http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/160 <pre>*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Social and Information Networks (CASIN ‘2011) July 20-22, Beijing, China Co-organized by Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research Asia http://casin2011.arnetminer.org/casin2011/ We cordially invite you to participate in the International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Social and Information Networks (CASIN‘2011), to be held on July 20-22, in Beijing, China, co-organized by Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research Asia. CASIN’2011 is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners from various fields working on social and information networks to exchange their latest research results and to sparkle new ideas and directions in the study of networks. It also aims at fostering research in social and information networks in the greater China region, and attracting students to work on challenging problems in this interdisciplinary area. Besides regular speeches delivered by world-leading experts in this area, we will have a special student forum session, in which a number of selected students will give short presentations about their recent research work on social and information networks. The presentations will be rated by our invited speakers and three students will be selected to receive the CASIN’2011 Best Student Presentation Award with a monetary compensation. Through this student forum, we hope to give many students opportunities to interact with world-leading researchers and get their feedbacks. For students who are interested in participating in the student forum, please visit the workshop website above and register your personal and talk information. For more information, please visit CASIN’2011 website given above. The free registration site is open now. If you are interested in the workshop, please register to the workshop through the workshop website. We are looking forward to meeting you in the workshop. CASIN’2011 Organizers _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-07-04T01:21:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/159 <pre>*ICDM 2011 Data Mining Contest* Wikipedia Participation Challenge Competition now open! Go to the Contest Website on Kaggle.com for more information. The 2011 ICDM Data Mining Contest is now open. The contest is sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation and hosted by Kaggle. The challenge is to develop methods that can predict future editing activity on Wikipedia. Prize money totaling $10,000 is available for the top finishers. See the contest website and the Wikimedia announcement for more information. Participants will be invited to submit a paper to ICDM describing their solution. Papers will be reviewed by the contest co-chairs, and selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected entries will be invited to present their solution at a special session of the ICDM conference. Contest winners will be announced at the ICDM awards ceremony. Important Dates June 28, 2011: Contest begins September 20, 2011: Contest ends September 27, 2011: Submission of papers from contest teams October 4, 2011: Announcement of selected papers October 11, 2011: Submission of camera-ready papers by selected teams December 11-14, 2011: Winners announced at ICDM conference ICDM Contest Co-Chairs Larry Holder, Washington State University Ashok Srivastava, NASA Ames Howie Fung, Wikimedia Foundation Diederik van Liere, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-07-03T09:57:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/158 <pre>Dear Colleagues: ========================================== Call for Papers ***Apologies for cross-posting*** The 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2011) 17-19 December 2011, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China http://adma2011.arnetminer.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2011) aims at bringing together the experts on data mining from around the world, and providing a leading international forum for the dissemination of original research findings in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems, as well as different applied disciplines with potential in data mining. * Proceedings/Publications: - The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and indexed by EI. - A selected number of the accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in Data &amp; Knowledge Engineering (indexed by *SCI*). - High-quality papers that particularly address the intelligent systems issues will be highly recommended for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (*ACM TIST*) publication in their extensions in rapid review and publication. * Keynotes: - Philip S. Yu, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago - Wolfgang Nejdl, Director of L3S Research Center, University of Hannover - Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: July 7, 2011 - Notification of Acceptance: September 7, 2011 - Camera Ready Submission Due: September 23, 2011 * Topics: We call for papers on any topics of advanced data mining and applications, including but not limited to: Advanced Data Mining Topics - Social network mining - Social search and analysis - Collective intelligence in the social Web - Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms - Mining on data streams - Graph and subgraph mining - Methodologies on large-scale data mining - Text, video, multimedia data mining - Web mining - High performance data mining algorithms - Modeling complex social systems - Evolution of social communities and social media - Collaborative filtering in social networks - Data mining visualization - Security and privacy issues - Competitive analysis of mining algorithms - Data Mining Applications Social Network Applications - Scalable data preprocessing and cleaning techniques - Data mining systems in finance, sciences, retail, e-commerce - Emerging applications of large-scale data mining - Empirical study of data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining applications - DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, genomics, and biometrics - E-commerce and Web services - Medical informatics - Disaster prediction - Financial market analysis - Intelligent system - Application of data mining in education * Organizing Committee: --------------------- General co-chairs: - Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering - Bing Liu, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago - Charu C. Aggarwal, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center PC co-chairs: - Jie Tang, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University - Jianyong Wang, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University - Irwin King, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Regional Organization co-chairs: - Ruoming Jin, Computer Science Department, Kent State University - Ee-Peng Lim, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University - Marie-Francine Moens, Department of Computer Science of K.U. Leuven - Jimeng Sun, IBM TJ Watson lab - Hwanjo Yu, Computer Science Department University of Iowa - Xingquan Zhu, University of Technology Sydney * General enquiries: --------------------- Zhichun Wang (Tsinghua U.) email: adma11thu&lt; at &gt;gmail.com fax: 86010-62794365 website: http://adma2011.arnetminer.org/ _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-06-22T00:27:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/157 <pre>/* Apologies for multiple postings */ IEEE ICDM 2011 Call for Papers ICDM '11: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining *************************************************************** Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society December 11-14, 2011, Vancouver, Canada http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/ Important Dates *************** April 1, 2011: Workshop proposals June 17, 2011: ICDM paper submission (11:59pm Hawaii time) June 24, 2011: Demo and Tutorial submission August 5, 2011: Workshop paper submission September 16, 2011: ICDM paper notifications September 23, 2011: Workshop paper notifications The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining. The 11th edition of ICDM (ICDM '11) provides a leading forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature invited talks from research and industry leaders, workshops, tutorials, panels, and the ICDM data mining contest. Paper Submissions ***************** High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for ICDM '11. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All papers will be triple-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/submission-guidelines) will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '11 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. Please click here (http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2011/icdm11/scripts/submit.php) to submit your papers to ICDM2011. ICDM Best Paper Awards ********************** IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best application paper, and (3) the best student paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best research paper award and application -oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The best student paper award will be given to the authors of the best paper written solely by one or more students. Tutorials ********* ICDM '11 will host short and long tutorials that focus on new research directions and initiatives. The deadline for submission of tutorial proposals is June 24, 2011. Please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/call-for/call-for-tutorials) to see Call for Tutorials. Workshops ********* ICDM '11 will host short and long workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The deadline for workshop proposals is April 1, 2011. The deadline for Workshop paper submissions is August 5, 2011. Please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/workshops) to see the workshop details. ICDM Data Mining Contest ************************ ICDM '11 will host a data mining contest to challenge researchers and practitioners with a real practical data mining problem. For further details on the contest, please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/contest). ICDM Data Mining Demos and Exhibits *********************************** ICDM '11 will host demos and exhibits. The exhibitors will be given the opportunity to distribute product, service, and company literature, give demonstrations and carry out recruitment activities. Demos are solicited for demonstrating data mining software systems and libraries closely related to the area of data mining and knowledge discovery, or showing new technological advances in applying data mining techniques. Please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011//call-for/call-for-demo) to see Call for Demos. Topics of Interest ****************** Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: data mining foundations, mining in emerging domains, methodological aspects and the KDD process, and integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences. - Data mining foundations Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, pattern discovery, and association analysis) Models and algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific domains Developing a unifying theory of data mining Mining sequences and sequential data Mining spatial and temporal datasets Mining textual and unstructured datasets Distributed data mining High performance implementations of data mining algorithms Privacy and anonymity-preserving data analysis - Mining in emerging domains Stream Data Mining Mining moving object data, RFID data, and data from sensor networks Ubiquitous knowledge discovery Mining multi-agent data and agent-based data mining Mining and link analysis in networked settings: web, social and computer networks, and online communities Mining the semantic web Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks - Methodological aspects and the KDD process Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation Quality assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining Handling imbalanced data Automating the mining process and other process related issues Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models Human-machine interaction and visual data mining Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining Data mining query languages Security and data integrity - Integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, ecoinformatics Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research Customer relationship management Telecommunications, network and systems management Sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation systems Student Travel Scholarships *************************** A limited number of student travel scholarships will be available to support student authors to attend ICDM 2011 to present their papers. The student travel scholarship committee will make the final decision for the final awarded students. In general, US$500 to US$1000 will be awarded to each successful applicant. Organizing Committee ******************** Conference Co-Chairs: Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada) Wei Wang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Program Co-Chairs: Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA) Steering Committee: Xindong Wu (Chair) (University of Vermont, USA) David J. Hand (Imperial College, London, UK) Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia) Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA) Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets, USA) Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane University, Japan) Benjamin W. Wah (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Osmar R. Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada) Local Arrangements Chair: Martha Casey-Knight (Independent Consultant - Event Coordinator at the Prevention of Organ Failure Centre of Excellence, Vancouver) Carson Leung (University of Manitoba, Canada) Finance Chair: Charles X. Ling (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Wei Ding (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks, USA) Workshop Co-Chairs: Myra Spiliopoulou (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Haixun Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Tutorial Co-Chairs: Evimaria Terzi (Boston University, USA) Jure Leskovec (Stanford University, USA) Exhibits and Demos Co-Chairs: Ming Hua (Facebook, USA) Alex Thomo (University of Victoria, Canada) Contest Co-Chairs: Ashok Srivastava (NASA Ames, USA) Larry Holder (Washington State University, USA) PhD Forum Co-Chairs: Rosa Meo (University of Torino, Italy) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking, Italy) Publicity Co-Chairs: Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) Latifur Khan (University of Texas at Dallas) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China) Panel Chair: George Karypis (University of Minnesota, USA) Documentation Chair: Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks, USA) Web Master: Justin Fagnan (University of Alberta) Further Information ******************* Please contact ICDM 2011 Chairs by email: ICDM2011Chairs&lt; at &gt;gmail.com _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-06-06T08:23:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/156 <pre>Fourth Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies and Success Stories and Fourth Data Mining Practice Prize (DMCS 2011) http://www.dataminingcasestudies.com/&lt;http://emuch.net/bbs/url.php?s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dataminingcasestudies.com%2F&gt; December 10, 2011 Vancouver, Canada to be held in conjunction with ICDM 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Vancouver, Canada, December 11-14, 2011 http://icdm2011.cs.ualberta.ca/&lt;http://emuch.net/bbs/url.php?s=http%3A%2F%2Ficdm2011.cs.ualberta.ca%2F&gt; Call For Papers --------------------------------------------------------------- Motivation: solve practical problems. Yet a cursory examination of the publications shows that few papers describe a completed implementation or what we will term a “case study”. The small number of case studies is counter-balanced by their prominence. Anecdotally case studies are one of the most discussed topics at data mining conferences. Some of the benefits of good case studies include 1. Inspiration: Case studies provide examples that can inspire data mining researchers to pursue important new technical directions. 2. Innovation: Data mining case studies demonstrate how whole problems were solved - not just part of the problem. Often building the prediction algorithm is only 10% of the problem - the other aspects that comprise a successful deployment are valuable for practitioners to understand. 3. Education: People are more likely to remember stories than facts. 4. Media Coverage: The media is more likely to report on completed data mining applications, than they are on isolated algorithms. We have an opportunity to present positive success stories to the wider community. 5. Public relations: Applications, particularly those that are socially beneficial, will help our perception both within the wider public and other scientific fields. 6. Connections to Other Scientific Fields: Completed systems knit together a range of scientific and engineering disciplines such as signal processing, chemistry, optimization theory, auction theory and so on. Fostering meaningful connections to these fields will benefit data mining academically, and will assist data mining practitioners to learn how to harness these fields to develop successful applications. The Workshop: The Data Mining Case Studies Workshop and Practice Prize was established seven years ago to showcase the very best in data mining case deployments. Data Mining Case Studies continues with ICDM 2011. Data Mining Case Studies will highlight data mining implementations that have been responsible for a significant and measurable improvement in business operations, or an equally important scientific discovery, or some other benefit to humanity. Examples of Data Mining Case Studies from previous years have included: (a) a medical application that has save hundreds of lives by mining through hundreds of thousands of patient records to identify patients who have show all the signs for heart disease, yet have not been prescribed heart medication, (b) a system which has uncovered hundreds of millions in sheltered tax evasion rings, (c) a system which has raised revenue by improved cross-selling of computer peripherals and equipment. Data Mining Case Studies will allow papers greater latitude in (a) range of topics - authors may touch upon areas such as optimization, operations research, inventory control, and so on, (b) page length - longer submissions are allowed, (c) scope - more complete context, problem and solution descriptions will be encouraged, (d) prior publication - if the paper was published in part elsewhere, it may still be considered if the new article is substantially more detailed, (e) novelty – the use of established techniques to achieve successful implementations will be given partial allowance. Unsuccessful data mining systems that describe lessons learned and “war stories” will also be assessed. ---------------------------------- The Data Mining Practice Prize ---------------------------------- Introduction: The Data Mining Practice Prize will be awarded for the best Data Mining Case Study submission. The prize will be awarded for work that has had a significant and quantitative impact in the application in which it was applied, or has significantly benefited humanity. Detailed rules and regulations will be finalized upon workshop acceptance. Eligibility: All papers submitted to Data Mining Case Studies will be eligible for the Data Mining Practice Prize, with the exception of the Data Mining Practice Prize Committee. Eligible authors must consent to allowing the Practice Prize Committee independently validate their claims by contacting third parties and their deployment client for independent verification and analysis. Award: Winners and runners up can expect an impressive array of honors including 1. Prize money comprising $500 for first place, $300 for second place, $200 for third place. 2. Plaque. 3. Awards Dinner with organizers and prize winners. Topics: Most operational industrial and scientific systems that involve data mining to some extent are likely to be acceptable. Systems that are responsible for mission critical systems, medical applications, cash flow, or applications that significantly benefit humanity will be particularly good candidates. If you are unsure as to the suitability of your paper, please contact the organizers with your topic at the email address at the bottom of the page. Topics include but are not limited to - Genomics - Inventory control - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - ShopBots - Recommendation systems - Auction trading systems - Clinical patient monitoring - Seismic Data interpretation - Survival analysis for medical procedures - Climate analysis - Correlates of genes with disease - Dangerous Drug interactions - Law enforcement applications - Search Engine Marketing - Food spoilage elimination - Price optimization - Data visualization in mission-critical user interfaces - Text understanding Dates: Notify organizers of intent to submit: Now Submissions open: May 8Optional Draft submission including client contact information*: Jun 15Final submission including client contact information if it has not already been provided: Jul 23Notification of acceptance: Sep 23 Camera ready paper submission: Oct 11 Workshop held, Practice Prize winners announced : Dec 10 * Although this is an optional deadline, we encourage authors to make use of the opportunity to submit their drafts and receive early feedback on their paper. Submission instructions: In order to contact the organizers, submit, or for any other correspondence, please use the following email address submissions&lt; at &gt;dataminingcasestudies.com 1. Please email the organizers as early as possible with your intention to submit. 2. If possible, it is recommended that you provide an optional draft of the article by the draft submission date. This draft will only be viewed by the Chairs - it will not be given to the reviewers or affect the prize competition. 3. Please provide us with three persons who use the system in their day to day activities, or are responsible for the system, and who may be contact to validate the claims made in the paper. Ideally these individuals belong to a different company than the authors. Also, ideally these individuals are not personal acquaintances or friends of the authors. 4. Provide your author names, addresses, affiliations, phone numbers and email. Also note the nature of relationship of each contact to the system and authors. Finally, provide any information of relevance to contacting deployment users. 5. Please submit your completed article, in IEEE Proceedings format to the email address above. Due to editing requirements for the Workshop Proceedings, we strongly encourage documents to be submitted in Microsoft Word format. Guidelines: 1. Word limits: Word limits will be relaxed for submission to Data Mining Case Studies, so that participants may explain their problem and solution in as much detail as necessary to both captivate the reader and explain the solution. The maximum submission page length will be 20 pages. Despite the longer page length, articles will be critically assessed for relevancy, and authors risk rejection if their articles do not keep the reader's interest. In addition, the PC will look for ways to cut the article, and so any recommendations made by the PC for cutting the article will need to be followed to prior to inclusion in the workshop program 2. Commercial product mentions: Data Mining Case Studies is not a sales venue. References to commercial products will be carefully scrutinized by our Program Committee for applicability. Where possible the underlying techniques should be described. The purpose of Data Mining Case Studies is to illustrate real applications with descriptions that are concise and complete. Commercial software if introduced, should be named briefly and then described at a technical level (eg. don't mention that "SAS Neural Nets(TM) increased our forecast accuracy by 20%" - instead say that you used 'SAS PROC Neural Net(TM)' which implemented a 3- layer sigmoidal backpropagation model with 10 inputs, 4 hidden and 1 output node, and this net increased forecast accuracy by 20%". Any papers violating these ethics will be deemed inadmissible. If in doubt please contact the organizers prior to submission. We will allow a single product mention along the lines described above, and this should be sufficient for establishing commercial credibility. 3. Valid contact information for the company that deployed the data mining system must be supplied to the Program Committee. The Program Committee should be afforded the right to contact individuals that were the beneficiaries of the data mining system and ask them questions about the implementation. In particular, the claims made in the paper submission will need to be verified. Failure to provide factual or complete descriptions of results obtained with the system, that are discovered through this fact checking process, will result in forfeiture of prize and dismissal from the conference. The Prize Committee will endeavor to be discrete in its contacts, so please inform us of any information we need to know before contacting the system users. 4. Copyright: Authors will agree to allow the display of their articles on the web. Authors should also agree to allow their articles to be published in book form. If authors wish to opt out of website or book publication, please contact the Workshop organizers. 5. Confidentiality: The reviewing process will be confidential. Venue: ICDM 2011: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December 11-14, 2011, Vancouver, Canada Organizing Committee: Wei Ding, PhD, University of Massachusetts Gabor Melli, Prediction Works Brendan Kitts, Lucid Commerce Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, PhD, President, KD-Nuggets Robert Grossman, PhD, University of Chicago and Open Data Group Peter van der Putten, PhD., Leiden University and Pegasystems Karl Rexer, PhD., Rexer Analytics Gang Wu, PhD, Microsoft Jing Ying Zhang, PhD, Microsoft Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics Richard Bolton, PhD., KnowledgeBase Marketing, Inc. Ricardo Vilalta, PhD. University of Houston Further Information http://www.dataminingcasestudies.com&lt;http://emuch.net/bbs/url.php?s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dataminingcasestudies.com&gt; _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-06-03T02:11:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/155 <pre>/* Apologies for multiple postings */ IEEE ICDM 2011 Call for Papers ICDM '11: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining *************************************************************** Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society December 11-14, 2011, Vancouver, Canada http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/ Important Dates *************** April 1, 2011: Workshop proposals June 17, 2011: ICDM paper submission (11:59pm Hawaii time) June 24, 2011: Demo and Tutorial submission August 5, 2011: Workshop paper submission September 16, 2011: ICDM paper notifications September 23, 2011: Workshop paper notifications The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining. The 11th edition of ICDM (ICDM '11) provides a leading forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature invited talks from research and industry leaders, workshops, tutorials, panels, and the ICDM data mining contest. Paper Submissions ***************** High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for ICDM '11. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All papers will be triple-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/submission-guidelines) will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '11 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. Please click here (http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2011/icdm11/scripts/submit.php) to submit your papers to ICDM2011. ICDM Best Paper Awards ********************** IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best application paper, and (3) the best student paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best research paper award and application -oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The best student paper award will be given to the authors of the best paper written solely by one or more students. Tutorials ********* ICDM '11 will host short and long tutorials that focus on new research directions and initiatives. The deadline for submission of tutorial proposals is June 24, 2011. Please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/call-for/call-for-tutorials) to see Call for Tutorials. Workshops ********* ICDM '11 will host short and long workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The deadline for workshop proposals is April 1, 2011. The deadline for Workshop paper submissions is August 5, 2011. Please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/workshops) to see the workshop details. ICDM Data Mining Contest ************************ ICDM '11 will host a data mining contest to challenge researchers and practitioners