With the advent of high performance computing environments, virtualization, distributed and parallel computing, as well as the increasing memory, storage and computational power, processing particularly complex scientific applications and voluminous data is more affordable. With the current computing software, hardware and distributed platforms effective use of advanced computing techniques is more achievable.

The goal of the International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences, ADVCOMP 2009, is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address fundamentals of advanced scientific computing and specific mechanisms and algorithms for particular sciences. The conference will provide a forum where researchers shall be able to present recent research results and new research problems and directions related to them. The conference seeks contributions presenting novel research in all aspects of new scientific methods for computing and hybrid methods for computing optimization, as well as advanced algorithms and computational procedures, software and hardware solutions dealing with specific domains of science.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Advances on computing theories
Finite-state machines
Petri nets /stochastic/colored/probabilistic/etc
Genetic algorithms
Machine learning theory
Prediction theory
Bayesian theory /statistics/filtering/estimation/reasoning/rating/etc
Markov chains/process/model/etc
Graphs theories

Advances in computation methods
Hybrid computational methods
Advanced numerical algorithms
Differential calculus
Matrix perturbation theory
Rare matrices
Fractals & super-fractal algorithms
Random graph dynamics
Multi-dimensional harmonic estimation

Computational logics
Knowledge-based systems and automated reasoning
Logical issues in knowledge representation /non-monotonic reasoning/belief
Specification and verification of programs and systems
Applications of logic in hardware and VLSI,
Natural language, concurrent computation, planning
Deduction and reasoning
Logic of computation
Dempster-Shafer theory
Fuzzy theory/computation/logic/etc

Advances on computing mechanisms
Clustering large and high dimensional data
Data fusion and aggregation
Biological sequence analysis
Biomecatronics mechanisms
Biologically inspired mechanisms
System theory and control mechanisms
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms
Constraint-based algorithms
Ontology-based reasoning
Topology and structure patterns
Geometrical pattern similarity
Strong and weak symmetry
Distortion in coordination mechanisms

Computing techniques
Distributed computing
Parallel computing
Grid computing
Autonomic computing
Cloud computing
Development of numerical and scientific software-based systems
Pattern-based computing
Finite-element method computation
Elastic models
Optimization techniques
Simulation techniques
Stream-based computing

Computational geometry
Theoretical computational geometry
Applied computational geometry
Design and analysis of geometric algorithms
Design and analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures
Discrete and combinatorial geometry and topology
Data structures (Voronoi Diagrams, Delaunay triangulations, etc.)
Experimental evaluation of geometric algorithms and heuristics
Numerical performance of geometric algorithms
Geometric computations in parallel and distributed environments
Geometric data structures for mesh generation
Geometric methods in computer graphics
Solid modeling
Space Partitioning
Special applications (animation of geometric algorithms, manufacturing, computer graphics and image processing, computer-aided geometry design, solid geometry)

Interdisciplinary computing
Computational /physics, chemistry, biology/ algorithms
Graph-based modeling and algorithms
Computational methods for /crystal, protein/ structure prediction
Computation for multi-material structure
Modeling and simulation of large deformations and strong shock waves
Computation in solid mechanics
Remote geo-sensing; Interdisciplinary computing in music and arts

Cloud computing
Hardware-as-a-service
Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]
Platform-as-service
On-demand computing models
Cloud Computing programming and application development
Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures
Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues
Performance and QoS
Dynamic resource provisioning
Power-efficiency and Cloud computing
Load balancing
Application streaming
Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies
Custom platforms
Large-scale compute infrastructures
Managing applications in the clouds
Data centers
Process in the clouds
Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures
Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare)
Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application)
Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

Grid Networks, Services and Applications
GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology
GRID infrastructure and technologies
GRID middleware
GRID protocols and networking
GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing
Programmable GRID
Data GRID
Context ontology and management in GRIDs
Distributed decisions in GRID networks
GRID services and applications
Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID
Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID
GRID monitoring, control, and management
Traffic and load balancing in GRID
User profiles and priorities in GRID
Performance and security in GRID systems
Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID
QoS/SLA in GRID networks
GRID fora, standards, development, evolution
GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned

Computing in Virtualization-based environments
Principles of virtualization
Virtualization platforms
Thick and thin clients
Data centers and nano-centers
Open virtualization format
Orchestration of virtualization across data centers
Dynamic federation of compute capacity
Dynamic geo-balancing
Instant workload migration
Virtualization-aware storage
Virtualization-aware networking
Virtualization embedded-software-based smart mobile phones
Trusted platforms and embedded supervisors for security
Virtualization management operations /discovery, configuration, provisioning, performance, etc.
Energy optimization and saving for green datacenters
Virtualization supporting cloud computing
Applications as pre-packaged virtual machines
Licencing and support policies

Development of computing support
Computing platforms
Advanced scientific computing
Support for scientific problem-solving
Support for distributed decisions
Agent-assisted workflow support
Middleware computation support
High performance computing
Problem solving environments
Computational science and education
Neuronal networks

Computing applications in science
Advanced computing in civil engineering
Advanced computing in physics science
Advanced computing in chemistry science
Advanced computing in mathematics
Advanced computing in operation research
Advanced computing in economics
Advanced computing in electronics and electrical science
Advanced computing on Earth science, geosciences and meteorology

Complex computing in application domains
Computation genomic
Management of scientific data and knowledge
Advanced computing in bioinformatics and biophysics
Advanced computing in molecular systems and biological systems
Application of engineering methods to genetics
Medical computation and graphics
Advanced computing in simulation systems
Advanced computing for statistics and optimization
Advanced computing in mechanics and quantum mechanics
Advanced computing for geosciences and meteorology
Maps and geo-images building
Curve and surface reconstruction
Financial computing and forecasting
Advanced computing in robotics and manufacturing
Advanced computing in power systems
Environmental advanced computing

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) May 20, 2009
Notification June 25, 2009
Registration July 12, 2009
Camera ready July 15, 2009

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" , not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Poster Forum explanation page.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "WIP: Work in Progress". Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.

For more information, petre@iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.

ADVCOMP Advisory Chairs

Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
Gaspar Barreira, LIP / Portuguese Grid Initiative, Portugal
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada
Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA & OGF, Germany
Hans-Joachim Klein, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, Germany

ADVCOMP 2009 General Chair

Simon G. Fabri, University of Malta – Msida, Malta

ADVCOMP 2009 Research-Industry Chairs

Jameleddine Hassine, Cisco Systems, Inc., Canada
Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany - UBS/VALORIA, France
Adithya Nagarajan, Microsoft , USA
Raghunath Nambiar, HP , USA
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
Kurt Rohloff, BBN Technologies, USA

ADVCOMP 2009 Malta Scientific Committee

Kenneth P. Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta
Kenneth Scerri, University of Malta, Malta
Marvin Bugeja, University of Malta, Malta

ADVCOMP 2009 Technical Program Committee

Chairs:
Sascha Opletal, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Saïd Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse / Université Toulouse1, France

Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Sónia Maria Almeida da Luz, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria/ Portugal, University of Extremadura/Spain
Vincenzo Ambriola, Università di Pisa, Italy
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA
Renato Amorim, University of London- Birkbeck, UK
Basavaraj Anami, KLE Institute of Technology - Hubli, India
Stefan Andrei, Lamar University – Beaumont, USA
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK
Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
Gaspar Barreira, LIP / Portuguese Grid Initiative, Portugal
Simona Bernardi, University of Torino, Italy
Alexandra Bonnici, University of Malta , Malta
Pierre Borne, Ecole Centrale de Lille, IEEE Fellow, France
Marvin Bugeja, University of Malta, Malta
Kenneth P. Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta
Marco C. Campi, University of Brescia, Italy
Juan Vicente Capella Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Alessandro Casavola, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Antonio Casimiro Costa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Tracey Cassar, University of Malta, Malta
Richard Chbeir, LE2I (UMR - CNRS) - Bourgogne University – Dijon, France
Rebeca Cortázar, University of Deusto – Bilbao, Spain
Raul Crespo, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
Mirela Damian, Villanova University , USA
Sergiu Dascalu, Unversity of Nevada – Reno, USA
Marisa da Silva Maximiano, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria / Portugal, University Extremadura – Cáceres, Spain
Michel Dayde, University of Toulouse - IRIT, France
Vieri del Bianco, Università dell'Insubria, Italy
José Valente de Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Walter Didimo, University of Perugia , Italy
Simon G. Fabri, University of Malta – Msida, Malta
Umar Farooq, Carleton Universirty / Smart Technologies ULC, Canada
Leonardo Garrido, Center for Intelligent Computing and Robotics – Monterrey Tech, Mexico
Matthieu Geist, Supélec / ArcelorMittal, France
Luis Gomes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / UNINOVA-CRI, Portugal
Teofilo Gonzales, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Bernard Grabot, ENIT, France
Christos Grecos, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Daniela Grigori - University of Versailles, France
Liangxiu Han, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jameleddine Hassine, Cisco Systems, Inc., Canada
Eckhard M. S. Hitzer, University of Fukui, Japan
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University – Marietta, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Wuhan, China
Eduardo Huedo Cuesta, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, Scotland / United Kingdom
Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous) – Trichy, India
Marcel Karnstedt, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) - Galway, Ireland
Dimitrios A. Karras, Chalkis Institute of Technology, Greece
Jana Katreniakova, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
Hans-Joachim Klein, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, Germany
William Knottenbelt, Imperial College London, UK
Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, Scotland/UK
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University, USA
Zakir Laliwala, DA-ICC / CIGNEX, India
Michael Langberg, The Open University of Israel-Raanana, Israel
Luigi Lavazza, Università dell'Insubria - Varese, Itay
Clement Leung, Victoria University – Melbourne, Australia
Kang Li, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Juan Pablo López-Grao, Universidad de Zaragoza,Spain
Lau Cheuk Lung, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University - Fort Collins, USA
Frederic Maire, Queensland University of Technology – Brisbane, Australia
Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada
Sunilkumar S. Manvi, REVA Institute of Technology and Management – Bangalore, India
Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Atif Memon, University of Maryland – College Park, USA
Seyedeh Leili Mirtaheri, Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran
Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - Como, Italy
Henning Müller, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Camelia Munoz-Caro, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Ciudad Real, Spain
Adithya Nagarajan, Microsoft, USA
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Raghunath Nambiar, HP, USA
Alfonso Niño, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Ciudad Real, Spain
Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany - UBS/VALORIA, France
Sascha Opletal, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Igor Paromtchik, INRIA – Saint Izmier, France
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
Radu-Emil Precup, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania
Sílvio Priem Mendes, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Ioan Raicu, University of Chicago, USA
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia - Athens, USA
Harald Richter, TU Clausthal, Germany
Yong Man Ro, Information and Communication University - Daejon, South Korea
Kurt Rohloff, BBN Technologies, USA
Juha Röning, Oulu University, Finland
Kenneth Scerri, University of Malta, Malta
Erich Schweighofer, Universität Wien Schottenbastei, Austria
Necip Sahinkaya, University of Bath, UK
Antonio Sala, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain
José Salt Cairols, Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) – Valencia, Spain
Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille / INRIA, France
Saïd Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse / Université Toulouse1, France
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL/VRlab – Lausanne, Switzerland
Sebastien Tixeuil, Université Paris VI / LRI, France
Simon Tsang, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. - Piscataway, USA
Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University/Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, UK
Peter Vojtas, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Xinyu Xu, Sharp Labs of America - Camas, USA
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne, Australia
Michael Zapf, Universität Kassel, Germany
Marek Zaremba, University of Quebec (UQO), Canada
Nadia Zerida, University of Caen, France