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Subject: Revised CFP: First Eurasian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology, EurAsia-ICT 2002 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:21:38 +0200 From: Thomas Schierer ts@mtss.at To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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CALL FOR PAPERS

First EurAsian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (EURASIA-ICT 2002)

Tehran, Iran October 29-31, 2002 http://www.eurasia-ict.org/

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Following the efforts of the European Union countries to deepen the scientific relationship with Middle-East countries the Austrian Computer Society and the Technology Cooperation Office of the Iran Presidency take the initiative to launch a EurAsian Conference in the area of Information and Communication Technology. EURASIA-ICT will be held at the Iran's International Conference Center in Tehran from Tuesday, 29th to Thursday 31st October 2002.

The aim of this conference is to bring together scientists from the supercontinent of Eurasia for an improvement of mutual relations as well as an enhancement of scientific cooperation in the field of Information and Communication Technology. Beside the scientific field several cultural activities will be planned for the enjoyment of conference attendees.

PROGRAMS ========

The event will consist of: - A peer-reviewed conference - Several workshops on specific topics - Industrial track - Panel - Exhibitions - Optional pre- and post-conference tours

TOPICS OF INTEREST ===================

EURASIA-ICT 2002 welcomes submissions of original papers. The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to:

- Agent Based Information Systems - Algorithm and Computation Theory - Animating Language Tools - Artificial Intelligence - Business intelligence - Computer Architecture - Computer Graphics - Computer Science Education - Computers and Handicapped Persons - Data and Knowledge Engineering - Data Communication - Data mining - Digital Libraries - Distributed Systems - E-Commerce framework & applications - EDI & XML - E-Government - E-Learning - Electronic brokerages - Electronic Commerce - Electronic negotiation - Handover and admission control - Industry applications - Intelligent agents - Internet & Web-based Systems - Language and Modelling Issues - M-Commerce - Mobile internet access - Mobile serves, applications, middleware - Mobile Web Information Systems - Multimedia - Multimedia applications in E-Commerce - On-line auction - Personal Area Network - Personal Communication Systems - Quality of Services - Real-time systems - Security - Software Engineering - Symbolic Computation - Traffic models for wireless internet applications- User Interfaces - Visualization Tools for Computational Process under Simulation - WAP/Bluetooth technology and implementation - Web Human-Media Engineering - Web Information Management - Web Information Retrieval - Web Information System Environment and Foundations - Web Mining and Farming - Web-Based Applications - Wired/Wireless system integration and technology - Wireless Communication Technology - Wireless LANs/WANs - Wireless multimedia

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION GUIDELINES ===========================================

PAPERS

Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by April 22, 2002 and to submit their paper electronically before May 1, 2002. For paper registration and electronic submission please use the conference website (http://www.eurasia-ict.org/). The procedure for submission will be provided on the conference website.

Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers online and keep the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract, a complete list of authors and their affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, postal and e-mail addresses. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted conference papers will be probably published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag.

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Workshop proposals should be submitted electronically by May 1st, 2002 to: Roland Wagner (wagner@faw.uni-linz.ac.at)

INDUSTRIAL PRESENTATIONS

Industrial presentations will describe current challenges and trends of the information and communication technology industry. Nominations for topics and speakers are welcome, and should be submitted electronically by May 1st, 2002 to: office-vienna@mtss.at

PANEL PROPOSALS

Panel proposals should address controversial issues and must be debate-oriented rather than a series of short presentations. The proposal should include the topic title, a short statement about the importance and relevance of the panel and the potential issues of controversy, a tentative list of questions that will be posed to the panelists, a list of confirmed participants along with their affiliation, and a short biography of each participant. Panel proposals should be submitted electronically by May 1st, 2002 to: office-vienna@mtss.at. Short panel summaries will appear in the Proceedings.

