Faculty of Computers and Information

Cairo University
5 Dr. Ahmed Zoweil St, Post # 12613 Cairo University Post Office, Giza, Egypt
http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/        infos@fci-cu.edu.eg

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Phone: +202 3381687                 Fax: +202 3350109
INFOS2006
Fourth International Conference  25-27 March 2006

NEW TRENDS IN INFORMATICS: The way ahead

The world has witnessed enormous and unprecedented developments in the fields of communications and information technology during the past few years. This was also accompanied with tremendous growth in research in various information technology fields and the development of new computing techniques and paradigms.

This conference brings together ICT researchers and practitioners to exchange views, positions and research results on the state-of- the-art development and research in the fields of Computer Sciences; Information Technology; Information Systems and Operations Research & Decision Support.

The main aim of this conference is to establish a working dialogue about what new trends are worth heading for the successful utilization of information technologies and systems to serve society's goals and to meet international research challenges.

The conference also aims to highlight outstanding issues that should form a part of the forthcoming research agenda in the area of disseminating and applying sound research methodology in information systems practices and technologies.

The conference program committee intends to organize a number of relevant tracks and/ or sessions as suggested by the accepted papers.

A special session on Multiple Classifier Systems with the collaboration of Ulm University, Department of Neural Information Processing, is planned to take place as a part of the conference program.

Paper topics include, but are not limited to, following research areas:

• Data Modeling and Computational Linguistics
• Databases and GIS
• Information Security and Assurance
• Information and Knowledge Management
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
• Soft computing and Intelligent hybrid technologies
• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Data, voice and video convergence
• Web Technologies
• Grid Computing
• Mobile Computing
• Decision Support Systems Technologies

The Organizing Committee
Conference Chair;
Prof. Aly Aly Fahmy, Dean of the Faculty of Computers and Information
Conference Secretary:
Prof. Salwa Al-Gamal, Vice-Dean for Society services and Community Development
Conference Co-secretaries:
Prof. Sanaa Al-Ola (Head of Information Technology Department)
Prof Reem Bahgat (Head of Computer Science Department)
Dr. Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen (Head of Information Systems Department)
Dr. Assem Tharwat (Head of Decision Support Systems Department)

Executive and Publishing Committee
Dr. Hesham N. Elmahdy
Dr. Neamat Elgayar
Dr. Aboul Ella Hassanien
Dr. Mostafa Reda
Dr. Samhaa El Beltagy
Dr. Mohamed M. Abdeldayem
Dr. Ashraf Shosha (ICGST)
Mohamed Maher
Shereen Mohamad