CISIS 2009 Organization Committee

Conference Officers

General Co-Chairs Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committe Co-Chairs Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Stefan Biffl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshops Co-Chairs Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan Award Co-Chairs Arjan Durresi, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan Muhammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK International Liaison Co-Chairs Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Salvatore Vitabile, Palermo University, Italy Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Rachid Anane, Coventry University, UK Treasure Chairs Tomoya Enokido, Risho University, Japan Valbona Barolli, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Local Arrangement Committee Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Keita Matsuo, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Web Administrator Co-Chairs Amin Anjomshoaa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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Track Chairs & Program Committee

Track 1 Scientific Computing: Infrastructures and Applications

Track Chairs

Siegfried Benkner , University of Vienna, Austria Sabri Pllana , University of Vienna, Austria

Programme Committee

Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Christoph Kessler, Linkoping University, Sweden Hans Petter Langtangen, Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Almerico Murli, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy Lasse Natvig, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Michael Kwok-Po Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Michael Resch, HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Germany Jie Tao, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Thune, Uppsala University, Sweden Shigeyoshi Watanabe, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Hans Zima, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA

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Track 2 Software Engineering for Distributed Systems

Track Chairs

Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research, German

Programme Committee

Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany Giacomo Cabri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy H. Conrad Cunningham University of Mississippi, USA Eckhard Kruse, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany Rene Meier, Trinity College, Ireland Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia Bela Mutschler, Daimler AG, Germany James Power, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Thomas Preuss, University of Brandenburg, Germany Dick Quartel, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands Martin Schader, University of Mannheim, Germany Thomas Usländer, Fraunhofer IITB, Germany Miguel Vargas Martin, University of Ontario Insitute of Technology, Canada Christian Zeidler, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

Track 3 Database and Data Mining Applications

Track Chairs

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Programme Committee

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Angela Goh, Nanyang, Institute of Technology, Singapore Dominique Laurent, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia Mafruz Ashrafi, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore

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Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain Mustafa Matderis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia Pedro Furtado, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology Sung Ho Ha, Kyungpook National University, Korea Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yun Sing Koh, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China Rajugan Rajagopalapillai, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Track 4 Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Track Chairs

Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Programme Committee

Young-Chul Bae, Chonnam National University, Korea Chien-Chung Chan, University of Akron, USA Bao-Rong Chang, National Taitung University, Taiwan Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology, Taiwan Been-Chian Chien, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Liya Ding, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau Yin-Fu Huang, National Yunlin Univ. of Science and Technology, Taiwan Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Cheng-Jian Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Daw-Tung Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA Frank S.C. Tseng, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, TaiwanShin-Mu Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan Zhaohao Sun, Hebei Normal University, China Leon S.L. Wang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Chih-Hung Wu, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Yong Yue, University of Bedfordshire, UK

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Track 5 Agent and Autonomic Systems

Track Chairs

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, U.A.E.

Programme Committee

Brian M. Blake, Georgetown University, USA Christel Kemke, University of Manitoba, Canada Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Francisco García Sánchez, University of Murcia, Spain Hisham Al-Mubaid, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA Iker Gondra, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Manuel Núñez García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Margaret Lyell, Intelligent Automation, USA Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, USA Mercedes G. Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Paul A. Buhler, College of Charleston, USA Peter Braun, The Agent Factory GmbH, Germany Quan Z. Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Sajid Hussien, Acadia University, Canada Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland W.J. van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Weiming Shen, National Research Council, Canada Xuan Thang Nguyen, Swinburne University, Australia Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

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Track 6 Multimedia Systems and Human-Machine Interaction

Track Chair

Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China

Programme Committee

Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto, Canada Rong-Chi Chang, Asia University, Taiwan Guozhong Dai, Institute of Software, China Academy of Sciences, ChinaPierre Dragicevic, INRIA, France Sidney Fels, The University of British Columbia, Canada Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Pearl Pu, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Swiss Xiangshi Ren, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China Hui Su, IBM China Research Lab, China Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, Kyushu University, Japan Guoping Wang, Peking University, China Kongqiao Wang, NOKIA China Research, China Xiaolong Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, U.S

Track 7 Systems for Biological and Medical Applications

Track Chair

Vipin Chaudhary, SUNY at Buffalo, USA

Programme Committee

Shishir Shah, University of Houston, USA Suryaprakash Kompalli, Wayne State University, USA John Walters, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Joseph Landman, Scalable Informatics, USA Xiandong Meng, Texas A&M University, USA

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Bikash Sabata, Bioimagene Inc, USA Andrei Doncescu, LAARS, France

