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Standing at the cross-roads of the economic development, it becomes essential for the Government Organizations to cross examine their development programs and keep on introducing the most modern means of public services. The Conference on UAE e-Government Projects and e-Services Summit is being launched keeping in mind the announcement of the UAE 2015 Government strategy and its implementation. These Summit year after year are strategically designed to provide an opportunity for ministries; departments and agencies to improve eService delivery by better coordination, collaboration and planning.

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have seen rapid growth and development in the recent past. This has led to their wide diffusion and application, increasing their economic and social impact, ultimately giving rise to a Knowledge-Based Society. ICT systems have become ubiquitous and pervasive today. The biggest challenge faced by researchers is not only to make such systems feasible, but also to make them secure and dependable. The aim of the Conference is to provide a stimulating forum for representatives from industry, academia and government agencies to share ideas, report findings and discuss products, thus defining future directions in these cutting edge technologies. The highlights of the Conference will include contributed papers, invited talks, vendor exhibitions, practical experience reports, tutorials, poster presentations and panel discussions on topics including but not limited to the following: • Distributed systems and computer networks • Adhoc networks • Wireless sensor networks • Location aware and power aware systems • Mobile agents • Ecommerce • Fault-tolerant systems • Information and network security • Web security • Trust modeling • Security measurement and analysis • Security testing • Multimedia communications • Storage networks

The 9th IBIMA conference on Information Management in Modern Organizations will be held in Marrakech, Morocco 5-7 January 2008. Marrakech "Red City or Al Hamra," founded the city in 1062 AD, is a city in southwestern Morocco in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The famous town square of Marrakech, Jemaa l-Fna, owes little of its fame to its own beauty, but to the continuous day and night life. During most of the days, perfomers of every kind put up their shows, continuing until the food stalls start to move in. This major international conference will address a range of important themes with respect to Information management its impact on organizations, governments, and societies. The conference will include numerous papers and workshop presentations by academics and researchers from around the globe. Conference participants are welcome to submit full papers, short papers, extended abstracts, paper drafts, or invited session proposals. Submitted paper will be fully refereed and published in electronic formats. Please refer to call for papers. For those unable to attend the conference in person, virtual presentations are available. Virtual presentations allow participants to submit papers for refereeing and publication in the conference proceedings. Virtual participants will receive a full copy of the conference proceedings in electronic format by mail. The conference proceedings will be classified in EBSCO database Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) index CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) index InterDok Send Submissions to: Maroc2008@ibima.org Submissions instructions: Submit 2 files (in Microsoft Word OR in pdf) First file with just complete author(s) information and e-mail(s) Second file with just the paper without author(s) information for review purposes If you are submitting to a special track, please indicate that in your e-mail Conference Chair Khalid S. Soliman International Business Information Management Association, USA Hofstra University, USA khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu Program Chairs Ahmed El Abbouyi Université Chouaib Doukkali elabbouyi@hotmail.com Az-Eddine Bennani Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Reims Management School, France az-eddine.bennani@reims-ms.fr

Mobile Wireless Communications enable the exchange of information in a real, or near real-time manner, without the constraint of a fixed point of access. Reliable and secure communications combined with constant and universal network availability, are key elements for the successful commercialization of the applications that utilize the wireless technology. However, new security challenges emerge due to the dynamic network topology, the open nature of the wireless medium, the resource constraints of the mobile devices and, possibly, the lack of a pre-deployed infrastructure. The workshop on Security for Mobile Wireless Communication (SeMIC), held in conjunction with COMSWARE 2008, seeks submissions from the academia and industry, that present novel approaches on addressing security issues for mobile wireless communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Authentication and access control * Secure MAC/PHY protocols for mobile networks * Cooperation, fairness and incentive -based security * Key management for wireless/mobile environments * Trust establishment * Intrusion detection in mobile networks * Accountability for malicious behavior and resource misuse * Revocation of malicious parties * Secure location services * Privacy, anonymity and prevention of traffic analysis * Security in cognitive radios * Security in vehicular networks * Anti-Jamming techniques, and DoS Countermeasures * Vulnerability modeling and threat analysis * Security & privacy in RFID systems * Secure routing Paper submission instructions ============================= Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Submitted papers must not be previously published elsewhere or currently under review for any other publication. Please direct any questions regarding the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. All submissions are limited to 6 PAGES in fonts no smaller than 10pt, and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. Each submission should start with the title, abstract, and names and contact information of authors. The introduction should give background and summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the COCUS system. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper. Important dates ================ * Paper submission deadline: September 28, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2007 * Camera-ready papers due: December 3, 2007 * Workshop date: January 6, 2008 Technical Program Co-Chairs =========================== * Loukas Lazos, University of Arizona, USA * Mingyan Li, Boeing Phantom Works, USA Honorary Chair ============== * Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Publicity Chair =============== * Krishna Sampigethaya, University of Washington, USA Technical Program Committee =========================== * Rana Barua, Indian Statistical Institute, India * Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Srdjan Capkun, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland * Bogdan Carbunar, Motorola Labs, USA * Reza Curtmola, John Hopkins University, USA * Rainer Falk, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Germany * Leping Huang, Nokia Research Center & University of Tokyo, Japan * Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA * Iordanis Koutsopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece * Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA * Donggang Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA * Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA * Roberto Di Pietro, Università "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy * Wenyuan Xu, University of South Carolina, USA * Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University, USA For further information, please contact Loukas Lazos (llazos@ece.arizona.edu or 520-626-0736) or Mingyan Li (Mingyan.li@boeing.com or 425-865-1027)

