Second International Conference, ICICA 2011. — Qinhuangdao, China, October 28-31, 2011. — Proceedings, Part I. — Springer, 2011. — 741 p.Welcome to the proceedings of the International Conference on Information Computing and Applications (ICICA 2011), which was held in Qinhuangdao, China, October 28-30, 2011.
As future-generation information technology, information computing and applications become specialized, information computing and applications including hardware, software, communications and networks are growing with ever increasing scale and heterogeneity, and becoming overly complex. The complexity is getting more critical along with the growing applications. To cope with the growing and computing complexity, information computing and applications focus on intelligent, self-manageable, scalable computing systems and applications to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance.
With the rapid development of information science and technology, information computing has become the third approach for scientific research. Information computing and applications is the field of study concerned with constructing intelligent computing, mathematical models, numerical solution techniques and using computers to analyze and solve natural scientific, social scientific and engineering problems. In practical use, it is typically the application of computer simulation, intelligent computing, Internet computing, pervasive computing, scalable computing, trusted computing, autonomy-oriented computing, evolutionary computing, mobile computing, applications and other forms of computation to problems in various scientific disciplines and engineering. Information computing and applications is an important underpinning for techniques used in information and computational science and there are many unresolved problems worth studying.
The ICICA 2011 conference provided a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the most innovative research and development issues including technical challenges and social, legal, political, and economic issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of information computing and applications.
There was a very large number of paper submissions (865), representing six countries and regions. All submissions were reviewed by at least three Program or Technical Committee members or external reviewers. It was extremely difficult to select the presentations for the conference because there were so many excellent and interesting submissions. In order to allocate as many papers as possible and keep the high quality of the conference, we finally decided to accept 289 papers for presentation, reflecting a 33.2% acceptance rate. And 96 papers are included in this volume. We believe that all of these papers and topics not only provided novel ideas, new results, work in progress and state-of-the-art techniques in this field, but also stimulated future research activities in the area of information computing and applications.
