ICTTA’06 PROGRAM OVERVIEW SUNDAY, April 23, 2006 ICTTA’06 – REGISTRATION (14:00 – 18:30) Monday, April 24, 2006 ICTTA’06 – REGISTRATION (08:00 – 18:00) Opening Ceremony (10:30 – 11:30) INVITED TALK: "On the Road for the economic development of Syria", Dr. Osmane AÏDI, AÏDI Foundation (11:30 – 12:00) (Room : Al Khwarizmi) 12 : 00 13 : 15 14 : 30 16 : 15 16 : 45 18 : 45 Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: : eBusiness & eBanking eBusiness & eBanking eBusiness & eBanking - I - - II - Room - III - ICA08, & Al Khwarizmi Al Khwarizmi ICA06 ICA07 ROUND TABLE Medical Imaging Medical Imaging Text Processing, : – I – – II – Analysis & IP03 IP04 Recognition Room Al Biruni IP10 3G & 4G Mobile Satellite Workshop: : Communication ICT & Education E–Learning (I) Services ICA02 Pedagogy Room Avicenna TEL20 ICA17 Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: : ICT Application for People ICT Application for People Assistive Technologies with Dis. & Aging People LUNCH with Dis. & Aging People COFFEE ICA27 Room User perspective Intelligent Environments BREAK BREAK ROUND TABLE Jabir Ibn Haiyan ICA25 ICA26 Special Session: (13 : 15 Optimization (16 : 15 Satellite & Space : Systems & Techniques: "Theory – – Communications Requirement Eng. and Applications" Room Al Kindi 14 : 30) 16 : 45) TEL15 SEN01 SEN02 Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: : Information Information Information Al Razi Room Systems – I – Systems – II – Systems ICA12 ICA13 ROUND TABLE Special Session: Special Session: Special Session: : G/MPLS Optical Optical Room Networking Communications I Communications II Ibn Al Haytham TEL07 TEL01 TEL02 Decision Support Knowledge Based : Systems Systems Room SEN21 SEN20 Omar Al KhayyamOmar Tuesday, April 25, 2006 ICTTA’06 – REGISTRATION (08:00 – 18:00) INVITED TALK: "Telecommunications Policy. A 15 years perspective", Pr. Antonio ALABAU, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, SPAIN (10:45 – 11:15) (Room : Al Khwarizmi) 08 : 30 10 : 15 11 : 15 13 : 00 14 : 30 16 : 15 16 : 45 18 : 30 The Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: : The promise of eHealth eLearning and electronic Business Case–Cost-Benefit Patient Information Relationhips / Round Table for the improvement of Patient Records and Empowerment Room on the Future of ehealth healthcare (ICA31) (ICA32) Al Khwarizmi Al Khwarizmi (ICA33) (ICA034) Networking – Wireless Networking – Networking – : Dedicated techniques Routing & traffic Networking and Security & evolution management Communication Room Al Biruni SEN12 SEN11 TEL12 SEN13 Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: COFFEE : E -Learning (II) E -Learning (III) E -Learning (IV) E –Learning (V) BREAK Adaptation, Personalization (10 : 15 Services & Infrastructure Large Scale Evaluation, ICA21 Room Avicenna & Collaboration, ICA18 – ICA19 Experience, ICA20 ROUND TABLE 10 : 45) Image Compression Information Society 3D Data Hiding : & Image Coding Issues Imaging & Image Room ICA01 LUNCH IP02 COFFEE watermarking BREAK BREAK Jabir Ibn Haiyan IP14 IP15 & (13 : 00 (16 : 15 – Digital Digital Digital – Digital 14 : 30) : 16 : 45) Communications – Communications – Communications Communications Room Invited Al Kindi Coding Turbo Coding Modulation – I – Modulation – II – Talk TEL10 TEL11 TEL08 TEL09 (10 : 45 – Software Architecture, Agent & Multiagents Agent & Multiagents Database 11 : 15) : Programming & Systems in ICT – Systems in ICT – Management Quality Assurance Organization & Behavior Systems&Applications Al Razi Room Systems SEN04 SEN08 SEN09 SEN05 : (Poster Session) (Poster Session) (Poster Session) A Image Applications Information Signal Processing IP23 Processing Techniques & POSTER ROOM ROOM POSTER IP24 Applications (IP25) : (Poster Session) (Poster Session) (Poster Session) Applications & Software Mobile & Wireless B Services Engineering Issues Networks ICA05 SEN24 TEL21 POSTER ROOM ROOM POSTER Wednesday, April 26, 2006 INVITED TALK: "Automatic Speech Recognition: state of the art", Pr. Jean-Paul Haton Henri-Poincaré University, Nancy 1 – France, (10:45 – 11:15) (Room : Al Khwarizmi) 08 : 30 10 : 15 11 : 15 13 : 00 14 : 30 16 : 15 16 : 45 18 : 30 Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: : E-Government, The Way E-Government, The Way E-Government – The Way E-Government – The Ahead (ICA28) Ahead (ICA29) Ahead (ICA30) Way Ahead Room Experiences Models & Analysis On-line deliberation Al Khwarizmi Al Khwarizmi Round Table Signal Processing & Signal Processing & Speech Signal Speech Signal : Applications – I – Applications – II – Processing – I – Processing – II – IP05 IP06 IP08 IP09 Room Al Biruni Data Mining & Data Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: COFFEE : Fusion ICT in Intelligent