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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=KO link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[FutureTech 2012 Call for Papers] - Working Draft<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>===============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> The 7th FTRA International Conference on <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Vancouver, Canada, 26-28 June 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Published by Springer-LNEE (EI and SCOPUS Index)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>===============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>** Important Notices **<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[Important Date]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission due: December 30, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Conference Proceedings will be included in the conference proceedings published by <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[Special Issues]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Distinguished accepted and presented papers in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- International Journal of Computer Mathematics - TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Cluster Computing - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Journal of Telecommunication Systems (JTS) - Springer (SCI-E)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Journal of Convergence (JoC) ? FTRA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>===============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Future technology information technology would stand for all of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>continuously evolving and converging information technologies, including<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent applications,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications, bio-inspired<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web, user experience and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HCI, security and trust computing and so on, for satisfying our<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ever-changing needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> In past twenty five years or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures. Without various<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>IT-based applications, we would find it difficult to keep information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>stored securely, to process information efficiently, and to communicate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>information conveniently. In the future world, IT will play a very<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>important role in convergence of computing, communication, and all other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>computational sciences and application and IT also will influence the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>future world's various areas, including science, engineering, industry,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>business, law, politics, culture, medicine, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Our conference is intended to foster the dissemination of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>FutureTech 2012 is the next edition of FutureTech 2011(Loutraki, Greece), FutureTech 2010 (Busan, Korea,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>May 2010) which was the next event in a series of highly successful the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Applications & Security Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(UASS-09, USA, Jan. 2009), previously held as UASS-08 (Okinawa, Japan,Mar. 2008), UASS-07 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August, 2007), and UASS-06<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May, 2006).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>TOPICS (included, but are not limited to)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>----------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 1. Hybrid Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 2. High Performance Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 3. Cloud and Cluster Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 4. Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 5. Digital Convergence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 6. Multimedia Convergence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 7. Intelligent and Pervasive Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 8. Security and Trust Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 9. IT Management and Service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 10. Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 11. Database and Data Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 12. Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 13. Game and Graphics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 14. Human-centric Computing and Social Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SUBMISSION and Publications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a paper with 6-8 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Full Paper: 8 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Poster Paper: 2 pages (FTRA Publishing Proceeding with ISBN) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available on:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission system: http://www.editorialsystem.net/futuretech2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Distinguished accepted and presented papers in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- International Journal of Computer Mathematics - TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Cluster Computing - Springer (SCIE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Journal of Telecommunication Systems (JTS) - Springer (SCI-E)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Journal of Convergence (JoC) ? FTRA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Paper Submission deadline : December 30, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Acceptacne Notification : February 28, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready Due : March 15, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Registration Due : March 15, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Conference Dates : June 26-28, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> ORGANIZATION (TBA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Steering Chairs==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==General Chairs==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>C.S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==General Vice Chair==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Program Chairs ==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Program Vice-Chairs: 14 Tracks==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 1. Hybrid Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Sasan Adibi, RIM, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Bing Chen, Memorial University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Vitaly Klyuev, University of Aizu, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 2. High Performance Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Dhrubajyoti Goswami, Concordia University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Paul Lu, University of Alberta, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Tarek Abdelrahman, University of Toronto, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Pavan Balaji, Argonne National lab, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 3. Cloud and Cluster Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Hsi-Ya Chang, National Center of High-Performance Computing, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 4. Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Jelena Misic, University of Ryerson, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Alex Aravind, Univ. of Northern British Columbia,Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Uyen Trang Nguyen, York University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 5. Digital Convergence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Habib F. Rashvand, University of Warwick, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> V. Clincy, Kennesaw State University, USA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 6. Multimedia Convergence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> V. Rajamani, Indra Ganesan College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Ray (Yueh-Min) Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 7. Intelligent and Pervasive Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 8. Security and Trust Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Ashkan Sami, Shiraz University, Iran <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 9. IT Management and Service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Shijun Liu, Shandong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 10. Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Michel Toulouse, University of Montreal, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Wei Zhong, University of South Carolina Upstate, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 11. Database and Data Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Roman Neruda, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 12. Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 13. Game and Graphics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Milanovic Milan, University of Belgrade, Serbia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Hyohyun Choi, Inha Technical Colleage, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Ali Arya, Carleton University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Track 14. Human-centric Computing and Social Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Bin Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Workshop Chairs ==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Seung-Ho Lim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Advisory Committee==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Han-Chieh,Chao National Ilan University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Publicity / International Liaison Chairs==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Deqing Zou, HUST, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hae Young Lee, ETRI, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>David Taniar, Monash University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Local Arrangement Chairs==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Mahsa Pourazad , University of British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Farshid Agharebparast , University of British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Program Committee==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012/organizing_committee.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>================================================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Call for Workshop Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Several workshops will be held in conjunction with FutureTech 2012 with the aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on Future Information Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome. Please send a workshop proposal by November 30, 2011 to Workshop Co-chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If a workshop were organized successfully, the organizer (1 organizer per 1 workshop) will get:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * At least 10 papers registration: Free 1 registration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * At least 20 papers registration: Free 2 registration <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>==Important Dates==<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>November 30, 2011 Workshop Proposal Submission Due<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>December 1, 2011 Workshop Acceptance Notification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>March 15, 2012 Camera-ready paper due<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>June 26-28, 2012 Workshop/Conference events<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>================================================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> CONTACT INFORMATION <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For further information regarding the symposium and paper submission,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>please contact to: Profs. James Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) and TS Shon (taeshik.ftra@gmail.com).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>