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The 2008 International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Engineering
IKE'08

Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/
book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

O Information retrieval systems
O Information reliability and security
O Information and knowledge structures
O Knowledge mining
O Knowledge delivery methods
O Knowledge life cycle
O Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques
O Knowledge classification tools
O Knowledge and information management techniques
O Knowledge extraction from images/pictures
O Knowledge management and cyber-learning
O Large-scale information processing methods
O Intelligent knowledge-based systems
O Re-usability of software/knowledge/information
O Aspect-oriented programming
O Formal and visual specification languages
O Decision support and expert systems
O e-Libraries (digital libraries) + e-Publishing
O Digital typography
O Agent-based techniques and systems
O Workflow management
O Large-scale information processing methods and systems
O Content management
O Database engineering and systems
O Data and knowledge fusion
O Data and knowledge processing
O Databanks - issues, methods, and standards
O Dataweb models and systems
O Data/Information/Knowledge models
O Data warehousing
O Data security and privacy issues
O Managing copyright laws
O Interoperability issues
O Transaction systems
O Ontologies and semantics
O Object-oriented modeling and systems
O Case-based reasoning
O Digital watermarking
O Applications (e-Commerce, multimedia, business, banking, ...)
O Emerging technologies and related issues

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
(about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008 (hra (AT) cs (DOT) uga.edu). email
submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable. All
reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
to prepare their papers for publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to
7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously
published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page
of
the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
postal address, and email address of each author as well as the
name
of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, IKE'08).
The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content of the paper.

Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
independent of the conference program committee. The referees'
evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the
track.
The track chairs will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-
Ready
papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors:

--> Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/

--> Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/ho...essionNetwork/

--> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
http://www.msi.umn.edu/

--> Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
http://bioinformatics.bioen.uiuc.edu/

--> BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://www.bio-miblab.org/

--> Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/

--> Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
MIT, USA
http://bcl.med.harvard.edu/

--> Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/

--> Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

--> Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/

--> Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/

--> The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
http://www.und.edu

--> International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
http://www.isibm.org/

--> Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

--> Telecommunications Task Force of the Intelligent Systems
Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
http://wmn.csie.ntpu.edu.tw/isatc/

--> IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE TCSC)
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/

--> IEEE Task force of Ubiquitous Intelligent Computing of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
http://www.ieee-cis.org/technical/isatc/

Corporate Co-Sponsors:

--> Google, Inc.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html

--> NIIT Technologies
http://www.niit-tech.com/

Other Co-Sponsors:

--> High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
http://www.hpcnano.org

--> International Technology Institute (ITI)
http://www.itiworld.org/

--> GridToday
http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html

--> HPCwire
http://www.hpcwire.com/

--> Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

The program committee includes members of the chapters of World
Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;
AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
computer security; and bioinformatics.) The names of the members
of the program committee will soon be posted on the web site.
Those interested in joining the program committee should email
Prof. H. R. Arabnia (hra (AT) cs (DOT) uga.edu) the following information:
Name,
affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address,
tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research
interests.

For the list of the members of program committee of IKE'07, refer
to:
http://www.world-academy-of-science....KE07/committee
Many members of the program committee include renowned leaders,
scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks;
many
are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various
societies,
heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Feb. 25, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2008: Notification of acceptance
April 25, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'08)
URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science....ferences/ike08