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Event Profile: India International Potato Expo (IIPE) will provide a platform to develop potato based food security strategy for India and the world over by covering following aspects: Geography and Production Zones, Production Systems and Challenges, Varieties and Seed Systems, Research and Development, Market and Export Opportunities, Alternative uses of potato. Visitor's Profile: Central & State Government Officials, Potato Processing Industry, Fertilizer Industries, Cold Chain and Warehousing, Retail Chains, Potato Growers and Growers' Associations, Manufacturers and Suppliers of Farm Equipment, Environmental Organizations, Packaging Industry, Potato Starch Manufacturers, Quality Control Institutes, Trading, Import and Export Firms, Commodity Exchange. Exhibitor's Profile: Profile for exhibit include Technology for potato production, Seed varieties & cropping system, Organic cultivation, Post harvest technology (i) Storage (ii) Processing. Organizer: Indian Chamber Of Commerce ICC Towers, 4 India Exchange Place, Kolkata, India. Tel: +(91)-(33)-22303242/22303243/22303244 Fax: +(91)-(33)-22313377/22313380

Further, with the aim of exchanging state of the art knowledge in the fields of materials processing and its application, a two-day seminar will be organized during January 18-19, 2008. Papers are invited on the following theme : Ć Laser materials processing Ć Laser safety Ć Laser based instrumentation Ć Laser Micromachining Ć Any other related topic

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2008) January 5-8, 2008 Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India http://www.icdcn.org ********************************************************************* The 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2008, will be held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, during January 5-8, 2008. Over the years, ICDCN (formerly known as IWDC) has become a leading forum for disseminating the latest research results in distributed computing and networks. Jadavpur University (http://www.jadavpur.edu), which hosts ICDCN 2008, is one of the premier universities in India with faculties in Arts, Sciences, Engineering and Technology, and is located in the historic and glorious city of Kolkata, where tradition and modernity blend in harmony. SCOPE: ----- Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished results are solicited in all areas of theory and practice of distributed systems and networking. ICDCN 2008 will be organized in two tracks - Distributed Computing and Networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Distributed Computing Track: 1. Communication and Synchronization Protocols 2. Distributed Algorithms and Architectures, their Analysis and Complexity 3. Distributed Operating Systems, Middleware, Databases 4. Experiments and Performance Measurements in Distributed Systems 5. Fault-tolerance and Self-stabilization 6. High Performance, Cluster and Grid Computing 7. Mutiprocessor and Multicore Architectures and Algorithms 8. Security in Distributed Systems 9. Shared and Transactional Memory, Concurrent Programming 10. Specification and Verification of Distributed Systems Networking Track: 1. Wireless Networks - Cellular, Ad hoc, Wireless LANs 2. Sensor Networks 3. Mobile, Pervasive and Autonomic Computing 4. Optical, Overlay and Peer-to-Peer Networks 5. Integration of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wireline Networks 6. Internetworking Protocols and Internet Applications 7. Network Reliability, Security and Privacy 8. Resource Management and Quality of Service 9. Performance Modeling and Evaluation 10. Traffic Engineering, Pricing, Capacity Planning and Network Management PAPER SUBMISSION: ---------------- A submission should report on original research that did not previously appear in a journal or a conference proceedings and has not been concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Papers should not exceed twelve single-spaced pages using at least 11-point font and one inch margins on all sides on A4/Letter size pages, including references, figures, tables etc. All papers must be submitted electronically through the submissions link in the conference website. Accepted papers will appear in a printed proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Some papers that are judged to have limited merit may be accepted as short papers, with up to six pages in the proceedings. At the time of submission, authors should indicate if they wish to have their paper considered as a short paper if it is not accepted as a full paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference. BEST PAPER AWARD: ---------------- Starting this year, a prize will be given to the paper that is judged by the Program Committee to be the best on the basis of its content and presentation. The Program Committee may decline to make the award or decide to split it. TUTORIALS AND KEYNOTE TALKS: --------------------------- There will be a full day of tutorials on the first day of the conference. The conference will also feature keynote talks from leading researchers in the field. Details of the tutorials and the keynote talks will be announced in the conference website (http://www.icdcn.org) later. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: July 25, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: September 21, 2007 Camera-ready Paper Due: October 12, 2007 Conference: January 5-8, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR: ------------------------ Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA GENERAL CHAIRS: -------------- Marco Conti, CNR, Italy Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada PROGRAM CHAIRS: -------------- Prasad Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA (Distributed Computing Track) C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India (Networking Track) Mainak Chatterjee, Univ. of Central Florida, USA (Vice-Chair, Networking Track) KEYNOTE CHAIR: ------------- Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA TUTORIAL CHAIRS: --------------- Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Sarmistha Neogy, Jadavpur University, India ORGANIZING CHAIR: ---------------- Atal Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ----------------- Distributed Computing Track --------------------------- Marcos Aguilera, HP Lab, USA Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas at Austin, USA Soma Chaudhuri, Iowa State University, USA Nabanita Das, ISI, Kolkata, India Vijay Garg, University of Texas at Austin, USA Ratan Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland Arobinda Gupta, IIT Kharagpur, India Danny Hendler, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA Prasad Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT Hyderabad, India Rastislav Kralovic, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Victor Luchangco, Sun Labs, USA Keith Marzullo, University of California, San Diego, USA Yoram Moses, Technion, Israel Alessandro Panconesi, University of Rome, Italy Sriram Pemmaraju, University of Iowa, USA Srdjan Petrovic, Google, USA Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, Mexico R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India Shrisha Rao, IIIT Bangalore, India Kannan Srinathan, IIIT Hyderabad, India Sam Toueg, University of Toronto, Canada Srikantha Tirthapura, Iowa State University, USA Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada Networking Track ---------------- Debopam Acharya, Georgia Southern University, USA Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Arzad Alam, IIT Delhi, India Amiya Bhattacharya, New Mexico State University, USA Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy Samir R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Kartik Gopalan, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Isabelle Guerin-Lassous, INRIA, France Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay, India Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay, India Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Taskin Kocak, University of Bristol, UK Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur, India Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Lab, USA Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA D. Majunath, IIT Bombay, India B. S. Manoj, University of California, San Diego, USA Mahesh Marina, The University of Edinburgh, UK Ravi R. Mazumdar, University of Waterloo, Canada Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA Sukumar Nandi, IIT Guwahati, India Asis Nasipuri, University of North Carolina, USA Lionel Ni, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology Marius Portmann, The University of Queensland, Australia Ramachandran Ramjee, Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India Manivasakan R., IIT Madras, India Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University, USA Rajarshi Roy, IIT Kharagpur, India Pavan S. N., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Vinod Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore Pallapa Venkataram, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India ******************************************************************************

