SAC 2000

SAC 2000

This year, for the first time, the Symposium is being held outside the United States, at Villa Olmo in Como, Italy.

The registration form for is available in RTF and HTML formats.

Conference Programme The conference programme is now available. It includes: Message from the Conference Chair Message from the Programme Chair The abstract of Professor Carlo Ghezzi's keynote address, Rethinking the software process and Programme of Events for the main conference days, including the schedule for paper presentations. There is also an elctronic proceedings which features on-line versions of 80 papers. Tutorials Four tutorials have been accepted for presentation at the Symposium on Sunday the 19th of March. Read Bulk Synchronous Parallelism in Practice David B. Skillicorn, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (9:00AM - noon) Human-Centered Electronic Commerce Rajiv Khosla, University of Houston-University Park and Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan at Crema (9:00AM - noon) Self-Stabilization: A New Paradigm for Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems and Algorithms Pradip K. Srimani, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins (1:30PM - 4:30PM) Design and Analysis of Real-Time and Multimedia Communication Systems Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston-University Park (1:30PM - 4:30PM) See also the Message from the Tutorial Chair. Symposium Registration The registration form for the conference is available in RTF and HTML formats. There is also a list of social and other activities. Note that registrants for the technical sessions will receive the SAC 2000 Proceedings. SAC 2000 serves as one of the premiere conferences in Information Technology. Attendees will hear from experts about the latest in research and development in their fields. Attendance is limited, so register soon for SAC 2000!!!!! Accommodation The conference is being held at Villa Olmo in Como, Italy. Special room rates are available at a number of hotels: details are on the symposium accommodation page.

SAC 2000 Tracks The following special tracks are planned to form the heart of this year's Symposium. Track Chair AI and Computational Logic Chih-Cheng Hung Southern Polytechnic State University Agostinho Rosa Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica Biomedical Computing Donna Mooney University of Arkansas Computational Science S. Lakshmivarahan University of Oklahoma Computer Uses in Education Malini Krishnamurthi California State University-Fullerton Coordination Models, Languages and Applications George A. Papadopoulos University of Cyprus Andrea Omicini Universita degli Studi di Bologna Database Technology Ramzi A. Haraty Lebanese American University Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Roger L. Wainwright University of Tulsa Guenther R. Raidl Vienna University of Technology Fuzzy Applications Ernesto Damiani Universit di Milano Mobile Computing Systems and Applications Dorota Huizinga California State University Massimo Ancona Universita degli Studi di Genova Multimedia and Visualisation Jay Bhuyan Tuskegee University Brajendra Panda University of North Dakota Parallel and Distributed Computing Pradip Srimani Colorado State University Mahmoud Omari Mu'tah University PC Clusters Applications Don Morton The University of Montana Programming Languages Chang-Hyun Jo University of North Dakota Software Engineering and Management David Rine George Mason University WWW Applications Robert Inder University of Edinburgh

SAC 2000 Conference Officials