with a real practical data mining problem. For further details on the contest, please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011/contest). ICDM Data Mining Demos and Exhibits *********************************** ICDM '11 will host demos and exhibits. The exhibitors will be given the opportunity to distribute product, service, and company literature, give demonstrations and carry out recruitment activities. Demos are solicited for demonstrating data mining software systems and libraries closely related to the area of data mining and knowledge discovery, or showing new technological advances in applying data mining techniques. Please click here (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~icdm2011//call-for/call-for-demo) to see Call for Demos. Topics of Interest ****************** Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: data mining foundations, mining in emerging domains, methodological aspects and the KDD process, and integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences. - Data mining foundations Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, pattern discovery, and association analysis) Models and algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific domains Developing a unifying theory of data mining Mining sequences and sequential data Mining spatial and temporal datasets Mining textual and unstructured datasets Distributed data mining High performance implementations of data mining algorithms Privacy and anonymity-preserving data analysis - Mining in emerging domains Stream Data Mining Mining moving object data, RFID data, and data from sensor networks Ubiquitous knowledge discovery Mining multi-agent data and agent-based data mining Mining and link analysis in networked settings: web, social and computer networks, and online communities Mining the semantic web Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks - Methodological aspects and the KDD process Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation Quality assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining Handling imbalanced data Automating the mining process and other process related issues Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models Human-machine interaction and visual data mining Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining Data mining query languages Security and data integrity - Integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, ecoinformatics Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research Customer relationship management Telecommunications, network and systems management Sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation systems Student Travel Scholarships *************************** A limited number of student travel scholarships will be available to support student authors to attend ICDM 2011 to present their papers. The student travel scholarship committee will make the final decision for the final awarded students. In general, US$500 to US$1000 will be awarded to each successful applicant. Organizing Committee ******************** Conference Co-Chairs: Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada) Wei Wang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Program Co-Chairs: Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA) Steering Committee: Xindong Wu (Chair) (University of Vermont, USA) David J. Hand (Imperial College, London, UK) Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia) Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA) Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets, USA) Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane University, Japan) Benjamin W. Wah (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Osmar R. Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada) Local Arrangements Chair: Martha Casey-Knight (Independent Consultant - Event Coordinator at the Prevention of Organ Failure Centre of Excellence, Vancouver) Carson Leung (University of Manitoba, Canada) Finance Chair: Charles X. Ling (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Wei Ding (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks, USA) Workshop Co-Chairs: Myra Spiliopoulou (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Haixun Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Tutorial Co-Chairs: Evimaria Terzi (Boston University, USA) Jure Leskovec (Stanford University, USA) Exhibits and Demos Co-Chairs: Ming Hua (Facebook, USA) Alex Thomo (University of Victoria, Canada) Contest Co-Chairs: Ashok Srivastava (NASA Ames, USA) Larry Holder (Washington State University, USA) PhD Forum Co-Chairs: Rosa Meo (University of Torino, Italy) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking, Italy) Publicity Co-Chairs: Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) Latifur Khan (University of Texas at Dallas) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China) Panel Chair: George Karypis (University of Minnesota, USA) Documentation Chair: Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks, USA) Web Master: Justin Fagnan (University of Alberta) Further Information ******************* Please contact ICDM 2011 Chairs by email: ICDM2011Chairs&lt; at &gt;gmail.com _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-05-17T01:42:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/153 <pre> ******************************************************************************** Call for Papers Third Workshop on Large-scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications (LDMTA 2011) in conjunction with SIGKDD2011, August 21-24, 2011, San Diego, CA, USA http://www.arnetminer.org/LDMTA2011 ******************************************************************************** Objectives With advances in data collection and storage technologies, large data sources have become ubiquitous. Today, organizations routinely collect terabytes of data on a daily basis with the intent of gleaning non-trivial insights on their business processes. To benefit from these advances, it is imperative that data mining and machine learning techniques scale to such proportions. Such scaling can be achieved through the design of new and faster algorithms and/or through the employment of parallelism. Furthermore, it is important to note that emerging and future processor architectures (like multi-cores) will rely on user-specified parallelism to provide any performance gains. Unfortunately, achieving such scaling is non-trivial and only a handful of research efforts in the data mining and machine learning communities have attempted to address these scales. At the other end of the spectrum, the past few years have witnessed the emergence of several platforms for the implementation and deployment of large-scale analytics. Examples of such platforms include Hadoop (Apache) and Dryad (Microsoft). These platforms have been developed by the large-scale distributed processing community and can not only simplify implementation but also support execution on the cloud making large-scale machine learning and data mining both affordable and available to all. Today, there is a large gap between the data mining/machine learning and the large scale distributed processing communities. To make advances in large-scale analytics it is imperative that both these communities work hand-in-hand. The intent of this workshop is to further research efforts on large-scale data mining and to encourage researchers and practitioners to share their studies and experiences on the implementation and deployment of scalable data mining and machine learning algorithms. Topics of Interest * Application case studies that showcase the need for large-scale machine learning/data mining. Areas of interest of interest include financial modeling, web mining, medical informatics, climate modeling, and mining retail and e-commerce data. * Parallel and distributed algorithms for large-scale machine learning/data mining, data preprocessing, and cleaning. * Exploiting modern and specialized hardware such as multi-core processors, GPUs, STI Cell processor, etc. * Memory hierarchy aware data mining/machine learning algorithms. * Streaming data algorithms for machine learning and data mining. * New platforms and/or programming model proposals for parallel/distributed machine learning and data mining for batch and/or stream domains. * Evaluation of platforms (such as Hadoop) and/or programming models (such as map-reduce) for batch and/or stream domains. * Performance studies comparing cloud, grid, and cluster implementations * Data intensive computing approaches * Future research challenges in cloud and data intensive computing Important dates and guidelines Submission deadline: May 21th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: June 10th, 2011 Final papers due: June 15th, 2011 All papers submitted should have a maximum length of 8 pages and must be prepared using the ACM camera‐ready template http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Authors are required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format. The submission site URL will be available on our website shortly. All submissions should clearly present the author information including the names of the authors, the affiliations and the emails. Submission site is located at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldmta2011 Workshop Co-chairs Dr. Chidanand Apte, IBM Research Prof. Nitesh V. Chawla, University of Notre Dame Dr. Amol Ghoting, IBM Research Prof. Yan Liu, University of Southern California Dr. Jimeng Sun, IBM Research Prof. Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Dr. Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Program Committee Shirish Tatikonda, IBM Research Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University Jeffrey Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Alexander Gray, Georgia Tech Prabhanjan Kambadur, IBM Research Rong Yan, Facebook Elad Yom-Tov, Yahoo! Research Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Saeed Salem, North Dakota State University Berthold Reinwald, IBM Research Yuan Yu, Microsoft Research Petros Drineas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Misha Bilenko, Microsoft Research Ron Bekkerman, LinkedIn Vijay Narayanan, Yahoo! Milind Bhandarkar, LinkedIn Tina Eliassi-Rad, Rutgers University Steering Committee Prof. Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University Prof. Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago Prof. Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-05-12T03:54:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/152 <pre>*** IMPORTANT UPDATES -- PLEASE READ *** * The paper submission deadline has been EXTENDED to May 15th, 2011 (2 week extension). * We will also accept submissions of SHORT PAPERS (position papers, late-breaking results, etc.) of up to 4 pages of content (see the Content Guidelines below for further details). --- Call for Papers - SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM 2011): Analysis of User Generated Content Under Crisis SWSM 2011 will take place in Beijing, China on July 28, 2011 during the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR conference. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss ideas related to searching and mining the social Web, with a special focus on the analysis of user generated content during human crises (e.g., earthquakes, terrorist attacks, etc.). Please be sure to visit http://arnetminer.org/SWSM_2011 for the latest information. * Overview The ubiquitous nature of Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, enables people to participate and interact with each other in various Web communities. Examples of such communities include forums, newsgroups, blogs, microblogs, bookmarking services, photo sharing platforms, and location-based services. Hence, the rapidly evolving social Web provides a platform for communication, information sharing, and collaboration. A vast amount of heterogeneous data (composed of e.g., text, photos, video, links) has been generated by the users of various social communities, which offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying novel theories and technologies for social Web search and mining. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing and exploring social media topics related to Web search and information retrieval, Web mining, social network analysis, semantic Web, natural language processing, and computational advertising. In addition to paper presentations, we will solicit invited talks and a panel that will stress the interdisciplinary challenges of social search and mining. * Special Theme: Social Web Search and Mining under Crisis Natural and man-made disasters are particularly important classes of events that are of interest to affected populations, governments, disaster response teams, and aid organizations. Information about such events can be gathered from various sources. While traditional news sources provide authoritative disaster information, self-publishing media such as blogs, Facebook, and Twitter can contribute immediate, personalized eye-witness information. However, there are many challenges involved when dealing with such data sources, especially when time is of the essence, as is often the case with human crises. Information is often incomplete, contradictory, fictitious, and changing. As a result, information is the least organized when users need it most. To highlight the importance of this emerging area, "Social Web Search and Mining Under Crisis" will serve as the workshop's special theme. Along these lines, the workshop seeks submissions that leverage news, social media, and user generated content to predict, analyze, understand, and help cope with events related to human crises, such as earthquakes, campus shootings, hurricanes, influenza pandemics, terrorist attacks, and oil spills. Novel applications, methods, and use of real-world data sets are particularly encouraged. A special session during the workshop will be devoted to papers that directly address the theme. * Topics of Interest We welcome papers in all areas of social Web search and data mining, especially those that address the special theme or are inter-disciplinary in nature. Examples of relevant topics include: - Search and mining algorithms for large-scale social networks - Real-time social search and mining infrastructures - Microblog (e.g., Twitter, QQ, Jaiku) search and mining - Search across heterogeneous user generated content - Content aggregation, summarization, and reasoning across multiple data streams - Personalized search for social interactions - Credibility and provenance of social Web content - Computational advertising for user generated content - Cross-media search and mining of user generated content - Collaborative filtering and recommender systems - Community detection and network evolution analysis - Sentiment analysis/opinion mining - Social network analysis and social influence analysis - Spam detection of social media - Geospatial and temporal analysis of social media - Applications of social search and mining - Detecting and preventing false alarms in social media * Important dates Submission deadline: May 15th, 2011 Notification date: June 1st, 2011 Camera ready: June 14th, 2011 Workshop: July 28, 2011 * Content Guidelines Papers should be no more than 10 pages total in length, where up to 8 pages (including appendices, if any) are used for the content of the paper and the final two pages are used only for references. In addition to full length papers, we will also consider submissions of short papers (position papers, late-breaking results, etc.) of up to 6 pages in length, where up to 4 pages (including appendices, if any) are used for the content of the paper and the final two pages are used only for references. All submissions must be prepared using the ACM camera‐ready template (available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Authors are required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format. Papers should be submitted electronically at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SWSM2011/. All submissions should clearly present the author information including the names of the authors, the affiliations and the emails. * Organizing Committee Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Labs, USA Eduard Hovy, University of California, USA Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Donald Metzler, University of Southern California, USA Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China * Program Committee Omar Alonso, Microsoft, USA Roi Blanco, Yahoo!, Barcelona Keke Cai, IBM China Research Lab, CN Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Labs, Spain Hong Cheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Isaac Councill, Pennsylvania State University, US Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France Karl Gyllstrom, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Kathy Mckeown, Columbia University, USA Gabriella Pasi, University di Milano Bicocca, Italy Ana-Maria Popescu, Yahoo! Labs, USA Kunal Punera, Yahoo! Research, USA Hema Raghavan, IBM Research, USA Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-05-04T01:38:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/151 <pre>Dear Colleagues: ========================================== Call for Papers ***Apologies for cross-posting*** The 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2011) 17-19 December 2011, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China http://adma2011.arnetminer.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2011) aims at bringing together the experts on data mining from around the world, and providing a leading international forum for the dissemination of original research findings in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems, as well as different applied disciplines with potential in data mining. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and indexed by EI. A selected number of the accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in Data &amp; Knowledge Engineering (indexed by *SCI*). High-quality papers that particularly address the intelligent systems issues will be highly recommended for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (*ACM TIST*) publication in their extensions in rapid review and publication. We call for papers on any topics of advanced data mining and applications, including but not limited to: * Advanced Data Mining Topics - Social network mining - Social search and analysis - Collective intelligence in the social Web - Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms - Mining on data streams - Graph and subgraph mining - Methodologies on large-scale data mining - Text, video, multimedia data mining - Web mining - High performance data mining algorithms - Modeling complex social systems - Evolution of social communities and social media - Collaborative filtering in social networks - Data mining visualization - Security and privacy issues - Competitive analysis of mining algorithms - Data Mining Applications * Social Network Applications - Scalable data preprocessing and cleaning techniques - Data mining systems in finance, sciences, retail, e-commerce - Emerging applications of large-scale data mining - Empirical study of data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining applications - DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, genomics, and biometrics - E-commerce and Web services - Medical informatics - Disaster prediction - Financial market analysis - Intelligent system - Application of data mining in education Submissions and Important Dates - Submission Deadline: July 7, 2011 - Notification of Acceptance: September 7, 2011 - Camera Ready Submission Due: September 23, 2011 Keynotes: --------- - Philip S. Yu, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago - Wolfgang Nejdl, Director of L3S Research Center, University of Hannover - Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland Organizing Committee: --------------------- General co-chairs: - Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering - Bing Liu, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago - Charu C. Aggarwal, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center PC co-chairs: - Jie Tang, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University - Jianyong Wang, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University - Irwin King, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Regional Organization co-chairs: - Ruoming Jin, Computer Science Department, Kent State University - Ee-Peng Lim, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University - Marie-Francine Moens, Department of Computer Science of K.U. Leuven - Jimeng Sun, IBM TJ Watson lab - Hwanjo Yu, Computer Science Department University of Iowa - Xingquan Zhu, University of Technology Sydney General enquiries: --------------------- Zhichun Wang (Tsinghua U.) email: adma11thu&lt; at &gt;gmail.com fax: 86010-62794365 website: http://adma2011.arnetminer.org/ _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Tony Wang 2011-04-16T00:20:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/141 <pre>*Call for Participation and Proposals* The Metadata Committee of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Nov 7th-11th, 2010. Shanghai, China ==Objectives== In the past decade, the semantic web technologies have been matured, and the amount of semantic data published on the Web has increased dramatically. The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), one of the major events for the Semantic Web, has collected data about the conference itself (e.g., papers, people and satellite events) since 2004. The data, along with data from several other Web-related conferences such as ESWC and WWW, is publicly accessible from the "Semantic Web Dog Food" (SWDF) server (http://data.semanticweb.org). The International Semantic Web Conference 2010 plans to extend the scope of the data it will collect about the event, and to encourage the development of innovative applications that use the ISWC data as well other linked data (including other SWDF data). The goal is to demonstrate the value of semantic technologies, to explore novel approaches in building semantic