Call for Papers The 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013) http://www.aina-conference.org/2013/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) BARCELONA, SPAIN March 25-28, 2013 ========================== IMPORTANT DATES ========================== Workshop Proposal Due: June 30, 2012 Submission Deadline: October 4, 2012 (Extended) Author Notification: December 3, 2012 Author Registration: December 28, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: December 28, 2012 As one of the most important international conferences sponsored by the TCDP of the IEEE Computer Society, the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013) will be held in Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28, 2013. The conference covers theory, design and application of computer networks and distributed computing and information systems. Aside from the regular presentations, the conference will include keynote addresses with speakers from both industry and academia. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the following areas (not limited to): Communication Protocol and Architecture High-speed Communication and Network Wireless Communication and Network Multimedia Communication and System Personal Communication System Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Network Low-power Network and System Wearable Network and System Embedded System and Networking Internet Technology and IP-based Applications Network Control and Management Network Performance, Analysis and Evaluation Quality of Services (QoS) Multicast Routing and Technology Security, Privacy and Trust Fault-tolerant and Dependable System Multi-agent System and Applications Parallel/Distributed Algorithm and Architecture Distributed Database and Data Mining Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR System Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing Biological Informatics and Computing E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Society, etc. Grid, Cluster and Internet Computing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) System Service-oriented Framework and Middleware Autonomic Computing and Communication WWW, Semantic Web and Cyber World Mobile and Context-aware Computing Ubiquitous/Pervasive Networks and Computing Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World Smart Object, Space/Environment and System Innovative Networking and Applications Social, Ethical & Other Issues of Networked World Network and Application Hardware Cognitive Network Access Digital Eco Systems ========================== PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== Submit a full paper of at most 8 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: URL: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission. EDAS: Submit paper http://edas.info/N12201 Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 8 pages for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers accepted and presented at the conference and also the workshops of AINA-2013, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious international journals. ================================ AINA-2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================ General Co-Chairs Fatos Xhafa, Universitat PolitEcnica de Catalunya, Spain Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan Program Committee Co-Chairs Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Shengrui Wang, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany Program Vice Chairs and Research Tracks 1. Communications Network and Protocols Tsang-Ling Sheu, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Alex Galis, University College London, UK 2. Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, TELECOM Bretagne, France Li Xu, Fujian Normal University, China 3. Sensor Networks Hanh Le, University of Cape Town, South Africa Akimitsu Kanzaki, Osaka University, Japan 4. Mobile Networks and Applications Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Michael McGuire, University of Victoria, Canada 5. Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Waltenegus Dargie, Tech. University of Dresden, Germany 6. Vehicular Networks and Applications Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan 7. Distributed and Parallel Systems Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria 8. Distributed Database and Data Mining Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy 9. Grid, P2P and Scalable Computing Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig Maximillian University Munich, Germany 10.Internet Computing and Web Applications Mohammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Qingshan Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 11.Multimedia and Social Networking Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea Mohamed Bouguessa, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada 12.Agents, Semantics and Intelligent Computing Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Brahim Chaib-draa, Laval University, Canada 13.Cloud and Services Computing Kuo-Ming Chao, Conventry University, UK Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway 14.Security and Privacy Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan Antonino Mazzeo, University ``Federico II'' of Naples, Italy 15.Autonomic and Trustworthy Computing/Networking Albert Zomaya, University of Sidney, Australia Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada International Special Issue Journal Co-Chairs Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Farookh Hussain, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Award Co-Chairs Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Arjan Durresi, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs Chun-Ming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan International Liaison Co-Chairs Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK Takahiro Hara, Osata University, Japan Treasurer / Finance Co-Chairs Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Valbona Barolli, Seikei University, Japan Web Chairs Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Elis Kulla, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Evjola Spaho, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Steering Committee Co-Chairs Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan Steering Committee Chair and Founder of AINA Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Steering Committee Co-Chair ========================================= SPECIAL ISSUES (APPROVED/PENDING APPROVAL) ========================================= 1. International Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer (Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP, ...) 2. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (Science Citation Index, Scopus, ...) 3. Jourbal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier (Science Citation Index, Scopus, ...) 4. Journal of Supercomputing, Springer (Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), SCOPUS, EI-Compendex, ...) 5. IJ of Computational Science and Engineering - Inderscience (EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP, ...) 6. Mobile Information Systems, IOS Press (Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Science Citation Index- Expanded, Compendex, ...) 7. IJ Web and Grid Services - Inderscience (Science Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), Compendex (Elsevier), Scopus (Elsevier), DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, ...) 8. IJ Embedded Systems - Inderscience (Compendex (Elsevier), Scopus (Elsevier), DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, ...) 9. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, IGI Global (Science Citation Index Expanded, Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, ...) 10. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer http://www.hcis-journal.com (SpringerOpen is working closely with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences will be available.) 11. International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - InderScience (DBLP, Scirus (Elsevier), E) 12. Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing ================= WORKSHOP PROPOSAL ================= In conjunction with the AINA-2013 conference, some number of one-day workshops will be held. If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal including call for paper, number of papers to be accepted, contact person, to the AINA-2013 workshop Co-Chairs by June 30, 2012: Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany (markus.aleksy{at}de.abb.com) Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan (eno{at}ris.ac.jp) Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia (W.Rahayu{at}latrobe.edu.au) Proceedings of the AINA-2013 workshops will be published by IEEE CPS. The schedule of each workshop should follow the conference schedule. =================== AINA-2013 WORKSHOPS =================== The following workshops will be held. Please submit papers to the AINA-2013 workshops. 1 The Sixth International Workshop on Data Management for Wireless and Pervasive Communications (DMWPC-2013) http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/dmwpc/2013/ 2 The Second International Workshop on Networked Virtual Enterprises (NetVE 2013) http://netve.hueuni.edu.vn/2013/ 3 The Eighth International Workshop on the Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Wireless Networks (PAEWN'13) http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~amalhomo/PAEWN'13.htm 4 The Second International Workshop on Renewable Computing Systems (WReCS-2013) https://sites.google.com/site/renewablecompsys/2013 5 The Sixth International Symposium on Mining and Web(MAW-13) http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~kinli/MAW13/ 6 The Fifth International Workshop on Disaster and Emergency Information Network Systems (IWDENS'2013) http://www.sb.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/AINA2013/iwdes2013/ 7 The Sixth International Workshop on Bio and Intelligent Computing (BICom 2013) http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/BiCOM/2013/ 8 The Ninth International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWISE 2013) http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/hwise/2013/ 9 The Sixth International Workshop on Telecommunication Networking, Applications and Systems (TeNAS2013) https://sites.google.com/site/tenasorg/ 10 The Fourth International Workshop on Cloud Computing, Services and Interoperability (CCSI-2013) http://ccs.cloudcom.org/ 11 The Seventh International Symposium on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environment (SMPE-2013) http://web.ftrai.org/smpe2013 12 The Second International Workshop on inter-Clouds and Collective Intelligence (iCCI-2013) http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/research/icci2013 13 The Ninth International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA 2013) http://ktr01.ris.ac.jp/fina/2013/ 14 The 1st International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Internet and Next Generation Networks Access (BWINA 2013) http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/iwoungan/BWINA2013/ 15 The 3rd International Workshop on Protocols and Applications with Multi-Homing Support (PAMS-2013) http://simula.no/pams2013 16 The First International Workshop on Collaborative Enterprise Systems (COLLABES-2013) http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~fatos/COLLABES2013/ 17 InternationalWorkshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems (ICAES-2013) https://sites.google.com/site/wicaes2013/ 18 The International Workshop on Cloud Computing: Project and Initiatives (CCPI-2013) http://ccpi.unina2.it 19 The International Workshop on Pervasive Internet of Things and Smart Cities (PITSaC-2013) http://ants.inf.um.es/pitsac 20 The International Workshop on Engineering Object-Oriented Parallel Software (EOOPS-2013) http://krum.rz.uni-mannheim.de/EOOPS/ 21 The International Workshop on Network Management and Monitoring (NetMM-2013) http://events.it-sudparis.eu/netmm/2013/ 22 The International Workshop on Social Media & Mobility in Enterprises (SMME-2013) http://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/kuk/workshop/ 23 The International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Life Sciencee Modeling and Computing (BLSMC 13) http://conf.laas.fr/BLSMC2013/ 24 The First International WorkShop on Energy-Aware Systems, Communications and Security (EASyCoSe 2013) http://wpage.unina.it/fpalmier/EAsyCoSe2013/ ================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================ For further information, please contact the steering committee chairs: Leonard Barolli (barolli{at}fit.ac.jp), Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Makoto Takizawa (makoto.takizawa{at}computer.org), Seikei University, Japan