Begin forwarded message: From: ASREN News &lt;asren.news(a)asrenorg.net&gt; Subject: e-AGE 2016, Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Participation, 1 - 2 December 2016, Beirut, Lebanon Date: 28 September 2016 at 10:34:42 CEST <http://asrenorg.net/eage2015/> <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/> Under The Patronage of His Excellency Boutros Harb, Minister of Telecommunications Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Participation It is our sincere pleasure to invite you to e-AGE 2016 <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/> December 1 - 2, 2016, American University of Beirut <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/?q=node/12>, Lebanon. Integrating Arab e-infrastructure in a Global Environment, e-AGE, is an annual international event organized by the Arab States Research and Education Network, ASREN. Since its launch in December 2010 at the League of Arab States, It goes in line with ASREN’s main objectives related to creating awareness, promoting R&E collaboration and joint activities and establishing human networks in order to facilitate collaboration and cooperation among researchers and academicians in the Arab region and the rest of the world. Topics of interest Ø Scientific computing and data-intensive e-Science in the scientific areas related to energy, environment, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine, as well as in social sciences and humanities. Ø Perspectives on NRENs, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, security and services. Ø Problem-solving environments and access to research and education resources, repositories, libraries and contents, clouds, grids, parallel and distributed computing, and high performance computing. Ø Virtual Research Environments, Internet of Things, Science Gateways, Federation of Identities, AAI services. Ø Visualization and Virtual Reality Purpose of this Call 1. Call for Papers Scientists, researchers and educators are invited to submit papers to be presented in this conference in special sessions for research papers. Paper contributions are accepted in English. Papers should be submitted with no more than 8 to 10 pages, and no more than 8000 words. Each paper should include (1) Abstract with no more than 500 words and 7 keywords that refer to the key subjects and concepts that have been developed in the paper (2) Author(s) biography: First name, Last name, Institution, Full address, Fax, Email, and short CV. Papers should be submitted in MS-Word. After submission, all contributions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee to evaluate the pertinence of each submitted paper. If the manuscript is accepted, then paper should be submitted using the attached template’s format for publishing purposes. Submit your Participation HERE <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/?q=content/submit-participation> 2. Call for Presentations Renowned speakers and experts are invited to give presentations and participate in panel discussions on latest developments in e-Infrastructure services and application areas, various aspects of R&E networks, telecommunications technologies and the Internet, industry and research case studies of e-Infrastructure use, R&E infrastructure sustainability and funding issues, etc.. 3. Call for Participation Representation from academia, research, industry, telecom and networking organizations, NRENs, governments and those interested in the developments of R&E networks and e-Infrastructures are invited to join the conference and share experience and exchange knowledge in the wide array of topics of interest. Interested participants can register HERE <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/?q=Forms/registration>. 4. Call for Posters Students’ and researchers’ participation in the conference is facilitated by providing them with a space to show high quality posters that summarize their work. Posters will help students and researchers to advertise and promote their work. For those interested, please send a summary in MS-Word format including title of the poster, name and affiliation of author(s) and a short abstract of maximum one page. Submit your Participation HERE <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/?q=content/submit-participation> Events and Activities Ø Main Conference e-AGE 2016, 1-2 December 2016 <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/> Ø The 9th Event on Euro-Mediterranean e-Infrastructure Ø The 6th annual meeting of ASREN, (by invitation only) Ø AROQA 8th Annual Conference <http://events.aroqa.org/news_category.php?cat_id=8> Ø OSSCOM 2nd Annual Conference, OSSCOM 2016 <http://osscom2016.osscom.org/> Ø EUMEDCONNECT3 and Africaconenct2 Project Meetings, (by invitation only) Ø AfricaConenct2 Coordinators Meeting, 30 November 2016, (by invitation only) Ø Workshop on Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), 29-30 November 2016 Ø Workshop on Identity Federation Infrastructure, 3-4 December 2016 Important dates <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/?q=content/important-dates> <http://asrenorg.net/eage2016/?q=Forms/registration> For more information, please visit the conference website, or contact Salem Al-Agtash, alagtash(a)asrenorg.net <mailto:alagtash@ASRENOrg.net> for Papers and Poster submission Yousef Torman, torman(a)asrenorg.net <mailto:torman@asrenorg.net> for Proposals, Presentations and Program Yasmeen Al-Kouz, yalkouz(a)asrenorg.net <mailto:yalkouz@asrenorg.net> for Registration, Payment, Reservation and others