ICOMP'06 / CGD'06 / SWWS'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:10pm:  Lunch (On Your Own)


01:10 - 01:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICOMP+SWWS+CGD (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
                  List of papers appears at the end of ICOMP+SWWS+CGD's schedules.


SESSION 1-SWWS:   WEB SERVICES + SEMANTIC WEB
                  Chair:  Peep Kungas
                  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday);  01:40pm - 04:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Chapel)

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Speech-Enabled Web Services for Mobile Devices
                  Michael Hu, Zachary Davis, Shreyas Prasad, Michael Schuricht,
                  P. Michael Melliar-Smith, and Louise E. Moser
                  University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Agent-Based Web Service Composition with JADE and JXTA
                  Shenghua Liu**, Peep Kungas*, and Mihhail Matskin**
                  *Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
                  **Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Kista, Sweden

02:20 - 02:40pm:  A Generic Database Web Service
                  Erdogan Dogdu*, Yanchao Wang**, and Swetha Desetty**
                  *TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, Turkey
                  **Georgia State University, Georgia, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Logic for Higher-Order Workflow of Composite Web Services
                  Mihhail Matskin** and Enn Tyugu*
                  *Estonian Business School, Estonia
                  **Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Web Services-Based Middleware for QoS Brokering of Media Content
                  Delivery Services
                  Sofie Van Hoecke, Kristof Taveirne, Koen De Proft, Filip De Turck,
                  and Bart Dhoedt
                  Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Measuring Availability of Mobile Web Service
                  Kee-Leong Tan and Syed Mustapha
                  British Telecom, Asian Research Centre, Malaysia


04:00 - 05:40pm:  Note: There are a number of sessions (not listed here) that
                  are of significant interest to ICOMP+SWWS+CGD conference
                  participants (sessions belonging to other joint conferences
                  in this event.) During this period, you are encouraged to
                  participate in sessions belonging to PDPTA'06, GCA'06,
                  SAM'06, ICWN'06, FECS'06, or EEE'06.


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

              DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICOMP+SWWS+CGD
                     June 26 (Monday), 2006
                       RRR/SRP/PST Papers
                        1:10 - 1:40pm
         (LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICOMP+SWWS+CGD:

O.  The Influences Of Type Of University Culture On Faculty Usage Of
    WebCT In Public And Private Universities In Lebanon And Saudi Arabia
    Abdulrazzak Charbaji*, Hassan Hojhoj**, and Nouri Beyruti***
    *Lebanese University, Lebanon
    **King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
    ***Lebanese American University, Lebanon
O.  Instance Transformation for Semantic Data Mediation
    Francois Scharffe
    University of Innsbruck, Austria
O.  Private Reasoning
    Alex Abramovich; USA
O.  Service Oriented Dynamic Decoupling Metrics
    Taixi Xu, Jigang Liu, Xi He, and Kai Qian
    Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA
    Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, USA
    South China Normal University, Guangzhou, P. R. China
O.  An Automaton-Based Filtering System for Streaming MusicXML
    Ai-Ti Chiu and Jia-Lien Hsu
    Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taiwan
O.  An Agent-Based, Application-Layer Security Framework
    Hicham Tout
    Cisco Systems, USA
O.  XMLEase: A Novel Access- and Space-Efficiency Model for Maintaining
    XML Data in Relational Databases
    Atilla Elci and Behnam Rahnama
    Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Turkey

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