PRELIMINARY CALL
FOR PAPERS
The 1st International Computer Engineering Conference:
New Technologies for the Information Society
~ICENCO'2004~
December 27-30, 2004
Cairo, Egypt
The official Conference language is English.
SPONSORS
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
Under the auspices of:
* Minister of High Education, Dr. Mofid Shehab,
* Minister of Telecommunication, Dr. Ahmed Nazif,
* Cairo University President, Dr. Nagib ElHelaly Gohar
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Prof. Dr. Samir Shahin
Conference Secretary Nevin Darwish
Conference Co-Secretary Hoda Baraka
Publicity Co-Chairs Amir Atiya and Magda Fayek
Program Co-Chairs Ahmed Darwish and Mohamed Gouda
PURPOSE & SCOPE
Purpose
Information technology form the basis of an entirely new era in
professional practice and delivery of services. The ICENCO conference
will act as an international forum for researchers and practitioners
to discuss the major new frontiers in the information technology area,
and to present cutting edge research in various fields within that
area. ICENCO 2004 will strengthen relationships between companies,
research laboratories, and universities. All papers submitted to this
conference will be peer evaluated by two reviewers. Acceptance will be
based primarily on originality and contribution.
Scope
ICENCO 2004 will be comprised of the following 4 tracks:
1. Internet Applications
2. Communication and Networks
3. Signal and Image Processing
4. Intelligent Knowledge Engineering
1. Internet Applications
- Internet applications for distance education
- e-commerce,
- intelligent agents,
- e-government, Security,
- adaptive human-computer interfaces,
- search engines and database systems,
- distributed databases.
2. Communication and Networks
- Internet services and applications,
- wireless cellular and mobile communications,
- ad hoc networks,
- high performance networking,
- intelligent networks,
- network design,
- control and optimization of communication systems,
- network reliability and quality of service,
- optical systems and networks,
- network security, grid computing.
3. Signal and Image Processing
- Multimedia signal processing,
- signal processing for wireless communications,
- RF and analog integrated circuits,
- speech, image and video processing,
- Computer graphics, animation and visualization
- Image and signal processing Applications
- Content-based Image Retrieval
4. Intelligent Knowledge Engineering
- intelligent agents,
- data mining,
- Web mining
- Learning theory,
- inference,
- Bayesian belief networks,
- evolutionary systems
- adaptive systems.
- Multimedia mining
LOCATION
ICENCO 2004 will take place at the faculty of engineering, Cairo
University
SPECIAL SESSION
1. "Rough Set theory and its application"
organized by Dr. Aboul Ella Hassanien and Dr. Hala Own, Kuwait
2. "The Evolving Internet" organized Dr. Khaled Ragab, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan
3. "Soft Computing in Image Processing"
organized by ............................................
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Submit your paper no later than July 15, 2004 to
icenco2004@eng.cu.edu.eg . All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat
(.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. The ICENCO
Secretariat must receive your paper by July 15, 2004. Do not send hard
copies of your paper. Receipt of paper submission will be confirmed by
e-mail. The paper submissions should be approximately five pages.
Formatting instructions are available at: Author instruction.
Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail by September 15,
2004. Final manuscripts are due by September, 30, 2004. Registration
and final payment is due by September 5, 2004. Late registration fees
or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the
conference proceedings.
SUBMISSION OF TUTORIALS
Proposals for half-day tutorials (three hours) should be submitted
online by September 15, 2004. Tutorials are to be submitted via the
following icenco2004@eng.cu.edu.eg A tutorial proposal should
clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the
participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course
topics, and the qualifications of the instructor (s).
SUBMISSION OF SPECIAL SESSIONS
Persons wishing to organize a special session should submit a proposal
via e-mail to icenco2004@eng.cu.edu.eg by September 15, 2004.
Proposals should include a minimum of six papers, a session title, a
list of the topics covered, and the qualifications and brief biography
of the session organizer (s). The name of the session organizer will
appear in the program and proceedings provided six or more papers are
presented.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submissions due July 15, 2004
Notification of acceptance September 15, 2004
Camera-ready manuscripts due September 30, 2004
Registration Deadline Septermber 15, 2004
Instruction to the Author
This part contains instructions to authors of paper accepted to
ICENCO 2004 conference. It covers the formatting
guidelines for the camera-ready version of your accepted paper.
* A paper should be A4 sized (210mm x 295mm or 8.5inch x 11.5inch)
in two columns with top and bottom margin 25mm (1inch), left and
right margin 14mm (0.6 inch), column width 88mm (3.45 inch), and
inter-column gap 5mm (0.2 inch).
* The pages must not be numbered.
* Paper title is centered. Recommended size of the title is around
24pt.
* Center author information beneath the title and print in 12-
point, non-boldface type.
* The normal text of the paper must be in 12pt times New Roman
* Papers should not exceed 6 pages.
All papers must be submitted in PDF/PS/MS-word files.
Where to Send Papers?
Email-ed your paper to icenco2004@eng.cu.edu.eg
Registration Fees
Full registration information will be available soon.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hajime Nobuhara (Tokyo Inst Tech) Japan
Karen Egiazarian (Tampere U) Finland
Ekram Abdelgawad (Cairo U) Egypt
M Zaki Abdelhamid (Azhar U) Egypt
Nabil Adam (Rutgers U) USA
Gamal Ali (Ain Shams U) Egypt
Hussein Alnuweiri (U Brit Columbia) Canada
Fuad S Atiya (Cairo U) Egypt
A Zaki Badr (Ain Shams U) Egypt
Reem Bahgat (Cairo U) Egypt
Ahmed Bahnasawi (Cairo U) Egypt
Hoda Baraka (Cairo U) Egypt
Mathias Bauer (DFKI) Germany
Magdy Bayoumi (ULL) USA
Vladimir Cherkassky (U Minnesota) USA
Nevine Darwish (Cairo U) Egypt
Sajal Das (U Texas Arl) USA
Amr El Abbadi (UCSB) USA
Nazih Elderrini (Alexandria U) Egypt
Ayman Eldesouky (ERI) Egypt
Hesham El Gamal (Ohio St U) USA
Adib Elghounaimy (Ain Shams U) Egypt
Ramez Elmasri (U Texas Arl) USA
Mohamed El-Tanany (Carleton U) Canada
Aly Fahmy (Cairo U) Egypt
Aly Aly Fahmy, (Cairo U) Egypt
Sonia Fahmy (Purdue U) USA
Ibrahim Farag, Cairo U Egypt
Magda Fayek (Cairo U) Egypt
Ibrahim Habib (City U) USA
Aboul Ella Hassanien (Cairo U) Egypt
Sherif Hashem (Cairo U) Egypt
Ossman Hegazy ( Cairo U) Egypt
Abdelsalam Helal (U Florida) USA
Nicola Henze (Hannover U) Germany
Sugih Jamin (U Michigan) USA
Cetin Koc (Oregon State U) USA
Magdi Kamel (NPS) USA
M. Hamada, Japan
Marwan Krunz (Arizona U) USA
Osman Lotfy (Cairo U) Egypt
Samia Mashaly (ERI) Egypt
Ibrahim Matta (Boston U) USA
Rami Melhem (Pittsburgh U) USA
Hussein Mouftah (U Ottawa) Canada
Khaled Ragab (Tokyo Inst Tech) Japan
Rajeev Rastogi (Lucent) USA
Tarek Saadawi (City U) USA
Ayed Salman (Kuwait U) Kuwait
Mohammed Sheira (Ain Shams U) Egypt
Ruppa Thulasiram (U Manitoba) Canada
Yu-Chee Tseng (Nat Central U) Taiwan
Alaa Youssef (Alexandria U) Egypt
Organizing Committee
Fathy Saleh (Cairo U)
Aly Hassan Fahmy (Cairo U)
Ihab Talkhan (Cairo U)
Sahar El-Tarabolsy (Cairo U)
Tarek Hindam (Cairo U)
Howeida Ismail (Cairo U)
Raafat Elfouly (Cairo U)
Keynote Speeches
To Be Announcement
ICENCO Secretariat
The 1st International Computer Engineering Conference:
New Technologies for the Information Society
Faculty of Engineering
Cairo - Egypt
Fax: +202 Tel: +202
E-mail: icenco2004@eng.cu.edu.eg
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