[Vki-list] Call for Paper: First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2006)

[Ingo J. Timm]

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First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2006) 
Co-sponsored by IEEE CS Society (pending approval)

30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong
http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/
http://www.infoscale.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS

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** Paper Submission Deadline Extended to 15 November 2005 **
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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:
	Paper Submission Deadline: 15 Nov 2005 (EXTENDED)
	Notification: 15 Jan 2006
	Final Version Due: 15 Feb 2006

Publications: Original and previously unpublished technical papers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/).

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

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

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

Publicity Chair
	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, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 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, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 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 Baltimore County, 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 
	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 Arizona, USA