***** Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to Feb. 19, 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS - INFOSCALE 2007 The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems June 6-8, 2007, Suzhou, China Official Website: http://www.infoscale.org/ Mirror Website: http://www.infoscale2007.org/ As data and knowledge volumes keep increasing while global means for information dissemination continue to diversify, new methods, modeling paradigms, and structures are needed to efficiently support the mounting scalability requirements for the large variety of current and future data, information, and knowledge. Grid computing, P2P technology, data and knowledge bases, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology should all converge to address the scalability concern. The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems will focus on a wide array of scalability issues and investigate new approaches for tackling problems arising from the ever-growing size and complexity of information of all kinds. This year, Infoscale'07 is going to be held in Suzhou, China, which is very close to Shanghai. Conference Scope: * Parallel Information Retrieval * Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval * Scalable Grid Information Systems * Scalable Peer-to-Peer Systems * Scalable Mobile Systems * Scalable Web Services * Scalable Sensor Networks and Systems * Scalable system and conceptual modeling * Scalable multimedia information systems * Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems * Middleware technology for scalable computing * Architectures for Scalability * Networking for Scalable Information Systems * Evaluation Metrics for Scalability * Very Large Databases * Data Mining * Index Compression Methods * Information Security * Enterprise information systems and applications Publications * Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. * The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM Digital Library, which automatically gets listed in EI and ISI Indexes. * Selected best papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (tentative). Call For Workshops: Proposals for half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State University at pmitra@ist.psu.edu Submission Instructions: Papers in PDF should be submitted via COCUS at http://cocus.create-net.org/cocus/welcome.do. (in IEEE conference proceedings format, up to 10 pages in two-column, no less than 10 pt font). Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: February 19, 2007 (Extended) * Notification: April 9, 2007 * Camera-Ready: April 30, 2007 Organization Committee Honorary Chair Guoliang Chen Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China glchen@ustc.edu.cn General Chairs Liusheng Huang (Co-Chair) Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China lshuang@ustc.edu.cn Dov Dori (Co-Chair) Technion, Israel dori@ie.technion.ac.il Qing Li (Co-Chair) City University of Hong Kong itqli@cityu.edu.hk Program Chairs Jianzhong Li (Co-Chair) Harbin Inst. of Technology, China lijzh@hit.edu.cn Wang-Chien Lee (Co-Chair) Penn State University, USA wlee@cse.psu.edu Fabrizio Silvestri (Co-Chair) ISTI, Italy fabrizio.silvestri@isti.cnr.it Local Organization Chair Enhong Chen (Co-Chair) Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China cheneh@ustc.edu.cn Qiaoming Zhu (Co-Chair) Soochow University, China qmzhu@suda.edu.cn Publication Chair Hong Va Leong Hong Kong Polytechnic University cshleong@comp.polyu.edu.hk Tutorial Chair Wenyin Liu City University of Hong Kong csliuwy@cityu.edu.hk Workshop Chair Prasenjit Mitra Penn State University, USA pmitra@ist.psu.edu Publicity Chair Mingjun Xiao (Co-Chair) Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China xiaomj@ustc.edu.cn Andreas Wombacher (Co-Chair) University of Twente, Netherlands a.wombacher@utwente.nl Conference Coordinator Kitti H. Kovacs ICST kitti.kovacs@icst.org Steering Committee Chairs Imrich Chlamtac (Chair) CreateNet Research Consortium chlamtac@create-net.org Ophir Frieder (Co-Chair) Illinois Inst. Tech., USA ophir@ir.iit.edu Program Committee (more to be announced) Divy Agrawal, ASK.com, USA James Allan, Univ. Mass. Amherst, USA Aris Anagnostopoulos, Yahoo! Research, USA Ralitsa Angelova, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain & Chile Ranieri Baraglia, ISTI-CNR, Italy Alvaro Barreiro, Dept. Computacion - Universidade da Coruna, Spain Steven Beitzel, Telcordia Research, USA Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Roi Blanco, Dept. Computacion - Universidade da Coruna, Spain Fabiano Botelho, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Fidel Cacheda, Dept. Computacion - Universidade da Coruna, Spain Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA Jiannong Cao, HK Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong David Carmel, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Spain Chung-Min Chen, Telcordia Research, USA Cindy Chen, U. Mass - Lowell, USA Li Chen, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Lee-Feng Chien, Google & Academia Sinica, Taiwan Paul-Alexandru Chirita, L3S Research Center, Germany Abdur Chowdhury, USA Hao Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Brian Cooper, Yahoo! Research, USA Chita Das, Penn State University, USA Zoran Despotovic, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University, Singapore Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research, Spain Tiziano Fagni, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Fabrizio Falchi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Lee C. Giles, Penn State University, USA Claudio Gennaro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Nazli Goharian, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA Naijie Gu, Univ. of Science and Technology, China Qijun Gu, Texas State University - San Marcos, USA Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Manfred Hauswirth, DERI & NUIG, Ireland Hui-I Hsiao, IBM China Research Lab., China Haibo Hu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Vincent Hu, NIST, USA Ali Hurson, Penn State University, USA Eric Jensen, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technology, China Flavio P. Junqueira, Yahoo! Research, Spain Vana Kalogeraki, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Francis C.M. Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dik Lee, Univ. of Sci. & Technology, Hong Kong Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Domenico Laforenza, ISTI-CNR, Italy Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Mei Li, Penn State University, USA Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Sunho Lim, South Dakota State Univ., USA Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Yunhao Liu, Univ. of Sci. & Technology, Hong Kong Claudio Lucchese, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China Sebastian Michel, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany Gail Mitchell, BBN, USA Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research, UK Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research, China Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Toulouse, France Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research, Spain Diego Puppin, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Tieyun Qian, Wuhan University, China Weining Qian, Fudan University, China Keith Ross, Polytechnic University, USA Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China Min-Te Sun, Auburn University, USA Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Nesime Tatbul, Brown University, USA Christos Tryfonopoulos, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany Vincent S. Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey Haixun Wang, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA Hua Wang, Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia Guiling Wang, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, USA Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research, China Kun-Lung Wu, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA Xing Xie, Microsoft Research, China Jianliang Xu, Baptist University, Hong Kong Zhichen Xu, Yahoo! Inc, USA Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Tao Yang," Ask Jeeves, Inc.", USA Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Tech., USA Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA Baihua Zheng , Singapore Management Univ., Singapore Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China