codata 2010 - 22nd CODATA International Conference 2010

The paper size of the abstract should be 21*29.5cm (A4) with a margin of 3cm on the top and bottom and 2.5cm on the right and left. The abstract should be formatted using "Times New Roman" font throughout, single-spaced paragraphs, capitalized titles using 14 pt. type, and 12 pt. type for the body text. The abstract should be submitted as a ".doc" file attachment.

Submit your abstract by email on or before 30 April 2010.

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Interested companies and universities are invited to participate in the Exhibition of different distributed computing applications for science and technology (physics, geophysics, biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, weather forecasting and calculation of climatic changes etc). If interested in exhibiting, please contact the CODATA Secretariat at codata-AT-dial.oleane.com

Conference Topics :
Scientific Data for Sustainable Development
Information society and innovations
Data sources, criteria, and models for sustainable development
New directions in international scientific data coordination: the role of ICSU and its interdisciplinary bodies
Building a community of data scientists: promise and pitfalls
Preservation of and access to scientific & technical data in developing countries
International social science data archives: models, policies, & principles
External threats to freedom of access
Crossing the digital divide: recent progress in improving data management in the developing world
Role and operation of data centers and data services in the future
Panel on issues and concerns of data-oriented young scientists and curricula in data management and informatics
e-Science and e-Science Networks
International multi-disciplinary large data projects for science and education and for business applications; Global scientific data sharing and application
Regional and global e-science and cyberinfrastructure developments
Grid infrastructure and standards for resource sharing across networks and institutions
Advanced cluster computing algorithms for data processing in computational fluid dynamics, structural crash analysis, MEMS design, financial modeling, factory scheduling, etc.
Advanced distributed data processing methods for science and engineering applications
Infoscience and Computational informatics
Theory, models and methods relating to distributed data processing and archiving
New approaches to data transfer, storage and processing
Long-term data stewardship and digital preservation: institutional approaches and technical concerns
Data ICT and applications
Role of data for promoting public understanding of science
Preserving and digitizing legacy data
Data Mining/Knowledge Management
Enhancing the transformation of data to knowledge
Artificial Intelligence applications in science - based decision-making
Developing community databases: lessons from biodiversity, geochemistry, neurology, health, and other disciplines
Data security in information and communication systems
Interoperability and Data Integration
Interoperability of heterogeneous data systems on materials, environments, human sciences and other fields
Development of open access, data commons, information commons and open culture: building links between regional, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary initiatives
Addressing linguistic barriers to scientific data integration and application
Data assimilation approaches and the role of interoperability standards in modeling and simulation applications
Human science integration and its synthetic research methodology
New frontiers in human science data integration
Earth and Environmental Data
Sensor webs and networks for real-time monitoring and analysis
The emerging global earth observing system of systems: technical and policy issues
Implementing geospatial data infrastructures: progress at local, national and global levels as well as in geoscience data management
Polar Year data policy and management
Strategy for IPY data management based on the scientific questions formulated in the IPY 2007-2008 Science Plan
Special needs of the social sciences, the Education, Outreach and Communications Plan, and the general public
Organizational data flow structure (including procedures of access, transmission and archival of data )
Progress and problems in geoscience data management for the I*Ys
Role of data in climate change mitigation and adaptation
Biological Science, Medical and Health Data
Bioinformatics; Proteome Database; Genetic Data Issues
Biodiversity; Observation and Specimen Records (Access to Biological Collection Data)
Risks Data for safety (disasters, illnesses, etc.)
Measuring people and their health: scientific and ethical issues
Organizing disaster and health risk in support of disaster management
Physical Science Data
The Fundamental Constants: cross-disciplinary coordination and standards issues
Materials science data and their multidisciplinary applications
Gas Hydrates
Informatics in energy resource management
Managing Astronomical Data : Lessons learned in their development