2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
 
Programm Committee
 
General Co-Chairs
     Liria Matsumoto Sato, EP - University of São Paulo, Brazil
     Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
     Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
 
Steering Committee
 
   Steering Committee Co-Chairs
     Laurence Tianruo Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
     Siang Wun Song, IME - University of São Paulo, Brazil
 
   Steering Committee Members
     Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
     Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
     Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
     Philippe Navaux, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
     Alvaro L.G.A. Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
     Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
     Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
     Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
 
Program Co-Chairs
     José Alberto Cuminato, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
     Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
 
   Program Vice-Chairs
 
   Intelligent, Bioinspired and Autonomic Computing
   André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
    Technical Committee Members
    Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
    Francisco Javier Ramirez, USP, Brazil
    Nikola Kasabov, AUT, New Zealand
    Lisandro Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
    Ajith Abraham, NTNU, Norway
    Alejandro Ceccatto, IFIR, Argentine
    Alex Freitas, University of Kent, UK
    Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil
    Ana Carolina Lorena, UFABC, Brazil
    Anna Helena Reali Costa, USP, Brazil
    Anne Canuto, UFRN, Brazil
    André de Carvalho, USP, Brazil
    Andre Coelho, UNIFOR, Brazil
    Arthur Braga, UFCE, Brazil
    Bin, Li, USTC, China
    Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
    Carlos Soares, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    Eduardo Hruschka, USP, Brazil
    Emilio Corchado, Universty of |Burgos, Spain
    Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior, UFSCar, Brazil
    Fernando Von Zuben, Unicamp, Brazil
    Flavio Nober, UFRJ, Brazil
    Gary Grewal, University of Guelph, Canada
    Gerson Zaverucha, UFRJ, Brazil
    Gina Oliveira, UFU, Brazil
    Heloísa Camargo, UFSCar, Brazil
    Henry Selvaraj, UNLV, USA
    João Gama, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    José Augusto Andrade Filho, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
    Katti Faceli, USP, Brazil
    Teresa Ludermir, UFPE, Brazil
    Marcelo Godoy Simões, Colorado School of Mines, USA
    Marcilio Souto, UFRN, Brazil
    Marley Vellasco, PUC-Rio, Brazil
    Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
    Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia
    Pedro Paulo de Oliveira, Universidade Mackenzie, Brazil
    Ricardo Campello, USP, Brazil
    Ricardo Ferrari, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Canada
    Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, USP, Brazil
    Roseli Francelin Romero, USP, Brazil
    Zhao Liang, USP, Brazil
    Liu Ying, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
 
   Distributed and Parallel Computing
   Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Science, Poland
    Technical Committee Members
    Henry Tufo, University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
    Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia
    Tomàs Margalef, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
    Liang-Teh Lee, Tatung University, Taiwan
    Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    Renato Porfirio Ishii, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
    Emilio Hernández, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
    Siang Wun Song, University of São Paulo, Brazil
    Jan van Katwijk, TU Delft, The Netherlands
    Marian Vajtersic, University of Salzburg, Austria
    Dorothy Bollman, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
    Luciano Jose Senger, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
    Marcio Augusto de Souza, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
    Yakov Fet, Novosibirsk Computing Center, Russia
    Frederic Desprez, INRIA Lyon, France
    Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
    Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University, US
    Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
    Lonnie Welch, Ohio University, US
    Shahram Rahimi, Southern Illinois University, US
    Ian Gladwell, Southern Methodist University, US
    George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
    Dana Petcu, University of Western Timisoara, Romania
    Maria Ganzha, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Science, Poland
    Marek Tudruj, institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Science, Poland
    Luigi Brugnanna, University of Florence, Italy
    Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
 
   Distributed Database and Data Mining
   Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
    Technical Committee Members
    Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    Jieh-Shan Yeh, Providence University, Taiwan
    Don-Lin Yang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
    Vebjorn Ljosa, Broad Institute, MIT, USA
    Cristina Dutra de Aguiar Ciferri, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney, Australia
    Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
    Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland, USA
    Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA
    Moustafa A. Hammad, University of Calgary, Canada
    Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, University of California, Irvine, USA
    Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
    Howard C.-M. Liu, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
    Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA
    Elaine P. Machado de Sousa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Ioana Stanoi, IBM Research, Almaden, USA
    Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    Agma Juci Traina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Yicheng Tu, University of South Florida, USA
    Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers, USA
    Yuni Xia, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianpolis, USA
    Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
 
   Grid, P2P, Web Services and Internet Computing
   Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
    Technical Committee Members
    Christophe Cérin, LIPN - Villetaneuse, France
    Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
    Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
    Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
    Jerry Hsi-Ya Chang, National center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
    Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
    Jeng-Shyang Pan, Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
    Chao-Chin Wu, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
    Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
    Bing Bing Zhou, The University of Sydney, Australia
    Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA
    Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China
    Yong-Kee Jun, Gyeongsang National University, Korea
    Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK
    Pangfeng Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    Ronald Perrott, Queen's University, UK
    Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University, USA
    Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    Frank Z. Wang, Cranfield University, UK
    Chien-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
    Guangwen Yang, Tsinghua University, China
    Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
    Kun-Ming Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
    Zhiming Zhao, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
 
   Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
   Alvin Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
    Technical Committee Members
    Qing-An Zeng, University of Cincinnati, USA
    Edson dos Santos Moreira, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Frank Li, University of South Carolina Upstate, USA
    Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
    Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
    Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
    Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
    Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    Man Hon Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    Roger King, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
    Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
    Alhajj Reda, University of Calgary, Canada
    Zahir Tari, RMIT, Australia
    Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
    Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
    Angelo Brayner, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
    Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA
    Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
    Peter Bertok, RMIT, Australia
    Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia
    Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
    Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
    Ling Feng, Tsinghua Univerity, China
 