INTETAIN 2008 aims to stimulate interaction among academic researchers and commercial developers of interactive entertainment systems. In addition to paper presentations, posters, and demos, the conference will foster discussions through workshops and special events. INTETAIN 2008 focuses on the development of novel user-centered intelligent computational technologies and interactive applications for entertainment, being made possible through the use of a wide range of interactive device technologies (e.g., mobile and wearable devices, home entertainment centers, haptic devices, wall screen displays, information kiosks, holographic displays, fog screens, distributed smart sensors, and immersive displays) and media delivery infrastructures (e.g., multimedia networks, interactive radio, streaming technologies, DVB-T/M, ITV, P2P, satellite broadcasting, UMTS, Bluetooth, Broadband, and VoIP). We seek exciting and innovative work in areas including, but not limited to: Intelligent Computational Technologies for Entertainment * Adaptive Media Presentations * Recommendation Systems in Media * Scalable Crossmedia * Affective User Interfaces * Novel Interaction Technologies * Intelligent Speech and Multimedia Interfaces * Telepresence in Entertainment * Collaborative User Models and Group Behavior * Collaborative and Virtual Environments * Cross-Domain User Models * Animation and Virtual Characters * Novel Displays and Devices * Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality * Computer Graphics and Multimedia * Pervasive Multimedia and Gaming * Creative Language Environments * Computational Humor Interactive Applications for Entertainment * Intelligent Interactive Games * Intelligent Music Systems * Interactive Cinema * Edutainment * Interactive Art * Museum Guides * City Guides and Tourism Assistants * Shopping Assistants * Interactive Social Networks * Interactive Story Telling * Personal Diaries, Websites, and Blogs * Applications for Special Populations (Handicapped, Children, Elderly) Information for Authors Paper Submission INTETAIN 2008 accepts three types of paper submissions: Full Papers (from 6-10 pages) Late Breaking Results (up to 4 pages) Demos (up to 4 pages) All submissions must follow the ACM two-column conference style format including figures and references. Links to templates will be available from the conference website. Authors are requested to submit their PDF manuscripts electronically by following the instructions at the conference home page: http://www.intetain.org. Supporting videos can also be submitted. All paper submissions must be anonymous. We have adopted a relaxed model of anonymity that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body of the paper. Authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper, as noted in the submission instructions. Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper is left to the authors' discretion. In particular, we expect authors to leave the citations to their previous work unanonymized, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research has been taken into account. Authors are requested to submit their PDF manuscripts electronically, using the COCUS System ( http://www.cocus.info ) : 1. Login to COCUS with your e-mail address and password. You will need to create an account if you do not have one. 2. After login, choose "Event List" and find INTETAIN 2008 in the list. 3. Choose "Submit a paper" and follow the step-by-step instructions. Workshop Proposals Proposals are solicited for Workshops as part of the events associated with INTETAIN 2008. In addition to the interest areas listed above, workshops may address other topics in entertainment technology and applications. Please see the Call for Workshop Proposals for more information. Publication Submissions should describe original research that has not been previously published or accepted for publication, and is not under consideration for publication at another conference or journal. Accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings and presented during the paper sessions. Accepted late-breaking results papers and demo descriptions will be printed in a companion document available only at the conference, and presented during a poster session (late-breaking results) and demo session (demos).

