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Introduction
by Tim Cook 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi All, My project (and passion :-> ) as well as other references about my work are in the signature lines below. I took a look at the archives and was surprised to find only a few announcements of other events over the years. So, is there interest in reviving discussion related to life sciences and GRID computing? The multi-level modeling approach I promote is similar to CEN/ISO 13606, HL7v3 and openEHR. I have worked in open source health information systems for 13 years; after a career in electronics engineering (communications, RADAR & SONAR). I have worked with the openEHR Foundation for the past decade with five years on the Architecture Review Board. I also worked briefly with CCHIT and HITSP regarding open source. My goal with MLHIM is to bring it into modern times with the same proven concepts as openEHR but with XML Schemas as constraint definitions as well as a broader reference model. This includes using the OGF GLUE Specification as part of the foundational classes. I would enjoy having input from others outside of the primary care clinical domain. This will lead to a better, broader reference model. Kind Regards, Tim -- *************************************************************** Timothy Cook, MSc Project Lead - Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modeling http://www.mlhim.org LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook Academic.Edu Profile: http://uff.academia.edu/TimothyCook You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home

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3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML-2009)
by Adrian Paschke 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

[Apologies for multiple postings] Call for Papers RuleML 2009 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://2009.ruleml.org/ co-located with the 12th Business Rules Forum ---------------------------- Latest news * Student grants of the value of up to $1000 plus free registration * Keynote by Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Contact - The Future of Rule Interchange * New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes * Rules standards session, W3C RIF workshop, and joint BRF/RuleML lunch panel on Web Rules Sponsored by =================================================================== Franz Inc NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd Corporate Semantic Web Logic Programming Associated Ltd ruleCore JBoss Modelsystems Ltd =================================================================== Overview and Aim =================================================================== The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications. The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009 will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks, and thus will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. Conference Theme =================================================================== This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner, rule system provider, technical expert and developer, rule user or researcher, exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics: Track Topics ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule Transformation and Extraction - Transformation and extraction with rule standards, such as SBVR, RIF and OCL - Extraction of rules from code - Transformation and extraction in the context of frameworks such as KDM (Knowledge Discovery meta-model) - Extraction of rules from natural language - Transformation or rules from one dialect into another Rules and Uncertainty - Languages for the formalization of uncertainty rules - Probabilistic, fuzzy and other rule frameworks for reasoning with uncertain or incomplete information - Handling inconsistent or disparate rules using uncertainty - Uncertainty extensions of event processing rules, business rules, reactive rules, causal rules, derivation rules, association rules, or transformation rules Rules and Norms - Methodologies for modeling regulations using both ontologies and rules - Defeasibility: modeling rule exceptions and priority relations among rule - The relationship between rules and legal argumentation schemes - Rule language requirements for the "isomorphic" modeling of legislation - Rule based inference mechanism for legal reasoning - E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies Rule-based Game AI - Rule-based movement, decision making, strategies, behavior design - Rule-based environmental programming, virtual reality - Rules for multi-agent/character games - Rules for serious games - Rule-based agent design Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules - Reaction rule languages and engines (production rules, ECA rules, logic event action formalisms, vocabularies/ontologies) - State management approaches and frameworks - Concurrency control and scalability - Event and action definition, detection, consumption, termination, lifecycle management - Dynamic rule-based workflows and intelligent event processing (rule- based CEP) - Non-functional requirements, use of annotations, metadata to capture those - Design time and execution time aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Processes Modeling and Management - Practical and business aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Process Management (business scenarios, case studies, use cases etc.) Rules and Cross Industry Standards - Rules in Current Industry Standards, including: - XBRL: Extensible Business Reporting Language - MISMO: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Org - FIXatdl: FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language - FpML: Financial products Markup Language - HL7: Health Level 7 - Acord: Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (Insurance Industry) - Rules for Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), e.g., rules for internal audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk, etc - Rules and Corporate Actions General Rule Topics - Rules and ontologies - Execution models, rule engines, and environments - From rules to FOL to modal logics - Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic, temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualification - Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and answer set programming - Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules - Rules in Semantic Web Technologies - Miscellaneous rule topics Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged. RuleML-2009 Challenge =================================================================== The RuleML-2009 Demo Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. We invite submissions of demo papers and demos where rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support and provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioural logic of the application. The Challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Submissions are solicited in these categories: - Benchmarks (test cases, suites) with evaluations of (their own, other) rule engines and/or rule translators, possibly drawing on our growing pool at http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw - Case studies (use cases) implemented via engines/translators employing rule standards such as RIF, RuleML, CLIPS, Common Logic, SBVR, and ISO Prolog. We welcome all demos about tools and applications using rules such as: - Derivation rules, including query and integrity rules - ECA rules, including production rules, reaction rules, and rule-based CEP languages Authors of demo are also invited to submit a Challenge demo paper for publications in the conference proceedings, see the submission section below for submission details. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from each category. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A submission to the RuleML Challenge has to meet the requirement that declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this means that: Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded into the application logic). The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features related to the RuleML conference topics, as listed in the call for papers. For more details and the demo site web link please consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge website: http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw Student Grant Awards =================================================================== Two travel grants are available to students who are authors or co-authors of papers or demos accepted for presentation at the symposium. The grants include free registration and cover travel expenses up to 1000 dollars. Conference Language =================================================================== The official language of the conference will be English. Submission =================================================================== Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2009 as: Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) RuleML-2009 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before June 9, 2009 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2009. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must be done electronically. A selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal. Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2009 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration. In case of product demos, the link can be password-protected: please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest and preferably exhibit some of the additional desiderata. The more desiderata are met by an application, the higher the score will be. The demos will be evaluated by the RuleML-2009 Program Committee and prizes will be awarded to the two best applications, sponsored by the RuleML Inc. non-profit organization. Review Process =================================================================== The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three members of the Program Committee will review each submission. Important Dates: =================================================================== Abstract submission deadline: June 9, 2009 Paper Submission deadline: June 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2009 Camera ready due: August 9, 2009 Symposium dates: November 5-7, 2009 RuleML Challenge: November 5, 2009 Conference Venue =================================================================== RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas collocated with the Business Rules Forum. Keynote Speakers =================================================================== - Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Team Contact The Future of Rule Interchange - TBA Programme Committee =================================================================== General Chair -------------------- Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Program Chairs -------------------- Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia John Hall, Model Systems, UK Liaison Chair -------------------- Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences Publicity Chair -------------------- William Langley, NRC-IRAP, Canada Track Chairs Rule Transformation and Extraction -------------------- Erik Putrycz, Canada Mark Linehan, IBM, USA Rules and Uncertainty -------------------- Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy Rules and Norms -------------------- Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy Rule-based Game AI -------------------- Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules -------------------- Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany Rules and Cross Industry Standards -------------------- Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA Robert Golan, DBMind, USA RuleML Challenge -------------------- Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GesmbH, Austria Program Committee Members -------------------- http://2009.ruleml.org/pc RuleML 2009 Sponsors =================================================================== Silver Sponsors -------------------- NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd Corporate Semantic Web Franz Inc Bronze Sponsors -------------------- Logic Programming Associated Ltd ruleCore jBoss Modelsystems Ltd RuleML 2009 Partners =================================================================== W3C, World Wide Web Consortium OMG, Object Management Group ACM, Association for Computer Machinery AAAI ECCAI International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law ACM SigMis ACM SigArt Belgian Business Rules Forum MIT Sloan CIO Symposium EPTS, Event Processing Technical Society BPM Forum Belgium October Rules Fest SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems

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CFP: 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems (ABIS'09)
by Adrian Paschke 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 March http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/ABIS09.htm Call for Papers Second SIWN Congress (SIWN 2009) collocated with SOFTWARE, AGENTS, AND SERVICES FOR BUSINESS, RESEARCH, AND E-SCIENCES (SABRE 2009) ============================================================ Papers of the conference will be invited to publish their revised versions in a journal issue of the International Journal Communications of SIWN (CoSIWN) (ISSN 1757-4439) ============================================================ Overview -------- Information Technologies in their broad sense have been profoundly changing the ways, the processes and the philosophies of businesses. Adaptive business applications support processes whose workflows, user interfaces and business rules often change. The need for these dynamic applications is greater now than ever before and business systems in every perspective, management, workflow, information, infrastructure, etc. are evolving themselves towards being autonomic, adaptive, self-managing, self-organizing, and so forth. Emerging technologies such business rules management systems, complex event processing engines, event-driven business process management tools, corporate semantic web technologies, etc. are now gaining increasing momentum as they promise enhanced adaptive and agility capabilities to businesses, in order to sense unexpected environmental changes and to respond to business opportunities or to avoid business risks that turn up in a turbulent and quickly changing business environment. ABIS 2009 aims to provide a premier forum for stimulating exchange and in-depth discussion of advances, challenges and emerging areas in adaptive business information systems. Conference Venue ------------------------ Next year in March the European SIWN 2009 roof conference (see http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/) which hosts ABIS'09 (http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/ABIS09.htm) will take place in Leipzig together with the SABRE 2009 conference (see http://sabreconference.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/frontend/index.php) Moreover, that year will be the 600 anniversary of Leipzig University. Thus, after a series of successful ABIS conferences the 3rd ABIS'09 will be something very special and collocated with several other conferences and events. Deadlines --------- 05 December 2008 Submission of manuscripts 05 January 2009 Notification of acceptance 01 February 2009 Camera-Ready Version (CRV) & Presentation files due 23-25 March 2009 Conferences Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings. (1) Enterprise Information / Management Systems - business process integration - business process management - agile business process management - event-driven business process management - business rules and rule-based approaches for the business - enterprise resource planning - corporate semantic web - enterprise workflow management - inventory / warehouse management - management information systems - manufacturing resource planning - material requirement planning - product data management - product life cycle management - production and operation management - production planning and control - total quality management - business / IT service management and governance (2) Business Collaboration - business coalition - business partnership - coalition formation - collaborative e-business - agent-based e-business - enterprise federation - enterprise integration - global enterprise - global information systems - inter-enterprise transaction and workflow management - inter-organizational systems - corporate semantic web collaboration systems - knowledge network and management - virtual / networked enterprises - workflow interoperation (3) Supply Chains and Logistics - cooperation of supply chains - coordination / optimization in supply chains - customer / supplier relationship management - demand chain management - e-logistics - global supply networks - inventory management in supply chains - logistics and transportation systems - modeling of supply chains - multi-agent negotiations in supply chains - supply chain design and performance evaluation - supply chain dynamic formation - supply chain management (4) E-Business - agent mediated auction mechanisms - agent mediated bidding and negotiation - agent-mediated e-commerce - business rules in e-business - authentication / privacy / security in e-business - B2B, B2C, C2C models - e-banking - e-bidding and e-negotiation - e-business design and developments - e-business process modeling, integration, and monitoring - e-business security, trust and privacy - e-commerce - e-commerce content management - electronic data interchange - e-marketing and e-advertising - e-marketplaces - e-payment - e-taxation - e-work - global e-business - mobile commerce (5) Business Intelligence - artificial neural networks / evolutionary computation in business - data mining in business - group decision systems in business - information retrieval in business - intelligent agents in business - intelligent decision support systems in business - knowledge based / expert systems in business - knowledge management and ontology in business - machine learning in business - multi-linguistic user interfaces in business - natural language processing in business - particle swarm optimization / ant colony optimization in business - corporate semantic web in business - soft computing / fuzzy logic in business - swarm / collective / social intelligence in business (6) On-Demand Business - adaptive business - adaptive enterprises - agile business - agile enterprise - business adaptation / evolution - business process re-engineering - emergent enterprise - enterprise re-engineering - holonic enterprise - on-demand e-business - utility computing - service oriented computing - re-configurable enterprises - re-configurable / agile / holonic manufacturing system - responsive business - responsive enterprise - self-configuration of enterprise systems - self-organized production system - self-organizing business - self-organizing enterprises (7) Information Infrastructures of Businesses - complex event processing - business rules and rule-based approaches - distributed object systems - e-business applications and integration - electronic data interchange - enterprise (distributed) computing - enterprise applications interoperability - enterprise applications integration - enterprise collaborative computing - corporate semantic web and business ontologies - enterprise distributed intelligence - enterprise Grid computing - enterprise internet - enterprise middleware - enterprise portals - enterprise service bus - event-driven architectures - enterprise service oriented architectures - enterprise web services - enterprise XML Type of contributions and instructions ----------------------------------------------------- ABIS 2009 Technical Committee seeks original contributions in all areas of Adaptive Business Information Systems. Submissions must be original contributions that neither have been published nor have been under review for publication elsewhere. All submissions must be in English and no more than 7 pages in the format specified in the Instructions for Authors, which are available on http://siwn.org.uk/press/ita.htm. To submit a paper, a file in pdf format containing the manuscript of submission must be uploaded to the ABIS 2009 submission website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abis09 All manuscripts submitted will be sent to 3 members of the International Technical Program Committees of the Conferences for peer reviews and assessed according to the technical merits and presentation, on which the acceptance decision will be based. Accepted papers will be included in the CD-ROM Proceedings of SIWN 2009, which will be available for participants at the Conferences to promote the widest exchange and dissemination at the Conferences. Accepted papers of the conference will be invited to publish their revised versions in the international journal <<Communications of SIWN>> (CoSIWN, http://siwn.org.uk/cosiwn/) (ISSN 1757-4439) after the conference. Details can be seen on the SIWN 2009 website. Proposals of workshops, invited sessions and tutorials on emerging areas are welcome. Please discuss your proposals with Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke, the Chair of ABIS 2009 Technical Committee (abis09(a)easychair.org) Program Committee ----------------------------- + Esma Aimeur, Université de Montréal, CA + Soeren Auer, University Leipzig, Germany + Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy + Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA + Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, USA + Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal + Jorge Cuellar, Siemens Corporate Research, Germany + Jiangbo Dang, Siemens Corporate Research, Germany + Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia + Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Vienna + Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland + Rony G. Flatscher, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria + Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University, Canada + Adrian Giurca, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany + Robert Golan, DB Mind, USA + Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit, NL + Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, USA + Steven Guan, Xian Jiatong-Liverpool University, China + Oliver Guenther, HU Berlin, Germany + Ulrich Hasenkamp, Uni Marburg, Germany + Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria + Herbert Kopfer, Uni Bremen, Germany + Kyriakos Kritikos, ICS-FORTH, Greece + Leora Morgenstern, IBM, US + Gero Muehl, TU Berlin, Germany + Joerg Mueller, TU Clausthal, Germany + Dirk Neumann Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany + Volker Nissen, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany + Andreas Oberweis, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany + Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany + Dumitru Roman, DERI Innsbruck, Austria + Graham Rong, MIT, USA + Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University, Sweden + Matthias Schumann, Uni Goettingen, Germany + Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia + Susanne Strahringer, TU Dresden, Germany + Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA + Klaus Turowski, Uni Augsburg, Germany + Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium + Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands + Gerhard Weiss, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Germany + Yingjie Yang, De Montfort University, UK ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: Corporate Semantic Web (http://www.corporate-semantic-web.de/) funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Länder - Entrepreneurial Regions, "InnoProfile” RuleML (http://www.ruleml.org/) – Realize your knowledge CITT (http://www.citt-online.com/) - Centrum für Informations-Technologie Transfer (CITT) GmbH ===================================================================== Contact Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke AG-CSW (Corporate Semantic Web) Institute of Informatics Free University Berlin paschke(a)inf.fu-berlin.de

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RuleML-2008: Deadline Extension
by Adrian Paschke 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== Due to a number of requests we have to decided to extend the submission deadline by 2 weeks. NEW deadline for paper/demo submission: June 16 ===================================================================== 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Highlights: - Keynote speakers: * Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), on "Rule Interchange Format: Not Just Syntax". Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. * David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing. * Paul Haley (Haley Ltd) on business rules. * Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan Inc, USA) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/keynote.php ) - Joint Lunch Panel with the Business Rules Forum about "Rules on the Web" - RuleML-2008 Challenge with prestigious prices (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php ) (Submissions at: http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/ ) - Lightning talks / Highlight talks Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS proceedings and a journal special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) is forthcoming. PRESS RELEASES: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/cfp.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Paper Submissions due June 16, 2008 (EXTENDED) - Notification of acceptance July 22, 2008 - Final submissions due August 13, 2008 - Symposium date October 30-31, 2008 - RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Site is open: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 Submission guidelines: http://2008.ruleml.org/submissions.php Topics of Interest: http://2008.ruleml.org/topics.php Organizing Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/oc.php Program Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/pc.php ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Gold level : Vulcan Inc (pending) Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/ ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing =====================================================================

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UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
by Richard Sinnott 08 May '08

08 May '08

<Apologies if you receive this from several sources> Dear All, Can I bring to your attention the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (http://www.allhands.org.uk/) The theme this year is "Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E- Infrastructures" It is to be held in Edinburgh 8-11th September 2008. This year the Chairman Peter Coveney and the organising committee are striving to expand the interest of the conference out to all domain scientists to "attain a genuine synergy between computer scientists and computational scientists and researchers in all domains". The meeting is organised around workshops which will form the various sessions of the programme. Registration is open and the abstract 1-pager deadline has now been extended to the 15th May. Cheers, Rich -- Professor Richard O. Sinnott Technical Director National e-Science Centre University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44-(0)141-330-8606 Fax: -8625 Mob: 0795-2376627 Email: r.sinnott(a)nesc.gla.ac.uk

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CFP: RuleML-2008 (2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications)
by Adrian Paschke 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules Forum, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (pending) IEEE Computer Society TC on Intelligent Informatics (pending) IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. RuleML-2008 highlights include: - Plenary keynotes and a joint Boxed Lunch Panel about "Rules on the Web" together with the Business Rules Forum featuring prominent and visionary speakers. - There will be a joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008 (http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008/) which will be broadcast from RR2008 to RuleML-2008. - A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications - Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and rule- based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee - Invited talks given by leaders from industry and world-class experts featuring practical topics on event and rule-based computing and industry success stories - Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. Topics of Interest ------------------ We invite industry practitioners, rule system providers, technical experts and developers, rule users, and researchers who are using rule-based systems, developing systems and applications, or exploring problems and best practices (especially in the areas of system interoperability, rule interchange, or business agility), to share their ideas, results, and experiences. We invite submissions related (but not limited to) to one or more of the following topics: - Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets (modules) for publication and interchange - Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications and rule repositories - Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules - Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies - Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 - Rules in Semantic Web Technologies - Rules in Web Intelligence Research - Hybrid rule systems - Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule repositories during their lifecycle - Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments - Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments - Contributions on effective, practical, and deployable Web standards on rules as well as special purpose, vertical domain rule languages - Rule-based agility and its role in middleware - Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and processing / communication middleware - Applications, products, research, and development in rule-based, distributed complex event processing, event communication and reaction rules - Event-driven/action rule languages and models - Rule-based Event Processing Languages and rule-based CEP - Rule patterns and CEP patterns - Practical solutions tackling the real-world Software Engineering requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments - Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support - Execution models, rule engines, and environments - Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules - Applications and integration of rules in web standards - Rule-based software agents and (web) services - Applications of rules in the Semantic Web and Pragmatic Web - Comparing and advancing the state of current business rules engines and management system tools - Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats - Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain conceptualization - Applications based on (Semantic) Web rule standardization or standards- proposing efforts - Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats and rule models into executable technical rule specifications - Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangeable rules and rule models from existing platform-specific resources - Natural-language processing of rules - Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules - Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application architectures - Rule-based policies and electronic contracts: their specification, execution and management - Languages for exchanging and processing information through the web - E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies - Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules, security, IT government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning, etc. - Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain and fuzzy information - Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic, temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications - Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and answer set programming RuleML-2008 Challenge --------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge addresses the practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. Intentionally, this year's challenge (as last year) does not define a specific task, data set, application domain, or technology to be used because the potential applicability of rules is very broad. Instead, a number of minimal criteria were defined which allow people to submit a broad range of applications. A submission to RuleML challenge has to meet the minimal requirement that declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this means that: - Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded into the application logic). - Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support, provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioural logic of the application. The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features related to the ruleml conference topics, as listed in the call for papers. More details will be available on the RuleML-2008 web site. Important Dates --------------- - Paper Submissions due June 2, 2008 - Notification of acceptance July 18, 2008 - Final submissions due August 9, 2008 - Symposium date October 30-31, 2008 - RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008 Symposium Proceedings and Submission Details -------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case / use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 as: - Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) - RuleML-2008 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by June 2, 2008. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (pending) along with a CD with demo software and documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must be done electronically via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008. We will pursue the publication of a selection of revised papers to a special issue of a high- quality journal. Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation, or a download site. If the link is password-protected: then please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest. The demos will be evaluated by an independent jury of experts during RuleML-2008 and prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications. Please do not hesitate to email to the appropriate Symposium Chair(s), if you have any questions. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany adrian.paschke AT biotec.tu-dresden.de Program Co-Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece nbassili AT csd.auth.gr Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia guido AT itee.uq.edu.au Challenge Co-Chairs Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania badica_costin AT software.ucv.ro Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan hu AT cs.nccu.edu.tw Panel Co-Chairs John Hall, Model Systems, UK john.hall AT modelsys.com Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland axel AT polleres.net Liaison Co-Chairs Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK mproctor AT redhat.com Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany vonammon AT t-online.de Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jan.Vanthienen AT econ.kuleuven.be Publicity Co-Chairs Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK M.L.Nickles AT cs.bath.ac.uk Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA tbost AT valocity.com (Sponsoring levels: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/) Web Chair Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK Suzanne.Embury AT manchester.ac.uk Program Committee -------------------- - Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete-FORTH, Greece - Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA - Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy - Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy - Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs - Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc. - Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany - Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skovde, Sweden - Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada - Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands - Christian Brelage, SAP Research, Germany - Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK - Shyi-Ming Chen, National University of Science and Technology, Taiwan - Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany - Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA - Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Ontario, Canada - Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland - Jurgen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Andreas Eberhart, Portland State University, USA - Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel - Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada - Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany - Stijn Goedertier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA - Christine Golbreich, University Rennes, France - Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany - Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece - Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece - Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK - Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - John Lee, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Mark Linehan, IBM Research, USA - Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research, USA - Mirko Malekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Christopher J. Matheus, Vistology, USA - Craig McKenzie, Science Applications International, USA - Jing Mei, IBM Research Lab China, China - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Inc, Australia - Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea - Leora Morgenstern, Stanford, USA - Gero Muehl, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany - Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, Germany - Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan - Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK - Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Rewerse, Germany - Jon Pellant, Pega Systems Inc., USA - Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA - Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK - Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs - Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Dave Reynolds, HP, England - Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA - Antonio Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy - Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France - Marco Seirio, ruleCore, Sweden - Timos Sellis, Institute for the Management of Information Systems and National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany - Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands - Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Terrance Swift, XSB Inc., USA - Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia - James Taylor, Fair Isaac Corp., USA - Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland - Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, USA - George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia - Mehmet Emre Yegen, Ygntec Inc., USA

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[LSG-RG} Meeting on Pharma
by Angulo, David 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Dear all: This is an e-mail message regarding the Life Science Grid Research Group (LSG-RG) in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), formerly the Global Grid Forum (GGF). I sent out last month asking for input regarding a proposed meeting regarding proteomics for the next OGF meeting in Boston in February. The leadership of OGF would like to make a workshop for Pharma, and they have asked us to participate with them in this effort. Thus, I would like to extend a call for presentations in Pharmacology. We would like to specifically look for presentations relating to those areas in Pharmacology that involve intensive computational power, extensive communications, or massive amounts of data, but all will be considered. I would like the membership of this e-mail list to help us in the solicitation of speakers, and would like to solicit your input into what topics and/or speakers we should pursue. Here are some suggested speakers * Piotr Sliz, PhD, Bioinformatics Specialist II, Howard Hughes Medical Institute * Steve Litster, Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research * Timothy Wagner, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company * Jeffrey Mathers, Pharmaceutical Research & Development * Sanjoy Ray, Merck * Peter S. Shenkin, Schrodinger * WISDOM, Vincent Breton CNRS * Bridge, Martin Hofmann fron SCAI Fraunhofer * Share, Tony Solomonides from Univ West England * Ian Penny of Pfizer I'm looking forward to input from all. Please post notices by 12/26/07 ================= The LSG-RG (Life Science Grid Research Group) is a group in OGF (Open Grid Forum) which was formed with the purpose of developing best practices in the area of the Life Sciences in the intersection with Grid Computing. The group also serves the purpose of interfacing with the other group in OGF and ensuring that all standards created by OGF take into account the requirements of applications in the Life Sciences. To Subscribe to the LSG-RG mailing list or to see archives messages, please visit: http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsg-rg To see minutes of past LSG-RG meetings and to see other documents about the group, please visit: http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/view.php?group=lsg-rg For more information about OGF, including details on the next message, please visit: http://www.ogf.org =========== David Sigfredo Angulo Faculty DePaul University 312-362-5041 dangulo(a)cti.depaul.edu David Sigfredo Angulo Faculty DePaul University 312-362-5041 dangulo(a)cti.depaul.edu

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Re: [LSG-RG] [LSG-RG @ OGF] February 2008 Proteomics Meeting
by Craig Lee 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

All, I'd like to echo all of these concerns and questions. For the end-users and software/system developers in proteomics, what are the pain points? What are the current best practices? What can OGF do from a technology/standards point of view? What can we do from a community-building point of view? Can the proteomics community articulate (in some way, shape, or form) a technology roadmap for where they think the field needs to go in the not-so-distant future? --Craig At 05:41 AM 10/29/2007, Richard Sinnott wrote: >I know lots of people involved in high throughput proteomics, indeed >Glasgow University has recently had a major centre funded specifically >in this area. See http://www.gla.ac.uk/rasor/ > >My point is that having a talk from these people will not help OGF/OGSA >directly for the reasons I identify below. LSG-RG has to start asking >questions of the WG's and OGSA efforts in concrete/measurable terms that >someone in OGSA-BES, JSDL, DAIS, authZ etc etc can understand. > >Does the DAIS spec allow me to manage mass spec data? Does it provide >the security hooks I need? Does JSDL, OGSA-BES provide sufficient >support for me to process my mass spec data on a range of HPC clusters? >If not, why not... etc etc > >Otherwise we end up with the LSG-RG having no impact whatsoever on the >rest of the OGF/OGSA efforts - which is ~the case right now. (I struggle >to see any concrete examples that LSG-RG has thrown at the other groups >to enhance the OGSA standards - other than the SAML authZ api and lack >of parameters which we identified a couple of years ago in BRIDGES). > >R. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Angulo, David [mailto:dangulo@cti.depaul.edu] >Sent: 29 October 2007 13:17 >To: Richard Sinnott; lsg-rg(a)gridforum.org >Subject: RE: [LSG-RG] [LSG-RG @ OGF] February 2008 Proteomics Meeting > >Thanks, Richard, for your comments. You are correct, our purpose is to >present proteomics / Life Sciences requirements to OGF at large (and >particular OGF research groups or working groups). To do that, we must >learn what those requirements are by listening to the experts in the >area of high throughput proteomics. If you know of any potential >speakers that have already developed these requirements, we would be >very happy to have you present their names for consideration; however, I >assume that our group will need to do this work ourselves. > >Dave > >David Sigfredo Angulo >Faculty >DePaul University >312-362-5041 dangulo(a)cti.depaul.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Sinnott [mailto:r.sinnott@nesc.gla.ac.uk] > > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:16 AM > > To: Angulo, David; lsg-rg(a)gridforum.org > > Subject: RE: [LSG-RG] [LSG-RG @ OGF] February 2008 Proteomics Meeting > > > > If we are planning/discussing these via email, then can I suggest that > > > the talks are applications of OGF specs/implementations applied to the > > > proteomics/mass spec domain. Otherwise, and being my usual being > > devils advocate, what is the point of having these presentations at > > OGF and not somewhere else? > > > > The LSG-RG SHOULD be about informing OGF and hence OGSA standards > > (what works and what doesn't etc). It should NOT be about life > > sciences more generally - there are many conferences out there for > > that. > > > > If nobody is using the OGF specs / implementations in proteomics-land > > right now (which would not altogether surprise me), then another > > alternative is to have someone present their proteomics requirements > > and have OGF/OGSA area directors/WG leaders come in and discuss how > > their various efforts meet those requirements. I feel that the results > > > of this would be much more use to OGF/OGSA as a whole. > > > > Thoughts? Flames? ... > > > > Rich > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lsg-rg-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:lsg-rg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf > > > Of Angulo, David > > Sent: 28 October 2007 23:40 > > To: lsg-rg(a)gridforum.org > > Subject: [LSG-RG] [LSG-RG @ OGF] February 2008 Proteomics Meeting > > > > > > Dear all: > > > > I would like to apologize for the previous message sent without a > > proper introduction. My private e-mail message was forwarded to the > > list without my permission, but hopefully it didn't confuse anyone. > > > > This is an e-mail message regarding the Life Science Grid Research > > Group > > (LSG-RG) in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), formerly the Global Grid Forum > > (GGF). > > > > I will give a background of this group at the end of this message. > > First, though, let me state the purpose of this message. > > > > Our group has been extremely active since 2002, but the visibility of > > our activities has waned. One suggestion, which we believe is quite > > on target, was to plan future meetings through our e-mail list > > (through which you are receiving this message). > > > > I would like to start out such an effort by asking for input in > > planning our next meeting, which will be help in February > > 2008 in Boston. At the meeting in Seattle last week, the attendees > > were extremely interested in the proteomics presentations, and the > > group decided that we would solicit proteomics experts to speak at the > > > next meeting. > > > > Thus, I would like to extend a call for presentations in proteomics. > > We would like to specifically look for proteomic mass spectrometry > > presentations, but all will be considered. > > I would like the membership of this e-mail list to help us in the > > solicitation of speakers, and would like to solicit your input into > > what topics and/or speakers we should pursue. > > > > I'm looking forward to input from all. > > > > ================= > > The LSG-RG (Life Science Grid Research Group) is a group in OGF (Open > > Grid Forum) which was formed with the purpose of developing best > > practices in the area of the Life Sciences in the intersection with > > Grid Computing. The group also serves the purpose of interfacing with > > > the other group in OGF and ensuring that all standards created by OGF > > take into account the requirements of applications in the Life > > Sciences. > > > > To Subscribe to the LSG-RG mailing list or to see archives messages, > > please visit: > > http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsg-rg > > To see minutes of past LSG-RG meetings and to see other documents > > about the group, please visit: > > http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/view.php?group=lsg-rg > > For more information about OGF, including details on the next message, > > > please visit: > > http://www.ogf.org > > =========== > > > > David Sigfredo Angulo > > Faculty > > DePaul University > > 312-362-5041 dangulo(a)cti.depaul.edu > > -- > > lsg-rg mailing list > > lsg-rg(a)ogf.org > > http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsg-rg > > >-- > lsg-rg mailing list > lsg-rg(a)ogf.org > http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsg-rg

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[LSG-RG @ OGF] February 2008 Proteomics Meeting
by Angulo, David 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Dear all: I would like to apologize for the previous message sent without a proper introduction. My private e-mail message was forwarded to the list without my permission, but hopefully it didn't confuse anyone. This is an e-mail message regarding the Life Science Grid Research Group (LSG-RG) in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), formerly the Global Grid Forum (GGF). I will give a background of this group at the end of this message. First, though, let me state the purpose of this message. Our group has been extremely active since 2002, but the visibility of our activities has waned. One suggestion, which we believe is quite on target, was to plan future meetings through our e-mail list (through which you are receiving this message). I would like to start out such an effort by asking for input in planning our next meeting, which will be help in February 2008 in Boston. At the meeting in Seattle last week, the attendees were extremely interested in the proteomics presentations, and the group decided that we would solicit proteomics experts to speak at the next meeting. Thus, I would like to extend a call for presentations in proteomics. We would like to specifically look for proteomic mass spectrometry presentations, but all will be considered. I would like the membership of this e-mail list to help us in the solicitation of speakers, and would like to solicit your input into what topics and/or speakers we should pursue. I'm looking forward to input from all. ================= The LSG-RG (Life Science Grid Research Group) is a group in OGF (Open Grid Forum) which was formed with the purpose of developing best practices in the area of the Life Sciences in the intersection with Grid Computing. The group also serves the purpose of interfacing with the other group in OGF and ensuring that all standards created by OGF take into account the requirements of applications in the Life Sciences. To Subscribe to the LSG-RG mailing list or to see archives messages, please visit: http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsg-rg To see minutes of past LSG-RG meetings and to see other documents about the group, please visit: http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/view.php?group=lsg-rg For more information about OGF, including details on the next message, please visit: http://www.ogf.org =========== David Sigfredo Angulo Faculty DePaul University 312-362-5041 dangulo(a)cti.depaul.edu

