SAT – Network Computing and Applications

Network computing presents a vision of computing and communication evolution towards a more open, anytime and anywhere connected network centric computing era. This SAT will focus on establishing an international forum that brings researchers and engineers from both academics and industry together to study, and exchange ideas and experiences in the design, implementation, analysis, and evaluation of network computing systems and applications, including models, topologies, protocols, services and applications of communication networks and distributed systems at many different levels, ranging from physical to logical, or organizational.

Ling Liu - Committee Chair

Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Ling Liu is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. There she directs the research programs in the Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), examining performance, security, privacy, and data management issues in network centric computing systems, ranging from decentralized overlay networks, mobile network computing systems and location based services, sensor networks and data and event stream processing, to service oriented computing and network architectures and technologies. She has published over 200 international journal and conference articles in the areas of distributed systems, Internet Computing and Internet data management, databases and data mining, data privacy, security in network computing and systems. She has chaired a number of conferences as a general chair, a PC chair, or vice PC chair, including IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2004, ICDE 2006, ICDE 2007), IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2006), IEEE/ICST/CreateNet International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2005, 2006), IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), ACM International Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2000). Dr. Liu is currently on the editorial board of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Very Large Database systems (VLDBJ), International Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer), International Journal of Web Services Research, Wireless Network Journal (WINET). Dr. Liu is a recipient of the best paper award of ICDCS 2003, and the best paper award of WWW 2004, a recipient of 2005 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, and a recipient of IBM faculty award in 2003 and 2006. Dr. Liu's research is primarily sponsored by NSF, DARPA, DoE, and IBM.