CALL FOR PAPERS: WICS'2002 The Fourth Workshop on Information & Computer Science March 17-18, 2002 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Information & Computer Scienece Department (KFUPM) in collaboration with IEEE Computer Society Saudi Arabia Chapter Theme: Internet Computing Best papers will be published in A Special Issue Of Information Sciences Journal Topics of interest: * E-Education & Distance Learning * Electronic Commerce * Information Indexing/Retrieval * Webcasting * Internet Agents * Performance * Resource Discovery/Management * Security * Graphics & Visualization * Multimedia Services * Arabization * Electronic Publishing & Digital Libraries * Distributed Systems * Internet Programming Tools * Networking Technologies * Interactive Network Games * Broad & Streaming Media Content Distribution * IP Telephony * WAP & Wireless Multimedia Systems * Web/Database Integration * Datamining * Traffic Measurement & Modeling * General Web Tools & Facilities * Web-Based Applications Languages: Arabic / English Authors are invited to submit papers in the field. All submissions must include the followings: * Paper title, name, affiliation, address, E-mail, telephone, and FAX number(s) of the author(s). * Complete paper (up to 15 double-space pages) * The contact author to communicate information related to the paper and the workshop such as acceptance, format, program, etc. Important: All submissions are appreciated to be submitted electronically. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the Workshop. Organizing Committee * Dr. Kanaan Faisal (Chairman) * Dr. Muhammad Sarfraz (V. Chairman) * Dr. Moataz Ahmed * Dr. Sulaiman Al-Bassam * Dr. Bakr A. Hassan * Dr. Sahalu B. Junaidu * Dr. Najib A. K. Kofahi * Mr. Husni Al-Muhtaseb * Dr. Khalid Salah International Advisory Committee * Dr. Moataz Ahmed (Saudi Arabia) * Dr. Abdelhamid Abdesselam (Qatar) * Dr. Ebad Banissi (UK) * Prof. Ernesto Damiani (Italy) * Dr. Jarallah Al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia) * Dr. Fiaz Hussain (Dubai) * Prof. Ali Jaoua (Qatar) * Prof. Juan Llorens (Spain) * Prof. Ali Mili (USA) * Prof. Serge Miranda (France) * Prof. Ahmad Nasri (Lebanon) * Prof. J. Mark Pullen (USA) * Prof. David Rine (USA) * Dr. Khalid Salah (Saudi Arabia) * Dr. Muhammad Sarfraz (Saudi Arabia) * Prof. Joseph Urban (USA) * Prof. Paul P. Wang (USA) Important Dates September 30, 2001 Papers due (about 15 pages). November 25, 2001 Notification of acceptance. December 23, 2001 Camera-ready papers. March 17 - 18, 2002 Workshop. Contact Address : Chairman, Organizing Committee, WICS'2002 Department of Information & Computer Science KFUPM # 5066 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Tel.: +966-3-860-2175 Fax: +966-3-860-2174 Email: wics@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa WWW: www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/wics/