ICST QShine 2008 Call for Participations. ************************************ Call for Participation ICST QShine 2008 Hong Kong, China July 28-31, 2008 http://www.qshine.org/index.shtml ************************************ Conference Technical Sponsors: QShine 2008 is Technically co-sponsored by ACM SIGMM, and SIGSIM. Conference Overview: You are cordially invited to participate in the upcoming 5th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2008). The aim of this conference is to bring together research and practitioners to present and share the latest results in the areas of performance, configuration, cross-layer approaches, scalability, resilience and survivability of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems. Following the tradition of the previous QShine meetings, QShine 2008 will feature prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. There will also be five workshops covering a wide range of topics including cognitive radio networks, mobile contents, intelligenttransportation systems, grid computing, and satellite/terrestrial interworking. QShine 2008 Keynote Speakers: Two renowned world-class areas leaders will provide keynote talks: (1) Prof. Vijay K. Bhargava, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia: Keynote Speech Title: "Cognitive Radio Networks: The Future is Friendly" (2) Prof. Yi-Bing Lin, Chair Professor and Dean of College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan: Keynote Speech Title: "Reducing Call Costs Acrossing Various International Telecommunications Networks" QShine 2008 Registration: Registration can be completed online at http://www.qshine.org/registration.shtml QShine 2008 Conference Site: Hong Kong is a very unique city with a true mixture of eastern and western values and combining the exotic with the convenience of a modern thriving city. For more information about Hong Kong see: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/ We are looking forward to seeing you at QShine 2008 in Hong Kong, China!