HeteroPar'2010

8th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools
for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms

HeteroPar'2010

August 30, 2010, Ischia-Naples, Italy
in conjunction with EuroPar 2010

http://heteropar2010.ens-lyon.fr
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* Submission of manuscripts: Friday, May 21, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: Friday, July 2, 2010
* Deadline for final version: Friday, July 30, 2010
* Date of workshop: Monday, August 30, 2010

Networks of computers are the most common and available parallel architecture now. Unlike dedicated parallel computer systems, networks are inherently heterogeneous. They consist of diverse computers of different performances interconnected via heterogeneous network equipment providing communication links with different latencies and bandwidths. Traditional parallel algorithms and tools are aimed at homogeneous multiprocessors and cannot be efficiently used for parallel computing on heterogeneous networks. New ideas, dedicated algorithms and tools are needed to efficiently use this new type of parallel architectures. The workshop is intended to be a forum for people working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficient problem solutions on heterogeneous networks.

Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms. Manuscripts should be limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS style sheet and submitted through the EasyChair Conference System: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=heteropar2010. Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference.


The topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

* Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models;

* Languages, libraries, and interfaces for different heterogeneous parallel programming models;

* Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms;

* Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous and/or hierarchical multi-core systems;

* Parallel algorithms for efficient problem solving on heterogeneous platforms (numerical linear algebra, nonlinear systems, fast transforms, computational biology, data mining, multimedia, etc.);

* Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems;

* Applications on heterogeneous platforms;

* Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous platforms;

* Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous platforms;

* Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous platforms;

* Algorithms, models and tools for grid, desktop grid, cloud, and green computing.


Program Chair

* Frédéric Vivien, École normale supérieure de Lyon, and INRIA, France

Steering Committee

* Domingo Giménez, University of Murcia, Spain
* Alexey Kalinov, Cadence Design Systems, Russia
* Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
* Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID/IST, TU Lisbon, Portugal
* Denis Trystram, LIG, Grenoble, France

(WCGA 2010)

Apresentação

A série WCGA tem por objetivo atuar como um fórum para apresentações técnicas de pesquisas em andamento e atividades relevantes nas áreas de infra-estrutura e infra-estrutura virtualizada, serviços e aplicações em áreas diversas, congregando pesquisadores e profissionais que atuam ativamente nessas áreas. O workshop também procura estabelecer redes colaborativas multi-institucionais e grupos de competência técnico-científica, bem como fortalecer atividades em andamento.

O VIII Workshop em Clouds, Grids e Aplicações (WCGA 10) será realizado durante o 28º Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC 2010), em Gramado, RS.

Tópicos

Para a edição deste ano, autores são particularmente encorajados a submeter trabalhos originais em tópicos relacionados com suporte de rede e de middleware para grades, bem como aplicações em grade que demandem suporte de nível de rede. Mais especificamente, os tópicos de interesse incluem (mas não estão limitados a):

Avaliação de Desempenho Balanceameto de Carga Gerência de Políticas Tolerância a Falhas Provisão de QoS Infraestrutura Virtualizada Portais IaaS, Paas, Saas, NaaS APIs e Controle de uso Integração Ótica de Sem-fio Gerenciamento de Energia Orquestração e Coreografia de Serviços Gerência e Escalonamento de Recursos Ferramentas e Modelos de Programação

Ferramentas de Gerencia de Infraestrutura Virtualizada Segurança em Infraestrutura Virtualizada Gerenciamento de Recursos Virtualizados Gerenciamaneto de DataCenters Computacao e Comunicacao Verdes Modelos de Contabilidade e Economia Gerencia de Metadados, Schemas e Ontologias Aplicações e Serviços habilitados pela Infraestrutura Virtualizada Aplicações, Comunidades e Testbeds

Informação para Autores

A submissão de trabalhos será exclusivamente eletrônica. Autores devem usar a URL https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1046. Os artigos podem ser em português ou inglês, exclusivamente nos formatos Postscript (generic postscript) ou PDF. O texto deve conter no máximo 12 páginas, incluindo resumo (e abstract para artigos em português), figuras, diagramas, referências e anexos. A formatação deve seguir o padrão da SBC, disponível em http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads.

Artigos submetidos ao WCGA serão avaliados pelo corpo de revisores, sendo os selecionados organizados para apresentação e publicação nos anais do Workshop. Ao menos um dos autores de cada artigo selecionado deverá se inscrever no SBRC e no WCGA, bem como apresentá-lo no evento.

Datas Importantes

• Submissão de artigos: 02 de abril de 2010
• Comunicação dos resultados: 23 de abril de 2010
• Envio da versão final dos artigos: 27 de abril de 2010
• Data do workshop: 28 de maio de 2010

Organização

Coordenação Geral do SBRC

• Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
• Marinho Pilla Barcellos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Coordenação de Workshops

• Antônio Jorge Gomes Abelém, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Coordenação de Programa do WCGA

• Alfredo Goldman, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
• Bruno Schulze, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Cientítica (LNCC)

Comitê de Programa

• Antônio Tadeu Gomes, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)
• Antonio Mury, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)
• Artur Ziviani, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)
• Celso Mendes, University of Illinois, Estados Unidos
• Cesar De Rose, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
• Claudio Geyer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
• Cristina Boeres, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
• Edmundo Madeira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
• Fabio Costa, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
• Fabio Porto, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)
• Fabiola Greve, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
• Fabricio Alves Barbosa da Silva, TU Lisbon, Portugal
• Francisco José Silva, Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)
• Hélio Guardia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
• José Neuman, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Leonel Sousa, TU Lisbon, Portugal
• Lúcia Drummond, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
• Luis Carlos De Bona, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)
• Marcelo Pasin, TU Lisbon, Portugal
• Philippe Navaux, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
• Raphael Camargo, Universidade Federal de Bacabal (UFBAC)
• Rossana Andrade, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Vinod Rebello, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
• Wagner Meira Jr., Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Contato

***** Due to inumerous requests, the due date for submission is extended to APRIL 15, 2010 (new date) *****


Conference Overview
The IET International Conference on Frontier Computing - Theory,
Technologies and Applications will serve as a forum to present the
current work by researchers from around the world, and act as a venue
to provide discussions and highlight recent hot topics of computer
science. In addition to technical sessions consisting of contributed
papers, the conference will include invited presentations, a poster
session, and tutorials.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Interconnection Networks
- Neural and DNA Computing
- Distributed and Parallel Computing
- Database and Data Mining
- Cluster, Grid and P2P Computing
- Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
- Innovative Networking and Applications
- Human-Computer Interface / Interaction
- Multimedia Technologies
- Image Processing
- Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
- Advanced Networking and Applications
- Medical Informatics
- Services Computing
- Security, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Internet Technologies Computing
- Fault-tolerant and Dependable Systems
- Multi-agent System and Applications
- Multimedia, Virtual Reality and Web Graphics
- E-Learning and Education
- Social, Ethical & Other Issues of Networked World
- Hardware / Software co-design
- Energy Efficiency and Power Aware Techniques


Important Dates
Paper submission due APRIL 15, 2010 *NEW DATE*
Notification of acceptance MAY 15, 2010
Camera-ready version: JUNE 1, 2010
Early Registration Due JUNE 1, 2010

Submission Guideline
Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be considered for another
conference. Papers must be written in English and
must be in PDF format. Detailed electronic submission instructions
will be posted on the conference web site. The
conference proceedings will be published by IET Press (EI-indexed) and
will be made online through the IET/IEEE Digital Library. Selected
best papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of
IET Transactions (SCI and EI-indexed). Please feel free to email
ietfc2010@googlegroups.com your questions. To submit your paper,
please follow to link http://grid.chu.edu.tw/fc2010/


