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IEEE Global Information
Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2009)<br>
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23th ~ 25th, 2009, <br>
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Tunisia<br>
<a href="http://www.ieee-giis.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ieee-giis.org/<br><br>
<br><br>
</a>Scope and Overview:<br>
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The scope of GIIS consists of interrelated set of technical, policy, and
social issues implicit in the development of national and international
(global) information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying and
promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and
provides liaison to bodies in the global society, technical for and
international standards. GIIS 2009 will stimulate interdisciplinary
conference sessions and workshops to discuss, built and further the use
of national and international information infrastructures. <br>
The conference also aims at providing a forum for the participants to
broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions and
interactions on specific information infrastructure topics. Information
infrastructure brings together information processing applications,
communications networks and services, physical and software elements in
networks, and end systems. The program of GIIS 2009 will include invited
talks, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, panel and discussion
sessions. <br>
The technical issues addressed by the conference include Interoperability
at various levels, standard services and user interfaces, world wide
naming and addressing, and the international mobility of persons and
services. The policy issues addressed by the conference are those with a
large technical element, including protection of intellectual property,
privacy and security, international use of encryption technology,
commercial protocols, and standards vs. proprietary technologies. The
conference is specifically interested in ubiquity, open source/equal
access, ease of use, cost effectiveness, standards, and architectural
openness. <br><br>
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The program of GIIS 2009 will include Keynote talks, panel, tutorials,
workshops and a Technology Track and a Policy Track.<br><br>
[Keynote Talks]<br>
title: "NANO-SENSOR NETWORKS USING MOLECULAR
COMMUNICATION"<br>
speaker: Prof. IAN F. AKYILDIZ<br>
Broadband Wireless Networking Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA<br><br>
title: "FROM RURAL VILLAGE TO GLOBAL VILLAGE: Strategies for
Bridging Digital Divides in the Developing World"<br>
speaker: Prof. HEATHER E. HUDSON <br>
Communications Technology Management Program, University of San
Francisco, USA<br>
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title: "ENABLING UBIQUITOUS MOBILE SERVICES"<br>
Speaker: Prof. HOSSAM HASSANEIN<br>
Telecommunications Research Lab, Queen’s University, Kingston,
Canada<br><br>
[Panel]<br>
Title: Technical and Economical Solutions for Providing Telecom Access in
Developing Regions.<br>
Chair: Robert Walp, Chairman Emeritus, General Communication, Inc.,
Alaska, USA<br>
Panelists: Ian F. Akyildiz, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, USA<br>
Heather E. Hudson, Professor, University of San Francisco, USA<br>
Mehmet Ulema, Professor, Manhattan College, New York, USA<br>
Robert Walp, Chairman Emeritus, General Communication, Inc., Alaska,
USA<br>
TBD, African Development Bank, Tunisia<br><br>
[Tutorials]<br>
Title: Wireless Sensor Networks<br>
Speaker: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<br><br>
Title : Peer-to-Peer Networking : State of the art and research
challenges<br>
speaker : Prof. Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada<br><br>
Title : Challenges in Network Virtualization<br>
speaker : Prof. Omar Cherkaoui, Univ. du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),
Canada<br><br>
[Program]<br>
The technical program includes 40 full papers and 32 short papers
covering a<br>
range of topics that include Wireless Communication and Security
Management, Multimedia Networking, Policy and regulation issues. <br>
Papers from 5 continents, 22 countries with an acceptance rate of
32%.<br>
The full programme can be seen @ <br>
<a href="http://www.ieee-giis.org/program.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ieee-giis.org/program.html<br><br>
</a>[Workshop]<br>
UBIROADS : Int. Workshop on Intelligent Transportation System for an
Ubiquitous ROADS.<br>
The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program is a universal
initiative whose objective is to add information and communication
technology to transport infrastructure and vehicles. It aims to manage
different factors in order to improve safety and comfort to
drivers/passengers, and reduce transportation times and fuel costs.<br>
<a href="http://www.ieee-giis.org/ubiroads2009/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ieee-giis.org/ubiroads2009/<br><br>
</a>[Dates & Registration]<br>
Symposium Dates: 23-25 June 2009<br>
Early-bird Registration Deadline: 10 June 2009<br>
Registration can be found @<br>
<a href="http://www.ieee-giis.org/registration.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ieee-giis.org/registration.htm<br><br>
</a>[Location]<br>
The symposium will be held in the Kartagho Hammamet Hotel, in the heart
of the city of Hammamet, Tunisia. <br>
Further information on the venue and accommodation options can be found
@<br>
<a href="http://www.ieee-giis.org/avenue.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ieee-giis.org/avenue.html<br><br>
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</a>[Organization]<br>
General Chair : <br>
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada<br><br>
Program Co-Chairs Technology Track :<br>
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Ahmed Mehaoua, University Paris Descartes, France<br>
Sami Tabbane, SUPCOM, Tunisia <br><br>
Program Co-Chairs Policy Track<br>
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Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA <br>
Robert Walp, GCI, Alaska, USA <br>
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Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.<br>
<font size=2>Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering<br>
EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing<br>
DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna<br>
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)<br>
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073<br>
Email: paolo.bellavista@unibo.it<br>
Web:
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