ICWN'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'08 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 12:40pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


12:40 - 01:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICWN (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Proactive Probabilistic Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
                     Abdelfettah Belghith, Hanen Idoudi, and Miklos Molnar
                     Univ. of Manouba, Tunisia; IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
                  O. Comparison of Evaluation Parameters Based on Mobility
                     Management Protocols in Wireless Networks
                     Golrokh Mirzaei and Morteza Analoui
                     Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
                  O. Analysis of the Channel Property for Mobile Satellite Communications
                     Jonghoon Lee, Baihua Zhu, and Sangseob Song
                     Chonbuk National University, Korea
                  O. Fault Tolerant Clustering Approaches in Wireless Sensor
                     Network for Landslide Area Monitoring 
                     Rehana raj T, Maneesha V Ramesh and Sangeeth k
                     Amrita University, India
                  O. 3D Geographical Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
                     Mohamed Watfa and Alaa al Tahaan
                     American University of Beirut,  Lebanon
                  O. A Distributed Target Tracking Algorithm for Near/Far Binary
                     Sensor Networks
                     Danial Aghajarian and Reza Berangi
                     Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
                  O. HSDD: The Method of Hierarchical Section-based Data Dissemination
                     in Wireless Sensor Networks
                     Hayoung Ryu, Eunjoo Jeong, Sangjun Park, Jongchan Lee,
                     Youngsong Mun, and Byuggi Kim
                     Soongsil University, Korea; Kunsan National University, Korea
                  O. Robustness of Grid-based Deployment in Wireless Sensors Network
                     Manjiri Joshi, Ramya Pulimati, Srikanth Edula, and Huirong Fu
                     Oakland University, USA
                  O. Biologically Inspired Data Propagation and Aggregation Method
                     for Wireless Sensor Networks
                     Joshua Freeman, Anish Mohan, and Maneesha V. Ramesh
                     Amrita University, India


01:20 - 03:20pm:  During this period, ICWN'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'08, GCA'08, ICOMP'08, SWWS'08,
                  SAM'08, ESA'08, FECS'08, or CIC'08. These sessions discuss
                  topics that overlap the scope of ICWN'08.


SESSION 1-ICWN:   WIRELESS COMMUNICATION + MOBILE AND WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKING
                  Chair: Dr. Victor A. Clincy, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 03:20pm - 04:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 3)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  HEAPINGS: From Concept to Simulations
                  Fred Strickland and Yu Wang
                  Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Accuracy of the ITGuru Wireless Model
                  Victor Clincy and Steven Benzel
                  Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  FREE SLOT

04:20 - 04:40pm:  FREE SLOT


SESSION 2-ICWN:   AUTONOMOUS MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS
                  Chair: Prof. Howard E. Michel, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 04:40pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 3)

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Efficient Self Configuration and Coding for Autonomous
                  Mobile Sensor Networks
                  Ali Abedi
                  University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  When Collective Dynamic Knowledge is Greater Than the Sum
                  of its Parts: the Case for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
                  Oscar N. Garcia, Shengli Fu, and Xinrong Li
                  University of North Texas, Texas, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Multi-Scale Adaptive Sampling with Mobile Robots for Mapping
                  of Forest Fires
                  Muhammad F. Mysorewala and Dan O. Popa
                  University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Integrated Technical Reference Model and Sensor Network Architecture
                  Hemant Joshi and Howard E. Michel
                  University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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