Organized by
Providence University, Taiwan
Asia University, Taiwan

Supported by
National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan
Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan
Chung Hua University, Taiwan
National Taichung University, Taiwan
Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan

Organizing Committee
Honorary Co-Chairs
Matthew M.-T. Yu (Providence University, Taiwan)
Jeffrey J.-P. Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

General Co-Chairs
Wen-Kuang Chou (Providence University, Taiwan)
Shian-Shyong Tseng (Asia University, Taiwan)

Executive Vice-General Chair
Kuan-Ching Li (Providence University, Taiwan)

Program Co-Chairs
Robert C. Hsu (Chung Hua University, Taiwan)
Chia-Hsien Wen (Providence University, Taiwan)
Rodrigo Mello (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Executive Vice-Program Chair
Shu-Ching Chen (Florida International University, USA)

Steering Committee Chair
Timothy K. Shih (Asia University, Taiwan)

International Advisory Board
Jason Yi-Bin Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Chin-Chen Chang (Feng-Chia University, Taiwan)
Han-Chieh Chao (National Ilan University, Taiwan)
Jeng-Shyang Pan (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan)
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Jianhua Ma (Hosei University, Japan)
Po-Whei Huang (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
Yaw-Lin Lin (Providence University, Taiwan)
Makoto Takizawa (Seikei University, Japan)
Thomas Yi (IET, Hong Kong)

Seoul, KOREA, July 19-23, 2010
http://www.saintconference.org/
Co-located with:
The 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2010)
Co-sponsored by:
the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) and
the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Technically sponsored by:
IEEE-CS IT Professional
In Cooperation with:
KIISE-INSoc

Specific Topic for SAINT2010
Future Internet and Applications


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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Symposium Paper Submission: January 31, 2010 à February 14, 2010
Symposium Author Notification: March 31, 2010
Symposium Final Manuscript and Authors Registration Due: April 30, 2010
(ONE and FULL Registration per ONE paper)


Workshop Proposals: November 15, 2009
Workshop Call for Papers: December 15, 2009
Workshop Paper Submission: February 28, 2010
Workshop Author Notification: March 31, 2010
Workshop Final Manuscript and Authors Registration Due: April 30, 2010
(ONE and FULL Registration per ONE paper)


Student Paper Submission: April 8, 2010
Student Author Notification: April 22, 2010
Student Final Manuscript and Authors Registration Due: April 30, 2010
(ONE and STUDENT Registration per ONE paper)

Panel Proposals: December 15, 2009
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THEME : The Inclusive Internet
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Researchers are encouraged to submit papers related to theme of this
year: The Inclusive Internet:


The Internet has revolutionized and changed the way we communicate,
socialize, entertain, access information and conduct business. It has
evolved into a pervasive ecosystem of connected computers, mobile
devices, sensors, home appliances, and a variety of other gadgets.
This evolution has led to a deep intertwining of the physical, social
and digital worlds, raising new research agendas and challenging our
understanding of the requirements for a vastly interconnected world.
The theme for SAINT2010 is the Inclusive Internet. The advent of
Web 2.0, social networks, open API's, mash-ups and cloud computing are
empowering Internet users into becoming Internet "makers." Anyone and
everyone is included, free to contribute content and even services.
The frontier of the Internet no longer stops at the shores of large
corporations, small businesses, and online stores. It has expanded to
include the presence and contributions of virtually all mankind.
The symposium provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from
the academic, industrial, public and governmental sectors to share
their latest innovations on Internet technologies and applications.
Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

A. Internet Application Areas:
*Content Management: semi-structured data, information integration,
search and retrieval, data mining, semantic web, mobile and local
search.
*Content Delivery: media streaming, web caching, QoS, universal access
and interfacing
*Web Services: architecture & middleware, information agents,
brokering and negotiation, service discovery, service composition,
mash-ups, context-aware services.
*Collaboration: fixed, mobile & ad-hoc groupware, social network
software, trust & IPR technologies.
*Internet communities: peer-to-peer platforms and applications,
folksonomies, protocols for self-organizing communities, social
networks.
*Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: smart space architecture and
middleware, sensor networks and sensor web, pervasive programming
models and tools, content adaptation, location-based services, mobile
transactions, personalization, mobile service discovery & delivery.
*E-Business: Internet-based workflow, virtual enterprises, B2B,
auctioning systems
*Other Social Applications: E-science, E-education, E-learning,
E-entertainment, E-health, E-government, E-inclusion, etc.

