Call For Papers: Extended deadline: June 1, 2008 - WORLDCOMP'08 Congress (CS and CE Conferences - July 2008, USA)

          Call For Papers - Deadline: June 1, 2008

                       WORLDCOMP'08
        The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
        Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

     Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
         http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a paper (see instructions below.)

WORLDCOMP'08 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences,
tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008.  See
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/  for the complete
list of joint-conferences.

This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition
of the conference proceedings.  All papers submitted in response
to this announcement will be evaluated for publication in the
Final Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon
after the conference (publication date: late August 2008).
This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity
to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements
(authors who have already been notified that their papers have
been accepted/not-accepted should ignore this announcement.)

IMPORTANT DATES:

   June 1, 2008:       Submission of full papers (less than 8 pages)
   June 14, 2008:      Notification of acceptance
   June 27, 2008:      Registration
   July 14-17, 2008:   WORLDCOMP'08 Congress (all joint-conferences)
   July 20, 2008:      Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication in the
                       Final Edition of the proceedings.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to
   hra@cs.uga.edu (no more than 7 pages, single spaced and font
   size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting formats are
   acceptable).

   Authors should write the following in the subject header of
   their email:
   "Submission for Consideration in Final Edition of Proceedings" +
   name of conference that the paper is being submitted to.

   Papers should be attached to emails and must be either in
   Word Doc or PDF formats.

   Papers must not have been previously published or currently
   submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of the paper
   should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
   address, and email address for each author.  The first page
   should also include the name of the conference the paper is
   being submitted to (the list of conferences appears below.)
   Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the
   respective proceedings/books.

   All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance,
   clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two
   researchers in the topical area.

   The authors of accepted papers will later be asked to follow a
   particular typing instructions to prepare their final paper for
   publication.

LIST OF CONFERENCES:

   PDPTA:   Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
            Applications
   GCA:     Grid Computing and Applications 
   CDES:    The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design 
   CSC:     Scientific Computing 
   ICAI:    Artificial Intelligence 
   GEM:     Genetic and Evolutionary Methods 
   MLMTA:   Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications 
   BIOCOMP: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 
   SERP:    Software Engineering Research and Practice 
   ICWN:    Wireless Networks 
   IPCV:    Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition 
   MSV:     Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods 
   CGVR:    Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality 
   ICOMP:   Internet Computing 
   SWWS:    Semantic Web and Web Services
   SAM:     Security and Management 
   DMIN:    Data Mining 
   IKE:     Information and Knowledge Engineering 
   EEE:     e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
            and e-Government 
   ESA:     Embedded Systems and Applications 
   FECS:    Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer
            Engineering
   FCS:     Foundations of Computer Science
   CIC:     Communications in Computing

PLANNED TUTORIALS:
   See the following web site for a partial list:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/tutorials

KEYNOTE LECTURES:
   See the following web site for a partial list:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/keynotes

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

   WORLDCOMP 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.

SPONSORS:

   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
   -->  Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program
        George Mason University, Virginia, 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
   -->  Synplicity
   -->  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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