Track 8 Complex Intelligent Techniques for eLearning

Track Chairs

Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Ray Bareiss, Carnegie Mellon West, USA

Programme Committee

Angel Juan Perez, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Todd Davies, Stanford University, CA, USA Dor Abrahamson, UC Berkeley, CA, USA Nicola Capuano, Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Salerno, Italy George Magoulas, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain Miguel Bote, University of Valladolid, Spain

Track 9 Network Control and Performance Analysis

Track Chairs

Takuo Nakashima, Tokai University, Japan

Programme Committee

Sun Ningping, Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan Hiroshi Matsuno, Yamaguchi University, Japan Tsuyoshi Ideguchi, Tokai University, Japan Tsuyoshi Itokawa, Kumamoto University, Japan Yoshiaki Hori, Kyushu University, Japan Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan Yoshinari Nomura, Okayama University, Japan Yasuo Musashi, Kumamoto University, Japan Kenzi Watanabe, Saga University, Japan Shunsuke Oshima, Yatsushiro National College of Technology, Japan

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Kinya Matsumoto, Tokai University, Japan Yoshifumi Oyama, Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan Masami Tanabe, Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan Chotipat Pornavalai, King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

Track 10 Wireless and Mobile Networking

Track Chairs

Vamsi Paruchuri, University of Central Arkansas, USA

Programme Committee

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Arjan Durresi, Indiana University Purdue University, USA Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan Qijun Gu, Texas State University - San Marcos, USA Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Kaoru Sugita, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Xukai Zou, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA Sriram Chellappan,, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Yu Sun, University of Central Arkansas, USA

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Track 11 Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Networking

Track Chairs

Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea

Programme Committee

Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Susumu Ishihara, Shizuoka University, Japan Stan Kurkovsky, Central Connecticut State University, USA Leong Hong-va, HongKong Polytechnic University, HK Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain Judi McCuaig, University of Guelph Deqing Zou, University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Demissie B. Aredo, Oslo University College, Norway Hakan Duman, British Telcom, UK Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China Jason Hung, Northern Taiwan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan Naixue Xiong, JAIST, Japan Sang-Soo Yeo, Kyushu University, Japan Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Hongbo Zhou, Slippery Rock University, USA Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Ryan Wishart, NICTA, Australia

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Track 12 Networking-based Systems and Applications

Track Chairs

Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan

Programme Committee

Shigeru Fujita, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan Hideki Hara, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan Debasish Chakraborty, Tohoku University, Japan Kazuhide Koide, Tohoku University, Japan, Gen Kitagata, Tohoku University, Japan Kentaro Go, Yamanashi University, Japan Bhed Bahadur Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Salim Zabir, Kyushu University, Japan Takahiro Uchiya, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Atsushi Takeda, Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Japan Chotipat Pornavalai, KMITL, Thailand Sagar Naik, University of Waterloo, Canada Tarun Kanti Roy, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India Takashi Katoh, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Ashir Ahmed, Grameen Communications, Bangladesh

Track 13 P2P & Grid Data Technologies Track Chairs Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and LSU, USA Program Committe Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Ian Kelley, University of Cardiff, UK George Kola, Truveo Inc., USA Erwin Laure, CERN, Swissland Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy

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Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Florian Schintke, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Bernard Traversat, Sun Microsystems Inc., USA

Track 14 Ontologies, Semantic Web and Web Services

Track Chairs

Wen-Chen Hu, University of North Dakota, USA Chung-wei Lee, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA

Programme Committee

Sanjeev Baskiyar, Auburn University, USA Lei Chen, Sam Houston State University, USA Gerry V. Dozier, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Albert C. Esterline, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Mario M. Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Lixin Fu, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA Jain Jhilmil, HP Labs, USA I-Lung Kao, IBM Corp., USA Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research, Germany Eunjin Kim, University of North Dakota, USA Shang-Hong Lai, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan In Lee, Western Illinois University, USA Wayne Wei-Chuan Lin, TakMing University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Jundong Liu, Ohio University, USA Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China Wolfgang Maass, Furtwangen University, Germany Gerhard X. Ritter, University of Florida, USA Hongchi Shi, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA Alessandra Toninelli, University of Bologna, Italy Tom Wiggen, University of North Dakota, USA Chyuan-Huei Thomas Yang, Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan Hung-Jen Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Jyh-haw Yeh, Boise State University, USA Tsae-feng Yu, Oracle Corp., USA Yapin Zhong, Shandong Sport University, China Yanjun Zuo, University of North Dakota, USA Massimo Memmola, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Jinyoul Lee, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA

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