The organizers and chairs of the workshop shall have full control on the call for papers, forming of program committees, review and selection of papers as well as planning the workshop program. The chairs must state in the workshop CFP as "Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. For no-show authors, their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference and their affiliations will receive a notification." The registration fees for workshops will be determined by the conference (not the workshop itself). The fees will be paid to the conference, and the conference will provide workshop facilities including the working notes printing, the meeting room, coffee break, lunch, proceedings and etc. Any further expense of the workshop same to the main conference or one help month later such as the financial aid to the invited speakers MUST be provided by the workshop itself upon getting some sponsors for their own workshops. The money from workshop sponsors will be received by the workshop itself.


The proceedings of the ISPA 2009 workshops will be published by Conference Publishing Services. Prospective workshop organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to ISPA 2009 Workshop Chairs. 

Full name and acronym of the workshop
URL of the workshop web site
A short description (about 100 words) of the workshop
Objectives, scope, and topics of the workshop
One page CFP of the workshop
Names and contacts of key organizers


Important Dates
Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 18, 2009
Workshop Notification: Feb. 25, 2009
Release of Workshop Call for Paper: March 01, 2009
Workshop Submission Deadline: April 05, 2009
Workshop Author Notification: April 27, 2009
Workshop Camera-ready and Registration Due: May 18, 2009

We encourage researches to submit their workshop proposals (according to the guidelines available at ISPA-09 web site to Dr Guojun Wang (csgjwang@gmail.com) (and cc to Dr Jinjun Chen (jchen@swin.edu.au) and Dr Deqing Zou (deqingzou@hust.edu.cn)) with the subject "ISPA-09 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".