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The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computational Engineering, and Communication. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working in India and abroad. The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Information, Telecommunication, Computing Techniques and related areas.

English is the official language of the conference. We welcome paper submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit full (and original research) papers (which is NOT submitted/published/under consideration anywhere in other conferences/journal) in electronic (PDF only) format through the easy chair conferences management system website or via email itc.paper AT engineersnetwork.org » Call for Papers »

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SIMUTools 2010 is the Third International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. This edition, which builds on the success of 2008 and 2009, will focus on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis. High quality papers are sought on simulation tools, methodologies, applications, and practices.

The aim of the conference is to bring academic and industry researchers together with practitioners (from both the simulation community and from the numerous simulation user communities). The conference will address current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices, and foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. While the main focus of the conference is on simulation tools, the conference also encourages the submission of broader theoretical and practical research contributions.

General areas of interest include:

• Simulation methods: discrete event, parallel and distributed, hybrid, load balancing, partitioning, simulation-interoperation 
• Simulation techniques: service-oriented, agent-based, web-based, component-based, symbiotic simulation
• Simulation tools, libraries and frameworks, including specialized tools, such as ns-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, e-cell, and other open source tools 
• Modeling formalisms: DEVS, Petri Nets, process algebras, state charts, and others
• Simulation verification, validation, accreditation, and analysis: benchmark models, simulation-based verification, workflow, simulation experiment design, optimization, and simulation coercion.

IQPC is delighted to announce the dates for the 5th Annual SmartLabs Exchange 2010, taking place on 17th – 18th March, in Brussels, Belgium.

Smart Labs brings together senior level professionals from across the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, cosmetic and FMCG industries, as well as selected market-leading solution providers.

Representatives from these industries are responsible for informatics and data management initiatives ranging across organisational boundaries and laboratory functions. The Smart Labs exchange format offers invitees the opportunity to attend sessions focussing on research and development, quality, and processing laboratories, and back-end information systems and infrastructure.

The 5th Annual Oxford RNAi Conference, RNAi2010, will address most aspects of biology and application of RNA interference, and welcomes proposals on endogenous and exogenous roles of small RNAs in gene regulation, health and disease. We also invite proposals addressing technical advances in siRNA selection, chemical manipulations, delivery and bioinformatics tools.

The regulation of gene expression has been studied traditionally at the level of transcription. While a few examples of translational regulation were known, they were considered interesting exceptions to the general rule of regulation at the level of RNA synthesis. However, over the last few years it has become evident that several widespread posttranscriptional, mostly cytoplasmic mechanisms have profound effects on gene expression. All of these mechanisms ultimately contribute to control protein synthesis, either directly, by affecting the rate of translation, or indirectly, by affecting the abundance of mRNA. Some of them exert a qualitative, all-or-none control, for example by complete repression or elimination of certain mRNAs, others determine the intracellular location or the cell-type in which a particular RNA is translated, and still others have a quantitative effect, controlling the amount of protein made from a certain mRNA. The analysis of some of the most exciting aspects of these cytoplasmic mechanisms of gene regulation is a major focus of this meeting.

The principal theme of the workshop is the Molecular and developmental biology of Drosophila. The workshop has been supported by EMBO for thirty years and awarded the status of EMBO CONFERENCE in 2000.  This will be the 17th biennial Crete meeting.

Its objective is to bring together an international group of scientists to present their findings on gene organisation and expression, development, pattern formation, neurobiology and the evolution of Drosophila.

The workshop is a highly anticipated forum for researchers involved in the field of Drosophila molecular and developmental biology.

The workshop is one of a small number of international workshops that cover a broad topic while maintaining its size in order to foster close interactions between the participants.  It is a highly anticipated forum for researchers involved in the field of Drosophila molecular and developmental biology.

International Conference on Futuristic Computer Applications is a series of high-end conferences held under the aegis of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA. They are aimed at discovering the new innovations in the field of futuristic computations. Traditionally, ICFCA focussed on novel research transgressing multi-disciplinary branches of engineering and their contributions towards development of better computational environment.

By the end of the conference, participants will be able to:

• identify the anatomy and pathophysiology of frontal lobe function and dysfunction
• recognize the value of neuropharmacological, neurophysiological and neuroimaging assessment and treatment procedures
• identify the expression of frontal lobe function and dysfunction across maturational stages
• recognize the breadth of frontal lobe functions, from cognitive to emotional
• differentially diagnose frontal lobe dysfunctions in neurological and psychiatric disorders
• critically evaluate the rehabilitation of frontal lobe dysfunctions

analytica 2010 will present products and innovations in the analysis, laboratory- technology and biotechnology sectors with the usual high level of quality. As always, several manufacturers will use this attractive platform to introduce new products that are ready for market. Everything at the fair revolves around the laboratory: analytica showcases the entire value-added chain for laboratory technology, analysis and quality control, measuring and testing technology, biotechnology, the life sciences and diagnostics. The fact that analytica is such a high-level exhibition is in part due to the support that it receives from our renowned German and international partners. They are a guarantee for unsurpassed quality and ensure that analytica lives up to its reputation as a leading international trade fair:

Three pillars of the fair`s concept are:

• Exhibition
• Scientific Conference
• Related Events Programme

The lectures will be presented in the language of the title, there is no simultaneous translation.

The scientific analytica Conference is where the international scientific elite gathers. It is where the future is discussed, new foundations are laid and trends are set. Which makes it the perfect place for you to establish and take advantage of first-rate contacts in the science and research communities. In Europe there is no alternative to this leading event for the transfer and exchange of know-how.

The scientific congress analytica Conference 2010 will present the latest research in the core topic areas of analytical chemistry, feature multidisciplinary programming, and highlight chemistry‘s impact on society. The Congress will bring together chemical and molecular scientists from industry, academia and government institutions across Europe and from around the world.

In a series of symposia, prominent scientists from around the world report on the latest trends, what modern analysis techniques are capable of, where they are used and what their limits are. The range of lectures is extremely diverse and covers the entire range of analysis, diagnostic, biochemical and molecular-biology methods and techniques.

The International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on computers and their applications. The CATA-2010 will feature contributed as well as invited papers concerned with theory, practice and applications.

BIT Life Sciences’ Annual World Congress of Vaccine is best known as the largest meeting devoted exclusively to the research on vaccines and associated with technologies for disease prevention and treatment in China. Through a series of impassioned and interesting symposiums, expositions, and poster demonstration, they shared and discussed their valuable and creative ideas, came to the agreement to be the scientific partners and business collaborators, and got the research funding and job opportunities. By right of the successful of WCV-2008, which has attracted 400 excellent presentations and more than 800 participants from both industries and academic areas, we are confident in achieving a more perfect work for our participants to redound upon their trust to the congress.

International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Processing & Computing (IPC)

* Software and Web Engineering
* Computer Science
* Computer Appllication
* Electronics Commerce
* Electronics Marketing
* E-Cash
* System Administration
* Computer Management
* Computational Mathematics
* Information Processing
* Information Technology
* Knowledge Management
* Data Communications
* Data Compression
* Data Encryption
* Data Mining
* Databases
* Digital Signal Processing
* Distributed Systems
* Event Driven Programming
* Expert Systems
* High Performance Computing
* Image Processing
* Watermarking
* Information Retrieval
* Information Systems
* Mobile Computing
* Multimedia Applications
* Natural Language Processing
* Parallel and Distributed Computing
* Performance Evaluation
* Programming Languages
* Reconfigurable Computing Systems
* Security & Cryptography
* Software Engineering & CASE
* Theoretical Computer Science
* Applications of Computer Science and Engineering

The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL) would like to invite you to the ‘Eternal City’, Rome, to attend the 2010 conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology.

The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology was founded in 1999 to provide pan-European representation for research, education and professional practice in the discipline. One of its major activities is its biennial conference which attracts delegates from more than thirty countries who gather to share innovations and best practice in the field.

Occupational health psychology concerns the application of principles and practices in applied psychology to occupational health and safety issues for the promotion of the quality of working life. The discipline’s researchers and practitioners aspire to foster `healthy workplaces in which people may produce, serve, grow, and be valued. Healthy workplaces are ones where people use their talents and gifts to achieve high performance, high satisfaction, and well-being`.

The 9th Conference is being jointly organised in collaboration with the Department of Occuaptional Medicine of the Italian National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL). The event will take place over three days, 29-31 March, 2010, at the Pontifical Urbaniana University . Situated in the centre of Rome, adjacent to the Vatican, this prestigious venue is sure to offer an ideal location for researchers, practitioners, educators, and postgraduate students to share developments in the exciting field of occupational health psychology.  We look forward to welcoming you in Rome.

Following the hugely successful event in 2008, the 10th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection will provide a leading forum for the international engineering community to meet and exchange ideas.

Through our tailored programme of presented papers, discussions and tutorials, attendees of this conference will gain an up-to-date understanding of recent developments and future trends in the design, application and management of power system protection and control systems.

