CALL FOR PAPERS

As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this diversifying world of information.

Conference Scope:

• Parallel Information Retrieval
• Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval
• Scalable Grid Information Systems
• P2P Systems
• Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems
• Index Compression Methods
• Architectures for Scalability
• Networking for Scalable Information Systems
• Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology, military, etc.)
• Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
• VLDB
• Data Mining
• Information Security

Important Dates

Publications

Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published in The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications (http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs).

Committees

General Chair
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong (jia@cs.cityu.edu.hk)

PC Chairs
Abdur Chowdhury, AOL (cabdur@aol.com)
Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong (fcmlau@cs.hku.hk)
Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facilities (f.wang@cranfield.ac.uk)

Steering Committee Chairs
Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair

Publicity Chairs
Jinli Cao, La Trobe University

Publications Chair
Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong

Workshops Chair
Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair
Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair
Hao Zhu, Vice Chair

Local Arrangement Chair
Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong

Program Committee
Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, Wales
David Al-Dabass, University of Nottingham Trent, UK
Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, France
Andrei Broder, Yahoo, USA
Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel
Jose Manuel Garcia Carrasco, University of Murcia, Spain
Scott Cost, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK
Arjen de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands
David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA
Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen, Cairo University, Egypt
Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Siegmar Gross, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
David Hawking, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany
Otthein Herzog, University of Bremen, Germany
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands
Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
George Ioannidis, University of Bremen, Germany
Narayana Jayaram, London Metropolitan University, UK
Guojun Jin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA
Stefan Kirn, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Aleksander Kolcz, AOL, USA
Peter Komisarczuk, University of Wellington, New Zealand
Axel Korthaus, University of Mannheim, Germany
Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P. R. China
Tao Li, University of Rochester, USA
David Q. Liu, Purdue University, USA
Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK
James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy
Lingkui Meng, Wuhan University, P. R. China
Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland, USA
Greg Pass, AOL, USA
Yale Patt, University of Texas, USA
Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary University London, UK
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and information Systems Institute, Germany
Ingo Timm, University of Bremen, Germany
Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University London, UK
Pavel Tvrdik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Herman Vandermulen, AOL, USA
Chien Wang, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Zhichen Xu, Yahoo, USA
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Jim Yip, University of Huddersfield, UK
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Zhu Zhang, University of Michigan, USA