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Intelligent Spatial Decision Analysis
ISDA '10
http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/isda_10/ISDA.html

in conjunction with

International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT'10)

InnerHarbor, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 28-30 July 2010
http://idt-10.kesinternational.org/

Workshop Description
Within the study on decision-making essence and its links with some strictly related concepts as evaluation and choice, it is possible to state that whereas decision can be mostly considered as a “political” process, evaluation mainly includes technical issues, while choice induces both sides problems.

* Evaluation concerns an initial phase of a cognitive process and the decision terms of reference defining the boundaries within which the entire process takes place and the evaluation purposes are defined.
* Decision is a deliberative act which temporarily closes a long and predominantly political process where the relationship among individuals of a community (and therefore among contrasting interests) needs to be regulated.
* Choice ends an evaluation process which aims to select a decisional alternative among many ones, on the base of different and often conflictual criteria and points of view. So it reminds the necessity to screen and compare many alternatives and to make a selection.

How does Information Technology application in spatial analysis modify the way of making decisions? Decision Theory based its fundamentals on limited sets of solution and evaluation criteria for a long time, but the way of describing spatial issues of governance, characters and constraints of physical space shows a further complexity that can not be described without the use of new methods, in order to increase decision quality. Even if the core nature of decision approach still remains the same, the number of complexities connected within the process increases rapidly. The interaction among evaluation methods, and the new described complexity of the physical urban space create a new era for spatial decision support involving several disciplines, and domains of knowledge.

In relation to what above, a decision process necessarily involves the existence of several social actors, usually called “stakeholders”, contributing to the final choice definition and enforcement; it is therefore important to stress the distinction between decision making and decision aiding, sometimes wrongly adopted as synonyms. While a decision maker is the subject able, at the same time, to give the knowledge and to have the responsibility to make a choice, a decision aiding context involves the existence of two distinctive subjects at least: the analyst (or a group of them) aiding the decision via a deep scientific knowledge and the client (public or private) to whom such support is directed. Therefore, in the first case the following elements are usually considered: a well defined set of possible decisional alternatives, a well defined preference system already clear in the decision maker mind and a correctly formulated mathematical problem. A decision aiding approach implies a set of not necessary stable potential actions compared on the base of n criteria able to reflect, under a natural uncertainty, the social actor preferences; in this case, then, a well formalized mathematical problem is quite impossible. In this context Intelligent Spatial Analysis Systems represent a fundamental support to decision making processes in conformity with a double reading perspective:

1. they comprise a coherent set of methods and techniques which enable to deepen the investigation on the scientific aspect of decision making process, adopting several rigorous tools and models belonging to different fields as machine learning (i.e. cellular automata, multi-agent systems, Bayesian networks, artificial neural networks, etc.), geostatistics (i.e. kernel methods, kriging, support vector machines, etc.), remote sensing, spatial data warehousing and Spatial OLAP, and spatial data mining;
2. they represent an innovative mean to enhance and guarantee participation (i.e. spatial multicriteria decision aiding, electronic meetings, focus groups, etc.), consensus building and communicability consensus building and communicability of decision making scenarios among stakeholders, in order to reach a transparent and accepted final choice.

The aim of the workshop is to investigate such connections among disciplines, by theoretical debates and tales on case studies.

The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions on the following Conference Themes :

* Decision Support Theory;
* Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis;
* Spatial Rough Set;
* Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory;
* Ontologies for Spatial Analysis;
* Environmental data mining;
* Learning from geospatial data;
* Machine Learning and Geostatistics;
* Artificial neural networks;
* Web-based decision analysis tools;
* Wireless Sensor Networks for Spatial Apllications
* Ant-based Algorithms;
* Cellular automata;
* Bayesian reasoning;
* Statistical learning theory: support vector machines, kernel methods;
* Remote sensing and remote sensed image processing;
* Geographical approach to risk analysis;
* Spatial Data warehousing foundations and architectures;
* Spatial Data extraction, cleaning, and loading;
* Spatial Multidimensional modeling and queries;
* Spatial OLAP visualization;
* New Spatial OLAP applications;
* Spatial OLAP as support for intelligent spatial analysis (data mining, multi-criteria, etc...);
* Spatial data mining: algorithms and visualization;
* New spatial data mining applications;
* Coupling spatial data mining and Spatial OLAP;
* Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data analysis;
* Visualisation and modelling of track data.

Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it.
For formatting information, see the publisher's web site
(http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0).

Papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer format. Papers longer than this will be subject to an additional charge. Shorter papers will be acceptable if they adequately convey the material to be described, and are not so short as to be trivial or lacking in depth.

Submission
Papers for review for the conference must be submitted electronically in PDF form using the PROSE online submission and review system access.

You may submit a paper to “Intelligent Spatial Decision Analysis” Session selecting the session from a drop-down box when you submit the paper. Please ensure you select the correct session.

If you wish to submit a paper to an Invited Session, and the session is not shown on the drop-down box, please wait until the session has been set up.

Once the paper has been submitted you may check its progress by login in to the PROSE review system using the login details you have been supplied with (http://idt-10.kesinternational.org/prose.php).

Proceedings
Accepted papers will be published by prestigious publishing house, Springer Verlag, as book chapters in a volume of their Engineering Series and indexed in ISI conference publications, EI, INSPEC, etc.

Outstanding papers will be invited to a submission in two special issues:

* Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal (http://idt-journal.kesinternational.org/).
* Journal of Decision Systems (http://jds.revuesonline.com/).

Important dates

17 March 2010: Deadline for full paper submission
7 April 2010: Notification of acceptance
19 April 2010: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
28-30 July 2010: ISDA '10 (IDT'10) Conference

Programme Chairs

* Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
* Sandro Bimonte, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France

Programme Committee

* Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
* Alessandra Lappucci, University of Pisa, Italy
* Sandro Bimonte, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France
* Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland
* Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
* Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
* Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer Institute of Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Germany
* Menno-Jan Kraak, International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente , the Netherlands
* Karine Zeitouni, University of Versailles, France
* Jose Norberto Mazón López, University of Alicante, Spain
* Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
* Sonia Rivest, Laval University, Canada
* Michele Ottomanelli, Department of Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
* Florence Le Ber, Ecole Nationale du Génie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement de Strasbourg, France
* David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, Usa
* Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada
* Baris Kazar, Oracle Corporation, Usa
* Alex Hagen-Zanker, Department of Architecture, University ofCambridge, UK
* Maria Cerreta, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
* Yong Ge, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, ChineseAcademy of Sciences
* Suzana Dragicevic, Department of Geography, SimonFraserUniversity, Canada
* Arta Dilo, University of Twente, the Netherlands
* Zorica Nedovic-Budic, School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy, UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland
* Allan Brimicombe, Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of East London, UK
* Massimo Di Gangi, University of Messina, Italy
* Manfred Schrenk, Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria
* Roberto De Lotto, University of Pavia, Italy
* Malgorzata Hanzl, Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, TechnicalUniversity of Lodz
* Fabio Luino, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Italy
* François Pinet, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France
* Andrea Taramelli, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Usa
* Lalan Kumar, Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, India
* Nicoletta Gazzea, High Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Italy
* Michela Bertolotto, School of Computer Science & Informatics, UniversityCollegeDublin , Ireland
* Grazia Concilio, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
* Markus Wolff, Department of Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany
* Nicola Masini, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy
* Devis Tuia, Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Riske, Univeristy of Lausanne, Switzerland
* Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Department of Architecture and Planning - University of Sassari, Italy
* Ivan Blecic, Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari, Italy
* Jérôme Gensel, Spatio-TEmporal information, Adaptability, Multimedia and knowlEdge Representation Laboratory (STEAMER), Grenoble, France
* Maria Danese, University of Basilicata, Italy
* Elke Moons, Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium
* Paola Perchinunno, Department of Statistical Science, University of Bari, Italy
* Christine Voiron-Canicio, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis – CNRS – UMR ESPACE, France
* Rosa Lasaponara, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council, Italy
* Pablo Vanegas, Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Massimiliano Petri, University of Pisa, Italy
* Bianca Schoen, School of Computer Science & Informatics, UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland
* Farid karimipour, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* Shamim Akhter, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
* Luca Paolino, University of Salerno, Italy
* Urska Demsar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
* Maurizio Lazzari, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy
* Dimos N. Pantazis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
* Bahaaeddin Alhaddad, Center of Land Policy and Valuations, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
* Salvatore Manfreda, University of Basilicata, Italy
* Francesco Rotondo, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
* Janusz Starczewski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
* Pasquale Di Donato, University of Sapienza Roma, Italy
* Tao Cheng, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering , UniversityCollegeLondon, UK
* Christoph Aubrecht, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
* Belen Palop, University Valladolid, Spain
* Maurizio Gibin, School of Geography, BirkbeckCollege, University of London, UK

Joint conferences in Computer Science & Computer Engineering - Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2010, USA

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Dear Colleagues:

We would be most grateful if you would share the announcement
below with those who may be interested. We anticipate over 2,000
attendees; this is a great opportunity to share your research
results with others in your field.
Thank you - Steering Committee, WORLDCOMP
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2010

WORLDCOMP'10

The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the respective conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.)

ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (a partial list):

The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of
California, Berkeley, USA; Collaboratory for Advanced Computing
and Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California, USA;
Intelligent Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., University of
Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department
Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab., Harvard University,
Massachusetts, USA; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Lab.,
Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Georgia,
USA; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Center
for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA; Medical Image HPC & Informatics
Lab. (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; University of North
Dakota, USA; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Communications Lab.,
North Dakota State University, USA; Knowledge Management &
Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen,
Germany; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational
Research, Austria; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II,
University of Naples Parthenope, & Second University of Naples,
Italy; National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; High Performance
Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); Supercomputer Software
Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics &
Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Int'l
Council on Medical & Care Compunetics; The UK Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills, UK; VMW Solution Ltd.;
Scientific Technologies Corporation; HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; Space for Earth Foundation; and Manjrasoft (Cloud
Computing Technology company), Melbourne, Australia.

WORLDCOMP 2010 CONFERENCES: (all will be held simultaneously;
ie, same location and dates - tracks that have already received
a sufficient number of papers have been excluded from this list.)

o BIOCOMP'10 - 11th annual Conference on Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology
o CDES'10 - 10th annual Conference on Computer Design
o CGVR'10 - 14th annual Conference on Computer Graphics and
Virtual Reality
o CSC'10 - 7th annual Conference on Scientific Computing
o DMIN'10 - 6th annual Conference on Data Mining
o EEE'10 - 9th annual Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
o ESA'10 - 8th annual Conference on Embedded Systems and
Applications
o FCS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Foundations of Computer
Science
o FECS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
o GCA'10 - 6th annual Conference on Grid Computing and
Applications
o GEM'10 - 7th annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
Methods
o ICAI'10 - 12th annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
o ICOMP'10 - 11th annual Conference on Internet Computing
o ICWN'10 - 9th annual Conference on Wireless Networks
o IKE'10 - 9th annual Conference on Information and Knowledge
Engineering
o IPCV'10 - 14th annual Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
o MSV'10 - 7th annual Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
Visualization Methods
o PDPTA'10 - 16th annual Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications
o SAM'10 - 9th annual Conference on Security and Management
o SERP'10 - 9th annual Conference on Software Engineering
Research and Practice
o SWWS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Semantic Web and
Web Services

Each of the conferences listed above has its own proceedings;
its own program committee members, and infrastructure. A
link to each of these conferences can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

GENERAL INFORMATION:

WORLDCOMP 2010 will be composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer/computer architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known
as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys
(known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC),
Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming,
Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U.
of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director &
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private
space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates
photos available at: http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
Featured keynote speakers for 2010 are (this is a partial list;
there are 22 other keynotes/invited talks):
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic) and Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA).

WORLDCOMP 2010 MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE:
(Each conference has its own committee members - what appears
below is a partial list of members of the steering committee
of the federated event.)

Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (Contact Person)
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2010,
ISIBM Fellow & Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
email: hra@cs.uga.edu

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intel. HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII);
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Prof. (Winston) Wai-Chi Fang
IEEE Fellow
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor,
National Chiao Tung University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Sci. & Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK

Prof. Layne T. Watson
IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,
Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers
by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Submissions must be uploaded by the end of March 21, 2010
and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf
formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of
10 to 12). At this time, all reasonable typesetting formats
are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will
be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their final papers for publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of
the paper.

