April 2007 - sem-grd - lists.ogf.org

job opportunities at NCeSS
by Yuwei Lin 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Three research associate positions are available at the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) Hub at the university of Manchester. One on the e-Infrastructure Project to Grid-enable datasets. (22 months) <http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=111…> One on the JISC Barriers project to investigate barriers to uptake of e-science tools and services and then develop training materials to over come those barriers (to 31 March 2009). <http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=111…> One on the JISC Use Cases project to investigate use cases of e-science tools and services in order to identify how the research community across different disciplines is engaging with e-infrastructure (to 31 March 2009). <http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=111…> Applications are most welcome. Deadline is 8 May 2007. For more info please see http://www.ncess.ac.uk/news/vacancies/ -- 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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CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2007 (Silicon Valley, USA) Deadline: June 1
by Jia Hu 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/wi/ (to be collocated with IAT'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07) Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ###################################################################### # Conference Chair # Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research # # Program Chair and Co-Chairs # T.Y. Lin, Professor, SJSU, BISC Fellow, UC-Berkeley # Laura Haas, Director, IBM Almaden Research Center # Janusz Kacprzyk, Professor, Polish Academy of Science # Rajeev Motwani, Professor, Stanford University # # Organizing Chair # Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # WI-IAT Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative) # # Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, # VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google # Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory # # (More WI Invited Speakers will be announced) # # (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007) # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. ###################################################################### Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence. The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07), and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the four conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas. +++++++++++ Highlights +++++++++++ The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day industry/ demo track and free discussion will be organized to link industries and academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will present at the conference. The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * WI Foundations - Brain Informatics for WI - Human level WI - New cognitive models and computational models for WI - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI * World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) - Search of Best Means and Ends - Goal-Directed Services Support - Distributed Resources Optimization - Service Self-Aggregation - Web Inference Engine - Information and Knowledge Markets - New Social Interaction Paradigms - Social and Psychological Contexts - Regularities and Laws of W4 * Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Social Network Mining - Web Site Clustering - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy - Theories of Small-World Web - Virtual and Web Communities - Web-Based Cooperative Work - Knowledge Community Formation and Support - Ubiquitous Computing - Intelligent Wireless Web - Ubiquitous Learning Systems - Entertainment * Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantic Grids - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery - On-Demand Planning and Routing - Brokering and Scheduling - Middleware Architectures and Tools * Web Mining and Farming - Text Mining - Data Stream Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - Web Content Mining - Web Log and Usage Mining - Learning User Profiles - Context Sensitive Web Mining - Web Information Clustering - Web Page Clustering and Mining - E-Mail Classification - Web Site Classification - Web Information Indexing - Data Warehousing - Web Farming and Warehousing * Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Ontology-Based Web Mining - Web-Based Ontology Learning - Semantic Web * Web Agents - Global Information Foraging - Distributed Problem Solving - Coordination - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms - Self-Organization and Reproduction - Agent Networks and Topologies - Mobile Agents - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling - Trust Models for Web Agents * Web Services - Service-Oriented Computing - Matchmaking - Web Service Reconfiguration - Web Service Workflow Composition - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services - Grid Services * Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation - Hybrid Recommendation - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations - Web Information Categorization and Ranking - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Web Prediction and Prefetching - Distributed Web Search - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process - Web Crawling Systems - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Adaptive Web Interfaces - Context-Aware Computing - Learning User Profiles - Personalized Interfaces - Personalized Web Sites - Remembrance Agents - Multimedia Representation - Visualization of Information and Knowledge - Social and Psychological Issues * Web Support Systems - Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - Recommender Support Systems - Web-Based Decision Support Systems - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI * Intelligent e-Technology - Business Intelligence - Digital Library - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques - e-Community - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Finance - e-Government - e-Learning - e-Publishing - e-Science - Intelligent Enterprise Portals - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM - Web-Based EDI - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the Author Guidelines of last year at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/wi06.xml) All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'07 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. A selected number of WI'07 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'07 Best Paper Awards ++++++++++++++++++++++++ The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The full author list and paper title will be announced on the Web Intelligence Consortium homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods. (1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track. (2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule. (3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration. For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley will be invited to attend this track. ++++++++++ Workshops ++++++++++ As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., conference registration covers everything). ------------------ WI 2007 Workshops: ------------------ Title: Educating the Web-Generation Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann Email: elisabeth.heinemann(a)googlemail.com Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/ Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web Organisers: Geun Sik Jo; Jason J. Jung; Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Email: gsjo(a)inha.ac.kr; j2jung(a)intelligent.pe.kr; thanh(a)pwr.wroc.pl Web page: http://intelligent.pe.kr/CISW07/ Title: New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel Email: y2.li(a)qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel(a)deri.org Web page: Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems Organisers: Yue Xu Email: yue.xu(a)qut.edu.au Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Title: Service Composition Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie Email: blakeb(a)cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman(a)deri.org Web site: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ Title: Biomedicine applications of Web technologies Organisers: Chun-Nan Hsu; Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng; Wen-Hsiang Lu Email: chunnan(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw; tsengsm(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw; whlu(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw Web page: http://chunnan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/BMWT2007.html Title: Intelligent Web Interaction Workshop 2007 1st Organiser: Prof. Seiji YAMADA Email: seiji(a)nii.ac.jp Web site: http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/07/ Title: Cyberinfrastucture for e-Science Organisers: Prof. Vasant Honavar; A/prof. Kei Cheung Email: honavar(a)cs.iastate.edu; kei.cheung(a)yale.edu Web page: http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007/ Title: 2007 International Workshop on Social Media Analysis Organisers: Chun-hung Li, William K. Cheung, Quoping Qiu Email: sma(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk Web page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~sma/ Title: Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust Organisers: Dr. Yiuming Cheung, Prof. Michael Chau, and Prof. Yong Zhang Email: ymc(a)Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK; mchau(a)business.hku.hk; zhangyong076(a)gmail.com Web page: ------------------- IAT 2007 Workshops: ------------------- Title: Second International Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA-07) Organisers: Christel Kemke Email: ckemke(a)cs.umanitoba.ca Web page: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/ Title: Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems (RRS2007) Organisers: Takayuki Ito Email: ito.takayuki(a)nitech.ac.jp Web page: http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/RRS2007/ Title: P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents Organisers: Tarek Helmy, Khaled Ragab Email: helmy(a)ccse.kfupm.edu.sa; helmy(a)kfupm.edu.sa Web Page: http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~helmy/P2PAA2007_WI.html Title: Multiagent systems in E-business: concepts, technologies and applications Organisers: Costin Badica; Maria Ganzha; Marcin Paprzycki Email: badica_costin(a)software.ucv.ro; ganzha(a)euh-e.edu.pl; marcin.parzycki(a)swps.edu.pl Web page: http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin/maseb2007/ Title: Agent & Data Mining Interaction Organisers: Pericles A. Mitkas, Longbing Cao, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Justin Zhan Email: mitkas(a)eng.auth.gr; lbcao(a)it.uts.edu.au Web page: http://issel.ee.auth.gr/ADMI For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/?index=workshop. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ WI'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: March 20, 2007 Electronic submission of full papers: ** June 1, 2007 ** Tutorial proposal submission: June 15, 2007 Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2007 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007 Conference: November 2-5, 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chair: * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA Program Chair: * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA IAT Program Co-Chairs: * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Organizing Chair: * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tutorial Chair: * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Industry/Demo-Track Chair: * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Local Accommodations Co-Chairs: * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA Publicity Chair: * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India IEEE-CS-TCII Chair: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan ACM-SIGART Chair * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Webmaster: * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA Abbreviation: WI 2007, WI2007, WI'2007, WI'07, WI07, WI 07, WI-07, WI-2007, WI-IAT 2007, WI-IAT2007, WI-IAT'2007, WI-IAT'07, WI-IAT07, WI-IAT 07, WI-IAT-2007, WI-IAT-07, WI/IAT 2007, WI/IAT2007, WI/IAT'2007, WI/IAT'07, WI/IAT07, WI/IAT 07, WI/IAT-2007, WI/IAT-07 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia(a)kis-lab.com

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Extended deadline: CFP - SSW 2007
by E. Segura 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Please note: The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 30, 2007 The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work SSW 2007 Invitation Las Vegas, USA, August 13-15, 2007 (in conjunction with IEEE IRI 2007) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ (IEEE IRI 2007 Link) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP3.html (Main Link) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/IRI07-SSW (Workshop Link 2) www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SSW07 (Workshop Link 3) Greetings, I would like to invite you to participate in The First IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work. (SSW 2007)" In conjunction with The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/) which will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 13-15, 2OO7 by submitting a paper or two before or on April 30, 2007. A call of papers for the workshop is enclosed and it can be found at: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP3.html (Main Link) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/IRI07-SSW (Workshop Link 2) www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SSW07 (Workshop Link 3) Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (EI Index) of the The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2007). The workshop selected best papers will be published in online Journal of International Journal Of Patterns (IJOP). Looking forward to your submission and participation in the workshop! All the best, Cheers, Dr. M.E. Fayad (Chair) Dr. Rami Bahsoon (Co-Chair) Dr. Chia-Chu Chiang (Co-Chair) Dr. Shasha Wu (Co-Chair) -- ijop.org -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com --

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Extended deadline: CFP - SASA 2007
by E. Segura 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Please note: The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 30, 2007 The 2nd IEEE International Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures SASA 2007 Invitation Las Vegas, USA, August 13-15, 2007 (in conjunction with IEEE IRI 2007) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ (IEEE IRI 2007 Link) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP2.html (Workshop Link 1) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 2) http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 3) Greetings, I would like to invite you to participate in The 2nd IEEE International Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures (SASA 2007)" In conjunction with The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/) which will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 13-15, 2OO7 by submitting a paper or two before or on April 30, 2007. A call of papers for the workshop is enclosed and it can be found at: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP2.html (Workshop Link 1) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 2) http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 3) Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (EI Index) of the The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2007). The workshop selected best papers will be published in online Journal of International Journal Of Patterns (IJOP). Looking forward to your submission and participation in the workshop! All the best, Cheers, Dr. M.E. Fayad (Chair) Dr. Rami Bahsoon (Co-Chair) Dr. Tarek Helmy (Co-Chair) Eduardo M. Segura (Co-Chair) -- ijop.org -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com --

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CFP for the ontology workshop at AHM07 (DEADLINE EXTENDED to 23rd April 2007)
by Yuwei Lin 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

* Apologies for cross posting* Please be advised that the deadline for submitting short papers to the ontology workshop at the UK e-Science All Hands Meetings (AHM) 2007 has been extended to 23rd April (Monday). Please see the call for papers at <http://www.allhands.org.uk/news/ontologyws_call.cfm>. We look forward to your submission. Cheers. Best wishes, yuwei -- 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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Software Patterns Blog
by SPBlog 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Greetings, I am pleased to broadcast the launch of a new blog called the software pattern blog http://pattern.ijop.org <http://pattern.ijop.org/> . This blog belongs to the editors of IJOP, columnists, staff, advisory, editorial and domain expert boards, external reviewers, and to those who have been specially invited. It is an open forum which is managed by Dr. M. E. Fayad and his associates, if you would like to submit an article to the Software Pattern Blog, please email it to patterns-blog(a)ijop.org <mailto:patterns-blog@ijop.org> and refer to the guidelines at http://pattern.ijop.org/?page_id=4 This blog focuses on software patterns, stable analysis and design patterns, architectural patterns, pattern languages and how to develop systems of patterns. In order to keep the spam at a minimum, postings will be moderated. Also please avoid anonymous/spoofed posting. The objective of this blog is to foster mature discussions about issues that affect all software developers and practitioners nowadays. Feel more than welcome to participate! To start reading and subscribing to the blog, click here <http://pattern.ijop.org/wp-login.php?action=register> . Sincerely, Eduardo M. Segura Co-Founder and Project Manager vrlSoft, Inc. -- ijop.org -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com --

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DaWaK 2007: Submission deadline extension 1 week to April 20.
by Nguyen Manh Tho 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline of DaWaK 2007 Conference is extended 1 week to April 20. 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 full papers: April 20, 2007 (extension) Notification of acceptance: May 25, 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-timedata 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 20th 2007. For further inquiries, please contact DaWaK 2007 PC Co-Chairperson Dr. Il-Yeol Song (song(a)drexel.edu) Dr. Johann Eder (johann.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 20, 2007 (extension) 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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2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work (SSW 2007)
by E.Segura 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work SSW 2007 Invitation Las Vegas, USA, August 13-15, 2007 (in conjunction with IEEE IRI 2007) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ (IEEE IRI 2007 Link) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP3.html (Main Link) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/IRI07-SSW (Workshop Link 2) http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SSW07 (Workshop Link 3) Greetings, I would like to invite you to participate in The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work. (SSW 2007)" In conjunction with The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/) which will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 13-15, 2OO7 by submitting a paper or two before or on April 15, 2007. A call of papers for the workshop is enclosed and it can be found at: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP3.html (Main Link) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/IRI07-SSW (Workshop Link 2) http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SSW07 (Workshop Link 3) Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (EI Index) of the The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2007). The workshop selected best papers will be published in online Journal of International Journal Of Patterns (IJOP). Looking forward to your submission and participation in the workshop! All the best, Cheers, Dr. M.E. Fayad (Chair) Dr. Rami Bahsoon (Co-Chair) Dr. Chia-Chu Chiang (Co-Chair) Dr. Shasha Wu (Co-Chair) -- ijop.org -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com --

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CFP - 2nd IEEE International Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures (SASA 2007)
by E. Segura 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures SASA 2007 Invitation Las Vegas, USA, August 13-15, 2007 (in conjunction with IEEE IRI 2007) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ (IEEE IRI 2007 Link) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP2.html (Workshop Link 1) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 2) http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 3) Greetings, I would like to invite you to participate in The 2nd IEEE International Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures (SASA 2007)" In conjunction with The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/) which will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 13-15, 2OO7 by submitting a paper or two before or on April 15, 2007. A call of papers for the workshop is enclosed and it can be found at: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/wkshpCFP2.html (Workshop Link 1) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 2) http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SASA07 (Workshop Link 3) Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (EI Index) of the The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2007). The workshop selected best papers will be published in online Journal of International Journal Of Patterns (IJOP). Looking forward to your submission and participation in the workshop! All the best, Cheers, Dr. M.E. Fayad (Chair) Dr. Rami Bahsoon (Co-Chair) Dr. Tarek Helmy (Co-Chair) Eduardo M. Segura (Co-Chair) -- ijop.org -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com --

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CFP for the ontology workshop at AHM07
by Yuwei Lin 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

* Apologies for cross posting* Please be advised that the deadline for submitting short papers to the ontology workshop at the UK e-Science All Hands Meetings (AHM) 2007 is 16 April (Monday). Please see the call for papers at <http://www.allhands.org.uk/news/ontologyws_call.cfm>. We look forward to your submission. Cheers. Best wishes, yuwei -- 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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