B. Enabling technologies for the Internet:
*Software Architectures: service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer
and overlay networks, mobile agents, very large scale server systems,
GRID computing, virtualization, cloud computing.
*Standards: including XML, WSDL, WSFL, ebXML, Java, JXTA, .NET,
EchoNet, SODA, etc.
*Internet Security: architecture, threats, detection, authentication/
authorization, countermeasures, trust models, privacy, others.
*Network and Protocol Architectures: routing, performance, ad-hoc,
sensor and mobile networks, broadband wireless access, IPv6.
*Information Appliances: smart phones, PDAs, mobile Internet device,
sensor platforms, RFID based and embedded computers.
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Paper Submission and Reviews

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Symposium paper submission will be done electronically. Information
for prospective authors, including paper format and instructions can
be found on the SAINT Web page. Symposium Papers will be reviewed by
at least three reviewers, and SAINT has been keeping its acceptance
ratio less than 30% from the beginning.
Workshop papers will be sent to each Workshop's Organizers and should
be reviewed by each Workshop's Program Committee, taking account of a
reasonable acceptance ratio.
No simultaneous submission to multiple publication venues are allowed,
and only original results are acceptable.
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Publications

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The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one full registration is
required for publication of Symposium and Workshops Proceedings. It
should be noted that any paper of Symposium/Workshop Proceedings will
not be included in the IEEE-CS digital library if no presentation is
made without reasonable notification. Accepted papers will be indexed
through INSPEC and EI Index.
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Best Paper Award

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A best paper and student best papers will be selected and recognized
by the Program Committee and the Awards Chairs.
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Journal Publication

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There is a plan to invite several authors to provide revised papers
for a special issue on Future Internet and Applications of IEEE-CS
IT Professional.
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Workshops and Panels Proposals

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Full- and/or half-day workshop and panel proposals related to SAINT
theme are solicited. Workshop proposals should be submitted to
Workshops Chairs. After the review of proposals, the accepted Workshop
Call For Papers must be sent to the Workshop Chairs. Workshops Call
For Papers will then be announced on the SAINT web page. Panel
proposals should be submitted to Panel Chairs. E-mail addresses for
submission will be announced later at the SAINT Web page.

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Student Sessions

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The Student Session will provide an international forum for graduate
students to interact with faculty mentors and other researchers. It
will strive to provide constructive guidance for completion of the
proposed research and motivation for a research career.

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Message to Industry
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SAINT has been one of the major forums to discuss the state of the art
Internet-related technologies for not only academia but also industry.
SAINT2010 is considering an opportunity where industry will be able to
make an appeal of new technologies. Please keep a close watch on the
SAINT web page.

Data Streams Track
http://www.liaad.up.pt/~jgama/SAC10/


Important dates:

Paper Submission: 15 September, 2009 ** EXTENDED **
Author Notification: 19 October, 2009
Camera-ready Copy: 2 November, 2009


Paper Submission Guidelines:

Papers should be submitted in PDF using the SAC 2010 conference
management system: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/

The paper should omit authors and affiliations. Author names and addresses must not appear in the body of the paper, self-reference must be in the third person, attribution to the author(s) must be in the form of "author", and bibliographical entries by the author(s) must also be in the form of "author". This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's
information. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. All accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The maximum number of pages allowed for the final papers is 5 pages (about 4000 words), with the option (at additional expense) to add up to three (3) more pages. There is a set of templates
to support the required paper format for a number of document preparation systems at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Web Site: http://www.upf.br/sca/index.php

