Conference Program

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Program Overview

Day 1: Sunday, November 18, 2007 (Morning)

08:00 - 10:00 Registration (Joharah Ballroom)

10:00 - 11:30 Opening Ceremony (Joharah Ballroom)

HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Chairman of the Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority

Keynotes:

- Dr. Atta-Ur-Rahman, Federal Minister, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan

- Mr. Rama Raju, Co-founder/CEO, Satyam, India

- Dr. Thomas Andersson, President, Jönköping University, Sweden

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:40 Humanoid Robotics: Is it human or is it a robot?

Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis, Interactive Robots and Media Lab, Director, UAE University, UAE

David Hanson, Founder/Chief Scientist, Hanson Robotics, USA

Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, Intelligent Robotics Lab., Director, Osaka University, Japan

Dr. Jun Ho Oh, Director, Humanoids Laboratory, Korean Institute of Technology, Korea

12:40 - 14:00 Lunch (sponsored by Innovations'07)

11:30 - 17:00 Joharah 1: Student Posters Session

14:00 - 17:40 Concurrent Technical & Tutorial Sessions

20:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner;

Distinguished Scholar Awards;

Cisco Research Excellence Award presentation;

Best student poster award

Day 1: Sunday, November 18, 2007 (Afternoon)

Time	Session	Title
14:00 - 15:40	Joahara	VIP Session
	Mike Carr, Director Research & Venturing British Telecom, UK Michael D. King, Director, Global Education Industry, IBM Corporation, USA Aseem Gupta, CEO, Visionaire, UAE Tarek Al Abbady, Director, Microsoft Research & Innovation Centre, Cairo, Egypt Thiru P. Reddy, Vice President Business Development, Strand Life Sciences, India Sai Subramaniam, Sr. Vice President Solutions, Strand Life Sciences, India
	Session 1B	Data Mining
	Session 1C	Business & Process Management
	Session 1D	Wireless Communications I
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:40	Session 2A	Multimedia Communications
	Session 2B	Computer & Network Security I
	Session 2C	Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks I
	Session 2D	E-learning & E-Society
20:00 - 22:00	Johara Ballroom	Gala Dinner (Sponsored by Innovations'07) Cisco Research Excellence Award presentation Best student poster award

Day 2: Monday, November 19, 2007 (Morning)

Time	Session	Title
09:00 - 10:40	Session 3A	Computer & Network Security II
	Session 3B	Fuzzy Computing & Neural Networks
	Session 3C	Web Applications I
	Session 3D	Pervasive Computing I
	Tutorial 1.a (Morjaan1)	RFID Technology: A methodology of evaluating its impact through modeling and simulation
	Tutorial 2.a (Morjaan2)	Developing wireless products in the industrial Scientific & Medical (ISM) Band, The Next Big Thing: The case of Zigbee standard.
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:40	Session 4A	Genetic Algorithms
	Session 4B	Wireless Communications II
	Session 4C	Computing Systems
	Session 4D	IT Applications in Electric power Engineering I
	Tutorial 1.b (Morjaan1)	RFID Technology: A methodology of evaluating its impact through modeling and simulation
	Tutorial 2.b (Morjaan2)	Developing wireless products in the industrial Scientific & Medical (ISM) Band, The Next Big Thing: The case of Zigbee standard.

Day 2: Monday, November 19, 2007 (Afternoon)

Time	Session	Title
14:00 - 15:30	Session 5A	Embedded & Real-Time Systems
	Session 5B	Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks II
	Session 5C	Algorithms & Heuristics
	Session 5D	IT Applications in Electric power Engineering II
	Tutorial 3.a (Morjaan1)	Ubiquitous Communications Environment
	Tutorial 4.a (Morjaan2)	Basic of Portal Technologies Using Open source and Commercial Products.
15:30 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:40	Session 6A	Natural Language Processing
	Session 6B	Pattern Matching & Recognition
	Session 6C	Agent-Based Systems
	Session 6D	Innovations in Simulation Techniques
	Tutorial 3.a (Morjaan1)	Ubiquitous Communications Environment
	Tutorial 4.b (Morjaan2)	Basic of Portal Technologies Using Open source and Commercial Products.

Day 3: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 (Morning)

Time	Session	Title
09:00 - 10:40	Session 7A	Web Services
	Session 7B	Web Applications II
	Session 7C	Pervasive Computing II
	Session 7D	Advanced Issues in Computer Networks
	Tutorial 5.a (Morjaan1)	Software Engineering of video games
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:40	Session 8A	MIMO & Coding Techniques
	Session 8B	Computer & Network Security III
	Session 8C	Image Computing
	Session 8D	QoS & Resource Allocation
	Tutorial 5.b (Morjaan1)	Software Engineering of video games