Event Profile: International Mining Exhibition offers unparalleled business opportunities for the mining and minerals industry. The exhibition will be held with an unprecedented display of Mining Machinery, Equipment, Mineral Processing procedures, Latest technology & their innovative applications, Safety & Rescue Equipment and Communication & Logistics etc. Highlights: Highlights include Participation of giants of Mining Equipment & Machinery Manufactures from the world over, Participation by minerals- rich States of India, Participation of Giants of the Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Industry, 800 Delegates expected to participate in the concurrent 1st Asian Mining Congress, Special pavilion of Small Scale Units, Over 20,000 Trade Visitors are expected. Visitor's Profile: Policy Makers, Foreign Missions & Industry Associations, Investors, Industrialists & Traders, Key Personnel of Core & Allied Industries, Mining, Logistics, Shipping & Freight Companies, Machinery/Equipment Manufacturers, Exporters & Importers, Buyers & Sourcing Personnel, Infrastructure Development Organisations, Technology Developers, Consultants, R&D Professionals. Exhibitor's Profile: Profile for exhibit include Earthmoving, construction machinery & equipment, Coal mining & minerals handling equipment, Conveyors, Mining & exploration equipment, Surveying instruments, Metals & metallurgical equipment, Processing & conversion systems, Explosives & blasting devices, Electrical plants, pumps & compressors, Communication & data processing & transmission, Mining engineering, erection & construction services, Mining Companies, Petroleum, Oil & Gas Companies. Organizer: Tafcon Group C-60, Nizamuddin East, New Delhi, India. Tel: +(91)-(11)-24352141 Fax: +(91)-(11)-24355215