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Subject: HICSS-31 Environmental Informatics (Software) Track
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Dear Environmental Informatics specialist,
we have succeeded in having an Environmental Informatics Minitrack
instituted in the 31st HICSS (Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences). Please see below. This is a very prestigious conference, and
we need your support to make the Environmental Informatics Minitrack a
success. Please read and note that abstracts are due March 17, 1997.
(The rest of the timetable is listed below)
Sincerely,
D. Swayne, R. Denzer, G. Schimak
(for Minitrac 8 contact dswayne@uoguelph.ca)
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Call For Papers and Referees
Software Technology Track
of the
31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-31)
The Big Island of Hawaii - JANUARY 6-9, 1998
(14 minitracks)
http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing the new advances in emerging
software technology. We welcome papers that may be theoretical, conceptual,
tutorial, or descriptive in nature. The Software Technology Track consists of
the following fourteen (14) minitracks that cover a selection of emerging and
strategically important areas in software.
Minitrack-1: Agent Mobility and Communication
Minitrack-2: Compiling for Distributed Embedded Systems
Minitrack-3: Computational Steering
Minitrack-4: Configware: dynamic Redefinition of Hardware/Software Boundary
Minitrack-5: Coordination Languages, Models, Systems
Minitrack-6: Distributed Heterogeneous Information Services
Minitrack-7: Engineering Client-Server Systems
Minitrack-8: Environmental Informatics
Minitrack-9: High Speed Networks
Minitrack-10: Performance Evaluation of Distributed Systems
Minitrack-11: Virtual Shared Memory for Distributed Architectures
Minitrack-12: Web Computing in Theory and Practice
Minitrack-13: Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
Minitrack-14: Workflow Systems
<<< Topics & coordinators of the above 14 minitracks are listed at the end >>>
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Chairman
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Hesham El-Rewini
Department of Computer Science
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182
Phone: (402) 554-2852
Fax: (402) 554-2975
Email: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu
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1997 Deadlines
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o A 300-word abstract by March 17
o Feedback to author on abstract by April 15
o Eight copies of the manuscript by June 2
o Notification of accepted papers by August 31
o Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts are due by October 1
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Instructions for Authors
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Submit a 300-word abstract to one of the minitrack coordinators according
to their areas of responsibility (listed below) by March 17, 1997. Feedback
on the appropriateness of the abstract will be sent to you by April 15, 1997.
Submit eight (8) copies of the full manuscript by June 2, 1997. Manuscripts
should have an abstract and be 22-25 typewritten, double-spaced pages in
length. Papers must not have been previously presented or published, nor
currently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be subjected
to a rigorous refereeing process involving at least five reviewers. Individuals
interested in refereeing papers should contact the minitrack coordinators
directly.
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Tutorials
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Tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, January 6, 1998. Interested speakers
should submit full-day or half-day proposals to the chairman by March
17, 1997.
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Track Advisory Committee
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- Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA
- Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- Wolfgang A. Halang, Fernuniversitaet, GERMANY
- Abdelsalam Helal, MCC, USA
- Innes Jelly, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, USA
- Alexey Lastovetsky, Russian Academy of Science, RUSSIA
- Keqin Li, State University of New York, USA
- Gregory A. Riccardi, Florida State University, USA
- John Rosenberg, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
- Diane T. Rover, Michigan State University, USA
- Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA
- Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University, USA
- Alexander D. Stoyenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA
- Caetano Traina Junior, University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
- Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
- Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
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Topics and Coordinators of the Minitracks
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MINITRACK-1: AGENT MOBILITY AND COMMUNICATION
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Mobile agent infrastructure (transporting, naming, locating),
multi-agent communication (brokering, mediation, filtering,
routing, resource management), security, language support,
agent standardization and agent based applications (Web data
mining, online commerce, factory automation, etc.)
