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June 21-23, 2009 IADIS International Conference e-Health 2009, Algarve, Portugal The use of ICTs - Information and Communication Technologies - in health care services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. The use of these technologies also improves the quality of patient care and reduces clinical risk. At the same time, the patient will be part of the health care process, having more information about diseases and access to his/her electronic health record. The physicians will have more information to deliver a better service and dynamic guidelines to improve quality and reduce risks. The pharmaceutical industries can get more and more accurate information about drug's effects and supply chain delivery systems. Public health authorities can get more accurate information and develop dashboards to make better decisions. Hospital Management benefits from a more updated meaningful data. This data is used by management systems to delivery Key Performance Indicators (KPI). This conference aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve health care quality. Conference web site June 21-23, 2009 International MedTech Symposium, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom The symposium will bring together opinion leaders from industry, government, academia and finance to examine the future of the MedTech industry and to address issues such as the technology needed to make health care more effective and efficient and to reduce the time needed to bring products to market. The symposium is unique, looking at innovation and investment from a global MedTech perspective, yet focusing on the SME (small and medium enterprises) value chain and SME relationships with financing. The symposium hopes to attract delegates from the USA, Asia and Europe and includes sessions such as: Technology, Innovation and Finance How SME's are performing in key international environments How corporates are thinking How investment groups are thinking What is hot in the evolution of new technology offerings The new MedTech value chain Critical next steps Conference web site June 21-24, 2009 EUROPACE 2009, Berlin, Germany EUROPACE, the official congress of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), is the foremost European meeting on cardiac arrhythmias and pacing. More than 4000 participants are expected to attend this year's event, whose two main themes are atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death. This year's congress will pay attention to the incidence - and risk - of cardiac arrhythmias in athletes. A scientific session will consider the implications of an abnormal ECG in an athlete, and the requirement for screening to avoid sudden cardiac death. The prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias in the athlete's heat will be reviewed. A debate later in the programme will ask if ECG screening in the athlete makes sense. Conference web site June 21-25, 2009 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems, Denver, Colorado, USA The conference will feature work in MEMS technology of both a fundamental and applied nature. The major areas of activity in the development of Transducers solicited and expected at this conference include but are not limited to: Bio, Medical, Chemical, and Micro Total Analysis Systems Fabrication and Packaging Mechanical and Physical Sensors Materials and Characterization Design, Simulation and Theory Actuators Optical MEMS RF MEMS Nanotechnology Energy and Power Conference web site June 22, 2009 International Meeting on "Size Matters?", Bristol, United Kingdom What are the psychosocial consequences of being large? Is weight loss surgery becoming the norm? Can you be healthy at any size? The Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) at the University of the West of England will explore these and other pressing issues around weight and obesity in "Size Matters?" - a one day meeting. "Size Matters?" will cover current medical, psychosocial and critical approaches to understanding and managing body weight. International and UK speakers will present papers on these approaches with room for discussion and debate. The speakers are: Professor Jane Ogden, University of Surrey; Dr. Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath; Professor Andrew Hill, University of Leeds; Professor Michael Gard, Charles Sturt University, Australia; Lucy Aphramor, NHS and Coventry University; Dr. Meredith Jones, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Professor Nichola Rumsey, Centre for Appearance Research, UWE. Conference web site June 22, 2009 Network Performance for Clusters and Grids Seminar, Amsterdam, The Netherlands High performance networks enable cluster and Grid computing as viable paradigms. The achievable network performance is critical to the overall performance of the system. Despite increases in the speed of both processors and networks, there is a growing "network performance gap" that limits the ability to perform faster data movement. There are various bottlenecks to achievable network performance and consequently, many potential techniques to improve performance. This talk explores techniques for improving network performance and explores potential evolution of network systems. Seminar speaker is Martin Swany from the University of Delaware. Conference web site June 22-23, 2009 Prostate Cancer Translational Research in Europe Meeting - PCTRE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Translational research transforms scientific discoveries arising from laboratory, clinical or population studies into clinical applications to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality. The European Association of Urology (EAU) provides an excellent forum to disseminate knowledge in specialised meetings. Therefore, the EAU Research Foundation has taken the initiative for this meeting. The focus is on prostate cancer, the most common male malignancy in most European countries with 346.000 new cases diagnosed each year in Europe. Research efforts have increased steadily over the past two decades. Top speakers will be recruited from 8 European Union framework programmes. Researchers, EU officials and representatives of the patient advocacy groups are invited to join the meeting. Furthermore, US based scientists will join to see how "across the pond" collaboration can be improved. The faculty includes world-reknowned urologists such as Anders Bjartell, Freddie Hamdy, Peter Mulders and Per-Anders Abrahamsson. The programme includes, among other things, the following highlights: Molecular genetics of prostate cancer, From molecular target to clinical molecular diagnostics, Targeted therapies and a round table discussion on "Biomarkers in prostate cancer, where do we go?" Conference web site June 22-24, 2009 Panasonic Digital Health Symposium, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Australia The Panasonic Digital Health Symposium brings together a number of key players in the digital health care market. Attendees will hear from Barbara Stuttle, who was heavily involved in the NHS Connecting For Health programme in the UK, while Dr. George Margelis from Intel will share knowledge on the local Digital Healthcare landscape. In addition, Panasonic Healthcare Development Manager John Penn will launch the much anticipated CF-H1 Toughbook ruggedised tablet computer which is specifically targeted at the health care sector. All health care professionals are invited to attend this presentation which will assist you in understanding how IT solutions can help you improve your service delivery create improved experiences for doctors, staff and patients. Conference web site June 22-24, 2009 NASA Earth System Science at 20: Accomplishments, Plans, and Challenges, Washington D.C., USA Twenty years ago NASA started a programme to study our planet from space as a whole rather than its individual parts. Just as the invention of the mirror allowed humans to see their own image with clarity, Earth observations from space have allowed people to see themselves living on and altering a dynamic planet. To mark the programme's pertinent discoveries and look ahead to future opportunities, the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate is sponsoring the symposium "NASA Earth System Science at 20: Accomplishments, Plans, and Challenges". Researchers, managers, and policymakers will attend the event, which is co-hosted by the National Research Council's Ocean Studies Board, Space Studies Board, and Board on Earth Sciences and Resources. Conference web site June 22-25, 2009 Third International Congress of Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine 2009 - NanoBio 2009, San Francisco, California, USA Nanobiotechnology is a specialized field of nanotechnology, focusing on the improved and novel physical, chemical, and biological properties of materials at the nanoscale . Nanomedicine has potential impact on the prevention, early and reliable diagnosis and treatment of diseases. NanoBio 2009 conference will feature the state-of-the-art scientific development in the emerging field of Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine. Some examples of topics include: Targeted Nano Delivery Systems for drugs and genes Minimally invasive diagnostic methods Nano Bio Structural Modelling Regenerative Nanomedicine Nanobiological Assemblies Medical Imaging Bio-Detection & Bio-Defense Nanopatterning Nano Regulations & Public Policy Nanotoxicology & Risk Management Investment in NanoBio Emerging Companies Workforce Education & Training for the new NanoBio industry Conference web site June 22-25, 2009 Sixth International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation - REV 2009, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA REV 2009 is the sixth in a series of annual events addressing the area of remote engineering and virtual instrumentation. Previous editions of REV were organized in the form of an international symposium, and evolved in 2007 to be the annual conference of the International Association of Online Engineering. The general objective of this conference is to discuss fundamentals, applications and experiences within the field of on-line engineering, both in industry and academia. REV 2009 offers an exciting technical programme as well as academic networking opportunities. Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation are emerging trends in engineering and science. Due to: The increasing complexity of engineering tasks The availability of specialized and expensive equipment as well as software tools and simulators The need for highly qualified staff to control equipment The demands of globalization The general objective of this conference is to discuss fundamentals, applications and experiences in the field of remote engineering and virtual instrumentation. It is becoming increasingly necessary to allow the shared use of equipment and specialized software. The use of virtual and remote laboratories is one of the future directions for advanced teleworking, remote services, collaborative research and e-working environments. Another objective of the conference is to discuss guidelines for education in university level courses. The organizers encourage industry personnel to present their experiences and applications of remote engineering and virtual instruments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtual and remote laboratories Remote process visualization and virtual Instrumentation Remote control and measurement technologies On-line engineering Networking and Grid technologies Mixed Reality environments for education and training Demands in education and training, e-learning, b-learning, m-learning and ODL Teleservice and telediagnosis Telerobotics and telepresence Support of collaborative work in virtual engineering environments Teleworking environments Telecommunities and their social impact Present and future trends including social and educational aspects Human computer interfaces, usability, reusability, accessibility Applications and experiences Standards and standardization proposals Innovative organizational and educational concepts for remote engineering Conference web site June 22-26, 2009 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS 2009, Montréal, Canada The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Data Management and Data Centres Distributed Algorithms Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware Reliability and Dependability Security and Privacy Network and Internet Support for Distributed Applications Multimedia Systems Sensor Networks and Mobile Computing in Distributed Systems Conference web site June 23-26, 2009 24th International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany The International Supercomputer Conference, the leading supercomputing event in Europe, will combine a strong line-up of technical experts in the field of HPC with exhibits from leading supercomputing centres, as well as hardware and software vendors. ISC presents state-of-the-art applications, architectures and trends in supercomputing. As a result, this HPC event has created a unique atmosphere of collaboration and co-operation. Submission of high quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development in the following areas is encouraged: Advances in very large-scale applications of science and engineering modelling, simulation and design (Capability Computing) Successful implementation and deployment of large-scale Grid-enabled systems Computation pipelines and work flows for life-sciences, especially computational biology and biological data integration High performance computer architectures Data-intensive and I/O computing Measurement and modelling of Grid middleware and applications Conference web site June 23-27, 2009 CARS 2009 - 23rd International Congress and Exhibition, Berlin, Germany 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 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 June 23-27, 2009 ISCAS - 13th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery, Berlin, Germany 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 Image Processing and Visualization 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 June 23-27, 2009 CAD - 11th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Berlin, Germany 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 June 23-27, 2009 CMI - 15th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress, Berlin, Germany 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 June 23-27, 2009 EuroPACS - 27th International EuroPACS Meeting, Berlin, Germany 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 Cross-Border Experiences Security and Privacy, Quality Assurance, Legal Aspects Standardization (DICOM, HL7, IHE) PACS and E-Learning in Radiology and Medical Sciences Conference web site June 24, 2009 Symposium: Integration of Design and Science: Light, Materials, Colour and Environment, London, United Kingdom The symposium will highlight interesting, recent and innovative work in light, materials and colour related to design, technology and the environment. The talks and posters will overlap these themes, fostering and harnessing current ideas and investigations. These will include issues of inclusive and sensory design within the built environment, social responsibility of design and the role of beauty, comfort and confidence in serving and engaging users of environments. There will be a display of posters from international researchers covering the overall theme of integration of design and science. Conference web site June 24-26, 2009 pHealth 2008 - Sixth International Workshop on Wearable Micro and Nanosystems for Personalised Health, Oslo, Norway The pHealth Workshop is a forum of discussion, networking and experiences exchange about the state of the art and future challenges in nano and micro technologies, wearable and implantable sensors and ICT into personal health management systems. The 2009 Workshop will bring together thought leaders from all aspects of health care and technology to inform, discuss, debate and learn as the personalised health paradigm becomes a reality from laboratory to practice to help reshape and transform the care process. Conference web site June 24-26, 2009 Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium, Paris, France & Virtual Platform The Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium will bring together 1150 delegates to hear from an eminent line-up of speakers. Topics to be addressed span the full range of organic chemistry, including new developments in synthetic methodology, objectives in total synthesis, functional and mechanistic studies of biological systems, and advances in new materials. Virtual delegates will have access to real-time video webcasts of selected presentations during the three days of the Symposium and to the archived content for three months after the event. As well as access to world-renowned speakers, including a chemistry Nobel Laureate, virtual delegates have access to selected posters presented at the conference, the opportunity to visit virtual exhibitor booths, take part in scheduled chat sessions with selected speakers and network with other on-line delegates. Conference web site June 25, 2009 Getting Started with WebSmart ILE for Rapid IBM i Web Development - Webinar, USA WebSmart ILE has helped 1000's of RPG & COBOL programmers succeed with IBM i web application development. In this technical webinar you will see how WebSmart ILE helps you overcome common obstacles to web development because it creates the HTML, generates the RPG logic and configures APACHE for you. Attend this webinar to learn about WebSmart's key features and to help you get started by seeing a live demo of how to: Create web applications in 5 minutes using the WebSmart templates. Modify the HTML with WYSIWYG HTML tools. Use the IDE. Define business and presentation rules in the Central Repository. Secure your apps and provide a framework with Nexus Portal. WebSmart ILE is a rapid web app development tool that helps you produce native System i-centric RPG 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 June 25-26, 2009 International Workshop on Quality of Context Information - QuaCon 2009, Stuttgart, Germany Location-based applications such as route guidance systems or assistance systems for visually impaired people need to take into account a user's current position, physical surroundings, or activity. For this purpose, sensors in our environment collect an enormous amount of "context information". Such applications can react to changes in the physical world flexibly and adapt, for instance, by selecting and presenting information depending on the application context. For the first time, more than 100 researchers from all over the world will gather to discuss the state of the art in this area. For example, visually impaired people can benefit from this research through the development of better assistance systems for orientation and guidance. Another example is the Factory of the Future, where context information helps to optimize production processes. The quality of the available information about an application's context as well as the quality of the processing methods determines the usefulness of context-aware applications for users. For example, the accuracy, completeness, or trustworthiness of spatial context information such as street or building data are very important for the guidance systems for visually impaired people mentioned before. In addition to several research contributions, five internationally renowned experts are going to provide insight into their current research. The symposium is organized by the collaborative research centre "Spatial World Models for Mobile Context-Aware Applications" which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2003. Conference web site June 26, 2009 Third EDGeS User and Industry Forum Meeting: Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science and Industry, Hamburg, Germany The 3rd EDGeS User and Industry Forum Meeting is an ISC'09 satellite meeting. The EDGeS User & Industry Forum Meeting's theme will be "Desktop Grids and their role in Science and Enterprises". After the two previous and successful EDGeS User and Industry Forum Meetings in Paris, France, May 2008 and Debrecen, Hungary, September 2008, this third event will focus on bringing together Grid application users, developers and companies in order to discuss the possibilities of using Desktop Grid technology to get more computing power at reduced costs in universities and companies. The linking of different kinds of Grids, Desktop Grids, Service Grids such as EGEE and supercomputer Grids such as DEISA will also be discussed. Conference web site June 26, 2009 Seminar: GPU Accelerated Computing - From Hype to Mainstream, the Rebirth of Vector Computing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Acceleration technologies, in particular GPUs and Cell, are receiving considerable attentions in modern-day HPC. Compared to classic accelerators and traditional CPUs, these devices not only exhibit higher compute density, but also sport significant memory bandwidth and vector-like capabilities to stream data at bandwidth of 100GB/s or more. The latter qualifies such accelerators as re-birth of vector computing. With large-scale deployments of GPUs such as Tokyo Tech's TSUBAME 1.2 supercomputer facilitating 680 GPUs in a 100-Teraflops scale supercomputer, we can demonstrate that, even under massively-parallel setting GPUs can scale both in dense linear algebra codes as well as vector-oriented CFD codes. In both cases, however, careful algorithmic developments, especially latency hiding, are important to maximize their performances. Seminar speaker is Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Conference web site June 26, 2009 Second International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems - SAHNS 2009, Montréal, Canada The Workshop provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in specialized ad-hoc networks and systems. As an alternative to one-size-fits-all general solutions in the area of ad hoc networking and systems, we want to stimulate the application-oriented divide-and-conquer approach to ad hoc network and system research. The goal is to provide sound and efficient specialized ad hoc networks and systems (SAHNS), suitable for building solutions specific for well-defined classes of applications or even individual applications. The organizers want to consider both specialized ad hoc networks and specialized ad hoc systems. The latter can be built on top of specialized ad hoc networks. Alternatively, they can be constructed independently of specialized ad hoc networks, e.g., on top of general-purpose ad hoc networks. It should be emphasized that SAHNS is interested only in solutions specific to specialized ad hoc networks and systems. The Workshop is not interested in broad general-purpose solutions for all ad hoc networks and systems, or in generic solutions for extremely broad subclasses of ad hoc networks and systems. For example, the Workshop is not interested in general-purpose solutions for all sensornets or all P2P systems but is instead interested in specialized solutions for their application-oriented subclasses. One example of SAHNS targeted by this workshop are Incident Area Networks (IANs), dedicated to single incidents or events. An IAN can be pre-deployed for a planned event, such as a sporting or "nationally significant" event, or can be dynamically deployed for an unplanned incident, such as a local law enforcement situation or a natural disaster. Another example are opportunistic resource utilization networks (e.g., oppnets), in which the network reacts to a lack of resources by finding and incorporating "helpers" that have needed