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:

Ø Paper title, name, affiliation, address, E-mail, telephone, and FAX number(s) of the author(s).

Ø Complete paper (up to 15 double-space pages)

Ø 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/