COORDINATORS
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o Dejan Milojicic, dejan@osf.org
TOG Research Institute, 11 Cambridge Center,
Cambridge MA, 02142
o David Musliner, musliner@src.honeywell.com
Honeywell Technology Center, MN65-2200,
3660 Technology Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55418
o Wolfgang Schroeder-Preikschat, wosch@cs.uni-potsdam.de
University of Potsdam, Computer Science Department,
Am Neuen Palais 10,14469 Potsdam, GERMANY
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MINITRACK-2: COMPILING FOR DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
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Languages and paradigms, intermediate forms, extensions to
conventional languages, macro and instruction level optimizations,
instruction level parallelism , VLIW and multi-threading, speculative
execution of code, branch-prediction techniques, compiling for compact
binaries, source level transformations, partitioning and scheduling,
continuos compilation with interpretation.
COORDINATORS
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o Sandeep Kumar, sandeep@hpl.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1 Main Street,
Cambridge, MA 02142
o Santosh Pande, santosh.pande@uc.edu
ECECS Dept., University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH 45246
o Sekhar Darbha, darbha@ece.rutgers.edu
ECE Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855
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MINITRACK-3: COMPUTATIONAL STEERING
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Applications: performance optimization, scientific visualization,
scientific computations, modeling and design, simulations, network
configuration and management. Infrastructure: instrumentation,
monitoring and data collection, visualization and presentation,
logging and evaluation of interactions, consistent snapshots, consistent
updates, combined algorithmic and interactive approaches.
COORDINATOR
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o Eileen Kraemer, eileen@cs.wustl.edu
Washington University, Campus Box 1045,
St. Louis, MO 63130
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MINITRACK-4: CONFIGWARE: DYNAMIC REDEFINITION OF HARDWARE/SOFTWARE BOUNDARY
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ILP (Instruction Level Parallelism) combining hardware and configware,
innovative configware: from glue logic to programming paradigm,
load balancing in host/accelerator heterogenous processing,
innovative software frameworks, partitioning parallelizing compilers,
reconfiguration from programming language sources (also new languages),
speed-up by migration: software/configware/hardware, runtime/compiletime.
COORDINATOR
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o Reiner W. Hartenstein, hartenst@rhrk.uni-kl.de
Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Informatik (CS&E),
Bau 12, Postfach 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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MINITRACK-5: COORDINATION LANGUAGES, MODELS, SYSTEMS
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Models, languages and mechanisms for coordination; operating
system and middleware support; coordination mechanisms for WWW
and multi-agent systems; compiling techniques and semantic issues
for coordination languages; coordination in software architecture
design, case studies with industrial relevance.
COORDINATORS
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o Paolo Ciancarini, cianca@cs.unibo.it
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Bologna Pza.
di Porta S.Donato, 5, 40127 Bologna, ITALY
o Chris Hankin, clh@doc.ic.ac.uk
Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London,
Huxley Building, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK
o Robert Tolksdorf, tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de
Technische Universitat Berlin, Fachbereich 13, Informatik,
Sekr. FR 6-10, D-10587 Berlin, GERMANY
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MINITRACK-6: DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION SERVICES
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Core technology: Interoperability, novel open distributed architectures,
mediator architectures. Languages and applications: active databases,
data warehouses, advanced query models, data mining and knowledge
discovery. Integration challanges: object and transaction model
integration, global information. Multi-media information services.
COORDINATORS
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o John Mylopoulos, jm@cs.toronto.edu
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H5, CANADA
o Avigdor Gal, avigal@cs.toronto.edu
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H5, CANADA
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MINITRACK-7: ENGINEERING CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEMS
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Downsizing and porting to client-server platforms, performance
evaluation, design and management of client-server systems,
object-oriented design techniques, support and CASE tools,
validation and verification, practical experiences in building
and assessing the performance of client-server systems.
