<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br><br>NAS 2010<br>The 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage<br><a href="http://www.nas-conference.org/">http://www.nas-conference.org/</a><br><br>July 15-17, 2010<br>Macau SAR, China<br><br>NAS serves as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies.<br><br>Macau is one of the two special administrative regions of China, the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, facing the South China Sea to the south and east. The region has thriving industries such as textiles, electronics, toys, and a notable tourist industry with a wide variety of hotels, resorts, sports facilities, restaurants, and casinos. <br><br>NAS10 features two outstanding keynote speakers:<br><br>· Dr. Peter Braam, Founder of Cluster File Systems, Inc. and ClusterStor, Inc., USA<br>· Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova, Program Director, CCF/CISE, National Science Foundation, USA<br><br>The conference program includes the following sessions:<br><br>1a: Sensor networks<br>1c: Dependable and fault-tolerant storage<br>2a: Wireless Network Security<br>2b: Distributed Computing<br>2c: RAID storage and Error Correcting Codes<br>3a: Ad-hoc networks<br>3b: Distributed and Multi-Core Systems<br>3c: File systems and parallel I/O<br>4: Short Papers<br>5a: WiFi, Vehicular, and Delay Tolerant Networks<br>5b: Memory Systems for Chip Multiprocessors<br>5c: Deduplication and Object-Based Storage<br>6a: Not quite wireless networks<br>6c: Solid State Disk Storage<br><br>The conference has an industrial presentation and a poster presentation. On the last day of the conference, there is a local tour of Macau.<br><br>Steering Committee<br>Xubin He, Tennessee Technological University, USA<br>Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA<br>Changsheng Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China<br>Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA<br><br>Honorable General Chairs<br>Laxmi Bhuyan, University of California, USA<br>Wei Zhao, University of Macau, China<br><br>General Co-Chairs<br>Susan Cheng, The George Washington University, USA<br>Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA<br><br>Program Co-Chairs<br>André Brinkmann, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, Germany<br>Dong Xuan, Ohio State University, USA<br><br>Registration and Finance Chairs<br>Qiang Cao, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China<br>Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA<br><br>Award Chair<br>Jie Wu, Temple University, USA<br><br>Publication Chair<br>Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA<br><br>Publicity Chair<br>Avinash Srinivasan, Bloomsburg University, USA<br>Wei Lou, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China<br><br>Industry Chair<br>Fang Liang, National University of Defense Technology, China<br><br>Program Vice-Chairs<br>Networking<br>Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China<br>Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA<br><br>Architecture<br>Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<br>Mario Porrmann, University of Paderborn, Germany<br><br>Storage<br>Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Center, France<br>Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA</body></html>