All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (in both, printed book/ISBN form as
well as online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec /
IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. 66754) The printed
proceedings will be available for distribution on site at
the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for publication in a number of research books being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as,
Springer, Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be
composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions
and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be
published after the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 21, 2010: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 10, 2010: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 1, 2010: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
(WORLDCOMP'10)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

See:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/location

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CALL for Participation - CALCE/SMTA - Counterfeit Electronic Part Conference

Call for Participation 2010 Symposium on Avoiding, Detecting, and
Preventing Counterfeit Electronic Parts - West
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June 8-11, 2010
Honeywell Deer Valley
Deer Valley (Phoenix), AZ
Abstracts due: April 9, 2010

Contact: Diganta Das (diganta@umd.edu<mailto:diganta@umd.edu>)
Cost TBA

SMTA and CALCE at the University of Maryland are pleased to announce a
west coast venue for the Symposium on Avoiding, Detecting, and
Preventing Counterfeit Electronic Parts. The first three symposia (held
in College Park, MD) were an overwhelming success with participation of
part manufacturers, distributors, users, government and law enforcement
agencies, legal professionals, authentication technology manufacturers,
academic institutions, supply chain and brand protection professionals.
We are pleased to offer a west coast venue in 2010.

Counterfeit electronics have been reported in a wide range of products,
including computers, telecommunications equipment, automobiles, avionics
and military systems. Counterfeit electronics include everything from
very inexpensive capacitors and resistors to costly microprocessors,
completed assemblies and even systems. Going beyond anecdotes and
examples of counterfeit parts, this symposium focuses on the solutions
that are available and are under development by all sectors of the
industry. Two days of planned sessions for the symposium will include
the following. Some of the technical sessions will be presented in panel
discussion format to offer higher level of audience participation in the
process.

* Keynote session with US government (by invitation only)
* US civilian and defense law enforcement process
* International intellectual property laws and their enforcement
* View from equipment manufacturers and standards bodies
* Inspections tools and techniques for detecting counterfeit parts
* Authentication techniques for securing electronic part supply chain
* Electronic industry supply chain
* Counterfeit beyond electronic parts - equipment, energy storage,
materials, electro-mechanical

In addition to the technical sessions, multiple parallel workshop one
and half day durations will be offered. The technical committee is
currently reviewing the workshop proposals, the expected topics of
workshops include the following:

* Physical & Material Testing to Identify Counterfeit Part: CALCE
* Supply Chain Best Practices: CALCE
* Worldwide Intellectual Property Protection: WIPO - an UN Body
* External Visual Inspection of Electronic Parts: IDEA
* Counterfeit Risk Identification: JPL/NASA
* DMSMS: US DoD
* Counterfeit Part Reporting
* Electrical Testing Methods: Integra

The conference is organized by SMTA in conjunction with Center for
Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA. Previous symposia had been valuable to senior
management, supply chain managers, component engineers, brand protection
specialists, inspectors, marketing and procurement policy makers,
contracts and legal management, security specialists and government
agencies addressing the issue. Our focus is to provide relevant
information to the professionals that can be used for solving problems
today while planning for a different business and technology environment
in the future.

If you are interested in participation in the technical sessions, please
submit an abstract (within 300 words) on relevant topics to Dr. Diganta
Das via email to diganta@umd.edu<mailto:diganta@umd.edu> no later than
April 9th. Please identify the session for which the abstract is being
submitted. The final presentations are due May 14th for the accepted
abstracts.

Registration will open at the SMTA web site in late March 2010, for the
technical sessions and the workshops. For more information about
conference participation or registration, contact Melissa
Serres<melissa@smta.org>.

Symposium Technical Committee:
Diganta Das, Ph.D., CALCE/University of Maryland, Conference Chair
Dan Dimase, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Conference Co-Chair
Bill Barthel, Plexus Corporation
Robin Gray, National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA)
Phil Montag, Honeywell Technology Solutions
Sydney Pope, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Phil Zulueta, Jet Propulsion Laboratories
Mark Crawford, Office of Technology Evaluation, Department of Commerce