GSU to Host iWON 2013 in December

On December 9, the Department of Computer Science will host the International Workshop on Optical Networking (iWON 2013) at Georgia State’s Rialto Center for the Arts.

iWON will give optical networking researchers a forum to discuss the latest research and innovation in the design of smart optical network architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications. The workshop will feature invited talks, panel discussions, presentations, and posters. There is no registration fee for the workshop, and meals are provided at no charge.

iWON is now accepting submissions in the form of a two-page extended abstract or position paper. The deadline for submissions is August 2, with notification of acceptance by September 20 and final versions due on October 18. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to include a full version of the paper (up to six pages) in the workshop proceedings.

Associate professor Xiaojun Cao is chairing the workshop. Department chair Yi Pan is on the workshop’s steering committee, and associate professor Anu Bourgeois is the publicity chair. Recent Ph.D. graduate Yang Wang is a member of the program committee.

iWON is being held at the same time as IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, although the two events are not connected. GLOBECOM, which is one of two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, is expected to draw about 2,000 researchers and industry leaders to downtown Atlanta during December 9–13.

Pan Gives Keynote Talks at CSA 2012 and WCC 2012

Department chair Yi Pan gave keynote talks at two conferences in South Korea last November. He was the only invited speaker at the 4th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and Its Applications (CSA 2012). At the 3rd FTRA World Convergence Conference (WCC 2012), he was one of two invited speakers. Both conferences were held in Jeju, South Korea on November 22–25, 2012.

Dr. Pan’s talk was titled “Cloud Computing Programming Models - Challenges and Solutions.” Dr. Pan is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cloud Computing, the first peer-reviewed journal in the rapidly growing field of cloud computing.

Dr. Pan was one of three general chairs for CSA 2012. He also served on the conference’s international advisory board. Associate professor Xiaojun Cao was a program chair for CSA 2012, and associate professor WenZhan Song was a workshop chair.

Both CSA 2012 and WCC 2012 were sponsored by the Future Technology Research Association International and the Korea Information Technology Convergence Society. FTRA is a nonprofit scientific organization that organizes numerous conferences, symposia, and workshops.