FutureTech 2012 - The 7th International Conference on Future Information Technology

[FutureTech 2012 Call for Papers] - Working Draft


The 7th FTRA International Conference on

Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)

http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2012

Vancouver, Canada, 26-28 June 2012


Published by Springer-LNEE (EI and SCOPUS Index)


** Important Notices **

[Important Date]
Submission due: December 15, 2011

Conference Proceedings will be included in the conference proceedings published by
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

[Special Issues]
All accepted and presented papers in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions,
will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:
- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
- International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing - Inderscience (SCIE)
- Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), Springer
- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence - Inderscience
- Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing
- Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS)





Introduction

Future technology information technology would stand for all of
continuously evolving and converging information technologies, including
digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent applications,
embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications, bio-inspired
computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web, user experience and
HCI, secuity and trust computing and so on, for satisfying our
ever-changing needs.

In past twenty five years or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced
and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures. Without various
IT-based applications, we would find it difficult to keep information
stored securely, to process information efficiently, and to communicate
information conveniently. In the future world, IT will play a very
important role in convergence of computing, communication, and all other
computational sciences and application and IT also will influence the
future world's various areas, including science, engineering, industry,
business, law, politics, culture, medicine, and so on.
Our conference is intended to foster the dissemination of
state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their
models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization.

FutureTech 2012 is the next edition of FutureTech 2011(Crete, Greece), FutureTech 2010 (Busan, Korea,
May 2010) which was the next event in a series of highly successful the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Applications & Security Services
(UASS-09, USA, Jan. 2009), previously held as UASS-08 (Okinawa, Japan,Mar. 2008), UASS-07 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August, 2007), and UASS-06
(Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May, 2006).


TOPICS (included, but are not limited to)


* Track 1. Hybrid Information Technology

* Track 2. High Performance Computing

* Track 3. Cloud and Cluster Computing

* Track 4. Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications

* Track 5. Digital Convergence

* Track 6. Multimedia Convergence

* Track 7. Intelligent and Pervasive Applications

* Track 8. Security and Trust Computing

* Track 9. IT Management and Service

* Track 10. Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing

* Track 11. Database and Data Mining

* Track 12. Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent

* Track 13. Game and Graphics

* Track 14. Human-centric Computing and Social Networks


SUBMISSION and Publicatoions

There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a paper with 6-8 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows.
- Full Paper: 8 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
- Poster Paper: 2 pages (FTRA Publishing Proceeding with ISBN)

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available here:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-...)

Submission system: http://www.editorialsystem.net/futuretech2012

All papers accepted and presented in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals (TBA) :
- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
- International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing - Inderscience (SCIE)
- Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), Springer
- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence - Inderscience
- Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA
- Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS)


Important Dates


Paper Submission deadline : December 15, 2011
Acceptacne Notification : February 28, 2012
Camera-ready Due : March 15, 2012
Registration Due : March 15, 2012
Conference Dates : June 26-28, 2012



ORGANIZATION (TBA)

==Steering Chairs==
James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA

==General Chairs==
C.S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA
*Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
*Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada

==General Vice Chair==
*Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea

==Program Chairs ==
*Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
*Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

==Program Vice-Chairs: 14 Tracks==
//They will be invited by Genearl/Program Chairs

==Workshop Chairs ==
Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK
Min Chen, Seoul National University, Korea
Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA
*Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

==Advisory Committee==
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Jack J. Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Han-Chieh,Chao National Ilan University, Taiwan
Waleed W. Smari, University of Dayton, USA
Doug Tygar, University of California Berkeley, USA
Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan

==Publicity Chairs==
Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada
Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA
Deqing Zou, HUST, China
Louis Marinos, ENISA, EU
Hae Young Lee, ETRI, Korea
Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

==International Liaison Chairs==
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA
Serge Chaumette, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France
Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Central Police University, Taiwan

==Local Arrangement Chairs==
Mahsa Pourazad , University of British Columbia, Canada
Farshid Agharebparast , University of British Columbia, Canada


Call for Workshop Proposals

Several workshops will be held in conjunction with FutureTech 2012 with the aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists,
engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on Future Information Technology.
Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome. Please send a workshop proposal by November 1, 2010 to Workshop Co-chairs.

Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:
If a workshop were organized successfully, the organizer (1 organizer per 1 workshop) will get:

* At least 10 papers registration: Free 1 registration

* At least 20 papers registration: Free 2 registration

==Important Dates==
Oct. 1, 2011 Workshop Proposal Submission Due
Oct. 31, 2011 Workshop Acceptance Notification
March 15, 2012 Camera-ready paper due
June 26-28, 2012 Workshop/Conference events




CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information regarding the symposium and paper submission,
please contact to: Profs. James Park (parkjonghyuk1-AT-hotmail.com) and TS Shon (taeshik.ftra-AT-gmail.com).