<div>[FutureTech 2012 Call for Papers] - Working Draft</div><div>===============================================================================</div><div> The 7th FTRA International Conference on </div>
<div> Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012">http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Vancouver, Canada, 26-28 June 2012</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div><br></div><div> Published by Springer-LNEE (EI and SCOPUS Index)</div>
<div>===============================================================================</div><div><br></div><div>** Important Notices **</div><div><br></div><div>[Important Date]</div><div>Submission due: December 15, 2011</div>
<div><br></div><div>Conference Proceedings will be included in the conference proceedings published by </div><div>Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).</div><div><br></div>
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[Special Issues]</div><div>Distinguished accepted and presented papers in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, </div><div>will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:</div><div>- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)</div>
<div>- International Journal of Computer Mathematics - TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE)</div><div>- Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE)</div><div>- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)</div>
<div>- Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE)</div><div>- Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE)</div><div>- Cluster Computing - Springer (SCIE)</div><div>- Journal of Telecommunication Systems (JTS) - Springer (SCI-E)</div>
<div>- Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer</div><div>- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience</div><div>- Journal of Convergence (JoC) � FTRA</div>
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<div>Future technology information technology would stand for all of</div><div>continuously evolving and converging information technologies, including</div><div>digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent applications,</div>
<div>embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications, bio-inspired</div><div>computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web, user experience and</div><div>HCI, security and trust computing and so on, for satisfying our</div>
<div>ever-changing needs.</div><div> In past twenty five years or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced</div><div>and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures. Without various</div><div>IT-based applications, we would find it difficult to keep information</div>
<div>stored securely, to process information efficiently, and to communicate</div><div>information conveniently. In the future world, IT will play a very</div><div>important role in convergence of computing, communication, and all other</div>
<div>computational sciences and application and IT also will influence the</div><div>future world's various areas, including science, engineering, industry,</div><div>business, law, politics, culture, medicine, and so on.</div>
<div>Our conference is intended to foster the dissemination of</div><div>state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their</div><div>models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>FutureTech 2012 is the next edition of FutureTech 2011(Loutraki, Greece), FutureTech 2010 (Busan, Korea,</div><div>May 2010) which was the next event in a series of highly successful the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Applications & </div>
<div><br></div><div>Security Services</div><div>(UASS-09, USA, Jan. 2009), previously held as UASS-08 (Okinawa, Japan,Mar. 2008), UASS-07 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August, </div><div><br></div><div>2007), and UASS-06</div>
<div>(Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May, 2006).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------</div><div>TOPICS (included, but are not limited to)</div><div>----------------------------------------------</div>
<div> * Track 1. Hybrid Information Technology</div><div> * Track 2. High Performance Computing</div><div> * Track 3. Cloud and Cluster Computing</div><div> * Track 4. Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications</div>
<div> * Track 5. Digital Convergence</div><div> * Track 6. Multimedia Convergence</div><div> * Track 7. Intelligent and Pervasive Applications</div><div> * Track 8. Security and Trust Computing</div><div> * Track 9. IT Management and Service</div>
<div> * Track 10. Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing</div><div> * Track 11. Database and Data Mining</div><div> * Track 12. Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent</div><div> * Track 13. Game and Graphics</div>
<div> * Track 14. Human-centric Computing and Social Networks</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>SUBMISSION and Publications</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>
There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first </div><div><br></div><div>instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit </div>
<div><br></div><div>a paper with 6-8 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page </div><div><br></div><div>limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering </div><div><br></div><div>(LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows. </div><div>- Full Paper: 8 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost) </div><div>- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost) </div>
<div>- Poster Paper: 2 pages (FTRA Publishing Proceeding with ISBN) </div><div><br></div><div>Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.</div><div><br></div><div>Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available on:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Submission system: <a href="http://www.editorialsystem.net/futuretech2012">http://www.editorialsystem.net/futuretech2012</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Distinguished accepted and presented papers in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, </div><div>will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:</div>
<div>- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)</div><div>- International Journal of Computer Mathematics - TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE)</div><div>- Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE)</div>
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- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)</div><div>- Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE)</div><div>- Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE)</div><div>- Cluster Computing - Springer (SCIE)</div>
<div>- Journal of Telecommunication Systems (JTS) - Springer (SCI-E)</div><div>- Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer</div><div>- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience</div>
<div>- Journal of Convergence (JoC) � FTRA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------</div><div>Important Dates</div><div>-----------------</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission deadline : December 15, 2011</div>
<div>Acceptacne Notification : February 28, 2012</div><div>Camera-ready Due : March 15, 2012</div><div>Registration Due <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> : March 15, 2012</div>
<div>Conference Dates : June 26-28, 2012</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------</div><div> ORGANIZATION (TBA)</div><div>----------------------</div><div>==Steering Chairs==</div>
<div>James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea</div><div>Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA</div><div><br></div><div>==General Chairs==</div><div>Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada</div><div>Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea </div>
