Call for Papers
e-AGE
2014
Under the Patronage of
His Highness Sayyid Taimur Bin As’ad Al Said in Oman
4th International Platform on
Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment
10 - 11 December 2014, Muscat,
Sultanate of Oman
http://eage2014.ASRENOrg.net/
Objectives
To promote opportunities for cooperation
between networks of research and education in the Arab countries, Europe and
North America; to disseminate research on technology and applications of
e-Infrastructures and e-science and access to scientific resources; and to
expand the framework of effective participation of e-infrastructure linking the
Arab Organizations for research and education to the world.
Main Events
- The
Seventh Event on Euro-Mediterranean e-Infrastructure
- The
Fourth annual meeting of the Arab States Research and Education Network
- The
Sixth annual conference of the Arab Organization for Quality Assurance in
Education
- EUMEDCONNECT3
Project Meeting
- Technical
workshops (TBA)
Agenda
Inauguration
and Opening:
H.H. Sayyid Shihab Bin Tariq Al-Said,
Chairman of TRC, Oman (TBC)
H.H. Sayyid Taimur Bin As’ad Al Said,
Assistant Secretary General for External Cooperation of TRC, Oman
H.E. Eng. Hisham Sharaf Abdullah, Minister
of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Yemen
H.E. Boutros Harb, Minister of Telecommunications in Lebanon
H.E. Adam Kulach, Head of Delegation of the
EU to Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE (TBC)
H.E. Dr. Faeqa Al-Saleh, Assistant
Secretary General - Head of Social Sector, League of Arab States, Egypt
H.E. Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of
ASREN, Jordan
Keynotes,
Panelists and Speakers
Thomas A. Delaney, Vice President for
Information Technology and Chief Global Technology Officer, New York
University, USA
Abdallah Al-Zoubi, General Director,
Scientific Research Support Fund, Jordan (TBC)
Ahmad Hassan, Acting Director, Egyptian
Universities Network – EUN, Egypt
Albert De Roeck, Senior Researcher at CERN
and Professor at University of Antwerp, Belgium
Aniyan Varghese, Programme Manager, DG
CONNECT, Belgium
Antonio Sanfilippo, Research Director,
Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Aouaouche El-Maouhab, Algerian Research and
Education Network – CERIST, Algeria
David Simonsen, Executive Manager, Where
Are You From - WAYF, Denmark
David West, EUMEDCONNECT3 Project Manager,
Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe - DANTE, UK
Fahd Batayneh, Stakeholder Engagement
Coordinator, ICANN, Jordan
Federico Ruggieri, Director of Research,
National Institute of Nuclear Physics - INFN, Italy
Habib Youssef, Director, Tunisian Research
and Education Network – CCK, Tunisia
Hafedh Yahmadi, CEO, Collaborative Innovation
Center, Tunisia
Helga Spitaler, Delivery of Advanced
Network Technology to Europe - DANTE, UK
Hisham Ibrahim, Regional Program Manager,
Ripe NCC, UAE
Imad Y. Hoballah, Chairman and CEO, Telecom
Regulatory Authority, Lebanon
Jauad El Kharraz, Euro-Mediterranean
Information System on know-how in the Water sector - EMWIS, France
Jim Ghadbane, President and CEO, CANARIE,
Canada (TBC)
Juma Al Balushi, Director, Omani Research
and Education Network – OMREN, Oman
Khaled Basulaim, Managing Director, Yemen
Center of Information Technology for Higher Education - YCIT-HE, Yemen
Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat, Saint Joseph's
University, Lebanon (TBC)
Magda El-Toulhouny, Director of Education
and Scientific Research, League of Arab States, Egypt
Morten Moller, Head of the Programme
co-ordination, DG CONNECT, Belgium
Mustafa Jarrar, Director, Sina Institute
for Knowledge Engineering and Arabic Technologies - Birzeit University,
Palestine
Redouane Merrouch, Director, Moroccan
Research and Education Network - CNRS, Morocco
Ridha Guellouz, Président - Association
Tunisienne des TIC – ATTIC, Tunisia
Said Mandhare, CEO, Oman Broadband Company,
Oman (TBC)
Salem Alagtash, Professor, German Jordanian
University, Jordan
Sami Salih, Sudanese Research and Education
Network – SudREN, Sudan
Sharifa Hajjat, eLearning Coordinator,
Higher Colleagues of Technology, UAE
Walid Karam, ICT Advisor to the Minister,
Ministry of Telecommunications, Lebanon
Yousef Torman, Arab States Research and
Education Network, Germany
Yves Poppe, A*STAR Computational Resource
Centre, Singapore
Submission Deadline
15th October,
2014 (full papers, short papers, demonstrations, special sessions)
Conference Venue
Grand Hyatt,
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Topics of Interest
·
e-Infrastructures in the fields of:
·
Storage and hosting of content
delivery
·
Network communication tools
·
Network computing resources,
including GRID computing and coordination within NREN community for CPU
use
·
Perspectives on NRENs, including
challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, and business models
·
Access to research and education
resources, repositories, libraries and contents, clouds, grids and HPCs.
·
Connectivity options including
technologies, services, cables, circuits and equipment.
·
Internet developments and impact on
R&E networks.
·
Virtual Research Environments,
Science Gateways, Federation of Identities, eduroam, eduGAIN …
·
Research and Education in the fields
of:
·
Educational challenges in the 21st
Century
·
Education for all in the digital age
·
e-Learning /Massive Open Online
Courses /Tele-teaching /e-research
·
Virtual Learning Environments
·
Digital Repositories
·
Research Collaboration and
Innovative Applications and technologies:
·
Energy conservation
·
Resource protection
·
Food and water production and
distribution
·
Waste management
·
Information sharing and knowledge
·
Weather prediction and control
·
Natural resource management
·
Climate change
·
Global issues and problems
·
Presentations of practical
experiences in e-Infrastructure context.
All
papers will be peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in the
conference proceedings.
Language
English
Organizers
The
Platform will be organized by Arab States Research and Education
Network GmbH in cooperation with:
·
Oman Research Council (TRC)
·
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization
(TAG-Org)
·
European Euro-Mediterranean Connect
project (EUMEDCONNECT3)
·
US Internet2 Special Interest Group
Middle East (Internet2)
·
Coordination and Harmonization of
Advanced e-Infrastructure (CHAIN - REDs)
·
The Trans-European Research and
Education Networking Association (TERENA)
Sponsors:
The
Platform will be sponsored by:
·
Omantel
·
RIPE Network Coordination Centre -
RIPE NCC
·
The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers - ICANN
Program Committee
·
Ahmed Dabbagh, Ankabut, UAE
·
Boubakar Barry, WACREN, Senegal
·
David West, DANTE, UK
·
Federica Tanlongo, GARR Consortium,
Italy
·
Federico Ruggieri, INFN, Italy
·
Habib Youssef, CCK, Tunisia
·
Helga Spitaler, DANTE, UK
·
Johnathon Chapman, Internet2 SIG,
Qatar
·
Juma Al Balushi, TRC, Oman
·
Majdi Al-Abiad, TAG-Org, Oman
·
Mwaffaq Otoom, YU, Jordan
·
Ola Samara, ASREN, Jordan
·
Salem Al-Agtash, GJU/ ASREN, Jordan
·
Sara Al-Eisawi, AROQA, Jordan
·
Yousef Torman, ASREN, Germany
Scientific Committee
·
Ahmed Dabbagh, UAE Advanced Network
for Research and Education (Ankabut), UAE
·
Boubakar Barry, Western Africa
Research and Education Network (WACREN), Senegal
·
Federico Ruggieri, The Italian
National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
·
Rainer Herpers, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
University of Applied Sciences (BRSU), Germany
·
Roberto Barbera, University of
Catania, Italy
·
Salem Al-Agtash, German Jordanian
University (GJU), Jordan
Important dates
15th October,
2014
Submission Deadline (Papers, Posters and Presentations)
1st November,
2014
Acceptance Notification
1st December,
2014 Final
Pdf posters, Word papers and Presentations slides
4th December,
2014 Registration
Deadline
10th –
11th December, 2014
e-AGE 2014 Conference
Registration Fees
Speakers,
Free
Authors,
50 Euro
ASREN
Members, 150 Euro
ASREN
non-members, 250 Euro
For more information and paper submission, please
contact
Paper
submission:
- Salem
Al-Agtash, alagtash@gju.edu.jo,
Mobile: +962 77-720-1998
- Federico
Ruggieri, federico.ruggieri@roma3.infn.it,
Mobile: +390 65-733-7232
Proposals,
Presentations and Program:
- Yousef
Torman, torman@asrenorg.net,
Mobile: +962 77-990-7900
Registration,
Payment, Reservations and Other Logistics:
- Ola
Samara, osamara@asrenorg.net ,
Mobile: +962 78-868-6802
All
information is available at: http://eage2014.ASRENOrg.net/