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AICCSA'2007 General Chair's Welcome Message
Welcome to the 2007 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and
Applications (AICCSA 2007). This year¿s conference marks the 5th anniversary
of AICCSA, which is progressing at an excellent rate both in terms of quality
and quantity.
AICCSA 2007 offers a unique forum for researchers and practitioners from
academia, industry, business, and government to share their expertise results
and research findings in all areas of Computer Systems and Applications.
We are honored to hold the conference under the patronage of His Excellency
Senator Professor Dr. Adnan Badran, former Prime Minster of Jordan, former
Deputy Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), former Secretary General of Jordan¿s Higher
Council for Science and Technology (HCST), and an internationally known
scientist and academic who also served in Jordan as Minster of Education,
Minster of Agriculture, Founding President of Yarmouk University, Founder of
Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), and Past President of
Philadelphia University. HE Professor Badran will give the opening
distinguished keynote speech.
This year¿s conference includes an outstanding technical program,
distinguished keynote speakers, and insightful tutorials. We have chosen the
Le Méridien Amman Hotel as the site for our conference. The hotel provides
excellent meeting facilities and will be a comfortable setting for our
conference. It sets in the heart of the capital city¿s Seven Hills. Le
Méridien Amman is located in the center of the Shmeisani commercial district
that is well-established in its rich cultural surroundings. The hotel is close
to many attractions of Amman such as Jabal Amman, Abdoon, Seweifia shopping
district, Downtown, the Citadel, and the Roman Theatre.
AICCSA 2007's technical program consists of several parallel tracks every day
and it will last for four days including the tutorials day. Each track
consists of several sessions of top quality papers. The topics covered in the
program include software engineering, networks and telecommunications,
parallel and distributed computing, database and data mining,
hardware/architecture/real-time systems, Geographical Information
Systems/Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSSs), modeling and
simulation, performance evaluation, digital signal processing, image
processing, pattern recognition, multimedia systems, artificial intelligence,
neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, wireless networks and
communications, web systems, security and information assurance, algorithms,
bioinformatics and biomedical engineering, and e-learning.
We received this year a large number of good papers from all around the world.
Only high quality papers have been accepted. The acceptance ratio is about
38%. This speaks a lot about the diligent work of the technical program
committee chairs, track chairs, technical program committee and reviewers. The
accepted papers come from all over the World with representation from
academia, industry, business and government.
Many individuals have contributed to the success of this high caliber
international conference. My sincere appreciation goes to all authors
including those whose papers were not included in the program. Many thanks to
our distinguished keynote speakers and tutorial instructors for their valuable
contribution to the conference. Special thanks to the technical program
committee chairs, Prof. Krys Pawlikowski, Prof. Jose Marzo, and Prof. Pascal
Lorenz. Many thanks go to the track chairs, technical program committee
members and reviewers for their timely work and efforts.
Thanks to Prof. Franco Davoli for putting together an excellent tutorial
program. Special thanks go to the publication chair, Juan Segovia, for his
outstanding work and dedication including his efforts as a Web Co-Master. Many
thanks also to Waleed Jayyousi for his excellent work as a Web Master. Thanks
to posters chairs, Professors Imad Mahgoub and Richard Green, and workshops
chair, Prof. Vojislav Misic.
Thanks are also due to Kelly Sutton, registration chair and our liaison with
Omnipress and IEEE Computer Society. Special thanks to the international
publicity committee members especially, Dr. Guoping Zeng, Dr. Essia H.
Elhafsi, Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla, Pere Vila and Su Tang. Thanks to the local
publicity committee members especially, Yousef Qwasmeh. Thanks to the local
arrangement committee members especially, Dr. Ayman Issa the Director of the
Conference Secretariat and Ms. Nuha Ayub. Thanks to Dr. Balqies Sadoun, Social
Event Chair, for many tasks and timely action.
We would like to thank all of our sponsors, especially Philadelphia University
and its President, His Excellency Professor Marwan Kamal for the local
support.
Finally, on behalf of the 2007 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer
Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2007, and IEEE Computer Society, I invite all
of you to join us in Amman, Jordan, at AICCSA 2007. Enjoy the program and
your stay in Jordan.
Mohammad S. Obaidat
General Chair, AICCSA 2007
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