resources or services. Areas and topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Design issues for SAHNS: Novel network and system architectures Economically-based models and solutions Operating systems and middleware Customized network protocols (incl. cross-layer protocols) Resource management solutions (incl. resource discovery) Algorithms and models for localization and mobility management Privacy, security, and trust Reliability and dependability Novel hardware platforms Development issues for SAHNS: Development methodologies, models and tools Analytical and validation models Performance evaluation and modelling (incl. simulation tools) Operation and management issues for SAHNS: Topology control and management Energy control and management Resource and service discovery and control QoS provisioning and management Data management, data aggregation, data dissemination, and query processing Assuring survivability and reliability Controls for privacy, security, and trust management Application issues for SAHNS: Best current and future applications for SAHNS Experience with SAHNS deployments and products Social and business impacts of SAHNS-based applications Conference web site June 26-27, 2009 First International Conference on Biodental Engineering, Porto, Portugal The growing interest in the technology approach to medicine leads to the emergence of multi-disciplinary research areas of great importance. The medicine has seen its practice profoundly changed as the technology develops new media for diagnosis and treatment. On the other hand, engineering has also been confronted with issues that are innovative ranging from biomaterials as far as the development of analysis tools valid for living tissues. In this context, the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) will be the organizer and host of the 1st International Conference on Biodental Engineering. This event aims to solidify knowledge in the field of bioengineering applied to dentistry and to be more than a scientific conference: the idea is to promote a real networking experience between engineers and dentists and dental surgeons, so that real solutions can be found for many of the society problems on dental issues. Themes include: Biomechanical disorders Orthodontics Implantology Aesthetics Dental Medical device Medical image Conference web site June 26-28, 2009 European Computing Conference - ECC'09, Tbilisi, Georgia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Evolutionary Computation using Logic Programming by Assist. Prof. Jorge Ribeiro, Polytechnic of the Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Conference web site June 26-28, 2009 Second International Conference on Finite Difference, Finite Elements, Finite Volumes, Boundary Elements - F-and-B'09, Tbilisi, Georgia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flows Using the Finite-Element-Method by Assoc. Prof. Karel Frana, Technicka univerzita v Liberci, Czech Republic. Plenary Lecture 2: Meshfree-based Finite Volume Method by Prof. Hong Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Plenary Lecture 3: Dual BEM Since 1986 by Prof. Jeng-Tzong Chen, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan. Plenary Lecture 4: Finite Element Simulation of the Dynamics of Tethered Satellite Systems by Prof. Hans Troger, Technische Universität Wien, Austria. Conference web site June 27-28, 2009 4th ESU Master Class on Medical Treatment for Urological Cancer, Barcelona, Spain The format consists of three modules. Module 1 is entitled "Hormonal and intravesical treatment and chemoprevention", module 2 "Immunotherapy and targeted therapies" and module 3 "Systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy and palliation". Each module comprises short state-of-the-art lectures followed by debates, case reports and interactive discussions, supplemented with case discussions and presentations. For the first time an on-line pre-assessment is included in the programme. Conference web site June 27 - July 2, 2009 Biological Surfaces and Interfaces, ESF-EMBO Symposium, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain Interfaces between synthetic materials and biological systems - biointerfaces - constitute one of the most dynamic and expanding fields in science and technology. The field is driven both by a number of growing industrial and clinical applications - medical implants, biosensors and biochips, regenerative medicine, drug screening and targeting - and by the desire to understand biointerface processes at a fundamental level. It is by definition highly interdisciplinary, spanning across the disciplines of physics, materials science & engineering, chemistry, biology, bioinformatics and medicine. Education of today's students in a stimulating environment and with an interdisciplinary approach is a key factor for propelling this field forward. The main approach in biointerfacial science involves preparation and characterisation of functional surfaces for specific interactions with bio-systems, in vivo and in vitro, and studies of the molecular and kinetic processes occurring at such interfaces, ranging from small molecule and biomolecular interactions, to cell adhesion, differentiation and tissue formation at the interface. As such, this conference spans a wide range of topics including biomimetic surface platforms, biomembrane and supramolecular materials, nanotechnology, controlling cellular responses by designed surfaces with switchable properties, stem cells, cellular and molecular biomechanics, neural networks, optical, magnetic and mechanical detection systems with single molecule sensitivity, bio-arrays and DNA, peptides, proteins, enzymes at interfaces. The programme is organised into invited presentations by internationally renowned researchers, complemented by shorter contributed oral presentations and poster sessions by young scientists. Selected after-dinner keynote speakers have been invited to put the biointerface field in a larger scientific, clinical and social context. A small-group discussion session is planned to address social and ethical issues of the impact of the technologies and scientific knowledge being developed and used in this area. The conference will include short talks selected from the submitted abstracts as well as poster presentations. Conference web site June 28-30, 2009 Biofuels: Science & Innovation for Sustainable Development, San Francisco, California, USA Heightened national concern for energy independence and security, fueled by record gasoline prices and political uncertainties in oil-producing countries, has escalated biofuels production and governmental, commercial, and academic research to all new highs. Much like a microbial growth curve, biofuels research is transitioning from years of slow but steady progress to unprecedented growth in funding and opportunity. While early research focused on enabling technologies, a new wave of national interest has expanded from technical details and process engineering to include a much broader scope of biofuels issues. The recent emphasis and increased funding for alternative energy has been tempered by issues of large-scale implementation of biofuels, pushing biofuels sustainability to the forefront of national policy and research. Driven by concerns over food vs. fuel, carbon sequestration and climate change, water and soil conservation, land use, and net energy yield, sustainability has become integral to any biofuels research effort. Although both fundamental and applied research continues to improve biomass-to-fuels technology, driving down costs, increasing yields, and reducing environmental impacts, the timeline of deployment is increasingly dependent on whether or not the process can be sustained at a meaningful level. Once relegated to a few process models and life cycle analyses, biofuels sustainability is now an essential and critical aspect to any viable work in the bioenergy world. The inaugural Biofuels: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development Conference will focus on several key areas of biomass sustainability as well as showcase some of the latest biomass conversion research techniques. Environmental, economic, and feedstock sustainability will be covered in three plenary sessions, with session four geared towards cutting-edge techniques in biomass conversion research. A panel discussion will cover public policy in the biofuels industry while the commercialization of biofuels will be explored as a workshop. Conference web site June 28 - July 1, 2009 HealthGrid 2009 Conference, Berlin, Germany The HealthGrid conference is the premier conference on the transformation of biomedical research, education and medical care through the application of Grid technologies. HealthGrid is dedicated to: Enhancing biomedical research and health care delivery Creating an open collaborative virtual community Communicating the collective knowledge of the HealthGrid community HealthGrid is an interdisciplinary community of computer scientists, physicians, medical educators and students, epidemiologists, bioinformatics and medical informatics experts, military medicine specialists, security and policy makers, economists and futurists. The conference programme will include a number of high-profile keynote presentations, complemented by a set of refereed papers, which will be selected through the present call for papers. Conference web site June 29-30, 2009 Biofuels: Science & Innovation for Sustainable Development, San Francisco, California, USA This conference will focus on several key areas of biomass sustainability as well as showcase some of the latest biomass conversion research techniques. Environmental, economic, and feedstock sustainability will be covered in three plenary sessions, with session four geared towards cutting-edge techniques in biomass conversion research. Two open panel discussions will cover analytical instrumentation for biotech to biofuels and public policy in the biofuels industry while the commercialization of biofuels will be explored as a workshop. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2009 4th Workshop on Data Storage Devices and Systems - DS2, Yongin, Korea This annual workshop provides a forum in which to present research results in all areas related to the design, development, and evaluation of storage devices and systems. Original research contributions are solicited covering a variety of topics including but not limited to: Non-volatile memory storage devices and systems Empirical evaluation of storage systems Experience with deployed systems Mobile and personal storage Distributed I/O (wide-area, Grid, peer-to-peer) Parallel I/O Low-power design Security and privacy Storage networking Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2009 Health Information Technology Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA The HIT Symposium is a must-attend event, that will help leaders from every sector of health care, including those representing consumers, employers, payers, providers, and vendors, gain timely intelligence and practical insights on how to benefit from the health IT programmes and provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Participants will hear from the policy leaders responsible for many of the programmes within the federal government, as well as nationally recognized experts on topics such as privacy, financing, standards, and technical assistance. In addition, practical insights on how to effectively access funds from grant programmes, and how to support effective health IT adoption will be shared by veterans in the field. The final day of the Symposium will be devoted to the role of health IT in health care reform, which promises to be a hot topic as Congress deliberates health care reform legislation in the next two months. This symposium includes plenary sessions on: Overview of the Implication of the Federal Stimulus Legislation of HIT Getting Value out of Investments in Health IT Alternative Scenarios for Building the National Health information Network: Building on the Provider-Centric EHR Building from the Ground Up: HIE Health 2.0 Patient-Centered Approach How to Qualify for Federal Stimulus Legislation HIT Funding Defining "Qualified EHR Technology" and "Meaningful Use" Navigating the Privacy Policies Within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act An Overview of Grant Programmes and Processes Within HHS The Role of Health IT in Comparative Effectiveness The Role of Health IT in Health Care Reform Conference web site June 29 - July 4, 2009 Joint EGEE and EDGeS Summer School on Grid Application Support, Budapest, Hungary EGEE is the largest service Grid in Europe using the gLite Grid middleware. BOINC is the most used volunteer desktop Grid technology in the world. EDGeS integrates gLite based service Grids with BOINC and XtremWeb based desktop Grids. In this way the EDGeS infrastructure is the largest potential Grid infrastructure in the world. The subject of the summer school is to give insights to these technologies (gLite, BOINC, XtremWeb and EDGeS) as well as to tools and programming environments by which user can develop and run applications on this enhanced Grid infrastructure. Conference web site June 30, 2009 World Conference of Science Journalists, London, United Kingdom The 2009 World Conference of Science Journalists is bringing together reporters, writers and science communicators from around the world to network, develop their professional skills and learn about the latest advances in science and technology. The conference will also include two unique workshops that will provide background information and share newsworthy insights on research areas ranging from quantum information to cosmology. Conference web site June 30 - July 2, 2009 6th World Conference of Science Journalists - WCSJ2009, London, United Kingdom This is the only conference for science journalists by science journalists. The programme for WCSJ2009 includes plenaries, symposia and debates on science journalism issues, hot topics in scientific research, news briefings and trips to sites of scientific interest in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. WCSJ2009 aims to: Raise the quality and impact of science journalism worldwide Share excellence in independent journalism Compare experiences with counterparts from developed and developing countries Promote professional development Encourage new partnerships Report on the latest advances in science and technology Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 Multiconference on Applied Economics, Business and Development - AEBD'09, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Romanian Labour Market Face to Face with the Economic Crises by Ass. Prof. Daniela Zirra, Romanian-American University, Romania. Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 11th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Computational Techniques and Intelligent Systems - MAMETICS'09, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: System Biometric: A Door to the Security by Prof. Carlos Manuel Travieso Gonzalez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Plenary Lecture 2: An Exponential-Fitting Method for the Quantum Corrected Equations by Assist. Prof. Ren-Chuen Chen, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. Plenary Lecture 3: Internet and Network-based Healthcare: Performance Analysis and Improvements by Dr. Seyed A. Shahrestani, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Plenary Lecture 4: Biomimetic Modelling - A New Engineering Challenge in Nanostructured Material Fabrication by Prof. Mihaela Banu, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania. Plenary Lecture 5: Recent Developments in the Von Mises Transformation and its Applications in the Computational Sciences by Prof. M. H. Hamdan, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 8th International Conference on Non-linear Analysis, Non-linear systems, and Chaos - NOLASC'09, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: A New Research Direction of Chaos Control: Multi-Objective Control and its Application by Prof. Jin-Qing Fang, China Institute of Atomic Energy, China. Plenary Lecture 2: Non-linear Analysis of the Automotive Suspensions with neo-Hookean Elements by Prof. Nicolae-Doru Stanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania. Plenary Lecture 3: Machining Process and System Stability - A Chaotic Approach by Prof. Gabriel Frumusanu, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romanis. Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 5th International Conference on Educational Technologies - EDUTE'09, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Direct/Indirect Language Use of Teachers by Ass. Professor Isil Acikalin, Anadolu Universitesi, Turkey. Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 5th International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Control - CONTROL'09, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: A Topological Approach of the Geometry Modelling and Control in Manufacturing by Dr. Virgil Teodor, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania. Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 Third International Conference on Energy Planning, Energy Saving and Environmental Education - EPESE'09, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: The Potential Development of Rainwater Harvesting in Malaysia by Assoc. Professor Ar. Zuhairuse Md Darus, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. Plenary Lecture 2: The Contribution of Terology for a Sustainable Future by Prof. J. Torres Farinha, Coimbra Polytechnic, Portugal. Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 Third International Conference on Waste Management, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Indoor Climate - WWAI'09, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Formation, Occurrence and Determination of Volatile Fatty Acids in Environmental and Related Samples by Prof. Bogdan Zygmunt, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Plenary Lecture 2: Combined Effects of Discomfort Parameters on the Indoor Conditions of Buildings by Assoc. Prof. Lajos Barna, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. Conference web site July 1-3, 2009 8th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing - ISPDC'2009, Lisbon, Portugal The increasing computational requirements of many applications require the development of new algorithms and architectures for parallel and distributed computing. The ISPDC conference serves as a forum for engineers and researchers to present and discuss new ideas and system technology, with an interactive and friendly, but strongly professional atmosphere. The conference will include the presentation of a set of excellent papers, several tutorials, such as middleware for Grid computing (gLite), and invited prestigious researchers that will give talks about parallel and distributed computing. Conference web site July 1-11, 2009 Advanced Course on Data Bases and Statistical Software in Biomedicine and Epidemiology, Desio/Milan, Italy Topics include: Medical records; Clinical Databases; Genomic Databanks Hospital and Health Information Systems Epidemiological Registers; Clinical Trials and Genomic Epidemiology Medical data integration over Internet and web-based applications in Biomedicine Elements of Data Analysis and Statistics Methods of Statistics applied to Biomedicine and Epidemiology; examples and exercises Survey and introduction to some statistical software: SAS, SPSS, R; Examples of applications Using of SPSS Package: Data acquisition, management commands and statistical functions; case studies and exercises Using of R statistical language and web service for data analysis; examples of applications, case studies and exercises Data mining and neuronal networks: examples and applications Conference web site Conference e-mail July 2, 2009 W3C Mobile Web Initiative Live Training Sessions, Cambridge, United Kingdom During a full day of lectures and hands on sessions, members of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative team will guide students through the Introduction to Mobile Web Best Practices course, showing how to create great Web content for delivery on mobile devices, and how this differs from content creation for desktop and laptop computers. Crucially, the course looks at how to create content that can readily be adapted for any delivery channel. The course material is based on the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices standard and is delivered by two of the experts that helped to create it - Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and Phil Archer. During the day, participants will: learn about the specific promises and challenges of the mobile platform; learn how to use W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices to design mobile-friendly Web content and to adapt existing content for mobile; discover the relevant W3C resources for mobile Web design. The course will be of particular benefit to people who are already familiar with website creation and at least the basics of HTML and JavaScript, but who want to know how to apply their knowledge to the mobile space. The course is not suitable for those looking for instruction on advanced development techniques such as the use of AJAX. Conference web site July 2-5, 2009 British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Leicester, United Kingdom The Programme Committee invites papers or sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine and their colleagues in the wider scholarly community on any theme, topic or period. The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for sessions or individual papers from researchers of all nationalities at all stages of their careers. Participation is in no way limited to members of the Society although members will receive a discount on the registration fee. Leicester Conferences have recently been awarded three-star status by Visit Britain's Quality Assurance Scheme, making the University of Leicester the first and only university conference and guest accommodation provider in the Midlands region to receive an accredited star rating. Conference web site July 5-11, 2009 Seventh Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web - SSSW'2009, Madrid, Spain The Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) attached to the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's School of Computing is co-ordinating the International Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web for the seventh year running. The seventh summer school will be directed by Enrico Motta and Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University) and by School of Computing professors Asunción Gómez Pérez and Oscar Corcho. The summer school activities will last a week. Speakers will include Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA; Stefan Decker, DERI, Ireland; Tom Heath, Talis, UK; Peter Mika (Yahoo! España; and Philipp Cimiano, TU Delft, The Netherlands. The tutors include Enrico Motta; Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK; Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK; Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France; Aldo Gangemi, National Research Council, Italy. Conference web site July 5-17, 2009 International Summer School on Grid Computing 2009 - ISSGC 2009, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France This is a rare opportunity to hear about the latest achievements from Europe, North America and Asia, as well as to gain experience of a variety of Grid systems. The School will boost students' capabilities for research and innovation thanks to lectures, discussions, laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work. These activities will be delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research. Conference web site July 7-9, 2009 Managing physical and electronic records, Toronto, Canada The loss of documents and/or of information are expensive for companies either in revenues or either because they generate additional costs such as litigation, useless research, and starting over work that has already been done. Many employees have access and work in many different files of the company without preliminary notions of document management or simply of organisation methods or filing systems. Therefore, many users don't realize that the names which they give to their files must respect certain standards so that the documents are easily accessible: How to name the document? How to establish a standard approach to name the files, which expresses the essence of the contents in a concise way? How to index the various files and documents by precise category, specific activity or type of document or author or area, etc. How to protect and manage various versions of contents. This training on managing physical and electronic record will help you to: Organize your information correctly Classify files in a judicious way so that they can easily be traced Standardize a uniform method of filing for each group of employees belonging to a group of specific activities (sales, purchases, finances, etc.) Implement standards and procedures to better control your physical and electronics records and information. Manage your electronic messages efficiently. Conference web site July 7-10, 2009 6th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing - ATC-09, Brisbane, Australia ATC-09 will include a highly selective programme of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches under the theme "Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality". Established as a premier venue in the area of autonomic and trusted computing, ATC-09 will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in the most innovative research and development in these challenging areas and includes all technical aspects related to autonomic/organic computing (AC/OC) and trusted computing (TC). Topics include but are not limited to the following: AC/OC Theory and Model: Models, negotiation, co-operation, competition, self-organization, emergence, verification etc. AC/OC Architectures and Systems: Autonomic elements & their relationship, frameworks, middleware, observer/controller architectures, etc. AC/OC Components and Modules: Memory, storage, database, device, server, proxy, software, OS, I/O, etc. AC/OC Communication and Services: Networks, self-organized net, web service, Grid, P2P, semantics, agent, transaction, etc. AC/OC Tools and Interfaces: Tools/interfaces for AC/OC system development, test, monitoring, assessment, supervision, etc. Trust Models and Specifications: Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc. Trust-related Security and Privacy: Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy, intrusion detection/awareness, protocols, etc. Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems: Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery, etc. Trustworthy Services and Applications: Trustworthy Internet/web/Grid/P2P e-services, secured mobile services, novel applications, etc. Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues: Trust standards and issues related to personality, ethics, sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc. Conference web site July 8-10, 2009 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases - SSTD 2009, Aalborg, Denmark The primary focus of SSTD symposia is on original results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation, and applications of spatial and temporal database technology. SSTD also welcomes experience reports from application specialists and the commercial community that describe lessons learned in the development, operation, and maintenance of actual systems in practical and innovative applications. The goal is to exchange research ideas and results which will initially contribute to the academic arena, but may also benefit the commercial community in the near future and encourage a dialogue between practitioners and researchers. Conference web site July 9, 2009 Getting Started with WebSmart PHP for rapid IBM i and multi-platform Web development - Webinar, USA WebSmart PHP is the fastest way to develop PHP applications for the IBM i. In this technical webinar you will see how WebSmart PHP helps you overcome common obstacles to web development. WebSmart PHP's programme templates create fully functional applications for you including the PHP and HTML code. Attend this webinar to learn about WebSmart PHP's key features and to help you get started by seeing a live demo of how to: Create a PHP app on your IBM i in 5 minutes using programme templates. Edit the HTML with WYSIWYG and text based tools. Review the key PHP code for a subfile application. Secure PHP applications and provide a framework with Nexus portal. This webinar is useful for people who are new to WebSmart PHP and for anyone considering PHP for web application development who want a more in depth look at WebSmart. You will also learn where to find tutorials, support and other steps to success. WebSmart PHP is a rapid web application development tool used to create PHP applications that run on the IBM i and other PHP supported platforms such as Windows, Linux and Unix. Conference web site July 9-10, 2009 Third Annual Conference on Rediscovering Biomarkers, San Diego, California, USA This conference will present you with comprehensive perspectives on the past and present status of biomarker research. By analysing where we've been, we will be able to project into future trends and understand biomarkers' central role in the paradigm shift in drug discovery and development toward personalized medicine. Starting with an expose of novel technologies to discover biomarkers, the organizers will then focus on the how they are utilized to streamline the development process by reducing time and costs and minimize drug attrition associated with safety concerns. Finally, their utility will be highlighted in clinical trials and as companion diagnostics in the clinics. Before you and your organisation jump into the fray, make sure that you proceed with a strong foundation. GTCbio's Biomarker Conference Series have consistently delivered the full picture as well as quality environment to share and gain powerful knowledge and insight into cutting edge research. Conference web site July 9-11, 2009 6th International Conference and Exhibition on e-Government and e-Health - eGeH'09, Desio/Milan, Italy Topics include: Administrative Information Systems Electronic Documents and Protocols Medical Inforamtion Systems Telemedicine (Radiology, Cardiology, Opthalmology, etc.) Digital Signature, Electronic Identity Cards, Telehomecare/P-Health, Biomedical Devices Biometrics, Cryptography and Security, Internet in Health Care Smart Cards in P.A. and Health Services Conference web site Conference e-mail July 9-11, 2009 4th International Conference on NOTES, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research (NOSCAR), a joint effort of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), will hold this conference. NOTES is performed by using the patient's natural openings for surgery. The conference programme includes discussion and reporting opportunities for the NOSCAR Working Groups which address the various challenges inherent in the introduction of this new technique, such as platform development, training and complications. In addition, research updates from NOTES grant recipients will be presented. Interested participants will also have the opportunity to register for the NOTES Hands-On Course and learn more about this cutting edge technique or learn new techniques. Conference web site July 9-11, 2009 Medicare Africa Expo & Conference, Nairobi, Kenya Medicare Africa Expo & Conference is an exhibition focusing on medical equipment, scientific and laboratory instruments, hospital furniture, pharmaceutical products and services to be hosted by Medicare Africa Ltd. It builds on the success of four years of successful exhibitions which have attracted exhibitors from around the globe interested in the African market. Medicare Expo has as its Objective "to create a network of medical health workers and medical service providers", and this aptly captures the vision behind this event. The exhibition aims at providing the exhibitors an opportunity to liaise with a cross-section of health professionals which include medical doctors, aspiring health practitioners and hospital administrators. This definitely enhances the client base for each of the stakeholders involved: both the service providers and the health workers in the medical field. The exhibitors are also accorded the unique prospect of launching and displaying new products aimed at improving the quality of health services not only in Kenya but also within the region and abroad. Conference e-mail July 10-13, 2009 Second International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation, Orlando, Florida, USA IMETI 2009 includes: New knowledge - Engineering as Scientia; New products and services, i.e. technological innovations - Engineering as techné; New technical and managerial methods and methodologies - Engineering as praxis; New meta-engineering - Engineering of Engineering activities - knowledge, innovations and methodologies. Conference web site July 10-13, 2009 Seventh International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies - CCCT 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA CCCT 2009 is an International Conference that will bring together researchers, developers, practitioners, consultants and users of Computer, Communications and Control Technologies, with the aim to serve as a forum to present current and future work, solutions and problems in these fields, as well as in the relationships among them. Consequently, efforts will be done in order to promote and to foster the analogical thinking required by the Systems Approach for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization, "epistemic things" generation and "technical objects" production. Conference web site July 10-13, 2009 13th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics - WMSCI 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of WMSCI 2009 is to promote discussions and interactions between researchers and practitioners focused on disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary issues, ideas, concepts, theories, methodologies and applications. The WMSCI team is 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. WMSCI 2009 is an international forum for scientists and engineers, researchers and consultants, theoreticians and practitioners in the fields of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. The forum focuses into specific disciplinary research, and also in multi, inter, and trans-disciplinary studies and projects. One of its aims is to relate disciplines, fostering analogical thinking and, hence, producing input to the logical thinking. Conference web site July 10-13, 2009 2nd International Symposium on Academic Globalization - AG 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of AG 2009 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. Non-exclusive topics suggested are the followings: Impact of the Globalization Phenomena on Higher Education. Impact of Higher Education on the Globalization Phenomena. Relationships of Academic Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education. Globalization, Regionalization and Higher Education. Globalization and Scientific Research. Relationships between Academic Globalization and Knowledge Society/Economy. International Academic Networks and Alliances. Academic Co-operation. Academic Associations. Academic Consortia. Institutional Networks. Success and failure factor in Higher Education Internationalization. Comparative Higher Education Research. Transnational Education. Quality and the Internationalization of Higher Education. Research and Global Networks. Research and Global Knowledge Infrastructures. Strategies and Organizational Models. Conference web site July 10-13, 2009 Third International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management - KGCM 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA Main topics for this conference include: Knowledge Communication Knowledge Generation Knowledge Management Knowledge Engineering Knowledge Representation Knowledge Communication and Conferences Knowledge Verification and Validation Peer Reviewing Scientific and Technical Publishing Electronic Publishing Electronic Libraries Conference web site July 10-13, 2009 International Symposium on Peer Reviewing - ISPR 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA In a survey of members of the Scientific Research Society, only 8 percent agreed that peer review works well as it is. A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and an analysis of the peer review system substantiate complaints about this fundamental aspect of scientific research. Far from filtering out junk science, peer review may be blocking the flow of innovation and corrupting public support of science. Empirical studies have shown that assessments made by independent reviewers of papers submitted to journals and abstracts submitted to conferences are no reproducible, i.e. agreement between reviewers is about what is expected by chance alone. Rothwell and Martyn (2000), for example, analysed the statistical correlations among reviewers' recommendations (made to two journals and two conferences) by analysis of variance and found out that for one journal was not significantly greater than that expected by chance and, in general, agreement between reviewers was little greater than would be expected by chance alone. These are just three examples of an increasing number of facts that are indicating that more research and reflections are urgently needed on research quality assurance and, specifically, on Peer Review. So why not apply scientific and engineering methods to the peer review process? This is the purpose of the International Symposium on Peer Reviewing: ISPR. Conference web site July 10-13, 2009 6th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications - CITSA 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA CITSA 2009 is an International Multi-Conference being organized with the purpose of providing researchers, practitioners, developers, consultants, and end-users of computerized, communications and/or control systems and technologies, as well as their industrial and social applications in the private and the public sectors, an opportunity to join in a common place sharing experience and knowledge. It is intended to be a forum to expose and share current and future research work and innovations in these areas, as well as in the relationships among them. One of the primary objectives of CITSA 2009 is to promote and encourage "interdisciplinary cross-fertilization", 7quot;epistemic things" and the production of "technical objects". Its intellectual perspective context is systemic thinking and practice, including the analogical thinking that characterizes the Systems Approach. Conference web site July 13-15, 2009 Cray XT5 Code-Porting Workshop, Manno, Switzerland The three day code-porting workshop will consist of a series of lectures and "hands-on" sessions covering fundamental through advanced code optimization and porting techniques on the Cray XT5 architecture. The workshop will be led by John Levesque, Director of Cray's Supercomputing Center of Excellence. Registration for the code-porting workshop is free of charge. Conference web site July 13-16, 2009 Workshop on Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision - SCIPCV, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Vision in general and images in particular have always played an important and essential role in human life. In the past they were, today they are, and in the future they will continue to be one of our most important information carriers. Nowadays, image processing and computer vision have numerous commercial, scientific, industrial and military applications. All these applications result from the interaction between fundamental scientific research on the one hand, and the development of new and high-standard technology on the other hand. In order to cope with the variety of image processing and computer vision challenges, several techniques have been introduced and developed, quite often with great success. Among the different techniques that are currently in use, we also encounter soft computing techniques. Soft Computing is an emerging field that consists of complementary elements of fuzzy logic, neural computing, evolutionary computation, machine learning and probabilistic reasoning, and often offers solutions where conventional approaches fail. The Workshop on Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision aims to provide a forum for current state-of-the-art approaches of soft computing techniques in image processing, computer vision and related applications. High quality submissions are sought; topics include, but are not limited to, soft computing approaches such as: fuzzy logic neural networks evolutionary computing rough sets swarm intelligence etc. These are used in/for: image analysis: edge detection, segmentation, pattern recognition, object recognition, interpretation image enhancement: filtering, noise removal, enhancement, restoration image compression image reconstruction image similarity and image retrieval satellite image processing medical image processing mathematical morphology wavelets video processing and retrieval image formation and physics based vision 3D processing shape-from-X scene understanding etc. Conference web site July 14-17, 2009 6th International Conference on BioMedical Visualization - MediViz09, Barcelona, Spain MediViz has evolved rapidly from its original concentration purely on medical visualisation and is now possibly the leading interdisciplinary forum for researchers and professionals in the bio-medical domain to exchange ideas and report results on visualisation within their disciplines to the wider world. It thus provides important support for researchers who are faced increasingly with the necessity of adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to address the problems faced in pushing forward the boundaries of modern medicine. The theme for this year's conference is "Multi-scale Bio-Medical Structure Sensing, Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation". Of particular interest is the capture and early processing of natural data to be used as input for external and internal biomedical structure definition. Papers are encouraged which demonstrate the measurement and modelling of the dynamics of biomedical data and structures; these may range from the microscopic, cellular level to the macroscopic organ or whole-patient level. Conference web site July 16, 2009 Behind The Numbers: 2010 Medical Costs and Their Impact on 2009 Employer Decisions - Webinar, USA Each year, employers across the country are faced with decisions about which health plans to offer employees, which features to include and how much of the expenses they should cover versus passing on to their workers. A key factor impacting those decisions are the actual medical costs behind health care plan expenses. During this webinar, attendees will be presented with predictions on 2010 medical costs based on information collected during PricewaterhouseCoopers' annual survey. The research findings will be followed by a discussion about how employers are likely to reconcile rising medical costs and healthcare expenses with their employee benefit offerings. Conference web site July 16-19, 2009 2009 PIMA Summer Conference, San Diego, California, USA Meeting highlights include: Opening Keynote: The New Economy and the Impact on Risk & Capacity with Andy McElwee, COO, Chubb Personal Insurance and EVP, Chubb & Son Innovative Products and Differentiating Enhancements... Medical, Disaster, Wellness, Travel, Dental, Pre-Paid Cards, Ancillary Services and more. Speakers include: Ed Navarro, Zurich; Joyce Van Ravenswaay, ACE; Ben Rozum, Ternian Diversification & Revenue Opportunities in the Broader Group Space, featuring panelists: Doug Kreitzberg, USI Affinity; Marty Traynor, Mutual of Omaha; and Hank Miltenberger, Gilsbar Financial Institutions Track, including speakers: Paul Clampitt, Institution Solutions Inc. and from Affinion & Mastercard International Data on the "New" Consumer Marketplace Legislative and Regulatory Updates - NAIC Representative (invited) Closing Keynote: Ratcheting Up Direct Response Rates in a Recession with Russell Kern, President, The Kern Organization, and Networking Events that Mean Business Conference web site July 18-21, 2009 Sonic Interaction Design Summer School, Porto, Portugal The Summer School is open to Higher Education students who would like to broaden their competences in the area of sonic interaction design, an area that explores sound as a vehicle of information, while encouraging emotion and aesthetic representations. At the same time, scientific or artistic research projects on the most recent technologies that are used to register, edit, describe, recover and interact with sound will also be promoted, under the supervision of 11 international experts. Other than the educational component provided by senior researchers through lectures, the Sonic Interaction Design Summer School also intends to give a voice to the new generation of young researchers who will be encouraged to show their ideas, to discuss the main current challenges in this area, and to share knowledge through Freesound.org, a social network that allows users to edit, categorize and share sound contents. Conference web site July 20-24, 2009 2009 IFSA World Congress and 2009 EUSFLAT Conference, Lisbon, Portugal The IFSA and EUSFLAT conferences take place every two years, and are premier international conferences in the areas of fuzzy sets and soft computing. The joint IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009 World Congress will bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners, working in fuzzy logic and related areas to present their research. The conference provides a platform for the exchange of ideas and technical interaction. The topics of the conference are fuzzy systems and their applications including, but not limited to: fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic mathematical foundations of fuzzy systems approximate reasoning and soft computing fuzzy decision making, optimization and design fuzzy system architectures and hardware fuzzy methods in statistics and imprecise probability fuzzy information retrieval fuzzy pattern recognition and image processing fuzzy sets in management science fuzzy control and robotics possibility theory fuzzy preference modelling fuzzy decision analysis fuzzy sets in operations research fuzzy database mining and financial forecasting soft computing with neural networks soft computing in evolutionary and hybrid systems soft computing in intelligent agent learning and adaptive fuzzy systems fuzzy inference systems Conference web site July 20-24, 2009 Special Session on Soft Computing in Medical Imaging, Lisbon, Portugal This special session aims at bringing together researchers working in the field of computational intelligence and medical imaging. Intelligent techniques encompass a wide range of approaches including fuzzy sets theory, neural networks and evolutionary computation. This special session will serve as a fertile ground for creative discussion to researchers working in this field. Conference web site July 22-24, 2009 13th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits - ICC'09, Rodos Island, Greece This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Towards 2D Electronic Circuits in the Spatial Domain by Assoc. Prof. Nicolas Ratier, Graduate engineering school in Mechanics and Microtechnics (ENSMM) and FEMTO-ST laboratory, France. Conference web site July 22-24, 2009 13th WSEAS International Conference on Systems - ICS'09, Rodos Island, Greece This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Assisted Movement of Visually Impaired in Outdoor Environments - Work Directions and New Results by Prof. Virgil Tiponut, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania Plenary Lecture 2: Artificial Social Systems for Control Charts of Workflows by Assoc. Prof. Calin I. Ciufudean, "Stefan Cel Mare" Universtity of Suceava, Romania Plenary Lecture 3: Low Frequency Radiation Processes around the Earth - Phenomena and Numerical Modelling by Prof. Ernst D. Schmitter, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany Plenary Lecture 4: Forest Fire Detection and Prevention with Unmanned Systems by Prof. George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Plenary Lecture 5: Multimedia Traffic Analysis in the Framework of New Generation Networks by Prof. Zoran S. Bojkovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Plenary Lecture 6: A New Class of Chaotic Systems with Memristor-Like Elements by Prof. Milan Stork, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Plenary Lecture 7: Mathematical Models for Eddy Current Testing by Prof. Andrei Kolyshkin, Riga Technical University, Latvia Plenary Lecture 8: Temperature Control of Electrical Resistance Furnace based on a Real Time Identification Method using Adaptive Filters by Assist. Prof. Caius Panoiu, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania Plenary Lecture 9: Workspace Evaluation for Analysis and Synthesis of Manipulator by Prof. Marco Ceccarelli, DiMSAT - University of Cassino, Italy Plenary Lecture 10: Generation of Electrical Energy with Variable Speed in Microhydro and Eolian Power Plant by Prof. Sorin Deaconu, "Polytechnica" University of Timisoara, Romania Conference web site July 22-24, 2009 6th International Conference on Engineering Education - Education'09, Rodos Island, Greece This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Gogu Constantinescu, Son Of Craiova - Romania's Exponent by Prof. Gheorghe Manolea, University of Craiova, Romania Plenary Lecture 2: Constructing Knowledge in Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization by Assoc. Prof. Eva Milkova, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Tutorial: Amateur Radio: More than a hobby! by Prof. Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Conference web site July 22-24, 2009 Second International Conference on Engineering Mechanics, Structures, Engineering Geology - EMESEG'09, Rodos Island, Greece This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Application of the Boltzmann Equation in Enzymatic Hydrolysis and in Molecular Mass Distribution by Prof. Vassilis Gekas, Technical University of Crete, Greece Plenary Lecture 2: Improvement of Sandwich Finite Elements by Mixed Formulations by Prof. Olga Martin, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Plenary Lecture 3: Solving Complexity of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: A Contemporary Application in Optimizing Production of Deep-Earth Resources by Prof. Nam H. Tran, The University of New South Wales, Australia Plenary Lecture 4: Non-Destructive Tests to Determine Lifetime of the Pipes by Prof. Mihai Demian, University of Craiova, Romania Conference web site July 22-24, 2009 Second International Conference on Urban Planning and Transportation - UPT'09, Rodos Island, Greece This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Issues and Opportunities in Sustainable Fuel and Vehicle Technologies by Prof. M. Ehsani, Texas A&M University, USA Conference web site July 23-25, 2009 13th WSEAS International Conference on Communications - ICCOM'09, Rodos Island, Greece This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Quantum Cryptography and Chaos Functions: The Ultimate for Network Security by Prof. Stamatios Kartalopoulos, IEEE Fellow, The University of Oklahoma, USA Plenary Lecture 2: Effect of Atmospheric Parameters on Satellite Link in Tropical Climates by Prof. Mandeep Singh, USM, Malaysia Plenary Lecture 3: The Satellite Telecommunication System Performances in the Presence of Rayleigh Fading on Satellite and Earth Station by Prof. Dragana Krstic, University of Nis, Serbia Plenary Lecture 4: Basic Characteristics (Characterization) of Mobile Processes and Ways of Describing and Supporting Mobile Processes by Present Means of ICT by Prof. Antonin Slaby, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Conference web site July 23-25, 2009 13th WSEAS International Conference on Computers - ICCOMP'09, Rodos Island, Greece This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Concurrent Neural Classifiers for Pattern Recognition with Applications in Biometrics, Satellite Imagery, and Autonomous Navigation by Prof. Victor-Emil Neagoe, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania Plenary Lecture 2: On the Generalized Network Design Problems by Assoc. Prof. Petrica Pop, North University of Baia Mare, Romania Plenary Lecture 3: Computational Methods and Analytical Study for Detecting the Attractors of a Particular Type of k-Order, Nonlinear, Exchange Rate Models by Prof. Mirela Voicu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Plenary Lecture 4: The Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: History, Applications and Challengers by Prof. Jose Aguilar, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela Plenary Lecture 5: Variable Step Adaptive Algorithms in Controlling Industrial Distorted Loads by Assist. Prof. Manuela Panoiu, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania Plenary Lecture 6: Using of Shift Registers in Cryptosystems by Assist. Prof. Mirella Amelia Mioc, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania Conference web site July 23-25, 2009 Sixth European Conference on Music Technologies, Porto, Portugal Have you ever imagined playing music with a robot? And what about playing music simply by moving objects on a table? Robots capable of dancing to music rhythms or tables filled with objects that react to the touch producing music are only some of the most recent technologies that are the result of work in the area of Sound and Music Computing. This is one of the most active areas in the context of multimedia technologies that have been revolutionizing the way we perceive and create music. Instruments are no longer necessary to make music and now, thanks to sound synthesis technologies, it is possible to create sounds that have never existed. Sound and music computing goes way beyond the new ways of creating music: the intention is to use new technologies to understand the reactions of the human brain to music, and replicate them on the computer. The hearing processing and its consequences in the generation of emotions, the preferences for certain music genres or artists are some of the mysteries that this area proposes to unfold using new technologies. The 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, that will take place with the collaboration of CITAR, ESMAE and the Casa da Música concert hall, invites researchers, musicians and music writers from all over the world to present their papers, posters, music work and tutorials on any theme related to this area. Conference web site July 26 - August 1, 2009 International CONET Summer School - SENIOT: From Sensor Networks To Networked Intelligent Objects, Bertinoro, Italy The goal of the summer school is to survey fundamentals of sensor networks and networked intelligent objects, as well as to identify novel opportunities and research directions in these areas through a series of lectures by international experts. Participants can experience the relevant technologies during hands-on courses and can present their own work during a participants' workshop. The school will provide a good opportunity to get to know other people working in the field, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future. About 60 participants are expected - the intended audience are post-graduate students, PhD students, and young researchers from universities and industrial laboratories around the world. Conference web site July 27-28, 2009 7th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors - SASP 2009, San Francisco, California, USA The market for embedded processors is driven primarily by two factors: cost and volume. This has forced a reevaluation of the best way to satisfy users' needs for high performance and low energy consumption without drastically increasing the complexity of the design process. Domain-specific embedded processors, in markets such as network processing, automotive, and others, have splintered a pre-existing market for general-purpose, low-cost, low-energy processors. Reprogrammable and reconfigurable embedded processors, in contrast, offer a single, fixed-silicon device that could amortize manufacturing costs for low-to-medium volume market segments. SASP explores (micro)-architectural design approaches, trade-offs and compiler technologies, for both domain-specific and customizable embedded processors. The symposium is a forum wherein challenges and solutions will be explored, discussed and compared. Major topics include, but are not limited to: Domain-specific processors (network, multimedia, etc.) Application-specific hardware accelerators Micro-architectural customization techniques (Re)configurable architectures (coarse-grained, FPGA, etc.) Application specific processors in system-on-a-chip (SOC) Application specific customizations for low-power Applications and/or industrial experience Compiler technology targeting customizable processors Tools, techniques, and algorithms for architectural exploration Novel methodologies for hardware/software codesign Application specific MPSoC and design Automation for NoCs Hardware/software for GPUs and other graphics/gaming platforms OS and Middleware support for application specific processors Conference web site August 2-6, 2009 2009 Journal of Experimental Biology Symposium - Survival in a Changing World, Awaji Island, Japan This symposium aims to assess the impacts that climate change has had on animal biodiversity and ecology, emphasizing adaptation and resilience in physiological systems. The Symposium will comprise presentations by a list of distinguished invited speakers and will also include open registration for a maximum of 30 additional delegates. There will be a poster session for registered delegates to present their work and plenty of scope for informal discussion. Conference web site August 3-5, 2009 Workplace Benefits Mania 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA This conference includes: Track 1: Your Voluntary Benefits Business Needs The Right Strategic Partners Track 2: Mini Medical / Limited Medical Plan Sales and Marketing Extravaganza Track 3: Enrollment "Smackdown" Track 4: Recession Hedge Your Business Conference web site August 4-7, 2009 2009 National Congress of the Australian College of Health Service Executives- ACHSE 2009, Gold Coast, Australia The Australian College of Health Service Executives (ACHSE) in partnership with the Centre for Health Assets Australasia (CHAA) will organize the 2009 National Congress. The Congress is an ideal opportunity to meet, network and form partnerships with key government, health industry, design and construction sector leaders and health industry leaders and be part of their future business decisions. This event is the major professional meeting offered across the Australian health sector for health managers, health asset and facility management personnel, health facility planners, designers, and contractors. The 2009 Congress theme "Building Our Healthcare System around People and their Needs" is focusing on the three sub themes of Building People, Building Services/Systems and Building Infrastructure. ACHSE has partnered with the Centre for Health Assets Australasia (CHAA), FBE, University of New South Wales to host this year's event. This joint approach will provide a broader programme with significant attraction for national and international presenters. Conference web site August 10-14, 2009 Joint Forum of the Fourth Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy - NGC2009 - and 14th Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference - CSTC2009, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada The 4th Nano and Giga Challenges Symposium and Summer School (NGC2009) and the 14th Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference (CSTC2009) will bring together two well-established conference series to address grand challenges in nanotechnology. The forum is co-chaired by professors Peter Mascher and John Preston of the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, Stephen Goodnick, associate vice-president of Arizona State University, and Anatoli Korkin, president of Nano and Giga Solutions, Inc. More than 500 delegates from over 40 countries are expected to participate. Some 60 renowned technical leaders from top U.S., Canadian and international research centres have already accepted invitations to present their research. Among them are leading scientists from Corning, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, McGill University, McMaster University, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Purdue University, Technical University Munich, University of Cambridge, University of Hong Kong, University of Manchester, University of Tokyo and many other leading national, academic and industrial research centres. The conferences will include tutorial lectures, plenary reviews, group sessions, exhibitions, and satellite workshops. Innovation at the Edges, a summit workshop for investors and entrepreneurs looking to develop breakthrough technologies, will be led by Rafik Loutfy, director of the Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation at McMaster University and Raouf Loutfy, President of MERC Corporation in Arizona. The workshop will discuss opportunities to commercialize technology, emerging trends and future research directions, moving nanotechnology innovation from the research lab to market, and moving nanotechnology across borders. Conference web site August 11-14, 2009 6th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization - CGiV09, Tianjin, China Papers are invited that address information visualisation, from the microscopic to the macroscopic level, in biomedical, biomechanical and other related fields. These include: Quantitative imaging and measurement of biomedical structures. Animation, simulation and predictive modelling. Interaction, deformation, growth and evolution of biomedical structures. Models, including physico-scientific, particle, implicit surfaces, finite element etc. Multi-modality visualisation, searching, characterisation and comparison of complex structures. Surface, volume, dynamic and sensory data reduction, mapping and user representation. Display and interaction technologies, including VR, augmentation, stereoscopic, haptics etc. Image & computer applications, including screening, diagnostics, surgery & cancer therapy. Human interfacing, virtual image projection, retinal projection, tactile and sound stimuli etc. Virtual and augmented reality. Emerging technologies. Conference web site August 16-20, 2009 238th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society - ACS, Washington D.C., USA More than 11.000 scientists and others are expected to attend the meeting that will include more than 8400 reports on new discoveries about chemistry and a host of other fields, including medicine, health, food, energy, environment, that involve chemistry. Conference web site August 19-21, 2009 2009 Health Informatics Conference - HIC 2009 and Health-e-Nation'09, Canberra, Australia Health care brings together both practitioners and information technologists in unique partnerships that fuel rapid advancements in the delivery of care. In this field of constant discovery, health care's use of information and communication technology continually expands the limits of the domain and has led to stunning innovations and intensely practical outcomes. "Frontiers of Health Informatics - Redefining Healthcare" seeks to capture this diversity of achievement in linking science and medicine with information technology. Importantly, it looks at the practical systems and process issues that need to be addressed now, to meet the challenges of the future. HIC'09 is built around four key information technology themes that are driving change and innovation in Australian health care. Each theme looks to analyse the leading edge technologies that are being implemented and the opportunities they create. Building on HIC08's theme of "The Person in the Centre", Frontiers of Health Informatics will showcase the technologies and processes that are required to deliver the patient-centric health care that was so clearly articulated. As an integral part of the programme, the conference, through its panels and workshops will deliver a final position statement on the role of technology in redefining the delivery of health care in Australia. HIC'09 and Health-e-Nation'09 will be held in the same venue with a combined exhibition spanning both events. Conference web site August 20-22, 2009 6th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference - The Role of Health Promotion in the Transition of the Nordic Welfare States, Gothenburg, Sweden The contemporary world is in a constant process of ideological and political changes which affect people's health. The theme of the conference reflects the current different aspects of transition in health promotion, for example: the transition from public to private services transition in the health panorama transition at local as well as at national level. The Nordic School of Public Health (NHV) and the Nordic Research Network of Health Promotion are pleased to invite researchers, doctoral students and other professionals from the Nordic countries as well as from other parts of Europe and from around the world to join the conference and to present abstracts (orally and as posters) on the theme, to discuss and be part of the work aimed at providing equity in health. From the programme it can be seen that the conference is organized with four different kinds of sessions: Plenary sessions with special invited speakers Oral sessions within specific topics with a chair person. Poster sessions. The poster sessions will be chaired. Workshops. All participants of the conference are welcome to participate. Conference web site August 20-22, 2009 2nd WSEAS International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Biomedical Informatics - BEBI'09, Moscow, Russia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Present Situation and Future Trends of Omics-Based Medicine and Systems Pathology by Prof. Hiroshi Tanaka, Medical Research Institute, Japan. Conference web site August 20-22, 2009 9th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications - AIC'09, Moscow, Russia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Qualitative Judgment Dynamics for Trust Management in Pervasive Computing Environments by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Denis Trcek, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Plenary Lecture 2: Intrusion and Countermeasures in Secure Advanced Optical Networks by Prof. Stamatios Kartalopoulos, University of Oklahoma, USA. Plenary Lecture 3: Network Infrastructure Security by Assoc. Prof. Angus Wong, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao. Plenary Lecture 4: Classification in Interval-Valued Information Systems by Prof. Amaury A. Caballero, Florida International University, USA. Plenary Lecture 5: Maximum Entropy Method and Underdetermined Systems Applied to Computer Network Topology and Routing by Prof. Milan Tuba, Megatrend University Belgrade, Serbia. Conference web site August 20-22, 2009 9th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry and Artificial Vision - ISCGAV'09, Moscow, Russia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Fast 3D Reconstruction and Recognition by Prof. Marcos A. Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Plenary Lecture 2: Feature extraction methods in machine vision systems by Prof. Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Life Sciences, Poland. Conference web site August 20-22, 2009 9th WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation - ISTASC'09, Moscow, Russia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Nonlinearity and Uncertainty Issues for Concurrent Design and Control of MEM Systems by Dr. Ahmet Kuzu, Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council, Turkey and by Dr. Seta Bogosyan, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. Plenary Lecture 2: Linear and Nonlinear Filtering in Mathematical Finance by Dr. Paresh Date, Brunel University, UK. Plenary Lecture 3: Multitime Dynamic Programming for Curvilinear Integral Actions by Prof. Constantin Udriste, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Conference web site August 20-22, 2009 7th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on Heat Transfer, Thermal Engineering and Environment - HTE'09, Moscow, Russia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Heat Management in HP LED Devices by Prof. Konrad Domke, Poznan University of Technology, Poland. Plenary Lecture 2: Differential Equations that Describe the Thermodynamically State of Gas in the Working Cavity of the Helical Screw Compressor by Assist. Prof. Dan Codrut Petrilean, University of Petrosani, Romania. Plenary Lecture 3: CFD Techniques for Outlining Convection and Radiation in a Closed Domain by Assoc. Prof. Alina Adriana Minea, Technical University Gh. Asachi, Romania. Plenary Lecture 4: Heat Transfer in Thermoelectricity: Modelling, Optimization and Design by Prof. Myriam Lazard, Institut Supérieur d'Ingenierie de la Conception, France. Plenary Lecture 5: Application of Green Energy Technologies in Developing Countries by Assoc. Prof. Ugur Atikol, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey. Plenary Lecture 6: Non-Stationary Nucleate Boiling as a Law of Nature and a Basis for Designing of IQ Technologies by Dr. Nikolai Kobasko, IQ Technologies Inc., Akron, USA and Intensive Technologies Ltd, Kiev, Ukraine. Plenary Lecture 7: Explicit General Ray Method for Solution of Coefficient Inverse Problems for Heat Transfer by Prof. Alexander Grebennikov, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. Conference web site August 20-22, 2009 7th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics - FMA'09, Moscow, Russia This conference includes: Plenary Lecture 1: Modelling and Simulation of Inhomogeneous Stratified Turbulent Flows by Prof. Albert F. Kurbatsky, Novosibirsk State University, Russia. Plenary Lecture 2: Role of Flow Non-Parallelism in the Excitation and Amplification of Disturbances in a Supersonic Boundary Layer by Prof. Sergey A. Gaponov, Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM), Russia. Plenary Lecture 3: Application of Simulation Methods Considering the Interaction between Fluid and Structure by Prof. F.