[agents] Call For Papers: CSE-08 in Brazil

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          	             *Call for Papers*

*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

*Important Dates*
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Paper submission due: January 25, 2008
Paper notification of acceptance: March 21, 2008
Final camera ready: April 25, 2008

*Paper submission*
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Paper submission web site http://cse.stfx.ca/~cse08/sub/

Authors are expected to submit a paper in the PDF format with 5-10 keywords
following the IEEE CS format (http://www.icmc.usp.br/~cse08/submission.html).

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 8 pages and will be published 
by IEEE Computer Society Press as CSE 2008 conference 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.

Selected best papers will be awarded and also considered for a special issue 
of International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) and 
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN).

*Scope*
=======

The Computational Science and Engineering area has earned prominence through 
advances in electronic and integrated technologies beginning in the 1940s. 
Current times are very exciting and the years to come will witness a 
proliferation in the use of advanced computing systems.
 
The scientific and engineering application domains have a key role in shaping 
future research and development activities in academia and industry, especially 
when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with tight timing 
schedules.
 
This Conference is to bring together computer scientists, applied mathematicians, 
engineers in different disciplines and researchers to present, discuss and exchange 
ideas, results and experiences in the area of advanced computing for problems in 
science and engineering applications and inter-disciplinary applications.
 
Among the main topics of interest (but not limited to) are:

- Intelligent, Bioinspired and Autonomic Computing
- Distributed and Parallel Computing
- Distributed Database and Data Mining
- Grid, P2P, Web Services and Internet Computing
- Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
- HPC Applications
- Scientific and Engineering Computing
- Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
- Advanced Networking and Applications
- Security, Privacy and Trust 
- Education in Computational Scientific and Engineering
- Applications to the following areas, but not limited to:
     - computational fluid dynamics and mechanics
     - material sciences
     - space, weather, climate systems and global changes
     - computational environment and energy systems
     - computational ocean and earth sciences
     - combustion system simulation
     - computational chemistry
     - computational physics
     - bioinformatics and computational biology
     - medical applications
     - transportation systems simulations
     - combinatorial and global optimization problems
     - structural engineering
     - computational electro-magnetic
     - computer graphics and multimedia
     - semiconductor technology, and electronic circuits and system design
     - dynamic systems
     - computational finance
     - data mining
     - signal and image processing, etc

*Programm Committee*
====================
 
General Co-Chairs

     Liria Matsumoto Sato, EP - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
     Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
     Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
 
Steering Committee
 
   Steering Committee Co-Chairs

     Laurence Tianruo Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
     Siang Wun Song, IME - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
   Steering Committee Members

     Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
     Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
     Philippe Navaux, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
     Alvaro L.G.A. Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
     Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
     Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
     Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
 
Program Co-Chairs

     Jose Alberto Cuminato, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
     Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
 
   Program Vice-Chairs
 
   Intelligent, Bioinspired and Autonomic Computing
   Andre Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
   Distributed and Parallel Computing
   Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Science, Poland
 
   Distributed Database and Data Mining
   Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
 
   Grid, P2P, Web Services and Internet Computing
   Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
 
   Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
   Alvin Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
 
   HPC Applications
   Daniel Katz, Louisiana State University, USA
 
   Scientific and Engineering Computing
   Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

   Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
   Meikang Qiu, University of New Orleans, USA 

   Advanced Networking and Applications
   Mario Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

   Security, Privacy and Trust
   Adriano Mauro Cansian, Paulista State University, Brazil

Workshop Chairs

   Francisco Isidro Massetto, EP - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Yiming Li, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
   Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Local Arrangements Chairs

   Francisco Isidro Massetto, EP - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Maio Donato Marino, EP - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Evgueni Dodonov, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Jose Augusto Andrade Filho, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Marcelo Keese Albertini, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Ricardo Bertagna, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
Publication Chair

   Luciano Jose Senger, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
 
Panel/Sponsorship Chairs

   Edson dos Santos Moreira, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Luis Carlos Trevelin, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
   Leandro Franco de Souza, ICMC - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
Web Chair

   Claudia Alves de Souza Mello, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

*About the Conference*
======================

The CSE (International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering) 
conference previously was held mainly as the International Workshop on High 
Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing for tenth editions, mostly 
in conjunction with International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 
as COATA-98 (Orlando, USA, July, 1998), HPSEC-99 (Fukushima, Japan, September 
1999), HPSEC-00 (Toronto, Canada, August, 2000), HPSEC-01 (Valencia, Spain, 
September, 2001), HPSEC-02 (Vancouver, Canada, August, 2002), HPSEC-03 
(Kaohsing, Taiwan, October, 2003), HPSEC-04 (Montreal, Canada, August, 2004), 
HPCSE-04 with WCC-04 (Toulouse, France, August, 2004), HPSEC-05 (Oslo, Norway, 
June, 2005), and HPSEC-06 (Columbus, USA, August, 2006).
 
After many successful editions, this conference will be organized independently 
starting in 2008, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This Conference is sponsored by IEEE 
TCSC Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and IEEE Computer Society.

*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.