CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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.

Main Conference

The main conference will feature a keynote address by Dr Tao Yang, Chief Scientist and Senior VP of Ask.com, and 14 invited talks from experts in the field. There will be 14 technical sessions presenting 40+ high-quality papers in the following areas.

• Searching and Indexing
• Network Design and Management
• Grid Computing
• Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Ontology and Semantic Web
• Information Security
• Peer-to-peer Computing
• Scalable Applications
• Information Retrieval

In the afternoon of June 1, participants are invited to join a guided local tour of the city free of charge.

Final program - [HTML] [PDF]

Pre-conference Workshops

• International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management (P2PIM 2006)
• Infoscale Work in Progress Workshop (I-WIPW 2006)

Organizing Committee

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

Sponsors

EU (IST-FET)

Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation Ltd K. C. Wong Education Foundation

Special Event in Hong Kong