NATA 2015 - Symposium on Novel Applications and Technology Advances in Computing (NATA)

This Symposium, Novel Applications and Technology Advances in Computing (NATA), is an integral part of the IEEE COMPSAC main conference. It will be held for the first time in 2015 and every year afterwards. Annually, following the theme of the COMPSAC main conference, NATA uniquely positions itself to be a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present recent findings, innovations, theories, methodologies, and practical experiences related to novel applications and technology that leverage today's convergence of massive information sources, powerful analysis techniques, and nearly instant access from any point on the globe. For 2015, examples include innovative applications and technology related to sustainable computing, social/occupational computing, smart cities, e-health, personalized and blended learning technologies, morphic computer design, big data, and cloud computing. The very nature of NATA necessitates evolution of its focus from one year to the next.
In this symposium, we will evaluate papers based on the innovation of the approach, advancement of technologies and level of research achievement. Topics include, but are not limited to:
social network and crowd sourcing
e-health and Web well-being
smart cities and public places
sustainable computing
cloud computing, from middleware to applications, services
green computing
IoT
pervasive computing
SNS analytics
service federations
life log
sensor network applications and services
personalized and blended learning technologies
morphic computer design
NATA Organizing Committee
General Chair: Hiroyuki Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Program Chairs: Ali Hurson, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Steering Chair: Sahra Sedigh, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Standing Committee Rep: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA
Program Committee
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Arslan Broemme, GI Biometrics Special Interest Group
William Claycomb, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Omar El Ariss, Penn State University, USA
Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Nara Institute of Science & Technology, Japan
Shingo Ichii, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University & Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan, USA
Dan Lin, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Yasuo Okabe, Kyoto University, Japan
Farzana Rahman, James Madison University, USA
Hiroyuki Sato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Sahra Sedigh, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA
Hassan Takabi, University of North Texas, USA
Susumu Takeuchi, NTT, Japan
Yuuichi Teranishi, Osaka University, Japan
Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China
Thomas Weigold, IBM Research
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kenichi Yoshida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK