http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40573 <pre> C A L L F O R P A P E R S ================= Fourth International Workshop on Accelerating Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures (ADMS'13) to be held in conjunction with VLDB 2013, Trento, Italy, August 26, 2013 http://www.adms-conf.org/ Important Dates --------------- Paper submission: Sunday, June 23, 2013 Notification: Monday, July 12, 2013 Camera-ready due: Monday, July 22, 2013 Workshop Date: Monday, August 25, 2013 THERE IS NO SEPARATE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PHASE. Workshop Overview ----------------- The objective of this one-day workshop is to investigate opportunities in accelerating data management systems and workloads (which include traditional OLTP, data warehousing/OLAP, ETL, Streaming/Real-time, Business Analytics, and XML/RDF Processing) using processors (e.g., commodity and specialized Multi-core, GPUs, and FPGAs), storage systems (e.g., Storage-class Memories like SSDs and Phase-change Memory), and hybrid programming models like CUDA, OpenCL, and OpenACC. The workshop hopes to explore the interplay between overall system design, core algorithms, query optimization strategies, programming approaches, performance modeling and evaluation, from the perspective of data management applications. Topics of Interest ------------------ The suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * Hardware and System Issues in Domain-specific Accelerators * New Programming Methodologies for Data Management Problems on Modern Hardware * Query Processing for Hybrid Architectures * Large-scale I/O-intensive (Big Data) Applications * Parallelizing/Accelerating Analytical (e.g., Data Mining) Workloads * Autonomic Tuning for Data Management Workloads on Hybrid Architectures * Algorithms for Accelerating Multi-modal Multi-tiered Systems * Energy Efficient Software-Hardware Co-design for Data Management Workloads * Parallelizing non-traditional (e.g., graph mining) workloads * Algorithms and Performance Models for modern Storage Sub-systems * Data Layout Issues for Modern Memory and Storage Hierarchies * Novel Applications of Low-Power Processors (e.g., FPGA or ARM Processor based systems) * New Benchmarking Methodologies for Storage-class Memories Questions about the conference scope should be directed to the program co-chairs at contact-E6cVpjlp9Ito3ujOESFaqg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Keynote Presentation ------------------- Title: Hadoop: Past, Present, and (possibly) Future, Milind Bhandarkar, Chief Scientist, Machine Learning Platforms, at Pivotal Inc. Abstract: Apache Hadoop has rapidly become the de facto data processing platform, and is often mentioned synonymously with "Big Data". Hadoop started as a project within Apache Lucene and Nutch to scale the content backend for web search engine. However, it is currently being used in majority of Fortune 500 companies, in many other application domains, such as fraud detection at credit card companies, healthcare analytics, churn detection and prevention at Telecom companies etc. In this talk, we will reminisce about the early days of Hadoop at Yahoo, and lessons learned in scaling this platform from a 20-node prototype to a datacenter-wide production deployment. We will give an overview of the current state of Hadoop ecosystem, and present some prominent patterns and use cases of this platform. We will also discuss how Hadoop is evolving, and its future as a platform for "Big Data" processing. Bio:  Milind Bhandarkar was the founding member of the team at Yahoo! that took Apache Hadoop from 20-node prototype to datacenter-scale production system, and has been contributing and working with Hadoop since version 0.1.0. He started the Yahoo! Grid solutions team focused on training, consulting, and supporting hundreds of new migrants to Hadoop. Parallel programming languages and paradigms has been his area of focus for over 20 years, and his area of specialization for PhD (Computer Science) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, Siebel Systems, Pathscale Inc. (acquired by QLogic), Yahoo! and Linkedin. Currently, he is the Chief Scientist, Machine Learning Platforms, at Pivotal Inc. Submission Instructions ----------------------- All submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. Details are posted on the web site, http://www.adms-conf.org. The workshop proceedings will be published electronically by VLDB and distributed along with the VLDB proceedings on a memory stick. The accepted papers will also be available online from the ADMS website. The paper length is limited to 12 pages. We will use the same document templates as the VLDB13 See http://www.adms-conf.org for more details and links to the VLDB templates. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the VLDB format. In particular, it is not allowed to modify the format with the objective of squeezing in more material. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting detailed here will be rejected without review. Questions about the submission process should be directed to the program co-chairs at contact-E6cVpjlp9Ito3ujOESFaqg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Organizing Committee -------------------- Program Chairs: * Rajesh Bordawekar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Christian A. Lang, Acelot, Inc. * Bugra Gedik, Bilkent University (Program chairs can be contacted via e-mail: contact-E6cVpjlp9Is/11+TDStg7g&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Program Committee: * Peter Baumann, Jacobs University * John Davis, Microsoft Research * Gregory Diamos, Nvidia * Christophe Dubach, University of Edinburgh * Frank Dehne, Carleton University * Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Francesco Fusco, ETH Zurich * Alfons Kemper, TU Munich * Rajaram Krishnamurthy, IBM * Tirthankar Lahiri, Oracle * Stefan Manegold, CWI * C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Research * Nadathur Satish, Intel * Ji-Yong Shin, Cornell University * Sayantan Sur, Intel _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Rajesh Bordawekar 2013-06-19T19:54:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40572 <pre> CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013 Laboratory Management Information Systems: Current Requirements and Future Perspectives A book edited by Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou (“P. &amp; A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital, President of the Hellenic Society for Quality &amp; Safety in Healthcare), Dr. Anastasia Kastania (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) and Dr. Stavros Archondakis (401 Military Hospital of Athens, Greece) To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/Zro0im For release in the Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration (AHISA) Book Series http://bit.ly/10SgxbN Introduction Medical laboratory services are essential to patient care and include arrangements for examination requests, patient preparation, and patient identification, collection of samples, transportation, storage, processing and evaluation of clinical samples, together with subsequent interpretation, reporting and advice, and safety in the medical laboratory work. ISO 15189:2012 is an international standard, which can be used by medical laboratories wishing to improve their quality standards. Its requirements contain a number of general guidelines that help each laboratory to build and expand its own quality system. Proper implementation of laboratory management information system (LMIS), according to the ISO 15189:2012 requirements, enhance the medical laboratories’ capacity to store, organize, process, and retrieve prodigious amounts of information, to continuously improve and monitor the quality of its services, to monitor turnaround times and other crucial quality assurance parameters, to aid in research and teaching, and to reduce the cost of its services. Furthermore, telemedicine and e-health services shape or are affected by the ISO 15189:2012 requirements. However, there are formidable difficulties during the implementation of standards for medical laboratories, as well as ISO 15189:2012. Moreover, standards include general guidelines concerning the use of laboratory information systems for electronic medical records, which require further elaboration. During the last decade, information technology has dramatically changed the practice of clinical laboratory professionals, due to the implementation of laboratory management information systems. A laboratory management information system (LMIS) is a valuable tool for medical professionals wishing to manage complex processes, ensure regulatory compliance, promote collaboration between departments of the same or independent laboratories, and generate detailed reports. LMIS implementation in the routine laboratory workflow may present some problems concerning medical data storage, protection and retrieval, as well as proper use of laboratory hardware and software by authorized and trained personnel. Medical information stored in computer systems may be lost or changed by unauthorized personnel. As a result, the laboratory has to follow strict rules in order to protect the laboratory’s information system from improper or unauthorized use and solve all possible problems that may be encountered. LMIS implementation in the traditional medical laboratory workflow should also ensure continuous monitoring of prospective or retrospective, qualitative or quantitative, indicators of the laboratory reports accuracy, completeness and timeliness. LMIS should also monitor all possible telemedical or e-health medical laboratory applications, especially if they are used for quality management purposes. ISO 15189:2012 is a powerful tool for diminishing unexpected errors or problems. The requirements of the standard for the laboratory information management include the implementation of specific measures concerning validation, documentation, protection from unauthorized access, safeguard from tampering or loss, and integrity of data. Moreover, telemedicine procedures should follow ISO 15189:2012 requirements for quality and expertise in order to provide validated laboratory medical information. Finally, e-health services or telemedicine may help laboratories wishing to apply external quality control programs, especially in the field of proficiency testing or periodical interlaboratory comparisons. Objective of the Book The objective of the book is to highlight the necessity of adopting specific policies concerning electronic laboratory records, consider all formidable difficulties that may be detected during the implementation of standards for medical laboratories, as well as ISO 15189:2012, and provide detailed guidance to all members of the medical community wishing to overcome complicated or technical problems. Finally, it will discuss how e-health and especially telemedicine can affect or be affected by the ISO 15189:2012 or other standards for medical laboratories. Target Audience The prospective audience includes undergraduate and extended degree programs students, graduate students of health care quality and health services management, executive education and continuing education, health care managers, and health professionals. The book will also be used by laboratory quality/technical managers, laboratory technicians/supervisors, assessors of laboratory management systems, personnel responsible for procurement and evaluation of laboratory services, and users of clinical test services. Information technology and healthcare professionals will also find the book interesting for its generic suggestions and its specific case studies. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Quality and Quality Management concepts * Commonly used quality management system standards * Standards for the medical laboratory (organization and quality management system, personnel, premises and environment, equipment, information systems and materials, pre-examination process, examination process, post examination phase) * Overview and requirements of ISO 15189:2012 * Additional requirements of ISO 15189:2012 over CPA (2010) * Differences betwee * n ISO 15189:2012 and 2007 editions * Structure of Quality System Documentation * Sources of information and further development * Laboratory information management systems * E-health technologies for medical interlaboratory comparisons and proficiency testing * Validation of Laboratory Medical Information Systems * The economic impact of Laboratory Medical Information Systems * Educational training, research activities and Laboratory Medical Information Systems * Data entry, storage, handling and retrieval in Laboratory Medical Information Systems * Security, maintenance and disaster recovery in Laboratory Medical Information Systems * Legal aspects of improper use of Laboratory Medical Information Systems Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 30, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 15, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014. Important Dates June 30, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline July 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance October 30, 2013: Full Chapter Submission January 15, 2014: Review Results Returned February 28, 2014: Final Chapter Submission April 30, 2014: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou “P. &amp; A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital Thivon &amp; Levadias, 11527 Athens, Greece Tel.: +302132009822 • GSM: +306974558870 E-Mail: anas1-U04EIuiosng&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Dr. Anastasia Kastania Athens University of Economis and Business 76 Patission Str, 10434 Athens, Greece Tel: +30-210-8203158, Fax: +30-210-8203157, GSM: +306944546208 E-Mail: ank-F5kqydyUZKw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Dr. Stavros Archondakis 401 Military Hospital of Athens 1 Kanelopoulou Str, 11525 Athens, Greece Tel.: +30 210 7494791, Fax: +30 210 7494794, GSM: +306944876057 E-Mail: fourfouras-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org For more information on the: Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration (AHISA) Book Series Please visit http://bit.ly/10SgxbN _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Anastasius Moumtzoglou 2013-06-19T19:49:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40571 <pre>Fifth Workshop on Massive Data Algorithmics (MASSIVE 2013) September 5, 2013 Sophia Antipolis, France In connection with ALGO'13 and organized by Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) Webpage: www.madalgo.au.dk/massive2013 Aim and Scope Tremendous advances in our ability to acquire, store and process data, as well as the pervasive use of computers in general, have resulted in a spectacular increase in the amount of data being collected. This availability of high-quality data has led to major advances in both science and industry. In general, society is becoming increasingly data driven, and this trend is likely to continue in the coming years. The increasing number of applications processing massive data means that in general focus on algorithm efficiency is increasing. However, the large size of the data, and/or the small size of many modern computing devices, also means that issues such as memory hierarchy architecture often play a crucial role in algorithm efficiency. Thus the availability of massive data also means many new challenges for algorithm designers. The aim of the workshop on massive data algorithmics is to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry interested in algorithms for massive dataset problems. The scope of the workshop includes both fundamental algorithmic problems involving massive data, as well as algorithms for more specialized problems in, e.g., graphics, databases, statistics and bioinformatics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - I/O-efficient algorithms - Cache-oblivious algorithms - Memory hierarchy efficient algorithms - Streaming algorithms - Sublinear algorithms - Parallel algorithms for massive data problem - Engineering massive data algorithms Paper submission We invite submissions of extended abstracts (at most 10 pages not counting references) of original research. Extended abstract should be submitted through the EasyChair website by July 26. Authors will be notified about acceptance by August 12, and final versions will be due on August 23. Accepted extended abstracts will be collected in a booklet, which will be distributed at the workshop. There will be no formal proceedings, so work presented at the workshop can also be (or have been) presented at other conferences. An author of each accepted abstract is expected to give a presentation of the abstract at the workshop. Program committee Pankaj Agarwal, (Duke) Lars Arge (Aarhus and MADALGO) Guy E. Blelloch (CMU) Gerth S. Brodal (Aarhus and MADALGO) Ken Clarkson (IBM Almaden) Graham Cormode (AT&amp;T Research) Michael Goodrich (UC Irvine) John Iacono (NYU Polytechnic) Piotr Indyk (MIT and MADALGO) Christian Jensen (Aarhus and MADALGO) Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz (Waterloo) Andrew McGregor (Massachusetts, Amherst) Meyer Ulrich (Frankfurt and MADALGO) Nodari Sitchinava (Karlsruhe) Sergei Vassilvitskii (Stanford) Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Utah) Jeffrey Scott Vitter (Kansas) Ke Yi (HKUST) Norbert Zeh (Dalhousie) Chair: Peyman Afshani (Aarhus and MADALGO) Organizing committee Lars Arge (Aarhus and MADALGO) Gerth Stølting Brodal (Aarhus and MADALGO) Peyman Afshani (Aarhus and MADALGO) Else MagÃ¥rd (Aarhus and MADALGO) Matie Bach Søgaard (Aarhus and MADALGO) Participation The workshop will take place on September 5, 2013 in Sophia Antipolis, France, as part of ALGO 2013 immediately following the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). Participants for MASSIVE should register through the on-line registration on the ALGO registration webpage on http://algo2013.dakini.fr/ (registration opens on June 18th). All researchers and industry people interested in massive data algorithmics are encouraged to attend the workshop. Important dates Paper submission deadline: July 26 Notification of acceptance: August 12 Final version due: August 23 Symposium: September 5 _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Peyman Afshani 2013-06-19T15:28:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40570 <pre>Over the last decade, process mining emerged as a new scientific discipline that provides the missing link between process-oriented (BPM, WFM, etc.) and data-oriented (BI, DM, ML, KDD) approaches. Process mining techniques can be used to learn process models, check compliance, and identify and understand bottlenecks, inefficiencies, deviations, and risks. To improve awareness of both academics and practitioners, we made a short process mining movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oat7MatU_U. The movie shows what process mining is, and how it works, in less than 2 minutes! (Animation work by 908video) Want to learn more? Also see the process mining website (www.processmining.org), the website of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining (http://www.win.tue.nl/ieeetfpm/), or the process mining book (http://springer.com/978-3-642-19344-6). _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Wil van der Aalst 2013-06-19T14:06:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40569 <pre>Call for Chapters: Biometrics and Digital Identity Management Editors Dr. Abdullah Rashed (Algortimi Centre, University of Minho) Dr. Henrique Santos (Algortimi Centre, University of Minho) Proposals Submission Deadline: July 29, 2013 Full Chapters Due: April 14, 2014 INTRODUCTION: In a mobile era, users (or more generally, subjects) are represented by a set of data called digital identity, which are used, among other purposes, for authentication. Digital identity is defined as the digital representation of the known information about a specific subject (individual, organization or automatic delegated process). Within the digital world, security solutions are necessary to protect digital identity. Information security provides several identity management mechanisms to mitigate that threat. Identity management is a wide research and development area that rise authentication confidence in a system and defines restrictions on established identities. Efficient protection of digital identity encourages users to enter the digital world without hesitation. Users have a lot of user accounts (usually more then 20). Thus they frequently forget the full details, and consequently loose access, or use insecure ways to recall, selecting easy to guess or personal inf! ormation for their passwords or PINs, which imposes a serious identity theft threat. Biometrics presents a very promising alternative to protect against that threat. OBJECTIVE: Biometrics can change drastically the way people interact with computers, making it possible to overcome a major security limitation: authentication is always under user control and can be fuelled by malicious operators. Biometrics systems - that recognize physical or behavioral human characteristics - may facilitate and enrich social interactions and allow people to naturally interact with computer systems with minimal training, for domains such as communications, education, entertainment, and robotics. Among all possible applications, Identity Management emerges since we are pushing our dependency on Internet based services, for which identification and/or authentication is becoming crucial. However, to be effective biometric technologies need to fulfill several demanding requirements which are imposing serious restrictions to adaptation. From limited technical precision and scalability, to poor user adoption, we can find many arguments to drop it. With this book we intend! to address these issues and collect different proposals to overcome them. Target Audience The target audiences are professionals and researchers who work in the Biometrics and Identity Management fields. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support for several professionals and researches from different application domains which require strong authentication mechanisms based on biometrics and/or address several aspects of Identity Management, like privacy, authorization and auditing. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: •Biometrics in Health Care Systems •Identity Management for Hospital System •IDM Architectures (centralized, federated and distributed) •User Acceptance for Biometrics •Behavioral Biometrics •Performance Prediction for Multimodal Biometrics •Biometrics Theory Methods and Applications •IDM multimodal system: advantages and integration. Multimodal information architectures Multimodal Interaction Processing •Security, Privacy, &amp; access control •Multimodal interfaces and Multimodal interaction •User audit and accountability •Credential and access management •Digital identity management •Digital identity privacy issues •Identity-related scientific, business, industrial, legal and social implications •Federated identities management •Models for authentication and privacy management •Participating organizations •User-centric identities management Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 31, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 15, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Business Science Reference” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014. Important Dates July 29, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline November 18, 2012: Full Chapter Submission January 6, 2014: Notification of Acceptance April 14, 2014: Final Chapter Submission May 19, 2014: Review Results Returned Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document): Dr. Abdullah Rashed Algoritmi Centre, Universiry of Minho Tel.: 00351917410255 E-mail: abdullahrashed-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Dr. Henrique Santos Algoritmi Centre, Universiry of Minho E-mail: hsantos-PpiMaPxZK4TXx8rO31cKRw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Abdullah Rashed 2013-06-19T12:49:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40568 <pre>_______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld</pre> Ranga Raju Vatsavai 2013-06-19T12:48:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40567 <pre>_______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld</pre> Ranga Raju Vatsavai 2013-06-19T12:45:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40566 <pre> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2nd CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Process Model Matching Contest 2013 at the 4th International Workshop on Process Model Collections: Management and Reuse (PMC-MR'13) Beijing, China, August 26, 2013 http://processcollections.org/matching-contest ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Business process models play an important role for managing business processes and are created, for instance, for requirements analysis, communication, automation and compliance. In essence, a process model defines a set of activities and dependencies for their execution. Process model matching refers to the creation of an alignment between process models, i.e., the creation of correspondences between their activities. In recent years, many techniques building on process model matching have been proposed. Examples include techniques for the validation of a technical implementation of a business process against a business-centered specification model, delta-analysis of process implementations and a reference model, harmonization of process variants, process model search, or clone detection. Inspired by the field of schema matching and ontology alignment, this demand led to the development of different techniques for process model matching. Yet, these techniques are heuristics and, thus, their results are inherently uncertain and need to be evaluated on a common basis. Currently, however, the BPM community lacks established datasets and frameworks for evaluation. This contest aims at addressing the need for effective evaluation. Towards this end, the contest defines process model matching problems, publishes datasets for these problems, and seeks implementations that solve them. The results of the contest will be summarized at the contest website, presented at the 4th International Workshop on Process Model Collections, and published in joint paper with successful participants as part of the workshop proceedings. ------------------- Matching Problems ------------------- The contest includes two sets of process model matching problems. * University Admission Processes, process models that represent the admission processes of nine German universities. * Birth Registration Processes, process models that represent birth registration processes in Germany, Russia, South Africa, and the Netherlands. The datasets and details on data formats can be found at the contest homepage: http://processcollections.org/matching-contest ------------------- Participation ------------------- In order to take part in the matching contest, participants are asked to solve the given matching problems with their self-developed matching technique. Further, to publish the results of the contest, there will be a joint paper with participants as part of the workshop proceedings. As input for the joint publication, all participants have to provide a description of their matching technique. This description must be no more than 2 pages long (excluding references, LNBIP formatting). In sum, participants are required to prepare the following material and submit it by email to the contest organizers till July 1. * For each pair of process models that should be matched (there are 2ª36 pairs overall) a file with the automatically identified correspondences must be provided. * For the self-developed matching technique, a description following must be provided. Details on the data formats and a template for the description of the matching technique can also be found at the contest homepage. ------------------- Schedule ------------------- * Publication of datasets: May 15, 2013. * Submission deadline (results and description): July 1, 2013. * Workshop: August 26, 2013. ------------------- Organizers ------------------- * Henrik Leopold, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany * Matthias Weidlich, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Matthias Weidlich 2013-06-19T11:38:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40565 <pre>********* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ********* C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications &amp; Services (iiWAS2013) in Conjunction with The 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2013) 2 - 4 December 2013 Vienna, Austria http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2013/ email: iiwas2013-ntiYaa+jS8jYtjvyW6yDsg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org **** Important Dates ***** 15 July 2013: Full Papers (10 pages), Short papers, Demos and work in progress (4 pages) 22 September 2013: Acceptance Notification 10 October 2013: Camera-Ready Papers and Authors Registration 02-04 December 2013: Conference Dates ***** Publication ***** ALL accepted iiWAS2013 papers will be published by ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ISBN: and the supplemental proceedings and indexed appropriately in all major indexes. Selected high-quality papers will be invited to be published, after revision and extension, in special issues of international journals and in a book in the Book Series: Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence published by Springer. **** Scope ***** WWW has been driving global information integration. In spite of the many applications in all domains of our societies: e-business, e-commerce, e-learning, e-science, and e-government, for instance, as well as the tremendous advances by engineers and scientists, the seamless integration of information and services remains a major challenge. The current shared vision for the future is one of semantically rich information and service oriented architectures for global information systems. This vision is at the convergence of progress in technologies such as XML, Web services, RDF, OWL, of multimedia, multimodal, and multilingual information retrieval, and of distributed, mobile and ubiquitous computing. iiWAS2013 is the 15th in the series of the highly successful International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications &amp; Systems. Recently, iiWAS has been held in Bali (2012), Ho Chi Minh City (2011), Paris (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2009), and Linz (2008). This ! year, Vienna will host iiWAS2013.The iiWAS conference series have provided opportunities to researchers, graduate students, and industry practitioners to address recent research results and current industry practices in the area of information integration and web-based applications. We invite two types of submissions: Full Technical Papers and Short Position Papers. A Full Paper should provide solid conceptual and theoretical foundation and substantial support for its results and conclusions as a significant contribution to the field. A Position Paper could be "demo" or ˜work in progress, i.e., it reports the latest emerged ideas, approaches, methodologies, systems and application scenarios but have not yet been fully implemented and/or undergone extensive evaluation. ***** Topics ***** iiWAS2013 conference themes, grouped in four tracks, are the following (but are not limited to): 1. Web Engineering and Web Services Track: - Web Data Integration, Monitoring and Management - Web Data Models, Metrics, Tools, Languages and Performance - Web Agents, Intelligence and Mining - Web Security and Trust Management - Web Visualisation, Rich Web UI and Deep/Hidden Web - Web-based Enterprise Systems and Business Processes - Web-based Auction and Negotiation - Federated and cross-organisational Web engineering - Web Services Architectural styles - Web Services performance - Dependability, security and privacy of web services (blogs, RSS, wikis, etc.) - Orchestration, choreography and composition of web services - Tools and technologies for Web Services development, deployment and management - The impact of Web Services on enterprise systems - Impact of formal methods on Web Services 2. E-applications Track (e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Payment, e-Government, e-Learning, e-science, e-communities): - E-application design models and methods - E-application development processes, standards and methodologies - E-application usability, accessibility, reuse and integration - E-application localisation and internalization - E-applications case studies and best practices - E-applications social and legal issues - E-applications service architectures - E-applications competition and collaborations - E-applications data analytics and visualisation - Digital libraries - Innovative E-Frameworks &amp; E-Applications - Innovative E-applications in Web 2.0, AJAX, E4X and other new developments - Model-driven E-application development - Workflow and E-services 3. Web Data and Semantic Web Track: - XML data and schema integration - XML data models, query processing and data management - XML data privacy and security - Web databases and warehousing - Web data mining, exploration, and visualisation - Document Engineering and Integration - Web Data Markup Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data - Web Semantics content creation, annotation, and extraction - Web Semantics brokering, integration and interoperability - Web Semantics search, query, and visualisation - Web Semantics middleware and services - Web Semantics provenance, trust &amp; security - Ontology creation, searching, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment 4. Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Track: - Mobile and Ubiquitous Information and Service Integration - Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, &amp; evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Systems - Grid and P2P architectures for service and information integration - Agent-based ubiquitous applications - Location and context-aware applications and services - Infrastructure support for mobility and pervasive Web - Web proxies and content adaptation - Service creation and management environments for pervasive web - Low-cost web access devices and networking for emerging regions - Privacy-enhancing technologies in pervasive web - Social search and the use of "human computing" in web search - Experience report on ubiquitous computing implementation - Visionary scenario on ubiquitous computing **** Submission Guidelines **** Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF through the conference website. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will subject to stringent peer review by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM. Format requirements for submissions of papers are: - Maximum 10 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Full Technical papers. - Maximum 4 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Short Position Papers. - All submissions should be formatted according to ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) - Submissions must be entered into the Submission System (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iiwas2013) **** Awards **** iiWAS2013 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the authors at the conference. **** Past Conferences **** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences.htm ACM Digital library: http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE544 DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iiwas/ **** PC Members ***** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2013/ *** Contact PC co-chairs***** Edgar Weippl SBA Research &amp; Vienna University of Technology, Austria Email: EWeippl/AT\sba-research.org Maria Indrawan Monash University, Australia Email: maria.indrawan/AT\monash.edu **************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Ismail Khalil 2013-06-19T09:36:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40564 <pre>The International Conference on Digital Information Processing, E-Business and Cloud Computing (DIPECC2013) Islamic Azad University, Dubai, UAE October 23-25, 2013 http://goo.gl/xGaxT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch, Academic City Campus, Dubai, UAE from October 23-25, 2013 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcome papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: - Biometrics Technologies - Cloud Engineering - Cloud Security - Computer Architecture and Design - Data Compression - Data Management in Mobile Networks - Distributed and Parallel Applications - E-Commerce Security - E-Technology - Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications - Image Processing - Information and Data Management - Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management - Network Security - Semantic Web and Ontologies - User Interface and Usability Issues for Mobile Applications - Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design - Wireless Communications - Cloud Computing - Cloud Gaming - Computational Intelligence - Cryptography and Data Protection - Data Embedding and Watermarking - Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks - E-Business - E-Learning - Embedded Systems and Software - Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems - Information Content Security - Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity - Multimedia Computing - Real-Time Systems - Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling - Web Services Security - Wireless Sensor Networks Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Important Dates ============== Submission Deadline : September 1, 2013 Notification of Acceptance : September 15, 2013 Camera Ready Submission : September 20, 2013 Registration : September 20, 2013 Conference Dates : October 23-25, 2013 _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Klent Fermano 2013-06-19T09:03:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40563 <pre>Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals The Fifth International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2013) 25-27 November 2013, Kyoto http://www.socinfo2013.org ******New Information!!****************** * There is possibility of having workshop proceedings published by Springer as a joint LNCS volume of post-proceedings (included in SpringerLink digital library), if the workshop organizers wish so. ***************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2013) is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from informatics and the social &amp; management sciences to come together to share ideas and opinions, and to present original research work. The goal is to create an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge between the two communities, as well as to enable mutual critical discussion of current research. The conference solicits original research and experience-based case study papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations. It welcomes interdisciplinary papers on methods from the social sciences in the study of information systems, applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, or applying social concepts in the design of information systems. Important Dates -------------------- - Workshop/Tutorial proposals due: July 1, 2013 - Workshop/Tutorial notification: July 5, 2013 - Workshop/Tutorial day: Nov. 25, 2013 (tentative) Submissions for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals -------------------- The workshops and tutorial day is Nov. 25, 2013(tentative). All workshops and tutorials will last basically half a day. Please submit your proposal (at most 3 pages, in pdf) via e-mail to the Workshop/Tutorial Co-chair, A.Nadamoto (nadamoto-adtwBNBp3UQhp+bO9/scXw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org). A proposal should include: ***** Workshop proposals***** A brief description of the workshop, including: * Title of the workshop * Topic * A short summary of the technical issues in the focus of the workshop. * Names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and brief bios of the workshop organizers. Please mark the primary contact person. * List of PC members with their affiliations (ones who already agreed or are expected to agree) * The expected number of papers, and the type of papers (full, short, posters). * Short information on previous editions of the workshop series (if applicable), including: - conference it was co-located with, - number of attendants, - number of submissions, - number of accepted/invited papers, - length of camera ready papers, and - any other information you feel is relevant. ***** Tutorial proposals***** A brief description of the tutorial, including: * Title of the tutorial * Topic * A short summary of the technical issues in the focus of the tutorial. * Names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and brief bios of the tutorial organizers. Please mark the primary contact person. * Names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and brief bios of all presenters. Workshop/Tutorial Co-Chairs: - Akiyo Nadamoto (Konan University, Japan) - Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters, Switzerland) _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Akiyo Nadamoto 2013-06-19T08:40:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40562 <pre>First Call for Advanced Seminars (Tutorials) - ICDE 2014 (www.ieee-icde2014.org) ICDE 2014 invites submissions for advanced seminar (tutorial) proposals on all topics covered by the conference. The conference will host one- and two-session seminars, lasting 1.5 and 3 hours, respectively. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Seminar proposals should be submitted by email to the seminar co-chairs: Mohamed Mokbel (mokbel-k0Ej6N9cQa43uPMLIKxrzw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org), Peter Scheuermann (peters-5YcgHWA4rVnfxgxxWyf0drK6bRJNSFrb&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org), and Kian-Lee Tan (tankl-re5r+meJ/dN84TsAtUCrkA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org) by August 26, 2013 as a PDF attachment. Submission should be at most 4 pages with the same format as conference research papers. Please include "ICDE 2014 Seminar" in the subject line. Each submission should include the following information: - The proposed seminar title - The preferred duration (1.5 or 3 hours) - An abstract - An outline detailing the scope and depth of coverage of the targeted topics - A short description of the intended audience - A short biography of the proposed presenter(s), along with contact information - If the seminar or an earlier version has been presented elsewhere, the proposal should indicate those respective events (and dates), and how the current proposal differs from other editions of the seminar. A short description of the seminar (up to 4 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings (due by December 30, 2013). Seminar slides will be made available to conference participants and will need to be provided in advance of the conference (February 24, 2014). IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: August 26, 2013 Notification: October 7, 2013 Camera-ready: December 30, 2013 Slides due: February 24, 2014 Tutorial dates: TBD _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Huiyong Xiao 2013-06-19T07:36:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40561 <pre>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please pass it on to your colleagues and students who might be interested in contributing] ================================================================ Call for Papers First International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data (MoBiD 2013) http://www.lucentia.es/workshop/mobid13/ In conjunction with the 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER2013) November 11-13, 2013, Hong Kong http://www.hkws.org/conference/ER2013/ Special issue in a journal listed in JCR Best selected papers of MoBiD 2013 will be invited to submit an extended version in a special issue of the Expert Systems journal ================================================================ Introduction ---------------- Due to the enormous amount of data present and growing in the Web, there has been an increasing interest on incorporating this huge enormous amount of external and unstructured data, normally referred as "Big Data", into traditional applications. This necessity has made that traditional database systems and processing need to evolve and accommodate them to this new situation. Two main ideas underneath this evolution are that this new external and internal data (ii) needs to be stored in the cloud and (ii) offers a set of services in order to be able to access to this data. Following this consideration, there have lately been several proposals (also called as the next generation of database systems) based on Hadoop and Hive systems (framework inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System). Therefore, this new conception of cloud applications incorporating both internal and external Big Data requires new models and methods to accomplish their conceptual modelling phase. Thus, the objective of MoBiD'13 is to be an international forum for exchanging ideas on the latest and best proposals for the conceptual modeling surrounding this new data-drive paradigm with Big Data. Papers focusing on the application and the use of conceptual modeling approaches (e.g. based on EER, UML and so on) for Big Data, MapReduce, Hadoop and Hive, Big Data Analytics, social networking, Security and privacy data science, etc. will be highly encouraged. The workshop will be a forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in the different facets related to the use of the conceptual modeling approaches for the development of this next generation of applications based on these Big Data. Target audiences and the scope --------------------------------------------- The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to: - Agile modeling - Advanced applications with MapReduce paradigm - Application design - Big Data Analytics - Business Process Modeling - Business Intelligence applications's modeling - Conceptual modeling approaches (UML, EER, etc.) for Big Data - Conceptualization for data-drive paradigm - Data-driven businesses - Enterprise modeling - Fundamentals of Hadoop: data integrity and file-based data structures - Hadoop versus MapReduce - Hive and Hadoop: Architecture and File System - Hive as a tool to enable easy data extract/transform/load (ETL) - Hive and Hadoop: examples of applications (yahoo, facebook, etc) - Information packaging - Knowledge management for big data - Metamodeling - Measurement for social network data - Need to develop a MapReduce applications - New modeling approaches for Big Data - Interface design - Model-driven development methodologies and approaches - Model transformations - Provenance modeling - Process modeling - Relational Database Management System-RDBMS versus MapReduce - Requirements modeling for Web-based applications - Social networking, Security and privacy data science - Software As a Service (SaS) modeling solutions - Use of Hive and Hadoop in social networks - Visualization of big data - Analytics for complex data - Data analytics as a service - Data mining over the cloud - Extracting, Transforming and Loading data over the cloud - Smart Cities Workshop Chairs --------------- Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA Email: songiy-lbwBIqCsw6A3uPMLIKxrzw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org David Gil Lucentia Research Group Dept. COmputer Science and Technology University of Alicante, Spain Email: dgil-uJTnQD41nqLe5aOfsHch1g&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Carlos Blanco Department of Mathematics, Statistical and Computation University of Cantabria, Spain carlos.blanco-8wY2du1NOqf1P9xLtpHBDw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Program Committee ----------------------------- Yuan An (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA) Marie-Aude Aufaure (Ecole Centrale Paris, France) Michael Blaha (Yahoo!, Inc.) Rafael Berlanga Llavori (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) Gennaro Cordasco (Universita di Salerno, Italy) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (University of Calabria, Italy) Gill Dobbie (University of Auckland , New Zealand) Eduardo Fernandez-Medina Paton (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) Matteo Golfarelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Inma Hernandez (University of Sevilla, Spain) Magnus Johnsson (University of Lund, Sweden) Nectarios Koziris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Jiexun Li (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA) Alexander Loeser (Universitat Berlin, Germany) Antoni Oliv (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.) Oscar Pastor (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Mario Piattini (Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) Nicolas Prat (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, France) Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA) Carlos Rivero (University of Sevilla, Spain) Colette Roland (Universite Paris, Pantheon Sorbonne, France) Pablo Sanchez (University of Cantabria, Spain) Keng Siau (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Alkis Simitsis (Hewlett-Packard Co, Palo Alto, California, USA) Julia Stoyanovich (University of Pennsylvania) Alejandro Vaisman (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Panos Vassiliadisy (University of Ioannina, Greece) Ambrosio Toval (University of Murcia, Spain) Marta Elena Zorrilla Pantaleon (University of Cantabria, Spain) Submission Guidelines -------------------------------- Formatting instructions MoBiD 2013 proceedings will be part of the ER2013 Workshop volume published by Springer in the LNCS series. The authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. See the page http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. The page limit for workshop papers is 10 pages. The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for the submitted papers. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. The papers need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Submission to MoBiD 2013 will be electronically only. Submission instructions All workshop abstracts and papers should be uploaded by using the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobid2013 Special issue in a journal listed in JCR Best selected papers of MoBiD 2013 will be invited to submit an extended version in a special issue of Expert Systems Important Dates ---------------------- Paper submission: June 21, 2013 Paper notification: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready paper submission: July 12, 2013 Author registration: July 21, 2013 Workshop: Nov 11-13, 2013 _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> David Gil 2013-06-19T06:57:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40560 <pre>Sixth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'13) CIKM 2013, October 28, San Francisco http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/ Submissions due: July 19 (extended!) * Call for Papers There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, micro-formats and linked data, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, annotations hold the promise to significantly enhance information access, by increasing the depth of analysis of today's systems. Currently, we have only started exploring the possibilities and only begin to understand how these valuable semantic cues can be put to fruitful use. To complicate matters, standard text search excels at shallow information needs expressed by short keyword queries, and here semantic annotation contributes very little, if anything. The main questions for the workshop are: How to make use of the currently emerging knowledge resources (such as DBpedia, Freebase) as underlying semantic model giving access to an unprecedented scope and detail of factual information? How to include annotations beyond the topical dimension (think of reading level, prerequisite level, content credibility, transaction trustworthiness, freshness, genre, sentiment, etc) that contain vital cues for matching the specific needs and profile of the searcher at hand? * Many Open Questions The Workshop will bring together researchers working with semantic annotations, its use cases, its sources (authoring to NLP tools), its users, and its use in DB, IR, KM, or Web research, and work together on a range of open questions: Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need for semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by document retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words? What is keeping searchers from exploring these powerful search request? What impact has the web of data with more and more information in preprocessed form? - Annotations: What types of annotation are available? Are there crucial differences between author-, software-, user-, and machine-generated annotations? Do we annotate types/classes/categories ("person") or instances ("Albert Einstein")? How similar or different are linked data and annotated text? What are the limitations of the current annotations schemes, and how to overcome them? - Rich Context: Do we annotate text? Or also search requests and interactions, and their broader context? Besides personalization and geo-positional information, mobiles have a wide and growing range of locational, mechanical and even biometrical sensor data available to them. Can kick-start the query by inferring task and situational context in the mobile use case? - (Un)certainty: How should we interpret the annotations? Can we reliably link textual annotations to known entity catalogs? Can expect a messy world to be captured in a clean set of meaningful categories? Or is all information fundamentally uncertain and only partly known? How can we fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches? These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format workshop -- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change the way we understand information access today! * We Need Your Help! Help us shape the future of information access by increasing the depth of analysis of today's systems: - Submit a short 2+1-page research or position paper explaining your key wishes or key points, - and take actively part in the discussion at the Workshop. What's a 2+1 page paper? We like short and focused contributions highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment, project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear tables, graphs, and full citations (that's the "+1" page). So your submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text. The deadline is Friday July 19, 2013, further submission details are on http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/ We are looking forward to a productive, stimulating and fruitful workshop day in the tradition of previous ESAIR workshops -- come join the discussion! Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai Stockholm _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Jaap Kamps 2013-06-19T05:50:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40559 <pre>Apologies if you received multiple copies of CFPs of Transparent Computing Workshops, and IJAHUC special issue, to be held inconjunction with IEEE HPCC-13/EUC-13/CSS-13. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part I: CFPs of 3 Joint Transparent Computing Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: -High Performance and Transparent Computing (HPTC) -Internet of Things and Transparent Computing (IOTC) -Security and Reliability in Transparent Computing (SRTC) Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Computer Society IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Organizers: Central South University, China Intel Corporation, USA Venue &amp; Dates: Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013 Introduction to Zhangjiajie, China, an emerging tourist destination: http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/zhangjiajietour2013/ General Chairs for the 3 Joint Transparent Computing Workshops: Prof. Jianer Chen, Central South University, China Prof. Jianxin Wang, Central South University, China Dr. Ju Lu, Intel Corporation, USA Program Chairs for HPTC 2013: Dr. Michael Greene, Vice President of Intel Corporation, USA Prof. Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Prof. Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Program Chairs for IOTC 2013: Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Prof. Zixue Cheng, The University of Aizu, Japan Prof. Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Program Chairs for SRTC 2013: Prof. Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Prof. Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Prof. Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Publicity Chairs for the 3 Joint Transparent Computing Workshops: Prof. Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Dr. Qin Liu, Central South University, China Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Important Dates (1) Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2013 (Extended Deadline) (2) Authors Notification: August 15, 2013 (3) Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2013 Call for Papers on transparent computing workshops and their associated main conferences, Please refer to the following websites: (1) The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on High Performance and Transparent Computing (HPTC 2013), Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/hptc2013/ (2) The 2013 IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things and Transparent Computing, Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/iotc2013/ (3) The 2013 International Workshop on Security and Reliability in Transparent Computing, Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/srtc2013/ (4) The 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2013), Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/hpcc2013/ (5) The 11th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2013), Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/euc2013/ (6) The 5th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2013), Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/css2013/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part II: CFPs of IJAHUC special issue on Advances in Transparent Computing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijahuc SCI Impact Factor (2012.6): 0.848 Special Issue on: "Advances in Transparent Computing" Guest Editors: Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Ivan Stojmenovic, The University of Ottawa, Canada Gregorio Martinez, The University of Murcia, Spain Michael Greene, Intel Corporation, USA Computing paradigms have greatly evolved with the rapid advances in hardware, software and networking technologies. Transparent Computing (TC), as a user-controlled cloud computing, is an emerging technology with the features of streaming-based scheduling and execution, user orientation, and platform independence. TC enables users to accomplish local tasks efficiently and flexibly through any type of devices while demanding computing and storage services residing in remote servers. Typical TC applications, such as transparent regional medical information sharing system and transparent campus information system, need to use the high performance computing (HPC) technology to share the computing tasks of terminals. Furthermore, similar to Internet of Things (IoT), TC adapts to heterogeneous networks and protocols in order to make people enjoy intelligent services, anytime and anywhere. Finally, security and reliability is another crucial issue to the success of TC. Therefore, high performance and transparent computing (HPTC), Internet of Things and transparent computing (IOTC), and Security and Reliability in Transparent Computing (SRTC), are attracting researchers and practitioners with more and more attention. Motivated by TC's fundamental features and combination with existing techniques, i.e. HPTC, IOTC and SRTC, this special issue of IJAHUC aims to collect quality research proposals with a solid background in both theoretical and practical aspects. The special issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers based on the upcoming 3 joint international workshops, co-located in Zhangjiajie, China, 13-15 November, 2013: (1) IEEE HPTC 2013 (http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/hptc2013/) (2) IEEE/IFIP IOTC 2013 (http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/iotc2013/) (3) SRTC 2013 (http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/srtc2013/) We will also solicit independent call for papers in order to collect some papers from open submissions outside these 3 workshops. Subject Coverage Topics of interest include but are not limited to: (1) High Performance and Transparent Computing Architecture (2) Systems, Software &amp; Applications of High Performance and Transparent Computing (3) Languages and Compilers for High Performance and Transparent Computing (4) Resource Management &amp; Scheduling for High Performance and Transparent Computing (5) High Performance and Transparent Networks (6) Mobility Management for IoT and TC (7) Theoretical Foundations and Building Blocks for IoT and TC (8) IoT and TC Enabled Network and Communication Systems (9) Metrics and Performance Evaluation for IoT and TC (10) New Applications, Services and Their Deployment with IoT and TC (11) Security in Virtualized TC Environments (12) Cryptography and Encryption Techniques for TC (13) Reliability of Systems, Applications, Software, and Services in TC (14) Performance and Reliability Engineering in TC (15) Repair/Replacement and Maintenance Policies in TC Notes for Prospective Authors Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper). All papers are refereed through a peer review process. All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our information on "preparing and submitting articles" (http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_submit.php). Important Dates Paper submission due: 15 March, 2014 Decision notification: 15 June, 2014 Revised paper submission: 15 August, 2014 Final paper submission: 15 September, 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part III: Contact ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please email inquiries concerning this Joint IEEE HPTC-13/IOTC-13/SRTC-13 workshops to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the TC workshops organizers (tcworkshops2013 AT gmail DOT com). Copyright &lt; at &gt; Trusted Computing Institute, CSU http://trust.csu.edu.cn/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Qin Liu 2013-06-19T04:23:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40558 <pre>[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call] ------------------ MODELS 2013: Call for Contributions to Workshops, Symposia, Demos, Posters, ACM SRC Miami Beach Resort and Spa Miami, Florida, USA 29 September 2013 through 4 October 2013 DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2013 http://www.modelsconference.org/ Follow MODELS 2013 on Twitter http://twitter.com/models2013 Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM ------------------ MODELS, the International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, solicits original contributions to its affiliated workshops and satellite events, and invites participants to its exciting tutorials as well as keynotes and presentations at the main conference. Read on for details! ========================================================= *** Call for WORKSHOP Papers *** The following workshops will take place at MODELS 2013: - TowArds the Model DrIveN Organization (AMINO) http://www.cs.colostate.edu/remodd/v1/amino2013 - Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems (ACESMB) http://emsig.embedded-systems-portal.org/index.php/hosted-events/all/2013/aces-mb-2013/ - Extreme Modelling (XM) http://www.di.univaq.it/XM2013/ - Models-rI83lmHlohc&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/MRT13/ - Model-Driven Engineering By Example (MDEBE) http://www.mdebe.com/ - Model-Driven Engineering for High Performance and CLoud computing (MDHPCL) http://www.irit.fr/MDHPCL2013/ - Analysis of Model Transformation (AMT) http://msdl.cs.mcgill.ca/conferences/AMT/ - Globalization of Modeling Languages (GeMOC) http://gemoc.org/gemoc2013/ - Non-functional System Properties in Modeling - Analysis, Languages, and Processes (NiM - ALP) http://ios.researchstudio.at/de/5th-international-workshop-non-functional-properties-modeling - OCL, Model Constraint and Query Languages http://ocl2013.inf.mit.bme.hu/ - Models and Evolution (ME) http://www.models-and-evolution.com/ - Multi-Paradigm Modeling (MPM) http://msdl.cs.mcgill.ca/conferences/MPM/ - Modeling Outside the Box (MOB) http://cserg0.site.uottawa.ca/modelingoutsidethebox2013/ - Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling (EESSMOD) http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/eessmod13/ - Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation Integrating Verification and Validation in MDE (MoDeVVA) http://wwwdi.supelec.fr/modevva/ - Fourth International Workshop on Comparing Modeling Approaches (CMA) http://cserg0.site.uottawa.ca/cma2013models/ - Semantic Information Federation (SIMF) http://www.informationfederation.org/ - Domain-Specific Languages for Financial Systems (DSLFin) http://www.dslfin.org/ The workshops will provide a collaborative forum to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, and coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. The workshops are also intended to be a forum for lively discussion of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience concerning topics within the scope of the MODELS conference. For further submission details see http://modelsconference.org/workshops.html ==== Important Dates ==== 15 July 2013 Workshop Paper Submission Deadline 23 August 2013 Workshop Paper Notification to Authors 29 Sept - 1 Oct 2013 Workshops ==== Proceedings ==== Workshop papers will be published in a post-conference edition of CEUR and indexed by DBLP. ========================================================= *** Call for Other Contributions to MODELS 2013 Events *** Deadline: 15 July 2013 - Demos: http://modelsconference.org/call-demonstrations.html - Posters: http://modelsconference.org/call-posters.html - Doctoral Symposium: http://modelsconference.org/call-docsymp.html - Educators Symposium: http://modelsconference.org/call-edusymp.html - ACM Student Research Competition: http://modelsconference.org/call-acmsrc.html Papers and extended abstracts will be published in a post-conference edition of CEUR and indexed by DBLP. ========================================================= *** Invitation to TUTORIALS *** See http://modelsconference.org/tutorials.html We are very pleased to announce the following tutorials: - Applying Model-Driven Engineering Technologies in the Creation of Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (Bruce Trask and Angel Roman) - Model Finding and Its Applications (Lionel Briand, Rolf Drechsler, and Mathias Soeken) - Understanding Complex Changes and Improving the Quality of UML and Domain-Specific Models (Thorsten Arendt, Timo Kehrer, and Gabriele Taentzer) - Empirical Research in Model Based Software Engineering (Michel Chaudron, Marcela Genero, Silvia Abrahao, Jon Whittle, Lars Pareto) - The Theory and Practice of Modeling Language Design (Bran Selic) - Implementing a DSL with the Intentional Domain Workbench (Shane Clifford and Mats Helander) - Feature Model Management: Smart Operations and Language Support (Philippe Collet, Philippe Lahire, Mathieu Acher, and Robert France) - Modeling Software Structures with GrammarLab (Vadim Zaytsev) - DSL Engineering (Markus Voelter) - UML Testing Profile - A Language for Model-based Testing (Marc-Florian Wendland, and Ina Schieferdecker) ========================================================= *** Invitation to the Main Conference *** Keynotes: --------- We are very pleased to announce the following keynotes: (see http://www.modelsconference.org/keynotes.html for details) - Charles Simonyi: The Magic of Software - Constance Heitmeyer: Model-Based Development of Software Systems: A Panacea or Academic Poppycock - Bernd Brügge: Creativity vs Rigor: Informal Modeling is OK Conference Program: ------------------- The program of the main conference is now available at: http://www.modelsconference.org/technical.html ----------------------------------------------------------- For information on registration, please visit http://www.modelsconference.org/registration.html ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. 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To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Martina Seidl 2013-06-19T04:39:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40557 <pre>**************************************************************************************************** * * IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2014) * http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2014/ * March 11-14, 2014, Boston, USA * **************************************************************************************************** [Highlights] * IC2E is a high-quality, comprehensive forum whose scope spans the entire cloud stack, and that offers an end-to-end perspective on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing. * IC2E 2014 will include a technical program, an industry track, a doctoral symposium, a cloud summit, workshops, and tutorials. * Selected papers of IC2E 2014 will be recommended for publication in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. [Important dates] Abstract submission: September 14, 2013 Paper submission: September 21, 2013 Acceptance notification: December 13, 2013 Camera-ready copies due: January 17, 2014 Author registration: January 17, 2014 Early bird registration: February 7, 2014 [CALL FOR PAPERS] Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm for the use and delivery of information technology (IT), and is revolutionizing the support of on-demand access, economies of scale and dynamic sourcing options. In the cloud context, a wide range of IT resources and capabilities, including servers, networking, storage, middleware, data, security, applications, and business processes, are available as services enabled for rapid provisioning, flexible pricing, elastic scaling and resilience. These new forms of IT services are challenging onventional wisdom and practices.To fully reap the benefits of the cloud service model requires holistic treatment of key technical and business issues, and engineering methodology that draws upon innovations in diverse areas of computer science and business inf ormatics. The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) seeks to provide a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners involved in the development of cloud infrastructure and applications can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences as related to cloud computing. By bringing together experts that work on different levels of the cloud stack - systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications, IC2E offers an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, fosters research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately helps shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in both research contributions and industrial experiences in any of the areas associated with cloud architectures, services, development, and operations. Technical papers that take a broad systems perspective and identify how the work fits to an overall solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Platform as a service (PaaS) Database as a service (DaaS) Software as a service (SaaS) Network as a service (NaaS) Business process as a service (BPaaS) Security as a service Storage as a service Information as a service Big data management and analytics Virtualization technology Performance, dependability and service level agreements Cloud security, privacy, and compliance management Workload deployment and migration Energy management in cloud centers Cloud programming models and tools Hybrid cloud integration Service lifecycle management Service management automation Metering, pricing, and software licensing [Paper Submission] Submissions to the technical program should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). The length of a paper must not exceed 10 pages. After review, some submissions may be offered a short paper of up to 6 pages; also, authors may select the short paper option on submission. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper electronically at HotCRP: http://london.csl.toronto.edu/IC2E14/submission/. All papers selected for this conference are peer-reviewed and will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. The best papers presented in the conference will be selected for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). A call for papers for the industry Track and for the doctoral symposium will be issued separately. [Organizing Committee] Program Committee Co-chairs Jean Bacon University of Cambridge Baochun Li University of Toronto Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo Industry Track Chair: Dilma Da Silva Qualcomm Research Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs: Roy Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rodrigo Fonseca Brown University [Program Committee] Jonathan Appavoo Boston University Roger Barga Microsoft Research Sara Bouchenak University of Grenoble Roy Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University Gregory Chockler Royal Holloway University of London Yeh-Ching Chung National Tsing Hua University Paolo Costa Microsoft Reseach Cambridge David Eyers University of Otago Yuan Feng Hong Kong Polytechnic University Geoffrey Fox Indiana University Xiaohui Gu North Carolina State University Indranil Gupta University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Robert Hsu Chung Hua University Hai Jin Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology Erwin Laure KTH University of Technology Veena Mendiratta Alcatel-Lucent Derek Murray Microsoft Research Priya Narasimhan Carnegie Mellon University Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Beng Chin Ooi National University of Singapore Guillaume Pierre IRISA / University of Rennes Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London Donald Porter Stony Brook University Berthold Reinwald IBM Almaden Research Center Brian Shand UK National Health Service Jatinder Singh University of Cambridge Stefan Tai Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Kian-Lee Tan National University of Singapore Florian Waas EMC/Greenplum Jon Weissman University of Minnesota Daniel Williams IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Jeffrey Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong Xiaofang Zhou University of Queensland _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Zhenjie Zhang 2013-06-19T01:59:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40556 <pre>We are pleased to update colleagues that the NSF and the Office of Financial Research, Department of the Treasury have announced the CIFRAM (Computational and Information Processing Approaches to, and Infrastructure in support of, Financial Research and Analysis and Management) program. Details about this program can be found in the "Dear Colleague Letter: OFR-NSF Partnership in Support of Research Collaborations in Finance Informatics" at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13093/nsf13093.jsp This program was partly inspired by contributions from this community into the reports of these two NSF workshops in 2010 and 2012. http://www.nsf-fiw.umiacs.umd.edu/docs/FIWreport-FINAL.pdf https://wiki.umiacs.umd.edu/clip/ngfci/images/b/ba/NSF-NextGen.pdf Best regards, Mark Flood, Office of Financial Research H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan Albert 'Pete' Kyle, University of Maryland Joe Langsam, University of Maryland Michelle Lui, University of Maryland Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Louiqa Raschid 2013-06-18T19:54:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40555 <pre>The June, 2013 issue of the Data Engineering Bulletin is now available electronically via the IEEE Computer Society Bulletin web site http://tab.computer.org/tcde/bull_about.html. Paul Larson served as editor for this issue, which is on "Main-Memory Database Systems ” The ISSUES pages are maintained both at the IEEE Computer Society (http://sites.computer.org/debull/bull_issues.html ) and at Microsoft (ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/debull/bull_issues.html ).   David Lomet _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> David Lomet 2013-06-18T17:10:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40554 <pre>Apologies for cross-posting. 2nd Intl Workshop on Non-Conventional Data-Access (NoCoDA) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/nocoda13/ NoCoDA is a CIKM 2013 workshop! Aim and Scope ------------- As more and more information becomes available to a growing multitude of people, the ways of accesssing data are rapidly evolving as they must take into consideration, on one front, the kind of data available today and, on the other front, a new population of prospective users. As an example of the first front, data is scattered among very diverse sources and need to be retrieved, transformed and merged to provide valuable information, while search queries on semi- or totally un-structured data impose novel modelling and access approaches. On the second front, ranked solutions to keyword-based searches is emerging as the standard paradigm for querying data repositories, while recommendation applications tend even to anticipate user needs by automatically suggesting the information which is most appropriate to the preferences of the users and to the current situation. In addition, the availability of semantic information is increasingly exploited to better understand user intentions. This need on two opposite fronts has already originated a steadily growing set of proposals of non-conventional ways to access data while inheriting, where possible, the formidable equipment of methods, techniques and methodologies that have been produced in the database field during the last forty years. These new proposals embrace the new challenges, suggesting fresh approaches to data access that rethink fundamentally the traditional information access methods in which SQL queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database. This workshop welcomes contributions on the conceptual and semantic aspects of non-conventional methods for data access and on their practical application to modern data and knowledge management. Topics of Interest ------------------ Addressing