ACM Compute 2008 Call for Papers Organized by ACM Bangalore Chapter, To be held in Indian Institute of Science & The Taj West End, Bangalore, India, 18th – 20th January 2008. Conference Webpage: http://www.acmbangalore.org/ Important Dates Paper Submissions Due: August 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2007 Camera Ready Versions Due: December 1, 2007 Conference: January 18-20, 2008 THEME: It is now widely recognized that computer science is moving beyond the academia into the business domain, more specifically into the enterprise computing space. The aim of this multi-track conference is to bring together researchers, practitioners, technology market movers, and thought leaders, with a view to advance the state of the art, and the state of the practice in applied areas of computer science, with focus on enterprise computing. The specific focus areas of computer science, relevant in the enterprise context, are being considered. TRACKS 1. Software Services Engineering Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Business process Management: Languages, process management, process mining, process monitoring, workflows, process improvement b. Event Driven Architectures, Complex Event Processing c. Service Oriented Architectures, standards, Web services, Semantic Services d. Software quality and quantitative measures (real-time, response, etc) e. Software Architecture - Software factories, Pattern oriented software architecture, ADLs, Enterprise Architecture formalisms f. Service Identification Approaches, Process-service linkage g. Contemporary Software engineering, global software development h. Software as a service, Composite Applications, Web based collaborative software development, e-services i. Web N.0 – Participative architectures, Semantic Web, j. Software Non-functional requirements including security, policy, privacy, maintainability 2. High Performance Computing Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Scientific and Business needs and challenges b. Multi-core architectures c. Next Gen Data Centers d. Grid computing e. Autonomic computing f. Virtualization g. High Speed Networks 3. Information Management Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence b. Information retrieval/storage/query c. Data/text mining d. Information Virtualization e. Next generation Query Optimization/Processing f. Graphics g. Computational intelligence –intelligent agents, learning 4. Pervasive Computing Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Multi-modal computing b. Sensor networks c. Enterprise mobility d. Field force automation and occasionally connected computing e. Mobile ad-hoc networking f. Ambient intelligence CONFERENCE CHAIR: Prof. R. K. Shyamasundar, IBM Research labs, India Email: Shyam AT tifr.res.in WORKSHOP COMMITTEE (to be completed): SUBMISSION PROCESS: Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. The authors can submit upto a maximum of 8 ACM conference pages (about 4000 words). The conference format specifications and templates can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html At least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A single volume of proceedings encompassing papers in all the tracks will be published. Papers to be submitted via the online submission system accessible at the site above. DATES: Paper Submissions Due: August 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2007 Camera Ready Versions Due: December 1, 2007 Conference: January 18-20, 2008

North Pacific Technology Group is presenting a leading technology event that is designed for you to learn about emerging Microsoft technologies, innovative strategies, discuss best-in-practice development processes and understand proven solutions to known IT issues. We are targeting this conference specifically for software developers, project managers, systems analysts and architects. Conference topics include:ASP.NET, Security, .NET Languages (VC++,C#,VB), Testing in .NET and more. The main presenters are professionals from leading software corporations. In addition to the .NET topics, we have also set up a unique forum we call Resume Sessions.

The OOP is a large and well-respected conference on software engineering and related management topics. In offers presentations on the whole spectrum of software engineering including requirements enginnering, model-driven development, UML, Eclipse, SOA, global development, agile processes etc.

Attention Information Security Professionals! SANS is proud to be back in the “Big Easy” for SANS Security 2008 on January 11th-19th with our top instructors, new course offerings, action-packed night sessions, and additional special events. Now is truly the time to improve your information security skills and fall in love with New Orleans all over again. Sign up now and you will receive the best pricing for SANS top courses. We'll be offering the following hands-on courses for security professionals at all levels, and we know you won’t want to miss them! - Security 309: Introduction to Information Security - Security 330: SANS Training for the Security+ Certification - Security 401: SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp Style - Security 502: Perimeter Protection In-Depth - Security 503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth - Security 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling - Security 505: Securing Windows - Security 508: System Forensics, Investigation, and Response - Security 617: Assessing and Securing Wireless Networks - Management 414: SANS® +S™ Training Program for the CISSP® Certification Exam - Management 512: SANS Security Leadership Essentials for Managers - Audit 411: SANS Security and Audit Framework - Audit 507: Auditing Networks, Perimeters, and Systems Additionally, SANS will be offering many cutting edge short courses including: -Security 514: Advanced Network Worm and Bot Analysis -Security 517: Cutting-Edge Hacking Techniques -Security 519: Web Application Security Workshop - Security 601: Reverse Engineering Malware -Security 526: Next Evolution in Digital Forensics -Management 405: Critical Infrastructure Protection SANS training is well-known for being relevant and pragmatic. All SANS instructors are industry leaders and experts that understand the challenges you face on a daily basis. You’ll find their real-world experience invaluable in seeing the practical value of the course material. Here are some comments from recent alumni: "The biggest advantage of taking the course was to be able to interact with an experienced instructor who has implemented the topics in a business situation." - Adam James, Mutual of Omaha "Worth every penny." - John East, NSFSB "Excellent instructor. Best class I've taken in 15 years.” - David Swift, Fortinet SANS Security 2008 is once again being hosted at the Sheraton New Orleans right on Canal Street where the cities major attractions are literally right outside the hotel’s door. As an extra treat, if you book under the special SANS rate, you will receive complimentary high speed internet access in your hotel room. However, make sure to book with our special group on-line reservation system or mention SANS when calling since this rate is not available to the general public. "SANS training always exceeds my expectations!" says Carlos A. Ayala Rocha of Profuture GNP. Get the training you need to work better and faster as a security professional. Start making your training and travel plans now to join us for SANS SECURITY 2008 in New Orleans!