San Francisco, California RTAS 2005 seeks papers describing significant contributions both to state of the art and state of the practice in the broad field of embedded and open real-time computing, control, and communication. Contributions can cover timing or QoS issues in computation and networking, systems integration, scheduling, operating systems, middleware, software engineering, dependability, databases, programming languages, system development tools, performance modeling, and performanc ...

Turin, ITALY The International Conference on Fracture was founded in 1965. It is the premier organization for promotion cooperation among scientists and engineers worldwide in mechanics and mechanisms of fracture, fatigue and strength of solids. Over the years, ICF has made considerable progress in providing an international forum for highlighting individual and national accomplishments in the field of fracture mechanics. Papers for oral presentation will be welcome in all aspects of fracture ...

MMVR13 January 26 - 29, 2005 Westin Long Beach Hotel Long Beach, California Abstract deadline: July 15, 2004 MMVR13: “The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now” In partnership with: Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research & Materiel Command Medical Education Technologies, Inc. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE MMVR is the premier forum for computer scientists and physicians who develop, refine, and promote advanced, data-centered tools for clini ...

Copenhagen, Denmark The aim of DEXA 2005 is to present both research contributions in the area of data base and intelligent systems and a large spectrum of already implemented or just being developed applications. DEXA will offer the opportunity to extensively discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. The workshop and conference should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers in practice, users of database and expert systems, and scientists working in the field. Sugg ...

The 46th Electronic Materials Conference (EMC) sponsored by the Electronic Materials Committee of TMS will be held at Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana from June 23 through June 25, 2004. The conference will provide a forum for topics of current interest and significance in the areas related to the preparation and characterization of electronic materials. Individuals actively engaged or interested in electronic materials research and development are encouraged to attend this meeting, ...

About IAT'04 The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04) will be jointly held with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2004 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART. The upcoming meeting in this conference series follows the great success of IAT-99 he ...

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Mobile and wireless networks have experienced an explosive growth during the last few years. In fact, mobile and wireless networking is gradually emerging as a discipline. Their impact ranges from medical, to military, to industrial, to societal. This workshop intends to bring together leading researchers and practitioners in this field of research to identify the fundamental challenges and future prospects of mobile and wireless networks, especially cellular networks, ...

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 21 - 24, 2004) The 2004 International Workshop on Wearable Computers (IWWC'04) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21 - 24, 2004. The IWWC'04 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'04, CISST'04, IC-AI'04, IC'04, METMBS'04, CIC'04, ...) The last joint meetings had over 1,650 participants from all over the world). You are invited to submit a dra ...

Cambridge, MA Electronics device manufacturers are integrating a far greater number of unrelated technologies with a much broader scope of intricacies than ever before. Devices are now planned and designed from the atomic to the board level creating opportunities for greater application. Current research underway at MIT will have a direct bearing on the future electronic and semiconductor design and manufacture. This one-and-a-half day conference has been created for senior technologists, res ...

Boston, MA Welcome! You are invited to peruse the broad range of symposia that will be offered at the 2004 MRS Fall Meeting. The materials community continues to grow, being the bedrock of cross-disciplinary efforts that are pushing the envelope on the technology horizon. Symposium organizers from around the world have created a program that captures the revolutions occurring in the materials community and explores new and emerging fields at the forefront of interdisciplinary science. Forty-t ...

Atlantic City NJ SYMPOSIUM LOCATION ATLANTIC CITY CONVENTION CENTER www.atlanticcitynj.com DIRECTIONS From Fort Monmouth: Take Garden State Parkway South to Exit 38, the Atlantic City Expressway. Go to the end of the Expressway, stay straight and make left on Arctic Avenue. Go two traffic lights to Michigan and make a left. Go straight to the convention center. From Newark Airport: Take NJ Turnpike South to Exit 11 (Garden State Parkway) and follow directions from Fort Monmouth. ...

Kauai Island, Hawaii WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES Wireless connectivity with mobility support is an important enabling technology for pervasive computing and communications. Especially, IP-based mobile networks that are both infrastructured and infrastructureless attract a lot of attention with the advent of inexpensive wireless LAN solutions such as IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, and Bluetooth technologies. However, the introduction of mobility raises a number of new research issues. This workshop will see ...

Berkeley/Oakland, California, USA Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for the presentation of developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of computer security or electronic privacy are solicited for submission to the 2005 symposium. Papers may represent advances in the theory, design, ...

Las Vegas Nevada Emerging Technology Nearly all devices that have found their way into mainstream living were at one time considered emerging technology. The VCR, which now competes feverishly with the DVD player for space in the average entertainment center, was once the most major announcement at the International CES, grabbing the attention of media and analysts the world over. What will draw engineers, product developers, technology institutions and research and development teams this ye ...

San Francisco, California The 2005 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting will be held March 28 to April 1 in San Francisco, California. All 33 technical symposia will be located at the new Moscone West Convention Center. The Meeting will highlight advances in the synthesis, characterization, simulation, and application of materials, from understanding materials fundamentals to fabrication of devices using electronic and electro-optic materials, nanostructured and molecular materials, and bi ...

Santa Fe, New Mexico For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing whose mission is to further the interests of the computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing techniques and applications areas and the transfer of comp ...

Boppard, Germany The ongoing shrinking of computing facilities to small and mobile devices like handhelds, portables or even wearable computers will enhance an ubiquitous information processing. The basic paradigm of such a pervasive computing is the combination of strongly decentralized and distributed computing with the help of diversified devices allowing for spontaneous connectivity. Computers will become invisible to the users awareness and exchange of information between devices will effe ...

Keio University Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan Purpose and Scope We invite researchers, practitioners, educators and students, and others interested in ubiquitous computing to participate in the second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2004) held in Tokyo, Japan on 8-9th of November, 2004. The aim of the symposium is to stimulate interactions between participants through them. UCS 2004 focuses on the emerging area of ubiquitous computing. This emergence is an outcome of t ...

Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Ubiquitous Communications, as evidenced in pervasive computing and smart space applications present significant management challenges for successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, middleware, applications and devices. Today's management systems are unable to cope with the complexity, heterogeneity and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. New paradigms, models and technology need to be developed to all ...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Problem Space Building on the success of the 2003 workshop, this workshop seeks to develop, through establishing the state of the art, a roadmap for research on essential software infrastructures for ad-hoc and pervasive computing. Marc Weiser's dream is one of a world of pervasive devices, leveraging contextual information, to provide an increasingly interactive and responsive environment to users, to aid them in their everyday activities. However, despite conside ...

