<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>CALL FOR PAPERS</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US>International Symposium on<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Multimedia –</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Applications and Processing, MMAP 2011,<o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></PRE><PRE
style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 3"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.fedcsis.org/"><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.fedcsis.org/</FONT></A></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Organized by:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2></FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><BR>
"Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT size=2><SPAN class=MsoHyperlink><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><U> </U></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>Contact:<SPAN lang=EN-US><U><FONT color=#0000ff> </FONT></U></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><A href="mailto:burdescu@software.ucv.ro"><FONT color=#0000ff>burdescu@software.ucv.ro</FONT></A><SPAN lang=EN-US><U><FONT color=#0000ff> <o:p></o:p></FONT></U></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>within the framework<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US>FEDERATED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US>held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Szczecin</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 19-21 September, 2011<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>* CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Multimedia information has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new
challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. Recent advances in pervasive</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2> computers, networks, telecommunications, and <BR>
information technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia mobile <BR>
devices - such as laptops, iPods, personal digital assistants (PDA), and <BR>
cellular telephones - have stimulated the development of intelligent <BR>
pervasive multimedia applications. These key technologies are creating a <BR>
multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide <BR>
spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, and governmental domains. Yet <BR>
many challenges remain, especially when it comes to efficiently indexing, <BR>
mining, querying, searching, and retrieving multimedia data. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>The Multimedia - Processing and Applications 2011 (MMAP 2011) Symposium addresses several themes related to theory and practice within multimedia domain. The enormous interest in multimedia from many activity areas (medicine, entertainment, education) led researchers and industry to make a continuous effort to create new, innovative multimedia algorithms and application.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>As a result the conference goal is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners in order to communicate their newest and original contributions on topics that have been identified (see below). We are also interested in looking at service architectures, protocols, and standards
for multimedia communications - including middleware - along with the related security issues, such as secure multimedia information sharing. Finally, we encourage submissions describing work on novel applications that exploit the unique set of advantages offered by multimedia computing techniques, including home-networked entertainment and games. However, innovative contributions that don't exactly fit into these areas will also be considered because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>* CALL FOR PAPERS<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>MMAP 2011 is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>The MMAP 2011 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. MMAP 2011 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><BR>
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<FONT size=2>* <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'" lang=EN-US>Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Image and Video Processing <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Speech, Audio and Music Processing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>3D and Stereo Imaging <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Distributed Multimedia Systems <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Data Mining<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Multimedia in E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Multimedia in Medical Applications <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Multimedia Authentication and Watermarking<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Entertainment and games<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 5pt 0cm; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-pagination: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Multimedia Interfaces <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>* PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Accepted and presented papers will be published as paper in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database and DBLP.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of IJCSA: International Journal of Computer Science & Applications, ISSN 0972-9038. <A href="http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html"><FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html</FONT></A> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 14pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 54.0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS style). LNCS style templates are available.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 45.8pt list 54.0pt left 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-list:
Ignore"><FONT size=2>·</FONT><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
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<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang=EN>31.05.2011</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang=EN>– Submission deadline</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><BR>
</SPAN><FONT size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang=EN>30.06.2011</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang=EN> – Notification of acceptance</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang=EN> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><BR>
</SPAN><FONT size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang=EN>31.07.2011</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang=EN> – Camera-ready version of the accepted paper</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US>s</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red" lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT size=2><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>September 19-21, 2011</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext"
lang=EN-US>–</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US> Symposium<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: red" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>* GENERAL MMAP 2011 CHAIR<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Dumitru Dan Burdescu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place> <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
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<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">* Steering Committee</B> <BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>Ioannis Pitas, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">University of Thessaloniki</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">,</SPAN> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place> </SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Costin Badica, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-INDENT: -2.85pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 8.55pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Borko Furht, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Florida Atlantic University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun" lang=EN-US> Harald Kosch, </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US>University of Passau</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2> Vladimir Uskov, Bradley <st1:City w:st="on">University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region><BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thomas M. Deserno, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Aachen University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold" lang=EN-US>Mohammad S. Obaidat, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Monmouth University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><BR>
<FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR>
</FONT><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=2>* Organizing Committee<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<o:p></o:p></FONT></B></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Liana Stanescu, University of Craiova, Romania<BR>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5.7pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Cristian Mihaescu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>* Publicity Chair<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US> Amelia Badica, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><BR>
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=2>* Program Committee <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">
<o:p></o:p></FONT></B></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>José Luis Sevillano Ramos, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Sevilla</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Michael Lang, National <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ireland</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>David Bustard, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ulster</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Janis Grundspenkis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Riga Technical University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Rynson Lau, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Shanghai</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, P.R. China<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Che-Chern Lin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">National Kaohsiung Normal University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Bogdan Logofatu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Bucuresti</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Toshio Okamoto, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Electro-Communications</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Wita Wojtkowski, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boise State University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Reda Alhajj, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Calgary</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US>Qi Chun, </SPAN><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext;
mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun" lang=EN-US>Xi'an</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun" lang=EN-US> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Jiaotong</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, P.R.China<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Enn Õunapuu, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Tallinn</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Estonia</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>George Tsihrintzis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Piraeus</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Stefan Trzcielinski, <st1:City w:st="on">Poznan</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: DE" lang=DE><FONT size=2>Wilfried Philips, Universiteit Gent, Belgium<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: DE" lang=DE><FONT size=2>Vladimir Cretu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Academy of Science</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Kazuo Ohzeki, Shibaura Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -42.55pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 42.55pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Valery Korzhik, State <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Telecommunications</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">St. Petersburg</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Boris Shishkov, IICREST / <st1:City w:st="on">Delft</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Daniel Grosu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wayne State University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Laszlo Böszörmenyi , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Klagenfurt University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Vladimir Fomichov, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">State</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> - Higher <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Economics</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR>Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR>Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Marek Ogiela, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">AGH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of Science and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: IT" lang=IT>Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Stefan Trausan-Matu, Politehnica <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Bucharest</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Reggie Kwan, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Caritas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Francis</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hsu</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>,</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Hong Kong</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Rami Finkler, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Afeka</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of Engineering, Tel Aviv, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Alexander Verbraeck, <st1:City w:st="on">Delft</st1:City> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName>, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Richard Chbeir, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bourgogne University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Christopher Barry, National <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ireland</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Romulus</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US> Grigoras, IRIT - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Toulouse</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US><FONT size=2>Mihai Mocanu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Craiova</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><FONT size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Andrea Molinari, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Trento</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR:
windowtext; mso-ansi-language: IT" lang=IT><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: IT" lang=IT>Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Christos Douligeris, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Piraeus</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Jacek Zurada, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Louisville</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Ryszard Choras, Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Telecommunications</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE><FONT size=2><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US>Shiguo Lian</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext" lang=EN-US> Telecom R&D Beijing, P.R. China<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Rajkumar Kannan, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bishop Heber College</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Ain Shams University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Valencia</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: FR" lang=FR>Yoshimi Teshigawara, Soka University, Japan<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: FR" lang=FR>Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: FR" lang=FR>George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University, USA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Voicu Groza, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ottawa</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>Carl James Debono, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Malta</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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