EXHIBITIONS PROPOSALS

Companies and R&D laboratories are encouraged to present their exhibits during the conference. Exhibitions proposals should be submitted electronically by May 1st, 2002 to: office-vienna@mtss.at

IMPORTANT DATES ================

April/22/2002 Abstract submission deadline May/01/2002 Paper submission deadline June/24/2002 Notification of paper acceptance July/15/2002 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due October/29/2002 Conference Starts (Tuesday) October/31/2002 Conference Ends (Thursday)

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS =====================

HONORARY CHAIR

- Dr. Walter Grafendorfer (President of the International Federation of Information Processing; Austria) - Dr. Raoul Kneucker (Director General of the Division of Scientific Research and International Affairs; Austria) - Dr. M. Shafiee (Deputy Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone; I.R. Iran)

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY CHAIRPERSON

- Prof. Kusmayanto Kadiman (Institut Teknologi Bandung; Indonesia)

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Prof. Erich Neuhold (Fraunhofer-IPSI and Technical University of Darmstadt; Germany) - Prof. Hamid Rabiee (AICTC and Sharif University; I.R.Iran)

PROGRAM CHAIRS

- Prof. Hassan Shafazand (Shahid Bahonar University; I.R.Iran) - Prof. A Min Tjoa (Technical University of Vienna; Austria)

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

- Dr. Behrouz Homayoun Far (Saitama University; Japan) - Prof. Makoto Takizawa (Tokyo Denki University; Japan) - Prof. Roland Wagner (University of Linz; Austria)

PANEL CHAIRS

- Prof. Heinrich C. Mayr (President of German Computer Society; Germany) - Dr. Mohammad Sepehry Rad (High Council of Informatic; I.R.Iran)

PUBLICATION CHAIR

- Prof. Roland Traunmüller (University of Linz; Austria)

EXHIBITIONS CHAIR

- A. Saeedi (GamElectronic Co.; I.R.Iran)

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CHAIR

- Dr. Hossein Shafazand (MTSS; Austria) - Shariar Shahabi (DLmaker Business Communications Inc.; I.R. Iran)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Hosseini / Kadkhoda (I.R.Iran) - Ghobadi / Alireza (I.R.Iran)

