FINAL PROGRAM THE 2008 ACM SIGAPP SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil March 16 - 20, 2008 Organizing Committee Roger L. Wainwright Maria Andréia F. Rodriges Lorie M. Liebrock Hisham M. Haddad Rossana Maria C. Andrade Mathew J. Palakal Angelo Brayner Nabor C. Mendonça Jiman Hong Ronaldo Menezes Javan M. Machado Sung Y. Shin Mirko Viroli HOSTED BY University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil SPONSORED BY Ensinando e Aprendendo Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy SAC 2008 Advances in Spatial and Image-based Information Systems (ASIIS) Richard Chbeir, LE2I-CNRS, France Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Instute, France, France Ki-Joune LI, Pusan National University, Korea Introduction Kokou Yetongnon, Bourgogne University, France Agent-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (APSLA) SAC 2008 is a premier international conference on ap- Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Eric Platon, Paris 6 University, France plied computing and technology. Attendees have the op- Alessandro Ricci, Universit`adi Bologna, Italy portunity to hear from expert practitioners and researchers Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium about the latest trends in research and development in their Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EC) fields. SAC 2008 features 2 keynote speakers on Monday and Bryant Julstrom, St. Cloud State University, USA Wednesday, from 8:20 to 10:00. The symposium consists of Artificial Intelligence in Space Applications (AISA) Tutorial and Technical programs. The Tutorial Program Rafael Santos, INPE - National Institute for Space Research, Brazil offers 4 half-day tutorials on Sunday March 16, 2008, start- Jos´eDemisio Sim˜oesda Silva, National Institute for Space Re- ing at 8:30am and 2pm. The Technical Program offers 45 search, Brazil tracks on a wide number of different research topics, which Autonomic Computing (AC) run from Monday March 17 through Thursday March 20, Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 2008. Regular sessions start at 8:20am and end at 5:20pm Rajiv Ramnath, The Ohio State University, USA in up to 6 parallel sessions. Moreover, two poster tracks Bioinformatics (BIO) Rajaraman Kanagasabai, Institute for Infocomm Research, Sin- also run on Tuesday March 18, from 9:00am to 12:00am and gapore from 14:00am to 17:00am. Mathew Palakal, IUPUI, USA William Perrizo, North Dakota State University, USA Computational Logic and Computational Intelli- Organizing Committee gence in Signal and Image Analysis (CISIA) Agostinho da Rosa, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA Roger L. Wainwright, Symposium Chair Computer Applications in Health Care (CAHC) Rosa Maria E. M. Costa, Universidade do Estado do Rio de University of Tulsa, USA Janeiro, Brazil Hisham M. Haddad, Symposium Chair, Treasurer, Web- F´atima Nunes, Centro Universit´arioEur´ıpides de Mar´ılia, Brazil master Computer Forensics (CF) Kennesaw State University, USA Kamesh Namuduri, Wichita State University, USA Brajendra Panda, University of Arkansas, USA Angelo Brayner, Symposium Vice-Chair University of Fortaleza, Brazil Computer Networks (CN) Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Ronaldo Menezes, Program Chair Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA Manuela Pereira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Mirko Viroli, Program Chair Teresa Vaz˜ao,IST/INESC ID, Portugal Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit`adi Bologna, Italy Computer Security (SEC) Maria Andr´eiaF. Rodrigues, Tutorials Chair Giampaolo Bella, Universit`adi Catania, ITALY University of Fortaleza, Brazil Constraint Satisfation and Programming (CSP) Stefano Bistarelli, Universit`a ’G. d’Annunzio’ Chieti-Pescara, Mathew J. Palakal, Poster Chair IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Indiana University Purdue University, USA Eric Monfroy, UTFSM, Chile and LINA, University of Nantes, France Lorie M. Liebrock, Publication Chair Barry O’Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Nabor C. Mendon¸ca, Local Organization Chair (CM) University of Fortaleza, Brazil Michael Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Western Javam M. Machado, Local Organization Chair Switzerland, Switzerland Alan Wood, University of York, UK Federal University of Cear´a, Brazil Rosana Maria C. Andrade, Publicity Chair Data Mining (DM) Hasan Jamil, Wayne State University, USA Federal University of Cear´a, Brazil Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada Jiman Hong, Asia Publicity Chair Data Streams (DS) Soongsil University, Korea Jesus Aguilar, Univ. Pablo Olavide, Spain Sung Y. Shin, US Publicity Chair