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.

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 Athens, GA. The International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented.

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.