-K. Benra, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Conference web site August 23-25, 2009 Salford Data Mining Conference 2009 - SALFORD 2009, San Diego, California, USA Salford Systems' 6th International APPLIED Data Mining Conference will feature real world applications and examples. Beginners to data mining will gain expertise. Experienced data miners will have an opportunity to exchange ideas with other experts in a variety of industries. There will also be a post-conference training on August 26-28, 2009. Keynotes and panel discussions will address topics of current interest in data mining including: The Credit Crunch: How is Data Mining Helping? Is Data Mining to Blame? Finding Needles in Haystacks: Combating Terrorism, Fraud, and Criminal Activity. Advertising, Politics, Drug Discovery and Telecommunications: How Do These Applications Benefit from Data Mining? Previous conference presentation topics include: credit risk modelling, targeted marketing and campaign optimization, analytical CRM, fraud detection, drug discovery, insurance risk, epidemiology, environmental forecasting, clinical medicine, proteomics and genomics, and state-of-the-art research from leading academic institutions. Presenters at prior conferences include: The International Monetary Fund, Barnes and Noble, Pfizer, Union Bank, Wells Fargo, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Novartis, Columbia University School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, HSBC, International Steel Group, Cap Gemini, AT&T Labs-Research, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Liberty Mutual Insurance. Conference web site August 24, 2009 6th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models - GECON 2009, Delft, The Netherlands The commercial exploitation of Grid computing is slowly starting to become popular under the term "Cloud Computing". These existing solutions are very diverse, ranging from Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) models to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models. However, the existing Cloud offerings can only be purchased directly from a provider; they cannot be traded in a common market. Such a Cloud market would act as a focal point for Grid buyers and sellers to meet. In fact, in an open market, any market participant could act as a resource provider or resource seller, depending on the current demand level. This approach would allow companies to benefit: on the one hand, excess capacity can be sold to reduce costs; on the other hand, demand peaks can be covered with cheap Grid resources. This type of Grid market could be used to sell a wide array of resources, ranging from simple resource services (network, storage, computing) for mass usage, to complex services encapsulating e-Science or high-performance-computing (HPC) methods. At later stages, the market could be easily expanded to include software and information services. This would allow the buyer to not only purchase resources, but also to add software and information services to create new and innovative end-user services. The GECON workshop invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss issues associated with the development of a common market for computing resources, including networks, storage, and software. The purpose of this workshop is to suggest future directions of research and extensions to existing technologies, aiming at the successful deployment of this commercial, service-oriented market for computing resources. Researchers and practitioners are invited to present final results and work in progress. However, submissions have to be original research in the area of Grid economics. The topics of interest are: Business modelling and analysis Grid value chain and value networks Economic modelling of networks, systems, and software Software-as-a-Service models Web 2.0 Peer-to-Peer systems Markets, market mechanisms and market models Service-orientation of Grid systems Utility computing models for networked systems Knowledge utility models Incentives for participation and resource sharing Economic-enhanced Grid services Analysis of pricing schemes for computing systems Reports on test beds and operation Analysis of application scenarios (with stakeholders and their roles) Resource (computing, bandwidth, storage) selection and allocation Metering, accounting, and charging Billing systems Decision support systems for users and providers Capacity planning systems Service level agreements (SLAs) Economic aspects of XaaS Trust, security, and risk management Standardization Virtual organizations Impact of legal requirements on distributed computing Economics-aware operation of applications Economics of software Infrastructure development Conference web site August 24-28, 2009 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases - VLDB 2009, Lyon, France VLDB is a premier annual international forum for database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. The conference will feature research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops. It will cover current issues in database and information systems research. Databases remain one of the technological cornerstones of emerging applications of the twenty-first century. VLDB 2009 will be organized into four tracks: Core Database Technology Infrastructure for Information Systems Industrial, Applications, and Experience Experiments and Analyses Conference web site August 25, 2009 UNICORE Summit 2009, Delft, The Netherlands 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: 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 Cloud and virtualisation Data management, access, transfer, control and governance Conference web site August 25, 2009 7th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms - HeteroPar'2009, Delft, The Netherlands Traditional parallel algorithms and tools are aimed at homogeneous multi-processors and cannot be efficiently used for parallel computing on heterogeneous networks. New ideas, dedicated algorithms and tools are needed to efficiently use this new type of parallel architectures. The workshop is intended to be a forum for people working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficient problem solutions on heterogeneous networks. The topics to be covered include but are not limited to: Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models; Languages, libraries and interfaces for different heterogeneous parallel programming models; Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms; Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous and/or hierarchical multi-core systems; Parallel algorithms for efficient solving problems on heterogeneous platforms (numerical linear algebra, non-linear systems, fast transforms, computational biology, data mining, multimedia, etc.); Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems; Applications on heterogeneous platforms; Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous platforms; Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous platforms; Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous platforms; Algorithms, models and tools for Grid, Cloud and green computing. Conference web site August 25-28, 2009 Euro-Par 2009, Delft, The Netherlands 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 25-28, 2009 Fourth Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing - VHPC'09, Delft, The Netherlands Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern data centres, enabling resource owners to manage complex infrastructure independently of their applications. Conjointly virtualization is becoming a driving technology for a manifold of industry grade IT services. Piloted by the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud services, the cloud concept includes the notion of a separation between resource owners and users, adding services such as hosted application frameworks and queuing. Utilizing the same infrastructure, clouds carry significant potential for use in high-performance scientific computing. The ability of Clouds to provide for requests and releases of vast computing resource dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Distributed computing concepts that leverage federated resource access are popular within the Grid community, but have not seen previously desired deployed levels so far. Also, many of the scientific data centres have not adopted virtualization or Cloud concepts yet. This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the scientific community in order to foster discussion, collaboration and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 minutes discussion sections. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. It concludes with a 30 minutes panel discussion by presenters. Conference web site August 26-29, 2009 6th Annual World Congress of IBMISPS on Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The International Brain Mapping and Intra-operative Surgical Planning Society's (IBMISPS) annual world congress aims to break boundaries in science, technology, medicine and health care policy with presentations and exhibitions from pioneering leaders in a range of disciplines. The conference is a multi-disciplinary forum designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary dissemination of technological and medical advances and scientific discovery among physicians, scientists, biotechnologists, engineers, policy makers and health care executives. Congress sessions range from basic translational research and multi-disciplinary clinical practice and surgery, to health care policy, neuroMarketing and neuro-economics, including brain mapping, image guided therapy/surgery, multi-modality imaging, biophotonics, health care policy, FDA regulations, bioethics, biomedical, chemical and materials engineering, neuroscience, bioinformatics and Grid technology, physiology, stem-cell therapy, imaging guided drug delivery, and operating rooms and hospitals of the future, stereotactic radiosurgery, human brain computer interface, brain implants, Spine of the future and spine instrumentation and nanomedicine, virtual reality neurosurgery and electronic nose for sniffing cancers. Conference web site August 29 - September 1, 2009 European Molecular Biology Organization Meeting - EMBO 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The EMBO Meeting 2009 advances the life sciences through broad programmes reflecting the concepts and high-resolution approaches of modern biological research. It follows on from former ELSO meetings to provide an annual life sciences forum for scientific exchange in Europe. Boasting a speaker faculty of more than 120 well-known names in molecular life sciences, the EMBO Meeting 2009 offers a programme that spans the life science disciplines with keynote addresses and plenary sessions focused on three themes: stem cells, signalling pathways and chromosome dynamics. Workshops and poster sessions will further extend these themes and address additional current topics, ensuring a blend of subjects relevant to present-day molecular biology. Conference web site August 29 - September 2, 2009 European Society of Cardiology Congress 2009, Barcelona, Spain This meeting, which is expected to attract over 30.000 delegates, will provide opportunities for education, hearing about the latest ground breaking research and gaining deeper insights into the most recent developments and innovations in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Delegates will include clinicians, basic scientists, epidemiologists, nurses, technicians and key opinion leaders in the field. The latest results will be presented in the Hotline and Clinical trials sessions, with unique opportunities for delegates to have face to face interactions with the investigators. In addition, over 4000 abstracts, featuring original research, will be show cased at the meeting. The educational aspects of the congress include the "Meet and Read with the Experts" sessions and the highly acclaimed FOCUS Sessions with live transmissions and practical take home messages, not to mention reports on the latest ESC guidelines. Prevention and risk factor identification is the special theme of this year's meeting, giving an opportunity for doctors, scientists, governments and the general public to come together to discuss ways of decreasing the burden of cardiovascular disease on society. Altogether there are 50 separate sessions on prevention in the pre-arranged programme, and a special abstract session focusing on prevention research. Additional highlights of this year's meeting include new joint sessions with sister societies, such as the European Society of Medical Oncology, looking at issues such as the cardiovascular effects of oncology drugs, a full day on Congenital Heart Disease and a new joint session with the European Commission exploring the issues around how the European Commission supports cardiovascular Research. A strong component is dedicated to basic science, including a hotline session looking at the latest development, a translational bench to bedside track and a special abstract session. For the first time ESC 2009 will offer the opportunity for delegates to gain hands-on image and device education from clinical experts. The sessions, which are being held in purpose-built classrooms, have been organised by the industry partners, will be available free on a first come, first served basis. There will also be over 80 satellite symposia and workshops featuring the latest innovations in pharma and equipment. Conference web site August 29 - September 4, 2009 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing - Cluster 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Cluster 2009 welcomes paper and poster submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing original research in the field of cluster computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cluster Architecture and Hardware Systems Node architectures Packaging, Power, and Cooling Cluster Software and Middleware Software Environments and Tools Single-System Image Services Parallel File Systems and I/O Libraries Standard Software for Clusters Virtualization Cluster Networking High-Speed Interconnects High Performance Message Passing Libraries Lightweight Communication Protocols Implications of Multicore and Clouds on Clusters Hardware Architecture Software and Tools Networking Management Applications Applications Application Methods and Algorithms Adaptation to Multicore Data Distribution, Load Balancing and Scaling MPI/OpenMP Hybrid Computing Visualization Performance Analysis and Evaluation Benchmarking and Profiling Tools Performance Prediction and Modelling Cluster Management Security and Reliability High Availability Solutions Resource and Job Management Conference web site August 30 - September 2, 2009 Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe - MIE 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina The Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference is the main scientific event in medical, biomedical, and health informatics, held every two years out of three in Europe. Scientific presentations are from more than 40 countries and all continents. Its attendance is around 500Ð1000 participants especially from 32 European member countries of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). New medical, biomedical, and health informatics bridges must be built between the western and eastern parts of the European world. For this purpose, a panel of high-level scientists and health care managers will be invited to participate and give keynote speeches, tutorials, and organise in-depth workshop discussions. Conference topics include: Bioinformatics Biosignal processing Decision support Devices and sensors Disease management Electronic health record Expert systems Guidelines and protocols Health information systems Home-based eHealth Human-computer interaction Imaging and visualization Impact and usability Interoperability Learning and education Knowledge management Knowledge-based systems Modelling and simulation National eHealth roadmaps Nursing informatics Pan European-cross border applications Patient safety Personal health records Pervasive health care Privacy and security Public health and consumer informatics Quality assurance Semantic web Telemedicine Trustful health information for citizens and patients Ubiquitous computing Web 2.0 applications Conference web site September 1-4, 2009 International Conference on Parallel Computing - ParCo 2009, Lyon, France The aim of the conference is to give an overview of the state-of-the-art of the developments, applications and future trends in high performance computing for all platforms. The conference addresses all aspects of parallel computing, including applications, hardware and software technologies as well as languages and development environments. The following speakers will present key note talks: Alan Gara, Blue Gene Chief Architect, IBM, USA on Exascale computing: what future system architectures will likely mean for users Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands on Programming multi-cores: from security to scalability François Bodin, CAPS enterprise, Rennes, France on High Level Graphics Processing Unit Programming Conference web site September 2-4, 2009 11th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications, Porth Elizabeth, South Africa Paper abstracts are solicited on original and unpublished research results that require solutions fromANY field in which the World Wide Web is applied or used as a tool or system. Topics should relate to any recent trends and developments in the Web environment over the last ten years; for example new methods of access to vast amounts of information, network convergence, search engines and search techniques, emerging Web technologies,Web-based research methods, mobile technologies, and e-anything - such as e-government, e-commerce, e-marketing, e-learning, e-society, e-entertainment. The Conference stands out as a true multi-disciplinary event. Researchers from all sciences and their disciplines can present their research results. Conference web site September 7-8, 2009 PRACE's Second Industry Seminar, Toulouse, France High Performance Computing is becoming more and more important for global companies who need to stay ahead of their competition - both in developing innovative products and offering services. Supercomputers are developing rapidly through the combination of technological advances and the rising stress of competition. This development requires continuous high investments. However, reports show that performance levels of the most powerful supercomputers used in industry are around six to seven years behind the world's fastest systems. The US is currently making a concerted effort to shorten this gap and to secure the leading position of its economy by granting industrial access to publicly owned supercomputers. In Europe there is now an interesting and necessary parallel development. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is a consortium of the 16 leading supercomputing centres in Europe, which will create a world-class HPC Infrastructure from 2010 onwards, through a sustained programme of continuous investment in new systems. In 2008 PRACE organized in Amsterdam a first industry seminar which gathered close to 100 executives attendees (CEO, CIO, CTO, R&D managers, ...) representing 35 companies coming from 13 European countries. This seminar was a first opportunity to discuss with the attendees about the PRACE project and to gather their needs and expectations about the upcoming infrastructures and services deployed starting 2010 by the project. The second PRACE industry seminar will include representatives from the following target groups: High performance computing industrial regular and potential users e.g. Aerospace, car manufacturing, energy, chemicals, drug design and medical industry, metal industry, bioinformatics, telecommunication companies, finance, insurance ... coming from big European companies as well as SME (Small and Medium sized Enterprises). HPC vendors, Scientific software developers and service companies, EC representatives. During the seminar participants will receive first hand information about the planned PRACE research infrastructure, services and usage, representatives from industry (Airbus, BMW and SMEs) will demonstrate their competitive advantage through the regular use of HPC. This seminar will also contains four parallel sessions which will allow participants to discuss about their needs and expectations regarding PRACE infrastructure and services like organisation and business models, network and security, relations with ISV (Independent Software Vendors) and license cost and finally user support ant training needs. Some of the companies that are going to participate to the PRACE industry workshop are: EDF, ONERA, Novartis, Aureus Pharma, TOTAL, BNP Paribas, SNECMA, CS, ENI, Eurodecision, HydrOcean, FFT, Michelin, Arcelor Mittal, MUREX, Porsche, BMW, Renault Formula 1 and Airbus, to name a few. Conference web site September 7-10, 2009 16th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, Espoo, Finland Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) have become the standard interfaces for high-performance parallel programming in the message-passing paradigm. EuroPVM/MPI is dedicated to the latest developments of PVM and MPI, their use, including support tools, and implementation, and to applications using these interfaces. The EuroPVM/MPI meeting also encourages discussions of new message-passing and other parallel and distributed programming paradigms beyond MPI and PVM. EuroPVM/MPI meeting is a forum for users and developers of PVM, MPI, and other message-passing programming environments. The programme consists of presentations of contributed papers, vendor presentations, poster presentations and invited talks. Topics of interest for the meeting include, but are not limited to: PVM and MPI implementation issues and improvements Latest extensions to PVM and MPI PVM and MPI for high-performance computing, clusters and Grid environments New message-passing and hybrid parallel programming paradigms, e.g. with general purpose graphics processors Interaction between message-passing software and hardware Fault tolerance in message-passing programmes Performance evaluation of PVM and MPI applications Tools and environments for PVM and MPI Algorithms using the message-passing paradigm Applications in science and engineering based on message-passing Conference web site September 7-11, 2009 XtreemOS Summer School, Oxford, United Kingdom XtreemOS is a Linux-based operating systems that includes Grid functionalities. It is characterised by properties such as transparency, hiding the complexity of in the underlying distributed infrastructure; scalability, supporting hundreds of thousands of nodes and millions of users; and dependability, providing reliability, highly availability and security. The XtreemOS Summer School will include lectures on modern distributed paradigms such as Grid computing, Cloud computing, and network-centric operating systems. The Summer School will combine lectures from research leaders shaping the future of distributed systems and world leaders in deploying and exploiting distributed infrastructures. Hands-on laboratory exercises and practical sessions using XtreemOS will give participants experience on using modern distributed systems. The aims of the XtreemOS Summer School are: To introduce participants to emergent computing paradigms such as Grid computing and Cloud computing To provide lectures and practical courses on novel techniques to achieve scalability, highly availability and security in distributed systems To present Grid applications in the domains of eScience and business. To provide a forum for participants to discuss your research work and share experience with experience researchers. Deadline for registration is July 26, 2009. Conference web site September 7-12, 2009 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, Germany The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering - the triennial scientific meeting of the IUPESM - is the world's leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work as well as major innovations in health-related technologies to an international audience. More than 4000 visitors will attend the event. Held every three years, the congress provides an ideal inter- and multi-disciplinary platform that brings together people from basic research, R&D, industry and medical applications, incorporating key aspects such as information and communication technologies, micro- and nano-systems, optics, tissue engineering and biotechnology. The World Congress 2009 is dedicated to supporting and promoting an intense inter- and multi-disciplinary knowledge exchange among professionals in the areas that will be the major driving force for future innovations in medical technologies and medicine. Conference web site September 8-13, 2009 Nanocarbons: from physicochemical and biological properties to biomedical and environmental effects, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), discovered in 1991, have amazing mechanical, thermal and electrical conductivity, as well as excellent field emission properties. Actual uses of CNT are already about to be numerous (car industry, sport accessories, etc.), and future applications are foreseen to be in constant development. Right now, the very same properties that make CNT very attractive raise questions about their potential toxicity, possible long-term secondary effects, and/or biodegradability. Physico-chemical properties of CNT seem to be critical not only for their potential applications, but also for their biological and toxicological effects. However, a comprehensive and systematic understanding of this subject still needs to be acquired, particularly when considering the very promising biomedical applications of CNT. The general aim of this conference is, thanks to its pluridisciplinary approach, to give the different actors of CNT research (physicists, chemists, biologists) the proper level of knowledge required to discuss with the other participants and understand each other correctly. Therefore, the conference will propose lectures accessible to scientists of different fields, as well as more specialized lectures in each domain of interest, including the most recent advances on the subject. Particular attention will be given to accessibility and exchange of competences between the disciplines. Specifically, the programme of this conference focuses on four general topics that are considered by the scientific committee as major axes of CNT research: Synthesis/characterization of CNT CNT chemistry Biomedicine Biological and environmental effects of CNT Conference web site September 11-12, 2009 4th Annual Friedman School Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA This is a conference for nutrition professionals that will examine critical issues facing industry, policy-makers, academics and thought leaders in the coming year. Hot topics include: Michael Holick, MD, PhD: "D-Lightful" Vitamin D: Shining Light on its Global Health Benefits Michael Jacobson, PhD: Reducing & Regulating Dietary Sodium Cathy Kapica, PhD: Effective nutrition communication: can we bridge the gap between nutrition science and nutrition that sells? Miriam E. Nelson, PhD: Behind the Scenes: Development of the US Guidelines for Physical Activity and Nutrition Conference web site September 12-16, 2009 22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology - ECNP, Istanbul, Turkey More than 6500 clinical and basic scientists such as psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists and neuroscience researchers from all over the world will attend the 22nd ECNP Congress 2009, which is the largest annual high scientific standard congress on mental disorders and neuropsychopharmacology in Europe. Renowned experts from 25 countries will present the latest achievements and breakthroughs in neuropsychopharmacology and related disciplines in both clinical and preclinical settings, as well as discuss the various aspects of pharmacotherapy of brain disorders and their impact on patients' quality of life. The scientific programme will comprise, among others, the following topics: The future of schizophrenia The role of genetic factors in adult ADHD Is the monoamines involved in shaping conduct disorder? Vaccination for Alzheimer's disease in dementia Novel treatment for smoking Maternal serotonin Deep Brain Stimulation: new perspectives for treatment News on the NewMood project Furthermore, the educational update sessions at the congress will deal with the current knowledge on GABA and biomarkers in neuropsychopharmacology, treatment of insomnia, bipolar disorders and schizophrenia, and the new classification systems ICD-11 and DSM-V. Conference web site September 13-16, 2009 Second European Congress of Immunology - ECI 2009, Berlin, Germany The Congress offers a broad spectrum of topics in more than 30 symposia and 60 workshops, covering topics from basic research to applied Immunology. The Scientific Programme Committee has worked out an outstanding scientific programme in four tracks covering the most recent developments in basic and clinical immunology. Several European Societies and FOCIS as well as various joint cooperative projects and companies will bring their contribution to organising symposia on immunological disorders and on themes pertaining to immunology. In addition, this meeting has a pan-European educational objective in exposing young European scientists to an international rather than a national audience. Their aim is to present an overview of fundamental and applied aspects of immunology. Conference web site September 14-16, 2009 International Energy Conference 2009, Risø, Denmark The conference aims at identifying energy solutions on local, regional and global level which can lead to a peak in CO2 emissions in 2015-2020 and a 50 percent reduction before 2050. The conference will focus on the scientific development of new technologies, their market perspectives and realistic contributions to achieve these ambitious goals. Furthermore, the conference will address systems aspects, end use technologies and efficiency improvements. The conference will aim at identifying mixes of existing and new energy technologies and future energy systems that can meet the CO2 reduction requirements on a global, regional and local scale. The conference focuses on: Future global energy development options Scenario and policy issues Measures to achieve CO2 emission peak in 2015-2020 and subsequent decline Renewable energy production technologies such as bioenergy, wind, hydro, wave, solar and geothermal Centralized energy technologies such as clean coal technologies and nuclear Energy conversion, energy carriers and energy storage, including fuel cells and hydrogen technologies Providing renewable energy for the transport sector Systems aspects, differences between the various regions throughout the world End-use technologies, efficiency improvements and supply links Energy savings Security of supply with regard to e.g. geopolitical issues, resources, conflicts, black-outs, natural disasters and terrorism Conference web site September 15-17, 2009 Enhancing the Administrative Assistant's Role, Toronto, Canada The administrative assistant's role should evolve significantly over the next few years. Although aware of their boss's tasks and responsibilities, they are often called upon to collaborate in various management activities for which they are unfortunately not trained, such as: management control, staff supervision, financial analyses, project management, etc., as, finally, the administrative assistant is very often the actual person in charge of administrating an SME. This course is part of a 2-module programme designed to enhance the functional and multitasking role of administrative assistants and thereby allow them to take on more responsibilities. Executives can then spend more time developing their enterprise. Conference web site September 15-18, 2009 MobileHCI 2009 Conference, Bonn, Germany The MobileHCI conference convenes the world's best experts on human interaction with small mobile systems. About 300 researchers and designers from industry and academia are expected to present and discuss the latest research, design concepts and applications. Since the MobileHCI conference series started in 1998, the scope and depth of its topics continued to grow. In addition to themes like web design for small mobile devices, evaluation of mobile devices and services, or multi-modal user interfaces, which accompanied the first ten years of Mobile HCI history, wearable computing and mobile social networks are now a major focus. Invited speakers this year are Prof. Jun Rekimoto of Tokyo University, who also heads the Interaction Lab at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Kentaro Toyama, co-founder of Microsoft Research India, and Peter Moeckel, Vice President of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs). Fraunhofer FIT will demo mobile applications supporting logistics chains, while Siegen University will present prototype systems for mixed-media knowledge work, which were developed in the DFG research network on "Context-adaptive Interaction in Cooperative Knowledge Processes (CONTici)". MobileHCI 2009 is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT and Siegen University, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. The B-IT Research School, Bonn, and the UMIC Cluster on Mobile Communications at RWTH Aachen University provide additional support. Conference web site September 16-18, 2009 Fourth West Africa Health 2009, Lagos, Nigeria West African Health Expo 2009 is an International Exhibition focusing on medical equipment, scientific and laboratory instruments, hospital furniture, pharmaceutical products and services. It builds on the success of West African Health Expo 2009 is an international trade exhibition targeting international manufacturers and traders interested in the African market. Conference e-mail September 18, 2009 Workshop on "Terrain motion analysis based on remote sensing tools", Madrid, Spain The workshop is devoted to the latest advances of remote sensing ground surface monitoring. It is focused in particular on satellite-based SAR interferometry. Part of the workshop summarizes the main results of Terrafirma, a project of the European Commission and the European Spatial Agency. Results from other projects and are also presented. The workshop addresses different components of ground surface monitoring, including data acquisition techniques, data analysis tools, data exploitation and modelling based on these data. This event, which is organized by the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, the Institute of Geomatics and the Institut Geològic de Catalunya includes two components: Technical presentations related to subsidence monitoring Technical presentations related to landslide monitoring Conference web site September 20-25, 2009 Gene Expression to Neurobiology and Behaviour: human brain development and developmental disorders, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain How does the genome, interacting with the multi-faceted environment, translate into the development by which the human brain achieves its astonishing, adaptive array of cognitive and behavioural capacities? Why and how does this process sometimes lead to neurodevelopmental disorders with a major, lifelong personal and social impact? These are central and intrinsically interdisciplinary problems of human development which can only be understood by a concerted effort of neurobiologists, geneticists, psychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, cognitive and computational scientists. Key information on the constraints on brain development will come from genetic conditions which lead to anomalies of brain and cognitive development (e.g. autism, Williams syndrome and specific language impairment). In turn, insights on broader questions of brain development will inform treatment and remediation of these disorders. The topic of this meeting lies at the intersection between genetics, neurobiology, medicine, developmental neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience and engineering. The new advances require the specific technical expertise of neuroscientists, molecular geneticists and neuro-imaging centres. Those working in these areas will need to understand theories, methods and insights in human cognitive development, and conversely cognitive and developmental psychologists and neuroscientists will need to appreciate the possibilities, limitations and issues of interpretation in the new biological technologies. Finally, the opportunities in relation to developmental disorders will only be realised through intellectual and practical interchange with medical specialists in neuropsychiatry and pediatric neurology. A key requirement in achieving these goals is that in all these fields, young scientists' training should include an understanding of the other disciplines, and this is a primary goal of this symposium. The meeting aims to draw on European and North American expertise to add value to the quality of European research in the currently separate disciplines. Conference web site September 21-22, 2009 Third Challenges in Global Clinical Trials Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, USA The 3rd Global Clinical Trials Conference will explore a range of hurdles and issues surrounding the execution of clinical trials. It will furnish participants with an overview of the risks, problems and constraints associated and offer a detailed analysis of what it takes to conduct clinical trials. The organizers will focus more on how to effectively tackle key challenges in overcoming the new regulatory and economic environment, designing trials to help site selection & patient recruitment, outsourcing issues and the complex needs of paediatric clinical trials. Deadline for paper abstract submission is August 21, 2009. Conference web site September 21-22, 2009 Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium, San Francisco, California, USA The Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium at TCT 2009 will examine the latest advances in interventional, pharmacologic and clinical/administrative strategies for the management of the cardiovascular patient: Focus on the heart attack patient receiving PCI Revascularization decisions Management decisions regarding patients with drug-eluting stents Leadership Tough calls in clinical decision-making Taking charge of your own health Nurses are on the front lines in and out of the cath lab, providing care for patients with cardiovascular disease, which kills more Americans every year than cancer, making it one of the country's most significant health risks and a critical health topic for millions of people. This symposium will bring nurses and technologists up to speed on the latest advances in patient care. Featured topics will include: Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialists (RCIS) Review Course Revascularization Decisions in Various Patient Groups (Multivessel Disease, Unprotected Left Main Disease, AMI, etc.) Improving Door-to-Balloon Times: Translating Research into Practice Bringing Surgery into the Cath Lab Suite Elective PCI at Noncardiac Surgery Facilities Conference web site September 21-23, 2009 Frontiers of Retrovirology - Complex retroviruses, retro-elements and their hosts, Montpellier, France This is an international conference that will bring together leading human retrovirus researchers to review current progress and to chart future challenges. HIV affects 33 million individuals worldwide. To date, 25 million have died from AIDS. In 2007 alone, 2,7 million persons became newly infected with HIV-1, and 2 million new AIDS deaths were registered. A quarter century after the discovery of the HIV-1 virus, a curative or a vaccine strategy for AIDS remains elusive. At the conference, internationally renowned researchers will deliver cutting edge presentations and present their insights into the principles guiding the life cycle of endogenous retroelements, complex human retroviruses, and their pathogenic interactions with their hosts. Conference web site September 21-25, 2009 16th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services - ITS 2009, Stockholm, Sweden With the theme "ITS in daily life", Stockholm 2009 will explore how ITS can improve our everyday mobility with a strong emphasis on co-modality. Monica Sundström, ERTICO Chairman, is convinced that the event will be a great opportunity for all ITS stakeholders to learn from each other as well as show the general public how ITS can help them in their daily lives. Conference web site September 21-25, 2009 EGEE09 Conference, Barcelona, Spain EGEE-III, co-funded by the European Commission, aims to expand and optimise the Grid infrastructure, which currently processes up to 300.000 jobs per day from scientific domains ranging from biomedicine to fusion science. The EGEE Grid infrastructure is ideal for any scientific research, especially for projects where the time and resources needed for running the applications are considered impractical when using traditional IT infrastructures. Conference web site September 21-25, 2009 21st Annual Scientific Symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation - TCT 2009, San Francisco, California, USA TCT gathers leading medical researchers and clinicians from around the world to present and discuss the latest developments in the field of interventional cardiology and vascular medicine. Now in its 21st year, TCT brings state-of-the-art techniques and training to interventional cardiologists around the world. TCT 2009 will be a significant source of breaking news on multiple topics related to cardiovascular health: Several hundred oral and poster abstract presentations, detailing the latest research in interventional vascular medicine, will be presented along three central tracks: coronary, endovascular medicine and structural heart disease Live procedures using the latest investigational technologies demonstrated by interventional cardiologists broadcast in HD in real time from more than 20 medical centres around the world Innovative therapies and devices, "Hands on Heart" demonstrations and advances in heart imaging will also be featured Conference web site September 22, 2009 Promoting and Celebrating School Success, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Questions of choice in education, school success and improvement initiatives are to be examined by top educationalists at an event at Keele University. The Centre for Successful Schools has an established reputation for the support it gives to schools and local authorities with a range of attitudinal surveys. These independent surveys provide detailed impartial analyses of the views of pupils, parents, teachers and support staff about the quality of various aspects of school provision. The conference will review educational change/improvement during the last 20 years at national, local authority and school level, and address issues presenting challenges to effective teaching and learning. Keynote speeches will be given by former Directors of the Centre, Sir Tim Brighouse, Sir Michael Barber and Professor Kate Myers, and by the former Chief Schools Adjudicator, Sir Philip Hunter. The conference will also include a range of seminar sessions and an expert panel discussion. Conference web site September 22-25, 2009 First International Workshop on Distributed XML Processing: Theory and Practice - DXP 2009, Vienna, Austria XML is widely recognized as the standard de facto for coupling with the heterogeneity of data repositories and software platforms of distributed environments. In light of this, distributed XML processing play a key role in the context of a plethora of modern distributed data, information and knowledge management applications and systems. Distributed XML processing deals with both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from sophisticated theoretical contributions and tools to efficient algorithms and frameworks. Topics of interest include a wide range of areas of meaningfully using XML in distributed environments. The First International Workshop on Distributed XML Processing: Theory and Practice will be held in conjunction with the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2009), focuses but it is not limited to the listed research topics, by posing the emphasis on a theoretical as well as a practical point of view, and provides a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed XML Processing to meet and exchange preliminary ideas and mature results. Conference web site September 23-26, 2009 World Congress of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia Every three years the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences organises its world congress to promote cardiovascular education and achievement throughout the world. Conference web site September 24-25, 2009 3rd Annual Protein Therapeutics Discovery and Development, Boston, Massachusetts, 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 3rd 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 Process Development Overcoming Challenges in Developing Protein Based Drugs Deadline for paper abstract submission is August 24, 2009. Conference web site September 24-26, 2009 17th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM 2009, Hvar-Korcula Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Communications software Interfaces and Communication Protocols Telecommunications Services and QoS Network Operations and Management Internet and IP Based Environments Mobile and Wireless Communications Optical and Photonic Communications Multimedia and Virtual Reality Systems Information Infrastructure and Security Communication Theory Multiple Access Techniques Signal Processing and Coding Computer Methods in Biomedicine Consumer Communications Technologies Human-Computer Interaction QoS and Resource Management Enterprise Networking Access and Home Networks Next Generation Networks and Services Electromagnetic Compatibility in Communications Research/Education Methodology Deadline for paper submission is June 30, 2009. Conference web site September 24-26, 2009 2009 International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'09, Klagenfurt, Austria Special issues include: Neurocomputing (Elsevier) on Adaptive Incremental Learning in Neural Networks ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM) on Self-Adaptive Systems: Models and Algorithms The Transactions on Computational Science (Springer) on Adaptive Evolutionary Computation Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (World Scientific) on Hardware Architectures for Genetic, Neural and Fuzzy Systems International Journal of Electronics (Taylor & Francis) on Evolutionary Synthesis of Network-on-Chip Based Systems Guest speakers include: Prof. K. Warwick, University of Reading, UK - Robots with Biological Brains and Humans with Part Machine Brains Prof. N. Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand - Computational Intelligence Inspired by Nature: Brain-, Gene-, and Quantum Inspired Adaptive Information Processing Systems Prof. M. Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Swarms of Co-operating Robots Conference web site September 28-29, 2009 9th MedTech Investing Europe Conference, London, United Kingdom The MedTech Investing Europe Conference series uses a perfect mixture of pre-arranged one-to-one meetings, med tech company presentations, and valuable plenary sessions addressing the major issues facing medical technology today. It will provide important networking opportunities for delegates to dialogue in a private and relaxed setting. Med tech presentation sessions will give medical technology companies the chance to pitch their products, stage of business, investment requirements, expected growth and exit strategy to the investor market. Conference web site September 29-30, 2009 Third Annual Lab Quality Confab, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Lab Quality Confab is an annual gathering dedicated to advancing the knowledge, skills, and effectiveness of quality management practitioners in diagnostic medicine. Programmes, information, and training are designed for every level of manager and all levels of knowledge and experience. Diagnostic medicine, particularly the services of clinical laboratory, pathology, imaging, and radiology, make up the primary emphasis of the Lab Quality Confab. Conference web site September 30 - October 3, 2009 Twelfth European Health Forum Gastein, Bad Hofgastein, Austria The main objective of the EHFG is to facilitate the establishment of a framework for advising and developing European health policy while recognising the importance of national and regional authorities and decision-making bodies. By focusing on key issues in the European health arena the Forum considers in particular the following areas, tasks and challenges: Discussion of the main short-term and long-term objectives of the working programme of the European Community, the member states, accession candidate countries and the regions as well as their implementation, and the further development of European health policy. Detailed discussion of opportunities for integration of health policy across different policy areas. Analysis and discussion of the impact of European integration, in particular the Common Market and Economic and Monetary Union on health systems, services and policies. Evaluation of current developments and their effects on society, health systems, and services, and in particular the changing role of citizens and patients. The exchange of national and regional experience in health policy development and implementation. Conference web site October 2-3, 2009 5th EMAA European Masters in Anti-aging & Aesthetic medicine, Paris, France This progressive multi-disciplinary meeting is designed to bring an update on Aesthetic and Anti-aging Treatments, products and new technologies in a very practical and interactive format that will provide an unparalleled weekend of educational experience. It includes new procedures, training sessions, live demonstrations workshops, run by a world class faculty of opinion leaders in anti-aging medicine, aesthetic dermatology and surgery. The EMAA aims to be a very practical congress where each lecture effectively corresponds to an application in your daily practice. Conference web site October 3-7, 2009 Global Change Challenges: Transforming Energy Systems, Nynäshamn, Sweden The human impact on global climate change is now deemed to be unequivocal. However, human impacts on the global environment go well beyond changes in the physical climate, into effects on ecosystems, biodiversity, and the essential goods and services provided by the environment on which we are dependent. In the next few decades, we will need to fundamentally transform a number of sectors if we are to be able to ensure the sustainable pursuit of the human endeavour. Among these sectors are energy, transportation and agriculture. The purpose of this conference is to provide the research basis for long-term transformation of energy systems that will allow us to achieve a sustainable production of energy for future generations. The conference will begin by mapping out the current landscape for energy production, and envisioning the goal for future sustainable energy systems. We will then explore the transformations necessary to realise this goal, and define the kinds of systemic-level analyses that will be necessary to support reaching this goal. The conference will be a mix of plenary sessions and group meetings. The aim is to produce a report (to be made openly available) documenting a) a discussion of the major transformations that are necessary, b) a picture of the desired energy systems landscape, c) a description of the research required, and d) suggestions for an implementation framework to enable and support this research and ensure that it is useful for decision. Conference web site October 4-7, 2009 11th International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias - Venice Arrhythmias 2009, Venice, Italy This is a biannual workshop providing its attendees with the highest scientific standard in the field of cardiac arrhythmias - rich with several sessions, discussions and themes. Conference web site October 5-6, 2009 9th MedTech Investing Europe Conference, London, United Kingdom The main focus of the event will bethe med tech company presentationsand one-to-one meetings. But there is always time to hear about the latest market intelligence from leading industry experts via ourkeynote and roundtable sessions. Keynote sessionsinclude: The Changing Role of the Global Corporate: How has the economic environment changedthe corporate perspective on start-ups? What should start-ups looking for corporate collaboration do to achieve their goals? Chad Cornell, Vice President, Corporate Development, Medtronic Inc., USA The Journey of a Successful Entrepreneur: Hear the highs, lows and key takeaways from a successful entrepreneur, including how to prosper in the current economic climate. A Venture Capital Perspective: How can VC's best add value to med tech companies in critical times? Aris Constantinides, Founder, NBGI Private Equity, UK Roundtable sessions include: CEO Roundtable: Assessing the current state of the med tech industry through the recession. European VCand Angel Investing Roundtable: Medical funding and the investment climate. Structuringand Valuing Deals Effectively: Practical advice and strategies. Creating Perfect Partnerships Between Pharmaand Med Tech: Is convergence the new watchword? Conference web site October 6-7, 2009 Health 2.0 Conference, San Francisco, California, USA With nearly a hundred speakers and plenty of new health care demos and technologies on display on stage and in the exhibit hall, you'll get a sweeping overview of the ways that information technology and the web are changing health care in areas from on-line search to health focused on-line communities and social networks that connect patients and clinicians. Conference web site October 6-8, 2009 International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - KMIS 2009, Madeira, Portugal Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organisation to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organizational processes. Effective knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, and a key to the success of contemporary organisations, bolstering the collective expertise of its employees and partners. There are several perspectives on KM, but all share the same core components, namely: People, Processes and Technology. Some take a techno-centric focus, in order to enhance knowledge integration and creation; some take an organizational focus, in order to optimize organisation design and work flows; some take an ecological focus, where the important aspects are related to people interaction, knowledge and environmental factors as a complex adaptive system similar to a natural ecosystem. Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures. Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics. Conference topics include: Metadata and structured documents Digital libraries Best practices & communities of practice Business intelligence & CRM Communication, collaboration and information sharing Interoperability Information security Impact measurement of knowledge management Tools and technology for knowledge management Knowledge management projects E-Learning, e-training and executive training Organizational memories Organizational semiotics Learning organization & organizational learning Content management & digital rights management Intelligent information systems Social networks and the psychological dimension Intellectual capital K-Economy, k-community and k-enterprise Studies, metrics & benchmarks Innovation facilitation KM strategies and implementations Conference web site October 8-16, 2009 EMBO Practical Course: Current Methods in Cell Biology, Heidelberg, Germany The goal of this course is to give an introduction to a broad range of state-of-the-art cell biological methods and to provide a forum for active cross-communication with an aim towards illuminating outstanding challenges in the field of cell biology. A strong emphasis will be on live cell imaging methods together with detailed modelling. The organizers will encourage interdisciplinary and quantitative approaches to bring single molecule analysis into context with the behaviour of whole systems. The course is aimed at PhD students and post docs interested in cell biology. The organizers wish to attract both cell biologists who want to learn quantitative methods, and also researchers from other disciplines (physics, engineering, computer science, etc.) who want to use their expertise to cell biological problems. Deadline for registration is July 26, 2009. Conference web site October 10-12, 2009 Fifth Euro-Mediterannean Medical Informatics and Telemedicine International Conference - EMMIT 2009, Beirut, Lebanon Conference topics include: Medical record, electronic patient record and health cards Clinical and epidemiological data bases Multimedia database, images and signals processing Digital signature in health documents Security, privacy of medical data Hospital Information Systems and hospital virtualization Network and internationalization of hospital work Regional and national information Systems Personalized medicine and quality of the medical care Grid technology and Global e-Health Teleconsulting/telediagnosis/telemonitoring Teleradiology, telecardiology, telepathology, teleophtalmology, telediabetology, etc. Telehomecare and ambient assisting living Internet in healthcare and medical web portals Distance learning in health care Decision support system in medicine Statistical software and neural networks in biomedicine Bioinformatics and genomic data banks Neuro-informatics, A.I. and brain cognitive processes Deadline for paper submission is August 31, 2009. Conference web site Conference e-mail October 11-15, 2009 Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2009, California, USA Oracle OpenWorld is one of the world's largest events dedicated to helping businesses understand and harness the power of information. The Keynote line up is scheduled to include industry leaders and executives from HP, Dell and Oracle among others. Designed to provide an inclusive and content sharing environment, Oracle OpenWorld will integrate collaboration elements such as Oracle Mix, Oracle's social networking enviornment, schedule builder, on-line planner and blogs. The event will offer more than 1800 educational sessions on Applications, Database, Industries, Management and Infrastructure and Middleware presented by Oracle product management, partners and customers. New this year: More customer and partner sessions will be offered through a broad call for papers, allowing attendees to learn directly from their peers. A special programme for the Primavera customers will include more than 70 sessions on Primavera technology. Attendees will have access to two Exhibition Halls with over 400 partners featuring their latest offerings, more than 300 live product demos in the Oracle DEMOgrounds and dynamic, thought-provoking, and interactive customer and partner breakthroughs showcased at Inside Innovation. 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 October 12-13, 2009 Lobbying in the EU: How to represent and defend your interests in Brussels Workshop, Brussels, Belgium With a new Commission and Parliament due after the summer, this seminar comes at a great time to brush up on your European Union knowledge and lobbying skills. This 1 and a half day workshop includes a 3-course dinner with a Q&A session with an MEP, plus theoretical and practical sessions with industry practitioners and EU officials. Day 1 explores the theoretical aspects of lobbying. Day 1 will finish with a 3-course evening dinner with a guest speaker. On day 2 delegates will have the opportunity to put into practice the theory and knowledge they have gained through the use of a lobbying simulation exercise. There will also be discussions with several guest speakers. Conference web site October 12-14, 2009 Third International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus Intelligent computing covers a hybrid palette of methods and techniques derived from classical artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, multi-agent systems a.o. Distributed computing studies systems that contain loosely-coupled components running on different networked computers and that communicate and co-ordinate their actions by message transfer. The emergent field of intelligent distributed computing is expected to pose special challenges of adaptation and fruitful combination of results of both areas with a great impact on the development of new generation intelligent distributed information systems. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers involved in intelligent distributed computing to allow cross-fertilization and synergy of ideas and to enable advancement of researches in the field. The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of intelligent distributed computing ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. Topics include, but are not limited to: Intelligent service composition and orchestration E-service and Web intelligence Multi-agent systems Information extraction and retrieval in distributed environments Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed environments Semantic and knowledge Grids Intelligent integration of data and processes Distributed problem solving and decision making Ontologies and meta-data for describing heterogeneous resources and services Autonomic, adaptive and self-organising distributed computing and systems Intelligence in mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing Intelligence in cooperative information systems, groupware and work flows, virtual enterprises, social networks Intelligent distributed applications in e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-science, e-government, crisis management Intelligence in Peer-to-Peer systems Emerging behaviours in complex distributed systems Modelling and simulation of intelligent distributed systems Conference web site October 14-16, 2009 International Workshop on High Performance Computational Systems Biology - HiBi 2009, Trento, Italy The High performance computational systems Biology (HiBi) workshop establishes a forum to link researchers in the areas of parallel computing and computational systems biology. One of the main limitations in managing models of biological systems comes from the fundamental difference between the high parallelism evident in biochemical reactions and the sequential environments employed for the analysis of these reactions. Such limitations affect all varieties of continuous, deterministic, discrete and stochastic models; undermining the applicability of simulation techniques and analysis of biological models. The goal of HiBi is therefore to bring together researchers in the fields of high performance computing and computational systems biology. Experts from around the world will present their current work, discuss profound challenges, new ideas, results, applications and their experience relating to key aspects of high performance computing in biology. Conference web site October 14-16, 2009 5th Modern Drug Discovery and Development Summit - M3D, San Diego, California, USA M3D 2009 offers formal networking events, poster sessions and dedicated exhibiting times. You'll also have the chance to interact with key players in the pharma and biotech industries during the Biotech and Pharmaceutical Partnering and Licensing Track. You can meet and greet your colleagues during interactive roundtable discussions during the breaks. Deadline for paper abstract submission is August 14, 2009. Conference web site October 15-25, 2009 Quantum to Cosmos Festival, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Perimeter Institute's 10th anniversary science celebration "Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future" will take a global audience from the strange subatomic world to the outer frontiers of the universe. Q2C's extensive programme features more than 50 events, including panel discussions, keynote presentations, special screenings, exhibits including the full-scale model of the next Mars Rover named Curiosity, and recorded sessions with Honorary Festival President Professor Stephen Hawking. Conference web site October 17-21, 2009 VIII International Conference on Fluid Properties and Phase Equilibria for Chemical Process Design - EQUIFASE 2009, Praia da Rocha, Algarve, Portugal The general purpose of the EQUIFASE Conference is to promote the Scientific and Technologic exchange between people from both the academic and the industrial environment from The European and American Continents in the field of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Properties for the Design of Chemical Processes. The main topics of this Conference are related to measurement, modelling, prediction and simulation of physical-chemical properties concerning product and process design, involving oil and gas, petrochemicals, polymeric chemicals, food, bio- and nanocompounds, as well as sustainability of chemical processes and energy production/storage. Conference web site October 18-21, 2009 Third Edition European Food & Agribusiness Seminar - EFAS, Rome, Italy This seminar has been arranged in a special way in that future developments in this domain will be discussed using cases featuring specific companies. These cases will be developed specially for the seminar, following a tried and tested Harvard Business School method. This seminar will be organised by Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) in collaboration with Professor Ray Goldberg, Emeritus Professor of Harvard University. It will contribute to the needs of top people in the food industry and related organisations when exchanging thoughts about the constantly changing market and the rapidly advancing technological developments. The CEO of whichever company is featured will be present when that case is discussed. This year, the present financial and economic crisis, and how best to deal with it, will, without doubt, be an important topic of conversation. EFAS is the only platform in Europe where an exchange of ideas of this kind can take place, in this way, and on this level. Conference web site October 18-22, 2009 20th World Diabetes Congress, Montréal, Canada Organized by the International Diabetes Federation every two years, the World Diabetes Congress will highlight the latest developments in clinical research, showcase new data on the diabetes pandemic, and promote political action to tackle diabetes. Health ministers and officials will join the world's leading diabetes experts to share knowledge, experiences and innovative solutions to address the diabetes threat. Conference web site October 18-22, 2009 45th Congress of ISOCARP - "Low Carbon Cities", Porto, Portugal The 45th Congress explores the role of planning, and of all those involved in the planning and development process, in the drive to achieve less resource intensive, low carbon cities. The theme marks a logical progression from that of last year's event which addressed the reality and consequences of urban sprawl. In sustainability terms those unrestrained, land consuming patterns of growth are the opposite of what we need to achieve and, encouragingly, speakers at that Congress were able to point to numerous examples of schemes where planning has been able to shape cities that are more respectful of the environment in its widest sense. Conference web site October 21-22, 2009 2009 Connected Health Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The theme is "Up from Crisis: Overhauling Healthcare Information, Payment and Delivery in Extraordinary Times". Health care will have its renaissance when it moves beyond the hospital and clinic and into the day-to-day lives of patients and consumers. The Connected Health Symposium asks how information technology - cell phones, computers, the Internet and other tools - can help people manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness, and age with independence. You can come to Boston in the fall, as all of us join the issues of real change in 2009. Conference web site October 21-25, 2009 Fourth International Health, Medical and Medicine Expo - Sudan Health 2009, Khartoum, Sudan This is a great chance to meet investors, business men who will come from all over the world looking to make businesses and deals with the participating companies. The Exhibition will include Great Offers, launching of new products, and business matching. Conference web site October 22-23, 2009 International Symposium on Understanding Intelligent and Complex Systems, Tg. Mures, Romania Topics of this conference include: Artificial and Natural Complex Systems Intelligent Systems Self-organizing Complex Systems Natural Computing Self-organizing Complex Systems Intelligence and Complexity Agent-based Systems Medical Informatics Biomedical Computing Decision Support Systems Systems Biology Conference e-mail October 28-30, 2009 Drug Discovery Partnerships: Academia & Industrial Interactions, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Early stage drug discovery is a key bottleneck in the pipeline to find novel drugs. With key products suffering patent expiration in coming years, the need for new approaches to accelerate development of new chemical entities to treat severely unmet medical needs is more urgent than ever. This event brings together pharmaceutical companies, universities, small biotechnology enterprises, government agencies, for-profit and not-for profit research institutions to exchange ideas, make connections and discuss opportunities to create an environment that will foster pharmaceutical innovation. Overcome your most critical challenges in forming academia-industrial partnerships: Understand Specific Requirements Regarding Investigational New Drug (IND) Application and Approval Process Maximize the Value and Minimize the Risk by Partnering with the Right Entity Hear Insider's Guide to Securing Grant Money for Your Drug Discovery Project Examine Recent United States Decisions and their Impact on Pharmaceutical and Academia Patenting Improve Speed to Market with Seamless Alignment on Science and Technology Conference web site November 3-6, 2009 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems - SSS 2009, Lyon, France The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as Grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. The conference provides a wide spectrum of topics, covered in the following tracks: Alternative Systems and Models Autonomic Computational Science Cloud Computing Embedded Systems Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Systems / Dependability Formal Methods in Distributed Systems Grid Computing Mobility and Dynamic Networks Multicore Computing Peer-to-Peer Systems Self-Organizing Systems Sensor Networks Stabilization System Safety and Security Conference web site November 5-7, 2009 2nd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging - CIMI 2009, Larnaca, Cyprus Nowadays medical imaging provides major aid in many branches of medicine and enables and facilitates the capture, transmission and analysis of medical images as well as provides assistance towards medical diagnoses. Medical imaging is still on the rise with new imaging modalities being added and continuous improvements of devices' capabilities. Recently, computational