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Day—1
Wednesday 20th December 2006
Opening Session
0830 – 0900	Welcome Desk/ Registration
0930 – 1030	Opening Session (Room: Crystal Ball Room)
1030—1100	Tea/ Coffee Break/Registration (Room: Crystal Ball Room)
Day—1 Session—1 Plenary Session
1100 – 1300	(Room: Ambassador I-II-III)
	Session Chair: Naveed Malik Rector, Virtual University of Pakistan
Invited Talk:– 1	Mubarak Shah, Agere Chair Professor, University of Central Florida, USA “Spatiotemporal Regularity Flow (SPREF): its estimation and applications”
Invited Talk: – 2	Vivek Nigam IKOA , Silicon Valley, California, USA “Spatial filtering for improved voice communication"
Invited Talk: – 3	Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA “Design of Energy Efficient Computations and Network Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks”
Invited Talk:– 4	Muhammad Ilyas, Associate Dean/Professor, Florida Atlantic University, USA "Advances in Optical Switching"
1300-1400	Lunch and Prayer Break (CBR)
Day—1 Session—2 Communication and Networks -I
1400 – 1600	(Room: Ambassador I) Session Chair: Mubarak Shah Agere Chair Professor, University of Central Florida, USA
Invited Talk: – 5	Mudassar Wyne, University of Michigan – Flint, USA “Bioinformatics: A New Vision for Academics”
Paper D1.S2.1	Enhancements in PPP MP for UMTS-All IP Architecture to Improve the QoS
	Tahir Ali College of Computer Science Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology, Multinet Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. Azhar Hussain Khuwaja ZTE Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. Syed Irfan Hyder College of Computer Science and College of Engineering Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology
Paper D1.S2.2	Previous Hops in Duplicate Route Requests to Improve AODV Performance Khawar Mahmood, S. A. Hussain Information Technology Centre, CS Department COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore, Pakistan E. Garcia ECIT, Queen’s University, Belfast UK
Paper D1.S2.3	A Performance Analysis of Gateway-to-Gateway and End-to-Gateway L2TP VPN Rukhsana Rahim Butt Department of Computer Science COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
Paper D2.S2.4	A Performance Analysis Of Fixed And Dynamic Channel Allocation Schemes In Cellular Networks Muhammad Emran, Syed Asad Hussain, Saqib Hussain Department of Computer Science COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Day—1 Session—3 IT Applications-I
1400 – 1600	(Room: Ambassador II) Session Chair: Khalid Rasheed Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, International Islamic University, Islamabad
Invited Talk: - 6	Yousif Abdultif Al-Bastiki, University of Bahrain "E- Strategy: The case of Kingdom of Bahrain"
Paper D1.S3.5	Can E-Commerce and Use of ICT’s Help Rural Women of Balochistan to Fight Poverty? Jan Muhammad, Sadique Ahmed Bugti Faculty of Computer & Emerging Sciences Balochistan University of Information Technology & Management Sciences, Quetta-Pakistan Khalid Qazi Mengal Department of Communication and Information Technology University of Bremen, Bremen, German
Paper D1.S3.6	Co occurrence and morphological analysis for colon tissue classification Khalid Masood, Nasir Rajpoot, Hammad Qureshi Department of Computer Science University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. Kashif Rajpoot Wolfson Medical, University of oxford, UK.
