Scope
As data and knowledge volume keep increasing while global means for information dissemination continue to diversify, new methods, modeling paradigms and structures are needed to efficiently mount scalability requirements.
In the last few years, we have seen the proliferation of the use of heterogeneous
distributed systems, ranging from simple Networks of Workstations, to highly complex
grid computing environments. Such computational paradigms have been preferred due
to their reduced costs and inherent scalability, which pose many challenges to scalable systems and applications in terms of information access, storage and retrieval.
Grid computing, P2P technology, data and knowledge bases, distributed information
retrieval technology and networking technology should all converge to address the
scalability concern. Furthermore, with the advent of emerging computing
architectures - e.g. SMTs, GPUs, Multicores. - the importance of designing
techniques explicitly targeting these systems is becoming more and more important.
The Fourth International Conference on Scalable Information Systems will
focus on a wide array of scalability issues and investigate new approaches to
tackle problems arising from the ever-growing size and complexity of information
of all kinds.
Address of the Conference:
the address goes here
IEEE Catalog Number: xxxxxx
ISBN: xxxxx
Library of Congress: xxxxxx
