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Workshops in the conference:
Index:
- W01: Seventh International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling
- W02: SIMULATION OF MULTIPHYSICS MULTISCALE SYSTEMS, 5th International Workshop
- W03: Computational Finance and Business Intelligence
- W04: 3rd Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications (3rd CCA)
- W05: Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science
- W07: Software Engineering for Large-Scale Computing
- W09: Collaborative and Cooperative Environments
- W10: Applications of Workflows in Computational Science
- W11: Bioinformatics' Challenges to Computer Science
- apPlications of declArative & object-oriented Parallel Programming (PAPP 2008)
- W14: Intelligent Agents and Evolvable Systems
- W15: Physical, Biological and Social Networks
- W16: Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems - DDDAS 2008
- W17: Second Workshop on Teaching Computational Science WTCS 2008
- W18: GeoComputation
- Keynotes
Workshops:
- W01: Seventh International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling
Contact: A. Iglesias
In the last few years, Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling have become two of the most important and challenging areas of Computer Science. This workshop solicits high-quality papers for presentation describing original research results in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling.
This workshop will cover the following aspects of computer graphics and modeling:
* Geometric Modeling
* CAD/CAM
* Solid Modeling
* Physically Based Modeling
* Surface Reconstruction
* Geometric Processing
* Volume Visualization
* Autonomous Agents
* Computer Animation
* Computer Graphics in Art, Education, Engineering, Entertainment and Medicine
* Rendering Techniques
* Multimedia
* Non Photo-Realistic Rendering
* Virtual Reality
* Virtual Environments
* Illumination Models
* Texture Models
* Computer Graphics and Internet (VRML, Java, etc.)
* Artificial Intelligence for Computer Graphics
* Computer Graphics Software
* Computer Graphics Hardware
* Computer Graphics Applications
* Computer Graphics Education
* Industrial Applications of Computer Graphics
* New directions in Computer Graphics
http://personales.unican.es/iglesias/CGGM2008/ - W02: SIMULATION OF MULTIPHYSICS MULTISCALE SYSTEMS, 5th International Workshop
Contact: V.V. Krzhizhanovskaya
Simulation of multiphysics and multiscale systems poses a grand challenge to computational science. Most of the real-life systems, vital for industrial applications and academic research, involve interactions amongst a wide range of physical phenomena. In addition to that, the time and length scales of the individual processes involved often differ by orders of magnitude. Numerical simulation of these multiphysics and multiscale problems requires the development of sophisticated models and methods for their integration, as well as efficient numerical algorithms and advanced computational techniques.
This workshop, being a follow-up to the highly successful events held at ICCS-2007 in Beijing, China, ICCS-2006 in Reading, UK, ICCS-2005 in Atlanta, USA and ICCS-2004 in Krakow, Poland, aims to bring together computational physicists, numerical specialists and computational scientists to push forward this challenging multidisciplinary research field.
Specific topics include (but are not limited to):
* Modeling of multiphysics and/or multiscale systems. Of particular interest are: Monte Carlo methods, particle-based methods, mesoscopic models such as cellular-automata, lattice gas and lattice-Boltzmann methods, computational fluid dynamics and computational solid mechanics;
* Multiphysics and/or multiscale modeling of biological or biomedical systems. This includes computational models of tissue- and organo-genesis, tumor growth, blood vessels formation and interaction with the hosting tissue, biochemical transport and signaling, biomedical simulations for surgical planning, etc.
* Novel approaches to combine different models and scales in one problem solution;
* Challenging applications in industry and academia, e.g. time-dependent 3D systems, multiphase flows, fluid-structure interaction, chemical engineering, plasma physics, material science, biophysics, automotive industry, etc.;
* Advanced numerical methods for solving multiphysics multiscale problems;
* Problem solving environments for simulation of multiphysics multiscale systems.
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~valeria/multiphysics2008/ - W03: Computational Finance and Business Intelligence
Contact: Y. Shi
Call for Papers
WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
ICCS 2008, Krakow, Poland, June 23-25 ( http://www.iccs-meeting.org/ )
Topic of the session:
The workshop focus on computational science aspects of asset/derivatives pricing & financial risk management that relate to business intelligence. It will include but not limited to modeling, numeric computation, algorithmic and complexity issues in arbitrage, asset pricing, future and option pricing, risk management, credit assessment, interest rate determination, insurance, foreign exchange rate forecasting, online auction, cooperative game theory, general equilibrium, information pricing, network band witch pricing, rational expectation, repeated games, etc.
Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes on Computer Science
http://www.dtke.ac.cn/meeting/meeting_index.htm
http://dm.ist.unomaha.edu/iccs2008/
Please submit your paper on
http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2008/papers/upload.php
Important Dates:
Paper submission due: January 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: February 3, 2007
LNCS format due: February 19, 2007
Chairmen
Xiaotie Deng,
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue , Kowloon , Hong Kong
( csdeng@cityu.edu.hk )
Shouyang Wang,
Academy of Mathematical and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100080, China
( sywang@mail.amss.ac.cn )
Yong Shi,
Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100080, China
( yshi@gucas.ac.cn or yshi@unomaha.edu )
http://www.dtke.ac.cn/meeting/meeting_index.htm - W04: 3rd Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications (3rd CCA)
Contact: P. Ramasami
Computational chemistry is a rapidly expanding with the explosive growth of computational power. It is widely used in research and more interestingly, interdisciplinary research.
The major goals of this workshop are to highlight the latest scientific advances within the broad field of computational chemistry in education, research, industry and society. This workshop will provide the opportunity for researchers coming from corners of the world to be on a single platform for discussion, exchanging ideas and possibly developing collaborations.
It will also be a suitable platform for researchers from different fields of computational science to meet so that ideas for interdisciplinary research can emerge.
This is the third workshop after being successful events in ICCS-2006 and ICCS-2007.
This workshop aims for high standards, only original work not published (part or complete) will be considered after peer reviewing.
Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
http://pages.intnet.mu/ramasami/iccs_2008.htm - W05: Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science
Contact: A. Knüpfer
The use of supercomputing technology, parallel and distributed processing, and sophisticated algorithms is of major importance for computational scientists. Yet, the scientists' goals are to solve their challenging scientific problems, not the software engineering tasks associated with it. For that reason, computational science and engineering must be able to rely on dedicated support from program development and analysis tools.
The primary intention of this workshop is to bring together developers of tools for scientific computing and their potential users. Paper submissions by both tool developers and users from the scientific and engineering community are encouraged in order to inspire communication between both groups. Tool developers can present to users how their tools support scientists and engineers during program development and analysis. Tool users are invited to report their experiences employing such tools, especially highlighting the benefits and the improvements possible by doing so.
The following areas and related topics are of interest:
- Problem solving environments for specific application domains
- Application building and software construction tools
- Domain-specific analysis tools
- Program visualization and visual programming tools
- On-line monitoring and computational steering tools
- Requirements for (new) tools emerging from the application domain
In addition, we encourage software tool developers to describe
use cases and practical experiences of software tools for real-world applications in the following areas:
- Tools for parallel, distributed and network-based computing
- Testing and debugging tools
- Performance analysis and tuning tools
- (Dynamic) Instrumentation and monitoring tools
- Data (re-)partitioning and load-balancing tools
- Checkpointing and restart tools
- Tools for resource management, job queuing and accounting
http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/iccs/2008/ - W07: Software Engineering for Large-Scale Computing
Contact: D. Rodríguez
Computational Science techniques are increasingly being applied in both research institutions and industry to for example, financial applications, bioinformatics applications, physical applications, data mining applications based on grid or clusters etc. As with other disciplines there are specific issues when planning and developing such applications. For example, those applications are generally distributed and based upon Grid environments or clusters with specific management and planning issues. This workshop would like analyse to software engineering issues specific to these types of applications such as adaptation of processes for, planning, management, verification and validation, testing, quality measurement, etc. Also, there is also a motivation for further research on the other direction, the application of computational intelligence techniques to software engineering issues as a result of the creation of large databases of metrics collected from software projects. Examples of computational techniques applied to Software Engineering include genetic algorithms, Bayesian networks, system dynamics, visualization techniques etc. Many emergent issues are subject to research efforts combining both computational techniques and Software Engineering.
http://www.cc.uah.es/drg/selsc/ - W09: Collaborative and Cooperative Environments
Contact: C. Anthes
Technological advances in high-speed networking and computational Grids do not only transform the methods applied to everyday science, but also the collaboration and cooperation between scientists at almost arbitrary locations around the world. The additional provision of multisensory, immersive Virtual Reality interfaces as tools to improve the collaboration between groups of human users is another hot topic in this research domain, which will most likely increase the potential benefits of these distributed research communities.
Computational perception can improve collaboration by recognising patterns during collaborative interaction or by providing natural and intuitive interfaces like speech recognition. The vision to facilitate large scale, complex simulations is both intriguing and of high scientific interest.
This session encourages paper submissions concerning the application and usage of collaborative and cooperative environments, as well as the technologies supporting them in the scientific and industrial context. Authors are expected to emphasize the benefits of their approaches for collaboration and cooperation between human users with focus on up-to-date characteristics of hard-, soft- and middleware aspects.
http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/cce - W10: Applications of Workflows in Computational Science
Contact: Z. Zhao
Aims and scope
In e-Science, workflow systems become an important environment to prototype and perform scientific experiments. Workflow systems model experiment processes and provide user interface for scientists to describe experiment logic and to automate the execution. Different requirements for supporting domain specific applications are important driving force for the development of workflow systems. The workshop on AWCS is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and experience on developing workflow applications, and highlight important requirements for system development. Live demos of workflow application are welcome.
Topics
Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of scientific workflow management in e-Science. The workshop solicits novel papers on workflow applications in all kinds of e-Science domains including but not limited to:
- Bio-informatics
- Medical imaging
- High energy physics
- Astronomy
- Computational chemistry
- Bio-diversity
- Food informatics
- Other application domains.
Paper submission and publication
Authors should submit electronically a full (8-page) paper to the workshop via the ICCS 2008 paper submission system. The papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer-Verlag. Selected best papers, after extension, will be published in a suitable international journal as a special issue.
Important Dates
* December 22, 2007 Full paper due
* March 1, 2008 Notification
* March 15, 2008 Camera-ready paper due
Programme committee
* De Roure D.(University of Southampton, UK)
* Hertzberger L.O. (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
* Portegies Zwart (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University, USA)
* Top Jan (free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Organisers
Dr. Adam Belloum
email: adam@science.uva.nl
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Prof. Marian Bubak
Email: bubak@agh.edu.pl
AGH University of Science and Technology
Institute of Computer Science and ACC CYFRONE
Dr. Zhiming Zhao
email: zhiming@science.uva.nl
Tel: +31 20 5257599
Fax: +31 20 5257490
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/workshop/awcs/2008/ - W11: Bioinformatics' Challenges to Computer Science
Contact: M. Cannataro
Bioinformatics is providing the foundation for fast and reliable data analysis. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epidemiological, clinical and text mining applications have made essential progress through using bioinformatics tools. Standard tools are usually offered through the Web. This is no longer sufficient with more complex analysis and simulation tasks from emerging research fields like systems biology, image analysis, biomedical applications or data management. In recent years Grid and Web services based approaches have been developed to face the new challenges.
Moreover, emerging life sciences applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks, and patient's clinical data, that requires seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing.
The workshop will bring together scientists from computer and life sciences to discuss future directions of bioinformatics algorithms, applications, and data management. Questions to be looked at are whether wrapping existing algorithms as Grid or Web service will be sufficient to cope with the more complex applications and the increasing volume of data to be processed or which applications would profit from being redeveloped as native parallel or distributed application.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting innovative solutions from parallel, distributed and Grid computing applied to bioinformatics algorithms and life sciences applications:
- sequence and structure bioinformatics
- computational proteomics
- systems biology
- biomedical image analysis
- biomedical simulation
- data management
- data integration
- workflow modelling
- parallelisation
- service orientation
- volunteer computing
- peer-to-peer computing
IMPORTANT DATES
Full papers submission:December 22, 2007
Notification of acceptance:March 1, 2008
Camera ready papers:March 15, 2008
Early registration opens:March 1, 2008
Early registration closes:March 30, 2008
WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS
Mario Cannataro, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Italy
Mathilde Romberg, Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Joakim Sundnes, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
http://bioinformatics.unicz.it/iccs2008 - apPlications of declArative & object-oriented Parallel Programming (PAPP 2008)
Contact: F. Loulergue
Computational Science applications are more and more complex to develop and require more and more computing power. Parallel and grid computing are solutions to the increasing need for computing power. High level languages offer a high degree of abstraction which ease the development of complex systems. Moreover, being based on formal semantics, it is possible to certify the correctness of critical parts of the applications.
Algorithmic skeletons, parallel extensions of functional languages such as Haskell and ML, parallel logic and constraint programming, parallel execution of declarative programs such as SQL queries, genericity and meta-programming in object-oriented languages, etc. have produced methods and tools that improve the price/performance ratio of parallel software, and broaden the range of target applications.
The PAPP workshop focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming: design, implementation and optimization of high-level programming languages, libraries, middlewares and tools (performance predictors working on high-level parallel/grid source code, visualisations of abstract behaviour, automatic hotspot detectors, high-level GRID resource managers, compilers, automatic generators, etc.), applications in all fields of computational science, benchmarks and experiments. Research on high-level grid programming is particularly relevant as well as domain specific parallel software.
The aim of all these languages and tools is to improve and ease the development of applications. Thus the Fifth PAPP workshop focuses on applications.
The PAPP workshop is aimed both at researchers involved in the development of high level approaches for parallel and grid computing and computational science researchers who are potential users of these languages and tools.
http://f.loulergue.free.fr/PAPP2008/index.html - W14: Intelligent Agents and Evolvable Systems
Contact: K. Cetnarowicz
Agent-oriented system seems to be the new attractive tool for high performance distributed processing. It comprehends the ability to integrate the resources of computer networks with the flexibility of their governing. Software agent technology constitutes also the powerful tool for solving various decentralized decision making and technological problems. Moreover, evolution is regarded as one of fundamental forms of adaptation of intelligent agents. The interactions among intelligent agents in complex adaptive systems make the world colorful. This workshop focuses on the various applications of agent-oriented systems and the roles of evolution and interactions of intelligent agents to build evolvable intelligent systems.
The topics of interest to this workshop include but are not limited to the following. These of theoretical brand, like:
- multi-agent systems in high-performance processing,
- theoretical issues in evolutionary computation,
- evolutionary and agent-based optimization,
- nature-inspired algorithms, evolvable systems.
And those with stress on application sphere:
- multi-agent systems in planning, management and scheduling,
- application of multi-agent systems in security,
- multi-agent systems in management of mobile robots,
- evolutionary hardware design methodologies,
- self-replicating hardware and self-repairing systems,
- real-world applications of evolutionary computation techniques.
Important dates:
Full paper submission: January 10, 2008
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2008
Camera-ready papers: March 15, 2008
Early registration: March 1 till March 30, 2008
Conference: June 23-25, 2008
Plese, visit the workshop webpage:
http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~iacs - W15: Physical, Biological and Social Networks
Contact: B. Tadic
This is 4th in the series of Workshops devoted to the statistical
physics research in complex networks and their dynamical features.
The Workshop will bring together researchers in computational
modeling and theoretical application of statistical physics methods
in complex networks, structures and processes. In particular,
networks representing interactions in non-equilibrium systems in
physics, biology, social science and econophysics will be considered.
WARNING: Papers with a primary subject of Computer networks will not be accepted to this workshop. If you are in doubt, please write to the workshop organizer.
http://www-f1.ijs.si/~tadic/Workshops/WS_ICCS08.html - W16: Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems - DDDAS 2008
Contact: C.C. Douglas
This workshop is centered about the recently emerged paradigm of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS). The DDDAS concept has already been established as a revolutionary new approach of a symbiotic relation between application and measurement systems, where applications can accept and respond dynamically to new data injected into the executing application, and reversely, the ability of such application systems to dynamically control the measurement processes. The synergistic feedback control-loop between application simulations and measurements can open new domains in the capabilities of simulations with high potential pay-off: create applications with new and enhanced analysis and prediction capabilities and enable a new methodology for more efficient and effective measurement processes. This new paradigm has the potential to transform the way science and engineering are done, with major impact in the way many functions in our society are conducted, such as manufacturing, commerce, transportation, hazard prediction/management, and medicine. The workshop will present such new opportunities, as well as the challenges and approaches in the applications', algorithms' and systems' software technologies needed to enable such capabilities, and will showcase ongoing research in these aspects with examples from several important application areas. - W17: Second Workshop on Teaching Computational Science WTCS 2008
Contact: Q. Luo
The WORKSHOP solicits submissions that describe innovations in teaching computational science in its various aspects, e.g. computer science, modelling and simulation, at all levels and in all contexts. Typical topics include, but are not restricted to, innovations in the following areas:
course content,
curriculum structure,
methods of instruction,
methods of assessment,
tools to aid in teaching or learning, and
evaluations of alternative approaches.
These innovations may be in the context of formal courses or self-directed learning; they may involve, for example, introductory programming, service courses, specialist undergraduate or postgraduate topics, industry-related short courses. We welcome submissions directed at issues of current and local importance, as well as topics of international interest. Such topics may include transition from school to university, articulation between vocational and university education, quality management in teaching, teaching people from other cultures, attracting and retaining female students, and flexible learning.
http://www.wsgec.org/WTCS/ - W18: GeoComputation
Contact: Y. Xue
Computational science involves using computers to study scientific problems.
GeoComputation is about using various different types of geographical and environmental data and developing relevant tools within the overall context of a computational scientific approach. Geocomputation is concerned with new computational techniques, algorithms, and paradigms that are dependent upon and can take advantage of high performance computing (HPC) and high throughput computer (HTC). It includes dynamic modelling, simulation, spatial data analysis, space-time dynamics and visualization and virtual reality. - Keynotes
Contact: M.T. Bubak