[Mycolleagues] ***Extended*** CFP: Workshops in conjunction with CSE-08 in Brazil

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*Call for Papers of the WORKSHOPS in conjunction with*
*2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and
Engineering*
*CSE 2008*

http://www.icmc.usp.br/cse08

July 16-18, 2008 - Sao Paulo - Brazil

*WORKSHOPS*

The International Symposium on Pervasive Grid
http://nets-www.lboro.ac.uk/lin/PGrid08/index.htm

The 2008 Workshop on Simulation of Urban Planning and Transportation Systems
http://www.cc.chu.edu.tw/~sclo/

The 2008 Workshop on Scientific Computing in Electronics Engineering
http://ymlabcad03.eic.nctu.edu.tw/wscee08/

The 2008 Workshop on the Impact of New Architectures on Parallel Programming
http://gppd.inf.ufrgs.br/impar08/

The 2008 International Workshop on Numerical Mathematics for Engineering
Problems
http://ans.hsh.no/home/skk/Workshop/workshop.html

The 2008 International Workshop on Web2Touch - Living experience through web
http://www.cenpra.gov.br/web2touch/web2touch08.htm

The 2008 Workshop on Advanced Computing for Critical Systems and
EMergency Preparedness and Response
http://www.ufscar.br/wcemp2008/

*Important Dates*
=================

Paper submission due: March 10, 2008 *** Extended ***
Paper notification of acceptance: April 1, 2008
Final camera ready: April 25, 2008

*Paper submission*
==================

Paper submission web site http://cse.stfx.ca/~cse08workshops/sub/

Authors are expected to submit a paper in the PDF format with following
the IEEE CS format

Program committee members and external reviewers will provide authors
with at least three
technical reviews. Submitted papers will be ranked based on relevance to
the Conference and
technical merit.

Final version of accepted papers should at most 6 pages and will be
published by IEEE Computer
Society Press as CSE 2008 workshop proceedings.

Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to
register and present their
work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the
IEEE Digital Library
after the conference.

*About Sao Paulo, Brazil*
=========================

Sao Paulo, the 19a richest city of the world, is officially inserted in
a larger metropolitan region
which holds 39 towns in total, and a population of more than 19 million
inhabitants (2005). It is
one of the biggest financial centers of Brazil and the world. Its
economy is going through a deep
transformation.

Once a city with a strong industrial character, Sao Paulo's economy has
become increasingly based
on the tertiary sector, focusing on services and businesses for the country.

Sao Paulo is located on a plateau, part of the vast region known as the
Brazilian Highlands, with
an average elevation of around 800 metres (2,625 ft) above sea level -
though at a distance of only
about 70 kilometers (43 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean. This distance is
covered by two highways,
the Anchieta and the Imigrantes, that roll down the range, leading to
the portuary city of Santos
and the beach resort of Guaruja. Rolling terrain prevails within the
urbanized areas of Sao Paulo
but in the North of the city - where the Serra da Cantareira Range
boasts higher elevations and a
sizable remnant of the Atlantic Rain Forest.

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[Mycolleagues] CFP IEEE PIMRC 2008 Special Session

Call for Papers

IEEE PIMRC 2008 Special Session on
WLAN and WPAN Millimeterwave MultiGigabit Wireless Systems

Cannes, France, 15-18 Sept. 2008
http://www.pimrc2008.org/

The revolutionary advances in electronics during the past decades have
brought a myriad of different electronic devices into our lives. One emerging
trend for the next generation is networked communications between
these electronic devices to share the huge amount of data processed by
the individual units, for which fast and wireless connection is a
necessity. Many of such technical needs are expected to be addressed
by the emerging Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) and the future
generations of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), for which
unlicensed bands near 60 GHz worldwide are favorably considered. The
unlicensed ample bandwidth available in this band (up to 7 GHz
depending on the region) will enable multi-gigabit rate data transfer
between such devices. Also, the high absorption rate of the
electromagnetic wave around this band would allow a tight signal
confinement within personal space with suppressed interference between
adjacent channels.

The on-going standardization effort for millimeter-wave multi-Gigabit
WPANs is already being made in IEEE802.15.3c and ISO based
Ecma-International TC48. Also, much interest has been shown for the
future Very High throughput (VHT) version of IEEE802.11 WLANs.
However, although some of the new enabling technologies to manage the
multi-gigabit data rate are proposed from the contributions to the
standardization, there are many wonderings about technologies such as
how the multi-Gigabit rates can be processed in hardware and what is
the leading edge of RF/antenna technology for the personal purpose,
and what is the technique to overcome the effect of non-line-of-sight
link. In addition, although the available bandwidth is huge in
comparison with other competing systems such as UWB, there are still
needs to increase the spectral efficiency under the consideration of
requirement of mm-wave hardware. Thus there is a need for the
community to look globally at all these important issues in order to
have millimeter-wave systems with very high data rate transfer
capability a reality.

Scope

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

*Baseband, RF and Antenna related issues
**Mitigation of RF and antenna effects for millimeter-wave systems
**Effects of low power analog to digital converter
**Modem architecture for high speed data
*Physical Layer
**Signal processing for millimetre-wave communications
**Multipath mitigation and blockage avoidance techniques
**Error correction codes
**Equalization
**OFDM versus single-carrier systems
**Beam forming and MIMO for millimetre wave systems
*MAC
**High-efficiency medium access control (MAC) protocols
**Neighbor discovery in directional wireless networks
**Space division multiple access
**Coexistence and interoperability
*Services and Application
**High-definition video streaming
**Fast file transfer
*Towards Terahertz communications.

TPC Co-Chairs

Young-Chai Ko (Korea University, Seoul, Korea)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar)
Alireza Seyedi (University of Rochester, USA)
Chun-Ting Chou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Important Dates

Full manuscript due: April 15th 2008
Acceptance notification: May 1st 2008
Final Manuscript due: May 25th 2008

Submission Guidelines

Papers need to be uploaded to the EDAS system (http://edas.info/).
Please use the "PIMRC 2008 - WLAN and WPAN Millimeterwave MultiGigabit Wireless
Systems Special Session" under the "PIMRC 2008 - Special Sessions".
Papers should be in English, not exceeding 5 double-column pages
(overlength pages will be charged for), and should follow IEEE paper
templates. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplorer

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