A 1a edição do Simpósio de Computação Aplicada (SCA'2009) -- antigo SIPM -- é um evento que marca os 25 anos do Curso de Ciência da Computação da Universidade de Passo Fundo e que conta com o apoio da SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação). "Computação a serviço do desenvolvimento social e econômico" é o tema principal do SCA2009. O principal objetivo do SCA é divulgar a produção científica nacional nas áreas de computação aplicada, principalmente, à educação, ciências exatas, agricultura e saúde, por meio de um ambiente da troca de experiências e ideias entre profissionais, estudantes e pesquisadores nacionais e estrangeiros.

*Novidade*

Os autores dos melhores artigos serão convidados a submeter versões estendidas e revisadas destes artigos para uma edição da RITA (Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada: http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/rita/index).


*TÓPICOS DE INTERESSE*

O SCA está organizado em dois principais grupos de interesse:
- Modelos e métodos computacionais aplicados
- Metodologias e tecnologias educacionais

O grupo de *Modelos e métodos computacionais aplicados* visa a divulgação de pesquisas, técnicas e metodologias computacionais fundamentado em estudos científicos, básicos e/ou aplicados, e em princípios matemáticos e computacionais, para a análise e resolução de problemas de *natureza multidisciplinar*, em especial nas áreas de ciências exatas, agrárias e da saúde.
Os tópicos do grupo incluem (não são limitados a):
- Computação Científica;
- Modelagem e Simulação;
- Modelos de Aprendizagem de Máquina;
- Gestão de Dados;
- Linguagens de programação.

O grupo de *Metodologias e tecnologias educacionais* visa a divulgação de pesquisas, técnicas e metodologias computacionais fundamentado em estudos científicos, básicos e/ou aplicados, de tecnologias computacionais com vistas à qualificação do processo de aprendizagem.
Os tópicos do grupo incluem (não são limitados a):
- Educação a distância;
- Inclusão digital e software livre na educação;
- Inteligência artificial aplicada à educação;
- Objetos educacionais digitais;
- Avaliação de sistemas educacionais

*FORMATOS DE SUBMISSÃO*

O SCA aceitará duas categorias de submissão:
- Artigo completo: trabalhos com contribuição científica relevante. (15 páginas)
- Pôster de IC: trabalhos desenvolvidos por alunos de iniciação científica (IC) ou graduação (TC) com mérito técnico-científico. (2 páginas)

Os artigos submetidos ao SCA devem ser originais, não podendo ter sido submetidos simultaneamente a outras conferências ou periódicos, nem ter sido publicados. A aceitação de um artigo implica que ao menos um dos autores se inscreva no simpósio e o apresente durante a programação organizada. Os artigos serão avaliados segundo critérios específicos de cada grupo entre os quais se incluem originalidade, relevância, correção e clareza da apresentação. Os artigos submetidos deverão observar o limite máximo de 15 páginas (artigo completo) e 2 páginas (pôster), com fonte tamanho 12 pt, espaçamento de linha 1,5 e coluna simples, seguindo o formato padrão disponibilizado pela SBC para artigos dos seus eventos em http://www.sbc.org.br/sbc/eventos/templates.html. Artigos que excederem o limite de páginas serão automaticamente rejeitados sem serem revisados pelo comitê de programa. Todos os artigos devem ser submetidos em formato PDF sendo que artigos em outros formatos não serão aceitos.