These are all aimed at engineers involved in the application, ownership, management, design and development of power system protection and control systems. Paper submissions are invited from utilities, generation companies, industry, manufacturing and railway industries, as well as consultants and academia.

All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be delivered by oral presentations. The conference will be preceded by a one day tutorial covering topics of relevance to the subject area.

This event regularly attracts over 300 senior decision makers from global organisations, from senior directors or engineers to consultants and research students. The DPSP series continues to grow into one of the most important conferences in the power system protection and control systems area.

The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the IFAC Conference on Control Methodologies and Technology for Energy Efficiency, CMTEE 2010, to be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, March 29-31, 2010.

Antennas and Related Topics
Propagation and Related Topics
Antenna and RCS Measurement Techniques

The ninth biennial Tucson conference Toward a Science of Consciousness will take place April 13-17, 2010 at the Tucson Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona. TheTucson conferences are known for rigorous, inter-disciplinary approaches to conscious experience.

The program will include:

• Plenary and Keynote talks, Concurrent talks, Poster presentations, Art/Science
• demos and exhibits, Pre-Conference workshops, Side trips and Social events.
• Session themes will include:
• Brain default networks
• Stimulus-independent thought
• Mind wandering
• Non-conscious processing
• New technologies
• Machine consciousness
• Body consciousness
• Self and Transformation
• Centennial

The general theme of "Dams in Transition" organized the German Committee on Dams of 14 eV to 16 April 2010 in Aachen, the 15. German Dam Symposium.

More than 80 abstracts were submitted to the focal themes Will be "Current Hydraulic assigned projects" and "News from research and development". That makes me feel confident in two ways:

Of the selected 45 abstracts were submitted for the symposium. In addition to spectacular dams and hydropower projects (not only from abroad) as well as reports about the latest developments in research, law and administration can expect the participants of the symposium practical experience from the reservoir operation.

With this preliminary program, which was necessary because of the large number of submitted papers, inform the German Association Talsperrenkomitee still before the publication of the final program for the state of readiness, enabling all interested parties to register early.

The symposium ends with a full-time professional tour around the scenic German-Belgian border region. The operators of the German and Belgian dams have pledged their support. Thus, the field trip participants, many new impressions - may not only be expected from hydraulic structures, -. In addition, promising the sights of the traditional city of Aachen is an interesting supporting program, which goes far beyond the famous Aachener Printen.

Congress Topics

In the 30+ years since FASD was first identified, children with FASD have become adults, and many are now in their 30s and even 40s. As time has passed, their changing and emerging needs have become obvious, but the areas of research, experience and front line practice have frequently functioned as separate and parallel systems, rather than intersecting ones. Focused and targeted approaches across multiple areas, services, and systems have recently begun to emerge to address the urgent need for an integrated approach to addressing FASD in adolescence and adulthood. This conference will bring together a diverse group of professionals and families to share research, experience and practice in order to sustain and enhance the lives of adolescents and adults with FASD, their families, service providers, and communities.

• Continue to expand our understanding of FASD as it presents in adolescence and adulthood and its potential implications and applications.
• Learn about current findings about adults and adolescents with FASD from scientific, clinical, and community researchers.
• Learn about innovative programs, projects, and practices that are making a difference.
• Hear from individuals most directly affected.
• Network, interact and engage in discussion with others in the field.

Sixth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

This Conference aims to address the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusion and crime prevention. The meeting will build on the contributions made in previous conferences, which successfully managed to provide an international view of the problems facing modern cities and their solutions.

Urban areas produce a series of environmental problems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution. These problems contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances. All these problems, that continue to grow in our society, require the development of new solutions.

• Cell line misidentification
• Recent advances in cell culture methods as alternatives to animal testing
• Metabolomic profiling of mammalian cell lines – New approaches for understanding recombinant antibody production
• Development of Technology for the Routine Growth of Cells in Three Dimensions
• Remote Monitoring of Cell Culture - Splitting cells based on fact rather than tradition
• Harvest your cells without trypsin! Introducing cell releasing UpCell surface by temperature control
• Embryonic stem cell bioprocessing
• Instant immortal cell cultures from Cdkn2a null mice: functional analysis of colour mutations using melanocyte lines
• Wnt signals in Prostate Cancer and Embryonal Carcinoma Cell Growth and Differentiation
• Developing in vitro 3d models of breast cancer

The current networked world has created a global landscape and a mandate for a significant change. The Internet has enabled communication and collaboration across the world and brought many computing models. In that landscape, people and organizations have been distributing the work, service and technology anywhere in the world. The last decade is marked by the development of many technologies and strategies in improving the efficiency of computation. Heuristic-based methods and reasoning have also been reported in the literature but little effort has been made by researchers to combine all the available techniques. The proposed conference will discuss what we can learn from computing systems and how we can implement the output of computing systems in an intelligent way using the state-of-the-art methods and technologies.

This conference will bring research across the countries at a broad level on computing systems. The conference will have presentations, workshops and industrial contributions on intelligent computing.

The AAH Bookfair is an annual event that takes place during the annual AAH Conference. The Bookfair takes place over three days within the main conference venue. The Bookfair comprises many international publishers and magazines and attrracts upto 500 conference delegates. The Bookfair takes place at a different UK venue each year.

There is suggested the following issues in the framework of conference:

• SECTION I. CIVIL SOCIETY AND LAW STATE: PROBLEMS OF ESTABLISHMENT
- Civil society and law state: terminology, theory and reality
- Problems of establishment and development of the institution of civil society in the modern world
- Category of law state in the modern legal-consciousness
- State and society: aspects of interaction
- People as subject and object of the power

• SECTION II. REFORMING OF POLITICAL SYSTEM OF RUSSIA: EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVES
- Experience of the world transformation and originality of its perception in the political system of Russia
- Peculiarities of the transformation of social-political structure of Russian society
- Institution of the Presidency and Russian parliamentarism
- One-party spirit and dominated party in Russia: comparative perspective
- Realization of the idea of sovereign democracy in the modern Russia: strategies and results
- Problems of dialogue of the federal power and regional elite in the modern Russia

• SECTION III. MODERN RUSSIA: WORLD POLICY CHALLENGES
- Problems of Russia’s identity in conditions of the globalization
- Transformation of Russian State system as reply to challenges of the globalization
- Russia’s foreign policy in conditions of transition from unipolar world to multi-polar world-order
- New challenges and threats to national security of Russian Federation in conditions of the globalization

• SECTION IV. INTEGRATION OF ECOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLITICS
- Mutual influence of ecological, economic and social initiatives
- Problems of forming of open society: economic-political aspect
- Modern economic theory: basing of ways of economic reforming of the State
- Integration of Russia’s economy in the world management in conditions of globalization
- Russian way of private business, municipal formations and small business

• SECTION V. LEGAL ASPECT OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY
- Conceptual problems of civil and arbitral process law
- Right of intellectual property: Russian and foreign models
- Alternative forms of permission of debate in the sphere of civil and arbitral legal proceedings
- Reforming of executive-made in Russian Federation
- International trade treaties and agreement of WTO (World Trade Organization) as regulators of foreign economic bargains

• SECTION VI. COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (CIS): PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF INTERACTION
- CIS as geopolitical formation
- Processes of globalization and localization within the limits of CIS
- Ways of regulation of political conflicts, economic and legal debates within the limits of CIS
- Modern tendency to internationals interaction of the States of CIS
- Foreign policy of the States of CIS: collaboration and contradictions
- Dialogue of cultures within the limits of CIS

• SECTION VII. IMAGE OF RUSSIA IN THE DESIGN OF EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL IDENTITIES
- Dynamics of the process of Russia’s involving in European and Oriental civilization space
- Role of image of Russia in forming of nations
- Russia as transmitter of European civilization to the East and connective link of adaptation between East and West
- Modern Russia in publications of domestic and foreign mass media
- Image of Russia in literature of the East and West

• SECTION VIII. RELIGION IN THE SYSTEM OF POLITICAL CULTURE: HISTORY AND MODERN TRENDS
- Religion – humanism – globalization: Russia and modern world
- Religious dialogue of the East and the West: perspective and strategies at the present time
- Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism: originality of role in definition of specific character of political institutions and social-political processes
- Islam in the system of political culture: history and the present
- Theocratic forms of the organization of social-political life in the modern world
- Temporal and religious power: interaction and confrontation

• SECTION IX. CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE GLOBALIZATION
- Globalization in the context of modern humanist traditions
- Social-cultural aspects of globalization in Russia in XXI century
- The problem of morality in new globalization world
- Methodological problems of study of cultural aspects of globalization

• SECTION X. MODERN ELITES: IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS
- Dialogue of mass and elite cultures: theoretical aspects and practical experience
- Social-political mechanisms of the forming of elite cultures
- Problems of basic culture and sub-culture in culturelogical research
- Peculiarities of art perception of the world in the modern culture and the questions of the identification of the elites
- Globalization and cultural interests of the elites in Russia in XX – XXI centuries

• SECTION XI. LITERATURE OF THE XX – XXI CENTURIES IN SOCIAL-POLITICAL ASPECTS
- New methods and approaches to studying of social-political themes in the literature of the XX – XXI centuries
- Social-political concepts in the literature of the XX – XXI centuries and ways of their representation
- Originality of social-political motifs in the literature of the XX – XXI centuries
- Poetics of the East and the West in the literature of the XX – XXI centuries
- Literary process and problems of globalization

• SECTION XII. MODELS OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN THE MODERN WORLD
- Educational policy in the modern world and its influence on the civilization development of the States
- Peculiarities of construction of the models of higher professional education in the modern world
- Problems of modern university in the context of forming national intelligentsia
- Methods of rise of quality of higher education and its role in social-economic development of definite country
- Traditional and innovational methods of teaching in modern university
- Psychological peculiarities of organization of professional teaching


The panel discussion involving known scientists, politicians, pressmen will take place within the framework of the conference




Conference languages: Russian, English.

IPDPS 2010 will be held 19-23 April in Atlanta, Georgia.

The main topics are: 

• Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on issues such as: stability, scalability, and fault-tolerance of algorithms and data structures for parallel and distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, scheduling and load balancing.

• Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing. Papers focusing on applications using novel commercial or research architectures, or discussing scalability toward the exascale level are encouraged.

• Parallel and distributed architectures, including architectures for instruction-level and thread-level parallelism; petascale and exascale systems designs; special-purpose architectures, including graphics processors, signal processors, network processors, media accelerators and other special purpose processors and accelerators; impact of technology on architecture; network and interconnect architectures; parallel I/O and storage systems; architecture of the memory hierarchy; power-efficient architectures; dependable architectures; and performance modeling and evaluation.

• Parallel and distributed software, including parallel and multicore programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating systems, resource management, middleware, libraries, performance modeling and evaluation, parallel programming paradigms, and programming environments and tools.

The Forum has as its mission to support the movement for health care improvement. It aims to improve outcomes for patients and communities, provide practical ideas that can be implemented in the workplace, promote research into quality and safety improvement, foster effective innovation, and connect health care leaders and practitioners worldwide.

The main way that it meets these aims is through the annual Forum, a three day meeting that brings together a very international group of people (from chief executives and government officials to health care managers and clinicians) who share a concern and a passion for improving quality and safety in healthcare. This year’s Forum in Berlin, for example, brought together 2,000 attendees from over 60 countries to take part in sessions that ranged from the basic disciplines of quality improvement to the latest thinking in how to improve quality and safety.

Our Vision
Improve outcomes for patients and communities

• Provide practical ideas that can be implemented in the workplace

• Build coalitions to inspire understanding between health care organisations

• Promote research into quality and safety improvement

• Foster effective innovation

• Gather the evidence needed to support local improvement

• Connect health care leaders and practitioners worldwide

• Translate concern about the quality and safety of care into effective action

Introduction of Geographic Information Systems, newest equipment and high qualified staff in all geo-industry is necessary to realize new state programs aimed on increase in sector of civil and industrial construction and environmental management regulation.

Siberian forum "GEO-Siberia" became the first project with a similar theme in Siberia Far East regions, combining International scientific congress and exhibition.

Siberian State Geodetic Academy acted as fully legitimate organizer of this event, this made it possible to present exhibition-congress scientific component remarkably, and also to attract Russian Academy of Science Siberian Branch profile institutes, Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Tomsk Polytechnic University and other institutions.

Aged individuals appear to be content with their lives although indicators express the contrary. Let us not be mistaken by this situation. As Emile Durkheim states “Human mind is not reliable; we can only get to know the social world with meticulous studies” (Diekmann, 2007, 31). Thus, the changes in the demographical structure of our country should compel us to pay attention to old age and the living conditions of the aged individuals more than ever.

The number of psychologically and psychiatrically ill, isolated and lonely aged individuals has been increasing. We should discuss attitudes such as alcoholism, drug dependence and suicide which have become a reality in Turkey and increasingly widespread among the aged individuals before tabooing them. Especially the problem of nursing neediness of the aged, and violence, negligence and abuse towards the aged which are generally in connection with the said problem are the significant subjects that should be brought up to our country’s agenda. The situation of handicapped children and youth who are the majorities in number as well as that of aged handicapped alarms us in terms of future. While seeking a solution to the problems of old women, young women should take measures on this very day in order not to end up like their grandmothers.

Since there is not any social field which is not affected by these developments, none of the disciplines should lie outside the sphere of these developments. Ageing and agedness are multidimensional and complex phenomena. With the help of medical, psychological and sociological solutions, agedness should lose its position as a period of life when lots of people look forward to dying. On the contrary, it should be turned into a period of life which is worth living.

While the lifetime increases more and more and it is not know when it shall end, today agedness has become a period of life which comprises one third of our lifetime in total. For a woman who becomes a grandmother when she is fifty years’ old, the chance of seeing the marriage of her grandchild after she brings up him/her has increased rather well. Half of the girls who were born in millennium shall be able to see the 22nd century. However, the lifetime of men keeps up with that of women. In the near future, a great majority of our country’s population shall be made up of individuals who are above 60. Based on rough estimates, we should take into account the fact that the number of these people shall exceed 30 millions in 2050 in Turkey.

Nowadays, people question not how long they shall live but how they shall live. Developments which alter living conditions positively such as the proliferation of hygienic environment, healthy diet and opportunities modern medicine offers continuously add new years to our lifetimes. Yet, successful ageing and quality of life in agedness should be the key concepts in order to make this time period which we have succeeded in adding to our lifetimes a more prosperous period. Our objective should be to relieve agedness of poverty, make it free from illness and nursing neediness and create active and gleesome aged individuals. This offer is highly profitable not only in terms of individuals but also in terms of social security systems. As the number of ill and dependent aged individuals decreases, our social expenditures shall decrease as well, thus “empty safes” shall be filled up.

On the other hand, both international effects and national effects of demographic ageing are the leading subjects which are constantly emphasized in the scientific literature. Effects which are negative in general has gradually become much more apparent; in addition to economical and political globalization, social ageing phenomenon becomes a global problem.

We should comprehend the gravity of the warnings that have been made by the United Nations Organizations since 1980 and take our place in the international struggle against the results of social ageing. International Social and Applied Gerontology Symposium, which we shall hold in Antalya between 28 and 30 April 2010 for the forth time, is an indicator of this common struggle and a product of the desire of making agedness a livable life period.

The objective of International Social and Applied Gerontology Symposium is to make the “crying” face of agedness laugh in these days when we have started to feel the constraints of social ageing at different levels. It is a significant science feast with the participation of numerous national and international scientists. It is a door of Turkey which opens to international Gerontology field. In addition to its scientific contributions, it contributes to the perception of image and various employment areas of our country. It does not only prove with scientific evidences that agedness is a life period which can be planned, but it calls attention to gerontological application areas. The objective is not only discussing the problems in detail; in contrast it is to put forward solutions and solve these problems. Furthermore, it is to warn local and centralized administrations against demographic developments for the sake of their young and dynamic future and to concretize the desire of conveying information they need for generating better social policies.

In order to prove that agedness does not mean loss of sufficiency but it is a process which is related to sufficiency acquisitions, people who grow older need economical, social and psychic accumulations and abilities through which they can make use of these accumulations. Thus, while sociological, psychological, cultural, medical, media, tourism, etc. dimensions were discussed in the first symposium in 2005, social and application dimensions of social ageing were addressed in the second one in 2006. In the third symposium held in 2008, taboo subjects were handled in addition to current gerontological subject matters. Now, we have been carrying on our studies for the purpose of opening our doors to Gerontology world for the fourth time in 2010.

In the symposium which shall demonstrate the ever changing aspects of agedness, we shall try to indicate that agedness can become a plannable and meaningful life period with conscious attempts. While informing about the will of increasing the number of active, dynamic and participant aged individuals and the way of realizing this will, we shall pay sufficient attention to the problems of aged people as well. While stating expressly that the number of active aged people shall increase with the attempts at different levels, we shall “not ignore” the specific problems which the patients of Alzheimer, which is one of the primary problems resulting from longevity, and their nurses encounter. While pointing out social, psychic and physical problems of agedness, we shall deal with the subject matters such as migration and agedness, changing aspect of migration and growing old in migration for the first time in this symposium. Moreover, we shall provide detailed information about the development of Turkey in Gerontology and the technology directed to aged individuals which Gerontology has been showing great interest in recent years in the symposium.

Thanks to its vision and mission which we consider to be significant for Turkey, our science world and society derive important experiences from the traditionalization of this symposium. I kindly invite you to 4th International Social and Applied Gerontology Symposium.
Respectively.

LIA is celebrating its 50 years of teaching English amidst considerations that are being raised in the current context of English language teaching. LIA started out with Audio-Lingual teaching practices, which, at that time, seemed to be the most common approach. In the process, as new methods and practices came about, LIA has explored and adopted new teaching practices to optimize language learning.

Today, English has become the language for communication spoken by native and non-native speakers worldwide. The tremendous demands for the use of English in the 21st century have forced language teaching experts and professionals to look into other concerns besides language teaching and learning alone but language teaching and learning in different settings, cultures, and linguistic backgrounds. The profession of English language teaching today has to examine the pros and cons that deal with considerations of World English or World Englishes, English as an International Language, and acceptable standards that should be applied.

To keep abreast with what language teaching experts are concerned with, LIA International Conference 2010 hopes to provide a platform for language teaching experts and professionals to bring in and share new insights, current considerations and problems that impact on language teaching and learning in all of its aspects: linguistic, social, and cultural. LIA hopes that with this kind of dialog, the conference will bring about a better understanding and greater tolerance and acceptance of the differences in communication among world cultures.

The aim of the conference is to challenge and inspire the water and environmental community by sharing knowledge and best practice, which is at the heart of meeting key global challenges.

In April 2010 CIWEM will hold a two-day Annual Conference that will address multidisciplinary issues across all areas of the global water and environment sector. There will be a mix of keynote speakers, offered papers, exhibitions and networking opportunities that will make this the key event for water and environment professionals.

The topics that are likely to be covered include:

• Flooding, urban drainage, surface water management, and the integration of water and flood management
  Sustainability.
• Climate change; mitigation and adaptation, food, energy and water security.
• Catchment, river basin and watershed management approaches, collaborative working.
• Water management – water resources, water quality, wastewater management, integrated water resource management.
• Environment sector policy, legislation and regulation, the political process.
• Investment and innovation; the opportunities and challenges of greening the economy.
• Societal impacts including arts and culture, well being, health, faith, and diversity on water and environmental issues

This International Conference will address the need for the exchange of scientific information among experts on issues related to environmental toxicology, toxicity assessment and hazardous waste management. With large numbers of new chemicals entering the market every year, it has become necessary to assess their effects on ecosystems as well as minimise their impact on the environment.

The science of Environmental Toxicology is one of the most interdisciplinary. Biologists, microbiologists chemists, engineers, environmentalists, ecologists and other scientists have worked hand in hand within this new discipline. The issue of assessment of environmental effects of chemicals is very complex. It depends on the organism tested and involves not only toxicity testing of single chemicals but also interactive effects such as genotoxicity, mutagenicity and immunotoxicity testing. There is a growing need for techniques and practices to minimise the environmental effects of chemicals and for the implementation of the corresponding principles in the planning of environmental policy and decision-making.

The goal of the International Conference on Environmental Toxicology is to bring together researchers, managers, policy makers and other groups of the scientific community, who are active in the related areas and to give them a forum for exchanging information through the presentation and discussion of papers dealing with the wide variety of topics listed. Case study papers are encouraged, while papers of a more theoretical nature, dealing with advanced mathematical and computational methods, will also be within the scope of the conference.

Conference Topics:

The purpose of the International Symposium CompIMAGE`10 is to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners around the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments, and applications in the area of computational modeling of objects represented in images. In particular, the Symposium aims to attract scientists who use various approaches - such as finite element method, optimization methods, modal analysis, stochastic methods, principal components analysis, independent components analysis, distribution models, geometrical modeling, digital geometry, grammars, fuzzy logic, and others - to solve problems that appear in a wide range of areas - as diverse as medicine, robotics, defense, security, astronomy, material science, and manufacturing.

The symposium will cover the following topics:

• Image Processing and Analysis
• Image Segmentation
• 2D and 3D Reconstruction
• Discrete Tomography
• Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression
• Objects Tracking
• Medical Imaging
• Computational Bioimaging and Visualization
• Biometric Person Identification
• Computational Crystallography
• Motion and Deformation Analysis
• Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Scientific Data Visualization
• Large Data Set Visualization
• Simulation
• Theoretical Foundations of Object Modeling
• Digital Geometry for Computer Imaging
• Shape Modeling

Welcome

The Organizing Committees of the 2nd ICAPM would like to welcome you to the Applied Physics and Mathematics site and invite you to our inaugural event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This conference covers the most dynamic areas in the Applied Physics and Mathematics. The uptake of Applied Physics and Mathematics in industrial area and its use results in many key points for discussion and debate. We look forward to seeing you. All the papers in the ICAPM 2010 conference proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Service, and will be listed in the IEEE Xplore and CSDL, and submitted to Ei Compendex and Thomson ISI for indexing.

Topics:

The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest:

Advanced Numerical Algorithms
Algorithmic Approaches to Computational Kernels and Applications
Application of Soft Computing, Knowledge Engineering, and Machine Learning
Applications of Computation as a Scientific Paradigm
Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (Neural, Fuzzy, Evolutionary Systems)
Automation, Control and  Robotics
Aviation & Space Technology
Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
Biomedical Physics and Engineering
Boundary Element Methods
Circuits, Networks and Systems
Complex Systems: Modeling and Simulation
Computation in Complex Networks
Computational Science and Engineering
Computational Mathematics
Computational Mechanics, Economics, Finance and Statistics
Computational Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine
Computational Statistics
Control of Dynamical Systems
Dynamical Systems
Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics
Engineering Mathematics
High Performance Computing
Hybrid Computational Methods
Industrial Mathematics
Instrumentation and Measurement
Materials Science
Mathematical Methods in Sciences and Engineering
Mathematical Modeling
Mathematical models for the information society
Mathematical models in Economy and Insurance
Mathematical models in Medicine
Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics
Meshless Methods
Multimedia and Video Systems
Nonlinear Analysis
Numerical Techniques
Optimization Inverse Problems

• Diagnostic Microbiology
• Molecular Microbiology
• Epidemiology of Bacterial Infections (Emerging diseases)
• Antibiotic Resistance (Phenotypic & genotypic)
• Applied Microbiology
• Nosocomial Infections
• Zoonosis
• Microbiology in relation to Food, Drugs, Cosmetics and Sanitary products
• Water, Waste, & Industrial Microbiology.

The International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control (ICCCC) (founded in 2006 by I. Dziţac, F.G. Filip and M.-J. Manolescu and organized every even year) provides a forum for international scientists in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research findings on a broad array of topics in computer networking and control.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Applications of the Information Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Automata and Formal Languages
• Collaborative Working Environments
• Computational Mathematics
• Cryptography and Security
• E-Activities
• Fuzzy Systems
• Informatics in Control
• Information Society - Knowledge Society
• Natural Computing
• Network Design & Internet Services
• Multimedia & Communications
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Web Science

We are pleased to announce the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence which will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference continues to highlight innovative research on adolescence and aims at facilitating the exchange of today`s knowledge and current ideas in this vast and still expanding area of research.

It is important to note that the subject of the conference - research on adolescence - includes perspectives from different branches of psychology such as clinical psychology, biological psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology as well as from other disciplines studying adolescence. The conference will highlight the latest research findings and will address topics that are of interest to researchers and those active in different fields of application.

Core topics to be addressed include well known as well as developing areas of research such as cognitive development, the role of social and economic change in adolescent development, contexts and processes of identity construction, families, parents, friends and romantic partners, life trajectories and change processes, transitions and adolescence, emerging adulthood, vocational development and work meanings, adolescent health and well-being, political development, citizenship and political participation, cultural perspectives on adolescent development, prevention, promotion and intervention projects for adolescent development, biological and neuropsychological aspects, pubertal maturation, and many others. It thus highlights new developments in terms of theory and methodology of interest to psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, biologists, and educationalists.

This conference brings together researcher and practitioners from different disciplines across Europe and all over the world who focus on adolescence. The understanding of adolescence in different countries is extremely important given the role that culture plays in the trabsition to adulthood. For this endeavour to succeed, participants of this conference will explore the state of this fascinating field of research and discuss their research findings. Therefore, we cordially invite researchers to share their insights at the Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence.

We are looking foward to meeting you in Vilnius in 2010.

Professor Rita Žukauskienė

The 1st Annual World Congress of Immunodiseases and Therapy 2010 (WCIT-2010) is a focused conference to present and deliberate the advances in immunology, which is significant, timely and important to the health of humanity. The well selected topics cover across disciplinary breaking, from concept to therapy.

For industries, WCIT-2010 will provide you a unique opportunity to promote and publicize your service and product to the researchers and professionals in immune disease prevention, medical investigator, diagnosis and therapy.

For academic organization/institutes, WCIT-2010 will bring you the newest advances and technical results as well as the urgent demands and developing trends in the field of immune diseases.
 
For most of the young scientists, including, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students and graduate students, WCIT-2010 is a great opportunity to be acquaintance with the immunologist , medical researchers, specialists, clinical investigators, clinicians, and world leading life sciences companies. It is an invisible promotion for your job hunting!

Major topics:

• Basic Mechanisms of the Immune System: Biology and Pathology
• Novel Technologies in Immunodiseases
• Immune Disease Drug Discovery & Development
• Medical Research and Immune Diseases
• Progress on Diagnosis and Treatment to the Immune Diseases
  
  
  
  

The proposed Fluidization XIII conference will continue the tradition of this conference series, with its focus on fundamental research on fluidization, but it will significantly expand into emerging applications of fluidization and novel fluidization technologies, especially those related to new processes for the production of environment-friendly chemicals, pharmaceuticals and renewable and sustainable energy, such as hydrogen and bio-fuels. Some key areas of fluidization and fluid-particle research and development are:

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and its applications
• Novel reactors and processes for the coming green technologies
• Nano technologies and ultrafine particles utilizations
• Biotech and biomedium technologies
• New energy and conversion technologies
• Green chemistry development and applications
• Environmental friendly and pollution control technologies
• Recycling and wastes treatment processes and products

Debris and hyper-concentrated flows are among the most frequent and destructive of all water related processes. They mainly affect mountain areas in a wide range of morphoclimatic environments and in recent years have attracted more and more attention from the scientific and professional communities, and concern from the public, due to the increasing frequency with which they occur and the death toll they claim.

Higher population pressures on natural resources and increased activity in hazard-prone areas have the potential to increase the magnitude of hazards. This calls for improvements in the criteria used to identify debris flow risk areas and to design suitable prevention and mitigation measures.

The conference will provide a forum for engineers, scientists and managers from laboratories, industries, governments and academia to interchange knowledge and expertise in the following fields; erosion and slope instability, sediment transport, debris flow and debris flood data acquisition, debris flow phenomenology and laboratory tests. It will also allow the discussion of the most advanced, state-ofthe-art methodologies in monitoring, modelling, mechanics, hazard prediction and risk assessment.

The Psychology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 4^th International Conference on Psychology in Athens, Greece, 27-30 May 2010.  

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a half-day tour to archaeological sites will be organized.

Papers (in English only) from all areas of Psychology and related disciplines are welcome. Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. 

The Symposium program will include more than one hundred presentations from experts representing a wide range of experience and talent, from both academia and industry and   involved at the forefront of technologies related to the conversion of fossil resources, biomass and waste to syngas, energy, synthetic natural gas, hydrogen, liquid fuels and chemicals.

In addition to full schedule of plenary, keynote and oral presentations, the event will include poster sessions featuring yet more interesting work at the vanguard of novel gas conversion R&D.

Powerful gene expression tools have been around for some time and they are continuously improved and refined. In parallel exciting applications are being developed. In this TATAA symposium on: "Developments in Real-Time PCR based molecular diagnostics" we will put our focus to Multimarker molecular diagnostics, pathogen detection in food, feed and medical samples, new technologies for human diagnostics, qPCR data management and analysis and forthcoming technologies.

• Single cell qPCR, Stem cells and tumor stem cells
• High resolution melting, methylation analysis and epigenetics
• MicroRNA expression profiling
• High throughput multiplexed immunoassays
• Standardizations, quality control and method validation
• Standard operating procedures, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
• High throughput qPCR platforms, qPCR on chip, integrated platforms
• Alternative diagnostic methods for genetic analysis
• Trends in molecular diagnostics in Europe

The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in information security. Both state-of-the-art issues and practical experiences as well as new trends in these areas will be once more the focus of interest just like at preceding conferences.

This year, the conference will address in particular security and privacy issues in mobile contexts, web services (including social networking) and ubiquitous environments.

We solicit papers describing original ideas and research results on topics that include, but are not limited to:

• applied cryptography
• biometrics
• secure documents and archives
• multimedia systems security
• digital watermarking
• distributed DRM policies
• attack resistant rendering engines
• adaptive anomaly detection
• censorship resistance
• risk management
• mobility and security/privacy
• mobile identities
• privacy enhanced identity management
• security/privacy policies and preferences
• social networks security/privacy
• security/privacy in geo-localised applications
• security/privacy in VoIP
• web services security
• SOA security
• ubiquitous and ambient computing security
• cloud computing security
• wireless and ad hoc network security
• RFID tags and sensor nodes security

The purpose of this symposium is to share your, experiences, knowledge and research results about all aspects of geography, ecology, and environment in general. All papers presented at the symposium will be published in an abstract book and Symposium Proceeding Book. Selected papers will be published in a book/or journal by international publisher.

One of the aims for this conference is to bring interested parties in organisations and government; researchers; policy makers; intervention specialists such as mediators, trainers, practitioners, therapists and counsellors together in a unified and synergistic format to enhance knowledge exchange and the dissemination of knowledge relating to workplace bullying and harassment.

The conference will enable researchers and practitioners to discuss and debate appropriate research and practicalities into matters affecting them at work to create new understanding; and to use that understanding to put in place positive strategies and interventions to create more meaningful, productive, and positive workplaces.

BioPartnering India™ & Bangalore India Bio 2010 will offer a powerful internet platform for delegates to maximize partnering opportunities with the global biotech community before, during, and after Bangalore India Bio 2010.

BioPartnering India™ (BPI) is the gateway to global and Indian life science innovation.

BPI provides global companies with the opportunity to establish the relationships that support partnering with Indian companies and showcases both Indian and International companies seeking partners.

The rapidly growing Indian biotech industry showed an overall 18% growth rate during 2008/9 and Bangalore continues to lead that growth as the number one city in terms of revenue generated.

Join us at BPI and discover the strategic opportunities available through Your Global Life Science Network™ in India.

Register today and you will have access to all Bangalore India Bio 2010 participants on biopartnering.com - start making the connections that matter in expanding Your Global Life Science Network in India.

The workshop has two main goals:

1. to bring together researchers to discuss the latest results and developments in this area;
   
   
2. to promote interaction and exchange of ideas among the different laboratories

This conference provides an idea-exchange and discussion platform for the world’s engineers and academia, where internationally recognized researches and practitioners share cutting-edge information, address the hottest issue intelligent Design, Computer-Aided Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, explore new technologies, exchange and build upon ideas. And provide researchers and practitioners interested in new information technologies an opportunity to highlight control research directions, novel applications, and a growing number of relationships between intelligent design, Human-machine interaction in digital processes, production planning and Control, applications, evaluation and tools.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

 
A. Product Design and Design Computing

B. E-engineering

C. Control and Industrial Engineering

D. Industrial Informatics

It is my honor to invite psychopharmacologists around the world to attend the XXVII Congress of the CINP to be held in Hong Kong, China.  While previous CINP regional meetings have taken place in Asia this is only the second first bi-annual international congress to be held outside of North America and Europe.  The event thus symbolizes the international role of CINP to promote the highest level of scientific exchange in a rapidly globalizing world.  The congress will allow senior and junior psychopharmacology researchers from Europe and North America to acquaint themselves with the rapidly increasing numbers of talented investigators in China and other Asian nations.  Moreover, the XXVII CINP congress will include program topics such as ethics of clinical trials, conflict of interest in psychopharmacology development, and development of nutriceuticals in addition to the traditional CINP program. 

Hong Kong is a highly developed international city with cultural opportunities and a friendly population with English speakers widely distributed. Moreover, it is a gateway to China, whose scientists will participate in the congress and with whom pre and post congress satellites are planned.  Opportunities to tour China, Japan, Korea and other rapidly developing centers of psychopharmacology research will be made available to delegates at several different price levels.  Since Hong Kong has direct air connections to almost every world capital it is expected that competitive air charters will enhance the ease of attending our congress.  Moreover, special efforts are planned to allow young scientists and students to attend. The 2010 congress in Hong Kong will be, for many CINP members, a turning point to allow the development of fruitful collaborations with Chinese and other Asian psychopharmacology partners. 

We look forward to greeting you at the XXVII congress of the CINP in 2010 in Hong Kong, the gateway to Asian psychopharmacology.  

• Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

  Computational Neural Models
  Spiking Neurons
  Visual and Auditory Cortex
  Neural Encoding and Decoding
  Plasticity and Adaptation
  Brain Imaging(fMRI,MEG,EEG)
  Learning and Memory
  Inference and Reasoning
  Knowledge Acquisition and Language
  Perception,Emotion and Development
  Cognition
  Reinforcement Learning
  Action And Motor Control
  Attractor and Associative Memory
  Neurodynamics, Complex Systems


• Models, Methods and Inference

  Stability and Convergence Analysis
  Feed forward Neural Network
  Recurrent Neural Network
  Self-organizing Network
  Cellular Neural Network
  Hybrid Neural Networks
  Supervised Learning
  Unsupervised Learning
  Reinforcement learning
  PCA and ICA
  Projection Pursuit Methods
  Kernel Methods and SVM
  Optimization Algorithms
  Probabilistic and Information-theoretic Methods
  Mixture models
  Graphical Models,Topic Models
  Gaussian Processes
  Ensemble Learning,Committee Algorithms
  Bayesian,Causal,and Semantic Networks
  Model Selection and Structure Learning
  Sparsity and Feature Selection
  Matrix/Tensor Analysis
  Temporal Models and Sequence Data
  Structured and Relational Data
  Ensemble Methods and Boosting
  Clustering
  Embeddings and Manifold Learning
  Active Learning


• Vision and Auditory Modelling

  Visual Perception and Modelling
  Visual Selective Attention
  Statistical and Pattern Recognition
  Visual Features Analysis
  Object Recognition
  Motion and Tracking
  Natural Scene Statistics
  Image Segmentation
  Image Coding and Representation
  Auditory Perception & Modeling
  Source Separation
  Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
  Speaker Identification
  Audio and Speech Retrieval
  Music Modeling & Analysis


• Control, Robotics and Hardware

  Neuromorphic Hardware and Implementations
  Embedded Neural Networks
  Reconfigurable Systems
  Fuzzy Neural Networks
  Robotics
  Multi-Agent Systems and Game Theory
  Reinforcement Learning
  Markov Decision Processes
  Planning and Decision Making
  Predictive State Representations
  Policy Search
  Action and Motor control
  Visuomotor Control
  Planning and Motion Planning


• Novel approaches and Applications

  Brain-like Systems
  Adaptive Intelligent Systems
  Brain-computer Interfaces
  Granular Computing
  Evolutionary neural networks
  Hybrid Intelligent Systems
  Bioinformatics and biomedical engineering
  Neuroinformatics and neuroengineering
  Systems Biology
  Time Series Prediction
  Information Retrieval
  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  Natural Language Processing

Molecular recognition phenomena are central to most biological interactions and processes. They are responsible for the non-covalent specific interactions between biomolecules and various ligands and between two or more biological molecules exemplified by receptor-ligand, DNA-protein, antigen-antibody, sugar-lectin and other recognition phenomena.

In recent years, our understanding of the basic physico-chemical principles underlying all these interactions has grown considerably both at the structural atomic level and at the functional level in terms of kinetic binding constants. This course will discuss some of the unifying rules that govern all molecular recognition phenomena and will describe how novel nanotechnology and biosensor tools have helped to analyze single molecule recognition events as well as the dynamics of intracellular interactions.

Main Topics

Cellular Pathology and Molecular Biology
Clinical Chemistry
Hematology and Transfusion Science
Microbiology and Immunology
Management, Education and Quality Assurance

Social Implications of Emerging Technologie.

The IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) is an annual international forum exploring the social implications of technology. ISTAS10 will bring together participants sharing research, projects, and ideas about:

• Automatic Identification
• Location-Based Services
• Social Networking
• Nanotechnology
• Privacy, Security & Human Rights

Body sensor networks (BSN) technology has gained tremendous international interest in recent years from researchers both in academia and industry. With the development of innovative wearable/wireless/implantable biosensors, the applications for BSNs extend from in-vivo monitoring and intervention to everyday healthcare, as well as fitness, sport and security. This conference will address the fast-growing BSN research field, and offers participants a unique forum to discuss the key issues and innovative solutions in current BSN research.

We invite submissions of novel, original and unpublished works in (though not limited to) the following areas:

Networking, security and wireless communications 

Smart fabrics and wearables 

Lower power electronics, power sources and energy harvesting 

BSN architecture and platforms 

Medical applications 

Sport and leisure applications 

Sensor technology and biocompatibility

Home monitoring and assisted living applications

Debugging, and testing of BSN platforms and applications  

Clinical trials and experiences of BSN platforms

Novel BSN platforms and applications in non-medical domains

The EABR Conference provides a forum for faculty to present their research on any business, economics, or business-related topic. For both conferences, a Best Paper Award is issued for the best paper in each session. Papers winning the Best Paper Award will automatically be reviewed for possible publication in one of our academic journals. Papers not winning an award may also be submitted for journal review.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Fine Arts (such as Animation, Architecture, Art History, Art Education, Book Arts, Ceramics, Community Arts, Fashion Design, Fiber, Furniture/Woodworking, Glass, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Jewellery/Metal Arts, Media Arts, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Fiber Arts, Visual Studies, Writing and Literature, etc) and Performing Arts (such as music, drama, dance, etc). Panel organizers are encouraged to submit their proposals by inviting other scholars that do research in the area.

The main Topics of the conference are:

• Cosmology (Dark Energy, Dark Matter, CMB etc)
• Gravitational Waves
• Alternative Theories of Gravity
• Relativistic Astrophysics
• Mathematical Relativity
• Quantum Gravity

The conference theme is `Development to Translation`, which will be addressed through a range of formats including Keynote lectures, academic symposia, contributed papers for oral and poster presentation, workshops, "hot-topic sessions" and industrial satellite sessions.

Subject Summary:

• Biomaterials and scaffolds
• Nanotechnological advances in tissue engineering
• Gene therapy and gene regulation
• Advances in stem cells science
• Immunological considerations and modulation in tissue engineered implants
• Bioreactors and mechanotransduction
• Commercialisation of tissue engineering implants
• Regulatory issues in tissue engineering

The Mathematics & Statistics Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 4^th International Conference in Athens, Greece, 14-17 June, 2010. The registration fee is €250 (euro), covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. In addition a Greek night of entertainment, a dinner, a half-day tour to archaeological site in the Prefecture of Attica and a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands are organized at extra cost. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.

Papers (in English only) from all areas of Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematics & Engineering and Mathematics & Education are welcome. Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings.    

The World Engineering, Science and Technology Congress (ESTCON2010) is an excellent “centre stage” for knowledge sharing, intellectual discussion and also networking on various areas of interest for all academics, researchers, scientists, engineers, interest groups and industry experts from all around the world.

ESTCON2010 comprises 7 international conferences, namely:

• International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced System (ICIAS2010)
• International Symposium on Information Technology (ITSIM2010)
• International Conference on Plant Equipment and Reliability (ICPER2010)
• International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Science (ICFAS2010)
• International Conference on Sustainable Building and Infrastructure (ICSBI2010)
• International Conference on Process Engineering and Advanced Materials (ICPEAM2010)
• International Non-Thermal EOR Conference (INTEORC2010)

The theme of the congress is "Towards Sustainability: Bridging Engineering, Technology and Humanities". The theme stresses on the bridging of all communities of experts for research and innovation in sustaining knowledge for the betterment of humanity.  

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, a trend that is rapidly accelerating, especially in developing countries. In the USA, urban areas are merging into huge megalopitan areas, especially along interstate highways.

Cities require and use large quantities of energy and materials, metabolizing them and generating large quantities of waste products and pollutants, resulting in unsustainable environments that adversely affect ecological integrity and diversity and human health and well-being. As many city dwellers are disconnected from the natural world, it has even been suggested that a new species “homo urbanus” is emerging.

Attendance at this meeting will enable to you to:

• Learn of the latest information about urban pollution problems and what measures can be taken to overcome obstacles to sustainability and life quality.
• Present your research as an oral presentation or in the poster session.
• Network with wide delegation of international researchers with common interests and concerns.

Preliminary Conference Outline

1. Natural And Forced Convection In Porous Media
2. Evaporation, Condensation, Capillary Effects And Reactive Flow In Porous Media
3. Radiation Heat Transfer In Porous Media
4. Conduction in Porous Media
5. Combined Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
6. Particle Transport and Deformable Porous Bodies
7. Advanced Mathematical Approaches to the Modeling of Porous Media
8. Industrial and Environmental Heat Transfer and Flow in Porous Media
9. Process Heat Transfer
10. Advances in Numerical Techniques
11. Experimental and Measuring Techniques
12. Turbulence in Porous Media
13. Particle Migration and Deposition in Porous Media
14. Bio Transport in Porous Media
15. Material Processing Applications

Plasma science covers a wide range of topics. ICOPS 2010 will offer a rich technical program that spans the many fundamental as well as applied aspects of the field. The conference will be followed by a 1.5 days minicourse on low temperature plasma modelling and applications.

The Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences will be hosting the International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure/Systems Biology (BGRSSB-2010) in Novosibirsk, Russia, from 20-27 June 2010.

As one of the key disciplines in modern biology, bioinformatics is a rapidly developing science. Consequently, each of the past BGRS events was focused on the most important topics of that time. To keep this tradition going, BGRSSB-2010 will be centered on bioinformatics and systems biology.
Systems biology largely focuses on the study of the organization and operation of the biological systems at various levels: molecular genetic entities, cells, tissues, organs and organisms on the basis of information encoded in their genomes.
Systems biology strongly depends on high-performance experimental technologies:

• sequencing of genomic DNA, analysis of its between-population and evolutionary variation; 
• study of the expression of genes and gene complexes using biochips-based modalities; 
• structural and functional analysis of proteins and metabolites using mass spectrometric methods; 
• study of the structural and functional organization of biological objects (macromolecules, chromosomes, cells, tissues, organs, organisms) using modern microscopic methods; 
• construction of artificial molecular genetic systems using genetic engineering techniques.

The Politics Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.) organizes its 8^th annual international conference on Politics and International Affairs, 21-24 June 2010. The registration fee will be €250 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands and a half-day tour to archaeological site in Athens.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of Politics and International Affairs and other related disciplines. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one paper, chair a session or observer.

Technology advancement has proven to improve living standards in various aspects; however the sustainability of this improvement has came to doubt. Mankind has realized that technology advancement has depreciated habitability of their earth when the technological development does not consider its impact on the well-being of the earth. It is now without doubt that technologies should be "green". With rising energy costs and the threat of global warming and energy crisis, the society is now recognizing the benefits of using green technology to reduce carbon footprint, minimize waste and recycling. Sustainable development is the core of environmental or in green technologies. The field of green technology encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods, researches and materials, from techniques for generating energy to environmentally responsible disposal of waste.

The Conference aims to bring together researchers, engineers, academicians, industrial professionals, policy makers and regulators from diverse fields including building design, manufacturing, information technology, electronic and communication engineering, power engineering and education, to present, share and exchange research work and initiatives in areas relevant to green technology.

The objectives of the Conference are primarily to:

• Facilitate an international collaboration and information sharing in the areas relevant to green technology

• Raise an awareness of the world’s environmental issues and challenges caused by the technological development

• Provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to showcase technology on new green initiatives

• Provide opportunities for delegates to interact actively, establishing business and research networking, and seeking regional partners for future collaboration

The 2010 conference theme is “deciphering”, with all its possible referents, including: Do we decipher digits, codes, data, words, texts, images, symbols, natural phenomena, and scientific results? How do we decipher them? By using whatever available: Logic, systematic decoding, scientific knowledge, technological sophistication or anything else? We invite panels and individual papers on these or related topics, but will give full consideration to any proposal within AHLiST’s scope.

The 3^rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships (HRPR 2010) is the main platform to present and discuss studies of personal relationships with artificial partners, their formation, their possibilities and their consequences. Such personal relationships are increasingly attracting attention from scientific fields as (social) robotics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, sociology.

Researchers, students and practitioners from all segments of the human-robot personal interaction community are invited to submit works and proposals related (but not limited) to the topics

• robot emotions
• robot personalities
• gender approaches
• affective approaches
• psychological approaches
• sociological approaches
• roboethics
• philosophical approaches
• case studies

9^th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies

The European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM 2010) is an opportunity for academics to share the latest thinking on research strategies, tactics and paradigms. The variety of methods in common use and the continuing debate on what constitutes ‘new knowledge’ makes this a lively field and one which affects all academics and others involved in business research. The search for new ideas, new methodologies and even new paradigms is both endless and fascinating. This conference offers an opportunity to engage with contemporary thinking in Business research and join in the sometimes lively debates, inside and outside of the formal sessions, that are a regular feature of the conference.

Service-oriented computing is a popular design methodology for large scale business computing systems. Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, networking and storage capacity to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed applications in service-oriented computing. Grid computing represents more business-oriented orchestration of pretty homogeneous and powerful distributed computing resources to optimize the execution of time consuming process as well. Grid computing have received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational in e-Science and businesses. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier venue for presenting foremost research results in the area and as a forum for introducing and exploring new concepts.

The Second International workshop on Ubiquitous Computing will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of ubiquitous computing. Current information age is witnessing a dramatic use of digital and electronic devices in the workplace and beyond. Ubiquitous Computing presents a rather arduous requirement of robustness, reliability and availability to the end user. Ubiquitous computing has received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life. The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.

In conjunction with WiMo 2010

Breakthroughs in plant, microbial and human biology, clinical and nutritional research, and biomarker discovery

The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society 2010 is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas.

The mission of i-Society 2010 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society.

Throughout history, many leading thinkers have been inspired by the parallels between nature and human design, in mathematics, engineering and other areas.Today, the huge increase in biological knowledge, developments in design engineering systems, together with the growth in computer power and the developments in simulation modelling, have all made more comprehensive studies of nature possible.

Scientists and engineers now have at their disposal a vast array of relationships for materials, mechanisms and control. The resulting laws have been painstakingly assembled by observation and analysis and span the cosmic scale of space down to the molecular level of genetics. In particular, they have made us aware of the rich diversity of the natural world around us.

It is these developments which have prompted the reconvening of this international conference on Design and Nature. It is intended that the meeting will bring together researchers from around the world working on a variety of studies involving nature and their significance for modern scientific thought and design.

The Sports Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) in collaboration with the Panhellenic Association of Sports Economists and Managers (PASEM) and the Panhellenic Association of Fitness and Health Clubs (Gyms) organize their 6^th Annual International Conference in Athens, Greece, 28-30 June 2010 & 1 July 2010, Athens, Greece on Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students from all areas of applied and integrated health sciences, including physiology, health psychology, health promotion, epidemiology, biomechanics, sports medicine, training methods, nutrition, and physical education.  This year’s theme will be PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN with two thematic sessions on: 

1) Healthy Growth and Development and

 2) Active Aging.

GEOBIA 2010 aims to bring together scientists and practitioners from all over the world to present and discuss new developments in geographic object-based image analysis.

The conference will cover three key GEOBIA topics:

• Theory and concepts
• Methods and algorithms
• Applications: mapping and monitoring

The WCE 2010 is composed of the following 15 conferences (all will be held at the same location and date):

ICAEM`10  - The 2010 International Conference of Applied and Engineering Mathematics

ICCIIS`10  - The 2010 International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems

ICCSDE`10 - The 2010 International Conference of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering

ICCSE`10   - The 2010 International Conference of Computer Science and Engineering

ICDMKE`10 - The 2010 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering

ICEEE`10   - The 2010 International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

ICFE`10     - The 2010 International Conference of Financial Engineering

ICIE`10     - The 2010 International Conference of Information Engineering

ICISIE`10  - The 2010 International Conference of Information Security and Internet Engineering

ICME`10    - The 2010 International Conference of Mechanical Engineering

ICMEEM`10- The 2010 International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management

ICPDC`10  - The 2010 International Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing

ICSBB`10  - The 2010 International Conference of Systems Biology and Bioengineering

ICSIE`10   - The 2010 International Conference of Signal and Image Engineering

ICWN`10   - The 2010 International Conference of Wireless Networks  

As in previous years, ECIW will address elements of both theory and practice of all aspects of Information Warfare and Security, and offers an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants involved in these areas to come together and exchange ideas.  The programme for the event promises an extensive range of peer-reviewed papers, networking opportunities and presentations from leaders in the field.

1. Sustainable living and moving

2. Evolution, development and adaptation of organisms

3. Moving into and up from our quantum world

4. Responding to global needs

5. Frontiers in energy research

6. Science, knowledge and belief

7. Memory and learning in organisms, social and artificial systems

8. Languages, cultures and variability

9. Integrating science with health care

10. Policy – what follows?

This international conference will provide a platform to consider how universities can inspire the next generation of engineers.  It will address how to inspire young people to study engineering, how to engage and retain students in their studies and continue to professionally develop the engineers of the future.

The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computational Engineering, and Communication. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working in India and abroad. The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Information, Telecommunication, Computing Techniques and related areas.

CCPE 2010, is an international conference where theory, practices, and applications of Control and Instrumentation, Communication system, Power Electronics and Power Engineering and related topics are presented and discussed. Original contributions are solicited on topics covered under broad areas such as (but not limited to):

Active Filtering and Unity Power Factor Correction Circuits
Active power quality controllers
Aerospace applications
Analysis, design, control, and applications of electrical machines and drives
Application and Design of Power Electronic Systems
Application of power electronics in power system and generation
Automotive vehicles
Bearingless drive technologies
Bio-medical power electronics
Construction and protection
Consumer power electronics
Control of Power Converters
Custom power devices
Distributed generation
Distribution networks
Electrical Machines and Actuators
Electromagnetic Compatibility
Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion
EMC improvement with new materials and elements, systems
EMC standardization
Energy saving and compatibility of electrical drives and generators
Energy storages
Filters and compensators
Fuel cell
General power quality problems and measurements
Grid interfaces
Hard-switching and soft-switching static power converters
Hybrid energy systems
Measurements and computation-property of the power electronics circuits
Measurements, Sensors and Observing Techniques
Mechatronic Systems
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
Military Technology
Modeling and simulation
Modulation techniques
Motion Control, Robotics, Adjustable Speed Drives
Motor drives
Power Converters
Power Electronics Controllers for Power Systems
Power Electronics converters for drives and generators
Power Electronics education/professional development
Power Electronics in Electrical Energy Generation, Transmission and Distribution
Power Electronics in traction, automotive and shipping propulsion
Power Electronics in Transportation
Power Engineering related technologies
Power integrated circuits (PIC)
Power quality issues, harmonic problems and solutions
Power Quality, Alternative Energy and Distributed Systems
Power semiconductors, passive components and packaging technologies
Reliability and economics
Renewable Energy Sources
Renewable energy Technologies
Semiconductor Devices and Packaging
Special Power Electronic Systems and Applications
Switch-mode power supplies and UPS
Telecommunications power supplies
Test, measurement and instrumentation
Unconventional motors and generators
Unconventional power electronics converters
Variable and constant speed generators
Voltage restorers

New Communication Practices

Among the many changes computer technology has brought us in the past decades, the drastic changes in our ways of communicating are the most noticeable. E-mail has taken the place of traditional mail and telegrams. Web sites take the place of corporate brochures and product catalogues, electronic forms are starting to make traditional paper forms obsolete. Traditional printed reports lose their primary in corporate communication;PowerPoint presentations, wikis, and blogs take their place. Formal one-way communication structures are replaced by more informal network structures.

