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                                CALL FOR PAPERS
                             IEEE  ISCIS 2008
        23rd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
                October 27-29, 2008 Suleyman Demirel Cultural Center
                  Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
                         http://www.iscis2008.itu.edu.tr

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We would like to remind you that the  paper  submission deadline for the

ISCIS-08 conference is approaching. We invite you to submit papers
for the twenty-third ISCIS Conference which aims to bring together
computer scientists and engineers from around the world. This year's
conference will be held at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), in
Istanbul, the 2010 European Capital of Culture
(http://www.istanbul2010.org).

 

There will be invited talks given by leading researchers in their field:

 

Jake Aggarwal - Computer Vision and Recognition of Human Activities

Paul Havinga - Smart Dust - science, fiction, or a real business opportunity

Chunming Qiao - Optical and Wireless Integration for Access and Metro Networks

Jaideep Srivastava - Data Mining for Social Network Analysis

 

Detailed information on the invited talks are announced at the conference

website: http://www.iscis2008.itu.edu.tr/talks.php

 

Papers and posters will be presented in five main tracks:

 

A. COMPUTER VISION, GRAPHICS AND INTELLIGENCE

- Computational and Artificial Intelligence

- Computer Vision

- Image and Video Processing

- Pattern Analysis and Recognition

- Bioinformatics

- Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality

- Human-Computer Interaction

- Natural Language Understanding

 

B. NETWORKS

- Wireless Communication and Networks

- Optical Networks

- Multimedia Communication and Software

- Performance Monitoring, QoS and Reliability

- Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

- Traffic Engineering

- Network Security

- Communication Software and Services

- Cognitive Radio

 

C. DATA MANAGEMENT AND MINING

- Databases

- Data extraction and Reporting

- Information Retrieval

- Web Data Management

- Web Information Systems

- Multimedia DB's

- Mining Data, Text, and the Web

- Metrics in data mining

- Data Mining for Software Quality Assessment

- Visualization Tools

- Biomedical Data Mining

 

D. PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED AND GRID SYSTEMS

- Grid and cluster computing

- Parallel and distributed programming

- Distributed systems and algorithms

- Parallel numerical algorithms

- Peer to peer computing

- Theory and algorithms for parallel computation

- Scheduling and load-balancing

- Performance prediction and evaluation

- High performance architectures and compilers

- Mobile and ubiquitous computing

- Fault Tolerant and Reconfigurable Computing Systems

- Support tools and environments

 

E. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

- Programming Techniques

- Software Engineering

- Programming Languages

- Theory of Computing

- Algorithms

- Mathematical Logic

- Operating Systems

 

HONORARY CHAIR

   Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

   Muhittin Gokmen, ITU (Conference Chair)

   Sema Oktug, ITU

   Zehra Cataltepe, ITU

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

 A: Computer Vision, Graphics and Intelligence Symposium

     Muhittin Gokmen, ITU

     Zehra Cataltepe, ITU

     Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University

 

 B: Networks Symposium

     Sema Oktug, ITU

     Aysegul Yayimli, ITU

     Erdal Cayirci, Un. of Stavanger

 

 C: Data Management and Mining Symposium

     Sule Gunduz-Oguducu, ITU

     Mustafa Kamasak, ITU

     Tamer Ozsu, Waterloo University

 

 D: Parallel Distributed and Grid Systems Symposium

     Turgay Altilar, ITU

     Yakup Paker, Queen Mary University of London

     Olivier Beaumont, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique

 

 E: Theoretical Foundations

     Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University

     Ugur Gudukbay, Bilkent University

     Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente

 

 

Important Dates:

- Submission deadline:                                   May 12, 2008

- Notification of acceptance:                           July 15, 2008

- Camera-Ready copies & registration due:            August 14, 2008

 

Paper Submission and Publication:

 

Authors  are  invited to submit manuscripts written in English.

Papers must contain original work not published or under revision
elsewhere. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field
based on originality, significance, quality, and clarity.

Papers should be prepared following IEEE format, double column,
minimum 10-pt fonts and up to 6 pages.

For submission instructions, and more information about the conference
please refer to http://www.iscis2008.itu.edu.tr.