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INFOSCALE 2009 - Call for Papers

June 10-12 2009, Hong Kong, China
http://www.infoscale.org/
Technical-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
Co-sponsored by Create-Net and ICST
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Overview

As volume of data and knowledge keeps increasing, new methods, modeling paradigms, and structures
are supported to efficiently mount scalability requirements. In the last few years, heterogeneous
distributed systems proliferate, ranging from simple networks of workstations to highly complex
grid computing environments. Such computational paradigms have been preferred due to their reduced
costs and inherent scalability, which pose many challenges to scalable systems and applications
in terms of information access, storage and retrieval.

The fourth International Conference on Scalable Information Systems will focus on a wide array of
scalability issues and investigate new approaches to tackle problems arising from the ever-growing
size and complexity of information of all kinds.
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Scope

Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by
another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific
contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest.

The Fourth International Conference on Scalable Information Systems will focus on a wide array of scalability
issues and investigate new approaches to tackle problems arising from the ever-growing size and complexity
of information of all kinds.

The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently
under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Scalable Parallel and Distributed Information Retrieval
Scalable Grid Information Systems
Scalable Peer-to-Peer Systems
Scalable Mobile Systems
Scalable Web Services
Scalable Sensor Networks and Systems
Scalable Systems and Conceptual Modelling
Scalable Multimedia Information Systems
Scalable Data Mining
Scalability Issues on Emerging Computing Architectures (SMTs, GPUs, Multicores)

Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems
Middleware Technology for Scalable Computing
Information Security
Architectures for Scalability
Networking Metrics for Scalability
Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
Enterprise Information Systems and Applications
Very Large Databases
Compression Techniques for Scalability
Optimizing Compiling Techniques for Scalable Parallel Systems

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Important Dates

Full Papers due: April 10, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2009
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: May 10, 2009
Conference Dates: June 10-12, 2009
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Submission

Please access the link http://www.infoscale.org/2009/submission.shtml to submit your paper.


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General Co-Chair
Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Program Committee Chairs
Cho-li Wang, The University of Hong Kong
Robert Steele, University of Sydney

Tutorial Chair
Xiaolin Li, Oklahoma State University

Workshop Chair
Alvin Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Publicity Chairs
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab
Beihong Jin, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science
Li Li, Communications Research Center Canada, Canada

Local Arrangement Chair
Alan Wong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Steering Committee
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Consortium
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology