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/34495 <pre>------ Sorry for cross-postings -------- International Create Challenge (ICC'2012) - Call for participation open !! Turn your idea into a start-up !! http://www.createchallenge.org September 1 - 21, 2012 Martigny, Switzerland Description and Objectives --------------------------- The goal of the 2012 International Create Challenge (ICC'2012) is to foster the creation of start-ups within the framework of Human &amp; Media Computing. ICC'2012 is an initiative supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2, www.im2.ch), via its association (AIM2), and the Idiap Research Institute (Idiap, www.idiap.ch). ICC'2012 is a free of charge 3-week immersive technology transfer accelerator program giving entrepreneurs the unique opportunity to develop their original idea towards a "Minimum Viable Product" (e.g., demonstrator, product prototype) in collaboration with groups of entrepreneurs and researchers. ICC'2012 combines the availability of state-of-the-art technologies, cutting edge research, mentor-led coaching, and micro-seed investment. The winning team(s) will share global award amounting to more than 200'000 CHF. ICC'2012 can accommodate up to 30 participants, ideally split into teams of 2 to 4 people. Application ----------- By opening this call for participation, AIM2 and Idiap seek to attract highly motivated "entrepreneurs" to create or join a team, develop their original idea towards a "Minimum Viable Product", eventually resulting in the creation of a company. Participants can apply as the representative of a group (to be briefly described) or as individuals interested in joining an initiative. The call is split into two successive competitive steps, more information available here. • http://www.createchallenge.org/submission/call-for-participation.pdf • http://www.createchallenge.org/submission/terms-and-conditions.pdf • http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&amp;gid=4386640 Important dates --------------- • Step 1 deadline: 30 May 2012 (11:59pm CET) • Step 1 notification of decision: 8 June 2012 • Step 2 deadline: 15 July 2012 (11:59pm CET) • Step 2 notification of decision: 30 July 2012 • Start of the ICC'2012: 1 September 2012 for a duration of 3 weeks (end 21 September). • Closing ceremony, award announcement and press conference: 21 September Acknowledgment -------------- The organizers would be very grateful if you had the kindness to advertise ICC'2012 through your own network. Thank you in advance for your cooperation Francois Foglia Adjunct to the Director Idiap Research Institute Centre du Parc Rue Marconi 19 P.O. Box 592 1920 Martigny, Switzerland Tel.: +41 27 721 77 50 Fax : +41 27 721 77 12 http://www.idiap.ch http://www.im2.ch http://www.createchallenge.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> Francois Foglia 2012-05-24T06:59:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34494 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS'12) 11-12 October 2012, Trivandrum, India http://www.snds-conference.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------- The International Conference on Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS'12) aims to provide the most relevant opportunity to bring together students, researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to present their research results and development activities in the field of security in computer networks and distributed systems. The technical program of the conference will include tutorials, regular technical sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos and plenary/keynote speeches. The Conference Proceedings will be published by a reputed international publisher and all the papers of the proceedings will be submitted to major database indexers for indexing. SNDS'12 is technically sponsored by IEEE Kerala Section and Computer Society of India. The conference is hosted by Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), Trivandrum, India. SNDS invites submissions containing original ideas that are relevant to the scope of the conference. Authors should submit their papers online. We use EDAS system for submission of papers and review process. The manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format.All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. Acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors by email. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science Series(CCIS), ISSN: 1865:0929. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in ISI Proceedings, Scopus, EI and DBLP. The Proceedings will also be included in the CCIS electronic book series hosted in the SpringerLink digital library. We welcome submissions for SNDS-2012's Technical Program for the following tracks: Track 1: Cryptosystems, Algorithms, Primitives Track 2: Security and Privacy in Networked Systems Track 3: System and Network Security Track 4: Multimedia Security Track 5: Security Modeling, Experiments, Simulation, and Tools Track 6: Other Emerging Areas on Security Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in the following Journals: International Journal of Trust Management in Computing and Communications (IJTMCC), ISSN (Online): 2048-8386 - ISSN (Print): 2048-8378, Inder Science Publishers, Switzerland International Journal of Computers &amp; Electrical Engineering (ISSN: 0045-7906), ELSEVIER Key Dates ------------ Full Paper Submission Ends: June 20, 2012 Acceptance Notification:22 July 2012 Final paper Deadline: July 30, 2012 Author Registration Closes: July 30, 2012 Conference: October 11-12, 2012 Contact Us ------------ Email: snds2012.iiitmk-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Technical Programme Committee ------------------------------------ Honorary Chair ---------------------- Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee ---------------------- Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA (Chair) Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo, USA Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA M. Ponnavaikko, Executive Vice Chair, IEEE India Council Satish Babu, President-Computer Society of India, ICFOSS, India Deepak Garg,Chair, IEEE Computer Society Chapter, IEEE India Council John F. Buford, Avaya Labs Research, USA Subir Biswas, Michigan State University, USA K. Chandra Sekaran, NITK, India El-Sayed El-Alfy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK Xavier Fernando, Ryerson University, Canada Mohan S Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lisimachos Kondi, University of Ioannina, Greece Sabu Emmanuel, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Michele Pagano, University of Pisa, Italy Debabrata Das, IIIT-B, India Binod Vaidya, University of Ottawa, Canada Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Pradeep Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France General Chairs ------------------------- Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo, USA Sudip Misra, (Editor-in-Chief, IJCNDS),IIT-Kharagpur, India Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales, Australia Program Chairs ---------------------------- Thorsten Strufe, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, HP Laboratories, UK Raj Sharman, University at Buffalo, USA Conference Chair ------------------------ Sabu M Thampi, IIITM-K, India Workshop and Special Session Chairs -------------------------------------------------- Tony Thomas, IIITM-K, India Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Tutorial Chairs -------------------------- Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm Research Center, USA Punam Bedi, University of Delhi, India Poster/Demo Chair -------------------------------- Ryan Ko, Cloud and Security Lab, HP Laboratories, Singapore International Programme Committee ------------------------------------ http://www.snds-conference.org/ipc.html Organising Committee (IIITM-K) ---------------------------------- http://www.snds-conference.org/oc.html _______________________________________________ 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> Sabu M Thampi 2012-05-24T02:52:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34493 <pre>CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposal Submissions Deadline: &lt;29 June 2012&gt; Quality Innovation: Knowledge, Theory and Practices A book edited by: Latif Al-Hakim, University of Southern Queensland, AUSTRALIA Chen Jin, Zhenjiang University, CHINA Innovation, by definition, means the first introduction of new idea, product, process, or system. Innovation has a crucial role in achieving competitive advantage. Yet, unless the end-users accept that the innovation has value for them, the innovation has no long-term advantage for the adopted organisation. Quality innovation refers to the exploitation of innovation which satisfies the wide-range of end-users within a society. End-users perception, and ultimately the society or stakeholders’ perception, is the heart of the definition of quality innovation as an outcome. As a process, quality innovation focuses on the mechanism by which knowledge in organisations and knowledge creation are oriented towards achieving the stakeholders’ perception. Internet and social networks have an important role to play in highlighting the gap between the current and desired level of innovation and in pushing governments and organisations towards adopting quality innovation. The traditio! nal business processes have evolved into ever-richer functional areas such as recyclability, environmentally friendly globalisation and sustainability. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK Theories and methodologies are no longer enough for achieving their purpose without the ability to convert these theories and methodology into practice. “Ability to convert” is what organisations require. Such ability can be considerably enhanced by providing real case studies and applications. This book aims to group, in one volume, recent theoretical frameworks, case studies, and latest empirical research findings in the area of quality innovation. It covers ten major challenges in quality innovation: theory, measurement, diffusion, strategy, costs, tools, models, applications, benchmarking, and future trends. Quality Innovation: Knowledge, Theory and Practices will provide a compendium of terms, definitions and explanations of concepts, processes, acronyms and methods. Additionally, this book will feature chapters (6,000-12,500 words) of recent high-quality studies related to the theory, development, implementation, operation, and sustainability of quality innovation in organisations. This book will provide a valuable contribution as it will highlight innovative applications of quality innovation in organisations, and furthermore provide practical and theoretical discussion of factors which contribute to success and failure of quality innovation. Quality Innovation: Knowledge, Theory and Practices will be a valuable resource for wide range of researchers in various fields, business managers, and postgraduate students who are interested in empirical research, and/or evaluative studies of innovation in organisations. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: The recommended general topics includes but not limited to the following: Quality innovation; strategy, policies and standards Quality innovation; theory, diffusion, modelling and methodologies Cost/benefit analysis of quality innovation Applications, case studies and empirical studies Infrastructure for innovation Motivation for quality innovation Measurement of innovation Quality innovation and competitiveness Innovation and quality growth Knowledge-based innovation Knowledge sharing and quality innovation. Social networks and innovation Globalisation of innovation Collaboration in the era of Internet and quality innovation The role of multinational enterprises for promoting quality innovation. The role of governments for promoting quality innovation. New product development for quality innovation Benchmarking studies Future directions SUGGESTED SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before &lt;29 June 2012&gt;, a 1-2 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposal will be notified by &lt;20 July 2012&gt; about the status of their proposal and be received chapter organisational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by &lt;30 September 2012&gt;. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the “CyberTech Publishing,” “Idea Group Publishing,” “Idea Group Reference,” “Information Science Publishing,” and “IRM Press” imprints in 2013. Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (word document) or by mail to any editor: Dr Latif Al-Hakim Chair, Supply Chain Management Program Faculty of Business and Law University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350 AUSTRALIA hakim-5vneWE2wkdsQrrorzV6ljw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Professor Chen Jin Director, Research Centre for Innovation &amp; Development School of Management Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310056 P. R. CHINA chenjin-Y5EWUtBUdg4nDS1+zs4M5A&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> Latif Al-Hakim 2012-05-23T23:52:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34492 <pre>----------------------------------- CT2CM 2012 - Call for Participation ----------------------------------- Collaborative Technology for Coordinating Crisis Management (CT2CM, http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/wikka.php?wakka=CT2CM2012%20) Toulouse, France June 25th to 27th 2012 within the 21th IEEE International Conference Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (WETICE 2012, http://conf.laas.fr/wetice2012/). Accepted Papers LONG PAPERS - Martin Wirz, Tobias Franke, Daniel Roggen, Eve Mitleton-Kelly, Paul Lukowicz and Gerhard Tröster. Inferring and visualizing crowd conditions by collecting GPS location traces from pedestrians' mobile phones for real-time crowd monitoring during city-scale mass gatherings - Daniela Pohl, Abdelhamid Bouchachia and Hermann Hellwagner. Supporting Crisis Management via Sub-Event Detection in Social Networks - Gertraud Peinel, Thomas Rose and Alexander Wollert. Smart Checklists for Collaborative Crises Management Planning - Ines Di Loreto, Monica Divitini and Simone Mora. Collaborative serious games for crisis management: an overview - Lisa Wood, Bernard Van Veelen, Sander Van Splunter and Monika Buscher. Agile Response and Collaborative Agile Workflows - Babiga Birregah, Tony Top, Charles Perez, Eric Châtelet, Nada Matta, Marc Lemercier and Hichem Snoussi. Multi-layer crisis mapping: a social media based approach - Imene Lahyani, Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez and Mohamed Jmaiel. Towards self healing publish/subscribe system on MANET SHORT PAPERS - Nada Matta, Sophie Loriette, Mohamed Sediri, Jean Marc Nigro, Yann Barloy, Jean Pierre Cahier and Alain Hugerot. Representing experience on Road accident Management - Ladislav Novák and Mária Luskova. Statistical methods for industrial processes risk assessment - Sakkaravarthi Ramanathan, Christophe Chassot, Thierry Desprats, Michelle Sibilla and Jean-Paul Arcangeli. Adaptive Communication Agent for Crisis Management System - Houda Benali, Narjès Bellamine Ben-Saoud and Mohamed Ben Ahmed. Toward building an Emergency Management System-of-Systems on the Fly - Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Yann Chevaleyre and Jean Daniel Zucker. Optimizing Sign Placements for Crowd Evacuation on Road Network in case of Tsunami Alert Track co-chairs •François Charoy, University of Nancy 1, France •Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse 1, France •Serge Stinckwich, UMI 209 UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC/MSI-IFI), Vietnam Program committee •Pedro Antunes, University of Lisboa, Portugal •Narjes Bellamine-Ben Saoud, ENSI, Tunisia •Ghassan Beydoun, University of New South Wales, Australia •Maroua Bouzid, Université de Caen Basse Normandie, France •Monica Bûscher, Lancaster university, United Kingdom •Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and technology, Norway •Julie Dugdale, Université Pierre Mendès France, France •Frank Fiedrich, Public Safety and Emergency Management, Wuppertal University, Germany •Hiromitsu Hattori, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan •Marouane Kessentini, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA •Lydia Kraus, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia •Jozef Ristvej, University of Zilina, Slovakia •Pascal Salembier, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France •Rui Jorge Tramontin Jr., Santa Catarina State University, Brasil •Bartel Van de Walle, Tilburg University, Netherlands •Gerhard Wickler, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, Scotland _______________________________________________ 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> Chihab hanachi 2012-05-23T21:48:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34491 <pre>** CALL FOR PAPERS ** 8th Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2012) http://laweb2012.unab.edu.co/ Cartagena, Colombia, Oct 25th - 27th, 2012 Papers deadline: EXTENDED May 27, 2012 LA-Web 2012 is the eight of a series of refereed international conferences aimed at providing a venue in Latin America for researchers and technologists from around the world to present, demonstrate and discuss the latest Web developments. LA-WEB 2012 is endorsed by the IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee and its proceedings will be published by the IEEE. This year, the first day of LA-WEB will hold joint-sessions with SPIRE 2012. We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in all areas of web research including, but not limited to the following areas: - Web data mining, search, and analytics - Multimedia, and digital libraries - Social media, collaboration, and web communities - Visualization, interaction, and user interfaces - Web engineering, performance, reliability and scalability - Usability, accessibility, and emerging regions - Security, privacy, and rights management - Semantic web, XML, and cloud services - Spam characterization, detection and filtering - E-commerce, E-Science, and E-government - E-Learning and rural computing Papers should describe original, unpublished, high quality research, properly placing the work in the context of the state of the art, and clearly indicating the work's innovative aspects and contributions to the field. Authors may submit full papers (up to 8 pages), or short papers (up to 4 pages). LA-WEB offers a great venue to show exciting new work that is mature (full papers) and work that is at an early stage and can benefit from discussion with colleagues (short papers). All submissions will be evaluated on the basis if originality, quality, and technical contribution. All accepted papers will by published by the IEEE and be included in the Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers must register for and attend the conference. Submissions specifically focused on developing regions are highly encouraged. LA-Web 2012 will take place Cartagena, Colombia. Cartagena is considered the most important tourist destination in Colombia. In 1984, Cartagena's colonial walled city and fortress were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city encapsulates all of the charm of Spanish colonial architecture of the republic period, and today its main attractions include intense nightlife, cultural festivals, exotic scenery, superb beaches, delicious food, a wide offer of hotels and an excellent tourist infrastructure. Cartagena is well connected with daily flights from different national and international destinations. October 25th will be held as a joint session on Web retrieval with the 19th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2012). ** ORGANIZERS ** General Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Program Committee Chairs: Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Research, Spain) and Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany) Local Chairs: Liliana Calderon-Benavides and Cristina Gonzalez-Caro (UNAB, Colombia) _______________________________________________ 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> ALEJANDRO JAIMES 2012-05-23T21:32:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34490 <pre>PhD position available at the e-commerce group within the Doctoral College "Adaptive Distributed Systems" The Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) is offering PhD student positions within the doctoral program "Adaptive Distributed Systems", which will be launched in Fall 2012. Each PhD student position is funded for three years (15 hours per week regular employment contract with full social benefits). The yearly salary is 13.293 Euros before taxes. Depending on potential co-funding via associated projects, the employment may be raised to a 40 hours per week contract. Students from any country may apply. The program is jointly organized by the faculties of Informatics, Mathematics and Geoinformation, reflecting the interdisciplinary character of distributed systems. The research topic related to the e-commerce group (Prof. Werthner) is: - Network Analysis and Web Science - Recommender Systems Prerequisites for a successful application are an MSc or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics or related fields, and an excellent record of study. Students must have a solid knowledge in computer science. Knowledge in one or more research topics targeted by the program is desired. Students may apply while still studying in their master«s program. However, the master«s program must be finished in order to commence the doctoral program. Applications are solicited starting immediately until the position is filled, but no longer than March 15, 2013. The next selection meeting will be held on June 28, 2012, considering applications which are received until June 21, 2012 midnight. Applications which are received after June 21, 2012 will be considered in the next upcoming selection meeting. The exact dates for future selection meetings will be announced on the website of the doctoral program. Further information about the program and the application procedure is available at http://www.big.tuwien.ac.at/adaptive. For detailed information on how to apply please see http://www.big.tuwien.ac.at/adaptive/admission.html. Contacts Dr. Philipp Liegl Business Informatics Group Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188 _______________________________________________ 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> Julia Neidhardt 2012-05-23T21:13:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34489 <pre>The workshop on "SERVICE CLOUDS: Social computing for enterprise applications" serves as a forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers as well as practitioners and students interested in addressing problems in the emerging area of service clouds with a particular emphasis on social interaction. Many research topics are emerging in this theme including gamification to motivate domain experts to actively participate in designing, deploying, executing, and optimizing business processes, collaboration and visualization tools to facilitate efficient and effective cross-organizational interactions, crowdsourcing to outsource human tasks in business processes, and competency management to ensure the right worker with the right competency is available in the right position at the right time. The workshop will further provide an opportunity to bridge academia and industry in order to connect business needs with research efforts and apply research achievements into real-world practice. ServiceClouds workshop is in conjunction with ICSOC 2012 at Shanghai China Nov 12~16 2012. The general focus of this workshop includes but is not limited to: * Gamification methods and techniques and their usage in real world scenarios * Collaboration tools and techniques * Crowdsourcing techniques and applications * Worker recommendation, reputation management, and fraud detection * Social relationships analysis among participants in business processes * Impact of social relationships on the quality of business processes * Visualization tools and techniques that facilitate human interaction * Trust, privacy and security management in cross-organizational interactions Important dates: Submission deadline: Jul. 31, 2012 Notificaiton deadline: Sep. 15, 2012 Camera ready paper &amp; copyright: Oct. 1, 2012 The workshop papers will be published in Springer LNCS as post conference proceedings. Workshop chairs: Hua Liu Xerox Research Center at Webster, Xerox Email: Hua.Liu AT Xerox.com Munindar R. Singh Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University Email: singh AT ncsu.edu For more information, please visit the workshop website: http://chester.xerox.com/~xcwu/serviceclouds. _______________________________________________ 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> Hua Liu 2012-05-23T19:34:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34488 <pre>Call for papers: CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: May 30, 2012 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; or International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacyremaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally fri! endly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¡¤ Architectural cloud models ¡¤ Programming cloud models ¡¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¡¤ Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud ¡¤ Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud ¡¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud ¡¤ Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud ¡¤ Big Data mining and analytics ¡¤ Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud ¡¤ Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud ¡¤ MapReduce for Big Data processing ¡¤ Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud ¡¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing ¡¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¡¤ Access control to cloud computing ¡¤ Resource virtualisation ¡¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¡¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¡¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¡¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¡¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¡¤ Cloud use case studies ¡¤ Fundamentals of green computing ¡¤ Energy aware software, hardware and middleware ¡¤ Energy efficient IT architecture ¡¤ Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation ¡¤ Energy efficient clustering and computing ¡¤ Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation ¡¤ Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design ¡¤ Energy efficient networking and operation ¡¤ Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture ¡¤ Intelligent energy management ¡¤ Green data centers ¡¤ Energy aware resource usage and consumption ¡¤ Smart power grid and virtual power stations ¡¤ Energy policy, social behaviour and government management ¡¤ Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting ¡¤ Low power electronics and energy recycling ¡¤ Green computing case studies ¡¤ Energy efficient Internet of Things ¡¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¡¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¡¤ Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; or International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Brezany, University of Vienna , Austria Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Ivona Brandic,Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Wangchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Panel Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universtiy, China Local Organising Committee Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Wangchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Xinjun Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Keli Li, Hunan University, China Finance Chairs Buqing Cao, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Puyang Yu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Conference Secretary and Web Chair Yiping Wen, Central South University, China Guosheng Kang, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China _______________________________________________ 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> Jinjun Chen 2012-05-23T17:16:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34487 <pre>CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission Deadline Extended The Fourth International Conference on Emerging Databases - Technologies, Applications, and Theory (EDB2012) (http://dke.khu.ac.kr/EDB2012) Stanford Hotel, Seoul, Korea August 23rd - 25th, 2012 Goals: The International Conference on Emerging Databases is an annual forum for exploring technologies, novel applications, and research of emerging database fields. Using this forum, researchers and practitioners can exchange current issues, challenges, new technologies, and practical experiences. The fourth International Conference on Emerging Databases - Technologies, Applications, and Theory (EDB2012) will be held at the Stanford Hotel, Seoul, Korea. The EDB2012 is organized by the KIISE (Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers) Database Society of Korea. Authors are invited to submit original and research papers addressing technical issues, solutions, and technologies in emerging database fields. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. The topics of interest for EDB2012 include (but are not limited to): - Advanced database applications- Databases for bioinformatics - Data mining/knowledge discovery- Data warehousing - Database system integration issues- Embedded and mobile databases - Federated, distributed, parallel and grid databases- High-dimensional and temporal databases - Image/video retrieval and databases- Information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination - Performance issues of databases- Privacy and secure databases - Query processing and optimization- Semi-structured databases - Spatial data management- Stream data management - Transaction processing- Web access to databases - XML and databases Submission: Original papers that have not been published previously or are not under review in other journals or conferences will be considered. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, significance, correctness, presentation, and relevance. Papers should be submitted as an electronic file, which must be formatted according to the conference camera-ready format. Papers can be submitted as either regular or short papers. Regular papers are limited to 8 - 12 pages and short papers limited to 3 - 5 pages (short papers will be presented at poster sessions). Accepted regular and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the conference to have the paper published in the proceedings. Awards and Journal Special Issues: EDB2012 Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference to the authors of the best research/application papers. Strong and foundational results will be considered for the best paper award. A set of selected papers will be published in the World Wide Web Journal (SCI) or Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (SCIE)after revision and extension. Important Dates: - May 20, 2012: Paper submission due =&gt; extended to June 03, 2012 - July 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance =&gt; changed to July 29, 2012 - July 31, 2012: Camera-ready copy due =&gt; changed to Aug 10, 2012 - August 10, 2012: Early-registration due =&gt; changed to Aug 17, 2012 - August 23~25, 2012: EDB 2012 conference Conference Organizations Honorary Co-Chairs - Yoonjoon Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea - Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA General Co-Chairs - Soochan Hwang, Korea Aerospace University, Korea - Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea Organization Chair - Jinseok Chae, University of Incheon, Korea Program Committee Co-Chairs - Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea - Sanghyun Park, Yonsei University, Korea - Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Industrial Co-Chairs - Jong-Hoon Chun, Myongji University, Korea - Minsik Park, Korea Database Agency, Korea - Junghyun Shin, Inet Hosting Inc., Korea Local Arrangement Co-Chairs - Jeong-Joon Lee, Korea Polytechnic University, Korea - Youngho Park, Sookmyung Women¡¯s University, Korea Publicity Co-Chairs - Minsoo Lee, Ewha Womans University, Korea - Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Proceedings Chair - Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea Registration Chair - Yoo-Sung Kim, Inha University, Korea Web Chair - Young-Koo Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea Liaison Co-Chairs - Yunmook Nah, Dankook University, Korea - Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea Program Committees (to be extended) - Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong - Hong Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Wonik Choi, Inha University, Korea - Jonghoon Chun, Myongji University, Korea - Ko Fujimura, Otsuma Women's University, Japan - Fan Guo, Facebook, USA - Wook-Shin Han, Kyungpook National University, Korea - Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Eenjun Hwang, Korea University, Korea - Seung-Won Hwang, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea - Sungwon Jung, Sogang University, Korea - Jaewoo Kang, Korea University, Korea - Kyoji Kawagoe, Ritsumeikan University, Japan - Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Han-joon Kim, University of Seoul, Korea - Yoo-Sung Kim, Inha University, Korea - Young-Kuk Kim, Chungnam National University, Korea - ChulYun Kim, Gachon University, Korea - Dongseop Kwon, Myongji University, Korea - Kam-Yiu Lam, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Dongwon Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA - Jae-Gil Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea - Jeong-Joon Lee, Korea Polytechnic University, Korea - Minsoo Lee, Ewha Womans University, Korea - Sang Don Lee, Mokpo National University, Korea - Sang Keun Lee, Korea University, Korea - Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea - Won Suk Lee, Yonsei University, Korea - WooKey Lee, Inha University, Korea - Young-Koo Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea - Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada - Jun-Ki Min, Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea - Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University, USA - Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea - Chan Jung Park, Jeju National University, Korea - Ji Sook Park, Seoul Women¡¯s University, Korea - Young-Ho Park, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea - Praveen R. Rao, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA - Christopher Ryu, California State University Fullerton, USA - Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea - Junho Shim, Sookmyung Women¡¯s University, Korea - Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea - Ha-Joo Song, Pukyong National University, Korea - Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan - Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University, China - Chaokun Wang, Tsinghua University, China - Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia - Jaesoo Yoo, Chungbuk National University, Korea - Hwanjo Yu, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea - Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China - Xiangliang Zhang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia - Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore _______________________________________________ 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> Minsoo Lee Dr. 2012-05-23T17:15:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34486 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers *** WORKSHOP ON END-TO-END MANAGEMENT of BIG DATA (BIGDATA 2012) In conjunction with VLDB 2012, August 31, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/tkosar/bigdata2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Abstract and paper submission deadline is extended to June 11, 2012! *** The International Workshop on End-to-end Management of Big Data (BigData 2012) will be held in conjunction with the 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2012), in Istanbul, Turkey. Extremely large, diverse, and complex data sets are generated from scientific instruments, sensors, social media, Internet and other applications. End-to-end management, analysis, and visualization of these large, distributed and heterogeneous data sets has been a major challenge impeding scientific discovery and technological advancement. The international workshop on End-to-end Management of Big Data (BigData 2012) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing state-of-the-art research, development, and deployment efforts for the end-to-end management, storage, sharing, analysis, and visualization of very large data sets. The BigData2012 workshop will be an excellent forum to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and services for future data management technologies supporting Big Data and data-intensive computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Big Data applications and their challenges - End-to-end data flow management - Big Data analytics and visualization - Data streaming and in-stu processing - Distributed and federated databases - NoSQL data stores and DB scalability - Cloud data management architectures - Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization - Data interoperability and exchange - Distributed file systems for Big Data - Programming models for Big Data processing - Scalability issues in data storage systems - Future research challenges in management of Big Data IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract and Paper Submission: June 11, 2012 Acceptance Notification: July 6, 2012 Camera Ready Papers Due: July 27, 2012 Workshop Date: August 31, 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION: BigData 2012 invites authors to submit original and unpublished technical papers of at most 10 pages. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop topics of interest. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the BigData 2012 review process. Papers should be prepared in ACM SIG Proceedings format and submitted electronically (as a PDF file) via this web site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=bigdata2012 WORKSHOP and PROGRAM CHAIRS: Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo (tkosar-LjRBWs/Th6SVc3sceRu5cw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org) Murat Demirbas, University at Buffalo (demirbas-LjRBWs/Th6SVc3sceRu5cw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University Yi Chen, Arizona State University Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo Dawid Dewitt, Microsoft Research Yanlei Diao, UMass Amherst Liana Fong, IBM Research Ian Foster, University of Chicago Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Goetz Graefe, HP Labs Laura Haas, IBM Research Hakan Hacigumus, NEC Labs Jiawei Han, UIUC John Kubiatowicz, UC Berkeley Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina Vivek Narasayya, Microsoft Research Fatma Ozcan, IBM Research Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Beth Plale, Indiana University Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg Bernard Traversat, Oracle Inc. _______________________________________________ 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> Tevfik Kosar 2012-05-23T17:05:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34485 <pre> ECAI 2012 workshop on COmbining COnstraint solving with MIning and LEarning (CoCoMile) http://cocomile.disi.unitn.it/2012/ Important Dates: ================ - 04 June, 2012: EXTENDED submission deadline - 28 June, 2012: notification - 15 July, 2012: camera-ready - 27-31 August, 2012: CoCoMile &lt; at &gt; ECAI Submission: =========== We accept the following three types of submissions: - Original novel and unpublished work (max. 6 pages); - An extended abstract of work-in-progress or position statements about future directions, possibilities and limitations: (max. 2 pages) - Manuscripts that have recently been accepted for publication or appeared within the last 6 months in a peer-reviewed journal or which are currently under review: (only oral, no page limit or format constraints) Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. All accepted submissions will be published on our website (informal proceedings) unless requested otherwise. Overview: ========= The field of constraint solving has traditionally evolved quite independently from those of machine learning and data mining. In recent years, interest has been growing on the connections between these fields, and the potential advantages of their integration. Integration can work in two ways, on the one hand, various types of constraint solvers can be included in machine learning and data mining algorithms, for example to provide a uniform and effective way to characterize the desired solutions; on the other hand, machine learning can help in addressing constraint satisfaction problems, both at the level of search, by improving search or integrating intelligent meta-heuristics, as well as at the level of modelling, for example by learning constraints or interactively supporting a decision maker. While promising initial results have been achieved in such directions, many options are unexplored and further research is needed in order to establish a systematic approach to this integration. The best way to reach the full potential of such integrations is in a multi-disciplinary way. The main purpose of this workshop is to provide an open environment where researchers in machine learning, data mining and constraint solving can exchange ideas and discuss on promising approaches, crucial issues, open problems and interesting formalizations of new tasks. To encourage this, we will allow three different types of submissions: 1) original contributes (unpublished work), 2) relevant contributions recently submitted or published elsewhere (only oral) and 3) vision statements, works in progress and short overviews. The following is a non-exclusive list of possible topics: - data mining/machine learning using constraint solving techniques - learning with constraints - constraint-based languages for data mining/machine learning - preference learning for constraint solving - automated constraint modeling and solving - constraint acquisition - interactive constraint solving - solver portfolio optimisation - machine learning in search - integrating learning and search - automated parameter optimization / algorithm configuration In addition to the received contributions, the workshop will include invited talks from prominent researchers working in the intersection between constraint technology, machine learning and data mining. The workshop is planned to end with a broad discussion on the most relevant open problems and research directions. ===================== Invited speakers: ===================== - Siegfried Nijssen (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Constraint programming and data mining - Holger Hoos/Lin Xu (University of British Columbia, Canada) SATzilla: Portfolio-based Algorithm Selection for SAT - Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Constrainted processing for preference elicitation ===================== Contacts: ===================== - Remi Coletta coletta-BUuzT83VEWE&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org - Tias Guns tias.guns-4rd9VHyGk8h2kGVRwRwAbw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org - Barry O'Sullivan b.osullivan-iFAzeYkuxVWzQB+pC5nmwQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org - Andrea Passerini passerini-+cHZLFJ93xAO91npARCAeA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org - Guido Tack Guido.Tack-sFFfwlTeHG43uPMLIKxrzw&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> Tias Guns 2012-05-23T16:59:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34484 <pre>Dear Colleagues, I thought this is of interest. I did publish the new Lecture Notes on "Data Management in the Cloud", prepared by Michael Grossniklaus, and David Maier at Portland State University. It is a very interesting reading, this is one of the very first course on the subject! There are ~280 slides, you can download as .pdf from ODBMS.org: http://www.odbms.org/downloads.aspx#cloud Below, you'll find a course description. Best Regards Roberto -------- Prof. Roberto V. Zicari Editor ODBMS.ORG http://www.odbms.org http://www.odbms.org/blog/ http://twitter.com/odbmsorg "Data Management in the Cloud", Michael Grossniklaus, David Maier, Portland State University. Course Description: "Cloud computing has recently seen a lot of attention from research and industry for applications that can be parallelized on shared-nothing architectures and have a need for elastic scalability. As a consequence, new data management requirements have emerged with multiple solutions to address them. This course will look at the principles behind data management in the cloud as well as discuss actual cloud data management systems that are currently in use or being developed. The topics covered in the course range from novel data processing paradigms (MapReduce, Scope, DryadLINQ), tocommercial cloud data management platforms (Google BigTable, Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 and Dynamo, Yahoo PNUTS) and open-source NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Neo4J). The world of cloud data management is currently very diverse and heterogeneous. Therefore, our course will also report on efforts to classify, compare and benchmark the various approaches and systems. Students in this course will gain broad knowledge about the current state of the art in cloud data management and, through a course project, practical experience with a specific system." Lecture Notes|Intermediate/Advanced|English| DOWNLOAD ~280 slides (PDF)| 2011-12| Link: http://www.odbms.org/downloads.aspx#cloud _______________________________________________ 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> DBWorld User 2012-05-23T16:52:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34483 <pre>Call for Papers The 6th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2012-Fall) http://cs.purduecal.edu/~yang246/WiSARN2012Fall/ To be held in conjunction with The 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'12) October 8-11, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) are the confluence point where the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), robot networks and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, WSANs are in need of new networking techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and potentials. WiSARN aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSAN. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSANs, WSNs, robot networks, and robotics and automation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in WSAN * Modeling and simulation of WSAN * WSAN architectural and operational models * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-actor (robot) and actor-actor coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols * Distributed control and management in WSAN * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors (robots) * Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots * Actor (robot) task assignment * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in WSAN * Probabilistic integration in WSAN * Quality of service, security and robustness issues * Applications and prototypes * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing Papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages, and must be formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE author guidelines. Submissions are being considered with the understanding that they describe original research, neither published nor under review elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library after the conference and included in MASS 2012 proceedings. Important dates Paper submission: June 15, 2012 Author notification: July 15, 2012 Camera ready: August 6, 2012 Workshop date: October 11, 2012 General Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Shuhui Yang, Purdue University, USA Xu Li, Inria, France Publicity Co-Chairs: Liang He, Singapore Univ. Technology and Design, Singapore Sandra Sendra, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain Submission Chair: Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada _______________________________________________ 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> Sandra Sendra 2012-05-23T16:04:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34482 <pre> Deadline for paper submission has been extended to June 1, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS Third Workshop on Formal Methods and Analysis in Software Product Line Engineering (FMSPLE 2012), 2 September 2012 http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/fmsple2012.html Co-located with the 16th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2012), 2 - 7 September 2012, Salvador, Brazil http://www.splc2012.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Deadline for submissions: June 01, 2012 - Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2012 - Final papers due: June 29, 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Software product line engineering (SPLE) aims at developing a family of systems by reuse in order to reduce time to market and to increase product quality. The correctness of the development artifacts intended for reuse as well as the correctness of the developed products is of crucial interest for many safety-critical or business-critical applications. Formal methods and analysis approaches have been successfully applied in single system engineering over the last years in order to rigorously establish critical system requirements. However, in SPLE, formal methods and analysis approaches are not broadly applied yet, despite their potential to improve product quality. One of the reasons is that existing formal approaches from single system engineering do not consider variability, an essenti al aspect of product lines. The objective of the workshop "Formal Methods and Analysis in Software Product Line Engineering (FMSPLE)" is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the SPLE community with researchers and practitioners working in the area of formal methods and analysis. So far, both communities are only loosely connected, despite very promising initial work on formal analysis techniques for software product lines. The workshop aims at reviewing the state of the art and the state of the practice in which formal methods and analysis approaches are currently applied in SPLE. This leads to a discussion of a research agenda for the extension of existing formal approaches and the development of new formal techniques for dealing with the particular needs of SPLE. To achieve the above objectives, the workshop is intended as a highly interactive event fostering discussion and initiating collaborations between the participants from both communities. TOPICS The proposed workshop focuses on the application of formal methods and analysis approaches in all phases of SPLE, including domain and application engineering, in order to ensure the correctness of individual artifacts as well as the consistency among them. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Analysis approaches and formal methods for: - domain analysis and scoping - variability modeling - specification and verification of functional and non-functional properties in SPLE - safety and security aspects in SPLE - product line architectures and component-based product line development - product line implementation, such as type systems, programming languages, formal semantics - formal verification of product lines and product line artifacts - correctness-by-construction techniques in SPLE - automated test case generation and model-based testing in SPLE - product derivation and application engineering - product line life-cycle management (e.g., consistency assurance) - reuse and evolution of SPLs - Proofs of concept, industrial experiences and empirical evaluations - Tool presentations - Vision and position papers on formal methods and analyses applied to SPLE FORMAT The FMSPLE workshop will be a full-day event, starting with a keynote presentation by David Benavides, University of Seville, Spain. The keynote will be followed by presentations of selected peer-reviewed papers. To foster interaction within the workshop, a discussant will be assigned to each presented paper. The task of the discussant will be to prepare a summary of the paper and initiate the discussion of its results. The workshop will close with a discussion of its participants to summarize the state of the art and the state of the practice as presented in the workshop, to collect research challenges for the application of formal methods in SPLE and to identify research topics for future workshops. PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS FMSPLE merges two workshops, namely FMSPLE 2010 (http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/fmsple2010.html) and ASPL 2008 (http://www.isa.us.es/aspl08), both of which were affiliated to the International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC). A first joint edition was held in 2011 as FMSPLE at the 15th SPLC (http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/fmsple2011.html). This is the 3rd edition of the successful FMSPLE workshop series. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The contributed papers are expected to comprise research papers containing novel and previously unpublished results, experience reports, reports of industrial case studies, tool descriptions, and short papers describing work in progress or exploratory ideas. All papers have to follow the ACM two-column conference proceedings format (Letter) and be 4 - 8 pages of length. The papers should be submitted via EasyChair; each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The program committee will select the best papers based on quality, relevance to the workshop, and potential to initiate discussions for presentation. The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM in the second volume of the SPLC proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Vander Alves, University of Brasilia, Brazil Hugo Arboleda, Icesi University, Cali, Colombia Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada Maurice H. ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Manfred Broy, Technical University Munich, Germany Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Andreas Classen, Intec Software Engineering and University of Namur, Belgium Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL, USA Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Arnaud Hubaux, University of Namur, Belgium Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France Ivan C. Machado, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil Tomi Mannisto, Aalto University, Finland Marcilio Mendonca, University of Waterloo, Canada Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Antonio Ruiz-Cortes, University of Seville, Spain Ina Schaefer, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Erik de Vink, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Andrzej Wasowski, ITU Kopenhagen, Denmark PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maurice H. ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Andreas Classen (University of Namur, Belgium) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Ina Schaefer (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany) Martin Becker (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) Fabricia Roos-Frantz (UNIJUI University, Brazil) Peter Y. H. Wong (Fredhopper B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands) _______________________________________________ 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> Fabricia Roos 2012-05-23T14:31:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34481 <pre>CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2012 Cases on Electronic Records and Resource Management Implementation in Diverse Environments A book edited by Dr. Janice M. Krueger (Clarion University of Pennsylvania) To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/KGpEnL Introduction Ever since the Internet inspired the creation of web-based, accessible materials, libraries have engaged in the effective use of online systems to create and to manage records and resources for their service population. Historically, libraries have always used record representation to build catalog displays of library materials and holdings. As more and more materials moved from traditional mediums, such as print and analog formats, libraries found ways to effectively manage expanding records and digital versions of journals, indexes, films, and statistical data. Library systems became more integrated with content and electronic resource management systems to control licenses, to address additional record maintenance, and to streamline access to resources. Other organizations are now confronted with managing their records regardless of format. Many have struggled with formulating policies for digitizing original print formats and with finding an effective solution for housing digitized records along with their born-digital documents. Individuals working in business, education, government, law, medicine, and the sciences produce and maintain numerous and varied documents that require effective organization for storage and retrieval so their employer or organization remains competitive. While the software tools may differ from those used in libraries, many of the basic principles of organization, storage, and retrieval are the same. Therefore, examples of effective implementation of resource and records management systems across organizations and disciplines would benefit all concerned. Objective of the Book The main goal of the publication is to bring together real-life examples of how electronic records and resource management have been implemented across disciplines. While records and resource management has been addressed in relation to academic libraries, an across discipline approach has not been evident. The manifestation of each implementation in libraries and in various organizations, such as in business, education, government, law, and the sciences can add to the body of literature on effective electronic records and resource management principles and practices. System utilization and effectiveness will point the way to joint efforts on standardization of programs. Target Audience The target audience will be composed of professionals involved in the education of library and information science (LIS) students and in the training of individuals responsible for electronic records management in various disciplines. The book will demonstrate effective real-life instances of electronic records and resource management implementation in diverse settings. It will highlight the current concerns and issues surrounding such implementation and will show a variety of solutions for attaining similar goals. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Principles and theory concerning electronic records and resource management The potential benefits and possible disadvantages of electronic records and resource management The legal and ethical concerns of electronic records and resource management The advantages/disadvantages of proprietary and open source mediums for implementing electronic records and resource management Implementation of electronic records and resource management in various organizations and disciplines, including, but not limited to, libraries, business, education, government, law, and the sciences Application of electronic records and resource management principles in the handling of diverse materials, including, but not limited to, internal documents, data sets, marketing information, curriculum materials, student records, interactive materials, legal documents, court records, resource sharing, open access repositories, digital collections, licensing and subscription information, medical record management, hospital records, music storage and retrieval, research data storage and retrieval, and electronic data exchange Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 15, 2012, 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 August 1, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 30, 2012. 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,” “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 2013. Important Dates July 15, 2012:Proposal Submission Deadline August 1, 2012:Notification of Acceptance November 30, 2012:Full Chapter Submission January 15, 2013:Review Results Returned February 15, 2013:Final Chapter Submission March 15, 2013:Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Dr. Janice M. Krueger, Department of Library Science 209 Carlson, 840 Wood St., Clarion, PA 16214 Phone: 814-393-2202 * Fax: 814-393-2150 * E-mail: jkrueger-6+nf2cewvlOVc3sceRu5cw&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> Janice Krueger 2012-05-23T12:13:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34480 <pre>International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns (NFMCP 2012) Bristol, UK, September 24-28, 2012 http://www.di.uniba.it/~nfmcp2012/cfp.htm in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD-2012 Bristol, UK, September 24-28, 2012 http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers During the last two decades, studies in Machine Learning have paved the way to the definition of efficient and stable data mining and knowledge discovery algorithms. Data mining and knowledge discovery can today be considered today as stable fields with numerous efficient algorithms which have been proposed in order to extract knowledge in different forms from data. Although, most existing data mining approaches look for patterns in tabular data (which are typically obtained from relational databases), algorithmic extensions are recently investigated to  new massive datasets representing complex interactions between several entities from heterogeneous and ubiquitous a variety of sources. These interactions may be spanned at multiple levels of granularity as well as at the spatial and/or temporal dimension. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners of data mining who are interested in the advances and latest developments in area of extracting complex patterns from text/hypertext data, networks and graphs, event or log data, biological sequence data, spatio-temporal data, sensor data and streams, and so on. In particular, the workshop aims at integrating recent results from existing fields such as data mining, statistics, machine learning and relational databases to discuss and introduce new algorithmic foundations and representation formalisms in pattern discovery. Topics of Interest MCP 2012 calls for international contributions related to foundations, challenges and research opportunities raised by real-world learning and data mining problems in which the data as well as patterns are complex and heterogeneous. The goal of the workshop is to promote and publish research in the field of the complex pattern mining. Suggested topics include (but not limited to) the following: - Foundations on pattern mining, pattern usage, and pattern understanding - Mining biological data - Mining stream, time-series and sequence data - Mining networks, graphs and trees - Mining dynamic and evolving data - Mining environmental and scientific data - Mining heterogeneous data - Mining multi-relational data - Mining semi-structured and unstructured data - Mining spatio-temporal data - Mining linked, social and web data - Ontology and metadata - Privacy preserving mining - Semantic Web and Knowledge Databases Keynote Speech To be defined. Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit electronically original research and abstract papers in Portable Document Format (PDF) format. Research papers should be at most 12 pages long whereas extended abstracts should be at most 8 pages long. Papers must be written in English. Paper should be submitted in PDF form via MCP 2012 Online Submission System (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=nfmcp2012). Submitted papers will be evaluated by three reviewers. Acceptance will be based on relevance, technical soundness, originality, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. Papers must be formatted using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . In addition to the workshop proceedings and depending on the quality of the accepted papers and presentations, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer). Important Dates Paper submission: Friday, June 29, 2012 Acceptance notification: Friday July 20, 2012 Camera-ready of accepted papers: Friday August 3, 2012 Fee and Payment method See ECML/PKDD Congress policies link Program Committee (To be completed) Alicja Wieczorkowska (Polish-Japanese Institute of IT) alicja-TFlatrOsPEqxgjU+5Knr6g&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Francesco Bonchi (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) bonchi-ZXvpkYn067l8UrSeD/g0lQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Eirini Spyropoulou (University Of Bristol) Eirini.Spyropoulou-PMBdYf0mooE2EctHIo1CcQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute) Saso.Dzeroski-NtGbt2tK5Yw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Floriana Esposito (University of Bari Aldo Moro) esposito-ObTH0EaCLLQ1GQ1Ptb7lUw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of Athens) dg-brBP6YrziORQFI55V6+gNQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Mohand-Saïd Hacid (University Claude Bernard Lyon 1) mohand-said.hacid&lt; at &gt;univ-lyon1.fr Stan Matwin (Univrsity of Ottawa) stan-iuUYeJ1cjgIL07fRTtiDAw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Dino Pedreschi (university of Pisa) pedre-6l1t1zIuRx01GQ1Ptb7lUw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Fabrizio Riguzzi (Università di Ferrara) fabrizio.riguzzi-SUptedAwpts&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Jerzy Stefanowski (Poznan University of Technology) Jerzy.Stefanowski&lt; at &gt;cs.put.poznan.pl Maguelonne Teisseire (IRSTEA Montpellier, UMR TETIS) teisseire-BUuzT83VEWE&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Herna Viktor (University of Ottawa) hlviktor-iuUYeJ1cjgIL07fRTtiDAw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Organizing Committee Annalisa Appice (http://www.di.uniba.it/~appice/) Michelangelo Ceci (http://www.di.uniba.it/~ceci/) Corrado Loglisci (http://www.di.uniba.it/~loglisci/) Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy Email: {appice,ceci,loglisci}&lt; at &gt;di.uniba.it Giuseppe Manco (http://www.icar.cnr.it/manco) Elio Masciari (http://www.icar.cnr.it/masciari) ICAR-CNR, Rende, Italy Email: {manco,masciari}&lt; at &gt;icar.cnr.it Zbigniew W. Ras (http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~ras/) Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA &amp; Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Email: ras-q5vfgP/E9Dw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Further Information Address any further inquiry to: NFMCP 2012 Workshop Chairs, mailto: nfmcp2012-O+J0ALkQul81GQ1Ptb7lUw&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> Elio Masciari 2012-05-23T10:02:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34479 <pre> ---------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Self-IoT, International Workshop on Self-aware Internet of Things http://www.iot-butler.eu/self-iot September 17th 2012, San Jose, California, USA in conjunction with ICAC 2012, The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Overview --------- Spectacular advances in technology have introduced increasingly complex and large scale computer and communication systems. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a grand challenge that will allow the systems self-manage this complexity, using high-level objectives and policies defined by humans. Internet of things (IoT) will exponentially increase the scale and the complexity of existing computing and communication systems; the autonomy is thus an imperative property for IoT systems. However, there is still a lack of research on how to adapt and tailor existing research on autonomic computing to the specific characteristics of IoT such as high dynamicity and distribution, real-time nature, resources constraints, and lossy environments. The goal of this International Workshop on Self-aware Internet of Things is to deal with the important, challenging and emerging needs of IoT applications that are becoming omnipresent in our daily lives (e.g., at home, office, transport, c! ity and urban environments). The Self-IoT aims to be a reference workshop that will gather different scientific communities from academy and industry under one common objective: realizing plug&amp;play, context-aware and autonomous Internet of things that will be self-configured, self-organized, self-optimized and self-healed without (or with minimum) human intervention. The workshop is looking for novel ideas, works in progress or deployment experiences in application domains such as smart city, smart home/building, smart transport, smart retail and smart healthcare. Topics of interest ------------------- - Software engineering for self-adaptive internet of things, model-oriented approaches, automated tools for development, deployment and supervision of IoT devices and services - Autonomous IoT Clouds, self-provisioning of IoT Services - Control theory in IoT, distributed control loops, decision making mechanisms, prediction models at run-time, learning from experience, relations with artificial intelligence techniques, multi-agent approaches for autonomic IoT - Modelling environmental context and user behaviour, semantic IoT, self-adaptation to context - Event-Condition-Action rules, objective functions, prediction models applied to the IoT, adaptation of techniques such as Bayesian networks, decision trees or fuzzy logic to the IoT context; - Performance monitoring, diagnostics and self-healing of the IoT - Plug-n-play IoT, IoT device/service discovery protocols, self-matchmaking of Internet of things and Internet of services - Autonomic security and dependency management; robust and trustable IoT systems - Self-organizing network protocols, ad-hoc routing mechanisms, cognitive networks adapted to resource constrained devices and lossy environments - Autonomic experience in IoT applications such as smart home/building, smart transport, smart city, smart healthcare and smart retailer. Submission instructions ------------------------ Papers should be a maximum of 6 pages in the two-column ACM proceedings format (see the ICAC formatting instructions on the main conference web site). Submitted papers must be original work and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. All papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Accepted papers will be distributed at the conference electronically and be published by ACM. Papers can be submitted via the easychair using the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=selfiot2012 The European projects BUTLER, OUTSMART, iCore and IoT.est will jointly sponsor the workshop, a best paper award and potentially a number of free registrations for students are planned. Important dates ---------------- Paper submission: June 15, 2012 Author notification: July 16, 2012 Final paper due: August 16, 2012 Workshop date: September 17, 2012 Organizers ----------- Levent Gürgen, CEA-LETI, France levent.gurgen-KCE40YydGKI&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom k.moessner-pvM5kLVPf3GFxr2TtlUqVg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Abdur Rahim Biswas, Create-Net, Italy abdur.rahim-2TmCWn7/4sHOQU1ULcgDhA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Fano Ramparany, Orange Labs, France fano.ramparany-C0LM0jrOve7QT0dZR+AlfA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Program committee ------------------ François Carrez, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Thierry Coupaye, Orange Labs, France Suparna De, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Matti Etelapera, VTT, Finland Raffaele Giaffreda, Create-Net, Italy Rolf Kistler, iHomeLab, Switzerland Philippe Lalanda, LIG, France Suzanne Lesecq, CEA-LETI, France Jian Ma, Wuxi Sensing ,China Erik Mademann, ZIGPOS, Germany Hiroyuki Maeomichi, NTT, Japan Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy Thierry Monteil, LAAS-CNRS, France Septimiu Nechifor, Siemens, Romania RangoRao Venkatesha Prasad, TU delft, Netherland Davy Preuveneers, KU Leuven, Belgium Diego Puschini, CEA-LETI, France Marc Roelands, Bell Labs, Belgium Romain Rouvoy, INRIA, France Eric Rutten, INRIA, France Nicolas Sabouret, LIP6, France Juha-Pekka Soininen, VTT, Finland Vera Stavroulaki, University of Piraeus, Greece Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Kenji Tei, NII, Japan Ralf Toenjes, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany Wei Wang, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Walter Waterfeld, Software AG, Germany Sven Zeisberg, HTW, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------ Levent Gürgen, PhD Research Engineer Project Manager CEA-Leti Bâtiment CTL 7 Avenue de Palestine - ZI de Mayencin 38610 GIERES - FRANCE levent.gurgen-KCE40YydGKI&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Tél. : + 33 (0)4 56 52 04 20– Fax : + 33 (0)4 56 52 03 66 www.leti.fr _______________________________________________ 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> Levent Gurgen 2012-05-23T07:57:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34478 <pre>Fully funded PhD position (KRR group &lt; at &gt; VU University Amsterdam) ================================================================= JOB OPENING: The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group, headed by Prof. Frank van Harmelen at the VU University Amsterdam is looking for an enthusiastic PhD student for a 4 year full time position on the project Pragmatic Semantics for the Web of Data funded by the Dutch Science Foundation NWO. WHAT WE OFFER: A world-class research team in semantic technologies, a stimulating work environment, and life in a vibrant and multicultural city that always ranks among the highest on the quality of life indexes. WHAT WE LOOK FOR: A talented and motivated individual with a thorough background in Computer Science and/or Artificial Intelligence. We are particularly looking for students with experience with formal logical methods, the ability to turn theories into practical programs and an interest in validating their theories empirically in practical applications. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Web of Data (WoD) connects data in a similar way as the WWW connects documents. Atomic data-units called resources are connected via typed links with arbitrary resources anywhere on the Web, together forming a gigantic graph of linked data. The meaning of the types can be fixed using standardised ontology languages such as RDFS and OWL. The semantics of these languages are based on logical paradigms that were designed for small and hand-made knowledge bases, and come with classical model-theory for assigning truth to formulas, and entailment based on this truth. However, in highly complex, dynamic, context-dependent, opinionated, contradictory and multi- dimensional networks as the WoD, such classical semantics are insufficient, as they are one-dimensional, often prone to logical fallacies, and usually intractable. On the Web in general, and the Web of Data in particular, every bit of information is context-dependent, biased towards a particular viewpoint, opinionated, dated, uncertain or vague. The WoD is a market-place of ideas, not a database, and has to be dealt with accordingly. We have to adapt the formal semantics of existing formalisms to the new requirements. The goal of this project is to develop such novel semantic paradigms for dealing with the complex character of the Web of Data by integrating market-place formalisms such as optimization of truth into the semantics of the standard representation languages. More information is available on: http://altsemantics.wordpress.com/ REQUIREMENTS - A Master in Computer Science, Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Logic or a related field - Genuine interest in addressing real-world problems. APPOINTMENT, SALARY, LOCATION: The appointment will be at the VUA, starting at Sep 1 2012 at the earliest. http://tinyurl.com/VU-personnel-guide contains a review of working conditions at the VU. INTERESTED? For more information please contact Dr. Stefan Schlobach &lt;k.s.schlobach&lt; at &gt; vu.nl&gt;. Please send your application to Elly Lammers &lt;elly.lammers-Ka36YuUsYvQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; by email *before 15 June 2011*. _______________________________________________ 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> Stefan Schlobach 2012-05-23T07:25:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34477 <pre>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Workshop on Quality in DataBases (QDB 2012) Collocated with vLDB 2012 August 27, 2012. Istanbul, Turkey ************************************************************************************* The problem of poor data quality in databases, data warehousing and information systems largely and indistinctly affects every application domain. Many data processing tasks (such as information integration, data sharing, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery from databases) require various forms of data preparation and consolidation with complex data processing techniques, because the data input to the algorithms is assumed to conform to nice data distributions, containing no missing, inconsistent or incorrect values. This leaves a large gap between the available "dirty" data and the available machinery to process the data for the application purposes. Building on the established tradition of nine previous international workshops on the topic of Data and Information Quality, namely IQIS 2004-2006, CleanDB 2006 and QDB 2007-2011, the Quality in Databases (QDB) workshop is a qualified forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas and solutions related to the problems of assessing, monitoring, improving, and maintaining the quality of data. Website: http://www.cyber.purdue.edu/qdb2012 ========================== Topics of Interest ========================== The Quality in Databases (QDB) workshop is a qualified forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas and solutions related to the problems of exploring, assessing, monitoring, improving, and maintaining the quality of data. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following. - Duplicate detection, entity resolution, and entity reconciliation - Conflict resolution and data fusion - Data quality models and algebra - Quality of Linked Data - Cleaning extremely large datasets - Data Quality on the Web - Privacy-preserving data quality - Data quality benchmarks - Data Quality on novel data management architectures (cloud, streaming data, ...) - General techniques applicable across many domains with measurable improvements on specific domains. - State of the art, recent progress, and prospects for the future in data quality. - Data scrubbing, data standardization, data cleaning techniques - Quality-aware query languages and query processing techniques - Quality-aware analytics solutions - Data quality in data integration settings - Role of metadata in quality measurement - Data quality mining - Quality of scientific, geographical, and multimedia databases - Data quality assessment, measures and improvement methodologies ========================== Important Dates ========================== - Deadline for submissions: May 30, 2012 10:00pm PDT - Notification of acceptance: July 9, 2012 - Camera-ready versions: August 7, 2012 ========================== Submission Instructions ========================== For the QDB 2012 edition of the workshop,we would like to promote the presentations of research-in-progress projects, including 1) new research ideas (even not yet fully explored), 2) experimental comparison of different existing approaches, and 3) industry experience of applying existing techniques on real-world data. All submissions are limited to six pages. The accepted papers will be presented orally and meanwhile as a poster in the program. The papers have to be formatted according the VDLB formatting guidelines http://www.vldb2012.org/call-for-contributions/preparation-and-formatting-guidelines/ All papers must be submitted in PDF. Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. It is essential that the submitted papers print without difficulty on a variety of printers using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Submissions should be uploaded through Microsoft's CMT submission site at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/QDB2012 All submissions will be handled electronically. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Depending on the number and quality of submissions, the best papers of the workshop may be recommended for a special issue in the Information Systems Journal. ========================== Conference Organizers ========================== * Workshop Co-Chairs: Xin Luna Dong, AT&amp;T Labs-Research, USA Eduard C. Dragut, Purdue University, USA * Program Committee Members: Andrea Maurino,Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Carlo Batini,Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Daniele Barone,University of Toronto, Canada Divesh Srivastava,AT&amp;T Labs-Research, USA Erhard Rahm,University of Leipzig, Germany Fei Chiang,University of Toronto, Canada Felix Naumann,Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik, Germany Flip Korn, AT&amp;T Labs-Research, USA Hazem Elmeleegy,AT&amp;T Labs-Research, USA Laure Berti-Equille,IRD (Institute of Research for Development), France Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, USA Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada Mourad Ouzzani,Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Peter Christen,Australian National University, Australia Tiziana Catarci,Università di Roma, Italy Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia Weiyi Meng, SUNY at Binghamton, USA _______________________________________________ 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> Luna Dong 2012-05-23T06:47:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34476 <pre>[Apologies if you receive this more than once] #################################################################### The 2012 World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2012) December 4-7, 2012, Macau, China Final CALL FOR PAPERS #################################################################### Homepage: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012 Turing Keynote Speaker: Edward Feigenbaum (1994 Turing Award Winner) A Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth). The congress includes five intelligent informatics related conferences: - IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI'12) - IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2012 (IAT'12) - Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT'12) - Brain Informatics 2012 (BI'12) - Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2012 (ISMIS'12) co-located with the aim to facilitate interactions and idea exchange among researchers working on a variety of focused themes under a holistic vision for computing and intelligence in the post WWW era and to promote and expedite new innovations for areas under intelligent informatics. Important Dates: ################################################################## # Electronic submission of full papers: June 1, 2012 # Workshop paper submission: June 25, 2012 # Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2012 # Notification of paper acceptance: August 1, 2012 # Camera-ready of accepted papers: August 31, 2012 # Workshops: December 4, 2012 # Conference: December 5-7, 2012 ################################################################## WIC 2012 is being organized/sponsored by: - Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) - IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII) - IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) - ACM SIGART - University of Macau - Hong Kong Baptist University *** Contact Information *** Ryan Leang Hou U, University of Macau &lt;ryanlhu-al8Ev/14v5k&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; _______________________________________________ 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> Xiaohui Tao 2012-05-23T05:05:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34475 <pre>Last CALL FOR PAPERS *** Deadline Extended to May 31, 2012*** First International Workshop on REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING PRACTICES ON SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERING REPOS 2012 - http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/repos2012/ co-located with the 16th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2012), Salvador, Brazil - September 4, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights: The best papers of the Workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to the Requirements Engineering Journal - SPECIAL ISSUE on "Requirements Engineering in Software Product Line Engineering", which is scheduled in the last quarter of 2013. The RE journal is included in the Journal Citations Reports (JCR). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES *** Submissions deadline: May 31, 2012 (EXTENDED!) *** Authors notification: June 15, 2012 Camera-ready: June 29, 2012 Workshop: September 4, 2012 (one full-day) MOTIVATION Several attempts have been made to increase the productivity and quality of software products. A very promising approach is software reuse. Software product line practice is one approach to software reuse, which focuses on developing a family of products which have a majority of features in common. Hence, there are numerous requirements that are common across the family but others are unique to individual products. Requirements Engineering (RE) processes and techniques are used to identify and characterize product line requirements and potential member products considering their commonalities and variability. In addition, they also involve activities such as product line requirements modeling, specification, verification and management. Due to the complexity and extensive nature of product line development, requirements engineering is much more important for a software product line practice than for single product development. However, most of the existing software product line practices do not completely address the RE process in a comprehensive manner. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences and identify current obstacles and propose solutions to improve the current body-of-knowledge and practice in this area. TOPICS The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and verification for SPL - Techniques or methods tailored for requirements engineering in a SPL - Quality requirements and variability management in a SPL - Relating product lines requirements to business goals, architecture and testing - Value-driven requirements engineering for a SPL - Agile requirements engineering for SPL - Evolution of SPL requirements - Security requirements in product line engineering - Non-functional requirements and their dependence on application domain - Quality assessment of requirements models for SPL - Development environments and tools for managing requirements in a SPL - Model-driven approaches for product line requirements engineering - Domain-specific problems, experiences and solutions in SPL development - Empirical studies in the area of SPL requirements engineering - Experience reports including problems or success in the process of requirements engineering for a SPL GOALS The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to report on and discuss the challenges and opportunities for using different requirements engineering techniques in product line engineering to achieve both technical and business goals. The workshop will provide a reference forum in which (1) practitioners get to know the current findings in product line requirements engineering, and how they can transfer those methods to their particular domain, and (2) researchers get to know the real problems organizations are facing when tackling the requirements engineering activity in particular domains. An issue of particular importance is the level of detail for requirements specifications including variability and their traceability to other core assets. This will have a direct impact on the techniques to be used, the evolution to be supported, the analysis of impact for changes and evolution, etc. When to evaluate the quality of these requirements and how to perform a cost-effective and value-driven approach for these activities are still open issues in the product line development community. We are looking for contributions that not only discuss technical and theoretical aspects, but also methodological and practical issues related to requirements engineering in a product line. The workshop is also looking for industry contributions describing empirical results and successful practices that may be generalized from specific domains. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions of 4 to 8 pages are solicited that describe substantial completed work, or work in progress, or position papers. The papers are expected to comprise original work not previously published. The workshop papers can be submitted in any format but accepted papers should follow the ACM formatting and grant ACM copyright (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in PDF format at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=repos2012 Submissions will be evaluated according to both the relevance and originality of the work and their ability to generate discussion among the workshop participants. The submissions should clearly emphasize the discussion aspects relevant to the workshop. PUBLICATION The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM in a separate volume, next to the volume that contains the SPLC 2012 conference. A selection of the best papers of the Workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to the Requirements Engineering Journal SPECIAL ISSUE on "Requirements Engineering in Software Product Line Engineering", which is scheduled in the last quarter of 2013. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, University of Sevilla, Spain. Deepak Dhungana, Siemens AG Österreich, Austria. Gunter Mussbacher, Carleton University, Canada. Isabel John, Hochschule Würzburg Schweinfurt, Germany. Isidro Ramos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. Jaejoon Lee, Lancaster University, UK. João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. John McGregor, Clemson University, USA. Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany. Julio Cesar Leite, PUC-Rio, Brazil. Karina Villela, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany. Klaus Schmid, University Hildesheim, Germany. Larry Jones, Software Engineering Institute (SEI-CMU), USA. Manfred Broy,Technische Universität München, Germany. Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK. Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands. Sholom Cohen, Software Engineering Institute (SEI-CMU), USA. Silvia Abrahão, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. WORSHOP ORGANIZERS Emilio Insfran Research Affiliate at Software Engineering Institute (SEI), USA Associate Professor at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain E-mail: einsfran-2yllyS4jjq8xAGwisGp4zA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org URL: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~einsfran/ Gary Chastek Software Engineering Institute. Carnegie-Mellon University, USA E-mail: gjc-wNQinu02xweVc3sceRu5cw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org URL: www.sei.cmu.edu/about/people/gjc.cfm Patrick Donohoe Software Engineering Institute. Carnegie-Mellon University, USA E-mail: pd-wNQinu02xweVc3sceRu5cw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org URL: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/about/people/profile.cfm?id=donohoe_13045 _______________________________________________ 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> Emilio Insfran 2012-05-23T02:53:19 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.db.dbworld