The 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems
(NBiS-2009)
http://www.takilab.org/conf/nbis/2009/

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN, USA, August 19-21, 2009

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: March 15, 2009
Authors Notification: May 1, 2009
Author Registration: June 1, 2009
Final Manuscript: June 5, 2009
Conference dates: August 19-21, 2009

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SCOPE
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The International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS)
started as an International workshop in 1998, which was held in Vienna, Austria
in conjunction with DEXA International Conference. From 1998, NBiS had been held
successfully every year and high quality papers are presented. After
the 9-th NBiS,
which was held at Krakow, Porland in 2006, NBiS was promoted to an
International Conference
and the 10-th NBiS was held in Regensburg, Germany in 2007 as
International Conference.
NBIS is becoming a very important event for network research community
and is improved every year in quality and quantity.
This year the 12th NBiS will be held at Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis
Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA, from August 19 to August 21, 2009.

The main objective of NBiS is to bring together researchers from both network
systems and information systems with the aim of encouraging the exchange of
ideas and experience between these two communities. It will represent an
international forum to give an overview of the most recent trends.

In the past decade, our network infrastructure has undergone radical changes.
It has evolved from a small number of interconnected computer networks to a
global socio-technical infrastructure, where people communicate and interact
spontaneously in cyber space and with the cyber physical world, create content
and share knowledge over a network of heterogeneous networks. In the future,
global society will increasingly rely on socio-technical networks designed
in harmony with societal values and economic viability, with enhanced security,
privacy, resilience, availability and manageability, and the ability to
incorporate as yet unforeseen technologies, applications and services.

Future networks should be available anytime and anywhere, be accessible
from any communication device, require little or no management overhead,
be resilient to failures and malicious attacks, and be trustworthy for
all types of communication. They must be able to evolve over time to
incorporate new technologies, support new classes of applications, and
meet new requirements and challenges. They also need to accommodate growth
and unforeseen changes across many dimensions, including traffic load,
network size and topology, physical link characteristics, different
types of applications, and heterogeneity, without significant
performance degradation.

The conference scope ranges from home networks with numerous "smart" appliances
to enterprise networks, core networks, and application-level networks.
The NBiS seeks original contributions in all relevant areas, including but not
limited to the following topics.

Topics of interest
-Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
-Communication Networks and Protocols
-Databases and Data Mining
-Grid Infrastructures
-P2P Overlay Networks and Applications
-Scheduling, Resource Discovery and Allocation
-JXTA-based Applications
-Web and Internet Applications
-Ubiquitous Computing Applications
-Pervasive Computing and Applications
-Multimedia Systems and Applications
-Autonomic Computing
-Distributed Object-Oriented Systems
-Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
-Sensor Networks
-Ad Hoc Networks
-Sensor and Actor Networks
-High-Speed Networks
-Routing Algorithms
-Interoperable Systems
-Electronic Commerce
-Network Security and Privacy
-Intelligent Information Systems
-Distance Learning Systems
-eBusiness

For further information, please contact the NBiS-2009 General Co-chairs.

Prof. Makoto Takizawa
Seikei University, Japan
makoto.takizawa@st.seikei.ac.jp

Prof. Leonard Barolli
Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan
barolli@fit.ac.jp

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submit a full paper not more than eight pages (IEEE Computer Society
proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced), including
figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page.
You can find instructions for authors how to format the IEEE CS
proceedings Manuscripts, at the following web page:

http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/

Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and submit it
electronically to the NBiS-2009 web page:

http://www.takilab.org/conf/nbis/2009/

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting
the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

Proceedings of the Workshops will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press. Presented papers at NBiS-2009 will be considered for
publication in several Special Issues in International Journals.

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NBiS-2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Conference Chairs
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan

Program Committee Chairs
Arjan Durresi, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA
Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan

Workshop Chairs:
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Tomoya Enokido, Risho University, Japan

Area Chairs:

Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Systems
Rajeev Raje, IUPUI, USA

Communication Networks and Protocols
Vamsi Paruchuri, University of Central Arkansas, USA

Databases and Data Mining
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Grid, P2P Networks and Applications
Sriram Chellappan, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA

Web and Internet Applications
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Applications
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada

Multimedia Systems and Applications
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

Wireless Networks
Mukul Goyal, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

Network Security and Privacy
Qijun Gu, Texas State University at San Marcos, USA
Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan

Intelligent Information Systems
Salvatore Vitabile, Palermo University, Italy

Distance Learning Systems
Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Biocomputing
Shiaofen Fang, IUPUI, USA
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan

International Liaison Chair:
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Publicity Chair
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan

Local Arrangement Chair
Xukai Zou, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

Web Administrator
Alisher Akber, Sekei University, Japan


PC Members

Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan
Alex Delis, Polytechnic Univ., USA
Alex Liu, Fresno State University, USA
Andrei Doncesku, University Paul Sabatier, France
Atanasi Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Barrett Bryant, Univ of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Bhed Bahadur Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Brian King, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Chu-Sing Yang, National Su Yut-Sen Univ., Taiwan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia Univiversity, Canada
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Fumiaki Sato, Toho University, Japan
Fei Cao, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Feng Wang, Eurecom, France
Giuseppe De Marco, Toyota Institute of Technology, Japan
Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA
Gurdip Singh, Kansas State Univ, USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Hai Wang, Penn State University Worthington Scranton, USA
Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan
Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Ivica Boticki, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Javier Carmona, Murillo University of Extremadura, Spain
Jinn-Ke Jan, National Chung Hsing Univesity, Taiwan
Jongwon Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Josep Jorba, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Jeff Gray, Univ of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK
Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA
Markus Aleksy, ABB AG Corporate Research Center, Germany
Michel Raynal, IRISA-INRIA, France
Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
Misbah Deen, Keele Univ., England, UK
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Mohammad S. Alam, University of South Alabama, USA
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Muhammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Meng Yu, Western Illinois University, USA
Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Nicola Zannone, University of Toronto, Canada
Nikolay N. Mirenkov, The University of Aizu, Japan
Nobuyoshi Sato, Toyo University, Japan
Philip Moore, Birmingham City University, UK
Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany
Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Labs, USA
Shi-Min Hu, Tsinghua University, China
Su-Shing Chen, University of Florida, USA
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Tao Tao, IBM Corporation, USA
Tarek Sheltami, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan
Umesh Bellur, IIT-Mumbai, India
Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia
Wanyu Zang, Western Illinois University, USA
Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Xavi Vilajosana, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Xiao Chen, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia
Yinsheng Li, Fudan University, China
Yoshiaki Hori, Kyushu University, Japan
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Yukiko Kawai, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Zhen Jiang, West Chester University, USA