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CALL FOR PAPERS

The IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information
Networking and Applications (AINA2006)

Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
April 18 (Tue.) - April 20 (Thu.), 2006

http://www.aina-conference.org/2006/

Sponsored by
    IEEE Computer Society TCDP
    Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

In cooperation with
    to be announced

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As one of the most important international conferences sponsored by
the TCDP of the IEEE Computer Society, the International Conference
on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2006) will
be held in Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria,
April 18 (Tue.) - April 20 (Thu.), 2006. The conference covers theory,
design and application of computer networks and  distributed computing
systems. Aside from the regular presentations, the conference will include
keynote addresses with speakers from both industry and academia.
Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in any of the following 
areas:

   * Communication Protocol and Architecture
   * High-speed Communication and Network
   * Wireless Communication and Network
   * Multimedia Communication and System
   * Personal Communication System
   * Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Network
   * Low-power Network and System
   * Wearable Network and System
   * Embedded System and Networking
   * Quality of Services (QoS)
   * Network Control and Management
   * Network Performance Analysis and Evaluation
   * Internet Technology and IP-based Applications
   * Multicast Routing and Technology
   * Security, Privacy and Trust
   * Fault-tolerant and Dependable System
   * Multi-agent System and Applications
   * Parallel/Distributed Algorithm and Architecture
   * Distributed Database and Data Mining
   * Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR System
   * Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing
   * Biological Informatics and Computing
   * E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Society, etc.
   * Grid, Cluster and Internet Computing
   * Peer-to-Peer (P2P) System
   * Service-oriented Framework and Middleware
   * Autonomic Computing and Communication
   * WWW, Semantic Web and Cyber World
   * Mobile and Context-aware Computing
   * Ubiquitous/Pervasive Networks and Computing
   * Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World
   * Smart Object, Space/Environment and System
   * Innovative Networking and Applications
   * Social, Ethical & Other Issues of Networked World

In conjunction with the 20th Anniversary of AINA, celebrative events will be 
organized.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop Proposal Due: June 30, 2005
Submission Deadline:  Sept. 20, 2005
Author Notification:  Dec. 10, 2005
Author Registration:  Dec. 25, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:  Jan. 15, 2006


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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submit a full paper of at most 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society 
Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and
references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:

URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Contact author must provide the following information at the AINA2006 web
site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax,
and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about
five keywords. Prepare your paper in PDF file and send it to our web site:

URL: http://www.aina-conference.org/2006/

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted,
at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in
the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing
and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification
of acceptance.

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in AINA2006 will be
published in prestigious international journals of IJHPCN, IJWMC, JOIN,
JPCC, IJDSN, Cluster Computing, etc.


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WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
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In conjunction with the AINA2006 conference, about eight workshops will be 
held.

If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal 
including call for paper, number of papers to be accepted, contact person, 
to the workshop Co-Chairs Dr. Hui-Huang Hsu (hhsu@cs.tku.edu.tw), 
Prof. Laurence T. Yang (lyang@stfx.ca), and Dr. Mohammed Younas (m.younas@brookes.ac.uk)
by June 30. Proceedings of the AINA2006 workshops will be published by 
IEEE Computer Society Press. The schedule of each workshop should follow 
the conference schedule.


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FURTHER INFORMATION
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For questions, please contact:
   Leonard Barolli, Professor
   AINA2006 General Co-Chair
   Department of Information and Communication Engineering
   Faculty of Information Engineering
   Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT)
   3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan
   Tel.: +81-92-606-4970
   Fax: +81-92-606-4970
   E-mail: barolli@fit.ac.jp
           aina2006@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp


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AINA2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Honorary Chair
   Shoichi Noguchi, SFAIS, Japan

General Co-Chairs
   A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan

Program Co-Chairs
   Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
   Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
   Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA

Workshops Co-Chairs
   Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
   Mohammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, England

International Advisory Committee
   Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
   Flora Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   Wen-Tsuen Chen, TsingHua University, Taiwan
   Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan
   Frank Hsu, Fordham University, USA
   Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, University of Houston, USA 
   Chung-Ming Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
   Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT Lab., Japan
   Takuya Katayama, JAIST, Japan
   Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan
   Kane Kim,  University of California, Irvine, USA
   Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
   Bao-Shuh Paul Lin, ITRI, Taiwan
   Mike Liu, The Ohio State University, USA
   Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
   Tae-Woo Park, AOARD, Japan
   Michel Raynal, IRSA, France
   Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
   Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
   Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
   Xinmei Wang, Xidian University, China

Program Vice Chairs

1.  Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
   Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