intelligence techniques - such as neural networks or evolutionary algorithms - have been employed in various applications in the area of medical imaging. Approaches based on computational intelligence have been shown to be advantageous compared to classical approaches, in particular when classical solutions are hard or impossible to formulate and analyse. The International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging, help in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB) 2009, is envisaged as a compilation of the latest trends and developments in the field of computational intelligence in medical imaging. CIMI 2009 is the 2nd installment of the workshop which was previously held in Paris in 2008. High quality contributions dealing with the use of computational intelligence techniques in medical imaging are sought, such as: Neural networks Fuzzy logic Evolutionary computing Expert systems Symbolic AI Swarm intelligence Rough and near sets Probabilistic reasoning Machine learning etc. Topics include, but are not limited to: Intelligent medical imaging systems Medical image capture Computational anatomical atlases Surface and volume registration Medical image analysis Medical image motion analysis Multi-modal image analysis Image segmentation Multidimensional data visualisation Feature extraction and pattern recognition Statistical methods / population-based analysis Image guided surgery/therapy Medical image databases Functional/molecular/metabolic image analysis etc. Deadline for paper submission is June 30, 2009. Conference web site November 6-7, 2009 10th EMBO/EMBL Science & Society Conference: Food, sustainability and plant science - a global challenge, Heidelberg, Germany The 10th joint EMBO/EMBL Science & Society Conference will examine the future of sustainable agriculture from the perspectives of plant science, technology and society. How can science contribute to addressing global challenges such as the requirement to feed a growing population, climate change and biological threats to yields? How can individuals make informed decisions whether the new technologies are safe and effective in the battle against hunger? Following a scene-setting keynote talk addressing the current global state of agriculture and food supply, the conference is composed of four sessions: Plant breeding and the maintenance of diversity: Important food crops such as rice and wheat are vulnerable to disease and environmental disasters because we use so few high-yield varieties with little variation between them. How has this come to pass and what are the breeding aims to address these problems, conserve biodiversity and protect the environment? Breeding and the molecular genetics that support it: How can gene banks and genomics approaches enhance conventional breeding? A range of current projects are aimed at increasing and diversifying hybrid vigour in staple crops to address the problem of low genetic diversity in breeding lines. Enhancing plants by GM: What are the contributions of genetic modification to food and industrial crops in terms of introducing new resistance traits to pathogens, pests, drought, poor soil and herbicide tolerance, and to increasing nutritional value? Does genetic technology have a role to play in the future of agriculture and feeding the growing global population? Public perception and risk assessment: The European public is resolutely "anti-GM". What factors guide the public perception of plant biotechnology? Is there a difference between the perceived and actual risks of plant biotechnology? How can we reopen a dialogue between scientists and the public? The tenth anniversary of the Science & Society conferences at the EMBO/EMBL presents an opportunity to look to the future. Attendees can participate in the discussions of these and many more important topics at this multi-disciplinary and international conference. Conference web site November 10-12, 2009 First Bio-Sensing Technology Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom Bio-sensing technologies are of increasing importance in health care, agriculture and food industries, environmental and security sectors, and this is reflected in the continued growth of global markets for such technologies. The conference is being organised by the Institute of Bio- Sensing Technology (IBST) at the University of the West of England, working in partnership with Elsevier of Biosensors and Bioelectronics Journal and the World Biosensors Congress to bring together academics and industry leaders from all over the globe. Speakers confirmed to date include Mr. David Gillatt from Bristol Urological Institute who will give a talk on Biomarkers, Dr. Frances Ligler from the Centre for Bio Molecular Science and Engineering, US Naval Laboratory, USA who will lead the session on Systems Integration and Professor Marco Mascani, Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy who will talk about Sensor Technology. Conference web site November 13, 2009 Youth, Alcohol and Crime International Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom Professor Roy Light from University of West England's Bristol Law School is one of the speakers and an expert on alcohol, crime and disorder, including drink-driving, the late night economy; binge drinking, young people and alcohol and regulation control. Conference speakers include Professor Thoruddur Bjarnason, Iceland; Dr. Douglas Cameron, Mr. John Carnochan QPM, Dr Gavin Dingwall, Professor Henk Garretsen, The Netherlands; Professor Richard Hammersley, Professor Roy Light from UWE, Professor Rod Morgan, Professor Robert Parker, USA; Professor Martin Plant, Professor Moira Plant, Dr. Bruce Ritson and Dr. Samantha Wells, Canada. Conference web site November 14-20, 2009 Supercomputing Conference - SC09, Portland, Oregon, USA SC09 will be the 22nd consecutive year of the SC conference series - once again featuring an exceptional Technical Programme, industry and research exhibits, Education Programme and many other activities. For 2009, three new Technology Thrust areas have been added: Bio-Computing, Sustainability, and the 3D Internet. Conference web site November 15-17, 2009 HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit, Muscat, Oman The HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit is a new, executive-level forum for education, collaboration and dialogue. Top leaders from health care, IT and government will convene to help advance the quality of health care delivery. During these three days in Oman, attendees will be part of conference and education sessions for those health care professionals at the most senior level. Conference web site November 19-21, 2009 International Congress in Aesthetic, Anti-Aging Medicine and Medical Spa - Middle East, Dubai IIR Middle East, organiser of the world's second largest health care show (ArabHealth) and EuroMediCom, organiser of the World's largest Aesthetic & Anti-Aging Congress (AMWC), have joined hands to design and execute the second edition of this comprehensive and exciting event. A landmark event dedicated to all aspects of this fast growing field. Alongside the ICAAM Middle East, the Middle East Medical Spa Exhibition & Conference will be running offering a number of lectures and conferences addressing what every industry professional really wants to know but is afraid to ask. This Conference will discuss the latest cutting edge diagnostics and treatment technologies safe and efficient for "Patient's Global Management", in the combination of aesthetics and anti-aging field. This is an excellent opportunity to learn and converge with international speakers who will address the latest advancement in the anti-aging and aesthetics discipline. Forums with an extensive Q&A session will be featured to address individual cases giving the event a dynamic interaction allowing productive exchanges of information. Conference web site November 23-24, 2009 TechnologyWorld09, Coventry, United Kingdom The event provides a highly effective platform for companies to identify and build new international business and partnership opportunities. It brings together UK and non-UK based companies from across the globe to do business via a 2 day, focused "speed meeting" event. TechnologyWorld09 will also include a world-class seminar/panel discussion programme. At this conference you can: Identify potential customers, suppliers, and technology partners Arrange one-to-one meetings with those of interest to you prior to the event to generate new global business Attend seminar sessions and panel discussions Utilise the Soapbox to promote your technology The Mobile Health Seminar will take place alongside the meeting programme and will focus on the application of wireless technologies to a wide range of health and wellbeing scenarios such as primary care, hospital, social care and consumer products. The Seminar is championed by the Cambridge Wireless Healthcare SIG Champions: David Cudby of Networks of Independent Living, Michael Lukin of TTP Group, Paul Williamson of Cambridge Consultants and Arif Rahman of CSR. Conference web site November 23-27, 2009 International Workshop on 150 Years after Darwin: From Molecular Evolution to Language, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Two hundred years since the birth of Charles Darwin and a hundred and fifty years since the publication of "On the Origin of Species", the theory of evolution is now a conceptual cornerstone in a wide number of areas of research outside its original field of application. Evolutionary biologists, linguists, physicists, economists, and social scientists nowadays use the notions of evolution and adaptation in their research. In each of those areas, the mechanisms behind the relevant dynamics (stochastic appearance of mutants, cultural innovations or social strategies, inheritance or spread of a new variant, and selection through competition) take a specific form that, nonetheless, shapes the structure and organisation of each system in a way that can be recognised as arising from "evolutionary dynamics" in its broadest sense. These anniversaries seem an ideal opportunity to bring together researchers from the variety of disciplines which now use the evolutionary paradigm, to review progress, learn from each other and initiate new collaborations. Conference web site December 1-2, 2009 The World Summit of Cloud Computing - IGT2009, Ramat Gan, Israel This summit addresses Cloud computing pay-per-use for On-Demand scalability. Conference web site December 1-4, 2009 First International Conference on Cloud Computing - CloudCom 2009, Beijing, China This conference aims to bring together researchers who work on Cloud computing and related technologies. The Cloud Computing Association is a global, non-profit member organisation to promote the development of Cloud computing technology and related matters. The Cloud Computing Association is registered in Norway and was founded by a global group of experts interested in Cloud computing technology. Conference web site December 9-11, 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, United Kingdom The e-Science 2009 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world. Conference web site December 9-11, 2009 Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS 2009, Shenzhen, China The conference provides an international forum for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Papers are solicited. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Parallel and Distributed Applications and Algorithms High Performance Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Multi-core and Multithreaded Architectures Power-aware Computing Distributed and Parallel Operating Systems Resource Management and Scheduling Peer-to-Peer Computing Cluster and Grid Computing Web-based Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture Communication and Networking Systems Wireless and Mobile Computing Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Security and Privacy Dependable and Trustworthy Computing and Systems Real-Time and Multimedia Systems Performance Modelling and Evaluation Conference web site December 9-11, 2009 Workshop on Nature Inspired Biometrics - WNIB, Coimbatore, India In today's environment of increased importance of security and organisation, identification and authentication methods have developed into a key technology in various areas such as entrance control in buildings, access control for cash machines, or in the field of criminal investigation. Biometrics is one way to address these security issues. In biometrics, unique and discriminatory features are extracted from physiological and behavioral traits such as face, fingerprint, iris or voice for verification and identification applications. Among the various techniques that have been successfully applied for biometrics, several interesting approaches are based on some nature-inspired intelligence. Nature inspired intelligent techniques such as neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, artificial life, or membrane computing, often offer solutions where more conventional approaches fail. This workshop will serve as a platform to showcase these advanced approaches and results focusing on the use of nature-inspired algorithms for biometrics applications. High quality research papers that use neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, artificial life, cellular automata, or other nature-inspired algorithms in the field of biometrics are solicited for this workshop. The topics include but are not limited to: Advances in sensor technology Unimodal biometrics: feature extraction and matching in face, fingerprint, iris, voice, hand, ear, signature, gait and other biometric traits Multimodal biometrics: integration at data (image), feature, score, decision, and rank level, hybrid fusion and other fusion approaches Biometrics template protection and security: watermarking, cryptography, anti-spoofing, and other novel approaches Normalization techniques, user specific algorithms, application dependent approaches Identification approaches using unimodal and multimodal biometrics Performance evaluation, sample size requirements, modeling and prediction for large scale databases, and usability analysis Standards, protocols and databases Biometrics system design, biometrics based smart card and other hardware based approaches Applications of biometrics Biometrics for forensics (latent fingerprint matching, facial aging) Deadline for paper submission is June 26, 2009. Conference web site December 11-13, 2009 Medifest, New Delhi, India This medical fair will solve most of your strategic needs, as the region has huge requirements of health care related products and services. Medifest'09 is a unique medical and health care event offering a significant mileage to health care industry. The key features of the expo include Seminar and Conferences organized on the most upcoming issues in the industry i.e. Infection Control, Hospital Accreditation, Stem Cell Therapy etc. As a face-to-face meeting point, the medical technology fair Medifest is basically the right place to achieve your fundamental trade objectives and set up or reinforce the basis of your success. Medifest is the most cost-effective way to get directly to the heart of your business sector, in one place and at one time. It will be presenting a unique opportunity for all related to hospitals, surgical and medical field to reach new horizons of effective co-operation and discuss vital issues that stand presently in front of medicine and health care industry. There will be ample scope for establishing profitable business relationship and a change to interact with others in the area of business and trade. Medifest is a full fledge international medical and health care event completely committed to the upbeat progression of the health care industry. Every year, Medifest attracts a huge no. of radical medical equipment manufacturing and distribution companies to showcase their medical technologies, products and services. Conference web site December 17-19, 2009 4th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology - FCST 2009, Shanghai, China The FCST 2009 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all resulting profound challenges including technical, safety, social, legal, political, and economic issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of computer science and technology. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Parallel and Distributed Computing Pervasive, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing Embedded Computing and Systems Database and Data Management Network and Internet Computing Computer Vision and Image Processing Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Computing Reliability, Fault Tolerance and Distributed Transaction Processing Security and trustworthy Computing Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Theoretical Computer Science System Software and Software Engineering Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Human-Computer Interaction Other Emerging Topics Conference web site December 27-29, 2009 5th International Computer Engineering Conference - ICENCO'2009, Giza, Egypt Information technology forms the basis of an entirely new era in professional practice and delivery of services. The ICENCO conference is a major collaboration among researchers and practitioners around the world, and the ten year graduates Class of 1999 to discuss the major new frontiers in the information technology area, and to present cutting edge research in various fields within that area. This year's theme aims at exploring what has become known as e-based applications that are web-enabled at different sites through local and international networks to enhance human life in this information society era. Authors are kindly encouraged to include one paragraph along with their submissions as to show the impact of their work for the betterment of the Information society. Topics covered include but are not limited to: 1. Machine Intelligence and Web Applications: Intelligent Agents, web mining, neural networks, computational intelligence, co-operative systems and rough set theory, Internet services and applications, wireless internet applications for distance education, e-commerce, e-government, security, adaptive human-computer interfaces, search engines, distributed databases and smart cards. 2. Communications and Computer Networks: Wireless, cellular and mobile communications, ad hoc networks, high performance networking, intelligent networks, network design, control and optimization of communication systems, network reliability and quality of service, network analysis and management, optical systems, network security, and Grid computing. 3. Signal and Image Processing: Multimedia signal processing, signal processing for wireless communications, RF and analogue integrated circuits, speech, image and video processing, data and image compression, computer graphics, and visualization, and biomedical signal processing. 4. Computer Hardware and Embedded Systems: Computer Architecture design, microprocessors, VLSI, parallel and distributed processing, Embedded systems, and robotics. 5. Data and Software Engineering: Software requirements engineering, software architecture and design, software testing and analysis, software processes and work flows, reverse engineering and maintenance, software tools, Database integration and interoperability, query processing and optimization, data structures, data warehousing and data mining. Deadline for paper submission is July 31, 2009. Conference web site Conference e-mail January 17-21, 2010 Wavelet Applications in Industrial Processing VII, San Jose, California, USA The wavelet transform, multiresolution analysis, EMD, and other space-frequency or space-scale approaches are now considered standard tools by researchers in image and signal processing. Promising practical results in machine vision and sensors for industrial applications and non destructive testing have been obtained, and a lot of ideas can be applied to industrial imaging projects. This conference is intended to bring together practitioners, researchers, and technologists in machine vision, sensors, non-destructive testing, signal and image processing to share recent developments in wavelet and multiresolution approaches. Papers emphasizing fundamental methods that are widely applicable to image processing, industrial inspection and other industrial applications are especially welcome. Deadline for paper abstract submission is June 22, 2009. Conference web site March 15-18, 2010 World of Health IT 2010, Barcelona, Spain The 4th edition of the World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition will provide unprecedented opportunities to both attendees and exhibitors, as it will be held in conjunction with the yearly eHealth High Level Conference - eHealth 2010 - which is co-organised by the European Commission, the Spanish presidency of the European Union and the Catalonian regional government. The World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition is a leading platform for eHealth in Europe, convening major stakeholders from the Healthcare IT community to engage in knowledge sharing, networking with peers and learning about the latest health care IT trends, challenges and solutions. Conference web site March 20-28, 2010 13th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software - ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS is an annual event which takes place in Europe each spring since 1998. The main conferences of ETAPS are: FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering ESOP: European Symposium on Programming CC: International Conference on Compiler Construction TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems The ETAPS 2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for Satellite Events (workshops, tutorials, etc.) that will complement the main ETAPS conferences. They should fall within the scope of ETAPS. This encompasses all aspects of the system development process, including specification, design, implementation, analysis and improvement, as well as the languages, methodologies and tools which support these activities, covering a spectrum from practically-motivated theory to soundly-based practice. Satellite Events provide an opportunity to discuss and report on emerging research approaches and practical experience relevant to theory and practice of software. Conference e-mail May 5-8, 2010 World Congress on Osteoporosis 2010 - IOFWCO-ECCEO10, Florence, Italy IOF WCO-ECCEO10 is a unique opportunity for clinicians and researchers from around the world to participate in the premier meeting of 2010 in the field of osteoporosis and osteo-arthritis. The congress will offer an overview of the most recent developments and cutting-edge research in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and osteo-arthritis, as well as policy related issues such as health economics. The Congress also promises to be a singular forum for stimulating interaction, not just for research specialists, but also for practitioners and other health professionals who can profit from the exchange of information provided in numerous Meet-The-Expert sessions. Conference web site June 15-17, 2010 International Probiotic Conference, Kosice, Slovakia IPC 2010 will be the scientific forum where academic and industrial scientists involved in research of all aspects of probiotics meet. The key themes will be evidence-based benefits of the use of probiotics, health claim substantiation and new product development. Because of the many requests already received, the Organizing Committee plans to separate the section on the development and use of animal probiotics. Conference web site

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