Dear Colleagues,

please consider to contribute to the following conference and events
and/or forward to the appropriate groups.

Kind regards,
Dr. Claus-Peter Rueckemann
INFOCOMP General Chair


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             Call for Papers, Tutorials, Panels

                       INFOCOMP 2012

           THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
          ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTATION

           October 21 - 26, 2012 - Venice, Italy

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General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/INFOCOMP12.html
Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComINFOCOMP12.html

Call for Papers:
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http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPINFOCOMP12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters

Submission page:
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http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitINFOCOMP12.html

Submission deadline: June 7, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies.
Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are
not under review in any other conference or journal in the
following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial
rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


INFOCOMP 2012 Topics
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(topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Large scale and fast computation
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Developments in information and computing systems; Grid computing;
Cloud computing; Pervasive/ubiquitous computing; Services computing
and Opportunistic computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Fast
data processing; Real-time processing; Fast switching and routing
protocols; Parallelization of algorithms and applications;
Energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Large scale data
visualization; Tools for parallelization; Programming languages and
parallel algorithms; Highly performance codes; MPI, OpenMP;
Optimization; Distributed systems; dynamical systems;
Future architectures; integrated systems; beyond cloud; reaching exaflop;
Innovative architectures

Networks/systems communications
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Cross-layer design and optimization; Cyber-physical systems and
networks; Data centers, virtualization, and cloud networks;
Delay/disruption tolerant networks; Future Internet broadband
services; Fast networks / InfiniBand architectures for future
interactive multicore applications; Sensor networks and embedded
systems; Ad hoc mobile networks; Access technologies; P2P networks;
Optical networks; Cellular and broadband wireless networks; Mobility
models and mobile networks; Multicast, broadcast and anycast;
Multimedia protocols and networking; Software defined radio and
cognitive radio networking; Content-based network service;
Certification, public key infrastructures, data integrity; Privacy
and anonymity

Networks/systems measurement, control and management
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Networks/systems measurement, simulation and emulation; Network-,
system-, and application-management; Congestion control and capacity
planning; Dynamic spectrum management; Addressing and location
management; Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience
(QoE); Quality of Data (QoD) and Quality of Context (QoC);
e-Commerce, accounting, pricing and billing; Use of distributed
compute and storage resources; Energy-aware mechanisms for control
and management; Configuration, reuse of software components;
Resource allocation and management; Denial of service mitigation and
prevention; System and data security; Communication visualization

Advanced applications
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Simulation and modelling (scientific applications, engineering,
industry); Computer science and geoinformatics; e-Energy,
geosciences, prospection, exploration, oil and gas; Mobility and
logistic services; Geoscientific Information Systems (GIS); Remote
sensing and satellite imaging; Cartography, hydrology; Climatology
and environmental sciences; Molecular dynamics simulation; Genetic
algorithms; Physics and chemistry applications; Medicine, genetics,
epidemiology, medical geology; Earth and planetary science;
Archaeology; cultural heritage; Multi-dimensional data visualization;
Search engines and scientific discovery; Online social networking;
Vehicular, underground and underwater networks and applications;
Scientific data processing; Computation frameworks and tools
(Mathematica, SAGE, Maple, Matlab, Gromacs, ANSYS, Fluent, etc.);
Database applications; Information and database systems; Education,
e-Learning, and e-Science; ICT business evaluation and management;
Legal informatics, Open Access, Science / Copyright

Evaluation context
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Energy-aware and energy-efficient networks; Implementation and
experimental testbeds; Traffic measurement and traffic patterns;
Characterization of topology dynamics; Access and biometric
technologies, performance, and cost prediction; Web services and
performance; Performance measurement and benchmarking; Energy-aware
and energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Usability studies;
Social and ethic consequences with biometry and data security;
Standards, benchmarks, protocols

Biometry, security, access technologies, algorithms, and applications
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Technologies and advances in biometric algorithms and interfaces
(gait, electrocardiography, iris, image, fingerprint, palm veins,
multi-modality); Biometric systems; Integration of biometrics with
other technologies; Challenge response; Simplified enrollment; NFC
support, spoofing and countermeasures; Single sign on (SSO);
Adaptive trust; Template protection (protection of reference data);
Large and scalable biometric systems using cloud services; Deployed
solutions and applications; Experience reports and systems;
Description in physical and logical access control (information
system access, immigration and border control, law enforcement,
entertainment, finance, life science, healthcare, forensics)

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