COORDINATORS
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o Doug Schmidt, schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
Dept. of Computer Sc., Washington University, St. Louis,
Missouri 63130-4899
o Stefano Russo, sterusso@unina.it
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' di Napoli
"Federico II", Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, ITALY
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MINITRACK-8: ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATICS
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Organized responses to environmental problems that may involve:
storage, management and retrieval for large scientific databases
(distributed ownership, heterogeneity, access, security, legacy,
quality assurance); noisy and uncertain task environments; irregular
spatial and temporal data distributions; knowledge representation;
statistical computing, expert systems; visualization; decision support;
Web-based collaboration.
COORDINATORS
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o David A. Swayne, dswayne@uoguelph.ca
Computing and Information Science Department,
University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario, N1G 2W1, CANADA
o Ralf Denzer
Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes
Saarbruecken, Germany
o Gerald Schimak
Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf, Austria
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MINITRACK-9: HIGH SPEED NETWORKS
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Design and analysis of transmission algorithms, design and analysis
of distributed protocols, dynamic and static routing schemes, analysis
of admission and flow control algorithms, fault tolerance, reconfiguration
techniques, embedding and mapping problems, broadcasting and multicasting,
quality of service, multiaccess communication.
COORDINATORS
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o Evangelos Kranakis, kranakis@scs.carleton.ca
School of Computer Science, Carleton University,
Ottawa Ontario K1S 5B6
o Danny Krizanc, krizanc@scs.carleton.ca
School of Computer Science, Carleton University,
Ottawa Ontario K1S 5B6
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MINITRACK-10: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
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Distributed application and system modeling, interconnection network
analysis, trace file analysis techniques, network of workstation
environments, process migration, performance prediction techniques
and tools, evaluating and standardizing benchmarks, benchmarking
experiences.
COORDINATORS
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o Mark J. Clement, clement@cs.byu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science, Brigham Young University,
3372 TMCB, Provo, Utah 84602-6576
o Xian-He Sun, sun@bit.csc.lsu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020
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MINITRACK-11 VIRTUAL SHARED MEMORY FOR DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES
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Software tools offering virtually shared data objects, replication
protocols and optimized caching techniques, distributed garbage
collection, software supported fault tolerance, performance and
scalability issues, naming issues, advanced programming techniques
(blackboard versus message passing communication), limitations of
client/server based technologies.
COORDINATOR
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o eva Kuehn, eva@complang.tuwien.ac.at
University of Technology Vienna, Institute of Computer Languages
A-1040 Wien, Argentinierstr. 8, AUSTRIA
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MINITRACK-12: WEB COMPUTING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
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Development methodologies and run-time support for Web-oriented
collaboration, practical application examples, parallelism within
Web computing, Web-oriented operating systems, Web-enabled languages
and tools, Web-oriented protocols, security in Web-based applications.
COORDINATOR
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o Nikola Serbedzija, nikola@first.gmd.de
GMD FIRST, Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489 Berlin, GERMANY
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MINITRACK-13: WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMPUTING
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Data management, performance evaluation of mobile/wireless networks
and systems, network layer routing protocols, security issues,
scalability and reliability, intermittent connectivity, service
integration and inter-networking of wired and wireless networks
transaction management issues, tracking and addressing issues for
mobile hosts, applications.
COORDINATORS
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o Stephan Olariu, olariu@cs.odu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162
o Omran Bukhres, bukhres@cs.iupui.edu
Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University,
723 W. Michigan Ave. SL280, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132
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MINITRACK-14: WORKFLOW SYSTEMS
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Workflow concepts and products, workflow and business process modeling,
user interaction in workflow management systems, networking and database
support for workflow systems, inter- and intra-organizational workflow,
workflow for global collaboration, recovery and fault tolerance issues.
COORDINATORS
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o Gabriele Kotsis, gabi@ani.univie.ac.at
Dept. of Applied Computer Sc. and Info. Systems, University of Vienna,
Lanaugasse 2/8, A-1080 Vienna, AUSTRIA
o Christine Strauss, strauss@pom.bwl.univie.ac.at
Dept. of Business Administration and Management, University of Vienna,
Bruenner Strasse 72, A - 1210 Vienna, AUSTRIA
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