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All papers (both workshop and main track) for ICCS 2009 should be submitted through our submission system.
Please, select the appropriate workshop there.

Unless stated otherwise submission deadlines for workshops are the same as those listed in our important dates. All deadlines after February 1 are synchronised.

Workshops:

  • Third Workshop on Teaching Computational Science (WTCS 2009)
    Contact: A.B. Shiflet
    The Third Workshop on Teaching Computational Science (WTCS 2009) solicits submissions that describe innovations in teaching computational science in its various aspects, e.g. computer science, modeling 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,
    - evaluations of alternative approaches, and
    - non-academic training in computational sciences.
    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://webs.wofford.edu/shifletab/iccs/

  • Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications (4th CCA)
    Contact: P. Ramasami
    Computational chemistry has become extremely important in the last decade, being widely used in academic and industrial research.
    Computational chemistry is leading to a wide range of possibilities due to explosive increase in computer power and software capabilities.
    The major goals of this workshop are to highlight the latest scientific advances within the broad field of computational chemistry in academia, 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 developing collaborations.
    It will also be a suitable platform for researchers from different fields to meet so that ideas for new interdisciplinary research can emerge.
    This is the fourth workshop after being successful events in previous ICCS conferences.
    This workshop will consider only original work after peer reviewing.
    Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
    Topics will include aspects of computational chemistry such as (but are not limited to):
    (i) Methods: Semiempirical, force fields, ab initio, density functional
    (ii) Applications: Kinetics, reaction mechanisms, catalysis, molecular properties, conformational analysis, thermodynamics
    (iii) Research involving computational chemistry
    (iv) Computational chemistry in chemistry education
    (iv) Interdisciplinary computational research involving chemistry is specially invited
    http://www.uom.ac.mu/Faculties/FOS/Chemistry/cca/

  • Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems - DDDAS 2009
    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.

  • Joint Workshop for Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science and Software Engineering for Large-Scale Computing
    Contact: A. Knüpfer
    The regular use of supercomputing technology, parallel and distributed processing, and sophisticated algorithms is of major importance for computational scientists. Yet, the true goals of scientists are to solve their challenging scientific problems, therefore they must be able to rely on dedicated support from program development and analysis tools.
    Furthermore the workshop targets the software engineering process for distributed and parallel applications. This includes all steps from planning, management, verification and validation to software testing and quality measurement. It addresses the specific requirements of scientific and research applications as well as production and industry-level users.
    http://www.lrz.de/iccs2009/

  • SIMULATION OF MULTIPHYSICS MULTISCALE SYSTEMS, 6th International Workshop
    Contact: V.V. Krzhizhanovskaya
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    Simulation of multiphysics and multiscale systems poses a grand challenge to computational science, with vast applications in chemical engineering, plasma physics, material science, biophysics, aerospace and automotive sectors. Most of the real-life systems 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 development of sophisticated models and methods for their integration, as well as efficient numerical algorithms and advanced computational techniques.
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    This workshop aims to bring together computational physicists, numerical specialists and computational scientists to push forward this challenging multidisciplinary research field, and to foster cross-fertilization between all fields of applications.
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    Specific topics include (but are not limited to):
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    -- 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;
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    -- 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.
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    -- Novel approaches to combine different models and scales in one problem solution;
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    -- 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.;
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    -- Advanced numerical methods for solving multiphysics multiscale problems.
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    http://staff.science.uva.nl/~valeria/multiphysics2009

  • Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence
    Contact: Y. Shi
    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. In addition, Green Futures, Inc., China has sponsored $3,000 to the workshop for “Green Future Award of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence” since ICCS 2008. An international award committee will select the awardees from the accepted and registered papers. Once a paper is selected, the author(s) are required to attend the workshop at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. when the awards will be presented.
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    Important Dates:
    Paper submission due: December 15, 2008
    Notification of acceptance: February 2, 2009
    LNCS format due: February 15, 2009
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    Members of the Program Committee:
    *Shingo Aoki
    Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
    *Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse
    Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
    *Zhengxin Chen
    University of Nebraska at Omaha
    *Masato Koda
    University of Tsukuba, Japan
    *Gang Kou
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
    *Kin Keung Lai
    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    *Heeseok Lee
    Korea Advanced Institute Science and Technology, Korea
    *David Olson
    University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
    *Jiming Peng
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
    *Yi Peng
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
    *John Wang
    Montclair State University, USA
    *Jianping Li
    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    *Xiaobo Yang
    Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK
    *Ning Zhong
    Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
    http://www.feds.ac.cn/research.html#2

  • 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 13, 2008 (Extended);
    Notification of acceptance of papers: February 2, 2009;
    Camera ready papers: February 15, 2009;
    Early registration opens: February 2, 2009;
    Early registration closes: March 15, 2009;
    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://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/iccs2009/

  • Using Emerging Parallel Architectures for Computational Science
    Contact: B. Schmidt
    This workshop provides a forum for exploring the capabilities of emerging parallel architectures to accelerate computational science applications. Papers are being sought on a wide variety of topics related to the field of using emerging parallel architectures for computational science including but not limited to:
    - Application studies on emerging architectures such as GPUs, FPGAs and Cell B.E.
    - Parallel algorithms and methodologies on emerging architectures
    - Languages, models, tools, and compilation techniques for emerging architectures
    - Hybrid computer systems consisting of a combination of GPUs, FPGAs, etc.
    - Use of emerging architectures in clusters, grids and supercomputers
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    Important Dates:
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    * Full paper submission: December 20, 2008
    * Acceptance notification: February 2, 2009
    * Camera ready papers: February 15, 2009
    * Early registration opens: February 2, 2009
    * Early registration ends: March 15, 2009
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    Workshop Co-Chairs:
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    * Bertil Schmidt, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, asbschmidt@ntu.edu.sg, http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/asbschmidt/
    * Douglas Maskell, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, asdouglas@ntu.edu.sg, http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/asdouglas/
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    Program Committee:
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    * Manfred Schimmler (University of Kiel, Germany)
    * David Luebke (NVIDIA, USA)
    * Simon See (SUN Microsystems)
    * Neil Bergmann (University of Queensland, Australia)
    * Philip Leong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
    * Heiko Schroder (RMIT, Australia)
    * Alexandros Stamatakis (TU Munich, Germany)
    * Dominique Lavenier (IRISA, France)
    * Tarek El-Ghazawi (George Washington University, USA)
    * Jaroslaw Zola (Iowa State Uni, USA)
    * Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA)
    * Rick Goh (IHPC, Singapore)
    * Scott Emrich (University of Notre Dame, USA)
    * Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University, USA)
    * Shi Haixiang (NTU, Singapore)
    * Gerrit Voss (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany and NTU, Singapore)
    * Weiguo Liu (NTU, Singapore)
    * Malcolm Low (NTU, Singapore)
    http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/asbschmidt/

  • 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. The vision to facilitate large scale, complex simulations, which may be steered through natural and intuitive interfaces, 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. The special session on collaborative and cooperative environments offers the possibility to discuss the different approaches in this domain, to show the latest results, products, or research prototypes to potential users, and to establish connections between developers and users of associated technologies.
    http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/cce/

  • Eighth International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, CGGM'2009
    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
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    IMPORTANT DATES:
    Paper submission: December 12th 2008
    Notification of acceptance: February 2nd 2009
    Camera ready papers: February 15th 2009
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    Workshop URL:
    http://personales.unican.es/iglesias/CGGM2009/

  • Tutorials
    Contact: J. Nabrzyski
    Submit your proposals for a tutorial to this "workshop"
    Deadline is October 15, 2008
    http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2009/cft.html

