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May 12-14, 2008 International Workshop on OpenMP 2008 - IWOMP 2008, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA IWOMP is the premier opportunity to learn more about parallel programming with OpenMP and to interact with OpenMP users and developers. The workshop also serves as a forum to present the latest research ideas and results related to OpenMP. IWOMP 2008 will be a three-day event. The first day will consist of tutorials focusing on topics of interest to current and prospective OpenMP developers, suitable for both beginners as well as those interested in learning of recent developments in the evolving OpenMP standard. The second and third days will consist of technical papers and panel session(s) during which research ideas and results will be presented and discussed. Conference web site May 12-14, 2008 Second Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference - IberGrid 2008, Porto, Portugal IBERGRID'2008 is the second edition of a series of Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conferences initiated in 2007 under the framework of the bilateral agreement for Science and Technology signed in November 2003 between Portugal and Spain, aiming to leverage the construction of a common Iberian Grid Infrastructure and to foster cooperation in the fields of Grid computing and supercomputing. The main goal of the IBERGRID'2008 conference is to constitute a forum where the advances in the development of Grid infrastructures, technologies and applications are discussed by the main players in Iberian and Latin American countries. Grids are crucial for addressing many of the most challenging problems in science and engineering and are increasingly important in business, health care, environment and other applications. The Second IBERGRID conference is an excellent opportunity to gather an enlarged community of academics, researchers, students, industry specialists and practitioners in all branches of knowledge sharing a common need, that is, powerful computing, visualization and/or storage resources. This community will benefit from the Iberian Grid Infrastructure being implemented as it will provide easy and secure access to a larger and more powerful set of distributed resources. Conference web site May 13-15, 2008 Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, Oakland, California, USA At the 2008 Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, current and potential users, administrators, and developers of open source Grid and cluster software in research and industry from around the globe will join together to experience three-days of innovative programming including tracks dedicated to Globus (GlobusWorld), Grid Engine (Grid Engine Workshop), and Rocks (Rocks Cluster Workshop), sessions addressing related open source Grid and cluster software, and presentations on cross-cutting material focused on end-user applications and Grid and cluster operations. With a combination of in-depth tutorials, user experiences, technical architecture reviews, discussions of future directions, and much more, there will be something for everyone at this unique event. Conference web site May 13-16, 2008 X Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality - SVR 2008, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil This symposium is an international scientific forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers, professionals, practitioners, students and developers concerned with research and development of virtual environments, virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems. The planned activities for SVR include a pre-symposium with minicourses, keynote speakers, technical minicourses, technical sessions, and thesis, dissertations and undergraduate work workshops. Conference web site May 15-17, 2008 Internal Medicine 2008, Washington D.C., USA Internal Medicine 2008 is the largest continuing medical education meeting exclusively for adult medicine and offers more than 260 lectures, panel discussions, and workshops in internal medicine and its subspecialities, issues in practice management, and health care policy, including: diabetes management, patient safety, osteoporosis, menopause and manopause, controversies in cancer screening, illness in national leaders, computers in medicine and medical records, ethics and spirituality, and medicine in the movies. Conference web site May 16, 2008 Practical SOA: Insurance, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA At the upcoming Practical SOA event co-located with the ACORD LOMA 2008 Conference, learn about: What are current, worldwide SOA adoption trends? How is SOA impacting the business bottom line? How will IT be able to respond to today's business challenges through SOA? What is a practical SOA roadmap that works today? Conference web site May 16-18, 2008 SFCE 2008 - 25th International Congress of the French Society of Aesthetic Surgery, Paris, France Topics include: Beautification with Aesthetic Surgery in 2008 Face Beautification Body Beautification Surgical and Adjuvant Techniques of Aesthetic Dermatology Video Forum: Surgical Techniques of Beautification Young Plastic Surgeons Session Workshops: Beautification by injections Conference web site May 17-21, 2008 TEPR and Beyond: The Journey Toward e-Health, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA The 24th Annual TEPR, sponsored by Medical Records Institute, is an international conference which attracts over 3500 decision makers interested in keeping up-to-date on all the latest EHR developments. With 22 parallel sessions each day and hundreds of industry exhibitors TEPR is widely recognized as the best annual educational conference and exhibition for health IT professionals and all others journeying Towards the Electronic Patient Record. In 2008, Medical Records Institute is breaking TEPR out of the traditional electronic medical records conference mold to make the conference better, more inclusive of other technologies, and different from any other to assure that it continues to be the one place where you will hear all you need to know about HIT and EMR experiences and trends. Conference web site May 19-21, 2008 Platform Global Conference 08, Santa Clara, California, USA PGC08 is the premier event showcasing High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions. Featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Scott Miller, DreamWorks Animation SKG. With increasing pressure to deliver results faster, better, more cost-effectively, innovative HPC technology continues to drive business performance and competitiveness. PGC08 is the place to learn how industry leaders leverage HPC infrastructure software and applications with standards-based Grid solutions in these industries: Electronics Manufacturing Financial Services Oil & Gas Government Education Research Conference web site May 19-22, 2008 TERENA Networking Conference 2008, Bruges, Belgium The TERENA Networking Conference 2008 is organised by the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association and hosted by BELNET, the Belgian national research and educational network. Theme of the 2008 conference is "Beyond Connectivity". Practitioners, developers, planners and users in the research and education networking community share and discuss the current and future course of technologies, policies and practices with prominent figures from industry, research and government. Here they build common consensus and collaborative links in Europe and beyond. In earlier years, connectivity was the main concern of national research networking organisations: in many cases, a simple successful ping was enough to make heads nod in approval. We have gone much further since then: fast, pervasive, mobile, safe and dependable connectivity has become commonplace. Now we are exploring beyond connectivity. Conference web site May 19-22, 2008 The First Workshop on Grids Meet Multi-Core Systems - GMMC 2008, Lyon, France This workshop is dedicated primarily to identify and address the main challenges in the newly emerging multi-core software engineering and distributed programming paradigm. This workshop will provide a discussion forum and cross-fertilisation of multi-core technology with well established Grid and distributed programming paradigms. The programme committee invites any novel research ideas in the following range of subjects: multi-core programming models performance and utilisation metrics performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness multi-core software engineering convergence of Grid and multi-core programming paradigms multi-core: similarities and usefulness of shared memory and distributed memory models message passing and applicability of known and established distributed programming models to multi-core systems massively multi-core systems: the challenges and other topics directly related to multi-core technology and Grid computing Conference web site May 20-23, 2008 HIMSS AsiaPac 08 Conference & Exhbition, Hong Kong HIMSS, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, in association with CHIK Services, is developing this conference jointly and under the guidance of recognised leaders in e-health organisations, providers of care, and government agencies from the Asia Pacific region. Topics to be addressed in the conference include: Clinical Leadership and Governance e-Health Electronic Health/Medical/Patient Records (EHR/EMR/EPR/PHR) The Business Case for Sustainable IT Communications - Connecting for Care IT Strategy and Innovation Conference web site May 21-23, 2008 Fifth International Workshop on Wearable Mycro and Nanosystems for Personalised Health - pHealth 2008, Valencia, Spain 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 2008 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. Key topics include advanced research in: Micro and nano sensors Wearable and implantable systems Technological trends in ICT solutions for patient self-management Health and life management and personalised interactions Business vision and experiences, and implementation viability The main Scientific Programme will be structured over seven sessions on every key topic and three key note speakers. The Scientific Sessions will follow the format of round tables with invited experts that will debate around the central topic. Open discussion with the floor will be encouraged by the moderatos to enable more active intervention of all attendees. Conference web site May 25-28, 2008 Second International Symposium on Service, Security and its Data management technologies in Ubi-comp - SSDU-08, Kunming, China Ubiquitous Computing (Ubi-comp) is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm with user-centric environment to provide computing and communication services at any time and anywhere. In order to realize their advantages, it requires integrating security, services and data management to be suitable for Ubi-com. However, there are still many problems and major challenges awaiting for us to solve such as the security risks in ubiquitous resource sharing, which could be occurred when data resources are connected and accessed by anyone in Ubi-com. Therefore, it will be needed to explore more secure and intelligent mechanism in Ubi-com. SSDU-08 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of security and intelligence integrating into Ubi-com and data management technology. Also, it offers an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of security, service and data management technologies in Ubi-com. Topics include: Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com Database protection for Ubi-com Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com Multimedia Security in Ubi-com Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com Conference web site May 27-29, 2008 10th WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modelling and Simulation - ACMOS '08, Istanbul, Turkey This conference includes the following plenary lectures: Classification with Diffuse or Incomplete Information by Prof. Amaury A. Caballero, Florida International University, USA. Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for an Interior Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor by Prof. Arash Kiyoumarsi, University of Isfahan, Iran. Risk and Reliability Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing Systems by Éüssc. Prof. Calin I. Ciufudean, "Stefan Cel Mare" Universtity of Suceava, Romania. Scenario and Risk Management Simulation for Supporting Strategical Operational Management in Process and Manufacturing Industry by Prof. Roberto Revetria, Docente di Impianti Industriali e Meccanici, Italy. Conference web site May 27-29, 2008 7th WSEAS International Conference on Telecommunications and Informatics - TELE-INFO '08, Istanbul, Turkey This conference includes the following plenary lectures: Microwave Applications other than Communication Fields by Prof. Cevdet Akyel, Ecole Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Efficient Parallel Prefix Algorithms on the Multicomputer and Circuit Models by Prof. Yen-Chun Lin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Conference web site May 27-29, 2008 7th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing - SIP '08, Istanbul, Turkey This conference includes the following plenary lecture: Image Compression Mathods - A Survey by Prof. Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Poland. Conference web site May 27-29, 2008 2nd WSEAS International Symposium on Wavelets Theory and Applications in Applied Mathematics, Signal Processing and Modern Science, Istanbul, Turkey This conference includes the following topics: Mathematical Wavelet Analysis Wavelet Transforms Multirate Filter Banks Subband Filtering Schemes Regularity, Moments and Wavelet System Design Biorthogonal Wavelets Multiplicity Wavelets and Multilevel Approximation Multiwavelets Surface Fitting and Multiresolution Methods Wavelet-Based Signal Processing Filter Banks and Transmultiplexers Discrete and Continuous Transforms Applications in Applied Mathematics Wavelet-Based Optimization Other Applications in Science and Engineering Conference web site May 27-29, 2008 ILSI-Biomed 2008, Tel Aviv, Israel This conference is an international convention hosting world renowned experts, academic luminaries, Israeli companies and an exhibition encompassing the hottest, most recent medical innovations. This year Israel is celebrating its 60th anniversary providing ILSI-Biomed an opportunity to illuminate 70 of the most advanced Israeli start-up companies. Biomed week is projected to attract over 6000 CEOs and senior professionals from Medical Device and Bio-Pharma companies, scientists and researchers, venture capitalists, and angel investors from Israel and abroad. The conference agenda highlights the opportunities and challenges faced by the world's health care industry, regulatory aspects and reimbursement issues worldwide, emerging trends and new therapies. The conference will provide a great platform for networking and one-on-one meetings. Two parallel events will be held that same week: the second International Stem Cell Meeting, and ISRACAS 2008, the 11th Israel symposium on computer-aided surgery, medical robotics and medical imaging. Conference web site May 28-29, 2008 First EDGeS User and Industry Forum Meeting The combined EDGeS User and Industry Forum meeting/XW'08 - Second XtremWeb Users Workshop provides a unique opportunity to get acquainted with Desktop Grids, especially based on XtremWeb, and the EDGeS infrastructure and software that will ease the use and programming of Desktop Grids and the integration with Service Grids. The meeting is aimed at people interested in setting up or programming Desktop Grids, especially with XtremWeb. This first combined Desktop Grid User and Industry Forum will focus on three topics: Presentation of the technical developments of the EDGeS project Presentation of seven academic and industrial applications selected to be ported onto the EDGeS infrastructure Experience with XtremWeb Grids and applications The meeting will also have lots of opportunities for discussion. Participation is free, but registration is obligatory. Conference web site May 31, 2008 International Workshop on Multimodal Interaction Through Haptic feedback, Napoli, Italy Recent advances in haptic technology have been urging IT researchers to investigate innovative multimodal interfaces and interaction paradigms, able to exploit the increased technological power and to convey its novel features towards different application domains. These especially pertain to industrial, medical, and biotechnological domains. The common key goal is to reproduce in the best possible way a real physical manipulation even when the latter is not possible due to logistical problems (e.g. remote operation) or to dangerous settings (e.g. radioactive materials and areas), or when it is convenient to just simulate a real operation (e.g. for training purposes). A more natural and familiar way of managing objects and situations is also expected to improve global user performances and increase applications effectiveness. A further possibility is to extend present interaction metaphors to include new ways to manage also abstract objects. In the industrial world, the goal of improving competitiveness has led to the experimentation of haptic interfaces in fields like automotive and aerospace engineering, and textual manufacturing. In the medical domain, education and research activities are being increasingly improved by the adoption of haptic environments for virtual surgery simulation. Several new challenges are arising in the field of biology/biotechnology, where the adoption of visual interfaces connected to haptic devices is recognized as a powerful and straightforward mean to handle nano-objects, such as cells, and the possibility of force feedback offered by certain haptic systems, is envisioned as a considerable improvement of operators perception. Last but not least, several multimodal interfaces enhanced with haptic feedback have been conceived to address major societal needs, e.g., by visually impaired people or wheelchair users. The workshop is therefore meant to promote further investigation on the theoretical and practical valence of haptic-enhanced multimodal interaction, by stimulating discussion among researchers, possibly operating in different scientific fields. The final goal of this one-day meeting will be to encourage research cooperation among participants on multidisciplinary projects built upon individual past experiences with multimodal haptic interfaces. To that aim, workshop participants will be invited to take part in electronic forums, to be held prior and after the workshop, meant to discuss possible project joint proposals. Topics include but are not limited to: Architectural design of haptic systems Interfaces and interaction metaphors for haptic devices Haptic feedback modalities Alignment of different virtual stimula Haptic devices in virtual reality Haptic devices in education Haptic devices in medical settings Haptic devices in engineering Haptic applications for disabled users Novel applications and metaphors for haptic interaction Conference web site June 1-3, 2008 Communications and Information Technology 2008, Attica, Greece Topics include Broadband Access Network and Service, IP Service and Multimedia Service, Mobile Data Service, Network Planning and Optimization, Communication Network Interconnection Issues, Communication Pricing and Billing, Communication Regulation and Deregulation, Traffic Management, Traffic Control, Real-Time Traffic and Quality of Service, 3G and 4G Mobile Communication Services, Management and Services, Communication Network Topology and Planning, Digital Broadcasting Technologies and Services, Digital Home Network Technologies, Network Theory & Technologies, Wireless and Mobile Communications and Technologies, Mobile and Wireless Networks, etc. Deadline for paper submission is May 15, 2008. Conference web site June 1-3, 2008 Applied Mathematics, Simulation, Modelling 2008, Attica, Greece Topics include new mathematical methods and computational techniques or applications of known mathematical methods and computational techniques, i.e. differential equations, FEM, BEM, variotional calculus, stochastic systems, cellular automata, wavelets, integral equations, universal approximants, optimization and search, clustering and density estimation, filtering and state estimation, linear and non-linear time series, simulation techniques, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, orthogonal transforms, wavelets, forecasting etc. Deadline for paper submission is May 15, 2008. Conference web site June 1-3, 2008 Circuits, Systems and Signals 2008, Attica, Greece Topics include: Systems on a Chip VLSI Circuits and Systems Analog Circuits and Systems Digital Circuits and Systems Mixed-Mode Circuits and Data Converters Consumer Electronics Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Optoelectronic Circuits Power Electronics Power Management MEMS, Sensors and Sensory Systems Nanotechnology Communication Circuits and Systems RF and High-Frequency Circuits Wireless Communication Circuits and Systems Circuit Level Implementation of RF-MEMS Data Communication Circuits and Systems Biomedical Circuits and Systems Biologically Inspired Circuits and Systems Cellular Neural Networks Education Neural Networks Computer-Aided Design System, Circuits, and Device Modelling System, Circuits, and Device Simulation Optimization Design Automation Digital Signal Processing Speech Processing Image Processing Pattern Recognition Visualization Multimedia Systems Computational Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Control Theory Control Systems Robotics Fuzzy Logic Identification Fractals and Chaos Applications Deadline for paper submission is May 15, 2008. Conference web site June 1-5, 2008 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The meeting will feature over 3000 individual scientific presentations spanning the breadth of microbiology, and has an expected attendance of 12.000. Microbiologists study living organisms and infectious agents, and their work is critical to health, agriculture, the environment and biotechnology. Many accomplishments in the microbiological sciences have significantly affected our lives, such as the development of treatments for infectious diseases, the prevention of food spoilage, the use of micro-organisms to clean up pollutants and basic knowledge of the nature of all living things. Among the topics to be presented are: The effects of climate change on human health New developments in MRSA: Nasal carriage in healthy people and MRSA pneumonia The role of normal human flora (native bacteria) on human disease: Has modern medicine ignored them? Bats as a source of many emerging diseases The vital role bacteria play in the development of new fuels and energy sources The effect of globalization on food safety The opening session of the meeting will examine the role of microbiology in the 21st century, featuring Timothy Donahue of the University of Wisconsin presenting on the use of photosynthetic bacteria to harness the power of the sun for renewable energy and Rino Rappuoli of Novartis Vaccine and Diagnostics examining pan-genomic approaches to the development of new vaccines and antibiotics. The session will conclude with a keynote by Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University entitled "The Bacterial Cell Cycle: A Regulatory Circuit under Temporal and Spatial Control". Conference web site June 2-3, 2008 Second Annual Summit on Behavioral Telehealth: Technology for Behavior Change and Disease Management, Boston, Massachusetts, USA This Summit will cover advances in behavioural telehealth, including applications to promote wellness, change behaviour and manage diseases. The programme will address the shift from traditional health care delivery to more consumer-driven approaches. The Summit will include over 50 speakers participating in panel discussions, case studies and keynote addresses. Topics to be covered include: how to remediate the impact of depression on productivity, computer-assisted behavioural assessment, screening and monitoring, on-line psychotherapy, treatment of depression and anxiety-related disorders, treatment of alcohol and substance disorders; tools for promoting patient adherence and for lifestyle and risk behaviour change; web-based tools for addressing behavioural issues, decision-support and educational tools; technologies for enhancing supported self-management of medical conditions, including social networking, and much more. In addition, attendees will have the option of attending optional workshops on these topics: critical outcomes report analysis: how to write and read disease management reports like the experts technology tools for promoting patient self-management and shared decision-making gaming, simulation and social media in behavioral health and disease management Conference web site June 2-6, 2008 23th Open Grid Forum - OGF23, Barcelona, Spain The benefits of deploying Grid and related technologies in a broad spectrum of IT environments continue to grow and evolve. Researchers and scientists in both academic and commercial settings are using Grids to scale their compute and data capabilities while enhancing their ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries. Commercial organisations are finding that Grids are "mission critical" to enabling business agility in a shared, service-oriented and increasingly virtualized infrastructure. These and many other uses of Grid technologies will be examined in detail at the upcoming OGF23 event. OGF23 is the first event organized by the EU-funded project OGF-Europe, which is chartered with mobilizing and integrating the EU community on Grid standards and best practices. The project will use OGF23 to launch