------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 2011 International Workshop on IT Converged Services and Applications (ITCSA-2011) Taipei, Taiwan September 13-16, 2011 In conjunction with ICPP 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Overview In recent years, the rapid development of information technology eventually brought the highly intelligent and converged system into IT services, applications, and devices. Recent a variety of IT services and mobile devices such as Table PC, Smartphone, MP3P, TV, DVD, Home theatre, Video, Refrigerator, and Air-conditioner have intelligent and smart control system. Also, smart phones such as iPhone, Android, Web-OS and Windows Phones enable the pc-like capabilities with fully mobility. Wide use of smart IT application and devices invokes the concept of convergence of such applications and devices. We can expect various IT converged services and application between different consumer electronics, smart devices and IT devices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Topic of Interest - IT-based Convergence Technology and Service - HCI & Bioinformatics - Social and Business Aspects of Convergence IT and Ubiquitous Computing - Trust and Reputation Management for Convergence environment - Security Issues in Convergence environment - Intelligent Mobile Multimedia Services - Advanced Multimodal Interfaces - Multimodal Mobile and Ubiquitous Services - Middleware and Context-Awareness for IT-based Convergence - Virtual Reality and Pervasive Computing - Usability and Accessibility in IT-based Convergence - Applications and Scenarios for Convergence Technology and Service - Others: Commercial or Industrial Issue in Convergence Technology and Service Organizing Committee (TBA) General Chairs James J.(Jong Hyuk ) Park (Leading Chair), Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Taeshik Shon, Samsung Electronics, Korea Hsi-Ya Chang, National Center of High-Performance Computing, Taiwan Technical PCs Ivan Lee, University of South Australia, Australia Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Rafeal Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan, Italy Alessio Botta, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Maria Karyda, University of the Aegean, Greece Fahim Kawsar, Waseda University, Japan Elisavet Konstantinou, University of the Aegean, Greece Romain Laborde, IRIT, Universite' Paul Sabatier, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Sjouke Mauw, Universite du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Chaoguang Men, Harbin Engineering University, China Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Binod Vaidya, Chosun Univerrsity, Korea Arno Wacker, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Noureddine Boudriga, University of Carthage, Tunisia Yao-Chung Chang, National Taitung University, Taiwan Chantana Chantrapornchai, Silpakorn University, Thailand Hung-Chi Chu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan Reza Dilmaghani, King's College London, UK Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm, USA Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain Tomoo Inoue, University of Tsukuba, Japan Tore Mƒ¨£ller Jonassen, Oslo University College, Norway Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Kumudu S. Munasinghe, University of Sydney, Australia Marco Cremonini, University of Milan, Italy Important Dates Paper Submission : February 24, 2011 Paper Status Notification: May 25, 2011 Camera-ready Due: June 28, 2011 Conference events: Sept 13-16, 2011 Contact If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email to Dr. Taeshik Shon 743zh2k@gmail.com.