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

- Iran Telecommunication Research Center

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Karl Aberer, EPFL-DSC, Switzerland - M. Albadavi, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran - Masatoshi Arikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan - Fouad Badran, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France - Tapan P. Bagchi, IIT Kanpur, India - Jean-Paul Bahsoun, Université Paul Sabatier - IRIT, France - Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM - Paris, France - M. Beikzadeh, ITRC, Iran - Bharat K. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA - Peter Bollerslev, Gyldendal Education, Denmark - Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy - Eugen Borcoci, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania - Mokrane Bouzeghoub, University of Versailles, France - Christian J. Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Stéphane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Clemens Cap, University of Rostock, Germany - Wojciech Cellary , The Poznan University of Economics, Poland - Nirupam Chakraborti, Indian Institute of Technology, India - Santanu Chaudhury, IIT, India - Wen-Shyen Eric Chen, National Chug-Hsing University Taiwan, Taiwan - Elsabe Cloete, University of South Africa, South Africa - Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Ernesto Damiani, Universita' di Milano, Italy - Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands - Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA - Valeria De Antonellis, University of Brescia, Italy - John Debenham , University of Technology, Sydney, Australia - Joseph Diaz, Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain - Volker Diekert, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Dietmar Dietrich, Vienna Technical University, Austria - Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands - Virginia Dignum, Achmea & University Utrecht, The Netherlands - Arif Djunaidy, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia - Marco Dorigo, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Antje Düsterhöft, University of Wismar, Germany - Christopher Edwards, Lancaster University, UK - Frank Eliassen, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway - Abdelhamid El-Iraki, National School of Mineral Industry, Morocco - Luis Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria - Florin Gheorghe Filip, The Romanian Academy, Romania - Eddy Flerackers, Limburg University Center, Belgium - Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Jozef Gruska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland - Abdelkader Hameurlain , University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France - Zdenek Hanzalek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic - Saad Harous, University of Sharjah, UAE - David L. Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark - Seongsoo Hong, Seoul National University, Korea - Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria - Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Utrecht University, The Netherlands - Richardus Eko Indrajit, Perbanas School of Computing, Indonesia - Yannis E. Ioannidis, University of Athens, Hellas, Greece - Rasool Jalili, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Pankaj Jalote, I. I. T. Kanpur, India - Leonid A. Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia - Yahiko Kambayashi , Kyoto University, Japan - Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan - Masaru Kitsuregawa, The Tokyo University, Japan - Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria - Henryk Krawczyk, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland - Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany - Jiri Lazansky , Czech Technical University, Czech Republic - Xing Li, Tsinghua University, China - Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan - Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy - Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA - Victor Malyshkin, Russian Academy of SCience, Russia - Massimo Marchiori, W3C/MIT, University of Venice, Italy - Vladimir Marik , Czech Technical University, Czech Republic - Masao J. Matsumoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Jelena Misic, Hong Kong University of Science, Hong Kong - Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Mukesh Mohania, I.B.M. India Research Lab, India - Faron Moller, University of Wales Swansea, UK - Raymond Morel, TC3 IFIP (Vice-Chairman), CPTIC, Switzerland - Kinji Mori, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan - Leo Motus, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia - Max Muehlhaeuser, Darmstadt University of Technical, Germany - Fazel Naghdy, University of Wollongong, Australia - Jerzy Nawrocki, Poznan University of Technology, Poland - Laszlo Neumann, Technical University of Vienna, Austria - Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan - Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland - José Luis Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal - Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands - Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Günther Pernul, University of Essen, Germany - Franck Petit, LaRIA, University of Picardie, France - György Pongor, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary - Didoe Prevedourou, Intracom S.A., Greece - Gerald Quirchmayr , University of Vienna, Austria - H. Radha, Michigan State University, USA - Michel Raynal, IRISA, Université de Rennes, France - Siegfried Reich, Salzburg Research, Austria - Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany - Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria - Norman Revell, Middlesex University, UK - Luís Rodrigues, University of Lisboa, Portugal - Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina - Maytham Hassan Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait - Debashis Saha, Jadavpur Univ. & IIM, India - Dheeraj Sanghi, IIT Kanpur, India - Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria - Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan - Song Yong Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIST), South Korea - Martin Sperka, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia - Michael Stal, Siemens AG, Germany - Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany - Stanley Y. W. Su, University of Florida, USA - Yasuhito Suenaga, Nagoya University, Japan - Katsumi Tanaka , Kyoto University, Japan - Stephanie Teufel , University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Jerzy Tiuryn, Warsaw University, Poland - Fahmy Tolba, Ainshams University, Egypt - Eduardo Tovar, University of Porto, Portugal - Roland Traunmüller, University Linz, Austria - Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland - Robert Weigel, Universität Linz, Austria - Michael Welzl, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Uffe Kock Wiil, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark - Martin Wirsing, University of Munich, Germany - Viacheslav Wolfengagen, Institute "JurInfoR-MSU", Russia - Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan - Jeffrey Xu Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia - Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China

CONFERENCE SITE ===============

The EURASIA-ICT 2002 will take place in Tehran, the capital of I.R. Iran. You will find more information on tourism in Iran on the conference website. The official language of the EURASIA-ICT 2002 is English.

EURASIA-ICT 2002 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION OFFICE ===============================================

For further inquiries regarding EURASIA-ICT 2002 please contact:

Thomas Schierer M-Techno Structure IT Solutions GmbH Tel.: +43-1-532 65 71-22 Rotgasse 2/8 Fax: +43-1-533 13 033 1010 Vienna E-Mail: office-vienna@mtss.at Austria http://www.eurasia-ict.org/

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