its tutorial series and its initiatives on Digital Repositories and national and international Grid interoperation. Grid case studies will be presented through the co-location of the EU-funded BEinGRID project's Industry Days event at OGF23. Results and demonstrations of over 15 different "experiments" with Grids in commercial sectors will be presented. In parallel to these commercial activities, OGF23 will feature several workshops on scientific uses of Grids and other emerging technologies such as virtualization and clouds. In addition, an important part of this multi-faceted event will be the commercial exhibition where Europe-based projects and vendors will showcase their latest Grid solutions. Last and certainly not least, participants will have a great programme with a variety of sessions to choose from including: Keynote talks from IT and Grid thought leaders Demonstrations of OGF specifications in action Best practice sessions where today's Grid deployment solutions are identified Standards development working sessions Numerous open call sessions driven by the latest needs identified by the community Conference web site June 2-4, 2008 Healthgrid 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA 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: Enhance biomedical research and healthcare delivery Create an open collaborative virtual community Communicate the collective knowledge of the HealthGrid 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. Conference web site June 3-6, 2008 2008 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation - HPCS 2008, Nicosia, Cyprus The conference will include invited presentations from experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance computing and systems, modelling and simulation, applications in computational sciences, and all related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters and panel discussions. Conference web site June 4-5, 2008 Third CoreGRID Worshop on Grid middleware, Barcelona, Spain The Grid middleware workshop is organized by the CoreGRID Network of Excellence in parallel with the OGF23 event in Barcelona. CoreGRID is the European Research Network for strengthening and advancing scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies. This workshop focuses on the following major topics: Knowledge and Data Management on Grids Grid Resource Management and Scheduling Grid Information, Resource and Workflow Monitoring Services. The goals of this workshop are: to gather current state of the art and new approaches in the areas mentioned above to include work-in-progress contributions, e.g. as short papers to provide a forum for exchanging the ideas between the users' community and Grid middleware developers to collect requirements towards the middleware from application's perspective to disseminate existing results and provide input to the CoreGRID Network of Excellence Suggested topics for papers and posters include, but are not limited to, the following specific subjects: distributed data storage on Grids information and knowledge management in Grids distributed data mining and knowledge discovery services semantic Grid models and services monitoring and information systems fault tolerance, reliability and sustainability application and kernel level checkpointing accounting and user account management in and across Virtual Organizations workflow frameworks Grid scheduling architectures multi-level scheduling strategies evaluation and benchmarking of Grid scheduling systems scheduling of high performance parallel applications performance prediction application requirements towards middleware services. Conference web site June 5, 2008 Predictive Modelling Web Summit 2008 - Audio Conference, USA The Predictive Modelling Web Summit provides a unique means to obtaining current trends, issues and solutions on key predictive modelling topics. Conference web site June 5-6, 2008 Third Assay Development and Screening Technologies Conference, San Francisco, California, USA The process of developing an assay can be long and exasperating. Researchers can spend years of hard work on the discovery and development of assays, only to have a low rate of success. It is, however, quite clear that the success of drug discovery weighs largely on strong assay development. Dependable and robust assays key to every phase of development. This conference will provide attendees with critical information to utilize in the discovery and development of assays, while keeping them informed about the latest screening technologies for both high-throughput screening and high-content screening. Hear from leading researchers developing and using assays to advance their discovery pipelines. Conference web site June 9-11, 2008 Empowering the Patient - The Power of Information: ICMCC 2008 Event, London, United Kingdom The ICMCC Event is the only international event dealing with patient-related ICT, focusing in 2008 on information related aspects, patient record access, electronic health records and behavioural compunetics. A high quality paper presentation programme representing some of the leading researchers in the field will be offered as well as an outstanding forum of key-note speakers. The main themes of the conference are: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Approaches Patient Record Access Compunetics (Social, societal and ethical issues of ICT) Data-, Information-, Knowledge Management Conference web site June 9-11, 2008 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - ICA3PP-2008, Cyprus ICA3PP 2008 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2008 will be held with a focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but will not be limited to: Cluster, Distributed & Parallel Operating Systems and Middleware Cluster, Grid and Fault-tolerant Computing Multi-core Programming and Software Tools Distributed Scheduling & Load Balancing High-performance Scientific Computing Parallel Algorithms Parallel Architectures Parallel & Distributed Databases Parallel I/O Systems & Storage Systems Parallel Programming Paradigms Performance of Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems Tools & Environments for Parallel & Distributed Software Development Web Services Conference web site June 9-13, 2008 Third Annual TeraGrid '08 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA The TeraGrid has emerged as a leading comprehensive cyberinfrastructure enabling world-class open computational research. TeraGrid '08, will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of TeraGrid in research and education through presented papers, demonstrations, posters, and visualizations. TG08 will foster collaborations among leading researchers, developers, and educators that build on the growing TeraGrid infrastructure. TG08 will also provide information and training to enable both current and future users to achieve maximum impact in using TeraGrid resources and services. Conference web site June 11-13, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing - SUTC2008, Taichung, Taiwan The rapid research and technological advances in wireless communications and increasing availability of sensors, actuators, and mobile devices have created an exciting new ubiquitous computing paradigm that facilitates computing and communication services all the time, everywhere. This emerging paradigm is changing the way we live and work today. Via a ubiquitous infrastructure consisting of a variety of global and localized networks, users, sensors, devices, systems and applications may seamlessly interact with each other and even the physical world in unprecedented ways. To realize this continually evolving ubiquitous computing paradigm, trustworthy computing that delivers secure, private, and reliable computing and communication services plays an essential role. The IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of sensor networks, ubiquitous and trustworthy computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of sensor networks, ubiquitous and trustworthy computing. The technical program of SUTC2008 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Topics for submission include, but are not limited to the following aspects of sensor networks, ubiquitous, and trustworthy computing: Applications (novel use cases, deployment experience) Algorithms and Protocols (topology, coverage, routing, distributed co-ordination) Data Management and Processing (gathering, storage, fusion, dissemination) Deployment, Testing, and Debugging Design and Programming Methodologies Energy management Embedded processors, sensors, and actuators Management aspects (configuration, adaptation, healing) Mobility, Location, and Context Modelling and Performance Evaluation (simulation, complexity analysis, user studies) Networking Technologies (ad hoc networks, personal area networks) Operating Systems and Middleware Privacy Protocol Design, Modelling, and Implementation Experiences QoS aspects Reliability Security (authentication, access control, intrusion detection and tolerance) Social Issues System and Network Architectures Trust (establishment, negotiation, management) User Interface Technologies Conference web site June 12, 2008 Virtual Trade Show: World Without Wires - A Wireless and Mobility Symposium, USA The maturation of the wireless market has yet to come: Will meetings be abbreviated and broadcast over Wi-Fi? How about EV-DO? Will customers be receptive to Ultra-mobile PCs and all-wireless networks? Is WiMax really "WiFi on steroids", like some have said? With all these questions (and more) unanswered, you need a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of where this wireless world is headed. Everything Channel Editorial Director and Senior Vice President Robert C. DeMarzo will moderate an exclusive panel of Solution Providers who will offer their unique insight into the mobile and wireless technologies that are to come and how to market these products to your current and prospective customers. Along with your input and questioning, the panel is help show you how to make the right moves with the available tools and resources in your playbook. Conference web site June 14-18, 2008 55th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medecine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA The Society of Nuclear Medicine, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals, will showcase non-radioactive molecular imaging techniques and agents studies in a new scientific investigation track called "Novel Approaches to Molecular Imaging". The new scientific track will encompass cardiovascular, neuroscience, oncology, general specialities, instrumentation and data analysis topics and non-radioactive molecular imaging agents. Conference web site June 15-19, 2008 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC's) 35th Annual Educational Conference and International Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA The meeting is the largest annual gathering of infection prevention and control professionals from around the world. Noted patient safety expert and author of "Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes", Robert M. Wachter, MD, Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, will deliver APIC's keynote address. In his presentation, "What Can Infection Control and Patient Safety Learn from Each Other?", Dr. Wachter will reflect on the integration of infection prevention into patient safety and discuss how the field of infection prevention and control can teach vital lessons to individuals and organisations striving to decrease medical errors. Also featured will be APIC's "Targeting Zero" campaign, a series of new educational initiatives promoting best practices and elimination strategies for Clostridium difficile-associated disease and infections that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are planning for reduced reimbursement should these infections occur during a hospital stay. Results of a recent survey of APIC members on the "Pace of Progress" of adoption of interventions to prevent MRSA will also be presented. Additional highlights of the more than 75 topics on the week's agenda include: "Treatment of MRSA Infections and Role for Decolonization", Chip Chambers, MD, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, California "MDR/XDR Tuberculosis", Robert Belknap, Denver Public Health Department, Denver, Colorado "Surgical Center Hepatitis C Outbreak: Use of Unsafe Injection Practices", Brian Labus, MPH, Senior Epidemiologist, Southern Nevada Health District, Las Vegas, Nevada "CMS's Value-Based Purchasing Activities", Mark A. Levine, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Denver Region, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "The Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile", L. Clifford McDonald, MD, Medical Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "Collaboration with Public Health Partners - The Fight Against MRSA", Bonnie