VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4, AUGUST 2008
Upcoming Conferences/Workshops
 
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA 2008)
NOLTA 2008 will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from September 6 to 10, 2008. Stay tuned for further news. For details of the conference, go to http://nolta2008.org/
3rd Argentine School of Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology and Applications (EAMTA) 2008 (September 13-22, 2008 )and 1st Argentine Conference on Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology, and Applications (CAMTA) 2008 (September 18-19, 2008)
The Argentine School of Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology and Applications and its associated Conference is a high technical quality Argentine forum for researchers, technologists and companies in the fields of micro and nano electronic technologies. Full details can be found in http://www.eamta.com.ar/.
 
International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems (ICSES’08)
ICSES’08 is the 5th issue of a biannual series started in 2000 and preceded by 22 annual national conferences, and will be held in Krakow from September 14-17, 2008. Contributions are expected regarding new signal processing techniques, circuit and system architectures, modeling and simulation techniques, CAD tools and  related areas. For details, see http://www.icses2008.agh.edu.pl
 
International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM'08)
ICM'08 will be held at the Millennium Hotel in the wonderful city of Sharjah, located on the shores of the Arabian gulf a few miles away from Dubai, between December 14-16, 2008. See http://www.ieee-icm.com/
 
IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems & Applications Workshop 2009 (LiSSA ‘09)
The fourth annual IEEE-NIH Life Science Systems and Application (LiSSA’09) workshop co-sponsored by IEEE and the National Institute of Health’s Nano Task Force and endorsed by Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative will be held on the NIH Campus in April 2009. For detailed submission instructions, please visit the workshop web page at: http://lissa.wustl.edu.
 
IEEE ISCAS 2009
ISCAS 2009, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and supported by National Cheng Kung University, will be held in Taiwan, from 24 to 27 May, 2009. The conference website is http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/iscas2009/
 
If you wish to alert CASS members about the meetings/conferences/workshops in our fields of interest, please send information to the Editor-in-Chief (cktse@ieee.org).
 
CALL FOR PAPERS & INVITATIONS CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Biometric Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Biometrics is a growing and important applications area receiving significant interest as a result of the criticality and the social impact of its applications. In addition, the increasing worldwide interest in security makes biometrics even more valuable and desirable, from many perspectives including its theory, technologies, design methodologies, and applications. The constituencies that may benefit from this ever growing field include academia, industry, government, and the general public. To create a biometric system various issues need to be studied in a comprehensive and integrated way: from sensing to measurement procedures, from signal analysis and interpretation to quality assessment, from feature extraction to classification and analysis, from knowledge creation to extraction, and much more. Integration and cooperative combination are other key aspects of biometrics applications. This special issue is focused on publishing original papers that address instrumentation and measurement aspects of the design, implementation and applications of biometrics. The detailed call for papers is available at http://www.dti.unimi.it/~piuri/pages/TIM-SpecialIssueBiometricIMCFP.pdf The submission period is February 15 - March 1, 2009. Notification of final acceptance is expected by June 30, 2009 and publication in December 2009. Guest Editors: Fabio Scotti, University of Milan, Italy; David Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University, USA Questions about the special issue should be directed to Dr. Fabio Scotti (fabio.scotti@unimi.it).  CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Biometrics Systems, IEEE Systems Journal The increasing needs for security as well as medical diagnosis make biometrics more and more valuable world-wide, both as theory, technologies, design methodologies, and applications are concerned. To create a biometric system various issues need to be studied in an integrated way: from sensing to measurement procedures, from signal analysis and interpretation to quality assessment, from feature extraction to classification and analysis, from knowledge creation to extraction, from algorithms to data structure, from computational complexity to system performance, from system engineering to software engineering, from privacyto social implications, and much more. Integration and cooperative combination are another key aspects if biometrics systems and applications. This special issue is directed to collect original papers that address any aspect of the design, implementation and application of biometrics systems, by focusing on a system-level perspective. The detailed call for papers is available at http://www.dti.unimi.it/~piuri/pages/ISJ-SpecialIssueBiometricsSystemsCFP.pdf. The submission deadline is January 15, 2009. Acceptance notification is expected by April 15, 2009 and publication in August 2009. Guest Editors: Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy; Jie Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; and Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University, USA. Questions about the special issue should be directed to Prof. Vincenzo Piuri (vincenzo.piuri@unimi.it).  CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Multi-agent Systems: Modeling, Control, and Applications, International Journal of Information & Systems Sciences Multi-agent systems modeling and control arise in such diverse application areas as autonomous vehicle coordination, distributed computing, sensor networking, and air traffic flow management, among many others. Central problems in this modeling and control subject are typically network dynamics and decentralized control. In the past decade, multi-agent systems have attracted increasing attention and gained significant progress, with some successful applications. However, numerous theoretical and technical challenges still remain, which must be addressed satisfactorily in order to build efficient multi-agent systems for broader applications. This special issue aims to present some most recent developments and contributions in this field. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - Multi-agent systems modeling - Multi-agent system algorithms - Multi-agent systems consensus - Multi-agent systems control - Flocking and swarming - Sensor networks - Agent-based complex networks - Collective behaviors of multi-agent systems All manuscripts should be received by Any One of the Guest Editors by 1 September 2008, in double-spaced, single-column, one-sided, pdf format generated by latex, which will be subject to peer review as usual. Guest Editors: Prof. Long Wang (longwang@pku.edu.cn), Peking University, China, Prof. Yiguang Hong (yghong@mail.iss.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Science, China, and Prof. Guanrong Chen (gchen@ee.cityu.edu.hk), CIty University of Hong Kong.http://www.dti.unimi.it/~piuri/pages/TIM-SpecialIssueBiometricIMCFP.pdfmailto:fabio.scotti@unimi.ithttp://www.dti.unimi.it/~piuri/pages/ISJ-SpecialIssueBiometricsSystemsCFP.pdfmailto:longwang@pku.edu.cnmailto:yghong@mail.iss.ac.cnmailto:gchen@ee.cityu.edu.hkshapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3shapeimage_5_link_4shapeimage_5_link_5