Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  March 15, 2008

              C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
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           The 2008 International Conference on
                Communications in Computing
                         CIC'08
    Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas
at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University,
University of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences,
European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics, and others
(see below).  Corporate sponsors include Google, Salford Systems,
and NIIT.

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration.  All accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

CIC'08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.  The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   + Networking and Communications Track:
     - Communication Networks for computing
     - Communication protocols for computing
     - Mobile systems
     - Wireless and optical networks
     - Wireless sensor networks
     - Computing network management
     - Internet, web-based computing, e-Commerce, and Telecommunications
     - Network security in distributed applications
     - Ubiquitous systems

   + Parallel and Distributed Systems Track:
     - Communications in high performance computing
     - Parallel and distributed algorithms
     - Communications in new computational paradigms (e.g. optical-,
       nano-, bio-computing)
     - Parallel, distributed, grid, peer-to-peer and cluster-based
       Computing
     - Interconnection networks
     - Computation and communication performance models
     - Modeling and simulation of high performance systems
     - Scalable and interoperable systems and associated standards
     - Software systems (e.g. operating system support, middleware,
       tools)
     - Reliability and fault tolerance in embedded and real-time
       Systems

Web site of CIC'08:
http://www.cic-conf.net/
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


PURPOSE / HISTORY:

   CIC'08 is part of WORLDCOMP'08.  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
   gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
   and applied computing; it is composed of a number of joint conferences.
   Many of these joint conferences are the premier conferences for
   presentation of advances in their respective fields.  We anticipate
   to have over 2,600 attendees from over 80 countries participating in
   the 2008 event.  CIC'08 will be composed of research presentations, 
   keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, 
   and poster presentations.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
   (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
   Dr. Brian d'Auriol ([log in to unmask]) and/or to
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia ([log in to unmask]) by Mar. 15, 2008. Email
   submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All reasonable
   typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
   papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
   to prepare their papers for publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
   7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
   or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
   the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
   postal address, and email address of each author as well as the name
   of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, CIC'08).
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.

   All submissions received as per the above instructions will be
   evaluated by the CIC'08 Technical Program Committee and at least
   two reviews will be returned to the authors. Papers will be
   evaluated for technical merit, contribution, clarity, novelity and
   relevance to the conference. The Camera-Ready papers will/may be
   reviewed by one person for compliance with required changes.


IMPORTANT DATES:

   March 15, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
   April 10, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
   April 28, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Communications 
                      in Computing (CIC'08)


LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

   CIC will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, 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 service to and
   from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational attractions,
   including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool,
   lighted tennis courts, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ...
   The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable.
   The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions.


MULTICONFERENCE SPONSORS (this is a partial list):

   Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   -->  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   -->  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   -->  Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
   -->  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
   -->  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
        Urbana-Champaign, USA
   -->  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute
        of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   -->  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
        of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
   -->  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
        MIT, USA
   -->  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
        Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   -->  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   -->  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
        College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   -->  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
        University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   -->  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
   -->  PSU - Prince Sultan University
   -->  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
   -->  NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
        Geometry, TU Vienna

Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   -->  Google, Inc.
   -->  Salford Systems
   -->  NIIT Technologies

Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   -->  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
   -->  International Technology Institute (ITI)
   -->  GridToday - enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization,
        Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
   -->  HPCwire - The Leading Source for Global News and Information
        Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing
   -->  Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK



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