M. Barnard, MPH, CIC, Surveillance Epidemiologist, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT Conference web site June 17-20, 2008 23th International Supercomputing Conference, Dresden, 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 modlling of Grid middleware and applications Conference web site June 17-20, 2008 Fifth Workshop on Structural Dynamical Systems: Compuational Aspects - SDS'08, Bari, Italy The main aim of this workshop is to put together researchers of different areas, in particular Mathematics and Engineering, to give the opportunity for discussing recent developments in computational methods for: Numerical methods for ODEs; Non-smooth dynamical systems; Dynamical systems with variable structure; Smooth decomposition of matrices depending on parameters; Krylov methods for matrix functions in ODEs; Numerical methods for ODEs on manifolds. Both numerical and theoretical aspects of the previous topics will be welcome.The workshop will consist of invited lectures, contributed talks and of a poster session. The list of speakers is the following one: Uwe Helmke, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas, USA Elio Usai, University of Cagliari, Italy Luca Dieci, Georgia Tech Institute, Atlanta, USA Mario Di Bernardo, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and University of Naples Valeria Simoncini, University of Bologna, Italy Alessandro Spadoni, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA Conference web site June 21-22, 2008 Third Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping - WARP 2008, Beijing, China WARP is a forum for the builders in the community to share their practical on-the-ground experiences, to provide a status update on their progress, and to convey insights for those considering prototyping, emulating, or modelling their ideas. This year's workshop will be held in two half-day sessions. Talks that address the following broad areas are encouraged: Hardware prototyping Emulation Performance modelling using reconfigurable hardware Integration of prototyping, modelling, and simulation methodologies Subjects within these areas might include: Status updates on current prototyping, emulation, and performance modelling efforts Announcements and descriptions of infrastructure being made available to the community Practical guidance on what works and what doesn't, including strategies for: Specification Implementation Verification and validation Finding funding Balancing students' thesis goals versus prototype engineering work Balancing the often conflicting goals of prototypes being research vehicles and high-performance machines Trade-offs in implementation technologies (e.g., FPGA, ASIC, full-custom) Contributions are encouraged from all members of the architecture community, including those considering embarking on a prototyping, emulation, or modelling effort. The organizers of the workshop will be in contact with the submission authors to follow up on what sort of content they would be interested in presenting. The goal is to have a lively forum with plenty of scope for participant interaction. Conference web site June 22, 2008 Workshop on Parallel Execution of Sequential Programs on Multi-core Architectures - PESPMA 2008, Beijing, China Multi-core architectures have started a new era of computing and boost performance and efficiency of parallel programmes, however most of the existing application base is still composed of sequential applications. How to execute those sequential programmes efficiently and reliably on multi-core remains a critical and challenging problem. Multi-core architectures usually have many weaker cores compared to a monolithic out-of-order core, however, the aggregation of many small cores provides better computing and power efficiency than the monolithic one. To fully leverage this multi-core opportunity, a set of new tools, compiler optimizations, micro-architecture mechanisms and programming models is expected. This workshop focuses on leveraging the computing power provided by multi-core to address the issues of performance, power, programming model and reliability etc. for sequential programmes which are executed on homogenous or heterogeneous multi-core. The topics of particular interest include, but are no limited to: Speculative programme execution (e.g. speculative multithreading, speculative optimizations) Helper threading techniques (e.g. prefetch helper, verification helper) Automatic/semi-automatic/manual parallelization techniques Reliability improvement on mulit-core for sequential programmes Power/thermal optimizations on multi-core for sequential programmes Compiler optimizations and transformations to help single thread execution Binary translation/optimization to help single thread execution with the same or different ISAs Evaluation of performance, power/thermal and reliability of sequential programmes on multi-core (v.s., monolithic core) Trade-offs between speculation and non-speculation techniques Frameworks and tools for sequential execution model aimed for homogenous or heterogeneous multi-core Micro-architecture support for sequential programme execution on multi-core Novel sequential programming models�and support The workshop also aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss their latest research in computer architecture, compiler, programming language on sequential programme execution on multi-core. Moreover, it will bring more attention of their ideas, research problems and new proposals and obtain valuable and instant feedback from fellow researchers. Conference web site June 22-25, 2008 Pan American Congress on Plants & BioEnergy, Merida, Mexico The Pan American Congress on Plants & BioEnergy will bring plant biologists together with government policy makers, agronomists, microbiologists, economists and ecologists to forge a path toward Western Hemisphere bioenergy security that is sustainable and environmentally and economically sound. Attendees will learn from venture capitalists and industry leaders in bioenergy about the pathways to economic success and the development of new crops and approaches that will avoid competition between food and fuel. On days two and three of the conference, presenters will explore the breadth of bioenergy crops and the progress that is being made to introduce them into the agricultural landscape; the underlying biology of bioenergy plants; new ideas to enhance biomass yield and quality for the energy crops of the future; and approaches to lowering net greenhouse gas emissions. A key aim of the meeting is to catalyze collaborations between the American nations in developing scientific approaches leading to better and sustainable bioenergy systems; with particular emphasis on exploiting recent advances in plant biology. Conference web site June 23-25, 2008 Eighth International Conference on Computational Science - ICCS 2008, Krakow, Poland The theme for ICCS 2008, "Advancing Science through Computation", marks the continued progress in computational science theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications in science. This conference will be a unique event focusing on recent developments in novel methods and modelling of complex systems for diverse areas of science, scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and novel application areas where the above novel models, algorithms and tools can be efficiently applied such as physical systems, computational and systems biology, environmental systems, finance, and others. Conference web site June 23-25, 2008 Fourth Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation Grid - ETNGRID-2008, Rome, Italy The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. To date, the development of standards, such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), along with the introduction of new paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an environment that is not only suited for computational-intensive applications, but also for computing scenarios typical of distributed systems, like service and information providing, multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc. For these and other reasons, the Grid is becoming an interesting and challenging environment supporting both old and new services for co-operative applications. A relevant research effort is thus needed not only to investigate innovative Grid infrastructures but also to make the current Grid model suitable for these emerging usage scenarios. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers working on different emerging Grid computing aspects relevant to enterprise collaboration, covering issues ranging from the middleware layer to application development and user interaction. The goals of the workshop include but are not limited to discovering new application scenarios, proposing new programming abstractions and tools, identifying the challenging problem that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained by researchers in building Grid-based middleware, applications and alike. Papers must focus on collaborative aspects of the Grid, including, but not limiting to, the following topics: Middlewares for the Grid Multimedia applications with the Grid Reflective and Aspect-Oriented Grid systems Reliability and Quality-of-Service aspects Wireless and ubiquitous access to the Grid Co-operative Agents and the Grid Grids and Peer-to-peer systems Web integration with the Grid Peer-to-peer and self-organizing approaches for the Grid Abstractions and tools for collaborative application development in Grid environments Semantic Grid Experience reports on collaborative application development in Grid Scalability and Performance issues in the Grid Analysis of stability and bottlenecks for Grid applications Resource-aware applications in the Grid Architectures for Grid-oriented applications Security and Verification Issues in Large Distributed Systems Conference web site June 23-27, 2008 10th Annual Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) International Conference, Malmö, Lund, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark The 10th PCST-conference will be a slightly different one. Above giving you the chance to expand your network across cultures and professions and to share your knowledge in research communication with colleagues from all over the world, you will meet challenges of a different kind. Throughout the conference you will have the opportunity to be involved in communication assignments and dilemmas which by their nature are controversial and with an ethical edge. Together we can create a most serious and in the same time playful conference. Speakers at the PCST conference include Diego Golombeck, a scientist from Argentina specialising in science communication, and Anja C. Andersen, an astrophysicist at Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Key seminars at the conference include: Framing climate change and other controversial science communication topics European trends and challenges in science journalism "Medical messages in the media: reliable information or science for sale" Science communication transcending language barriers Visualisation in science and public communication The public engagement of science and web 2.0 Evaluating public engagement in science: why, how, and for whom? Conference web site June 24, 2008 International Workshop on High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments - HPDGrid 2008, Toulouse, France The objective of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the high-performance computing, scientific computing, distributed systems and database communities to discuss the challenges and propose novel solutions in the design and implementation of high-performance data management in Grid environments. The main topics of the workshop include: Data Grid infrastructures Data-intensive Grid applications Data Grids, Web services and P2P Data visualization Data security and privacy Grid data integration Grid data warehousing and data mining Grid data streaming Query processing and information retrieval in Grids Work flow management in Grids Replication and fault-tolerance in Grids Indexing, caching and load balancing in Grids Grid multimedia data management Grid performance evaluation Conference web site June 24-27, 2008 8th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2008, Toulouse, France Topics of interest include: Large Scale Simulations in CS&E (earth, environment, finance, geoscience, engineering, ...) Multiscale and Multiphysics Problems Parallel and Distributed Computing Cluster Computing Grid Computing (middleware, algorithms, performance evaluation, ...) Computing in Healthcare and Biosciences Computing for Aerospace and Engineering Data-Centric Computing High Productivity Computing Co-operative Engineering Problem-Solving Environments Numerical Algorithms for CS&E Discrete and Combinatorial Algorithms for CS&E Imaging and Graphics Conference web site June 25-27, 2008 WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems: "Health Systems, Health and Wealth", Tallinn, Estonia This conference is part of the WHO Regional Office's continuing commitment to supporting Member States in strengthening their health systems and is being organized in response to resolution EUR/RC55/R8, adopted by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe at its fifty-fifth session in 2005. The Conference aims to place health systems high on the political agenda. Specifically, it will: lead to a better understanding of the impact of health systems on people's health and therefore on economic growth in the WHO European Region; and take stock of recent evidence on effective strategies to improve the performance of health systems, given the increasing pressures on them to ensure sustainability and solidarity. The conference will bring together ministers of health from the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region. Up to 500 participants are expected to attend the 2-day event. High-level delegations will be invited, as well as health systems partners, experts, observers and representatives of international and civil society organisations and the mass media. Particular emphasis will be placed on engaging ministries of finance through the ministries of health. Conference web site June 25-28, 2008 26th International EuroPACS Meeting - EuroPACS 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: PACS Planning and Purchasing Strategies PACS Evaluation and Economical Aspects PACS Beyond Radiology (Cardiology, Endoscopy, Ophthalmology, etc.) Image Distribution, Storage and Archiving Strategies Work flow and Data Flow in Radiology PACS/RIS/HIS Integration Issues Regional PACS and Teleradiology Security and Privacy, Quality Assurance, Legal Aspects Standardization (DICOM, HL7, IHE) PACS and E-Learning in Radiology and Medical Sciences Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress - CMI 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: New Imaging Devices and Novel Applications Evidence-based Selection Criteria in Digital Maxillofacial Imaging Craniomaxillofacial Computer-Aided Diagnosis Maxillofacial Image Enhancement Algorithms Cranial and Maxillofacial Image Guided Surgery Image Navigated Dental Implantology Orthodontic Applications of Computed Imaging Imaging and Modelling for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics Cone Beam CT 3D and 4D Imaging Multi-dimensional Maxillofacial Modelling Virtual Reality and Dental Robotics Interoperability Maxillofacial Applications in Integrating the Health care Enterprise Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 22nd International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Sugery - CARS 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: Medical Imaging, e.g. CT, MR, US, SPECT, PET, DR, Molecular Imaging, and Virtual Endoscopy Computer Assisted Cardiovascular Imaging Image Processing and Display Medical Workstations Interventional Radiology Minimally Invasive Spinal Therapy Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy of the Prostate Tumour Ablation Therapies Image Guided Radiation Therapy Nanotechnology for Imaging and Therapy Telemedicine, E-health and Multimedia EPR Expert Systems and Computer Assisted Education Economic and Management Issues Security, Legal and Ethical Aspects Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery - ISCAS 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: Computer Applications for e.g. Neurosurgery, Head and Neck, Orthopaedics, Ear Nose and Throat, Cardiovascular and Thoracoabdominal Surgery, and Plastic/Reconstructive Surgery Image Guided Therapy Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation Surgical Navigation Surgical Simulation 3D Modelling and Rapid Prototyping Postoperative Result Assessment Surgical Education and Training Haptics and Multimodal Devices in Medical Applications Methods of Validation and Verification Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 10th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis - CAD 2008, Barcelona, Spain Topics include: CAD for Breast, Chest, Colon, Skeletal, Liver, Brain and Vascular Imaging CAD for Cancer Screening CAD for 3D Imaging CAD for Differential Diagnosis Image Databases for CAD Computer Vision, ANN and Modelling Computerized Detection and Characterization of Lesions in Radiological Images Quantitative Analysis of Image Information Visualization and Quantitation of 3D Images Intelligent Workstations and Decision Support Systems Observer Performance Studies and ROC Analysis Image Quality Issues and Evaluation Conference web site Conference e-mail June 25-28, 2008 9th CARS/ SPIE/EuroPACS Joint Workshop on Surgical PACS and the Digital Operating Room, Barcelona, Spain CARS is the premier annual international meeting�for�professionals with interest in�new developments�of computer-assisted medical systems�and their applications in radiology and surgery. The congress and exhibition�concentrate on advances in medical imaging, PACS and networking systems in health care, computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy, surgical robotics and instrumentation, image and model guided therapy as well as related imaging based technologies. CARS also emphasises the electronic medical record (EMR) and its integration into radiological and surgical settings. Topics include: Surgical Work flow Digital Operating Room Model Guided Therapy Therapy Imaging and Model Management Systems Surgical PACS DICOM in Surgery Surgical IHE Nanotechnology for Interventions Conference web site Conference e-mail June 26-28, 2008 Third Neurosciences and Music International Conference - Neuromusic, Montréal, Québec, Canada The main theme of the conference is research on interactions between music and the human brain in healthy and pathologic conditions. The conference will focus on many topics such as the importance of music in the biologic and cultural evolution of man, differences between musicians trained at an early or late age, congenital amusia, absolute pitch, the relationship between the study of music and intellectual abilities in children, musical abilities in behavioural disorders and genetic syndromes, music perception in cochlear implant patients, dystonias in musicians, the effectiveness of music as a means to reduce the perception of pain, and music rehabilitation. The event is mostly targeted to medical professionals, neuroscientists, neurologists, psychologists, educators, music therapists, musicologists, and sound engineers. The conference will be preceded, on June 25th, by a Workshop on research design and methodology in music and neurosciences and will be opened by an introductory address by a renowned keynote speaker. The conference will include 5 or 6 symposia devoted to providing in-depth insights into the main themes. Also included in the programme are two poster sessions. Conference web site Conference e-mail June 26-28, 2008 ICAAM 2008 CANADA - International Congress On Anti-Aging Medicine, Montréal, Québec, Canada This congress in about well ageing and ageing in beauty. Topics include: Preventive, Life Span & Anti-Aging Medicine, Aesthetic Dermatology and Surgery. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics - WM-SCI'08, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of WMSCI 2008 is to promote discussions and interactions between researchers and practitioners focused on disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary issues, ideas, concepts, theories, methodologies and applications. The organizers are particularly interested in fostering the exchange of concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business, and the industrial community. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 First International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation - IMETI 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA Engineering activities are based on the development of new Knowledge (scientia), new "made things" (techné) and/or new ways of working and doing (praxis). Scientia, Techné and praxis are three important dimensions of a comprehensive conception of Engineering as a whole. Engineering, as Scientia, is mostly developed in academia; as techné is practised in industry generating technological innovations; and as praxis is carried out in technical and non-technical organisations, supporting managerial activities and technical procedures, via methodical and methodological design and implementation. This is why engineering provides one of the most solid academic and professional substrata for bridging among universities, industries and governments. Publications and conferences related to engineering are usually oriented to one of its three dimensions. While this is an adequate thing to do when disciplinary focus is sought, it does not represent engineering as a whole and it misses the very important synergic relationships among the three kinds of engineering activities mentioned above. This is why a group of scholars, professionals and consultants, in the field of engineering, considered the possibility of initiating a publishing process and organizing a conference where presentations will not be reduced to one of the engineering's dimensions, but to foster the participation of academics, practitioners and managers in the three dimensions of engineering, in the same conference, or in the same publication, so they can synergistically interact with each other. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Second International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management - KGCM 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA Generated knowledge is usually communicated. Implicit or explicit management of knowledge generation and communications is usually required for both: knowledge generation and communication. Knowledge management requires as well knowledge generation and/or communication, i.e. meta-knowledge regarding knowledge management, which has been explicitly being addressed on the organizational level. These three knowledge's dimensions are highly related among each other. Information and Communications Technologies are increasingly supporting the effectiveness and the efficiency on Knowledge generations, communication and management, as well as the relationships among them. Consequently, a main purpose of KGCM 2008 is to bring together researchers, professionals, academics, consultants and practitioners related to any of these three areas, to relationships among them as well as those who are related to the conception, design or implementations of systems, tools and technologies oriented to support knowledge generation, communications and/or management. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Third International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing - KCPR 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of KCPR 2008 Organizing Committee is: To extend this kind of reflections and research to other disciplines and to inter-disciplinary domains, so peer reviewing could be improved and/or complemented by other means of verification and validation of the knowledge to be communicated. To encourage reflections and research of the subject from a systemic and cybernetic perspective, where Peer Review is seen as a means for Knowledge Communication, not as an end in itself; and related through some positive and negative feedback loops, as well as, hopefully, feedforward ones. To encourage reflections on and designs of non-lineal models of publishing which are desirable, and might be feasible to be implemented by means of the new Communication Technologies and Information Systems. This is why KPCR 2008 is being held jointly with CITSA 2008 and CCCT 2008, EISTA 2008, etc. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Third International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences - KCC 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA It is a known fact that participation in conferences is one of the means of Knowledge Communication. On the other hand, Knowledge Communications regarding conferences' purposes, ends/means, quality standards and means for achieving them, etc. might be an effective way to improve conferences' organisation and quality. An increasing number of research, studies and reflections have been published with regards to knowledge communications by means of journals publications, but very few publications can actually be found with respect to knowledge communications via conference presentations. Consequently, the purpose is to use several means of knowledge communications in order to generate some reflections first, as well as studies and research later, on the subject of conferences' organisation and presentations as means of knowledge communication. With this purpose in mind, the conference team is thinking, as a first step, in organizing a symposium on the general theme of Knowledge Communications and its specific applications to the area of conferences' organisation, purposes, objectives/means, quality standards, etc. Conference web site June 29 - July 2, 2008 Second Symposium on Academic Globalization - AG 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA The purpose of AG 2008 is to bring together scholars, educators and practitioners with the objective of exploring, reflecting and sharing ideas with regards to the impact that the Globalization Phenomena is having or might have on universities (research, teaching and continuing education), and vice versa: the impact that academia is generating, or could generate on the phenomenon of globalization. Questions such as the following are examples of those that could be addressed at the Symposium in order to generate possible answers and/or reflections, as well as possible research: Will Academic Globalization emerge as part of the Globalization Phenomenon? Will Academic Globalization serve as a catalyst for General Globalization Phenomena? Will it be the inverse way? Will it be both ways catalyzing each other in a positive feedback loop? Are Academic Internationalization and/or Transnational Education parts of the forces driving and accelerating Academic Globalization? Are they in opposite and dialectical relationships with each other? How strongly related are Academic Globalization and the Knowledge Society? What kind relationships exist among Academic Globalization, Information and Communications Technology and the Knowledge Economy? How is the Globalization Phenomenon transforming academic objectives and activities? Questions like these require multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and multi-epistemological perspectives, so they can serve as input for integrative research, studies and approaches for a better understanding of what is or what might be the opportunities and threats/uncertainties, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of present trends in Academic Globalization and how this trend might be re-oriented for better and more desirable results. Conference web site June 30 - July 3, 2008 Sixth International Workshop on Computer Algebra Systems and Their Applications - CASA'2008, Perugia, Italy Computer Algebra - also known as Symbolic Computation or Computational Algebra - has found applications in many domains of science such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, computational biology, education, etc. The computer algebra systems (CAS) such as Mathematica, Maple, MuPAD, Reduce, Axiom, Lie, Matlab, Scilab, CoCoa, MuMATH, Derive, Pari-GP, SMP, MathCAD, Macsyma, Scratchpad, Magma, Singular, SARAG, Risa/Asir, GAP - and many others that have been developed so far - are becoming more and more popular and now they are valuable tools for teaching, research and industry. This workshop solicits high-quality papers for presentation describing original research results in Computer Algebra Systems and their Applications. This workshop is intended to cover recent developments (algorithms, programmes, packages, extensions, new tools, etc.) for computer algebra systems (CAS). Emphasis will be placed upon the applications of these systems for solving problems in science and engineering. Thus, papers are solicited describing research on actual or possible applications of CAS and techniques to other fields (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Computer Science, Education, Industry, etc.). A very remarkable feature of CAS is their capability to handle symbolic, numerical and graphical tasks within a uniform framework. Papers exploring the interaction of these CAS symbolic, numerical and graphical tools to solve complex problems as well as papers describing strategies to combine CAS with other programmes and/or packages are also welcomed. Finally, an exciting new feature of many CAS is the possibility to perform calculations by using remote kernels connected via Internet. Papers discussing the use of this new technology will also be considered. The topics to be addressed include but are not limited to: computer algebra applications to Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, Computer Science, Social Sciences, Arts, Entertainment, Architecture, etc. symbolic-numerical computations using computer algebra systems computer algebra systems and Internet industrial applications of computer algebra problem-solving environments symbolic-numeric interface computer algebra systems in Education computer algebra based simulations new computer algebra developments (packages, notebooks, etc.) new symbolic computation algorithms new issues in symbolic computation Conference web site June 30 - July 3, 2008 8th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications - CGA'08, Perugia, Italy The workshop, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, is intended as an international forum for researchers in all areas of computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. Submissions of papers presenting a high-quality original research are invited to one of the two Workshop tracks: theoretical computational geometry applied computational geometry. This year focus is on Robotics and its applications in Geometric Computations. Computational geometry in biometric is also of specific interest. Topics include: Design and analysis of geometric algorithms Geometric algorithms in Robotics Computational geometry in Biometrics Intelligent and evolutionary geometric computing Geometric algorithms in computer graphics Geometric modelling Geometric algorithms in Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence and Computational Geometry Voronoi Diagrams and generalizations Geometric computations in parallel and distributed environments Geometric data structures for surface reconstruction 3D Geometric modelling Geometric algorithms in GIS Computational methods in bioinformatics Geometric applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, etc. Visibility problems Discrete and combinatorial geometry Interpolation and surface reconstruction Geometric algorithms in Path planning and robotics Numerical computing Implementation issues and optimization Visualization of geometric algorithms Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. The design and implementation of geometric algorithms in parallel and distributed environments, and applications in biology, biometrics, physics, GIS and computer graphics are of special interest. Conference web site June 30 - July 3, 2008 Second International Workshop on High-Performance Computing and Information Visualization - HPCIV'08, Perugia, Italy High-performance computing often results in very large data sets, which are best interpreted by visualization. Very large data sets also naturally arise in many applications, such as computer-aided design, virtual-reality and geographic information systems. Researchers working on visualization of large data sets are facing problems not only arising in graphics and computational geometry, but also problems like load balancing, communication overhead and fault tolerance, which problems also arise in general in high-performance computing. This workshop attempts to bring together theoreticians and practitioners working in the areas of high-performance parallel, distributed and Grid computing and those working in the areas of high-performance computer graphics and information visualization. Areas of interest in no particular order include, but are not limited to: Algorithms and data structures for large geometric data sets Discrete and combinatorial geometry High-performance computer graphics Image compositing techniques Multi-resolution techniques Visualization of large data sets Interactive visualization Visualization for computer-aided design Visualization in virtual-reality systems Geographic information systems Geometric algorithms for robotics High-performance distributed computing Grid and cluster computing Load balancing and communication overhead Latency and scalability Multi-server architectures Cache-oblivious algorithms Out-of-core rendering Multicore parallel algorithms Realistic input Graphics in embedded systems Visual data mining Information visualisation in data mining Visualisation of software metrics Theoretical and experimental algorithm evaluation Algorithms and architectures for information visualization Conference web site June 30 - July 4, 2008 International Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing and Grids, Cetraro, Italy High Performance Computing (HPC) is a key Information Technology attracting a great deal of attention in USA, Europe, Japan and other economically raising Asian countries as a fundamental tool for scientific research, industrial production and business decision making. HPC is viewed as one of the most important technologies of the 21st Century. Significant amounts of energy and financial resources have been invested by governments and private sectors for building adequate infrastructures and human skills to enable the expected benefits. Yet, despite many spectacular accomplishments of HPC, this tool is still underutilized by many academic schools, industrial companies and businesses. There are several challenges that slow down deployment of HPC. Some are mentioned in the Section Programme. Some or all of these challenges may disappear or become less essential with the advent of Grid Computing. Most IT strategists and experts believe that Grid Computing is the future. So far there have been very successful attempts to connect globally individual computers and create large clusters that solved very compute and data intensive problems in physics, chemistry, life sciences, astronomy, etc. Grid Computing may be ready soon for industrial and business applications. It could be used for Enterprise deployment as soon as several technical challenges are solved. Among them are: security, standards, reliability an accountability. The aim of the Workshop is to discuss the future developments in the HPC technologies, and to contribute to assess the main aspects of Grids, with special emphasis on solutions to Grid computing deployment. Conference web site June 30 - July 4, 2008 Third International Conference "Distributed computing and Grid technologies in science and education" - Grid'2008, Dubna, Russia The Conference is a unique one conducted in Russia on the issues relating to the use of Grid technologies in various areas of science, education, industry and business. The Grid technologies transform the technique of scientific research and start exerting influence upon the commercial and financial world. Special attention is expected to be focused on Grid applications in science and education, in industry and business. Deadline for paper submission is May 15, 2008. Conference web site July 6-18, 2008 International Summer School on Grid Computing, Balatonfüred, Hungary The ISSGC'08 programme will include lectures, discussions, laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced Grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research. Reports from world leaders in deploying and exploiting Grids will complement lectures from research leaders shaping future e-infrastructure. Hands-on laboratory exercises will give students experience with widely used Grid middleware. The school will conclude with an integrating practical that will enable students, working in teams, to bring together all they have learnt. During the school, participants will meet like-minded students from many parts of the world, working in many disciplines, and form valuable long-term working relationships. Applications are invited from the target audience: enthusiastic and ambitious researchers who have recently started or are about to start working on Grid projects. Students may come from any country and from fields including computer science, computational science and any application discipline. The school will assume that students have diverse backgrounds, however, in order to fully participate in the practical exercises applicants should be confident programmers who have fulfilled certain prerequisite exercises. Conference web site July 7-11, 2008 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming - ECOOP'08, Paphos, Cyprus ECOOP 2008 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas of object-oriented technology. Workshops serve as a forum for exchanging late breaking ideas and theories in an evolutionary stage. They typically focus on either in depth analysis or broad-ranging approaches to areas related to object-oriented technology. Workshops may last one or two days and will be held on July 7 and 8, 2008. Conference web site July 7-12, 2008 Advanced Course on Epidemiological, Clinical and Genomic Data Bases Statistical Software for Data Analysis in Biomedicine, Desio, Italy Topics include: Medical records; Clinical Databases; Genomics Databanks; Epidemiological archives and registers. Medical data integration; Hospital and Health Information Systems; Telecommunication and networking infrastructures; Internet in Biomedicine. Methods of Data Analysis (classification, clustering, discriminant, regression); Elements of applied Statistics in Biomedicine and Epidemiology. Data mining and neuronal networks. Survey and introduction to use of some statistical software packages: SAS, SPSS, S, Hyperstat, Statistica, Mathlab, etc.; Examples of applications, case studies and exercises. It is necessary to sent a pre-registration by e-mail to the Secretariat with personal data and address within June 15, 2008. Conference web site Conference e-mail July 8, 2008 Workshop - Lobbying in the EU: How to represent and defend your interests in Brussel, London, United Kingdom Understanding how the European Union (EU) works and how to influence policy direction is more crucial now than ever before. Key topics at this workshop include the EU institutional landscape, the relations between these institutions, the decision-making processes and the ways to work and influence the system. There is also a�focus upon the co-decision procedure. Conference web site July 9-11, 2008 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz, Austria Over the last decades the advancement in Assistive Technologies (AT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have significantly influenced the life of people with disabilities. According changes in awareness and understanding of disability as well as social and legal frameworks, driven by Disability Rights and Independent Living Movements led to what is known as eAccessibility, Universal Design or eInclusion. The more ICT and AT increases the potential to enable people with disabilities to take part in almost any area of life, the more eInclusion and eAccessibility become a common responsibility of mainstream. In 2006 ICCHP summarised this process in the equation "equality = eQuality". "Equality", equal access and therefore equal chances in society are dependant on "eQuality", the quality of systems and services in taking the needs of all users into account including those with disabilities. The progress is outstanding - in most of the industrialized countries. But eInclusion in a global economy and world should also be seen as a global challenge. Due to this ICCHP'08 wants to give a special focus on problems of people with disabilities in countries in difficult economic and political situations. We must not neglect that people with disabilities often face the most difficult situations out of economic, political and social reasons. They do not have access to ICT, AT and the according eInclusion and emancipation. As a first highlight of the conference Jim Fruchterman will keynote ICCHP'08. Conference web site July 10-11, 2008 Second Rediscovering Biomarkers: Detection, Development and Validation, Boston, Massachusetts, USA This conference exposes attendees to the latest advancements and developments in biomarkers and predictive medicine. Attendees gain insight into the discovery and development processes, hear about new biomarkers and upcoming trends in the industry, as well as the status of biomarkers in clinical trials. Delegates will also receive highly valuable information on tools for improving reimbursement strategies and the efficacy and validation of biomarkers. Deadline for paper abstract submission is June 10, 2008. Conference web site July 10-12, 2008 Fifth International eGovernement and eHealth Conference and Exhibition - eGeH 2008, Desio, Italy Topics include: Administrative Information Systems Electronic Documents and Protocols Digital Signature / Electronic Identity Cards Biometrics, Cryptography and Security Smart Cards in P.A. and Health Services Medical Information Systems Telemedicine (Radiology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology) Tele Home Care / P-Health, Biomedical Devices Internet in Health Care Grid Technology in Biomedicine Deadline for paper abstract submission is June 7, 2008. Conference web site Conference e-mail July 12, 2008 Second International Workshop: From Biology To Concurrency and Back - FBTC 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland In computational theory, several formal approaches make use of biology as inspiration for the development of problem solving techniques. Most of them are taken from complex, inherently concurrent, systems. Some examples of "biologically inspired computing" are artificial immune systems, cellular automata, genetic algorithms, membrane computing, neural networks, organic computing, swarm intelligence. On the other hand, concurrency has begun to inspire an emerging research area in Biology. Regev and Shapiro coined the Cells-as-Computation metaphor as the "much-needed abstraction for biomolecular systems". Computers and biomolecular systems both start from a small set of elementary components from which, layer by layer, more complex entities are constructed with evermore sophisticated functions. In computational systems biology, the abstractions, tools and methods used to specify and study concurrent and distributed systems can therefore be naturally adopted to model and better understand the complex biomolecular systems. This workshop intends to explore this "cross-fertilization" between computational sciences and biology, with a special attention to concurrent models in biology and formal foundations in bio-inspired computing. Concurrency theory permits hypotheses generation and testing. Models can therefore be simulated, analysed, checked and validated. A growing "arsenal" of theoretical models, logics, and tools for understanding concurrent systems has been developed. Concurrency permeates not only computer systems but also nature and living organisms. Concurrency can be found at the molecular level as well as at those of cells, organs, individuals, communities and ecological systems. Also, biologically inspired computing could benefit from concurrency theory. Conference web site July 17-20, 2008 Professional Insurance Marketing Association's Summer Conference - PIMA 2008, Newport, Rhode Island, USA At PIMA, business development is the ROI. Meeting highlights include: Health care in 2009. Hear directly from Beltway insiders on the post-election legislative landscape for health care. Keynote Speakers: Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, AHIP and George Olsen, JD, Lobbyist at Williams and Jensen Identity Theft�Frank Abagnale, subject of the movie "Catch Me If You Can" Carrier Product Showcase Consumers & Branding - Rob Walker, The New York Times Magazine columnist Conference web site July 18-22, 2008 Euro Science Open Forum 2008, Barcelona, Spain The mission of the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is to provide both the European and the international science and business communities with an open platform for debate and communication. It presents and profiles Europe's leading research trends in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is an opportunity to discuss and influence the future of research and innovation in Europe by involving all main stakeholders: scientists, business executives and policy-makers. At ESOF2008 you can: Discover new trends and directions in research, business, science policy and funding Network with leaders of the international science and business community Communicate your research and ideas to an international audience Participate in the debate, discussion and excitement of European science and technology Meet and talk to scientific and business journalists from Europe and around the world Develop your career, your future projects and your contacts Conference web site July 20-23, 2008 2008 IT Leaders Forum, Denver, Colorado, USA Experts from the industry's leading companies including Gartner, IBM, System iNetwork, and others will present a series of forward-looking seminars and discussions that reflect the trends that are changing the way System i shops are run. This in-depth conference includes content designed specifically for the System i Professional: The future of server technology and application architecture Methods of aligning business and IT and developing a shared vision Acquiring and integrating software IT staffing challenges and how to overcome them Refresh and refine their project management skills Get business involved in continuity planning and asset protection Practical guide to real-world business intelligence Conference web site July 22-25, 2008 12th WSEAS CSCC Multiconference, Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece This multiconference includes the following conferences: 12th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits (July 22-24, 2008) 12th WSEAS International Conference on Systems (July 22-24, 2008) 12th WSEAS International Conference on Communications (July 23-25, 2008) 12th WSEAS International Conference on Computers (July 23-25, 2008) Engineering Education (July 22-24, 2008) Deadline for paper submission is May 15, 2008. Conference web site July 23-25, 2008 South African Grid School, Johannesburg, South Africa The South African Grid School is a 3-day course on large-scale and high-performance computing. The South African Grid School invites participants to learn more about Grid and high throughput computing and its implications in various research areas through this intensive OSG course that introduces the techniques of Grid and distributed computing for science and engineering with hands-on training in the use of large-scale Grid computing resources. The workshop will focus on enabling the use of OSG and TeraGrid cyberinfrastructure to perform large-scale computations and data-intensive processing in different application domains. Participants will learn how to use Grids of thousands of processors and will be able to continue to use these resources for their research after the course completion. The workshop will cover: Overview of distributed computing concepts and tools: Concepts, tools, and techniques of Grid computing and "Building a Grid" Discovering and using Grid resources Grid scheduling and distributed data management Web service and Grid service concepts including techniques for work flow and collaboration; Grid computing in a South African context; and various high-performance computing related topics. Conference web site July 28-30, 2008 Workplace Benefits Renaissance 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA The Workplace Benefits Association is a coalition dedicated to helping employers and employees with a total solution to financial planning and security. Members share a recognition that for many Americans, the hub of their finances and security are related to their employment including state and federal mandated programmes, employer funded programmes, and voluntary employee funded programmes. The Members of the Workplace Benefits Association strive to bring an integrated solution through a master plan that involves a standardized employer guide and checklist. This procedure ensures that no important area is overlooked while providing the flexibility for each employer and employee to create an individual solution to the financial planning puzzle. Conference web site August 6-8, 2008 Australian College of Health Service Executives 2008 Congress, Alice Springs, Australia The Australian College of Health Service Executives (ACHSE) is the leadership and learning network for health professionals in management. It has been guiding Health Service professionals for over 60 years and is the largest multidisciplinary professional body representing health and aged care managers in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Thailand. Its national, annual Congress typically brings together over 400 emerging, middle and senior management health leaders drawn from its diverse membership base to consider health services research and how to improve health services management. Topics include: Change Management Information Technology and Management Recruitment and Retention of Staff Performance Development and Management Lean thinking Learning and Development Conference web site August 11-16, 2008 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques - SIGGRAPH 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA SIGGRAPH 2008 is evolving along with the computer graphics and interactive techniques community. The organizing team is dissolving the borders between traditional SIGGRAPH programmes to create a more fluid, interdisciplinary conference. And the organizers are offering presenters more flexible options for sharing their work. Conference web site August 25-26, 2008 Fifth International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models - GECON 2008, Las Palmas, Spain Although many companies and academic institutions have already developed Grid infrastructures, a global commercial Grid has not been created yet. The missing component for such a commercial Grid is a market, which allows trading of goods such as data, software, processing power, storage, and bandwidth. This market for Grid services would not only be the first step towards a global commercial Grid but would also turn the Grid into an environment where all users (i.e. the general public, academic institutions, SMEs, and large companies) can access Grid services in the same way. These Grid services are expected to range from simple services for mass usage, to complex services encapsulating e-Science or high-performance-computing (HPC) methods. This workshop invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss issues associated with the development of this global commercial Grid. The purpose of this workshop is also to suggest future directions of research and amendments to existing Grid technologies, aiming at the successful deployment of this global, commercial, service-oriented Grid system. Researchers and practitioners are invited to present current results and original research in the area of Grid economics, in particular, interdisciplinary research in the area of IT infrastructure and economics. The topics of interest are (but not limited to): Analysis of existing Grid middleware technology Business modelling Grid value chain and value networks Software-as-a-Service models Markets and market mechanisms for the Grid Service-orientation of Grid systems Utility computing models Knowledge utility models Incentives for participation and resource sharing Economic-enhanced Grid services Analysis of pricing schemes for Grid systems Reports on Grid test beds and operation Analysis of application scenarios (with stakeholders and roles) Resource (computing, bandwidth, storage) selection and allocation Metering, accounting, charging, billing systems Models for service-oriented computing Decision support systems for Grid users and providers Capacity planning systems Service level agreements (SLAs) Market models for the Grid Economic aspects of existing Grid applications Reports on national and international projects on Grid Trust, security, and risk management Standardization � Virtual organisations Impact of legal requirements on Grid operation Middleware support for real-time on-line interactive applications Economics-aware operation of Grid applications In addition to this, the workshop will feature an industry session in order to increase the knowledge transfer between academia and industry. Speakers of major utility computing providers are expected, describing the state-of-the-art of the commercial Grid and the customer acceptance of the shift from "buying computing resources" to "computing on demand". The workshop will also provide a forum for projects on Grid economics to present themselves. Conference web site August 25-26, 2008 CoreGRID Symposium 2008, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain Grids are revolutionising computing as profoundly as e-mail and the Web revolutionised communications and publishing in the last 15 years. Grids are a crucial enabling technology for Scientific and Industrial development in the decade. Grid, Peer-to-Peer and other types of networked distributed computing and storage technologies, as well as emerging web technologies, have provided new paradigms exploiting distributed resources. The CoreGRID Network of Excellence (NoE) is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Program. It aims at strengthening and advancing scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies. The Network is operated as a European Research Laboratory and brings together a critical mass of well-established researchers from 46 institutions. The CoreGRID Symposium aims at being the premiere European event on Grid Computing for the dissemination of the results from European and member states initiatives as well as other international projects in Grid research and technologies. It is organized jointly with the Euro-Par 2008 conference. The CoreGRID Symposium will focus on all aspects of Grid computing including service infrastructures and as such will bring together participants from Research and Industry. The symposium seeks contributions from Grid projects on, but not limited to, the following Grid topics: Applications Agent-mediated approaches and peer-to-peer technologies Dynamic composition and orchestration of ubiquitous Grid services Experimental testbeds Grid Portals Grid Services Grids and Pervasive Computing Grid Information Systems/Services Industrial and Business Applications of Grid technologies Knowledge and data management Network-centric Grid operating systems Problem solving environments Programming models Resource brokering, management and scheduling Resource Virtualization Scalability Issues Semantic Grid Service Oriented Architectures System architectures and middleware systems Tools Trust & Security Validation and take-up of Grid environments and tools Conference web site August 25-27, 2008 17th International Conference on Information Systems Development - ISD 2008, Paphos, Cyprus Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts and approaches emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice. Over the past 16 years, the ISD conference has acted as an international forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences between researchers, academy and industry, and as a means to stimulate exploration of new solutions. The theme of ISD 2008 is "Towards a Service-Provision Society". The conference features a number of tracks covering a wide spectrum of contemporary topics in the field of Information Systems Development. These tracks are the following ones: Information Systems Research Methodology Service-Oriented Analysis and Design of Information Systems IT Service Management Philosophical and Theoretical Issues in ISD Model-Driven Engineering in ISD Enterprise Systems Development and Adoption Intelligent Information Systems Public Information Systems Development Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods Information Systems Engineering and Management Business Systems Analysis and Design Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in ISD ISD Education ISD in Developing Nations Legal and Administrative Aspects of ISD Conference web site August 26, 2008 UNICORE Summit 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain The goal of the UNICORE Summit is to bring together researchers and practitioners working with UNICORE in the areas of Grid and distributed computing, to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of UNICORE. Topics of interest for the UNICORE Summit should be related to UNICORE and include but are not limited to: High-performance scientific and engineering Grid applications End user experiences Service-oriented designs adopting Grid and Web standards Grid scheduling, resource management, and brokering Theoretical models and algorithms Reliability, fault-tolerance, and autonomy Interoperability Security Performance evaluation Architecture extensions and new components Scientific and economic scenarios Business models and service provisioning Tools and environments for development, deployment, and configuration Conference web site August 26-29, 2008 Euro-Par 2008 Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Euro-Par focuses on all aspects of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for parallel and distributed computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel and distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. Conference web site August 28-30, 2008 20th International Conference of Medical Innovation and Technology, Vienna, Austria The 2008 SMIT International Conference is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and important meetings in the medical innovation field with a particular focus on image guided interventional oncology and endoluminal surgery NOTES and NOSCAR. Topics for SMIT 2008 include: Tumour Ablation and Interventional Oncology Endoluminal Surgery NOTES and NOSCAR Surgical Manipulators and Image-guided Robotics Hybrid OR, Work Flow and Systems Integration Nanotechnology and Microsystems in Medicine New Instruments and New Materials Rapid Prototyping in Medicine E-Health MRI Safety Navigation and Augmented Reality Molecular Imaging and Targeted Drug Delivery Model based Therapy, Numerical Simulation and Training These topics will be presented by an international forum of outstanding endoscopic surgeons, interventional radiologists, biomedical engineers and industrial instrument manufacturers. Session will be organized in collaboration with TATRC, MMVR, Scottish Northern Research Partnership NRP. Conference web site August 30 - September 3, 2008 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology's 21th ECNP Congress 2008, Barcelona, Spain Over 6000 psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists and neuroscience researchers and practitioners from all over the world will join to present and discuss the latest breakthroughs, the progress and the future perspectives in the fields of the origin and treatment of mental disorders, disorders of the brain, neuropsychopharmacology and related fields. This largest high scientific standard meeting in Europe will provide all participants with the latest achievements and future perspectives in neuropsychopharmacology and closely related fields of virtually all disorders of the brain. The ECNP Congress is also expected to raise awareness about the size and burden of mental disorders in Europe and the availability of new treatments and to stimulate discussion about ways of implementing new knowledge and new therapeutic approaches. The ECNP Congresses, playing a leading role in bringing together distinguished scientists identifying and testing promising new medications with novel mechanisms, are currently paving the groundwork for the next generation of pharmacological treatments, which will improve the lives of the millions of people who suffer from mental disorders. Conference web site August 31 - September 2, 2008 HISA HIC'08: The Person in the Centre, Melbourne, Australia The conference will take a fresh look at the changing role of consumers and providers in health care and the systems that support them. This evolution,fuelled by advances in the acquisition, communication and application of information, has brought us to a point where many agree that the next great advance in healthcare will come from the assisted use of existing knowledge and the empowerment of the consumer with this knowledge. Conference web site September 3, 2008 Health-e-Nation 2008, Melbourne, Australia This event will explore the theme "Health-e-Quality - Quality of Health Care and Equality of Access - ICT making a difference". You can connect with international and national leaders, policymakers, vendors and peers. you will learn from industry thought leaders in developed and emerging markets and see the latest health ICT solutions on the exhibition floor.�You will be able to network with professionals who face the same issues you face and learn how others are solving common issues. Conference web site September 3-5, 2008 Tenth Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications - ZA-WWW 2008 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa The year 2008 sees the 10th consecutive World Wide Web Applications Conference. To highlight this milestone anniversary, the event will be celebrated in two places. The programme will kick-off in Cape Town and then continues the week after in Nairobi - reinforcing the Conference's engagement with African Web developments as a whole. Although papers will not be duplicated, both conferences will reflect the same features and themes: Prominent keynote speakers from abroad as well as from the local scene Various appropriate and applicable programme tracks Peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as invited presentations Poster presentations Proceedings published in electronic format Selected papers published in a special 10th anniversary conference issue of The Electronic Library: International Journal for the Application of Technology in Information Environments Papers are solicited with original and unpublished work, research results innovations, ideas, and problems or issues that require solutions from any field in which the World Wide Web is applied or used as a tool or system. Topics might relate to trends and developments over the last ten years; for example the growing number of "foreign" language sites; the politics of the Web; censorship and legal issues; new methods of access and device and network convergence; search engines and search techniques; emerging Web technologies, developments and trends; Web 2.0; and e-anything (government, commerce, marketing, learning, society, entertainment). Conference web site Conference e-mail September 3-5, 2008 Seventh International Confence on Distributed and Parallel Systems - DAPSYS 2008, Debrecen, Hungary DAPSYS is an international biannual conference series dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing. DAPSYS 2008 is a major international event for presenting original research, novel concepts and methods, and outstanding results. Contributions that investigate parallel and

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