Call For Participation: WORLDCOMP'09 (The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing), USA, July 13-16, 2009

                      Call For Participation

                           WORLDCOMP'09
            The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

         Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA
             http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

This is an invitation to attend WORLDCOMP'09 Congress. WORLDCOMP'09 is composed of a number of tracks (22 joint conferences, 15 tutorials, 180 technical sessions and workshops, 55 keynotes and invited lectures);
all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 13-16, 2009. Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. See below for the complete list of joint conferences,
list of sponsors, registration information, hotel information, and some
highlights.

LIST OF JOINT CONFERENCES: o BIOCOMP'09: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology o CDES'09: Computer Design
o CGVR'09: Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality o CSC'09: Scientific Computing
o DMIN'09: Data Mining
o EEE'09: e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and

    e-Government
o ERSA'09: Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms o ESA'09: Embedded Systems and Applications o FCS'09: Foundations of Computer Science o FECS'09: Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer

    Engineering
o GCA'09: Grid Computing and Applications o GEM'09: Genetic and Evolutionary Methods o ICAI'09: Artificial Intelligence
o ICOMP'09: Internet Computing
o ICWN'09: Wireless Networks
o IKE'09: Information and Knowledge Engineering o IPCV'09: Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
o MSV'09: Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods o PDPTA'09: Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and

    Applications
o SAM'09: Security and Management
o SERP'09: Software Engineering Research and Practice o SWWS'09: Semantic Web and Web Services

CO-SPONSORS:    ACADEMIC/TECHNICAL Co-Sponsors:
   o United States Military Academy, Network Science Center;    o Biomedical Cybernetics Lab., HST of Harvard U. and MIT;    o Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne National Lab.;

   o Functional Genomics Lab., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;    o Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, U. of Minnesota;    o Intelligent Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., U. of Texas at Austin;

   o Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab.,

      Harvard U.;
   o Texas Advanced Computing Center, U. of Texas at Austin;    o Center for the Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics, Georgia

      Institute of Technology;
   o Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program, George Mason U.;    o Institute of Discrete Mathematics & Geometry, Vienna U. of

      Technology, Austria;
   o BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Lab., Georgia Institute

      of Technology & Emory U.;
   o Knowledge Management & Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of

      U. of Siegen, Germany;
   o National Institute for Health Research;    o Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College

      of Medicine, U. of Iowa;
   o Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of

      Sciences, Moscow, Russia;
   o Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), U. of Iowa;    o SECLAB (U. of Naples Federico II, U. Naples Parthenope, & Second

      U. Naples, Italy;
   o U. of North Dakota;
   o Intelligent Cyberspace Engineeing Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M/Comm, U.;

   o International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine;    o World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies.

   OTHER SPONSORS:
   o European Commission;
   o Supermicro, Inc.
   o Salford Systems
   o Element CXI, California
   o High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);    o HoIP - Health without Boundaries;
   o The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics;    o The UK Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform;    o VMW Solutions Ltd.;
   o Scientific Technologies Corporation;    o Hodges' Health
   o Bentham Science Publishers
   o GridToday

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE/PROGRAM:    The complete WORLDCOMP'09 schedule/program is available at:    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/program

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:    To attend the congress, use the following online registration link:    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/registration

HOTEL RESERVATION:    WORLDCOMP'09 will be held in the Monte Carlo resort, Las Vegas,    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000    rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle/taxi    service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational    attractions and is within walking distance from most other    attractions. You are to reserve your hotel room directly by    calling Monte Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make

   sure that you mention the Group Code "XWRLD9" (XWRLD9 is the    keyword that the hotel will use to handle the reserved block of    rooms for the Congress). You should reserve your room as soon as    possible since our block is very close to being fully booked. There

   are also many other hotels nearby.

KEYNOTE LECTURES (this is only a small subset):

o Prof. Ian Foster

    Father of Grid Computing
    Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director,     Computation Institute, University of Chicago and     Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA     Title: Grid Computing

o Dr. K. Eric Drexler

    Father of Nanotechnology
    Chief Technical Advisor, Nanorex
    Title: Advanced Nanotechnology: Advanced Computing on the Critical Path

o Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna

    Fellow, IEEE; Fellow ACM
    Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering; Professor of EE, CE, CS;     Executive Director of USC-Infosys Center for Advanced Software     Technologies (CAST); University of Southern California, USA     Title: Algorithm Design for Reconfigurable Computing Systems

o Dr. Jose L. Munoz

    Deputy Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of     Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) and NSF/ICI senior advisor. Former Director

    of Simulation & CS Office at the National Nuclear Security Adm.'s     Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASCI) program.     Title: It's Like Deja-Vu All over Again ... Again

o Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee

    Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, SourceTrace

    Systems, Inc.
    Title: e-Services Everywhere

o Dr. Rahul Razdan

    CEO, Raztech LLC
    Title: Future Directions in Reconfigurable Computing

o Prof. P. M. A. Sloot

    Director of the Institute for Informatics     University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands     Editor-in-Chief, Future Generation Computer Systems     Title: Sex and the City - Modelling HIV from Molecule to Man     and
    Title: Modeling Dynamic Systems with Cellular Automata

o Prof. Michael Bank

    Holon Institute of Technology, Israel     Inventor of Frequency Bank Signal (FBS).     Title: Perception Redundancy Theory and Technical Compression Systems

    and
    Title: The Doppler Effect: Limiting Values in OFDMA Cellular Systems

o Prof. Brian D. Athey

    University of Michigan Medical School, USA; Founding Associate     Director, CCMB; Head, NIH National Center for Integrative Biomedical

    Informatics; Director, Biomedical Informatics Program of Michigan     Institute for Clinical & Health Research; Advisor to Director of     DPCPSI in the office of the Director of the NIH.     Title: TBA

PLANNED TUTORIALS (this is a partial list):

    Tutorial attendance is free to registered attendees of worldcomp and

    all its associated conferences (most are 3 hours long):

o Robust Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems:

    Models and Methods
    Prof. H. J. Siegel
    Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and     Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science,     Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC),     Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

o Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems

    Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
    Chief Technology Officer (CTO), SourceTrace Systems, USA; Consultant

    for Fortune-100 companies; Formerly, Chief Architect of Hewlett- s

    Web Services Mediation Platform, USA

o Inverse Problems in Imaging Systems and Computer Vision: From

    Deterministic Regularization to Probabilistic Bayesian Approaches     Prof. Ali Mohammad-Djafari
    Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

(CNRS), France

o A Complete Revolution in Software Engineering Based on Complexity Science

    Jay Xiong
    International Software Automation, Inc. (currently being reorganized), USA

    ISA Shanghai, Ltd., Shanghai, P. R. China

o Data Mining With Sensitivity to Rare Events and Class Imbalance

    Prof. Nitesh V. Chawla
    University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

o State of the Art in Sensor Networking

    Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

o Introduction to Digital Forensics Research

    Dr. Robert F. Erbacher
    Utah State University, Utah, USA

o Visualization for the Beginner, the Researcher, the Advanced

    Architect and Whoever Else ...
    Dr. Brian J. d'Auriol
    Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea

o Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online

    Dr. Michael (Mike) L. Nelson
    School of Technology Graduate Program Director     Hodges University, Ft Myers, Florida, USA

o Teaching Java Through Alice and Greenfoot

    Dr. Peter DePasquale* and Dr. Mark Lewis**     *The College of New Jersey, USA & **Trinity University, USA

o Emerging Human-Web Interaction Research

    Dr. Peter Geczy
    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST), Japan

o Cryptographic Features and Applications: Java (C)

    Prof. Ray Kresman
    Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

o A Tour of Advanced Data Mining Methodologies

    Dr. Dan Steinberg
    President and CEO of Salford Systems, Inc.

o Autonomous Machine Learning

    Prof. Asim Roy
    Arizona State University, Arizona, USA

o Web Services in ASP.NET AJAX

    Khanna Samratvivekanand Omprakash
    Institute of Science & Technology for Advanced Studies and     Research(ISTAR), Charotar Vidya Mandal (CVM), Sardar Patel     University, V.V.Nagar, India Received on Wed Jun 24 2009 - 22:16:45 CEST