*DATAS IMPORTANTES*

Submissão de artigos (completo): 30 de junho
Submissão de pôsters: 30 de junho
Notificação de aceitação: 30 de julho
Envio da versão final: 15 de agosto

Dúvidas sobre submissão de artigos:
Carina F. Dorneles (dorneles@upf.br)
Coordenadora do CP

*COMITÊ DE PROGRAMA*

Adriano Teixeira - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)
Ana Bertoletti De Marchi - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)
Andre Zanki Cordenonsi - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Andrea Charao - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Benjamin Callejas Bedregal - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Carina F. Dorneles - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF) - Coordenadora do CP
Carlos Holbig - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)
Carlos Zeve - Universidade Luterana do Brasil (Ulbra)
Carolina Minte-Vera - Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Clyde Fraisse - University of Florida (UFL)
Daniela Buske - Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL)
Deise Saccol - Universidade Federal dos Pampas (UNIPAMPA)
Graçaliz Dimuro - Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)
Italo Dutra - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
José Maurício Fernandes - Embrapa Trigo
Juliano Tonezer da Silva - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)
Julio Bertolin - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)
Karin Becker - Quality Knowledge
Lea Fagundes - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Lucimar de Carvalho - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)
Marco Trentin - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)
Marcus Basso - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Maria Helena Bonilla - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Marlise Geller - Universidade Luterana do Brasil (Ulbra)
Márcia Cristina Moraes - Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUCRS)
Mirella Moro - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Patricia Alejandra Behar - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Paulo Sérgio Sausen - Universidade de Ijuí (UNIJUI)
Raquel Stasiu - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Parana (PUCP/RR)
Rejane Frozza - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)
Renata Galante - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Renata Hax Sander Reiser - Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)
Renato Fileto - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarian (UFSC)
Ronaldo Mello - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Roseclea Duarte Medina - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Sílvio Cazella - Universidade do Vale dos Sino (Unisinos)
Silvia Modesto Nassar - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Vanessa Braganholo - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Willingthon Pavan - Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF)

For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. For the third year, the ACM SAC will have a specific track on robotics. It aims to be a forum for researchers to share experiences, expose issues, and discuss about this exciting research field.

Robotics is a multidisciplinary area of study that presents an enormous commercial and research potential. While industrial robotics covers the study, design, and use of robot systems for manufacturing, mobile robotics concerns about developing systems that are capable of making decisions and acting autonomously in real and unpredictable environments to accomplish determined tasks. In the last decade, technological advances made possible the development of very efficient sensors and electronic devices at affordable prices. This fact has great impact on robotics research, allowing the development of efficient and relatively cheap sensors and computing devices. It also allows robots to accomplish more complex tasks, posing new challenges to scientists and engineers. This track focuses on all aspects of robotics, including related areas and applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Rehabilitation Robotics
Humanoid Robotics
Underwater Robots
Search and Rescue Robots
Entertainment Robots
Multi-robot Coordination
Active Perception and Vision
Coverage and Deployment
Learning
Autonomous systems
Navigation
Localization and Mapping
Evolutionary Robotics
Grasping
Control Architectures and Programming
Bio-Inspired Robots
Aerial Robotics
Contact Modeling and Touching
Educational Robotics
Smart Actuators
Micro/nano robotics
Embedded Systems architectures
Reconfigurable robotic platforms
Vision-based Systems
Multi-robot systems
Simulation

Important dates:
Sep. 8, 2009: Paper submissions
Oct. 19, 2009: Author notification
Nov. 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Copy *
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Denis Wolf, Eduardo Marques, and Fernando Osorio
Intelligent Robotics Systems (ROBOT) Track Chairs
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 20010

Data Streams Track
(http://www.liaad.up.pt/~jgama/SAC10/)

Call for Papers
The rapid development in information science and technology in general and in growth complexity and volume of data in particular has introduced new challenges for the research community. Many sources produce data continuously. Examples include sensor networks, wireless networks, radio frequency identification (RFID), customer click streams, telephone records, multimedia data, scientific data, sets of retail chain transactions, etc. These sources are called data streams. A data stream is an ordered sequence of instances that can be read only once or a small number of times using limited computing and storage capabilities. These sources of data are characterized by being open-ended, flowing at high-speed, and generated by non stationary distributions.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We are looking for original, unpublished work related to algorithms, methods and applications on data streams. Topics include (but are not restricted)to:


Data Stream Models
Data Stream Management Systems
Data Stream Query Languages
Continuous queries and Summarization from Data Streams
Sampling Data Streams
Single-Pass Algorithms
Scalable Algorithms
Change Detection Algorithms
Clustering on Data Streams
Classification and Regression on Data Streams
Association Rules on Data Streams
Feature Selection on Data Streams
Visualization Techniques for Data Streams
Evaluation of Data Streams Models
Data Stream applications
Sensor Networks
Real-Time Applications


IMPORTANT DATES (strict)
1. Paper Submission:ÿ8 September, 2009
2. Author Notification:ÿ19 October, 2009
3. Camera-ready Copy:ÿ2 November, 2009

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers should be submitted in PDF using the SAC 2010 conference management system: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/. The paper should omit authors and affiliations. Author names and addresses must not appear in the body of the paper, self-reference must be in the third person, attribution to the author(s) must be in the form of "author", and bibliographical entries by the author(s) must also be in the form of "author". This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. All accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The maximum number of pages allowed for the final papers is 5 pages (about 4000 words), with the option (at additional expense) to add up to three (3) more pages. There is a set of templates to support the required paper format for a number of document preparation systems at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

The 6th International Symposium on
Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC) 2010

17-19 March 2010 Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.arc2010.org

ARC aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners of
reconfigurable computing with an emphasis on practical applications of
this promising technology. This year's symposium will have a series of
international invited speakers that will express their view on the
future of reconfigurable technology.

Submissions are solicited on a wide variety of topics related to
applied reconfigurable computing, including but not limited to:
* Methods and Tools (High-Level Compilers, Simulation, Estimation,
Design space exploration, Languages to program reconfigurable systems,
etc.)
* Architectures (Fine-grained, coarse-grained, and mixed-grained,
Multi-processor-based reconfigurable platforms, Microprocessors with
tightly-coupled reconfigurable hardware, etc.)
* Applications (High-Performance Systems, use of reconfigurable
computing in embedded systems, robotics, digital signal processing,
etc.)
* Teaching reconfigurable computing
* Surveys and Future Trends
* Benchmarks (papers presenting benchmarks publicly available to be
used by the reconfigurable computing community are especially welcome)

Important dates
Submission deadline 13 November 2009
Author Notification 21 December 2009
Camera-Ready deadline 8 January 2010
Author registration deadline 22 January 2010
Early Registration deadline 12 February 2010

Submission Information
Submissions must identify the format of the contribution as either:

* Long papers, (12 pages max) which should include mainly
accomplished results (oral presentation )
* Short papers (6 pages max) to be composed of work in progress or
report recent developments (poster presentation )

ARC 2010 proceedings will be published as a Springer Verlag LNCS
series volume ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science). The format of the
papers should be according to Springer-Verlag LNCS series (Lecture Notes
in Computer Science) format rules (guidelines at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Online submission site will be available soon.

Program committee
Roger Woods: The Queen's University of Belfast UK
Stephan Wong: Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
Markus Weinhardt: PACT Informationstechnologie AG Germany
Ranga Vemuri: University of Cincinnati USA
Pedro Trancoso: University of Cyprus Cyprus
Lesley Shannon" Simon Fraser University USA
Alastair Smith: Imperial College London UK
Pete Sedcole: Imperial College London UK
Tsutomu Sasao: Kyushu Institute of Technology Japan
Bernard Pottier: University of Bretagne France
Marco Platzner: University of Paderborn Germany
Joachim Pistorius: Altera Corp. USA
Andy Pimentel: University of Amsterdam The Netherlands
Joon-seok Park: Inha University, Seoul South Korea
Horacio Neto: INESC-ID/IST Portugal
Walid Najjar: University of California Riverside USA
Fearghal Morgan: National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland
Seda Memik: Northwestern University USA
John McAllister: Queen's University of Belfast Ireland
Kostas Masselos: University of Peloponnese Greece
Eduardo Marques: University of São Paulo Brazil
Maria-Cristina Marinescu: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center USA
Wayne Luk: Imperial College London UK
Philip Leong: University of Sydney Australia
Andreas Koch: TU Darmstadt Germany
Ryan Kastner: University of California, San Diego USA
Michael Hübner: Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT) Germany
Roman Hermida: Universidad Complutense, Madrid Spain
Reiner Hartenstein: University of Kaiserslautern Germany
Jim Harkin: University of Ulster, Magee Northern Ireland
Guy Gognia: Université de Bretagne Sud France
António Ferrari: University of Aveiro Portugal
Suhaib Fahmy: Trinity College Dublin Ireland
Robert Esser: Xilinx Corp. Ireland
Tarek El-Ghazawi: George Washington University USA
Pedro C. Diniz: Technical University of Lisbon (IST) / INESC-ID Portugal
Oliver Diessel: University of New South Wales Australia
George Constantinides: Imperial College UK
Katherine Compton: University of Wisconsin-Madison USA
Paul Chow: University of Toronto Canada
Mark Chang: Olin College USA
João M. P. Cardoso: University of Porto/INESC-ID Portugal
Tim Callahan: Carnegie Mellon University USA
Mihai Budiu: Microsoft Research USA
Christos-Savvas Bouganis: Imperial College London UK
Koen Bertels Delft: University of Technology The Netherlands
Neil Bergmann: University of Queensland Australia
Mladen Berekovic: Braunschweig University of Technology Germany
Jürgen Becker: Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Germany
Nader Bagherzadeh: University of California, Irvine USA
Michael Attig: Xilinx Research Labs, San Jose USA
Peter Athanas: Virginia Tech USA
Jeff Arnold: Strech Inc. USA

THE 25th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
22-26 March 2010, Sierre, Switzerland

ACM SAC'10
For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists,
computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers
from around the world. SAC 2010 is sponsored by the ACM Special
Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by the
University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO)and the
Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Sierre, Switzerland.

ORIGINAL PAPERS (Double blind reviewed)
Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of
experimental computing and application development for the technical
program via the various tracks hosted by SAC 2010. Peer groups with
expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to
that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference
proceedings. The submission must not identify the authors (self-reference
should be in the third person) to facilitate double blind review.
Authors are allowed up to 8 pages according to the paper template,
but more than 5 pages in the camera ready version will be
charged 80USD per extra page.

MULTIMEDIA AND VISUALIZATION TRACK (MMV)
The themes Multimedia and Visualization are concerned with principles,
tools and processes that improve our ability to understand, create,
manage, visualize and maintain multimedia in general and interactive
media in particular. The aim of this track is to bring together
researchers from academia and industry who are actively engaged both
in theoretical and practical aspects of these multidisciplinary
themes, including those interested in discussing issues relative to
Human-Media Interaction. Topics of interest and and further
information is found in the track website
(http://www.icmc.usp.br/~acmsac/mmv10)

MTAP JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
As in the previous edition of the MMV Track at SAC'09, the Multimedia
Tools and Applications Journal (MTAP) will publish a special issue
with papers from the ACM SAC'10 MMV track: authors of the best papers
will be invited to submit a substantially extended version for their
work to the special issue
(http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042).

IMPORTANT DUE DATES (submission deadline is strict)
September 08, 2009:... Paper submissions
October 19, 2009:..... Author notification
November 02, 2009:.... Camera-Ready Copy
March 22-26, 2010:.... 25th ACM SAC, Sierre, Switzerland

MORE INFORMATION
* Submission website eCMS: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/
* MMV Track Site: http://www.icmc.usp.br/~acmsac/mmv10
* ACM SAC'10 Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/

Ethan V. Munson (co-chair), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Maria da Graça Pimentel (co-chair), Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil