2008-03-21

[Mycolleagues] Infoscale 2008 - CfP (Deadline Extended to April 10)

 

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CPF: INFOSCALE 2008 (Extended deadline)

The Third International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems

June 4-6, 2008 - Vico Equense, Italy

 

Sponsored by SIGMM, SIGKDD, and SIGIR.

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http://www.infoscale.org

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Honorary Chair

Andrei Broder - Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!, USA

 

General Chairs:

Ronny Lempel - Yahoo! Research

Raffaele Perego - ISTI CNR, Italy

Fabrizio Silvestri - ISTI CNR, Italy

 

Program Committee Chairs:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates - Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain and Yahoo! Research Latin, America at Santiago, Chile

Abdur Chowdhury - Summize, Inc., USA

Cheng-Zhong Xu - Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

 

**UPDATE: INFOSCALE is pleased to announce that a best paper award

will be given, courtesy of ICST.

 

As data and knowledge volume keep increasing while global means for

information dissemination continue to diversify, new methods, modeling

paradigms, and structures are needed to support efficiently the

mounting scalability requirements.

 

In the last few years we have seen the proliferation of the use of

heterogeneous distributed systems, ranging from simple Networks of

Workstations, to highly complex Grid Computing environments. Such

computational paradigms have been preferred due to their reduced costs

and inherent scalability, but their efficient usage pose many

challenges in terms of information access, storage and retrieval as

well as in terms of algorithms for efficiently manage, transfer, and

analyze huge volume of data and knowledge.

 

Grid computing, P2P technology, data and knowledge bases, distributed

information retrieval technology, and networking technology should all

converge to address the scalability concern. Furthermore, with the

advent of emerging computing architectures - e.g. SMTs, GPUs,

Multicores, etc. - the importance of designing techniques explicitly

targeting these systems, is becoming more and more important.

 

The Third International Conference on Scalable Information Systems

will focus on a wide array of scalability issues and investigate new

approaches to tackle problems arising from the ever-growing size and

complexity of information of all kinds.

 

The conference invites original technical papers that were not

previously published and are not currently under review for

publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

 

* Scalable Parallel and Distributed Information Retrieval

* Scalable Grid Information Systems

* Scalable Peer-to-Peer Systems

* Scalable Mobile Systems

* Scalable Web Services

* Scalable Sensor Networks and Systems

* Scalable Systems and Conceptual Modeling

* Scalable Multimedia Information Systems

* Scalability Issues on Emerging Computing Architectures (SMTs,

GPUs, Multicores)

* Scalable Data Mining

* Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems

* Middleware Technology for Scalable Computing

* Information Security

* Architectures for Scalability

* Networking for Scalable Information Systems

* Evaluation Metrics for Scalability

* Enterprise Information Systems and Applications

* Very Large Databases

* Compression Techniques for Scalability

* Optimizing Compiling Techniques for Scalable Parallel Systems

 

Important Dates

Extended Full Papers due: April 10, 2008

Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2008

Camera-ready Manuscripts due: May 10, 2008

Conference Dates: June 4-6, 2008

 

WORKSHOPS

 

Proposals for half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the

conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages, including the workshop

name, its scope and a list of topic of interests, should be submitted

to Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice.

 

TUTORIALS

 

Proposal for half-day tutorials should be submitted to Pavel Zezula,

Masaryk University, Brno.

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