ADCOM 2008

ACS
The Sixteenth International Conference on
Advanced Computing and Communication
Sunday Dec.14 - Wednesday Dec.17, 2008,
Anna University, Chennai, India

Hosted by Dept. of IT and Center for Advanced Computing Research and Education (CARE),
MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai
and
Advanced Computing and Communication Society (ACS)

Objective:

ADCOM 2008 seeks to bring together international researchers to present papers and generate discussions on current research and development in all aspects of IT. Special emphasis will be made on aspects of IT relating to society development through several presentations of research papers and keynote addresses.

Description:

ADCOM (International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication) is an important conference organized annually by Advanced Computing and Communication Society (ACS), in collaboration with one educational institution in India. Advanced Computing and Communication Society is a registered society founded to provide a forum to individuals and institutions interested in the promotion of Advanced Computing and Communication technologies. The sixteenth edition of ADCOM (ADCOM-2008) will be hosted by Department of Information Technology, MIT, Anna University, Chennai, during 14th -17th December 2008.

ADCOM is a major international conference in the field of Computer Science and Communication held annually in India. Information Society is facing challenges due to the complexity of its structure in terms of networking, middleware, peer to peer applications, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing with diverse usage in commercial, personal, communal and public domains, posing various critical issues to be addressed and solved. The objective of ADCOM 2008 is to provide a forum for discussion about research and development in the cutting edge technologies.

The main theme of ADCOM-2008 is decided to be "Information Technology for the Welfare of Society".

Peer-reviewed technical paper presentation programme, short-papers, posters, tutorial and student paper presentation on the same related topics are always being planned with this conference for the students and research community.

Topics of interest include but not limited to the following:

Enterprise Computing
Grid Computing
Mobile Computing
Nano Computing
Pervasive Computing
Soft Computing
High Performance Computing
Applications in Science, Engineering, Humanities, Economics and Finance

Proceedings

Will be published by IEEE Press as a CD
and will appear in the IEEE Xplore

PATRON

Dr. Mannar Jawahar
Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai, India

Geneal Chairs

L.M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
S. Thamarai Selvi, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

Geneal co-Chair

G.L. Ganga Prasad, CDAC, Bangalore and President, ACS India
Anirban Basu, Member, ACS India

Organizing Chair

K. Chandrasekaran, NITK, Suratkal, India

Program Chairs

Virendra K. Bhavsar, University of New Brunwick, Canada
Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada

Publicity Chair

K. Rajan, IISc, Bangalore, India and Secretary, ACS India

Industry Liaison and Exhibit Chair

G.N. Rathna, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Secretary, ACS India

Industry Liaison and Exhibit co-Chair

Bindu Madhava, CDAC, Joint-Secretary, ACS India

Advisory Board

Dr. S. Shanmugavel
Registrar, Anna University, chennai, India
Dr. Joseph Stanley
Dean, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India
Prof. Ramakrishnan
Director, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune, India

Tutorials Chair