Prof. Budak Arpinar will serve as the PC Co-Chair and Prof.

Prof. David Lowenthal is co-program chair of the Second Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing, to be held in Rhodes, Greece in April 2006. The workshop is co-located with IPDPS 2006. For more details see: fortknox.csc.ncsu.edu/proj/hppac

Prof. Amit Sheth is Chair of Steering Committee, Semantic Web Services Challenge 2006: Challenge on Automating Web Services Mediation, Choreography and Discovery, Stanford University & ESWC, 2006.

Prof. Amit Sheth is Chair of Organizing Committee, ESWC'06 Industry Forum Day Business Applications of Semantic Web technology, Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006.

Prof. Amit Sheth is Chair of Organization Committee, the International Workshop on Distributed Applications for B2B Integration (DABI 2006), to be held in conjunction with 26th ICDCS, Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006.

Prof. Amit Sheth is Program Co-Chair, AI-Driven Technologies for Services-Oriented Computing (AAAI-06 Workshop), Boston, MA, July 16-17, 2006.

Prof. Amit Sheth is Organization Committee Co-Chair, Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop (semantics4ws'06), at BPM 2006, Vienna, Austria, September 4, 2006.

Prof. Amit Sheth is Program Co-Chair, 4th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2006), Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2006.

Prof. Budak Arpinar is awarded by Semantic Web Science Association to organize International Semantic Web Conference 2006 in A

Prof. Thiab Taha is the Chair and Conference Coordinator of the upcomming "Fifth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Theory and Computation", to be held in Athens, GA, April 16-19, 2007.

More inforamtion on the conference will be available soon on: www.cs.uga.edu/~thiab/waves2006.html.