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by hassan_rufai＠zipmail.com.br 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

>From Mr. HASSAN RUFAI TEL: +234 803 7201770 Reply To:rufaihassan@yahoo.co.in Greetings to you , Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. My name is Mr. Hassan Rufai, the Head of IT dept of a bank here in Nigeria. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I said, I have a transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as a foreigner. I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but last December I was asked to take position of the Head Of IT department of our branch in Abuja who passed on, so that was how I became the present Head and discovered a fortune. As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with total sum of $12,500,000 million that has not been operated on for the past 4 years. From my investigation, I found out that this account belongs to one Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who nfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site, which I got during my investigation; http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the money as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson, meaning that no one is aware of the account. I cannot directly take out this money without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance to claim the funds and share it with me. As the Head of my bank branch, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you. I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the account, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to you. There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. Contact me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together, so we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you. Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I wait your urgent response. My phone number is +234 803 7201770 Regards, Mr. Hassan Rufai.

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by hassa_rufai＠zipmail.com.br 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

ATTN:FROM THE DESK OF: sanni Adams & Associates No. 54 Broad Street, Lagos. Tel: 234 1 080 3823 0720 234 1 080 5473 8881 Fax: 234 1 759 5880 REPLY TO THIS rufai_hassan(a)yahoo.com ATTN:, I am Barrister sanni Adams a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr. Harry jack a national of your country, who used to work with ZENON OIL REFINERY NIGERIA(PLC). On the 6th of May,2002 it was reported to us that my Client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a Local Plane Crash at Kano State, enroute Abuja (The Capital City) all occupants in the Plane lost their lives, unfortunately on this same flight were other dignitaries like the Sports Minister and a host of others. The following websites could be referenced: http://www.usafricaonline.com/ngrkanocrash.html http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/05/06/stories/2002050600451500.htm http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/05/05/stories/2002050503070101.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968616.stm Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to locate any member of his family or anyone whom i can truth,hence I contacted you.I contacted you to assist in claiming this fund from the finance house where he deposited it before his untimely death. The finance company where the deceased had an account valued at about USD$7.5 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have theaccount confisicated within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at USD$7.5 million dollars can be paid to you as the next of kin. All I need is your full maximum suport and cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction within 10 working days and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.If you are interested in this transaction,kindly furnish me with your full name, address, private telephone and fax numbers to enable us commence immediately. Best regards,

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CFP -- SOBPI'05 -- Workshop on Service-Oriented Business Process Integration
by gagnon＠soa7.com 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Apologies for cross-posting *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED BUSINESS PROCESSES INTEGRATION (SOBPI'05) http://elab.njit.edu/sobpi Held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005) Amsterdam, the Netherlands December 12, 2005 *********************************************************************** --- IMPORTANT DATES --- Papers submission September 30, 2005 Notification October 21, 2005 Camera ready November 11, 2005 Workshop December 12, 2005 --- MOTIVATIONS --- A widely recognized trend in business and markets is the push towards the idea of companies and enterprises as networked organizations, which can gain profit from collaborations in the net, improving their flexibility, and reducing operational costs. This transformation requires the adoption of more collaborative working practices based on the integration of business processes within a wide community of business partners, suppliers, vendors, and public bodies. In parallel to this trend, service oriented technologies are transforming the web from an infrastructure for sharing information to a place where the networked organizations can meet to integrate their business interests. Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is currently the most promising technology supporting the development and execution of business processes that are distributed among the most disparate entities, both within an organization and across organizational borders. However, a practical industry-wide adoption of web services, to support the collaboration among networked organizations and the integration of their business process, is still an open challenge. This challenge can be addressed only by a tight integration of service-oriented development within new business models and new ways of management that are able to exploit new technological solutions. Moreover, web service technology is still emerging, and therefore their industry-wide adoption requires to inject research results within real industry practices, but, even more important, to drive research activities and roadmaps according to industrial needs. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and experts in business models and management and to promote cross-fertilization among their competencies, focusing on the usage of service oriented technologies to support the Business Processes Integration (BPI). The goal is to build bridges and convergences among the complementary views of experts in IT and service oriented technologies and experts in management, and the different approaches of academy and industry, to the problem of business processes integration. The emphasis of the workshop will be on the demonstration of the practical application of research results, and on the description of industrial case studies. --- FOCUS --- The workshop will seek contributions in the field of SOC for BPI. Papers can take the form of detailed case studies, technical white papers, new methodologies, new standard specifications, benchmarking models, or any other contributions demonstrating innovative applications of SOC for BPI. Topics may include, but are not limited to: 1. Development Methodologies and Tools: a. Service/Process Modeling, Deployment, and Testing b. Enterprise Architecture and Service/Process Definition c. Model Driven Architecture and Service/Process Reuse d. Process-Oriented Messaging Infrastructures e. Distributed Business Process Management 2. Adoption of Advanced Technologies: a. Intelligent Process Discovery and Integration b. Service/Process Composition c. Event Driven Architecture and Process Automation d. Integration of Services, Messaging, and Connectors e. Business Activity Monitoring and Quality of Service 3. Comparison of Implementation Platforms: a. Business Process Management b. Enterprise Service Bus c. Business Services Networks The workshop will be highly interactive, and commentators will be exploited foster the discussion among participants with different backgrounds: each presentation will be followed by a short presentation of comments from a participant belonging to different areas of expertise, in order to bridge the ideas of the paper with a different viewpoint (e.g., each presentation on IT solutions will be followed by comments from industry experts and, vice-versa, presentations on case studies will be followed by comments on the research and technological challenges). --- SUBMISSIONS --- Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished contributions. Papers should be written in English using the Springer's LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must not exceed 15 pages. Shorter papers, presenting preliminary results, are welcome. Please submit papers electronically, using the workshop submission site (http://elab.njit.edu/sobpisubmit) Accepted papers will be published on-line and made available in hard copy to the workshop participants. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. --- ORGANIZERS --- * Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA * Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research Center, USA * Marco Pistore, Univeristy of Trento, Italy * Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia --- CONTACT INFORMATION --- Please direct all inquiries to <sobpi(a)dit.unitn.it>.

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agentlink newsletter article on agents and the grid
by David De Roure 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

For info, the article I wrote on agents and the grid has just appeared in AgentLink news issue 17 (page 18-19) - see http://www.agentlink.org/newsletter/ -- Dave

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by service＠paypal.com 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

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