Boston, Massachussetts Overview The NSDI conference focuses on the design principles of large-scale networks and distributed systems. Systems as diverse as Internet routing, peer-to-peer file sharing, sensor nets, scalable Web services, and distributed network measurement share a set of challenges. Progress in any of these areas requires an understanding of how researchers are addressing the challenges of large-scale systems in other contexts. Our goal is to bring together researchers from acr ...

San Diego, California The Ubiquitous Computing paradigm has the potential of drastically changing the way in which users interact with computers by providing (virtually) ubiquitous access to services and applications through a large number of cooperating devices. However, in order to make this vision come true and to realize a consistent and easy-to-use interface a number of (new) challenges have to be met, e.g. shared use of multiple services by multiple users using multiple devices spati ...

Cannes France More than just a technology, mobile communications has become a dynamic catalyst for combining Fashion, Function and Fun. The result is an emerging breed of fashion accessories, lifestyle enhancers and modern workplace tools that have transformed fanciful concepts into reality! The 2004 show strutted 60 pieces of mobile, personal, wearable technology in a professional production of 42 runs on the catwalk at Cannes. 2005's show is set to become a another hit which combines fashion ...

San Diego, CA Sponsored by: The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society) The Annual Simulation Symposium is a forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and applications among practitioners of simulation in industry, government, and academia. This international Symposium is the oldest continuously operating conference/symposium dedicated to simulation. The paper sessions are designed to promote discussion of concepts, ...

Melbourne Australia ICAMP-3 is the 3rd in a series of conferences that were initiated in New Zealand in 2000 and has since been held in Singapore. The purpose of ICAMP-3 is to provide a focused forum for the presentation of advanced research and improved understanding of various aspects of advanced materials and processing. This conference will include invited lectures from internationally distinguished researchers, contributed presentations and posters. Contributions will be encouraged in the ...

We invite you to participate at the prestigious 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Based on the very successful first international workshop (IWEC 2002) and the second international conference (ICEC 2003), the next ICEC 2004 has been set up as an international forum to exchange experience and knowledge among researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Different submi ...

Denver, CO The SVC TechCon Provides Access to the Latest Information, Education, and Interaction with Others in the Global Vacuum Coating Industry As a presenter at the annual TechCon, you have the opportunity to share information and learn from peers, present your latest work in a professional, yet relaxing environment, and make new contacts from all over the world during our many social events. In addition to the Technical Sessions on vacuum coating and smart materials, SVC provides a varie ...

University of Southampton, UK Growth, processing and materials developments in microelectronics and nanoengineering that target the next generation of devices and integrated circuits are reviewed and discussed at this successful and established conference series. This international forum promotes exchanges of scientific and technological information among scientists working in research and industrial laboratories in the interdisciplinary area of materials, microelectronics and nanoengineering. ...

Seattle, Washington This annual conference and exhibition spotlights the innovative use of technology in community corrections and introduces technologies on the horizon that can enhance an agency's performance. Over 30 educational sessions will cover topics including innovative case management systems, drug testing technologies, e-learning, electronic monitoring, and technology to manage sex offenders. Joe Russo NLECTC-Rocky Mountain 2050 East Iliff Avenue Denver, CO 80208 Tel: 800-416-8086 Fax: 303-871-2500 E-mail: jrusso@du.edu

APCHI 2004 is the 6th biennial gathering of international CHI researchers and practitioners located in the Asia Pacific region. Don Norman and Susan Dray are already confirmed as keynote speakers, and we are looking forward to a high-quality, full and interesting technical programme of papers, tutorials, and workshops. Proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The conference will be held in Rotorua, acclaimed as one of New Zealand's prime to ...

Ayia Napa, Cyprus The strong growth in wireless communications and the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices have created a global computing environment that plays a key role in the daily activities of millions of people. Users communicate, work, and confer using a wide range of devices all connected via an array of communication networks that provide voice and data access regardless of geographic position. This infrastructure aggregation presents a number of challenges e ...

San Francisco, CA Join us in San Francisco, December 6–8, 2004, for the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04). OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The program this year offers 27 papers on a wide range of topics including: Dependability and Recovery, Automated Management, Files and Storage Systems, Distrib ...

Raleigh, NC On behalf of the Organizing Committee we would like to extend a cordial invitation to you to attend the 84th Textile Institute World Conference, to be held in North Carolina, March 22-25, 2005. The TI Conference will be held back-to-back with the National Textile Center’s Annual Forum (March 20- 22) and as such it will bring together the world’s top industrial and academic minds in a single setting. The theme of the conference is “A New Era” reflecting the impact of developments i ...

Huntington Beach CA Event Overview The Consumer Electronics CEO Summit presents a rare opportunity to network in a qualified, executive-only environment, to gather insight helpful to your business and to focus on the issues most critical to the industry. In past summits, retail executives and manufacturers came together to discuss the intricacies of building relationships, delivering value to customers, branding, merchandising and other key issues. Executives from Amazon.com, Best Buy, Circu ...

Xybernaut is leading the e-mobility revolution. Join us at the 8th Annual International Conference on Wearable Computing (ICWC) at the McGraw-Hill Companies Homeland Security Summit and Exposition 2004 in Washington, DC. Whether its complex schematics of a port, improved combat readiness, or data sharing by first responders, Xybernaut has proven Homeland Security Solutions. Join our customers and collaborators for discussion and demonstration of these deployments. Don’t miss this opportun ...

Delft - The Netherlands PWC provides an international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2004 is the ninth conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8, and will be held in Delft, the Netherlands. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations, and a poster session presenting on-going projects. Participants can optionally take part in a social even ...

New York NY Agents are one of the most prominent and attractive technologies in computer science at the beginning of the new milennium. The technologies, methods, and theories of agents and multiagent systems are currently contributing to many diverse domains such as information retrieval, user interfaces, electronic commerce, robotics, computer mediated collaboration, computer games, education and training, ubiquitous computing, and social simulation. They are not only a very promising technol ...

On September 10 to 12 at Stanford University, the Institute for Accelerating Change hosts its second annual conference, Accelerating Change 2004. AC2004 provides a unique opportunity to learn from and network with world-class thinkers discussing today's most important trends in the science, technology, business, and humanism of accelerating change. This year's theme explores the intersection of three key trends: the accelerating interconnectivity of the physical world, the increasing accuracy o ...

ACM MobiCom 2004, the Tenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, will be held September 26- October 1, 2004,at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel in beautiful, historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MobiCom, sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE, serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. MobiCom is a highly selective, single-track conference, focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above.

New York NY Multimedia 2004 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. We especially encourage introduction of novel media such as haptic, smell, sensors, animation, etc. The final program will be posted on August 15th. Current high level program is available here. Technical Program The technical program will consist ...

Santa Fe, New Mexico 1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2. Agents, Interactions, Mobility and Systems (AIMS) 3. Approximate Reasoning in Human Decision Making (ARHD) 4. Bioinformatics (BIO) 5. Computer Applications in Health Care (CACH) 6. Computer-aided Law and Advanced Technologies (CLAT) 7. Computer Security (SEC) 8. Constraint Solving and Programming (CSP) 9. Coordination Models, Languages and Applications (CM) 10. Data Mining (DM) 11. Data Streams (DS) 12. D ...

Baltimore Maryland Update · Deadline extension: Please note that the deadline for the demo proposal has been postponed to July 12. · Deadline extension: Please note that the deadline for the poster submission has been postponed to July 16. · Deadline extension: Please note that the deadline for the camera ready paper copy has been postponed to August 25. · Accepted papers: The list of accepted papers has been put on Advance Program. Purpose and Scope S ...

Newport Beach, CA USA An increasingly important requirement for software-based systems is the ability to adapt themselves at run time to handle such things as resource variability, changing user needs, and system faults. In the past, systems that supported self-management were rare, confined mostly to domains like telecommunications switches or deep space control software, where taking a system down for upgrades was not an option, and where human intervention was not always feasible. However, t ...

Venice Italy The Seventh International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2004) is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, anal ...

Los Angeles, California The term "adaptive displays" has been used for some years, but has so far not made it into any realized form. The graphics and virtual reality community have worked towards greater and greater resolutions and detail in their displays, and seem to have assumed that more is always better. On the other hand, the cognitive science community has grappled with the problem of information overload/underload and the head-up display (HUD) community also has to balance amount of in ...

Annual International Conference on Wearable Computing (ICWC) - June 2nd, 2004 About ICWC Xybernaut is leading the e-mobility revolution. Join us at the 8th Annual International Conference on Wearable Computing (ICWC) at the McGraw-Hill Companies Homeland Security Summit and Exposition 2004 in Washington, DC. Whether its complex schematics of a port, improved combat readiness, or data sharing by first responders, Xybernaut has proven Homeland Security Solutions. Join our customers and collaborators for discussion and demonstration of these deployments.

Innsbruck, Austria Future computer systems will be much more integrated into the fabric of everyday life than today's computers are. They will become smaller, more appropriate for their use, integrated into everyday objects and often virtually or physically invisible to the users. They will be also deployed in a much higher quantity and penetrate many application areas. To provide such features and functionality, computer devices become tinier yet still increase in complexity; they must co ...

Nottingham, UK Today's information technology is rapidly moving small computerised consumer devices and hi-tech personal appliances from the desks of research labs onto sales shelves and into our daily life. These include low performance PDAs, embedded computers in cameras, cars, or mobile phones, as well as high performance wearable computers and tablet PCs. Many of these devices are becoming essential tools that we rely on increasingly both in private and in professional settings. In addition ...

The recent years have seen explosive growth of research activities in the areas of life sciences, physical sciences and engineering with application to medical problems. Such activities require inter-disciplinary collaborations among scientists, engineers, medical researchers, and practitioners to solve complex real world problems. The collaboration between Circuits & Systems and Biotechnology will create innovative solutions for today's health problems and set new challenges for Circuits & Syst ...

Reading UK Biological Inspiration and Concept Integration for Smart Textiles, Biomaterials and Self-Assembly Wednesday 22 September – Friday 24 September 2004 The Ninth annual Biomimetics meeting will be held from Wednesday 22 September – Friday 24 September 2004 in the Gordon Lecture Theatre at the University of Reading. You are invited to attend, whether simply as a delegate, or by submitting a poster, or by making an appropriate presentation. Presentations should be on the theme of Biologic ...

Montreal, Quebec, Canada 7th Cansmart Meeting INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES Aim of Cansmart Promote the research, development and use of smart materials and structures in all possible applications in Canada; Regroup all the interested persons in the field from Industry, Consultants, Government, and Universities; Facilitate the acquisition and interchange of technical knowledge among its members; Establish contact groups for possible collaboration to promote ...

New York, New York The First ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences CARPE 2004 is the first ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences. This workshop will bring together researchers from around the world to share their findings and insights into this burgeoning field. This workshop will have not more than 30 participants, to insure lively interaction. Approximately nine papers will be presented, with preference given to papers ...

Las Vegas NV CCNC 2005 will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies such as middleware, multimedia and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, business application sessions, tutorials and poster sessions. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Topics includ ...

Shanghai, China CeBIT Asia is re-focusing on 3 major drivers for the Asian ICT industry: the working and business environment, the private users and the international focus on sourcing in Asia. Digital Work @ CeBIT Asia It covers the entire range of professional solutions for China's rapid growing economy: hardware, software & service - bringing complete solutions for not only to multinationals but also to SME's in urgent need for modernization of business processes and IT hardware. Digital W ...

New York NY CETEX (Consumer Electronics Trade Expo) is an exciting new focus for TECHXNY 2004 – New York’s Technology Week. It is a dedicated East Coast event for the consumer electronics industry that will bring together the resellers of CE products with the corporate customers who are also now embracing this technology. Consumer electronics is an ever-growing part of the technology industry and over the last year has seen a 3.5% increase in sales – with 2003 levels expected to top $95 billio ...

The Theme of the 15th CFP is Panopticon > Over time, and particularly recently, surveillance of ordinary citizens has increased to dramatic levels. Not only are governments watching more aspects of their citizens’ lives, but those in the private sector are increasing surveillance of people as well. Often lost in the race to “increase intelligence” are discussions about different approaches to address problems like the threat of terrorism that are equally or more effective, but do not involve ex ...

Tomar, Portugal From Clever Molecules to Smart Materials EuroConference Synthetic molecular level systems are becoming cleverer and cleverer. They can be designed to accept/donate electrons, react to external stimuli, change the relative positions of their component parts, undergo complex rearrangements and controlled intramolecular motions and generate changes in both macroscopic and molecular properties. But how do we go from sophisticated molecular structures to functional materials? Thi ...

Portland OR CHI 2005 will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, a city close to the Pacific Ocean and snow-covered Mount Hood. Our conference theme points at the challenge for technology to make people feel safe again, and to support a safe community worldwide. As the premier society of professionals in interactive systems, we are responsible for shaping a “safe” future. Recent events and developments have scared many people away from technology. For example, in parts of the world people are reluc ...

The Annual Gathering of the $915 Billion IT Industry Each November, technology buyers come to COMDEX to learn how best to use technology to solve business challenges. They get the big picture by seeing the spectrum of IT solutions in one place and gain the education and information necessary to make informed purchasing decisions. COMDEX is where hardware manufacturers, software vendors and service providers launch new products, where thought-leaders discuss industry trends, and where the medi ...

Gothenburg, Sweden COMDEX Scandinavia 2005 will integrate the following themes into the exhibition, educational programs, panel discussions, Keynotes, special sessions and other events taking place at the show. Business Intelligence Mobility & wireless Industrial IT IP telephoni Security Software Development Storage & hardware Exhibitor Information: COMDEX Scandinavia’s position as a pure B2B event guarantees a high quality buying audience for you as an exhibitor. Meet business partners, dis ...

New Delhi - India Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre componex/electronicIndia2005 A meeting place for the world’s electronics industry Seize the opportunity to enter the subcontinent's huge market of the future. Present your products and services to decision-makers from small, medium-sized and large companies that deal in components and production. Take part in com-ponex/electronicIndia 2005 and meet the professionals involved in specification and acquisition in the electronics sector. Sec ...

CADE 2004 (Computer in Art and Design Education) conference is an annual event that started in Great Britain in 1995. In 2004, CADE becomes bi-annual and goes European. Copenhagen will be the conference city, and Copenhagen Business School has the pleasure – together with Malmö University – to host the conference. The theme of the conference is: Interaction Design. Interaction design is still quite young and strives to position itself as a discipline and to formulate the relations to other disc ...

Ischia, Italy The increasing needs of present and future computation-intensive applications have stimulated research in new and innovative approaches to the design and implementation of high-performance computing systems. This challenging boundary between state of the art and innovation constitutes the computing frontiers, which needs to push forward and provide the computational support required for the advancement of all science domains and applications. This conference will focus on a wide s ...

Austin, Texas (International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis) World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Mobile / Wireless Computing CCCT ’04 is an International Conference that will bring together researchers, developers, practitioners, consultants and users of Computer, Communications and Control Technologies, with the aim to serve as a forum to present current and future work, solutions and problems in these fields, as well as in th ...

Cherbourg France COMPLEX SYSTEMS, INTELLIGENCE AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS CHERBOURG, SEPTEMBER 19-22 2004 Since the very early beginning of its existence, human kind has been confronted with the needs of designing adapted tools for his survival, and the more as he was more successful along an irresistible positive feedback loop. Nowadays where technology has been taking up for the last fifty years with an accelerated speed, the classical ''speculative'' (theory oriented) and ''contemp ...

New Orleans, LA CTIA WIRELESS 2005 is the only show that represents all technologies and platforms and tells the complete story of wireless. With the co-location of the 2005 Tower Summit show, we are proud to deliver a product, with your help, that is everything wireless: from the tower and infrastructure companies, which are the backbone of the industry, to the carriers and service providers to the end-user hardware manufacturers. The Wireless Home This 7000 square foot, larger than life, m ...

Saint Louis, Missouri You are cordially invited to participate in and attend the International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems to be held May 15-20, 2005 at the Adam¡¯s Mark Hotel in Saint Louis, Missouri. The symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaborative enterprises, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all ...

Orlando, Fl Defense, security and cockpit displays comprise visual, auditory, and haptic devices, electronics, and systems used by military warfighters, homeland security personnel, special operators, and cockpit crews. The emphasis is both on system engineering applications and newly proven science and technology. Display systems include integration with controls, sensors, communications, and processors. Military, security, and cockpit displays for defense, security, and vehicle operators pr ...

La Jolla CA If you were privy to tomorrow's wireless technology, you wouldn't use it against your competition - would you? DEMOmobile is the one conference where you'll be the first to see the latest wireless innovations. Hundreds of companies from around the world vie for the chance to launch here, but you'll only see the very best. Through the years, DEMOmobile has earned a reputation as being the singular event that consistently identifies technologies today, that will be ubiquitous tomorr ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil This is an extraordinary moment. We are more diverse now in ability and age than ever before. It is time for design to catch up. There is an urgent need to exchange ideas about the design of places, things, information, policies and programs that demonstrate the power of design to shape a 21st century world that works for all of us. Whatever you call it - universal design, inclusive design, design-for-all, lifespan design - the worldwide movement for human centered desig ...

Cambridge MA DIS2004 aims to facilitate, nurture and encourage the growth of a new community. This community has emerged in response to the opportunities and challenges presented by new and future interactive systems. DIS2004 is the premier multiple discipline conference and builds on the four previous DIS conferences: 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2002. DIS2004 will embrace the diversity of interests in this new community, crossing the spectrum of contributing disciplines including business, technolog ...

New York NY The Digital Life Comes to Life! It's a whole new digital world out there. New technologies are popping up every day, transforming how consumers learn, communicate and play. Millions will establish long-term brand and buying preferences, but will your brand earn their loyalty? Thanks to DigitalLife, it can! DigitalLife 2004 is an unprecedented four-day event that connects technology companies, consumers and the press, giving them an up-close-and-personal look at your products. And ...

Cambridge, MA DIS2004 aims to facilitate, nurture and encourage the growth of a new community. This community has emerged in response to the opportunities and challenges presented by new and future interactive systems. DIS2004 is the premier multiple discipline conference and builds on the four previous DIS conferences: 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2002. DIS2004 aims to: Find new ways for professionals in different disciplines to share and learn from each other and create new models for working toget ...

University of York UK Technology is now as much about leisure and socialising as it is about work and productivity. Cognitive ergonomics has accordingly become increasingly concerned with how people enjoy, live and work with technology in their daily lives. The main theme of ECCE-12, ‘Living and Working with Technology’, is intended to reflect these changes. Aware of the complexity involved in understanding this theme ECCE-12 wants to encourage dialogue among the diverse disciplines that c ...

The 9th IFIP Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction Jointly with The 11th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems Tremsbüttel Castle, Hamburg, Germany, July 11-13, 2004 EHCI-DSVIS 2004 is a working conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, specification and verification, and on examining the relationships between ...

Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 31 - November 3, 2004 Arlington, VA General Chair:Tom Martin, Virginia Tech (tlmartin @ vt.edu) ISWC 2004, the eighth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and all other interested parties to share information and advances in wearable computing. We invite you to attend ISWC 2004 and submit to one or more of t ...

ECWC 10 is the Technical Conference for IPC Printed Circuits Expo, APEX and Designers Summit 2005 February 22-24, 2005• Anaheim, California The Electronic Circuits World Convention is a forum for the exchange of technical and management research and innovation for the electronics manufacturing industry. Globally, the industry is now attaching importance to ecological and environmental concerns. Design disciplines now address both manufacturing issues as well as end of life disassembly. Euro ...

Orlando, FL Event Description: Electronic House Expo is the leading trade show and conference of the $15 billion connected home industry. Held twice annually, the EHX trade show floor and conference program provide an invaluable forum for information exchange, education and new product demonstrations from leading manufacturers and service providers across the entire connected home spectrum of home networking, automation, entertainment, and security. EHX, produced by EH Events & Education and ...

San Jose, California Conference Chairs: Reiner Creutzburg, Fachhochschule Brandenburg (Germany); Jarmo Takala, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland) Program Committee: Barry A. T. Brown, Univ. of Glasgow (United Kingdom); Alan Chalmers, Univ. of Bristol (United Kingdom); Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame; Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology; Ken Crisler, Motorola; David S. Doermann, Univ. of Maryland/College Park; Uwe Dummann, Siemens, AG (Germany); Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, ...

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia It is a significant opportunity to take stock of the latest developments, strategies and technologies shaping the nature of present and future operations. With senior military personnel, managers and defence planners attending, EW 2004 is an excellent platform for sharing of information with regards to the opportunities on the various technology options as well as systems available for the Asia Pacific region. Moreover, the event will bring together the providers of EW and ...

Shanghai Event Description: electronicaChina International Trade Fair for Components, Assemblies and Photonic Technologies China's leading fair for components and communciation platfrom for the electronics industry As the leading fair for components in China, electronicaChina provides you with everything that a special fair has to offer. And at the same time, it is more than a special fair. Because electronicaChina integrates key ranges such as Power Electronics, Display Technology and Mobile ...

Munich Germany Connecting people and markets Rapidly growing applications with strong target groups Focusing on dynamic application sectors attracts new target groups to electronica for you and adds a new level of quality to existing visitor interest. The "Automotive Innovation", "World of MEMS" and new "Wireless Communications" user forums as well as the specialist trade fair "Embedded in Munich" combine lecture arenas with exhibition space where you can present your solutions in a comprehe ...

Anaheim, California Electronics West's several hundred exhibitors will present the full array of electronic components, subassemblies, software, and contract services used in the design and manufacture of electronic devices. Below are some of the most requested products and services that will be featured at the show. Active Components Lamps/LCDs/LEDs Back Panels MCMs Backplanes & Enclosures Mechanical Components Board-Level Products Membrane Switches/Graphic Overlays Buzzers/Chokes/C ...

San Francisco, CA The Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco is an annual event focused on existing, new, and emerging technologies for software and hardware engineers in the embedded systems industry. The technical conference features practical classes on embedded development, and the product exhibits feature leading vendors of microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSPs, development tools, real-time operating systems, emulators, networking tools, embedded Internet tools, and debuggers. Exhibi ...

Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai, China Take your solutions to China, the fastest growing market for embedded technologies Growth in China's electronics industry is consistently outpacing the rest of the world. As the functions of data processing, communications and consumer electronics technologies converge, designers will be working more and more frequently with embedded systems. ESC-China lets you demonstrate your products to potential end users face-to-face. The event is a great way to con ...

New Delhi India Innovations proliferate at every phase of the textile supply chain, from polymer production to final finished fabrics. The main drivers of change and innovation in textiles are: consumer demands for comfort and performance, advanced technologies influencing product and process innovations, ecological concerns and compliance with eco-regulations, safety, health and aesthetics. In the development of fibres, yarns and fabrics, functional aspects such as anti-bacterial, anti-stati ...

Hyderabad, India Enabling Technologies for Smart Devices Appliances and devices are at the cutting-edge of technological development pushed by human application and convenience desires. Human utility of devices requires high degree of customization while providing for a basic functionality Well-designed appliances are expected to have a functional variety that adapts according to the external environment also working seamlessly with other applications and device contexts. To bring togeth ...

Embedded and Ubiquitous computing are emerging rapidly as exciting new paradigms and disciples to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere. Its systems are now invading every aspect of life to the point that they are disappearing inside all sorts of appliances or can be worn unobtrusively as part of clothing and jewelry etc. This emergence is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireles ...

Heidelberg, Germany The continuing evolution of telecommunications and information services is delivering the technology to fulfil the promise of omnipresent services and applications, which facilitate the users’ everyday activities. Pervasive computing and ubiquitous services have been an intense research issue over the last years. In order to exploit the potential of ubiquitous services and applications it is necessary to consider them from an end-to-end perspective. Today, many technologies ...

Eindhoven The Netherlands Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by electronic environments, sensitive and responsive to people. Ambient intelligence technologies are expected to combine concepts of ubiquitous computing and intelligent systems putting humans in the centre of technological developments. Ambient Intelligence represents a long-term objective for European research bringing together researchers across multiple disciplines: computer scienc ...

Washington DC For 28 years, FOSE has served the federal civilian, military and local government professional community as the trusted resource for cutting-edge innovations in technology and comprehensive education. And FOSE 2004 was our best FOSE ever! FOSE 2004 brought you: Over 300 new products from 511 exhibitors Keynote Addresses from the CEO's of Cisco Systems Inc, Sun Microsystems Inc, Accenture and Siebel Systems, Inc. FREE Educational Sessions from Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and ...

Plymouth, UK We invite you to participate in the International Network Conference 2004, to be held in Plymouth, UK, from 6 - 9 July 2004. This conference, the fourth in a series of biennial events, will bring together leading figures from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest advances in networking technologies from research and commercial perspectives. INC events have always attracted an international audience and papers on a wide range of topics. INC 2002 included 72 papers ...

Ann Arbor, MI Event Description: The 2005 FuturTech Conference will be held on Thursday, January 27 and Friday, January 28. FuturTech is the University of Michigan’s premier technology conference, providing a forum for students and industry practitioners to discuss the intersection of business and technology. This year’s event, “Competing and Living in a World Transformed by Technology,” will explore technology’s continued impact on both business and society. Keynote Speakers: - Linda Dillman, ...

Suntec Singapore New Opportunities & Key Drivers in the Asia Pacific Electronics Industry The GlobalTRONICS Summit 2004 (GS2004) is a gathering of senior executives (CEOs and Directors) to examine future directions in the Electronics industry. It is an exclusive Summit for Electronics decision-makers to identify the hottest technology trends and position their company for success. Featuring industry analysts and investors, CEOs of pacesetting Electronics companies, and thought leaders in the ...

Anaheim, California The 2005 Government Convention on Emerging Technologies: Next Generation Methods and Tools will take place on January 10-12 in Anaheim, California. This Convention will provide a unique forum for representatives from federal, state, and local governments, along with the private sector to discuss and evaluate IT solutions that are currently being used in the War on Terrorism, as well as future technologies that need to be deployed to help prevent terrorist attacks. Interactive product demonstrations will be held throughout this Conference. For more information, please call 888-603-8899.

Leeds Metropolitan University, UK The 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 6-10 September 2004 Join researchers, practitioners and educators from around the world at HCI2004 where we will be exploring the theme of Design for Life. As designers, evaluators and implementers of interactive systems we have great responsibility. The systems we design impact upon the lives of the people who use them - for good or ill. Design for Life has many facets. It is des ...

Las Vegas NV You are cordially invited to participate in HCI International 2005 and the affiliated conferences which are jointly held under one management and one registration. The conference objective is to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of HCI, usability, internationalization, virtual reality, universal access and cognitive ergonomics. This will be accomplished through the following six mod ...

Dallas TX Welcome to HIMSS 2005! The Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition is the one must-attend event in the healthcare IT industry and this year’s conference is set to offer even more value. With keynotes by Christopher Reeve, Bill Clinton and Scott McNealy, 200+ education sessions, 700+ exhibitors featuring new products, cutting-edge interoperability demonstrations, a schedule packed with networking opportunities, and more, HIMSS 2005 is the only place where you can join 18,000 of your pee ...

San Diego, CA USA The Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-III, will bring together researchers in the networking and distributed systems community to debate emerging research directions. The goal of the workshop is to promote community-wide discussion of ideas that will influence and foster continued research in the field. The workshop will provide a venue for researchers to present new ideas that have the potential to significantly impact the community in the long term, especiall ...

Avila, Spain The IADIS e-Society 2004 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment / eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas Conference Official Language: English. Conference contact: es2004@iadis.org

Madrid, Spain The IADIS WWW/Internet 2004 Conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Conference Official Language: English. Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limi ...

Krabi, Thailand SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on Communications CONFERENCE CHAIRS Dr. M.H. Hamza – IASTED, Canada Dr. P. Prapinmonkolkarn – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Dr. T. Angkaew – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand PURPOSE The IASTED International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems will act as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and pra ...

The International Conference on Wireless Networks and Emerging Technologies (WNET 2004), sponsored by IASTED, will be a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research, results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of telecommunication systems, with emphasis on wireless and optical communications. Its aim is to strengthen relations between the telecommunications industry, research laboratories, and universities. WNET ...

Singapore The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) will be hosting the International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2005) from 9th May to 12th May 2005 in Singapore. The focus of ICCSA 2005 is in the realms of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and their applications to large scale complex research problems. ICCSA 2005 also offers the opportunity to discuss probl ...

Tokyo Japan Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The ICDE 2005 International Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for: sharing research solutions to problems of today's information society exposing practicing engineers to evolving research, tools, and practices and providing them with an early opportuni ...

Miami, Fl The purpose of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Five simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including Enterprise Database Technology, Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and ...

Multimodal and perceptual interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research direction, involving spoken language understanding, natural language understanding, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, experimental psychology, etc. They aim at efficient, convenient and natural interaction and communication between computers and human users. Multimodal interfaces will ultimately enable users to interact with computers using everyday skills. The Sixth International Confer ...

American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon Pervasive computing and services are emerging as the next computing paradigm in which infrastructure and services are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This exciting new paradigm is the result of recent research and technological advances in wireless & sensor networks, mobile & agent computing, autonomic computing & services, and active networks. The 2004 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2004) is ...

Saint-Malo, France June 26-July 1, 2004 Saturday, june 26 Workshop 1: First International Workshop on Operating Systems, Programming Environments and Management Tools for High-Performance Computing on Clusters Workshop 2: Workshop on Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications

St. Louis, Missouri Software Everywhere Software permeates every aspect of our society—at home and at work, in business and for pleasure, to support our daily chores, and to plan and manage our future. We increasingly expect it to be available, reliable, safe, secure, and usable, despite our own mobility, unpredictability, and changing needs. The development of such software poses increasing challenges for software engineering teams, who are themselves distributed, perhaps mobile, have varied ...

Abu Dhabi UAE – The Place of Action Ideally situated to host an event of that magnitude, UAE is recognized as a gateway between the East and the West and offers an ultra-modern infrastructure unrivalled in the region. Abu Dhabi, the Capital City of UAE is a mixture of the modern and the traditional – sporting a spectacular skyline amid sunny coastlines, the best recreational facilities, hotels and resorts with all the modern amenities. Referred by many as ‘the Manhattan of the Gulf’, the city ...

Nagoya, Japan The 2004 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science will be held in City of Nagoya from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, 2004. The major focus of this symposium will be placed on strategic initiatives for the promotion of micromechatronics and human science technologies, such that promoting new fields may lead rapidly to medical, industrial, and toother applications. Technological innovations as well as R&D topics will receive intensive discussion. Participants will be enc ...

San Francisco, CA The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field. HPCA-11, the eleventh in the series of International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, will be held in San Francisco, California, Feb. 12-16, 2005. * Processor architectures * Cache and memory systems * Parallel computer architectures * I ...

Miami, FL The major conference on computer communications and networking is celebrating its 24th anniversary at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Miami. The conference will bring researchers and practitioners of every aspect of digital communications and networks together to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks Performance evaluation Addressing & location management Power control Mobility Models and Systems Pricing & billing Cellula ...

Seoul Korea On behalf of the ICC 2005 Executive Committee, I am pleased to invite you to the 40th annual IEEE International Conference on Communications, which will be held in Seoul, Korea during 16-20 May 2005. Today, the major trend of telecommunication networks and services is ‘convergence’ and ‘seamless provision.’ Reflecting this trend, we chose ‘towards the era of ubiquitous networks’ as the theme of ICC 2005. Under this theme, ICC 2005 will feature the latest developments in tel ...

IEEE PerCom 2005 will be the third annual conference on the emerging area of pervasive computing and communications aimed at providing an exciting platform and paradigm for all the time, everywhere services. This emergence is a natural outcome of the tremendous advances in wireless networks, mobile computing, sensor networks, distributed computing, and agent technologies. PerCom 2005 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present their latest resea ...

The Hague, The Netherlands Location: The 2004 SMC conference will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, at the Netherlands Congress Center. Three excellent hotels are in walking distance of the Center. The Hague is seat to the Netherlands Government, home to a variety of international organizations, and offers a wide selection of cultural attractions. The city is within easy reach from Amsterdam, and offers good surface connections to Paris and London. Access to The Hague is easy through Amster ...

New Orleans LA WCNC 2005 will once again be co-located with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s premier tradeshow CTIA WIRELESS 2005. WCNC 2005 will continue its tradition of offering the best and most current tutorials, research results, and industry-oriented technical contents and perspectives on wireless communications and networks/systems. To ensure complete coverage of advances in wireless communication and networking technologies for the current and future systems, WC ...

Atlanta GA The IFAC Symposium will focus on Human-Machine Systems (HMS), Human Machine Interactions (HMI), and Human-Computer Interactions (HCI). Researchers and developers from both academia and industry are invited to meet to exchange ideas and present reports on new hardware and/or software advances. The Symposium will be held at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center at Technology Square, a state-of-the-art meeting and accommodation facility that combines all the amenities and modern technologies of tomorrow with a prime midtown Atlanta location.

Pittsburgh PA IFAI Expo 2004 participants will have easy access to more than 500 companies displaying industry-comprehensive products and services. You also can select from more than 120 educational programs designed to meet your business needs. More than 8,500 participants representing every corner of the global specialty fabrics marketplace will attend IFAI Expo 2004: Agriculture Air and Tension Structures Athletics/Sports Awnings and Canopies Banners/Flags Bags/Luggage Construc ...

Zurich, Switzerland IFAWC will provide a snapshot of cutting edge research in the application of wearable computers. To this end original contributions are sought in relevant areas including (but not limited to): Industrial case studies Specific applications and their evaluation Wearable computer systems Sensors and sensor networks Activity and context recognition User interfaces Middleware Development tools Integration technologies including textile electronics Social aspects

Lisbon Objective In the past decade, technological developments in material and computer sciences have evolved to the point where their synergistic combination have culminated in a new field of multidisciplinary research in smart materials and structures, systems and related technologies. The advances in material sciences have provided a comprehensive and theoretical framework for implementing multifunctionality into materials, and the development of high speed digital computers has permitted ...

Jakarta Indonesia Aims & Scope At the core of the information revolution brought by the Web is the ability to effectively and efficiently share and exchange information virtually with anyone anytime anywhere. Yet, it is very hard to keep up to date with the ever-increasing sophistication of the tools and techniques available at the dawn of the 21st century for building the future information society. Industrial, commercial, educational, and information society institutions and organization ...

Nice, France The Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005) will be held 15-19 May 2005 in Nice, France. IM 2005 will present the latest technical advances in the area of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989 and taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS, IM 2005 will build on the successes of its predecessors and serve as the primary ...

General Chair: Program Chair: Dave Saums DS&A Thermal Newburyport MA USA dsaums@dsa-thermal.com Tel: 978-499-4990 David Copeland Fujitsu Laboratories Sunnyvale CA USA copeland@fla.fujitsu.com Tel: 408-530-4693 This workshop is organized each year by IMAPS to promote discussion of leading-edge developments in thermal management components, materials, and systems solutions for removing, spreading, and dissipating heat from microelectronic devices and systems. The Workshop emphasis ...

Las Vegas, NV, The International Conference on Information Systems- New Generations (ISNG) is an annual event primarily focusing on information systems and architectures. The applications of advanced information technology to such specific domains as astronomy, biology, education, geosciences, and health care are among topics of relevance to ISNG. Prototypes, designs, and tools that help the information readily flow to the user are of special interest.The conference is being held in conjunction ...

Budapest, Hungary Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2004) is the fourth International conference that brings together international computational intelligence/ soft computing / artificial Intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners, and users. The aim of ISDA'04 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. ISDA'04 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current rese ...

Rome, Italy The Interact '05 conference will highlight to both the academic and industrial world the importance of the Human-Computer Interaction area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: - Multi-modal Interfaces - Context-dependent Systems - End User Development - Intelligent Environments - Tangible Interfaces - Novel User Interfaces - Usability Evaluation - Location-aware Interaction - Model-based Design of Interactive Systems - Multi-user Interaction - Safety Issues and Human error - Cognitive Models - Visualisation Techniques - Web Design and Usability - Ubiquitous Computing

Saint-Petersburg, Russia Dear Colleague, We are inviting you to participate in the International conference and exhibition "Fibrous materials - XXI century" that will be held in Saint-Petersburg - one of the most beautiful cities of the world, north capital of Russia. The International conference is devoted to the state-of-the-art and the future prospect of fibers and fibrous materials (textile, compound materials and composites), scientific and technical aspects of their technology, structur ...

Istanbul, Turkey Aim The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the industry and academia and provide them a platform to report on recent developments on computational intelligence,hybrid intelligent systems, automation, control and robotics, modelling, simulation and optimization in electrical, electronics,communication,computer engineering and related fields. Topics The International Conference on Computational Intelligence will be held in Istanbul, ...

The International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) is soliciting technical papers for oral and poster presentation at ICCE 2005. ICCE is an annual even sponsored by the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, with authors and attendees from around the world. The scope of the conference includes all aspects of equipment that is owned or leased by consumers, including entertainment, communication, appliances, recording, music and home office. Papers on new equipment, system concepts, method ...

International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2004 provides a medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of intelligent agent, web technologies and Internet commerce . The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and Internet commerce. Conference Topics Inclu ...

Osaka, Japan Definition and wide application of mechatronics "Mechatronics" is the technology or engineering which was originated in Japan and has been rapidly developed for the last 2 or 3 decades. Needless to say, the industrial robot which is a typical example of "mechatronics product" can be found in every field today. The mechatronics products are listed as follows: intelligent engine and cruise control systems for automobiles; intelligent household electric appliances such as computer co ...

Welcome to the International Conference Series on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies website. Here you will find all the information for the upcoming ICDVRAT 2004 conference, 20-22 September 2004, plus archive information from previous ICDVRAT conferences, including full conference proceedings. If you have any questions or comments, please see the contact details page. Call for Papers Deadline for submission: 31st January 2004 For further details about Topics, Publication ...

Miami, Fl Workshop Background and Goals The development and availability of new computing and communication devices, and the increased connectivity between these devices, thanks to wired and wireless networks, are enabling new opportunities for people to perform their operations anywhere and anytime. Furthermore, due to the high acceptance rate of such devices by the user community, it is expected that these devices will become so pervasive that most users will take them for granted. General ...

The last decade has witnessed a rapid surge of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices for healthcare and the use of wearable/wireless devices for clinical applications. One key development in this area is implantable in vivo monitoring and intervention devices. While the problem of long-term stability and biocompatibility is being addressed, several promising prototypes are starting to emerge for managing patients with acute diabetes, for treatment of epilepsy and other debilitating neur ...

WHAT IS IPDPS? IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. In addition to technical sessions of submitted paper presentations, the meeting offers workshops, tutorials, an industrial track, and commercial exhibits. IPDPS represents a unique international gathering of computer scientists from around the world. Now, more than ever, we prize this annual meeting as a testament to the strength of international cooperation in seeking to apply computer science technology to the betterment of our global village.

Chengdu, Jiuzhaigou,China Driven by the continuous growth in the power, intelligence and openness of computer, communication and control technologies, possibilities and opportunities for realizing highly efficient and dependable business and control systems have been steadily increasing. Dynamically changing social and economic situations demand next-generation systems based on emerging technologies and applications. Such systems are expected to have the characteristics of living systems compos ...

Arlington, VA In the last decade Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have evolved from being experimental technologies to mainstream research activities that are starting to show impact on industry and society. By their very nature, MR and AR are highly interdisciplinary fields involving signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, distributed computing, information access, information v ...

Denver CO Convention Overview ISR Transformation will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the United States Department of Defense related to the transformation of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, especially the closer integration of ISR and operations and the emerging role of USSTRATCOM in global ISR. We will not debate the merits of military transformation, but rather, examine the implications of the changes for ISR and the evolving implementation of new ...

IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference San Francisco, CA The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is the foremost global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and Systems-on-a-Chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design to maintain technical currency, and to network with leading experts. Next Event ISSCC 2005 February 6-10, 2005 San Francisco Marriott Hotel San Francisco, CA

ISWC '04 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 31 - November 3, 2004 in Arlington, VA Invitation ISWC 2004, the eighth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and all other interested parties to share information and advances in wearable computing. We invite you to attend ISWC 2004 and submit to one or more of the following categories: papers, post ...

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Pervasive computing has evolved during the last few years due to recent developments in portable low-cost light-weight devices and emergent short range, and low-power wireless communication networks. Pervasive computing environments focus on integrating computing and communications with the surrounding physical environment of day by day lives to making computing and communication transparent to the users. In pervasive computing, numerous, casually accessible, often inv ...

San Diego, California IUI 2005 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. San Diego, California | January 9 - 12, 2005 Intelligent user interfaces enhance the interaction of humans with technology through the use of models of domains, tasks, communication media, users, and discourse. Lying within the intersection of human-computer interaction a ...

Munich, Germany MATERIALICA 2004 - the marketplace for product engineering The trade fair for product engineering and the use of all materials in all sectors The community gathering for developers, engineers and designers The marketplace with materials and processes for innovative products MATERIALICA is a new type of industry-oriented trade fair and more than just a product exhibition: MATERIALICA is a community gathering for product engineering in Europe. It promotes dialog between ...

Tunis, Tunisia International conference on Mobile Ad Hoc Ubiquitous Systems and Services MAUSS2005 will be the conference on the new and rapidly growing area of ubiquitous and pervasive computing for Ad Hoc Systems and Mobile Services. This area develops new paradigms, approaches and technologies to provide ad hoc applications and services everywhere and with a pervasive customized up to date environment and services facing users diversity of profiles and expectations.Requested AV equipment: O ...

Toulouse, France MAUSS2005 will be the conference on the new and rapidly growing area of ubiquitous and pervasive computing for Ad Hoc Systems and Mobile Services. This area develops new paradigms, approaches and technologies to provide ad hoc applications and services everywhere and with a pervasive customized up to date environment and services facing users diversity of profiles and expectations.Requested AV equipment: Overhead project, computer with projection capability and Internet connect ...

MD&M East will feature every category of Medical Design & Manufacturing: Outsourcing/Contract Manufacturing Discuss your particular specifications and requirements with contract service providers from product design and development through manufacturing and distribution—and everything in between, including R&D, materials sourcing, CAD/CAE/RPT, CNC machining, packaging, sterilization, plastics processing, QA/QC/test, regulatory compliance, and more. Assembly Equipment and Production Machine ...

MECHATRONICS & ROBOTICS 2004 is an international conference on industrial applications of electronics, control, mechatronics, robotics, vision and sensors, signal processing, instrumentation, automation, artificial intelligence, computer networks and emerging technologies. The objectives of the conference are to provide high quality research and professional interactions for the advancement of science, technology, and fellowship. Papers with new research results are encouraged for submission. ...

Luxexpo, Luxembourg Med-e-Tel focuses on ehealth and telemedicine applications and a wide range of other medical ICT applications and on the convergence of information and communication technology with medical applications, which lead to higher quality of care,