Self-Service

These changes have increased the possibilities for the general public to get engaged in activities that traditionally belonged to the responsibility of specialists. The Internet enables us to become our own travel agents, bankers, or even our own physicians. wikipedia is a striking example of the way members of the public co-create a source of information that matches or surpasses the well-respected Encyclopedia Britannica and its counterparts in other countries. Our society is changing from service to self-service.

Consequences

The move to self-service has important consequences for technical and professional communication. To mention only a few: Web 2.0 features enable the public to contribute to or amend (technical) documentation. User forums, weblogs (blogs), and wikis have become important sources of information about almost every conceivable topic. The roles of information creator and information user are becoming interchangeable. Administrative organizations such as banks, insurance companies, and government agencies increasingly use the Internet as the channel for transactions with their public. Health organizations are using the Internet for communication purposes, from health advice and consultation to remote monitoring of patients.

New Questions

This raises important questions for technical and professional communicators. what are the social and economic implications of the self-service world? Who will profit, and who runs the risk of being excluded? What are the consequences of the "digital divide" if everyone is expected to "help themselves?" How can technical communication and usability specialists support the development of self-service environments that make sense and empower the public to put them to good use? How can we teach our students to effectively create and use information in self-service environments?

We hope to explore these questions and other issues at IPCC 2010.

On the successful basis of ICCSIT 2009, 2010 the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IEEE ICCSIT 2010) will be held in Chengdu, China during July 9 - 11, 2010. ICCSIT 2010 is sponsored by IACSIT, IEEE China Council, IEEE Beijing Section and Sichuan Computer Federation, and co-organized by Chinese Institute of Electronics, Peking University, Sichuan Institute of Electronics, Journal of Electronics Science and Technology (JEST), University of Electronics Science and Technology, Northwestern University, and Huazhong Normal University.

The conference is an international forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of Computer Science and Information Technology. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. We warmly welcome previous and prospected authors submit your new research papers to IEEE ICCSIT 2010, and share the valuable experiences with the scientist and scholars around the world.

With the availability of whole genome sequences, research attention shifts from gene sequences and genome content to protein functions and systems biology. Genes comprise a major component of the `parts list` that is required for building and maintaining of living organisms. Genome DNA sequences reveal the genetic inventory for a rapidly increasing number of species. Defining and interpreting the instruction manual for protein functions, individually and collectively, is the emerging challenge.

The 2010 APS/URSI Symposium is the premier international forum for the exchange of information on state-of-the-art research in antennas, electromagnetic- wave propagation, radio science, and electromagnetic engineering. This event will be held on July 11-17, 2010 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The symposium and meeting are co-sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and CNC/USNC/URSI. The symposium generally attracts over 1,500 attendees from around the world.

The BOSS-conference is a unique international symposium as, apart from invited lectures delivered by established organic chemists as well as younger rising stars, two prestigious events are associated with it: a lecture delivered by the recipient of the “Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis”, and the “Tetrahedron Chair”: a one-day course on a specific topic in organic synthesis by an eminent lecturer. The conference covers a broad range of timely subjects in the field of organic chemistry.

SIBIRCON is one of the major international conferences held by the IEEE Region 8.  It aims to provide a platform for technical exchange between researchers and practitioners from different technological fields.

Previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics in the scope of the IEEE are solicited, including (but not limited to) the following areas: information theory cryptography and data security education and e-learning telecommunications wireless communications microwave theory and techniques development and control of energy systems power electronics energy conversion and renewable energy industry applications

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of languages, literatures and linguistics.  Areas of interest include (but are not confined to):

Literatures and Languages

-        Classics

-        Medieval and Renaissance Literature

-        Contemporary Literature

-        Comparative Literature

-        Drama, Film, Television, and other Media

-        Poetry and Prose (Fictional and Non-fictional)

-        Translatio

Linguistics

-        Theoretical Linguistics

-        Language Acquisition

-        Teaching of Foreign Languages (including Technology in the classroom)

-        Sociolinguistics

List of Topics:

Space Studies of the Earth`s Surface, Meteorology and Climate

Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System

Space Studies of the Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets including Reference Atmospheres

Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres

Research in Astrophysics from Space

Life Sciences as Related to Space

Materials Sciences in Space

Fundamental Physics in Space

Agricultural Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Biophysical Chemistry
Chemical Biology
Chemical Education
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Physics
Chemical Safety
Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics
Chemistry of Natural Products
Computational/Theoretical Chemistry
Cosmetics Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry
Food Chemistry

Forensic Science
Industrial Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Material Science and Nanotechnology
Medicinal Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Petroleum Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry
Topics related to Chemistry

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects. The format of this meeting will involve plenary talks and sessions with contributed talks.

The conference will mainly focus on a number of topics: estimation, prediction and testing in linear models, robustness of relevant statistical methods, estimation of variance components appearing in linear models, generalizations to nonlinear models, design and analysis of experiments, including optimality and comparison of linear experiments.

The work of young scientists has a special position in the LINSTAT 2010 to encourage and promote them. The best poster as well as the best talk will be chosen. Prizes will be awarded to graduate students or scientists with a recently completed Ph.D. Prize-winning works will be widely publicized and promoted by the conference.

This conference will provide a place to exchange recent developments, discoveries and progresses on Nonlinear Science and Complexity. The aims of the conference are to present the fundamental and frontier theories and techniques for modern science and technology, and to stimulate more research interest for exploration of nonlinear science and complexity. The conference will focus on fundamental theories and principles ,analytical and symbolic approaches, computational techniques in nonlinear physical science and nonlinear mathematics.

The International Conference on Computing and ICT Research provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the state-of the-art research and practices in computer science, Software engineering, information systems, information technology, Computer Engineering, Data Communications and Computer Networks and ICT for Sustainable Development. This conference calls for papers/extended abstracts in the following the following Track sessions:

• Information Systems
• Information Technology
• Computer Science
• Software Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Data Communications and Computer Networks
• ICT for Sustainable Development

The 4th World Engineering Congress 2010 (WEC2010) is back with the theme, ‘Engineering & Technology for Global Stability and Security. This congress is to follow on the previous congress, to provide an avenue for further deliberations on key issues, particularly those relating to new and innovative areas of engineering and technology.

This edition shall therefore provide a good opportunity for a gathering and sharing of experiences amongst an international community of engineers and other professionals in related fields, prominent engineers, academics, researchers, scientists as well as policy makers interested in addressing issues related to the theme of the congress.

The concurrent conferences during the congress are:

• Conference on Engineering and Technology Education
  
• Conference on Buildings and Infrastructural Technology
  
• Conference on Natural Resources and Green Technology
• Conference on Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Conference on Manufacturing Technology and Management
• Conference on Advanced Processes and Materials
• Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technology
• Conference on Information Security

Currently, a number of institutions across the countries are working to evolve better models to provide collaborative technology services for scholarship by creating shared cyberspace thro expert collaboration, but this is a challenge for the institutions for a number of reasons. In the last few years, the landscape of digital technology applications projects for the various disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences appears induced by many initiatives. For the creation of research clusters, the research community has thousands of databases, websites, local computing clusters, and web-based tools around individual themes, interests and projects. In most cases, these tools and resources are and were created to meet the specific needs of a particular community. In many cases, the funding and support for these critical initiatives is fragile and temporary, and directed in piecemeal fashion. There is a need to provide concerted efforts in building federated digital technologies that will enable the formation of network of digital technologies.

Information and Data Management
Data and Network mining
Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling
XML-based languages
Security and Access Control
Trust models for social networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New architectures for web-based social networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
Indexing and query processing for moving objects
User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications
Mobile social networks
Peer-to-peer social networks
Sensor networks and social sensing
Social search
Social networking inspired collaborative computing
Information propagation on social networks
Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks
Measurement studies of actu