<div>C.S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA </div><div> </div><div>==General Vice Chair==</div><div>Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea</div><div> </div><div>==Program Chairs ==</div><div>Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea</div>
<div>Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada</div><div>Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong </div><div>Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
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<div>==Program Vice-Chairs: 14 Tracks==</div><div> * Track 1. Hybrid Information Technology</div><div> Sasan Adibi, RIM, Canada</div><div> Bing Chen, Memorial University, Canada</div><div> Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China</div>
<div> Vitaly Klyuev, University of Aizu, Japan</div><div> </div><div> * Track 2. High Performance Computing</div><div> Dhrubajyoti Goswami, Concordia University, Canada</div><div> Paul Lu, University of Alberta, Canada</div>
<div> Tarek Abdelrahman, University of Toronto, Canada</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Pavan Balaji, Argonne National lab, USA</div><div><br></div><div> * Track 3. Cloud and Cluster Computing</div>
<div> Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</div><div> Hsi-Ya Chang, National Center of High-Performance Computing, Taiwan</div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div>
<div> * Track 4. Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications</div><div> Jelena Misic, University of Ryerson, Canada</div><div> Alex Aravind, Univ. of Northern British Columbia,Canada</div><div> Uyen Trang Nguyen, York University, Canada</div>
<div> </div><div> * Track 5. Digital Convergence</div><div> Habib F. Rashvand, University of Warwick, UK</div><div> V. Clincy, Kennesaw State University, USA </div><div> </div><div> * Track 6. Multimedia Convergence</div>
<div> V. Rajamani, Indra Ganesan College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Ray (Yueh-Min) Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan </div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div> * Track 7. Intelligent and Pervasive Applications</div><div> Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan</div>
<div> Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China</div><div> </div><div> * Track 8. Security and Trust Computing</div><div> Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia</div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Ashkan Sami, Shiraz University, Iran </div>
<div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div> * Track 9. IT Management and Service</div><div> Shijun Liu, Shandong University, China</div><div> Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China</div>
<div> </div><div> * Track 10. Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing</div><div> Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway</div><div> Michel Toulouse, University of Montreal, Canada</div>
<div> Wei Zhong, University of South Carolina Upstate, USA</div><div> </div><div> * Track 11. Database and Data Mining</div><div> Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia</div><div> Roman Neruda, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA</div><div><br></div><div> * Track 12. Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent</div><div> Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt</div>
<div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany</div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria </div>
<div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div> * Track 13. Game and Graphics</div><div> Milanovic Milan, University of Belgrade, Serbia</div><div> Hyohyun Choi, Inha Technical Colleage, Korea</div>
<div> Ali Arya, Carleton University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div> * Track 14. Human-centric Computing and Social Networks</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Bin Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>==Workshop Chairs ==</div><div>Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada</div>
<div>Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA</div><div>Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</div><div>Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK</div><div>Seung-Ho Lim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><div>==Advisory Committee==</div><div>Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan </div><div>Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA </div><div>Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan</div>
<div>Han-Chieh,Chao National Ilan University, Taiwan</div><div>Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea</div><div>Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada</div><div>Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea</div>
<div>Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia</div><div>Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia</div><div> </div><div>==Publicity / International Liaison Chairs==</div><div>Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada</div>
<div>Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA</div><div>Deqing Zou, HUST, China</div><div>Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK</div><div>Hae Young Lee, ETRI, Korea</div><div>Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan</div>
<div>David Taniar, Monash University, Australia</div><div> </div><div>==Local Arrangement Chairs==</div><div>Mahsa Pourazad , University of British Columbia, Canada</div><div>Farshid Agharebparast , University of British Columbia, Canada</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>==Program Committee==</div><div><a href="http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012/organizing_committee.html">http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012/organizing_committee.html</a></div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>================================================================================================</div><div>Call for Workshop Proposals</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Several workshops will be held in conjunction with FutureTech 2012 with the aim to explore special topics and provide </div>
<div><br></div><div>international forums for scientists, </div><div>engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on </div><div><br></div><div>Future Information Technology.</div>
<div>Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very </div><div><br></div><div>welcome.</div><div>All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering </div>
<div><br></div><div>(LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).</div><div> In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome. Please send a workshop </div><div><br></div><div>
proposal by November 30, 2011 to Workshop Co-chairs.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:</div><div>If a workshop were organized successfully, the organizer (1 organizer per 1 workshop) will get:</div>
<div> * At least 10 papers registration: Free 1 registration</div><div> * At least 20 papers registration: Free 2 registration </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>==Important Dates==</div><div>November 30, 2011 Workshop Proposal Submission Due</div>
<div>December 1, 2011 Workshop Acceptance Notification</div><div>March 15, 2012 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Camera-ready paper due</div><div>June 26-28, 2012 Workshop/Conference events</div>
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-----------------------</div><div>For further information regarding the symposium and paper submission,</div><div>please contact to: Profs. James Park (<a href="mailto:parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com">parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com</a>) and TS Shon (<a href="mailto:taeshik.ftra@gmail.com">taeshik.ftra@gmail.com</a>).</div>