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The 2012 FTRA World Convergence Conference (FTRA WCC 2012)
Sponsored by
Future Technology Research Association International

Technically Co-Sponsored by
Software Simulation Society in Taiwan
The Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS)

Supported by
Korea Information Technology Convergence Society (KITCS)

http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012

Jeju, Korea, November 22-25, 2012
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** Important Notice **

At least one of the authors should be a FTRA member when you submit your paper to one of the WCC 2012 events. You can join a member at http://www.ftrai.org/registration.html.
Please note that papers will be rejected without reviews if none of the authors is a FTRA member.

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The 3rd FTRA World Convergence Conference (FTRA WCC 2012) will be held in Jeju, Korea, November 22 - 25, 2012.
The Conference is aimed at addressing key themes on "Technologies and Services for Converged environments".
The program will feature major symposia and workshops. Full details of sub-mission procedures are available on the WCC 2011 website http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012.
FTRA WCC 2012 is the next event in a series of highly successful World Convergence Conference, previously held as FTRA WCC 2010 (Gwangju, December 2010) and FTRA WCC 2011 (Jeju, December 2011).

There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers.
Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas of interest for this conference.
The final versions of ALL accepted papers in the conference/workshop will be included in the special issues of SCI/E indexed international journals for full papers.
In case of conference proceeding, only presentation materials (ppt slides) for the accepted papers will be only included.(Pending)


* Security and Communication Network (SCN) - Wiley (SCIE)
* International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) - Wiley (SCIE)
* Computers & Electrical Engineering (CEE) - Elsevier (SCIE)
* Cluster Computing Journal - Springer (SCIE)
* Information-an international interdisciplinary journal - International Information Institute (SCIE)
* Computers & Mathematics with Applications (CMa) - Elsevier (SCI)
* Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE)
* The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
* International Journal of Mobile Information Systems (IJMIS) - IOS Press (SCIE)
* Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)
* International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - Inderscience (SCOPUS Index)
* International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT) - Inderscience (SCOPUS Index)

* Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (SCOPUS and EI Index)
* Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
* International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) ??? InderScience
* Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) - Korea Information Processing Society
* Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing

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Topics
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Technical papers will be presented in the following major topics:
* Cryptography and Security for Converged environments
* Wireless sensor network for Converged environments
* Advanced Future Multimedia Services
* Advanced Vehicular Communications Technology for Converged environments
* Human centric computing, P2P, Grid and Cloud computing for Converged environments
* Strategic Security Management for Industrial Technology
* Smart Devices, Applications, and Services

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Organizing Committee (TBA)
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Steering Chair
James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea

General Chairs
Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
Leonard Barolli , Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Young-Sik Jeong , Wonkwang University, Korea

Program Chairs
Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea
Parimala Thulasiraman , University of Manitoba, Canada
Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA
Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea
Jongsung Kim, Kyungnam University, Korea
Jiqiang Lu, I2R, Singapore
HangBae Chang, Daejin University, Korea

International Advisory Board
Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
Andrew Kusiak, The University of Iowa, USA
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
BAO Feng, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Bezalel Gavish , Southern Methodist University, USA
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT,Japan
Daqing Zhang, Institute TELECOM SudParis, France
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Ching-Hsien Hsu , Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Sugata Sanya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan

Registration Chair
Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea
Yangsun Lee, Chosun University, Korea

Publicity Chairs
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Isaac Woungang , Ryerson University, Canada
Bernady O. Apduhan , Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Sangoh Park, Chang-Ang University, Korea
Barton P. Miller, University of Wisconsin, USA
Yanghoon Kim, Daejin University, Korea
Andrrew Clark, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Hongjoo Lee, Kyonggi University, Korea

Local Arrangement Chair
Deokgyu Lee, ETRI, Korea
Hyukjun Kwon, Yonsei Univeristy, Korea

Web and System Management Chair
Jung-Sik Cho, KISA, Korea

Secretary
Jonggu Kang, Daejin University, Korea

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Important Date
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Step 1: Conference Process

Paper submission due: June 15, 2012
1st Author notification: July 15, 2012
Revised paper due: July 30, 2012
2nd Author notification: Aug. 15, 2012
Presentation Material due: Sept. 15, 2012
Conference days: Nov. 22-25, 2012
Step 2: Journal Process

Final notification due: Dec. 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper due: Dec. 30, 2012
Journal Publication: 2nd or 3rd Quarter, 2013 (Tentative)

Please refer each workshop for more detail.


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Paper Submission
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All submissions must be written in English. They must contain no information identifying the author(s) or their affiliation(s).
All papers must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to the workshop proceedings style and submitted as DOC or PDF files.

The sample format can be download from here.

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits (8-10 pages for Full Papers, 4-5 pages for Regular Papers).
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

First, materials (PPT) for presentation of accepted papers will be included in a symposium proceeding.
As you can see the CFP, final version of all accepted and presented papers in this conference will be included in Special Issues of the following international journals indexed by SCI/E and KCIE.
We are planning to accept about many high quality papers for the this conference, and all of them, after presentation at the symposium, will be included in these special issues.

Full Papers will be published to SCI/SCIE Indexed Journals (as of Thomson ISI SCI/SCIE list in 2012).
Regular Papers will be published to International Journals (LNEE, HCIS, JoC, IJITCC, JIPS, etc..).

Submission system:

Please refer to each conference and workshop websites of the WCC 2012.


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Contact
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For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact:

ftra.secretary01@gmail.com or ftra.secretary02@gmail.com


- WCC-ACSA 2012 (homepage: http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/acsa/)
(The 2012 FTRA International Symposium on Advances in Cryptography, Security and Applications for Future Computing)

- WCC-WTA 2012 (homepage: http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/wta/)
(The 2012 FTRA International Symposium on Wireless sensor network Technologies and Applications for Smart Space)

- WCC-AFMS 2012 (homepage: http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/afms/)
(The 2012 FTRA International Workshop on Advanced Future Multimedia Services)

- WCC-VCT 2012 (homepage: http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/vct/)
(The 2012 FTRA International Workshop on Vehicular Communications Technology)

- WCC-HPGC 2012 (homepage: http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/hpgc/)
(The 2012 FTRA International Workshop on Human centric computing, P2P, Grid and Cloud computing)

- WCC-SSMIT 2012 (homepage: http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/ssmit/)
(The 2012 FTRA International Workshop on Strategic Security Management for Industrial Technology)

- WCC-SmartIT 2012 (homepage: http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/smartit)
(The 2012 International Workshop on Smart Devices, Applications, and Services)