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by Molly Mcnally 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

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Academic Position => Professor of Knowledge Technologies - University of Aberdeen, Scotland
by Pete Edwards 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Professor of Knowledge Technologies Computing Science University of Aberdeen Scotland, UK Closing Date: 29-Sep-2006 We seek to expand our highly successful research activities by appointing a Sixth Century Chair in Knowledge Technologies / Intelligent Systems. You will have made major contributions to Computing Science and/or Artificial Intelligence, will have a world leading publication record, and will have a strong record of attracting external funds. You should have a PhD in Computing Science or a related discipline or equivalent industrial research experience. Your research interests should enhance our existing activities. You will be expected to lead the Knowledge Technologies Research theme within the Department. For further details on the post see: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YCS058A Computing Science information: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Tim Norman, Head of Computing Science tnorman(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)1224 272295 or Professor Derek Sleeman sleeman(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)1224 272288 Promoting Diversity and Equal Opportunities throughout the University -- Head of Graduate School College of Physical Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE Tel. +44 (0)1224 272270/272081 Fax. +44 (0)1224 273422 URL http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~pedwards

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SIIK 2006 Last CFPs - 1st Int. Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - Deadline: Sep 15, 2006
by Nguyen Manh Tho 10 Sep '06

10 Sep '06

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st International Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ares-conf.org/siik in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006) http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2006/ 4-6 December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Introduction ------------- Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics, located in heterogeneous and distributed systems. Furthermore, the explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area. Information Integration subsumes all technologies needed to provide form manipulation of information scattered over many information systems while supporting a single system image. Information integration has been a long standing challenge for the database community in the last decades. Although there are several distinct research and development areas explicitly or implicitly addressing data integration, the schematic and semantic heterogeneity is still one of the most difficulties in the integration of heterogeneous knowledge and information systems - one of the perquisite steps of knowledge discovery process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views of techniques and policies, and brainstorm future research/development directions on semantic information integration used in knowledge discovery. The research on progress, draft idea, architecture submissions are also welcome. Particularly, we strongly encourage submissions dealing with real world applications such as information integration in science information systems, health-care systems, e-government, e-commerce, workflow management systems, web information systems, etc. Topics of interests ------------------- The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Standards based Information Integration - Managing metadata for information integration - Semantic Integration - Information extraction - Information quality/data cleaning - Resolving inconsistency across sources - Ontologies for Information Integration - Ontology mapping and merging - Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating - On-the-fly Integration - Secure Information Integration - Information Integration architectures - Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches - Tools for supporting Information Integration - Data Integration in data warehousing/ data mining - Data integration in P2P/Grid systems - Data Integration in Health Care systems - Data Integration in e-Commerce applications - Data Integration in e-Government applications - Data Integration in e-Science applications - Data Integration Management for mobile applications - Workflow Information Integration - Data Integration across Institutional Borders Submission Instructions ----------------------- The SIIK workshop accepts full and short research papers. For paper registration and electronic submission please use the following website: http://www.ares-conf.org/siik/review The length of the full paper should not exceed 10 pages and short paper should not exist 5 pages. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). (to be found at http://www.ocg.at/activities/books/Richtlinien.pdf) Submitted papers will be blind reviewed and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. The submission implies that at least one author must register at the iiWAS conference and present the paper. Important Dates --------------- September 15, 2006 Full Papers submission October 6, 2006 Acceptance Notification October 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers December 4-6,2006 Workshop at iiWAS Conference Publication ------------ All accepted workshop papers will be published in the Austrian Computer Society book series. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (http://www.troubador.co.uk/ijwis) [2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47) [3] International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=143) [4] More are pending approval Workshop Organizers ------------------- Nguyen Manh Tho, Ph.D. (main contact) Institute of Software Technique and Interactive System, Vienna University of Technology , Favoriten strasse 9-11/188 A1040 Vienna, Austria tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Benhard Sitohang, Ph.D. School of electrical engineering & Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Benhard(a)informatika.org Programme Committee ------------------- Ahmad Ashari, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA - Poitiers University, France Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy R. Scott Cost, The Johns Hopkins University, USA Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France Danile Herin, Montpellier II University. LIRMM, France Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzland Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Ramon Lawrence, University of British Columbia Okanagan, USA Domenico Lembo, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy Marco Mesiti, DICO - University of Milano, Italy Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK Benhard Sitohang, School of electrical engineering & Informatics - ITB, Indonesia Putri Saptawati, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, National Unversity of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Basuki Widodo, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Indonesia Huiyong Xiao, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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SIIK 2006 Last CFPs - 1st Int. Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - Deadline: Sep 15, 2006
by Nguyen Manh Tho 10 Sep '06

10 Sep '06

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st International Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ares-conf.org/siik in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006) http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2006/ 4-6 December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Introduction ------------- Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics, located in heterogeneous and distributed systems. Furthermore, the explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area. Information Integration subsumes all technologies needed to provide form manipulation of information scattered over many information systems while supporting a single system image. Information integration has been a long standing challenge for the database community in the last decades. Although there are several distinct research and development areas explicitly or implicitly addressing data integration, the schematic and semantic heterogeneity is still one of the most difficulties in the integration of heterogeneous knowledge and information systems - one of the perquisite steps of knowledge discovery process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views of techniques and policies, and brainstorm future research/development directions on semantic information integration used in knowledge discovery. The research on progress, draft idea, architecture submissions are also welcome. Particularly, we strongly encourage submissions dealing with real world applications such as information integration in science information systems, health-care systems, e-government, e-commerce, workflow management systems, web information systems, etc. Topics of interests ------------------- The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Standards based Information Integration - Managing metadata for information integration - Semantic Integration - Information extraction - Information quality/data cleaning - Resolving inconsistency across sources - Ontologies for Information Integration - Ontology mapping and merging - Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating - On-the-fly Integration - Secure Information Integration - Information Integration architectures - Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches - Tools for supporting Information Integration - Data Integration in data warehousing/ data mining - Data integration in P2P/Grid systems - Data Integration in Health Care systems - Data Integration in e-Commerce applications - Data Integration in e-Government applications - Data Integration in e-Science applications - Data Integration Management for mobile applications - Workflow Information Integration - Data Integration across Institutional Borders Submission Instructions ----------------------- The SIIK workshop accepts full and short research papers. For paper registration and electronic submission please use the following website: http://www.ares-conf.org/siik/review The length of the full paper should not exceed 10 pages and short paper should not exist 5 pages. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). (to be found at http://www.ocg.at/activities/books/Richtlinien.pdf) Submitted papers will be blind reviewed and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. The submission implies that at least one author must register at the iiWAS conference and present the paper. Important Dates --------------- September 15, 2006 Full Papers submission October 6, 2006 Acceptance Notification October 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers December 4-6,2006 Workshop at iiWAS Conference Publication ------------ All accepted workshop papers will be published in the Austrian Computer Society book series. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (http://www.troubador.co.uk/ijwis) [2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47) [3] International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=143) [4] More are pending approval Workshop Organizers ------------------- Nguyen Manh Tho, Ph.D. (main contact) Institute of Software Technique and Interactive System, Vienna University of Technology , Favoriten strasse 9-11/188 A1040 Vienna, Austria tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Benhard Sitohang, Ph.D. School of electrical engineering & Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Benhard(a)informatika.org Programme Committee ------------------- Ahmad Ashari, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA - Poitiers University, France Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy R. Scott Cost, The Johns Hopkins University, USA Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France Danile Herin, Montpellier II University. LIRMM, France Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzland Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Ramon Lawrence, University of British Columbia Okanagan, USA Domenico Lembo, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy Marco Mesiti, DICO - University of Milano, Italy Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK Benhard Sitohang, School of electrical engineering & Informatics - ITB, Indonesia Putri Saptawati, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, National Unversity of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Basuki Widodo, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Indonesia Huiyong Xiao, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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Re: [SEM-GRD] CFP: IJCAI-07 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2007)
by sem-grd-bounces＠ogf.org 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

I am currently out of office to attend DEXA/DaWaK 2006 in Krakow, Poland until September 10. During this time, I can rarely access my email thus your message may be answered with delay. Best regards, Nguyen Manh Tho

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CFP: IJCAI-07 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2007)
by Jyotishman Pathak 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Hyderabad, India January 2007 http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/ijcai2007workshop.html Call for Papers SWeCKa 2007 Workshop Description Recent advances in computing and communications together with the rapid proliferation of information sources and services present unprecedented opportunities in integrative and collaborative analysis and interpretation of distributed, autonomous (and hence, inevitably semantically heterogeneous) data and knowledge sources and services in virtually every area of human activity. Fundamental advances in collaborative approaches to knowledge acquisition and data-driven decision making from distributed, autonomous, semantically heterogeneous data and knowledge sources require synergistic synthesis of research advances, insights, algorithms, and results in multiple areas of: * Artificial Intelligence - especially machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation and inference, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems; * Information Systems - especially databases, information integration, semantic web; and * Distributed computing and software engineering (e.g., service-oriented computing). The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the relevant areas of artificial intelligence, databases, knowledge bases, machine learning, information integration, ontologies, semantic web, web services, and relevant application areas (e.g., bioinformatics, environmental informatics, enterprise informatics e-science, e-government, medical informatics, security informatics, social informatics, among others). to discuss the current state of the art and open research problems in ontology modularization and integration. A secondary goal of the workshop is to facilitate collaborations between different research groups. Workshop Topics * Cyber-infrastructure and semantic web technologies for collaborative knowledge acquisition * Modeling semantically heterogeneous data and knowledge sources and services * Collaboratively developing and sharing ontologies and inter-ontology mappings * Representing and reasoning with ontologies and mappings between ontologies * Discovering mappings between data source schema and between ontologies * Reasoning with distributed modular ontologies * Integrating modular ontologies * Visualizing large distributed ontologies * Semantically annotating information sources * Querying distributed, semantically heterogeneous information sources * Acquiring knowledge from distributed data sources * Acquiring knowledge from semantically heterogeneous data sources * Extracting knowledge and facts from distributed text and multimedia data * Exploiting distributed knowledge and data in dynamic data-driven applications * Finding, composing, and using semantically heterogeneous services * Modeling, tracking, and using information provenance * Modeling, and reasoning about trust of information sources and services * Preserving privacy, selectively sharing information and knowledge * Applications in bioinformatics, security informatics, enterprise informatics, social informatics, engineering informatics, health informatics, environmental informatics, and related areas * Case studies, software tools, use cases, and application * Open problems Workshop Format The workshop will consist of: * An opening session for introducing the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes * A small number of invited talks carefully intermixed with presentation of contributed papers. * Breaks between sessions, meant to encourage informal discussions related to the topics discussed in the sessions and to create opportunities for collaborations. * Discussion of open problems and future research directions * A wrap-up session summarizing the workshop (including formal or informal discussions). Paper Submissions We invite papers that report on completed or work in progress on relevant topic areas. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. The contributions should be submitted in the form of PDF documents using the templates provided for WORD and LaTeX. Submissions should be limited to a maximum of 6 pages for short papers, and 10 pages for long papers. PDF versions of the papers should be submitted through the SWeCKa 2007 paper submission web site at http://www.easychair.org/SWeCKa2007/ no later than September 30, 2006. Extended versions of selected papers may be published in a special issue of a journal or an edited book. Important Dates * Submissions Due: September 30, 2006 * Notification of Acceptance: October 23, 2006 * Camera-ready versions due: November 1, 2006 * Workshop: January 6, 7, or 8, 2007 Organizers Dr. Vasant Honavar (Workshop Chair) Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. Dr. Tim Finin, (Workshop Co-Chair) Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Dr. Doina Caragea Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA. Dr. Dunja Mladenic Department of Knowledge Technologies, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. York Sure Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany. -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak

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