Dr. Funk is on two TPC's. OPODIS (9th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems to be held in Pisa, Italy December 12 - 14) and RTAS (12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium to be held in San Jose, California April 4 - 7, 2006).

Dr. Ramaswamy will be serving as a PC member of 26th International Conference on Disrtibuted Computing Systems (ICDCS - 2006), to be held in Lisboa Portugal. The web page is available at icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt

Prof. Lowenthal is serving on the program committee of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, to be held in Rhodes, Greece, in 2006.

Prof. Lowenthal is serving onthe ACM PPOPP program committee this coming year (2007). www.ppopp.org

As a follow up of "The Third IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory" held in Athens, GA,USA, 7-10, April 2003; 2 Special Issues on Nonlinear waves: computation and Theory III and IV have appeared in the Journal of " Mathematics and Computers in Simulation", Transaction of IMACS, Vol. 69, Issues 3-4, 5-6, May and August 2005 respectively.

Dr. Thiab Taha served as the Program Chair of the Conference and a Guest Editor of the Special Issues.

Prof. Amit Sheth will co-organize AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web meets eGovernment (SWEG'06), March 27-29, 2006, Stanford University, CA.

Profs. Lakshmish Ramaswamy and Amit Sheth will serve as the PC Chairs for the International Workshop on Semantics enabled Networks and Services (SeNS 2006), Co-located with ICDE 2006 (The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering), in April 2006. Details at the workshop web site: lsdis.cs.uga.edu/SenS

Prof. Budak Arpinar will serve as the PC Co-Chair and Prof. Amit Sheth will serve as the General Chair for the 3rd International Workshop on the Semantic Web and Database Workshop (SWDB 2006), Co-located with ICDE 2006 (The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering), in April 2006. Details at the workshop web site: lsdis.cs.uga.edu/swdb06

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.