ICT in Intelligent ICT in Intelligent BREAK Transportation Transportation Transportation IP11 (10 : 15 Room Avicenna – Systems – I –, ICA22 Systems – II –, ICA23 Systems – III –, ICA24 10 : 45) Software Computer Science Parallel Distributed Systems : Engineering & Issues Computing Room Modeling SEN22 LUNCH SEN18 COFFEE SEN19 BREAK BREAK Jabir Ibn Haiyan SEN03 & (13 : 00 (16 : 15 – Emerging Satellite Workshop: Satellite Workshop: – Satellite Workshop: 14 : 30) 16 : 45) : Multimedia & approaches and Multimedia & Multimedia & Webmining (III), Room Invited Al Kindi technologies Webmining (I) Webmining (II) Talk ICA16, Round Table IP21 ICA14 ICA15 (10 : 45 – Communication Communication Communication Communication 11 : 15) : Systems – I – Systems – II – Systems – III – Systems – IV – Al Razi Room TEL16 TEL17 TEL18 TEL19 Special Sessios: Antennas & Antennas & Special Sessios: : MIMO Systems Propagation Propagation Integrated Wireless Room Systems and Applications TEL03 – I – – II – Ibn Al Haytham TEL06 TEL04 TEL05 Image Segmentation Image Recognition Image Enhancement Data Management, : Data Visualization & & Edge detection & tracking and Indexing Machine Learning Room IP16 IP17 IP18 IP12 Omar Al KhayyamOmar Thursday, April 27, 2006 INVITED TALK: "Emerging Wireless Access Technologies", Pr. Ghais El Zein Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes- France (10:45 – 11:15) (Room : Al Khwarizmi) 08 : 30 10 : 15 11 : 15 13 : 00 14 : 30 18 : 00 Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing: : New Trends & New Trends & New Trends & Room Applications – I – Applications – II – Applications – III – Al Khwarizmi Al Khwarizmi ICA09 ICA10 ICA11 QoS - Management QoS – Case Information : SEN14 applications & new Security & Data Room approaches Protection Al Biruni SEN15 SEN16 Networking – Ad-Hoc Networks Mobile : Control managment Communications & Room SEN10 TEL14 Cellular Networks Avicenna TEL13 Speech Special Session: Information-Image : Recognition Biometrics and indexing & retrieval Room IP07 COFFEE cryptography IP22 BREAK Jabir Ibn Haiyan IP01 (10 : 15 Multimedia: – Multimedia: Web Engineering & : Techniques & 10 : 45) Techniques & Application LUNCH Room Al Kindi Applications – I – Applications – II – BREAK SEN17 SEN06 SEN07 (13 : 00 Fuzzy & Evolutionary ANN & Information Dynamic System & : – Information & Processing 14 : 30) Fuzzy logic control Processing Al Razi Room IP20 IP19 IP13 (Special Session) Invited Talk (Special Session) Immersive visualisation& : M-Commerce Systems (10 : 45 M-Commerce Systems interaction: Usability, – design & applications Room & Applications – I – & Applications –II– 11 : 15) Ibn Al Haytham SEN23 ICA03 ICA04 ICT – Applications ICA01: Information Society Issues ICA02: ICT & Education ICA03: M-Commerce Systems and Applications (Special Session) – I – ICA04: M-Commerce Systems and Applications (Special Session) – II – ICA05: Applications & Services (Poster Session) SATELLITE WORKSHOPS E-Business & E-Banking ICA06: E-Business & E-Banking – I – ICA07: E-Business & E-Banking – II – ICA08: E-Business & E-Banking – III – Remote Sensing: New Trends & Applications ICA09: Remote Sensing: New Trends & Applications – I – ICA10: Remote Sensing: New Trends & Applications – II – ICA11: Remote Sensing: New Trends & Applications – III – Information Systems ICA12: Information Systems – I – ICA13: Information Systems – II – Multimedia & Webmining ICA14: Multimedia & Webmining – I – ICA15: Multimedia & Webmining – II – ICA16: Multimedia & Webmining – III – E-Learning ICA17: E-Learning: Pedagogy ICA18: E-Learning: Adaptation, Personalization & Collaboration ICA19: E-Learning: Services & Infrastructure ICA20: E-Learning: Large Scale Experience ICA21: E-Learning: Evaluation ICT in Intelligent Transportation Systems ICA22: ICT in Intelligent Transportation Systems - I - ICA23: ICT in Intelligent Transportation Systems - II - ICA24: ICT in Intelligent Transportation Systems - III - ICT Application for People with Disabilities & Aging People ICA25: User perspective ICA26: Intelligent Environments ICA27: Assistive Technologies E-Government – The Way Ahead ICA28: E-Government Experiences ICA29: E-Government: Models & Analysis ICA30: On-line deliberation E-Health ICA31: Introduction & Intersectoral Issues ICA32: eLearning and electronic Patient Records ICA33: Patient Information and Empowerment ICA34: Telematic Networks and Telemedicine Applications ICA01: Information Society Issues (Tuesday, April 25, 11:15 – 13:00) Co-Chairs: Pr. Wael Mualla Pr. Habib Hamam Damascus University, SYRIA University of Moncton, CANADA 1. ICTTA215: “Straightforwardly Extendible Web-Based Simulator of Communication Chains”, H. Hamam, Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University