2.  Agent and Intelligent Computing
   Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan

3.  Biological Informatics and Computing
   Cheng-Yan Kao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

4.  Communication Technology and Protocols
   Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan

5.  Dependable and Autonomic Systems
   Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan

6.  Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
   Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada

7.  Distributed Database and Data Mining
   David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

8.  Grid, P2P and Scalable Computing
   Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

9.  Innovative Networking and Applications
   Hossam Saad Hassanein, Queens' University, Canada

10. Internet Computing and Web Applications
   Peter Brezany, University of Vienna, Austria

11. Mobile Networks and Applications
   Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

12. Multimedia Tools and Applications
   Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

13. Network Control and Performance Evaluation
   Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University, USA

14. Pervasive/Ubiquitous Networks and Computing
   Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 

15. Security, Privacy and Trust
   Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany

16. Semantic Services and Computing
   Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada

17. Social and Personal Issues of Networked World
   Guenther Mueller, University of Freiburg, Germany


International Liaison Co-Chairs
   Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Southern Australia and University of Vienna, Austria
   Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
   Chaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China

Award Co-Chairs
   Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
   Chengke Wu, Xidian University, China
   S. Misbah Deen, University of Keele, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs
   Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China
   Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT, France
   Minyi Guo, University of Aizu, Japan

Publication Co-Chairs
   Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
   Hitoshi Aida, University of Tokyo, Japan

International Journals Coordinators
   Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
   Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan

Treasure Co-Chairs
   Naohiro Hayashibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
   Kaoru Sugita, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Web Administration Chair
   Satoshi Itaya, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Local Arrangement Chairs
   Maria Schweikert, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Markus Klemen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Steering Committee Chair
   Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Program Committee Members
   Toru Abe, Tohoku University, Japan
   Mokhtar Aboelaze, York Univeristy, Canada
   Emad Aboelela University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
   Hosam Aboelfotoh, Kuwait University
   Ayman Abdel-Hamid, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt
   Gagan Agrawal, The Ohio State University, USA
   Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University, USA
   Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University , Japan
   Jose Nelson Amaral, The University of Alberta, Canada
   Rachid Anane, University of Coventry, UK
   Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
   Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK
   Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
   Jean Arlat, LAAS-CNRS, France
   Khaled Arisha, Honeywell International Inc., USA
   Eric Aubanel, The University of New Brunswick, Canada
   Roberto Baldoni, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
   Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
   Wernher Behrendt, Salzburg Research, Austria
   Savitri Bevinakoppa, RMIT University, Australia
   Martin Bichler, Technical University Munich, Germany
   Bhed Bahadur Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
   Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
   David Bonyuet, Delta Search Labs, USA
   Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
   Anu Bourgeois, Georgia State University, USA
   Francisco V. Brasileiro, University of Campina Grande, Brazil
   Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Vladimir Brusic, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
   Marian Bubak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
   Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
   Fabio Casati, Hewlett-Packard, USA
   Christophe Cerin, University Paris-Nord, France
   Toni Cortes, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
   David W. Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
   Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
   Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
   Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
   Pascal Chatonnay, Universite De Franche-Comte, France
   Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA
   Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
   Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
   Maggie Cheng, University of Missouri, USA
   Zixue Cheng, University of Aizu, Japan
   Yanghee Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
   Li-Der Chou, National Central University, Taiwan
   Fei Dai, Florida Atlantic University, USA
   Yuanshun Dai, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA
   Jing Deng, University of New Orleans, USA
   Lawrence Y. Deng, St. Jon's & Mary's Inst. of Technology, Taiwan
   Michael Ditze, University of Paderborn, Germany
   Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Eylem Ekici, The Ohio State University, USA 
   Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada
   Sameh Elsharkawy, Catholic University of America, USA
   Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
   Rasit Eskicioglu, The University of Manitoba, Canada
   Christof Fetzer, Technische University Dresden, Germany
   Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA
   Eduardo B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA 
   Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany
   Shigeru Fujita, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
   Nobuo Funabiki, Okayama University, Japan
   Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK
   Kentaro Go, Yamanashi University, Japan
   Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
   Peter Graham, The University of Manitoba, Canada
   Nathan Griffiths, University of Warwick, UK
   Yong Guan, Iowa state Unversity, USA
   Hani A K Hagras, University of Essex, UK
   Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT, France
   Koji Hashimoto, Iwate Pref. University, Japan
   Bernhard Haslhofer, Research Studios Austria - Digital Memory Engineering, Austria
   Naohiro Hayashibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
   Aiguo He, University of Aizu, Japan
   Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University, Canada
   Lance Hester, Motorola, Inc., USA
   Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia
   Jorng-Tzong Horng, National Central University, Taiwan
   Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
   Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
   Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
   Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria
   Jason C. Hung, Kung Wu Institute of Technology, Taiwan
   Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
   Jenn-Kang Hwang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
   Ren-Hung Hwang, NCCU, Taiwan
   Pedro Isaias, Portuguese Open University, Portugal
   Susumu Ishihara, Shizuoka University, Japan
   Ibrahim Ismail, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
   Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada
   Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA
   Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   Ahmed Kama, Iowa State University, USA
   Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
   Yuka Kato, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
   Sokrates K. Katsikas, University of the Aegean, Greece
   Nobuo Kawaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan
   Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan
   Cheolmin Kim, Pusan National University,  Korea 
   Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communication University, Korea
   Gen Kitagata, Tohoku University, Japan
   Markus Klemen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Turgay Korkmaz, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
   Harald Kosch, University Klagenfurt, Austria
   Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
   Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
   Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
   Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA
   Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
   Dongman Lee, Information and Communications University, Korea
   Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
   Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
   Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
   Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada
   Benyuan Liu,  University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
   Jonathan C.L. Liu, University of Florida, USA
   Kevin Liu, T-Mobile USA, USA
   Yu-lung Lo, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
   Javier Lopez-Munoz, University of Malaga, Spain
   Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
   Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
   Wathiq Mansoor, Zayed University, UAE
   Giuseppe De Marco, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
   Hiroshi Matsuno, Yamaguchi University, Japan
   Pedro Jose Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany
   Hsing Mei, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
   Dan Meng, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
   Rozeta Miho, Tirana Polytechnical University, Albania
   Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
   Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
   Takashi Mitsuishi, Tohoku University, Japan
   Graham Morgan, University of Newcastle, UK
   Achour Mostefaoui, IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France
   Hamid Motahari, University of New South Wales, Australia
   Renate Motschnig, University of Vienna, Austria
   Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
   Takuo Nakashima, Kyushu Tokai University, Japan
   Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada
   Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
   Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
   Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan
   Masato Oguchi, Ochanomizu University, Japan
   Martin S. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa
   Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
   Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
   Marek Paralic, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
   Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
   Jeong-Hyun Park, ETRI, Korea
   Fernando Pedone, USI, Switzerland
   Filip Perich, Cougaar Software Inc., USA
   Mario Pichler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
   Tomas Pitner, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
   Karl Christian Posch, Technical University Graz, Austria
   Mark A. Ragan, The University of Queensland, Australia  
   Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
   Rudi Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
   Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
   Sabine Rathmayer, Technical University Munich, Germany
   Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA
   Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
   Karl Rehrl, Salzburg Research, Austria
   Luis E. T. Rodrigues, University of Lisbon, Portugal
   Christoph Ruland, University Siegen, Germany
   Hiroki Saito, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
   Takamichi Saito, Meiji University, Japan 
   Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
   Nicoletta Sala, University of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland
   Pierangela Samarati, Universita di Milano, Italy
   Ahmed Sameh, American University in Cairo, Egypt
   Fumiaki Sato, Shizuoka University, Japan
   Nobuyoshi Sato, Toyo University, Japan
   Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland
   Richard D. Schlichting, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
   Ali Selcuk, Bilkent University, Turkey
   Ali Shahrabi, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
   Jonathon Shapiro, Michigan State University, USA
   Ruth Shaw, University of New Brunswick, Canada
   Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA
   Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan
   Kuei-Ping Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   David Simplot-Ryl, University Lille 1, France
   Jackie Silcock, Deakin University, Australia
   Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore
   Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
   Kaoru Sugita, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan 
   Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
   Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA
   Hatem Ben Sta, University of Tunis, Tunisia
   Glen Takahara, Queen's University, Canada
   Domenico Talia, Universita' della Calabria, Italy
   Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
   Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
   Joseph Thomas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
   Parimala Thulasiraman, The University of Manitoba, Canada
   Vladimir Tosic, University of Western Ontario, Canada
   Savio Tse, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
   Peter Urban, JAIST, Japan
   Stehen Vinsoki, IONA Technologies, USA
   Son T. Vuong, University of British Columbia, Canada
   Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan
   Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA
   Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, USA
   Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   Hans Weghorn, BA-STuttgart, Germany
   Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada 
   Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
   Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
   Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA
   Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA
   Toshihiko Yamakami, ACCESS CO., LTD., Japan
   David Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
   George Yee, National Research Council, Canada
   Kechu Yi, Xidian University, China
   Hidetoshi Yokota, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
   Masao Yokota, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
   Takaichi Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
   Moustafa Youssef, University of Maryland College Park, USA
   Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
   Qiangfu Zhao, University of Aizu, Japan
   Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
   Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia
   Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
   Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada