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AAAI2007's workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS2007) deadline is extended to April 12
by Huajun Chen 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the deadline to April 12. ============================================================================ =============================== Call for Papers http://neuroweb.med.yale.edu/ses2007/Welcome.html ** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * ---------------------------------------------------------- Semantic technologies have been gaining momentum in various e-Science areas. For example, W3C has established a new interest group for semantic web health care and life science. Hence, there is an urgent need for semantics-based methodologies, tools, middleware to facilitate scientific knowledge modeling, logical-based hypothesis checking, semantic data integration and application composition, integrated knowledge discovery and data analyzing for different e-Science applications. Partially influenced by the Artificial Intelligence community, the Semantic Web researchers have largely focused on formal aspects of semantic representation languages or general-purpose semantic application development, with inadequate consideration of requirements from specific science areas. On the other hand, general science researchers are growing ever more dependent on the web, but they have no coherent agenda for exploring the emerging trends on the semantic and semantic web technologies. Advances in e-science infrastructure and e-science applications based on the semantic technologies and related knowledge-based approaches calls for increased interaction among these disparate communities. Following the success of SeS2006 (http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/) SeS2007 aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for researchers from both the Semantic Web community, and general science communities including the life science community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Semantic e-Science Foundations: Knowledge Representation for e-Science Ontology Engineering for e-Science Knowledge Integration for e-Science Knowledge Management for e-Science Semantic Data Integration Semantic Web Services e-Science Process Management Semantic Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science Semantic Grid Middleware Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Semantic Web Applications and Ontologies for: Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science Semantic Web for Biomedical informatics Semantic Web for System and Integrated Biology Semantic Web for Translational Medicine Semantic Web for Materials Informatics Semantic Web for Geography, Environment and Climate Semantic Web for Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics Semantic Web and Digital Libraries and Scientific Publication Submission and Proceedings We invite academic/industrial researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers, well-written surveys, or papers describing deployed systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed 8 pages in length including references and should be prepared using the AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be submitted by using the paper submission system at http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/ no later than March 27,2007. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit final camera-ready copy to the organizers on May 15,2007. The workshop proceeding will be published and distributed by AAAI. All accepted papers will be included in the AAAI Digital Library, as in the case of SeS2006, we are organizing journal special issues for extended versions of selected high-quality work. Important Dates New Submission deadline: April 12, 2007 New Notification date: May 2, 2007 Author accepted paper submission deadline: May 15, 2007 Workshop date: July 23,2007 (to be settled) Workshop Organizing Committee Huajun Chen College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA huajunsir(a)zju.edu.cn <mailto:huajunsir%40zju.edu.cn> Yimin Wang Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany ywa(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <mailto:ywa%40aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Kei Cheung Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA kei.cheung(a)yale.edu <mailto:kei.cheung%40yale.edu> Zhaohui Wu College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN wzh(a)zju.edu.cn <mailto:wzh%40zju.edu.cn> Workshop Program Committee Christopher Baker, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK Li Ding, Stanford University, USA Helen Chen, Agfa Healthcare, USA William Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University, CN HK George M. Garrity, Michigan State University Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Volker Haarselv, Concordia University, Canada Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA Marta Iglesias, FAO, United Nations Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., USA Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland Joanne Luciano, Harvard University, USA Natalia Maltsev, Argonne National Laboratory, USA John F. Madden, Duke University Medical Cente, USA Peter Mork, MITRE Corporation, USA Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Young-Tack Park, Soongsil University, Korea Alan Ruttenburg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA Matthias Samwald University of Vienna, Austria Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Hai Wang, University of Southampton, UK Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Sumi Yoshikawa, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Japan

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CFP: The 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science (7-9 October 2007)
by Yuwei Lin 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

*** Apologies for Cross-posting *** ==================================================== The 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science 7-9 October 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA ==================================================== Call for Submissions is now open The submission deadlines are: Paper abstracts: May 15th, 2007. Workshop, tutorial, and panel outlines: May 31st, 2007. Poster abstracts: June 30th, 2007. For full details on the conference and for further submission details, please visit <http://ess.si.umich.edu/> -- Dr. Yuwei Lin ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) University of Manchester Dover Street Building Manchester M13 9PL UK T. +44-(0)161-2751388 F. +44-(0)161-2751390 W. (work) http://www.ncess.ac.uk W. (personal) http://www.ylin.org

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AAAI2007's workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS2007) deadline is approaching
by Huajun Chen 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Call for Papers http://neuroweb.med.yale.edu/ses2007/Welcome.html ** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * ---------------------------------------------------------- Semantic technologies have been gaining momentum in various e-Science areas. For example, W3C has established a new interest group for semantic web health care and life science. Hence, there is an urgent need for semantics-based methodologies, tools, middleware to facilitate scientific knowledge modeling, logical-based hypothesis checking, semantic data integration and application composition, integrated knowledge discovery and data analyzing for different e-Science applications. Partially influenced by the Artificial Intelligence community, the Semantic Web researchers have largely focused on formal aspects of semantic representation languages or general-purpose semantic application development, with inadequate consideration of requirements from specific science areas. On the other hand, general science researchers are growing ever more dependent on the web, but they have no coherent agenda for exploring the emerging trends on the semantic and semantic web technologies. Advances in e-science infrastructure and e-science applications based on the semantic technologies and related knowledge-based approaches calls for increased interaction among these disparate communities. Following the success of SeS2006 (http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/) SeS2007 aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for researchers from both the Semantic Web community, and general science communities including the life science community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Semantic e-Science Foundations: Knowledge Representation for e-Science Ontology Engineering for e-Science Knowledge Integration for e-Science Knowledge Management for e-Science Semantic Data Integration Semantic Web Services e-Science Process Management Semantic Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science Semantic Grid Middleware Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Semantic Web Applications and Ontologies for: Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science Semantic Web for Biomedical informatics Semantic Web for System and Integrated Biology Semantic Web for Translational Medicine Semantic Web for Materials Informatics Semantic Web for Geography, Environment and Climate Semantic Web for Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics Semantic Web and Digital Libraries and Scientific Publication Submission and Proceedings We invite academic/industrial researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers, well-written surveys, or papers describing deployed systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed 8 pages in length including references and should be prepared using the AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be submitted by using the paper submission system at http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/ no later than March 27,2007. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit final camera-ready copy to the organizers on May 15,2007. The workshop proceeding will be published and distributed by AAAI. All accepted papers will be included in the AAAI Digital Library, as in the case of SeS2006, we are organizing journal special issues for extended versions of selected high-quality work. Important Dates Submission deadline: March 27, 2007 Notification date: April 25, 2007 Author accepted paper submission deadline: May 15, 2007 Workshop date: July 23,2007 (to be settled) Workshop Organizing Committee Huajun Chen College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA huajunsir(a)zju.edu.cn <mailto:huajunsir%40zju.edu.cn> Yimin Wang Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany ywa(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <mailto:ywa%40aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Kei Cheung Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA kei.cheung(a)yale.edu <mailto:kei.cheung%40yale.edu> Zhaohui Wu College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN wzh(a)zju.edu.cn <mailto:wzh%40zju.edu.cn> Workshop Program Committee Christopher Baker, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK Li Ding, Stanford University, USA Helen Chen, Agfa Healthcare, USA William Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University, CN HK George M. Garrity, Michigan State University Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Volker Haarselv, Concordia University, Canada Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA Marta Iglesias, FAO, United Nations Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., USA Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland Joanne Luciano, Harvard University, USA Natalia Maltsev, Argonne National Laboratory, USA John F. Madden, Duke University Medical Cente, USA Peter Mork, MITRE Corporation, USA Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Young-Tack Park, Soongsil University, Korea Alan Ruttenburg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA Matthias Samwald University of Vienna, Austria Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Hai Wang, University of Southampton, UK Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Sumi Yoshikawa, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Japan

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DaWaK 2007 : Submission site is ready
by Nguyen Manh Tho 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. DaWaK 2007 Submission online available at: https://www.ares-conf.org/dawak/ Important Dates: Submission of abstracts: April 2, 2007 Submission of full papers: April 13, 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++ 9th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2007) Regensburg, Germany Sept. 3 to Sept. 7, 2007 http://www.dexa.org/drupal/?q=dawak ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers =================== Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organisations 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. 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. During the past years, the International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) has become one of the most important international scientific events to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss latest research issues and experiences in developing and deploying data warehousing and knowledge discovery systems, applications, and solutions. This years conference (DaWaK 2007), builds on this tradition of facilitating the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, experience and potential research directions. DaWaK 2007 seeks to introduce innovative principles, methods, algorithms and solutions to challenging problems faced in the development of data warehousing, knowledge discovery and data mining applications. Submissions presenting current research work on both theoretical and practical aspects of data warehousing and knowledge discovery are encouraged. Particularly, we strongly welcome submissions dealing with emerging real world applications such as real-time data warehousing, analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal data, OLAP mining, mobile OLAP, mining natural science data (e.g. bioinformatics, geophysics) Major Tracks =============== Topics of interest include in these tracks but are not limited to: Data Warehousing =================== Analytical front-end tools for data warehousing/OLAP Active/real-time data warehousing Data warehouse architecture Web/multimedia data warehouses Data extraction, cleansing, transforming and loading Spatial and spatiotemporal data warehouses Data warehouse maintenance and evolution Data warehousing in mobile/wireless environments Data warehouse design (conceptual, logical and physical) Data warehousing and the semantic web Data warehousing consistency and quality Data warehouse schema evolution and transformations Data warehousing with unstructured data (e.g., text) and semi-structured data (e.g., XML) Design and maintenance of metadata repository Data warehouse security and reliability Data warehousing applications: corporate, scientific, government, healthcare, bioinformatics, etc. Parallel /distributed data warehousing View maintenance/adaptation Frameworks for Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) Performance optimization and tuning Multidimensional modelling and queries Data warehousing and industry applications (e.g. ERP, CRM) Integration of data warehouses and data mining Knowledge Discovery ====================== Knowledge discovery framework and process Security, privacy and social impact of data mining Integration constraints and knowledge in KDD process Mining unstructured and structured data Data and knowledge representation Exploring data analysis, inference of causes, prediction Evaluating, consolidating, and explaining discovered knowledge Statistical techniques for generation a robust, consistent data model Interactive data exploration/visualization and discovery Mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data Data mining techniques: clustering, classification, association rules, decision trees, neural-network, etc Mining large/complex datasets, continuous data streams, sensor networks Data mining support for the design of information systems Mining ubiquitous, moving, time-series data Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining Mining Trends, Opportunities and Risks Languages and interfaces for data mining Distributed and parallel data mining/knowledge discovery Mining from low-quality information sources High performance and parallel/distributed data mining Complexity, efficiency, and scalability in data mining Pre-processing and post-processing of data mining Data mining applications: bioinformatics, E-commerce, Web, intrusion/fraud detection, finance, healthcare, marketing, telecommunications, etc Paper Submission Details ========================== Authors are invited to submit research and application papers representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be submitted in PDF or Word format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 10 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Authors who want to buy extra pages may submit a paper up to 12 pages with the indication that the authors will purchase extra pages once the paper is accepted. Submissions which are not conform to the LNCS format and/or which do exceed 10 pages (or up to 12 pages with the extra page purchase commitment) will be rejected without reviews. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. 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. This year, we will plan to have the Best Paper Awards for the best papers selected by the PC-members. As the last year, authors of best papers selected from DaWaK2007 conference will be invited to submit an extension for a special issue of International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM). Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by April 2nd 2007, due date of the full paper electronic submission is April 13th 2007. For further inquiries, please contact DaWaK 2007 PC Co-Chairperson Dr. Il-Yeol Song (song(a)drexel.edu) Dr. Johann Eder ohann.eder(a)univie.ac.at) or Dr. Nguyen Manh Tho (tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at) IMPORTANT DATES ================= Submission of abstracts: April 2, 2007 Submission of full papers: April 13, 2007 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2007 Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2007 Program Chairs ================ Il Yeol Song, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee ================== Alberto Abello (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Paulo Azevedo (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Jose Luis Balcazar (University Politechnique of Catalunya, Spain) Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Ladjel Bellatreche (ENSMA - Poitiers University, France) Bettina Berendt (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Petr Berka (University of Economics Prage, Cezch) Jorge Bernardino (ISEC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal) Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA) Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Francesco Bonchi (ISTI - C.N.R., Italy) Henrik Boström (Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Jean-Francois Boulicaut (INSA Lyon, France) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versailles, France) Stephane Bressan (SoC) (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Peter Brezeny (University of Vienna, Austria) Robert Bruckner (Microsoft Coperation, USA) Luca Cabibbo (Università Roma Tre, Italy) Tru Hoang Cao (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam) F. Amilcar Cardoso (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) Jesús Cerquides (University of Barcelona, Spain) Chan Chee-Yong (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Arbee L.P. Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) Rada Chirkova (NC State University, USA) Sunil Choenni (University of Twente and Dutch Ministry of Justice, Netherlands) Ezeife Christie (University of Windsor, Canada) Frans Coenen (The University of Liverpool, UK) Graham Cormode (Bell Labs, USA) Bruno Crémilleux (Université de Caen, France) Honghua Dai (Deakin University, Australia) Agnieszka Dardzinska (Bialystok Technical University, Poland) Karen C. Davis (University of Cincinnati, USA) Kevin C. Desouza (University of Washington, USA) Chabane Djeraba (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France) Dirk Draheim (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Germany) Johann Eder (University of Vienna, Austria) Tapio Elomaa (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Roberto Esposito (Università di Torino, Italy) Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Griffith University, Australia) Wei Fan (IBM T.J.Watson, USA) Jianping Fan (University of North Carolina, USA) Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Isarel) Ling Feng (University of Twente, Netherlands) Eduardo Fernández-Medina (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Johannes Fürnkranz (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Dragan Gamberger (Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Hungary) Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (LIP6 - University Paris VI, France) Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Chris Giannella (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Matteo Golfarelli (DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy) Gunter Grieser (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Mirsad Hadzikadic (College of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, USA) Howard J. Hamilton (University of Regina, Canada) Eui-Hong (Sam) Han (University of Minnesota, USA) Wook-Shin Han (KyungBook University, Korea) Melanie Hilario (AI Lab, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Alexander Hinneburg (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Jaakko Hollmen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Se June Hong (RSM emeritus, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Frank Höppner (University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany) Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, Germany) Xiaohua (Tony) Hu (Drexel University, USA) Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada) Eyke Hüllermeier (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany) Ryutaro Ichise (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Hasan Jamil (Wayne State University, USA) Alípio Jorge (FEP/LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal) Tamer Kahveci (University of Florida, USA) Panos Kalnis (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Murat Kantarcioglu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Mehmet Kaya (Firat University, Turkey) Eamonn Keogh (University of California - Riverside, USA) Jinho Kim (Kangwon National University, Korea) Jörg Kindermann (Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems AIS, Germany) Arno Knobbe (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) Igor Kononenko (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Stefan Kramer (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Michihiro Kuramochi (Google Inc., USA) Christine Largeron (EURISE Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France) Pedro Larrañaga (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Jens Lechtenbörger (University of Münster, Germany) Yue-Shi Lee (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan) Guanling Lee (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan) Jae-Gil Lee (UIUC, USA) Yong-Goo Lee (KyungHee University, Korea) Jinyan Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Xuemin Lin (UNSW, Australia) Beate List (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Xiaohui Liu (Brunel University, UK) Woong-Kee Loh (University of Minnesota, USA) Sergio Lujan-Mora (University of Alacante, Spain) Donato Malerba (Università degli Studi, Italy) Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Giuseppe Manco (ICAR-CNR, National Research Council, Italy) Michael May (Fraunhofer Institut Autonome Intelligente Systeme, Germany) Rosa Meo (University of Torino, Italy) Mukesh Mohania (I.B.M. India Research Lab, India) Yang-Sae Moon (Kangwon National University, Korea) Eduardo F. Morales (ITESM - Campus Cuernavaca, Mexico) Shinichi Morishita (University of Tokyo, Japan) Alexandros Nanopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Wee Keong Ng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tho Manh Nguyen (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Richard Nock (Université Antilles-Guyane, France) Arlindo L. Oliveira (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal) Themis Palpanas (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Byung-Kwon Park (Dong-Ah University, Korea) Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa, Italy) Jaakko Tapani Peltonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Clara Pizzuti (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Lubomir Popelinsky (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech) David Powers (The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia) Jan Ramon (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Zbigniew Ras (University of North Carolina, USA) Andrew Rau-Chaplin (Dalhousie University, Canada) Mirek Riedewald (Cornell University, USA) Christophe Rigotti (LIRIS Lyon France and ISTI Pisa, France) Gilbert Ritschard (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Stefano Rizzi (University of Bologna, Italy) John Roddick (Flinders University, Australia) Henryk Rybinski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Domenico Sacca (University of Calabria & ICAR-CNR, Italy) Yucel Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey) Monica Scannapieco (University of Rome, Italy) Josef Schiefer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA) Michael Schrefl (University Linz, Austria) Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy) Manuel Serrano (University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain) Alkis Simitsis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Dan Simovici (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University Banacha 2, Poland) Carlos Soares (University of Porto, Portugal) Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA) Min Song (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Jerzy Stefanowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Olga Stepankova (Czech Technical University, Czech) Reinhard Stolle (BMW Car IT, Germany) Jan Struyf (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Ah-Hwee Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) David Taniar (Monash University, Australia) Evimaria Terzi (University of Helsinki, Finland) Dimitri Theodoratos (New Jersey`s Science & Technology University, USA) A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Riccardo Torlone (Roma Tre University, Italy) Juan Trujilo (University of Alacante, Spain) Jaideep Vaidya (Rutgers University, USA) Panos Vassiliadis (University of Ioannina, USA) Roland Wagner (Johannes Kepler University Linz, USA) Wei Wang (University of North Carolina, USA) Marek Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Wolfram Wöß (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Illhoi Yoo (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Carlo Zaniolo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Shichao Zhang (Sydney University of Technology) Xiuzhen Jenny Zhang (RMIT University, Australia) Djamel Abdelkader Zighed (University Lyon, France)

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Final CFP: Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007)
by Jyotishman Pathak 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007) http://www.cild.iastate.edu/wsca Affiliated with 5th IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2007 (http://www.icws.org) July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids, and WWW have resulted in the proliferation of a multitude of physically distributed and autonomously developed Web services. The W3C Web Services Architecture defines ``Web service as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine processible format (specifically WSDL) and other systems can interact with it in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards''. Correspondingly, the construction and deployment of composite services by combining and reusing independently developed component services is an important capability in the emerging Web-based computing infrastructure. Processes offer key IT capabilities in businesses as well as in scientific research, and key enabler of broad variety of applications including e-Enterprise, e-Business, e-Government, and e-Science. Since many processes need to change to adjust with respect to changing computing and business environments, adaptability of processes is also a key requirement. The workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Web Services. ICWS is a ``prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web services.'' The workshop will complement this theme of the conference and aims to conduct a focused discussion on one of the main topics of interest in Web service research: service composition. The discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in Web service composition but also provide valuable insights for future research avenues and for work-in progress in the domain of Web service composition. Specific topics of interest include: - Model-based service composition - Static and dynamic service composition - Reuse in service composition: compatibility and substitutability - Adaptation and Evolution of services and processes - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Fault tolerant service composition - Optimization in service composition and service/process adaptation - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Secure service composition - Elicitation and modeling of functional and non-functional requirements in service composition - Comparing and ranking of alternative solutions in service composition - Software infrastructure for service composition - Case studies, and applications (e.g., in e-science and scientific workflows) Submission guidelines: Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers must be limited to double-column 8 pages and follow the formatting of the IEEE CS Proceedings template ( ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system (http://www.easychair.org/WSCA2007) At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with ICWS-2007) will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Important Dates: Paper submission: March 23rd, 2007 <-- EXTENDED DEADLINE !! Notification: April 23rd, 2007 Camera-Ready due: May 1st, 2007 Workshop date: July 9th, 2007 Organizing Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) Program Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA) * Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) * Athman Bouguettaya (Virginia Tech University, USA) * Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA) * Karthik Gomadam (University of Georgia, USA) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Dimka Karastoyanova (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) * Robyn Lutz (Iowa State University & NASA Jet Propulsion Lab/CalTech, USA) * Ashok Mallya (Veraz Networks, USA) * Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies, India) * Jyotishman Pathak (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Ajith Ranabahu (Apache Software Foundation, USA) * Tony Shan (Wachovia Bank, USA) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) * Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Labs, India) * Hongbing Wang (Southeast University, China) -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Issues in Ontology Development and Use
by Yuwei Lin 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

*** Apologies for Cross-posting *** ==================================================================== Call for Papers: Workshop on Issues in Ontology Development and Use UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 10th - 13th September 2007 ==================================================================== As semantic technologies begin to be taken up and used seriously within different fields of research, they are reaching a critical phase in their development. There are serious challenges to be addressed if they are to deliver the promise of semantic integration of distributed digital resources. Preliminary investigations of the issues surrounding the development and use of ontologies suggest that the e-Science community is now stumbling across a whole range of issues which first surfaced within software engineering twenty (or more) years ago. The aim of this workshop is bring together ontology users, domain experts, ontology developers and tool developers, members of the ontology standards, and library and information sciences communities to share experiences of this key technology for e-Science and explore how problems that are beginning to emerge might be addressed. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to: · methods and tools for knowledge elicitation and representation, including user participatory approaches · managing change and evolution in requirements and use · designing for scalability and re-use · standards and guidelines for maintainability · ontology languages, tools and infrastructure · socio-political dynamics arising from the interplay between the increasing formalisation of shared knowledge and the practices of scientific research. ** Submission requirements ** Prospective participants are required to submit an 8 page paper in the All Hands format. Submissions will be reviewed by the All Hands Programme Committee. Details of submission formats and procedures can be found at http://www.allhands.org.uk ** Submission deadlines ** The deadline for submission is 16^th April. ** Workshop organisers ** Rob Procter, Yuwei Lin, Alex Voss, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester Dave Randall, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University John Rooksby, Computing Department, Lancaster University Wes Sharrock, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester Jenny Ure, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh For more information, email Rob Procter at rob.procter(a)ncess.ac.uk <mailto:rob.procter@ncess.ac.uk> -- Dr. Yuwei Lin ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) University of Manchester Dover Street Building Manchester M13 9PL UK T. +44-(0)161-2751388 F. +44-(0)161-2751390 W. (work) http://www.ncess.ac.uk W. (personal) http://www.ylin.org

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LAST CALL: 2nd IEEE ESAS 2007 Engineering Semantic Agent Systems
by Atilla Elçi 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

LAST CALL ========= CALL FOR PAPERS ================== 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2007) July 24-27, 2OO7, Beijing, China In Conjunction with 31st IEEE Annual Int’l Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007) (http://www.compsac.org/) Beginning 2006, COMPSAC is designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications. WORKSHOP THEME -------------- Applying Semantic Web Technologies in Research and Development of Software Agents, Mobile Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Major topics of interest include a strong undercurrent of intelligent software agents, mobile agents, and MAS side by side semantic Web technologies running through this workshop: * Software Agents, Mobile Agents, and MAS: issues relating to architecture, implementation, coordination, service levels, etc. of semantic or otherwise agents. * Agent, MAS and Semantic Web Technologies: concomitant utilization of specific technologies in agent, MAS, and semantic Web implementations; semantic agent communities & applications; case studies of best-practice MAS applications; projects in the making; * Ontologies for Agents and MAS: agent cooperation ontology; ontology of workflow in MAS; ontologies for distributed applications; sharing and semantic interoperability; discovery and operations on ontologies; * Platforms for agent and MAS implementation: languages, frameworks, tools, integrated development environments and software engineering practices supporting semantic or otherwise software agent & MAS architectures, coordination, trust & security mechanisms, description, discovery and composition of agent-based services; realization of ontology-based MAS systems. * Other subjects of relevance in software agents, mobile agents, agent-based and multi-agent systems. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- March 20, 2007 deadline for paper submission. April 16, 2007 notification of acceptance. April 30, 2007 camera-ready document and author registration due. SUBMISSION ---------- Original papers not being submitted to journals or other conferences will be considered. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation, and relevance. We encourage authors to present position papers on practical studies and experiments, critiques of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Papers are submitted electronically via the ESAS 2007 Submission Page (http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/2007/ESAS/) Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 31st IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007). It should be noted that all IEEE COMPSAC conference and workshop proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). All CPS Publications are captured in the online IEEE Digital Library, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop for the paper to be included in the proceedings. International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2006, http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2006/ESAS.html) held in conjunction with the 30th COMPSAC (http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2006/index.html) was a great success with 35% acceptance rate. The authors of a number of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a relevant journal. Best papers of ESAS 2006 are being prepared for a special issue of the Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, IOS Press, ISSN 1574-1702, http://www.iospress.nl/flyers_j/15741702.pdf. For updated information, please refer to http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/ESAS.htm or contact the workshop chairperson Atilla.Elci at EMU.edu.tr. On behalf of the ESAS 2007 Organizing Committee Dated: March 14, 2007. Have a good day. / 新年好 Xin Nian Kuai Le /Iyi gunler dilerim. Atilla Elci Dept. Comp. Eng., EMU, Gazimagusa, TRNC. http://cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci/ http://www.sinconf.org/ http://www.compsac.org/ http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/ESAS.htm http://cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci/ESAS2006/MAGS-SI/MAGS-Special-Issue_CFP_ESAS-2…

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Deadline Extension: Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007)
by Jyotishman Pathak 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007) http://www.cild.iastate.edu/wsca Affiliated with 5th IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2007 (http://www.icws.org) July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids, and WWW have resulted in the proliferation of a multitude of physically distributed and autonomously developed Web services. The W3C Web Services Architecture defines ``Web service as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine processible format (specifically WSDL) and other systems can interact with it in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards''. Correspondingly, the construction and deployment of composite services by combining and reusing independently developed component services is an important capability in the emerging Web-based computing infrastructure. Processes offer key IT capabilities in businesses as well as in scientific research, and key enabler of broad variety of applications including e-Enterprise, e-Business, e-Government, and e-Science. Since many processes need to change to adjust with respect to changing computing and business environments, adaptability of processes is also a key requirement. The workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Web Services. ICWS is a ``prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web services.'' The workshop will complement this theme of the conference and aims to conduct a focused discussion on one of the main topics of interest in Web service research: service composition. The discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in Web service composition but also provide valuable insights for future research avenues and for work-in progress in the domain of Web service composition. Specific topics of interest include: - Model-based service composition - Static and dynamic service composition - Reuse in service composition: compatibility and substitutability - Adaptation and Evolution of services and processes - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Fault tolerant service composition - Optimization in service composition and service/process adaptation - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Secure service composition - Elicitation and modeling of functional and non-functional requirements in service composition - Comparing and ranking of alternative solutions in service composition - Software infrastructure for service composition - Case studies, and applications (e.g., in e-science and scientific workflows) Submission guidelines: Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers must be limited to double-column 8 pages and follow the formatting of the IEEE CS Proceedings template ( ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system (http://www.easychair.org/WSCA2007) At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with ICWS-2007) will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Important Dates: Paper submission: March 23rd, 2007 (11:59 pm Central Standard Time) <-- EXTENDED DEADLINE !! Notification: April 23rd, 2007 Camera-Ready due: May 1st, 2007 Workshop date: July 9th, 2007 Organizing Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) Program Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA) * Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) * Athman Bouguettaya (Virginia Tech University, USA) * Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA) * Karthik Gomadam (University of Georgia, USA) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Dimka Karastoyanova (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) * Robyn Lutz (Iowa State University & NASA Jet Propulsion Lab/CalTech, USA) * Ashok Mallya (Veraz Networks, USA) * Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies, India) * Jyotishman Pathak (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Ajith Ranabahu (Apache Software Foundation, USA) * Tony Shan (Wachovia Bank, USA) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) * Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Labs, India) * Hongbing Wang (Southeast University, China) -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak

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SKG2007 Call for Papers - please distribute
by David De Roure 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

======================================================================== = 3rd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007) Oct.29-31, 2007, Xi'an, China www.culturegrid.net/SKG2007 ======================================================================== = The International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG) is a cross-area international forum on semantic computing, knowledge networking, and grid computing. SKG promotes cross-area research and pushes the development of relevant areas. SKG2007 will be held in Xi'an, a city with 3100 years' history. THEMES (include but not limited to) (1) Semantics and Semantic Grid. - Semantic Web - Semantic Search and Query - Semantic Link Network - Semantic Normalization - Semantic Interoperability - Semantic Visualization and Modeling - Semantic Web Mining - Semantic Brokering - Semantic-based Interface - Automatic Semantic Annotation - Semantic Web Services - Theory and Model of Semantic Grid - Ontology - Web2.0 - Semantic P2P - Rich Media Semantics (2)Knowledge and Knowledge Grid - Web knowledge representation and Reasoning - Semantic Knowledge Portals - Web Knowledge Discovery - Knowledge Discovery - Theory and Model of Knowledge Grid - Large-Scale Distributed Knowledge Management - Ontology Information/ Knowledge/Service Integration - Knowledge Flow - Internet-based Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (3)Advanced Networking Model - Complex Network and Resource Management - Resource Management Model in Grid - Internet-based Multi-agent Systems - Nature-Inspired Computing - Autonomous Computing - Internet-based Intelligent Applications - P2P Computing - Grid Computing - Self-Organized Intelligence - Service-oriented Computing - Mobile Grid (4)Systems, Tools and Applications - Semantic-based Virtual Organization - e-culture - e-Science - e-Business - e-Learning - e-Government - Grid Security - Sensor networks and the Grid applications ======================================================================== === Conference Website: www.culturegrid.net/SKG2007 www.knowledgegrid.net ======================================================================== === Important Dates: May 20, 2007 Deadline for submission June 25, 2007 Notification of acceptance July 20, 2007 Final copy due ======================================================================== === Sponsors: National Basic Research Program of China Chinese Academy of Sciences National Science Foundation of China IEEE Computer Society ======================================================================== === PUBLICATION: Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society who will submit the proceedings to EI and SCI for index. All published papers will be included in IEEE Digital Library. Selected high-quality papers will be recommended for publication in the following international journals after extension: World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (SCI Impact factor: 0.935) Journal of Systems and Software (SCI Impact Factor: 0.744) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (SCI Impact Factor: 0.573) ======================================================================== === * SKG2007 welcomes workshop proposals. Please direct workshop proposals to Xiaoping Sun (sunxp(a)kg.ict.ac.cn) before April 20, 2007.

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