   HPC Applications
   Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, USA
    Technical Committee Members
    Chen Liu, University of New Haven, USA
    José E. Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
    Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
    Matthew Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
    Kenneth Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, USA
    David Walker, Cardiff U., UK
    Gabrielle Allen, Louisiana State University, USA
    Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA
    David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
    Arndt Bode, Technischen Universitat Munchen, Germany
    Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
    Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA
    Helio Crestana Guardia, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
    Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
    Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA
    Lei Pan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
    Rob Pennington, NCSA, USA
    Michael Resch, HLRS, Germany
    Ulrich Ruede, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
    Marcio Augusto de Souza, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Brazil
    Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
    Luis Carlos Trevelin, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
    Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China
    Mary Fran Yafchak, Southeastern Universities Research Association, USA
 
   Scientific and Engineering Computing
   Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    Technical Committee Members
    Jose Alfredo Ferreira Costa, UFRN, Brazil
    Norberto Mangiavacchi, UERJ/GESAR, Brazil
    Eduardo Abreu, IMPA, Brazil
    Christof Voemel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Tony Drummond, LBNL, USA
    Kengo Nakagima, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Jean-Yves L'Excellent, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
    Takahiro Katagiri, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Paulo Jose Vasconcelos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    Stanimire Tomov, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
    Xavier Vasseur, CERFACS, France
    Keita Teranishi, Cray Inc., USA
    Rich Vuduc, Georgia Tech, USA
    Julie Langou, University of Colorado at Denver, USA
    Jonathan Carter, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, USA
    Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Labs, USA
 
   Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
   Meikang Qiu, University of New Orleans, USA
    Technical Committee Members
    Ting-Wei Hou, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
    Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
    Ben A. Abderazek, University of Aizu, Japan
    Abdul R. Alsamman, University of New Orleans, USA
    Lewis Baumstark, University of West Georgia, USA
    Jing Deng, University of New Orleans, USA
    Qiang Duan, University of Central Arkansas, USA
    Antonio Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy
    Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
    Houcine Hassan, Polytechnic University of Valencia, USA
    Lorenzo Verdoscia ICAR, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
    Eugene John, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
    Man Lin, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
    Enyue (Annie) Lu, Salisbury University, USA
    Mais Nijim, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
    Zili Shao, HK poly university, China
    Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Italy
    Hui Wu, University of New South Wales, Australia
    Jason Xue, HK city university, China
    Shengli Yuan, University of Houston-Downtown, USA
    Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
    Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
    Yongxin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
 
   Advanced Networking and Applications
   Mário Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
    Technical Committee Members
    Myrian C. A. Costa, NACAD-UFRJ, Brazil
    Francisco José da Silva e Silva, Deinf-UFMA, Brazil
    Paulo Gondim, Ene-UnB, Brazil
    Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Júnior, Ene-UnB, Brazil
    Jacir L. Bordim, CIC-UnB, Brazil
    João Bosco Sobral, INE-UFSC, Brazil
    Carlos Montez, DAS-UFSC, Brazil
    Romulo Silva de Oliveira, DAS-UFSC, Brazil
    Martius Rodriguez, UFF, Brazil
    Frank Siqueira, INE-UFSC, Brazil
    Roberto Willrich,INE-UFSC, Brazil
    Cesar Augusto F De Rose, PUC-RS, Brazil
    Andrea Schwertner Charao, UFSM, Brazil
    Gerson Cavalheiro, UFPel, Brazil
    Alba Melo, CIC- UnB, Brazil
    Joao Dovicchi, INE- UFSC, Brazil
    Bernardo Riso, INE- UFSC, Brazil
    Claudia Barenco, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
    Emilio Fernandez, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
 
   Security, Privacy and Trust
   Adriano Mauro Cansian, UNESP - Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
    Technical Committee Members
    Felipe Rolando Menchaca García, IPN - Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
    Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center & Hannover University, Germany
    Heiko Krumm, Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
    Marco Aurelio Amaral Henriques, UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
    Andre Ricardo Abed Gregio, CenPRA - Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Brazil
    Jorge Ramio Aguirre, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
    Paulo S. Motta Pires, UFRN - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    Zhuowei Li, Indiana University, USA
    Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    Ricardo Dahab, UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
    Pedro A. M Vazquez, UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
    Ricardo Kleber Martins Galvao, CEFET/RN - Centro Federal de Educaçao Tecnologica do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
    Javier Areitio Bertolin, University of Deusto, Spain
    Frank Siqueira, UFSC - Universidade Federal de Sta. Catarina, Brazil
    Carlos Maziero, PUCPR - Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Brazil
    Liane Tarouco, UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    Luiz Otavio Duarte, CenPRA - Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Brazil
    Michelle Silva Wangham, UNIVALI - Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil
 
Workshop Chairs
   Francisco Isidro Massetto, EP - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Yiming Li, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
   Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Local Arrangements Chairs
   Edson Toshimi Midorikawa, EP - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Edson Satoshi Gomi, EP - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Mário Donato Marino, EP - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Francisco Isidro Massetto, EP - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Evgueni Dodonov, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   José Augusto Andrade Filho, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Marcelo Keese Albertini, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Matheus Lorenzo Santos, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
 
Publication Chair
   Luciano José Senger, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
 
Panel and Sponsonship Chairs
   Edson dos Santos Moreira, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   Luis Carlos Trevelin, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
   Leandro Franco de Souza, ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil
 
Web Chair
   Claudia Alves de Souza Mello, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
 
   Acknowledgments