the above challenges requires understanding the conceptual and formal aspects of non-conventional data-access as well as the practical aspects of its application in real-world scenarios. Relevant topics of the proposed workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Context-aware data access * Preference queries * Personalized data access * Keyword-search over databases * Provenance-aware data access * Ontology-based data access * Database summarization * Query relaxation * Approximate query-answering * Probabilistic querying * Schema-agnostic data access * Query annotation * Question answering * Natural language querying * Mobile and pervasive data access * Query Mediators * Push-based data delivery * Privacy-preserving data access Organizing Committee &amp; Workshop Co-chairs ----------------------------------------- Giorgio Orsi (The University of Oxford) Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano) Riccardo Torlone (Università di Roma Tre) Program Committee ----------------- Anastasios Arvanitis (USA) Leopoldo Bertossi (Canada) Francois Bry (Germany) Andrea Calì (UK) Diego Calvanese (Italy) Bogdan Cautis (France) Paolo Ciaccia (Italy) Amol Deshpande (USA) George Fletcher (The Netherlands) Francesco Guerra (Italy) Christian Jensen (Denmark) Georgia Koutrika (USA) Georg Lausen (Germany) Marco Manna (Italy) Ioana Manolescu (France) Davide Martinenghi (Italy) Dan Olteanu (UK) Jan Paredaens (Belgium) Andreas Pieris (UK) Evaggelia Pitoura (Greece) Sudha Ram (USA) Mike Rosner (Malta) Timos Sellis (Australia) Kostas Stefanidis (Greece) Stijn Vansummeren (Belgium) Paper Submission ---------------- We invite submissions of research papers addressing one (or more) of the workshop topics as well as technical communications summarising previous research relevant to the workshop or providing visionary future contributions in these areas. The page limit for research papers is 10 pages while technical communications are limited to 6 pages. Both kinds of contributions must be formatted according to the ACM Conference format available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Research papers must be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Manuscripts not submitted in the ACM conference style or having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. Papers should be submitted through EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nocoda13 Publication ----------- Accepted workshop papers will be published in the CIKM workshop proceedings, which will be printed on CD only and indexed in the ACM Digital Library, together with the main CIKM 2013 proceedings. We are planning to organize a special issue at a high-quality journal on the field with invited extended versions of selected papers. Important dates --------------- * Paper submission: June, 21st 2013 * Author notification: July, 22nd 2013 * Camera-ready papers: August, 9th 2013 * Workshop: November, 1st 2013 Contacts -------- General enquiries: nocoda13-bC77Qfv0vuxrovVCs/uTlw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Deadline and submissions: torlone-EXAQajasbhS+va1DMGovuA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Workshop organization: tanca-PABsLib4K1h2gtSFtTw2zA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Website: giorgio.orsi-6XCrzUfQPq310XsdtD+oqA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Giorgio Orsi 2013-06-18T17:09:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40553 <pre>========================================================== C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2013) in Conjunction with The 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications &amp; Services (iiWAS2013) 2 - 4 December 2013 Vienna, Austria http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2013/ email: momm2013-ntiYaa+jS8jYtjvyW6yDsg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org **** IMPORTANT DATES ***** 15 July 2013: Full Papers (10 pages), Short papers, Demos and work in progress (4 pages) 22 September 2013: Acceptance Notification 10 October 2013: Camera-Ready Papers and Authors Registration 02–04 December 2013: Conference Dates ***** Publication ***** ALL accepted MoMM2013 papers will be published by ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and the supplemental proceedings and indexed appropriately in all major indexes. Selected high-quality papers will be invited to be published, after revision and extension, in special issues of international journals and in a book in the Book Series: Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence published by Springer. **** Scope ***** A vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, instant messaging, social networks, mobile payment and transactions, mobile video conferencing, or video and audio streaming has already shaped the expectations towards current mobile devices, infrastructure, and services. Within the last five years, mobile multimedia has become the accepted standard, driven by developments in end-user devices, radio networks, and backend services. However, many open research questions remain, from limited battery life to heterogeneous data types, increases in quality of service, context-aware adaptation to the environment, or the ever-present security and privacy issues. MoMM2013 is the 11th in the series of the highly successful International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia. Recently, MoMM has been held in Bali (2012), Ho Chi Minh City (2011), Paris (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2009), and Linz (2008). This year, Vienna will host MoMM2013. The MoMM conference series has provided opportunities to researchers, graduate students, and industry practitioners to address recent research results and current industry practices in the area of mobile computing and multimedia. We invite three types of submissions: Full Technical Papers, Short Position Papers, and Demonstrations. A Full Paper should provide solid conceptual and theoretical foundation and substantial support for its results and conclusions as a significant contribution to the field. A Position Paper is not expected to be theoretically or empirically thorough, but represents an earlier stage of work. Examples are demonstration or prototype work, preliminary user studies, or work in progress, i.e. a report on the latest emerging ideas, approaches, methodologies, systems and application scenarios. A demonstration is intended to showcase novel concepts and innovative technologies which are at advanced stage and have already been implemented in working prototype systems. The informal setting of the demonstration session encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about presented work, while the accompanying short paper should describe the scientific aspects, concepts,! or methods driving the hands-on demonstration. Accepted papers and demonstrations from the three categories will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. ***** Topics ***** Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Mobile Platforms Track - Mobile software architectures, systems, and platforms - Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing - Mobile network traffic engineering, performance, and optimization - Wireless and mobile network management and service infrastructure - Wireless communication technologies (GSM/UMTS, WiMAX, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) - Mobility and location management - Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks - Distributed systems aspects of mobile computing - Localization and tracking - Transaction processing in mobile environments - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless protocols - Security of mobile end-user devices - Energy efficiency in mobile systems - Approaches, and technologies for dealing with big data in mobile computing - Integration of cloud computing and mobile computing - Mobile services usage data analysis and pattern recognition - Regulatory, societal, legal, and ethical issues of mobile computing 2. Mobile Interaction Track - Mobile applications and services - Mobile computing markets and business models - Provisioning of mobile services - Personalization and context awareness in mobile computing - Location based services - Security and privacy of social network services - Mobile visualization for big data - Rapid prototyping of mobile applications - Mobile user interfaces and interaction techniques - Evaluation and usability of mobile devices and services - Mobile services for older adults with diverse capabilities 3. Mobile Multimedia Track - Mobile multimedia streaming and services - Mobile multimedia coding and encryption - Mobile multimedia for learning - Interfaces for multimedia creation - Media fusion for communication and presentation - Distributed mobile multimedia systems - Audio and video analysis, modeling, processing and transformation - Image analysis, modeling, and recognition - Augmented reality on mobile devices - Communication and cooperation through mobile multimedia - Enabling infrastructures for mobile multimedia - Scalable multimedia big data management **** Submission Guidelines **** Papers and demonstration descriptions must be submitted electronically in PDF through the conference website. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings. Submitted demonstrations should convey a scientific result and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. Submitted papers and demonstrations will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers and demonstration descriptions will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM. Format requirements for submissions of papers and demonstrations are: - Maximum 10 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Full Technical papers. - Maximum 4 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Short Position Papers. - A video clip (for review purpose only) and a description of maximum 4 pages for the demonstration. The description should outline the underlying novel concepts, methods and/or approaches, and details about implementation, deployment, testing, and evaluation and user uptake. - All submissions should be formatted according to ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) - Submissions must be entered into the Submission System (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=momm2013) **** Awards **** MoMM2013 best paper awards and best student paper awards will be selected based on novelty, significance, and the presentation at the conference. Best student paper awards can only be awarded to papers on which students are first authors. **** Past Conferences **** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences.htm ACM Digital library: http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE130 DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/momm/ **** PC Members ***** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2013/ *** Contact: PC Chairs ***** Rene Mayrhofer University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, AT Email: rene.mayrhofer-KHkXbKk7S56uQSZpjJ3gJA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Liming (Luke) Chen University of Ulster, UK Email: l.chen-X0TtZdlT4kGFxr2TtlUqVg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Ismail Khalil 2013-06-18T16:55:57 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.db.dbworld