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Symposium, Gatineau, Ottawa
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The theme for this conference is “Data
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Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
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CAPS2008 or contact Nam-Ky Nguyen,
of both plenary and multiple streams of par-
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allel sessions. Additional research and results
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