Paper D1.S3.7	Semantic Information Retrieval from Distributed Heterogeneous Data Sources Kamran Munir, M. Odeh, R. McClatchey CCS Research Centre, University of the West of England, Frenchay, Bristol, UK S. Khan, A. Ali, I. Habib National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Paper D1.S3.8	Reduction in Over-Fitting for Classification without Compromising on Accuracy and Effectiveness Abdul Aziz Gill Department of Computer Sciences Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan Nazir A. Zafar Department of Computer & Information Sciences Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan
Day—1 Session—4 Data- Management
1400 – 1600	(Room: Ambassador III) Session Chair: Azzamul Asar Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, NWFP UET, Peshawar
Invited Talk: – 7	Naomie Saleem “Similarity and Cluster Analysis of Chemical Structures”
Invited Talk: – 8	Nasim Raza Askari College for Entrepreneurs, Rawalpindi “Information Technology Integration in corporate performance-role"
Paper D1.S4.9	A Comparative study on Standardization of Software Cost Estimation Process in Pakistan, using appropriate COCOMO estimation models and Drivers Syeda Umema Hani PhD Student, Hamdard University, Graduate School of Engineering Science and Information Technology City Campus-II Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology G. Q. Memon Hamdard University, Graduate School of Engineering Science and Information Technology
Paper D1.S4.10	Assessment Of Transition From ‘Quality In A Project Environment’- Component Of Prince 2 To ‘Process & Product Quality Assurance’- Process Area Of CMMI 1.1 Ahmad Luqman, Software Program Manager, NADRA
Paper D1.S4.11	Exact String Matching Algorithms: A Survey Mehreen Ali, Hina Naz Khan, Shumaila Sayyab, Nadeem Iftikhar Department of Bio-Science Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad-Pakistan
1600-1630	Tea/ Coffee and Prayer Break (Ambassador-I/II/III)
Day—1 Session—5 Distributed and Collaborative Computing–I
1630 – 1800	(Room: Ambassador I) Session Chair: Arshad Ali Director General, NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Rawalpindi
Invited Talk: - 9	Shakil Akhtar, University of UAE UAE "Emerging IT applications for the New Millennium"
Paper D1.S5.12	Web Services Composition to Facilitate Grid and Distributed Computing: Current Approaches and Future Framework Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam, Sören Auer Betriebliche Informationsysteme, Universität Leipzig, Germany Jun Shen Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Herrmann DaimlerChrysler AG, Sindelfingen Germany
Paper D1.S5.13	Using context-aware computing to support engineering collaboration Zeeshan Aziz ,Chimay Anumba Center for Innovative and Collaborative Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
Paper D1.S5.14	Scenario Based Interaction Model for Mobile Agent Based System Sadia Ashraf, Naveed Ejaz, Adnan A Farooqui, Kashif Zareef, Sajid Minhas Department of Computer Science Military College of Signals Rawalpindi – 46000 (National University of Sciences and Technology - PAKISTAN)
Day—1 Session—6 IT Applications-II
1630 – 1800	(Room: Ambassador II) Session Chair: Ashfaq Khokhar University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Invited Talk:– 10	Mohammad Yazid Idris University of Technology Malaysia “QoS Anomaly Detection based on Self-Similar Network Traffic”
Invited Talk: - 11	Abdul Hanan Abdullah , University of Technology Malaysia “Anomaly detection and response: current and future directions”
Paper D2.S6.15	Extending AgriKiosk Project to Mobile Devices M. Afzal University Institute of Information Technology University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi, Pakistan J. Zubairi Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia NY 14063, USA A. Akram National university of Sciences and Technology, (NUST), Pakistan S. Kausar FAST, Pakistan
Paper D2.S6.16	Knowledge Management in Telemedicine. Jayanth G Paraki Medical Director, Telemedicine Research Laboratory and Clinic for Holistic Healing, India
Day—1 Session—7 COMPUTING EVERY WHERE - I
1630 – 1800	(Room: Ambassador III) Session Chair: Younus Javed College of EME, RawalPindi
Invited Talk: - 12	Salar Naqvi, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) “Emerging Research Dimensions in IT Security”
Invited Talk: - 13	Muid Mufti UET Texila. “Wi-Max: Opportunities and Challenges”
Invited Talk:- 14	Tariq Jadoon, LUMS, Pakistan "On the Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Sensor Networks"
Day—2
Day—2 Session-I Tutorial -I
0900 – 1030	(Room: Ambassador I) Grid Architecture Developments Shakil Akhtar, Aslam Pervaiz Memon University of UAE, UAE
Day—2 Session-2 Tutorial -II
0900 – 1030	(Room: Ambassador II) Eigen value Analysis Pattern Recognition M. Asmattullah Khan Head of Electrical Engineering Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Day—2 Session-3 Tutorial -III
0900 – 1030	(Room: Ambassador III) New Trends in Optoelectronics Saleem Farooq Shaukat Electrical Engineering Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad, Pakistan
1030-1100	Tea/ Coffee and Prayer Break (Room: Ambassador I-II-III)
Day—2 Session—4 COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING – II
1100 – 1300	(Room: Ambassador I) Session Chair: Amanullah Khan Dean Faculty of Information Sciences and Technology COMSATS IIT
Invited Talk:- 15	Mahboob Yasin COMSATS IIT Islamabad “Security issues in Ad-Hoc networks”
Paper D2.S4.17	“Birthday attack on Efficient and Anonymous Buyer Seller Watermarking Protocol" Qurat ul Ain , Mahboob Yasin Department of Computer Science COMSATS IIT Islamabad
Paper D2.S4.18	An Alternate Approach for Route Discovery and Reservation in Dynamic Source Routing Protocol Faheem-ur-Rehman Department of Computer Science SZABIST, Islamabad, Pakistan Mansoor Alam Ansari Department of Computer Science Urdu Federal University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Paper D2.S4.19	Motivating Corporation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Step Forward *Attiqa Rehman, *Syed Sajid Hussain, **Sajjad Mohsin *Department of Computer Science **Department of Electrical Engineering COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, NWFP-Pakistan
Paper D2.S4.20	An Experimental Setup for Wireless Channel Modeling and Prediction Yasir Ahmed, Tariq Bashir COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad Pakistan
Day—2 Session—5 IT Applications–III
1100 – 1300	(Room: Ambassador II) Session Chair: Q. K Ghori Advisor COMSATS IIT, Islamabad
Invited Talk: - 16	Mr. Salim Ghauri , Chairman Netsol Technologies Limited Pakistan “ICT in the Developing Countries”
Invited Talk:- 17	Syed Misbahuddin, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia “Improving VoIP transfer Rate over Internet”
Invited Talk: - 18	Fawaz A. Masoud, University of Jordan “General e-Learning Concepts”
Paper D2.S5.21	Neural Network-Based Shape Retrieval using Moment Invariants Moments
	Xiaoliu Chen and Imran Shafiq Ahmad School of Computer Science University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 - Canada
Paper D2.S5.22	PLE-RUP: A Novel Way to Developing Product Line Engineering Nafees Qamar, Romana Aziz COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Day—2 Session—6 COMPUTING EVERY WHERE - II
1100 – 1300	(Room: Ambassador III) Session Chair: Muhammad Azim Director CIIT, Attock
Invited Talk: - 19	Romana Aziz, COMSATS I.I.T, Islamabad “Iterative Development; Learning using Bayesian Networks”
Invited Talk: - 20	Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan “Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology for the Other Four Billion”
Paper D2.S6.23	Context Fusion in Location-Aware Pervasive Applications Muhammad Akhlaq Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden
Paper D2.S6.24	Influence of Planning and Requirement Gathering on Risk Mitigation: An empirical Study in IT Industry Khizran Athar, Mahnaz Mir, Muhammad Sulayman, Prof. Dr. Khalid Rashid Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad. Hafiz Farooq Ahmad Communication Technologies Omachi Aoba-ku Sendai, Japan
Paper D2.S6.25	Quality Of Service In Web Servers Using Sequential Real-Time Closed Loop Approach M.Aramudhan, V.Rhymend Uthaiaraj Department of Information Technology MIT, Anna University, Chennai-25, India
1300-1400	Lunch and Prayer Break (CBR)
DAY—2 SESSION—7 PANEL DISCUSSION
1400 -1600	“ENCHASING THE E-READINESS OF PAKISTAN SOCIETY” (Crystal Ball Room) Moderator: Romana Aziz COMSATS IIT, Islamabad Panelist: Ashfaq Khokhar University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Muhammad Ilyas Florida Atlantic University, USA Tanveer ul Haq Chief Technical Office, Paktel Salman Ansari Consultant Shariq Khoja Agha Khan Medical College, Karachi Yusuf Hussain MD, PSEB Syed Veqar-ul-Islam Country Director, Nokia
1600 – 1700	Closing Session
1700-1715	Refreshments (Crystal Ball Room)