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Reminder: IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT 2007: deadline approaching
by Jia Hu 31 May '07

31 May '07

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/ (to be collocated with WI'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, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA # 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, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative) # # Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, # VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google # Richard M. Karp, Turing Award Winner, # University of California Berkeley # Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory # # (More IAT 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. ###################################################################### The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'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. IAT 2007 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2007 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing. +++++++++++ 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 demo session 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: * Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development - Agent-Based Simulation - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods - Behavioral Self-Organization - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering - Emergent Behavior - Hard Computational Problem Solving - Nature-Inspired Paradigms - Self-Organized Criticality - Self-Organized Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence * Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing - Autonomous Information Services - Distributed Knowledge Systems - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems - Evolution of Knowledge Networks - Human-Agent Interaction - Information Filtering Agents - Knowledge Aggregation - Knowledge Discovery - Ontology-Based Information Services * Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Agent Interaction Protocols - Cognitive Architectures - Cognitive Modeling of Agents - Emotional Modeling - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Reinforcement Learning - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems - Task-Based Agent Context - Task-Oriented Agents * Distributed Problem Solving - Agent-Based Grid Computing - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving - Collective Group Behavior - Coordination and Cooperation - Distributed Intelligence - Distributed Search - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations - Efficiency and Complexity Issues - Market-Based Computing - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments * Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Agent-Based Marketplaces - Auction Markets - Combinatorial Auctions - Hybrid Negotiation - Integrative Negotiation - Mediating Agents - Pricing Agents - Thin Double Auctions * Applications - Agent-Based Assistants - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications - Interface Agents - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems - Perceptive Animated Interfaces - Scalability - Social Simulation - Socially Situated Planning - Software and Pervasive Agents - Tools and Standards - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents - Ubiquitous Software Services - Virtual Humans - XML-Based Agent Systems ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all IAT 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/iat06.xml) All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'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 IAT'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 IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ IAT'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., only one conference registration covers everything). ---------------------- WI-IAT 2007 Workshops: ---------------------- Title: Educating the Web-Generation (Edu4WebGen 2007) Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann Email: elisabeth.heinemann(a)googlemail.com Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/ Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007) 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 (WImBI 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel Email: y2.li(a)qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel(a)deri.org Web page: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS 2007) Organisers: Yue Xu Email: yue.xu(a)qut.edu.au Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Title: Service Composition & SWS Challenge (SerComp & SWS Challenge 2007) Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie Email: blakeb(a)cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman(a)deri.org Web page: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ Title: Biomedicine Applications of Web technologies (BMWT 2007) 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 (IWI 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 (CyIneS 2007) 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: Social Media Analysis (SMA 2007) 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 (WSIPT 2007) 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: http://isec.hitsz.edu.cn/wsipt07/ Title: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA 2007) 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 (RRS 2007) 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 (P2PAA 2007) 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: (Multi-)Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (MASeB 2007) 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 (ADMI 2007) 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.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/?index=workshop. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent 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 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 IAT Program Vice Co-chairs * Longbing cao University of Technology Sydney Australia * Joseph A. Giampapa Carnegie Mellon University USA * Maria Gini University of Minnesota USA * Vladimir Gorodetsky St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russia * Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London UK * Zbigniew Ras University of North Carolina USA * Marius C. Silaghi Florida Institute of Technology USA * Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University Japan WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA WI Program Vice Co-chairs * Ajith Abraham Yonsei University South Korea * Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh USA * Ashish Goel Stanford University USA * Ramanathan V. Guha Google USA * Jane Yung-jen Hsu National Taiwan University Taiwan * Ravi Kumar Yahoo! Research USA * Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney Australia * Tsuyoshi Murata Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan * York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Germany * Pang-Ning Tan Michigan State University USA * Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas USA * Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA 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, York University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck/Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria * 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: IAT 2007, IAT2007, IAT'2007, IAT'07, IAT07, IAT 07, IAT-07, IAT-2007 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia(a)kis-lab.com

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Postdoctoral Position - eInfrastructure for Social Science at University of Aberdeen
by Pete Edwards 28 May '07

28 May '07

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Computing Science University of Aberdeen £26,915 - £32,137 per annum The PolicyGrid project within the Department of Computing Science invites applications for the above post, to work on a new eInfrastructure activity funded by the ESRC eSocial Science Programme. PolicyGrid (http://www.policygrid.org) is one of the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) National Centre for eSocial Science research nodes. The ESRC has recently committed to the construction of an e-Infrastructure on the UK National Grid Service (NGS) to provide integrated access to a variety of resources for social science research, including datasets, tools, services and easy-to-use user environments. You will focus on the development of Grid services and software tools in the context of the metadata infrastructure and simulation workpackages of the ESRC eInfrastructure effort. These include (but are not restricted to) the following: making an existing natural language interface for creation of RDF metadata robust, pluggable and usable; developing a Grid based metadata/ontology infrastructure; simulation portal development; Grid-enabling social simulation models. The work will entail extensive collaboration with other sites involved in the eInfrastructure project, and regular access grid, telephone and face-to-face conferences. There will be a requirement to produce documentation throughout the project, to include: regular progress updates, workpackage reviews, software tool documentation. You should have a PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline. You are expected to be a highly competent programmer in Java, and have experience of Semantic Web technologies (including OWL and RDF), Web/Grid services, e-science, and related areas. Knowledge of workflow approaches in e-science would be desirable. The work will involve development of robust software, within a managed project environment; it is therefore important that you have knowledge and experience of software engineering principles and standards. The post is being offered for 21 months and is available immediately. Closing Date: 15 June 2007 Full details can be found here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YCS060R Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Peter Edwards (PolicyGrid Node Director) pedwards(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars are available from Human Resources, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, tel: +44 (0)1224 272727 quoting reference number YCS060R. A 24-hour answering service is in operation. Promoting Diversity and Equal Opportunities throughout the University -- Head of Graduate School tel 01224 272270 College of Physical Sciences email & University of Aberdeen calendar p.edwards(a)abdn.ac.uk Aberdeen email pedwards(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk AB24 3UE office Fraser Noble S017

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3rd CFP: IAT-2007 (Silicon Valley, USA) DL: June 1, 2007
by Jia Hu 17 May '07

17 May '07

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/ (to be collocated with WI'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, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA # 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, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative) # # Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, # VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google # Richard M. Karp, Turing Award Winner, # University of California Berkeley # Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory # # (More IAT 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. ###################################################################### The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'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. IAT 2007 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2007 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing. +++++++++++ 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 demo session 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: * Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development - Agent-Based Simulation - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods - Behavioral Self-Organization - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering - Emergent Behavior - Hard Computational Problem Solving - Nature-Inspired Paradigms - Self-Organized Criticality - Self-Organized Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence * Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing - Autonomous Information Services - Distributed Knowledge Systems - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems - Evolution of Knowledge Networks - Human-Agent Interaction - Information Filtering Agents - Knowledge Aggregation - Knowledge Discovery - Ontology-Based Information Services * Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Agent Interaction Protocols - Cognitive Architectures - Cognitive Modeling of Agents - Emotional Modeling - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Reinforcement Learning - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems - Task-Based Agent Context - Task-Oriented Agents * Distributed Problem Solving - Agent-Based Grid Computing - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving - Collective Group Behavior - Coordination and Cooperation - Distributed Intelligence - Distributed Search - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations - Efficiency and Complexity Issues - Market-Based Computing - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments * Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Agent-Based Marketplaces - Auction Markets - Combinatorial Auctions - Hybrid Negotiation - Integrative Negotiation - Mediating Agents - Pricing Agents - Thin Double Auctions * Applications - Agent-Based Assistants - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications - Interface Agents - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems - Perceptive Animated Interfaces - Scalability - Social Simulation - Socially Situated Planning - Software and Pervasive Agents - Tools and Standards - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents - Ubiquitous Software Services - Virtual Humans - XML-Based Agent Systems ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all IAT 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/iat06.xml) All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'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 IAT'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 IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ IAT'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., only one conference registration covers everything). ---------------------- WI-IAT 2007 Workshops: ---------------------- Title: Educating the Web-Generation (Edu4WebGen 2007) Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann Email: elisabeth.heinemann(a)googlemail.com Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/ Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007) 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 (WImBI 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel Email: y2.li(a)qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel(a)deri.org Web page: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS 2007) Organisers: Yue Xu Email: yue.xu(a)qut.edu.au Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Title: Service Composition & SWS Challenge (SerComp & SWS Challenge 2007) Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie Email: blakeb(a)cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman(a)deri.org Web page: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ Title: Biomedicine Applications of Web technologies (BMWT 2007) 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 (IWI 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 (CyIneS 2007) 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: Social Media Analysis (SMA 2007) 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 (WSIPT 2007) 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: http://isec.hitsz.edu.cn/wsipt07/ Title: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA 2007) 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 (RRS 2007) 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 (P2PAA 2007) 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: (Multi-)Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (MASeB 2007) 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 (ADMI 2007) 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.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/?index=workshop. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent 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 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 IAT Program Vice Co-chairs * Longbing cao University of Technology Sydney Australia * Joseph A. Giampapa Carnegie Mellon University USA * Maria Gini University of Minnesota USA * Vladimir Gorodetsky St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russia * Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London UK * Zbigniew Ras University of North Carolina USA * Marius C. Silaghi Florida Institute of Technology USA * Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University Japan WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA WI Program Vice Co-chairs * Ajith Abraham Yonsei University South Korea * Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh USA * Ashish Goel Stanford University USA * Ramanathan V. Guha Google USA * Jane Yung-jen Hsu National Taiwan University Taiwan * Ravi Kumar Yahoo! Research USA * Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney Australia * Tsuyoshi Murata Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan * York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Germany * Pang-Ning Tan Michigan State University USA * Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas USA * Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA 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, York University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck/Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria * 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: IAT 2007, IAT2007, IAT'2007, IAT'07, IAT07, IAT 07, IAT-07, IAT-2007 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia(a)kis-lab.com

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CFP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (DMB 2007)
by Amandeep S. Sidhu 12 May '07

12 May '07

2nd International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (DMB 2007) With IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT-BIBM 2007 & IEEE GrC 2007 http://dmb07.swbio.org/ MOTIVATION Data Mining deals with the use of data analysis techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of data and information systems for biomedical computing. The goal of this workshop is to share research solutions using data mining approaches to problems of today's biomedical systems and to identify new issues and directions for future research in biomedical data mining. Techniques and Methodologies proposed in this workshop will help addressing two major challenges to incorporate this vast biological knowledge into the data mining cycle: (i) designing efficient the data mining frameworks; and (ii) adapting existing data mining algorithms to understand constantly varying and changing biomedical data. In this workshop we hope to present to the audience, the state-of-the-art frameworks for bringing the background biomedical knowledge into the pattern recognition task for biomedical data. THEMES In DMB 2007, complementary to main themes of IEEE BIBM 2007, special focus is aimed at looking on the evolving areas of interest for Application of Data Mining in Bioinformatics, namely Semantic Biomedicine, Biomedical Privacy and Security, Biometrics and Health Informatics. Thus as part of DMB 2007, there are four special tracks on: 1. Biomedical Data Mining: Theory and Applications 2. Semantics in Biomedicine 3. Biomedical Privacy, Security and Biometric Authentication 4. Health Informatics IMPORTANT DATES August 10, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline September 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance September 17, 2007 Final camera-ready paper due November 2 - 5, 2007 Workshop Days TOPICS Authors are invited to submit original papers to the workshop exploring data mining theories, techniques, and applications for Bioinformatics. Papers are invited (but not limited) to the following topics: Biomedical Data Mining Theory and Applications o Genomics and Proteomics o Comparative Genomics o Microarray Data Analysis o Protein/RNA Structure Prediction o Phylogenetics o Drug Design o Feature selection and pattern discovery in biological data o Biomedical Literature Mining o System Biology and Pathways o Data mining applications in bioinformatics, biomedicine, health care and other biomedical domain areas Semantics in Biomedicine o Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data o Modeling of Biochemical Pathways o Biological Data Visualization o Biomedical Ontologies o Biomedical Data Engineering using Ontologies o Biological Database Management o Biomedical Data Warehousing o Interoperation of Biomedical Databases o Biomedical Query Processing, Query Optimization, and Information Retrieval Biomedical Data Privacy and Security o Trusted Systems for Biomedical Data Frameworks o Secure e-science protocols and web services o Soft Computing methods in biomedical privacy and security o Management of emerging health care technologies Heath Informatics o Electronic Health Records o Clinical Assessment and Patient Diagnosis o Disease Control and Prevention o Medical informatics o Clinical decision support design, development and implementation o e-health and m-health o Virtual health technologies PAPER SUBMISSION Please submit a full length paper (not exceeding 5000 words) thorough the online submission system (http://kis-lab.com/cyberchair/bibm07/scripts/submit.php) Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required. Selected participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format to be specified at the time of acceptance. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in a Special Issues of International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB) and International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering (CSSE). Selected high quality submissions will be published as book chapters in an edited book entitled: "Annual Review of Biomedical Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Enriching Biomedical Data Mining with Ontologies" in Studies in Computational Intelligence Series by Springer. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: dmb07(a)swbio.org ORGANIZATION General Chairs: Tharam S. Dillon Curtin University of Technology, Australia Elizabeth Chang Curtin University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs: Amandeep S. Sidhu Curtin University of Technology, Australia Farookh K. Hussain Curtin University of Technology, Australia Steering Committee: Alexey Tysmbal (Siemens, Germany) Amandeep S. Sidhu (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia) Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia) Farookh K. Hussain (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia) Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Jason Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Mykola Pechenizkiy (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) T. Y. Lin (San Jose State University, USA) Tharam S. Dillon (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia) Tony Hu (Drexel University, USA) Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA) Special Track Chairs: Biomedical Data Mining Tony Hu Semantics in Biomedicine Amandeep S. Sidhu Biomedical Privacy, Security and Biometric Authentication Farookh K. Hussain Health Informatics Maja Hadzic

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1st CFP: 2007 IBM Ph.D. Symposium on Service-Oriented Computing
by Jyotishman Pathak 10 May '07

10 May '07

CALL FOR PAPERS IBM Ph.D. Symposium on Service-Oriented Computing Vienna, Austria September 17, 2007 http://infolab.uvt.nl/phd-icsoc07/ Following the past successes of the IBM Ph.D. Symposia in 2005 and 2006, the Third International IBM Ph.D. Symposium on Service-Oriented Computing will take place in Vienna, in conjunction with the International Conference in Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007). Objectives ------------ The ICSOC Ph.D. Symposium is focused on mentoring doctoral students who are close to finishing their dissertations. Participating students will present their work in front of a mock thesis committee of 4-5 senior researchers in the field who will act as mentors and will provide extensive feedback and advice for preparing a successful Ph.D. dissertation. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions about research careers in industry and academia during a panel discussion. The goals of the Symposium are to expose students to constructive criticism before their thesis defense, to serve as a networking opportunity with other students at a similar stage in their careers, and to provide guidance related to future career perspectives. Scope --------- The Symposium has a similar technical scope to ICSOC. We seek original papers in the field of service-oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to the following: * Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business goals and requirements, decomposition into business services, business processes, business policies, modeling, analysis, and simulation, specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements * Service Assembly: Development and discovery, model-driven development, service composition architectures, service registries, service discovery mechanisms, semantic matching, methods and tools for service development, governance, verification and validation, deployment strategies * Service Management: Instrumentation and service-related data aggregation, end-to-end measurement, analysis, modeling and capacity planning, definition of deployment topology, infrastructure configuration, problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, change management in live systems * SOA Runtime: Service bus for mediation, transformation and routing, runtime development and service registries, integration of legacy applications, information services for data access and data integration, scalability, topology and optimization, service-oriented middleware, policy based configuration & workload management * Quality of Service: Reliable service-oriented computing, security and privacy in service-oriented computing, SLA and policy specification, QoS negotiation, autonomic management of service levels, empirical studies and benchmarking of QoS, performance and dependability prediction in SOA * Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of infrastructural resources, data and compute intensive applications, execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling, protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers, business-value based allocation, innovative strategies for creation and management of virtual enterprises and organizations, prototype systems and toolkits Submissions ------------- Each submission must have a Ph.D. student as the sole author. The student's research must be advanced enough to constitute a concrete research proposal with some preliminary results, and the student should be interested in receiving constructive feedback on his/her Ph.D. dissertation. Ideal participants are typically, but not exclusively, one year away from completing their theses. The submission should highlight the novel ideas of the author's Ph.D. dissertation. The author's contributions should be framed in the context of related work (previous approaches, relevant standards, etc.), emphasizing the deficiencies and limitations of the state-of-the-art, as well as the author's proposed strategies for addressing these issues. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Ph.D. Symposium technical program committee. The main evaluation criteria are: the maturity of the dissertation research, the quality of the research, the potential for impact, and the relevance to service-oriented computing. Submissions are strictly limited to six pages, following the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format from Springer-Verlag ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) The proceedings of the workshop will be published online as an IBM research report and possibly in other online forums. Papers can be submitted online at http://infolab.uvt.nl/phd-icsoc07/. Travel Grants -------------- A limited number of travel grants will be awarded to students whose papers are accepted for the Symposium; the grant will cover part of the travel costs for the student to attend the Symposium. Details will be announced at the Symposium website. Keynote -------------- Dr. Paolo Traverso will deliver a keynote speech titled "Service-Oriented Computing from Design-Time to Run-Time: Some Research Challenges". The keynote will identify several open questions related to the shift to a service-oriented computing paradigm, providing many opportunities for high-impact Ph.D. research. Dr. Traverso is director of research at the Centro per la ricerca scientifica e tecnologica (IRST) in Trento, Italy, where he leads a division working on software and services, knowledge management and embedded systems. His career included positions in academia as well as in industry. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and he has been the General and Program Chair of ICSOC in 2004 and 2005. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: July 9, 2007 Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2007 Camera-ready submission deadline: August 26, 2007 Symposium: September 17, 2007 Symposium Organization * Andreas Hanemann (Leibniz Supercomputing Center, DE) * Benedikt Kratz (Tilburg University, NL) * Tudor Dumitras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Jyotishman Pathak (Iowa State University, USA) (Preliminary) Technical Program Committee * Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA) * Rik Eshuis (University of Eindhoven, NL) * Willem-Jan van den Heuvel (Tilburg University, NL) * Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, DE) * Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Elisabetta di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, IT) * Paolo Traverso (ITC/IRST, IT) * Petr Tuma (Charles University, Prague, CZ) (Preliminary) Mentoring Committee * Willem-Jan van den Heuvel (Tilburg University, NL) * Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Paolo Traverso (ITC/IRST, IT) * Petr Tuma (Charles University, Prague, CZ) -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak

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OGF 20 in Manchester this week, and announcing October workshop
by David De Roure 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hello OGF20 starts tomorrow in Manchester UK and I look forward to seeing some of you there. On Tuesday there is a workshop on Evolutions of GRIDs Towards Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities (SOKUs). There's also a Semantic Grid talk in the eArts and eHumanities - eScience technologies and methodologies in Arts and Humanities research workshop tomorrow (Monday). Other events of interest to many of you include the Dynamic Service Level Agreements sessions on Tuesday and Workflow Sharing on Wednesday. At OGF 20 we are also announcing the Grids and Web 2.0 workshop which will be held at OGF21 in Seattle, October 15-19, 2007. This builds on the successful workshop at OGF19 and we will shortly be inviting contributions. See http://www.semanticgrid.org/OGF/ for more info on any of the above and the preliminary call for contributions for OGF21. And for those of you who instead are at WWW2007 in Banff, enjoy the Robust Management of Web and Grid Ontologies and Metadata tutorial, which is also on Tuesday May 8. Thanks (find me and say hello!) -- Dave

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