opportunities for research and applications and development Information exchange and networking opportunities Conference web site September 18-20, 2008 Second International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC'2008, Catania, Italy The symposium welcomes proposals for workshops organisation on relevant topics within the scope of the main conference. Workshops should be focused on advanced and on-the-edge aspects of research in the field of intelligent distributed systems, stimulating discussion, collaboration and exchange of views. Conference web site September 21-25, 2008 Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2008, California, USA The event will offer more than 1700 educational sessions on Applications, Database, Middleware and Industries presented by Oracle product management, partners and customers. Designed to provide an inclusive and content sharing environment, Oracle OpenWorld will integrate elements of Enterprise 2.0 using Oracle's social networking tool, schedule builder, on-line planner, and blogs. A special programme for developers returns this year with an extra day of sessions and hands-on-labs. Attendees will have access to two Exhibition Halls with over 450 partners featuring their latest offerings, more than 250 live product demos in the Oracle DEMOgrounds and a dynamic, thought-provoking, and interactive customer and partner breakthroughs showcased at Inside Innovation, sponsored by Intel. Customers and partners will have the opportunity to meet and hear from their peers with more than 100 user group and SIG meetings and numerous networking functions. Conference web site September 21-25, 2008 ECOC 2008, Brussels, Belgium ECOC is the largest conference on optical communication in Europe, and one of the most respected and long-standing events of its kind in the world. ECOC '08 will be the 34th edition, ignifying the stability and attractiveness of this event as one of the world's major events in the field, providing a forum for new results and developments in optical communication and networks. Conference web site September 22-23, 2008 "Mastering the New CMS Regulation: Implications for Infection Prevention & Control", Arlington, Virginia, USA Beginning October 1, 2008, CMS will no longer reimburse hospitals for costs related to eight preventable conditions, including three HAIs: catheter-associated urinary tract infections (UTIs), catheter-associated blood stream infections, and mediastinitis - a deep infection following coronary artery bypass surgery. The APIC conference will present information on how leading institutions are managing the clinical and economic impact of the new HAI regulations and practical strategies to assist facilities with compliance. Conference web site September 22-23, 2008 Bugs & Drugs Conference, San Diego, California, USA This conference will provide an overview of current problematic pathogens in infectious diseases and cover what is being done to combat them as well as present novel drug developments. Many new developments in this area such as recent resistance in hospital acquired infections, especially in MRSA and the ever-changing regulatory approval on clinical trial designs that affect many companies working with infectious diseases require brainstorming and idea sharing to help tackle the viruses and infections. Sessions will include: Novel Approaches to Problematic Pathogens (Part I): Community-Acquired Infections Novel Approaches to Problematic Pathogens (Part II): Hospital-Acquired Infections Contingency Plans for Biological Weapons and Disease Outbreaks The Future of Infectious Disease Therapeutics Regulatory Aspects & Clinical Trial Design Novel Drug Developments in Diseases of Developing Economies Conference web site September 22-26, 2008 EGEE'08 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey The EGEE'08 conference will provide the perfect opportunity for both business and academic sectors to network with the EGEE communities, collaborating infrastructure and application projects, developers, decision makers alike, to realize this vision and make it happen. Conference web site September 22-26, 2008 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-end Virtualization and Grid Management - EVGM 2008, Samos Island, Greece The End-to-end Virtualization and Grid Management (EVGM) workshop has been recently founded with a view to dealing with the very topical subject of managing virtualized resources in distributed environments, including resources that are dispersed geographically and/or administratively. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). Conference web site September 23-26, 2008 17th International Congress on Palliative Care, Montréal, Canada Presented by the Palliative Care Division of the Departments of Medicine and Oncology of McGill University, this biennial Congress has grown to become one of the premier international events in palliative care. Health care professionals, therapists, volunteers and all those involved in care for the dying come to renew themselves as providers of care and to obtain the inspiration that will help them shape the palliative care of the future. Since the first Congress in 1976 under the leadership of palliative care pioneer Dr. Balfour Mount, there has been increasing agreement in the field that palliative care should be provided from diagnosis, hence the shift to "Palliative Care" from "Care of the Terminally Ill" in the title of the 2008 Congress. This year's outstanding programme will feature five plenary sessions, four day long Concurrent Seminars, research fora, and over 80 workshops and symposia. In 2008 for the first time, the Congress will be a trilingual event, with simultaneous interpretation of selected sessions, including all Plenaries, into Spanish as well as French. There will also be a special focus on palliative care as a basic human right and how to develop and support programmes and initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Conference web site Conference e-mail September 25-26, 2008 2008 Global Clinical Trial Operations Conference, San Francisco, California, USA The conference covers clinical trials in emerging markets, first-in-man clinical trials, pediatric clinical trials, material storage, distribution, site selection, patient recruitment and retention, technology in clinical trials and case studies of running global clinical trials. Deadline for paper abstract submission is August 25, 2008. Conference web site September 25-26, 2008 Cesnet Conference 2008: Security, middleware, and virtualization - Glue of future networks, Prague, Czech Republic This year's conference focuses on areas that stay behind not only the network itself, but are the basic building bricks of general e-Infrastructures. The three major topics are: Security: conceptual, technical, and organizational aspects of the broadly understood security in networks, Grids, and generic e-Infrastructures; classical (like Kerberos and PKI) and novel (federations) approaches to authentication; new authorization mechanisms, tools, and infrastructures that could serve networks and Grids together; security in sensor networks and peer to peer systems; security in health care and other sensitive application areas; the concept of trust and its implementation in distributed systems Middleware: software components that lie between individual components and the vision of the hidden complexity of large-scale distributed systems like networks, and Grids; planning and scheduling algorithms and systems; multimedia and other large capacity demanding content distribution; overlay and user empowered networks, ROI; security related middleware Virtualization: virtual networks, computing nodes and data depots; virtual clusters and Grids; novel techniques in network virtualization; virtual organisations, user and resource management; new addressing and identification paradigms Conference web site September 25-27, 2008 16th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Compute

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