Vol.11, No. 2, 2011
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Applied Computing Review 2 SIGAPP FY’11 Semi-Annual Report July 2010- February 2011 Sung Y. Shin Mission To further the interests of the computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing applications and to transfer the capabilities of computing technology to new problem domains. Officers Chair – Sung Y. Shin South Dakota State University, USA Vice Chair – Richard Chbeir Bourgogne University, Dijon, France Secretary – W. Eric Wong University of Texas, USA Treasurer – Lorie Liebrock New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA Web Master – Hisham Haddad Kennesaw State University, USA ACM Program Coordinator – Irene Frawley ACM HQ Applied Computing Review 3 Notice to Contributing Authors to SIG Newsletters By submitting your article for distribution in this Special Interest Group publication, you hereby grant to ACM the following non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide rights. • To publish in print on condition of acceptance by the editor • To digitize and post your article in the electronic version of this publication • To include the article in the ACM Digital Library • To allow users to copy and distribute the article for noncommercial, educational, or research purposes. However, as a contributing author, you retain copyright to your article and ACM will make every effort to refer requests for commercial use directly to you. Status Update SIGAPP's main event for this year will be the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan from March 21-24 which will carry the tradition from Switzerland's SAC 2010. This year's SAC preparation has been very successful. More details about incoming SAC 2011 will follow in the next section. SIGAPP also supported several additional conferences with in-cooperation status and will continue partially sponsoring conferences, including ICUIMC and RACs this year. We would also like to express our satisfaction with the new SIGAPP logo, best of a logo competition early last year, as it is now in full use for the SIGAPP web page and official publications such as the proceedings of SAC and Applied Computing Review. Applied Computing Review 4 A Message from the Editor I’m pleased to announce the issuing of the winter issue of ACR (Applied Computing Review). As I promised in the previous issue, we will publish it semi-annually as an electronic version. However, once the format has stabilized, we will begin publishing quarterly electronically and in print. I still have a dream that ACR will appear in the SCI (Science Citation Index). ACR contains invited papers from world-renowned researchers and selected papers presented by prominent researchers and professionals of the Symposium on Applied Computing 2010 in Sierre, Switzerland. The selected papers have been expanded, revised, and peer-reviewed again for publishing in ACR. We plan to invite some papers from ICUIMC and RACs conference, which are partially sponsored by SIGAPP. We hope that ACR will serve as a platform for many new and promising ideas in the many fields of applied computing. As you know, it is strongly related to nearly every area of computer science, and we feel an obligation to serve you as best we can. The papers in this issue of ACR represent the current applied computing research trends. I thank the authors for truly contributing to the state of the art in applied computing. The officers look forward to working with the ACM SIG Governing Board to further develop SIGAPP by increasing membership and developing a new journal on applied computing. They also appreciate the opportunity to support the programs of SIGAPP since they have provided a springboard for further technical efforts and have done a great service to many technical communities. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the highly qualified peer reviewers that have coordinated an outstanding lineup of technical papers. We also would like to express our appreciation to the track chairs who served as the editorial board of ACR and the SIGAPP officers that served as associate editors of ACR. We would like to thank Ms. Irene Frawley as she has helped us get organized to begin publishing. I especially wish to thank Mr. Dan Stanton, technical editor of ACR, for his work on the design and layout of this new ACR, an international journal, and for his encouragement and support to publish this special issue. We also wish to thank all authors and Dr. Tei Wei Kuo and his researchers for their significant contributions. Without their hard work, this second issue of ACR would not be possible. Next Issue The planned release for the next issue of ACR is August 2011. Applied Computing Review 5 SAC 2011 Preview The 26th Annual edition of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) will be held in Taichung, Taiwan. SAC 2011 is hosted by Tunghai University and sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, Taiwan Bureau of Foreign Trade, and Taiwan National Science Council. The local organizing committee consists of Dr. William Chu, Conference Chair; Dr. W. Eric Wong, Conference Vice Chair; Dr. Chih-Hsiong Shih, Tutorials Chair; and Drs. Chao-Tung Yang and Chih-Huang Chang, Local; Arrangement Chairs. The conference will start on Monday with the Tutorials Program, organized by Dr. Chih-Hsiong Shih. The planned program is offering tutorials for all attendees free of charge. The local committee is planning a social luncheon for tutorial attendees who chose to participate, for a minimal fee. The program offers the following tutorials: • Mitigation of Program Security Vulnerabilities: Approaches and Challenges • Scenario-based requirements engineering facilitating interaction design • Constraint Programming: From Algorithms to Applications • Cloud Computing Security: From Fundamentals to Advanced Access Control • Transition from Requirements to High-level Software Design The Technical Program starts on Tuesday with the opening keynote address session by Dr. Philip S. Yu, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Yu will talk about Mining Information Networks. In his talk, Dr. Yu will present various issues and solutions on scalable mining of information networks. These include data integration, data cleaning and data validation in information networks, summarization, OLAP and multidimensional analysis in information networks. The three-day Technical Program, coordinated by Drs. Chih-Cheng Hung and Mathew Palakal, offers a wide range of sessions from the 40+ tracks organized this year by international groups of experts lead by Track Chairs and Co-Chairs. The complete listing of sessions and accepted papers in this year edition of SAC can be found on SAC 2011 website at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/. This year, the program offers over 230 rigorously refereed papers. Accepted papers are organized into six themes: Applications, Distributed Systems, Engineering, AI and Agents, Information Systems, and Software Development. This year, the open Call for Track Proposals has , after rigorous prescreening, accepted 40 new tracks for SAC 2011. The Call for Papers for these Tracks attracted 790 submissions from over 35 countries. The papers underwent a blind review process and resulted in the acceptance of 237 papers, making SAC 2011 acceptance rate just under 30%. In addition to the accepted papers, 59 papers that received high review scores were accepted as short papers for the Poster Program. The Posters Program, coordinated by Dr. Jiman Hong, offers a selection of invited posters that represent high quality work from SAC Tracks. The posters program is planned for Wednesday, morning and afternoons sessions. A total of 59 posters will be presented. Applied Computing Review 6 This year, the organizing committee is planning two receptions on Monday and Tuesday. The Monday reception is sponsored by SIGAPP while the Tuesday reception is sponsored by SAC. In addition, free lunches are planed for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Morning and afternoon coffee breaks are also planed for all four days of the conference. The conference Banquet event is scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Splendor Hotel. The Entertainment program and other social events have been planned by the local committee. A paper from each theme will be selected as a Best Paper. A Best Poster will also be selected from the Posters Program. Winners will be honored during the Banquet event and will receive both certificates and prizes. Other awards will be presented during the Banquet event. For those who plan to join us next month in Taichung and on behalf of the local host and organizing committee, we hope that you enjoy the program and have a pleasant stay at Tunghai University, which has one of the most beautiful college campuses in Taiwan. We wish you will have a great time at SAC 2011 and hope to see you at SAC 2012. SAC 2012 Planning The planning for the 27th edition of SAC is underway. SAC 2012 will be hosted by the Center for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI) - The Microsoft Research - at the University of Trento, Italy. Italy was selected by SAC Steering Committee from three proposals: Korea, Italy, and Portugal. The local organizing committee is lead by Dr. Paola Lecca and Professor Mirtis Conci, from COSBI, The Microsoft Research – University of Trento. A member of SAC Steering Committee, Dr. Sascha Ossowski, from the University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, will serve as the Conference Chair. The complete organizing committee can be found on SAC 2012 website at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/. Local sponsors include Provincia Autonoma