Empowering Science through Computing, Preface for ICCS 2012
Hesham Ali, Yong Shi, Deepak Khazanchi, Michael Lees, G.D. van Albada, Jack J. Dongarra, Peter M. A. Sloot · Procedia Computer Science · 2012
The International Conference on Computational Science aims to bring together annually researchers and scientists from mathematics and computer science as basic computing disciplines, researchers from various application areas who are pioneering advanced application of computational methods to sciences such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering, arts and humanitarian fields, along with software developers and vendors, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research, as well as to help industrial users apply various advanced computational techniques.ICCS 2012 will be the twelfth in this series of highly successful conferences.For details of the previous eleven very successful meetings see: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2012/previous-iccs.htmlThe theme for ICCS 2012 is "Empowering Science through Computing", to mark the ever-increasing importance of and progress in computational science theory and practice.The conference will be a unique event focusing on recent developments in methods and modeling of complex systems for diverse areas of science, scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and novel application areas where the above novel models, algorithms and tools can be efficiently applied such as physical systems, computational and systems biology, environmental systems, finance, and others.For this great event, we have invited the following world leading keynote speakers to give their current and future vision of Computational