  • apPlications of declArative & object-oriented Parallel Programming
    Contact: A. Benoit
    The PAPP workshop focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming: design, implementation and optimization of high-level programming languages, semantics of parallel languages, formal verification, design or certification of 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.), application of proof assistants to parallel applications, 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 (safety, expressivity, efficienty, etc.). Thus the Sixth 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://lacl.univ-paris12.fr/gava/PAPP2009/

  • Intelligent Agents in Simulation and Evolvable Systems
    Contact: R. Schaefer
    Workshop Chairs:
    Robert Schaefer, schaefer@agh.edu.pl
    Krzysztof Cetnarowicz, cetnar@agh.edu.pl
    Bojin Zheng, zhengbojin@gmail.com
    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.
    To give - rather flexible - guidance in the subject, the following topics are suggested. 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.
    For any information please visit the workshop webpage:
    http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~iacs
    For contact - workshop email: iacs@agh.edu.pl
    http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~iacs

  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Computational Science
    Contact: A. Sandu
    Workshop proposer: Adrian Sandu
    The workshop will bring together computational and domain scientists who develop
    computational tools for the study of the atmosphere and oceans. These tools are
    essential for understanding and prediciting weather, air and water pollution,
    and the evolution of the planet's climate. The dynamics of the atmosphere and of
    the oceans is driven by a multitude of physical processes and is characterized
    by a multiple spatial and temporal scales. Moreover, the computations are very
    large scale: present day models track the time evolution of tens of millions to
    tens of billions variables. These factors make atmospheric and oceanic
    simulations a challenging, vibrant research field with a tremendous impact
    on society at large.
    Topics include, but are not limited to:
    - new methods for spatial and temporal discretization
    - methods for quantifying and reducing uncertainty
    - reduced order modeling
    - parallel and high performance computing
    - advances with existing models
    - data assimilation algorithms, variational methods, nonlinear ensemble methods
    - data analysis and information retrieval.

  • Data Mining in Earth Sciences
    Contact: F.M. Hoffman
    A wide variety of data mining techniques are being applied to the growing body of Earth Science data. From small scale measurement data to global climate simulation output, very large or long time series databases of environmental and climate data are proving difficult to analyze and interpret. Data mining techniques--like cluster analysis, principle components analysis (PCA), classification and regression tree (CART) analysis, and neural networks--are being applied to problems of feature extraction, model-data comparison, and validation/verification. However, the size and complexity of Earth Science data are stretching the limits of commercial statistical packages and many freely available analysis tools, which were not designed to scale up to terabyte- and petabyte-sized datasets. Scalable statistical tools are needed to run on very large parallel supercomputers in order to analyze data of this size. This workshop is designed to address these issues by demonstrating how data mining techniques can be applied in the Earth Sciences and by describing innovative computer science techniques and methods that can support analysis and discovery in Earth Sciences.

  • Geo Computation
    Contact: Y. Xue
    The Workshop on GeoComputation continues with the ICCS conferences held in Amsterdam (2002), St. Petersburg (2003), Krakow (2004), Atlanta (2005), Reading (2006), Beijing (2007) and Krakow (2008). 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. It is concerned with new computational techniques, algorithms, and paradigms that are dependent upon and can take advantage of Grid Computing.
    It includes spatial data analysis, dynamic modeling, simulation, space-time dynamics and visualization and virtual reality. This conference will offer presentations from a variety of sources, both local, national and international and will enable you to network with others working in similar fields.
    Electronic submissions will be in MS Word, PS, or PDF (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). Each submission will be refereed by at least three referees. The acceptance can be conditional on the basis of improvements as advised by the referee or program committee suggestions or because of inappropriate formatting and preparation of the paper. Whether your paper is finally accepted is subject to the discretion of the ICCS organizers, on the basis whether the suggestions and guidelines have been followed. Please submit your full paper electronically for review by January 20, 2009 via the paper submission web page (http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2009/papers/upload.php ). A camera-ready version of your accepted paper must be submitted electronically via the paper submission web page by February 15, 2008 and must comply with the camera-ready LNCS format.