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Re: [LSG-RG] Proposed message
by Richard Sinnott 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

We can do this in the abstract, e.g. proteomics has strong HPC, data, security mgt requirements etc hence needs Grid based solutions. But from my perspective, we should be looking in more detail at the specific OGF efforts and how they support proteomics based research (or not) - if proteomics is the focus of this next meeting that is. Otherwise we end up with a set of interesting presentations to life scientists but serve no real benefit to the Grid community at large - which surely is the point for folk to go to OGF meetings. Note I have taken the liberty of copying these discussions to the wider LSG-RG email list, since email discussions behind closed doors is one of the issues this group needs to stop. More than happy for folk to disagree with me... Cheers, R. ________________________________ From: Abbas Farazdel [mailto:farazdel@us.ibm.com] Sent: 27 October 2007 21:17 To: Richard Sinnott Cc: Vincent Breton; Angulo, David; fumikazu(a)gsc.riken.jp; Richard Sinnott Subject: RE: Proposed message I assume the focus of the presentations should address the following questions and not just covering merely proteomics): 1) How grid computing can be used to help proteomics scientists and professionals to achieve breakthrough science or shorter time-to-solution; and 2) Are there any requirements in the area of proteomics that presently is not addressed by OGF groups but should be addressed. Best Regards, Dr. Abbas Farazdel Blue Gene Solutions Executive - Petascale Computing IBM Systems & Technology Group Office: +1 845 433 1652 (t/l-293); Mobile: +1 845 216 4066 Fax: +1 845 491 3569 Email: farazdel(a)us.ibm.com <mailto:farazdel@us.ibm.com> http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html <http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html> "Richard Sinnott" <ros(a)dcs.gla.ac.uk> 10/27/2007 02:03 PM To "Angulo, David" <dangulo(a)cti.depaul.edu>, <fumikazu(a)gsc.riken.jp>, Abbas Farazdel/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS, "Vincent Breton" <breton(a)clermont.in2p3.fr> cc <r.sinnott(a)nesc.gla.ac.uk> Subject RE: Proposed message As long as the proteomics presentations are aligned with the work on-going within the OGF standards/implementations of those standards etc, then I am all for this. From my own perspective, LSG-RG should be telling people what works with OGF specs and what doesn't. Thus we should be asking is anyone out there in LSG-RG land using the imlementations of DAIS, ByteIO, OGSA-BES, authZ, etc etc. There are many other life science conferences/workshops where folk can talk about proteomics more generally etc. Having talks about non-specific OGF related applications in the life science domain for me does not make much sense. Thoughts? R. PS Please use the r.sinnott(a)nesc.gla.ac.uk as I no longer get emails directly forwarded from my DCS account. -----Original Message----- From: Angulo, David [mailto:dangulo@cti.depaul.edu <mailto:dangulo@cti.depaul.edu> ] Sent: Sat 27/10/2007 17:15 To: Fumikazu KONISHI <fumikazu(a)gsc.riken.jp>; Abbas Farazdel; Vincent Breton; Richard Sinnott Subject: Proposed message Dear all: Please give feedback before Sunday, 5PM Chicago Time (CST). At that time, if I have no feedback, I will send this message. ======================== Dear all: This is an e-mail message regarding the Life Science Grid Research Group (LSG-RG) in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), formerly the Global Grid Forum (GGF). I will give a background of this group at the end of this message. First, though, let me state the purpose of this message. Our group has been extremely active since 2002, but the visibility of our activities has waned. One suggestion, which we believe is quite on target, was to plan future meetings through our e-mail list (through which you are receiving this message). I would like to start out such an effort by asking for input in planning our next meeting, which will be help in February 2008 in Boston. At the meeting in Seattle last week, the attendees were extremely interested in the proteomics presentations, and the group decided that we would solicit proteomics experts to speak at the next meeting. Thus, I would like to extend a call for presentations in proteomics. We would like to specifically look for proteomic mass spectrometry presentations, but all will be considered. I would like the membership of this e-mail list to help us in the solicitation of speakers, and would like to solicit your input into what topics and/or speakers we should pursue. I'm looking forward to input from all. David Sigfredo Angulo Faculty DePaul University 312-362-5041 dangulo(a)cti.depaul.edu

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