Andr´eCarvalho, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil South Dakota State University, USA Jo˜aoGama, University of Porto (UP), Portugal Database Theory, Technology, and Applications (DTTA) Ramzi Haraty, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Track Chairs Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece Junping Sun, Nova Southeastern University, USA Adaptive Techniques in Operating Systems (ATOS) Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Jiman Hong, Soongsil University, Korea (DADS) Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Svein Hallsteinsen, Sintef, Norway Advances in Computer Simulation (ACS) Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Final Program 1 SAC 2008, March 16 – 20, 2008 Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle, UK Self Organization in Pervasive Distributed Systems Document Engineering (DE) (SOPDS) Rafael Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Marco Mamei, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Justin Werfel, New England Complex Systems Institute and Har- e-Business Applications (EBA) vard Medical School, USA Fahim Akhter, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Ibrahim Kamel, University of Sharjah, U.A.E Software Engineering (SE) Lami Kaya, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Sung Y. Shin, South Dakota University, USA Chang Oan Sung, Indiana University Southeast, USA Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Techniques (EMBS) Software Verification (SV) Alessio Bechini, University of Pisa, Italy Prete Cosimo Antonio, University of Pisa, Italy Fausto Spoto, Universita’ di Verona, Italy Engineering Large-Scale Distributed Systems The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) (ELSDS) Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Fabrizio Falchi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Col- Claudio Lucchese, ISTI-CNR, italy laboration Know-how (TRECK) Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) Virg´ılio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Rogerio de Carvalho, CEFET Campos, Brazil Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva and Venyo, Switzer- Asterio Tanaka, Federal University of State of Rio de Janeiro, land Brazil Ubiquitous Computing (UC) Geometrical Constraints and Reasoning (GCR) Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Xiao-Shan Gao, KLMM, Institute of System Science,AMSS, George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Academia Sinica, Beijing,, P.R. China Web Technologies (WT) Dominique Michelucci, Universit´ede Bourgogne, Dijon, France Youakim Badr, INSA-Lyon, France Pascal Schreck, LSIIT-Universit´e Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France France Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) Gloria Bordogna, CNR IDPA, Italy Gabriella Pasi, Universit`adegli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Local Support Middleware Engineering (ME) Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Praveen Madiraju, Marquette University, USA Local support for SAC 2008 is provided by the University Mobile Agents and Systems (MAS) of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Federal University of Cear´a(UFC), Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Maria Ganzha, EUH-E and IBS PAN, Poland FUNCAP, Bull, CNPq, Indica Comunica¸c˜aoe Eventos, and Yung-Chuan Lee, Southern Illinois University, USA Bando de Cria¸c˜ao.The SAC organizing committee acknowl- Shahram Rahimi, Southern Illinois University, USA edges and thanks the local supporters for their generous con- Mobile Computing and Applications (MCA) tributions to SAC 2008. Their support has been essential to Alvin Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Hong Va Leong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong the success of Symposium, and is greatly appreciated. Kong Multimedia and Visualization (MMV) Zhang Mingjun, Agilent Technologies, USA ACM SIGAPP Chaman Sabharwal, University of Missouri Science&Technology, USA Natural Language Processing and Speech Recogni- The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing tion (NLSP) Marius Pasca, Google, USA is ACM’s primary applications-oriented SIG. Its mission is Marius Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA to further the interests of the computing professionals en- Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Sys- gaged in the development of new computing applications tems (OOPS) and applications areas and the transfer of computing tech- Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy nology to new problem domains. SIGAPP offers practition- Alex Buckley, Sun Microsystems, USA ers and researchers the opportunity to share mutual interests Organizational Engineering