The 18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Conference Review)

The ACM symposium on applied computing (SAC) is organized yearly having the Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) as the sole sponsor. Since its 1999 edition, the symposium has been alternated between USA and Europe, every year attracting a large number of submissions and atten-dees. In its current format, tutorial sessions are held on Sunday while the technical sessions are Monday through Wednes-day. The call four tutorials attracted 18 high level proposals from which only 4 could be selected. The format chosen was to offer 4 half-day tutorials. Given the proposals submitted and the interest of the local industry, the symposium accepted two tutorials in Wireless Networks, forming a full day theme on Wireless. The other two tutorials were on Semantic Web and on Complex Event Processing. Tutorials took place at the campus of the Florida Institute of Technology. a) Wireless/Mobile Network Security by Dr. S. R. Subramanya from the University of Missouri-Rolla: The tuto-rial gave an overview of: (i) the principles and practices of various aspects of traditional network security, (ii) the issues in mobile and wireless security, and (iii) techniques and applications of mobile and wireless security. b) Resource and Mobility Management in Next Generation Wireless Systems by Dr. Sajal K. Das from the University of Texas at Arlington: The tuto-rial aimed at bringing out the research and technological challenges in the resource and mobility management in next generation heterogeneous wireless systems. It also provided some emerging solutions for this problem to support wireless data networking. c) Semantic Web and Ontologies by Raphael Volz from the University of Karlsruhe: In this tutorial, the author motivated the building and driving of ontology-based Semantic Web applications. He described Semantic Web standards as well as mechanisms to represent , engineer and use ontologies in Semantic Web applications. The tutorial was divided into four main parts: technological foundations, ontology representation , ontology engineering, and Semantic Web applications. This was a very popular tutorial attracting the interest of the majority of the symposium registered tutorial attendees. d) Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems by Prof. David Luckham from Stanford University: Prof. Luckham has held faculty and invited faculty positions in mathematics , computer science and electrical engineering at eight major universities in Europe and the United States. He was one of the founders of Rational Software Inc. in 1981. His tutorial covered the basic concepts of Complex Event Programming: (i) the …