applications, and to better serve the Semantic Web community by "eating our own dog food". ==How to Participate== For this goal, ISWC 2010 establishes a Metadata Committee. Each member of the committee will be responsible for a specific project that contributes new data related to the conference or builds an application consuming the ISWC data. To participate in the committee, interested parties should submit a proposal for participation that contains information about * Type of the project (e.g., data contribution or application development) * Topic (e.g., scope of the data or the functionality of the application) * Brief description about the proposed approach * Project schedule * Participants and contact information Interested parties should email the proposal to the Metadata Committee Chair (Jie Bao, baojie&lt; at &gt;cs.rpi.edu) by the submission deadline. During ISWC 2010, participants of the committee will report their work at an "ISWC Metadata Demonstration Session" session. Successful participants are expected to submit a paper after the conference describing their projects. Selected papers will be published online at CEUR proceedings. ==Topics of the Proposal== Topics of the proposal include but are not limited to * New forms of data related to ISWC (e.g., about submissions, participants, schedule, on-site activities, etc.) * Mashup ISWC data with Social Web data (e.g., from Facebook or Twitter) * Visualization of ISWC data * Applications to improve real-time interactive of conference participants. * Better means for searching ISWC data * Applying ISWC data to improve community building * Discovering community-related knowledge from ISWC data ==Proposal Deadlines== * Proposal due: June 7th, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: June 14th, 2010 * Presentation about the project: Nov 7th-11th, 2010 (TBD) _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Jie Bao 2010-03-30T11:42:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/135 <pre>========================================================= 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010 held in conjunction with FOIS 2010 --- 2nd Call for Papers --- Submission deadline: January 29, 2010 ========================================================= http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4 INVITED SPEAKERS Simon Colton, Imperial College London Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Barcelona MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a foundation for further research and development. The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of FOIS 2010, as well as being co-located with several other relevant events, namely KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity; modular ontology languages (e.g., DDL, E-Connections, P-DL); reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems; - Applications: Semantic Web; Life Sciences; Bio-Ontologies; Natural Language Processing; ontologies of space and time; Ambient Intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: January 29, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Camera ready: March 11, 2010 Workshop day: May 11, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously unpublished papers. Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ). Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than January 29 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2010 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and will be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. The authors of accepted papers are also welcome to submit substantially extended versions to a planned special issue on 'Modularity in Ontologies' of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' (IOS Press). WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Jie Bao (Tetherless World Constellation &amp; Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Alex Borgida (Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA) Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy) Martin Dzbor (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Faezeh Ensan (Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada) Fred Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Silvio Ghilardi (Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy) John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK) Peter Haase (fluid Operations GmbH, Germany) Heinrich Herre (Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Vasant Honavar (Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Carsten Lutz (Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany) Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Lab Bremen, Germany) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Anne Schlicht (KR &amp; KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Thomas Schneider (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) Luciano Serafini (Centro Per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy) Stefano Spaccapietra (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (KR &amp; KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Andrei Tamilin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy) Dirk Walther (Department of Computer Science, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Frank Wolter (Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Jie Bao 2010-01-05T02:45:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/132 <pre>( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) ========================================================= 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010 co-located with FOIS, KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL --- 1st Call for Papers --- ========================================================= http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4 MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a foundation for further research and development. The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of FOIS 2010, as well as being co-located with several other relevant events, namely KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity; modular ontology languages (e.g., DDL, E-Connections, P-DL); reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems; - Applications: Semantic Web; Life Sciences; Bio-Ontologies; Natural Language Processing; ontologies of space and time; Ambient Intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: January 29, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Camera ready: March 11, 2010 Workshop day: May 11, 2010 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously unpublished papers. Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ). Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than January 29 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and will be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. The authors of accepted papers are also welcome to submit substantially extended versions to a planned special issue on 'Modularity in Ontologies' of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' (IOS Press). WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany) Jie Bao (Tetherless World Constellation &amp; Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Alex Borgida (Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA) Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy) Martin Dzbor (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton Keynes, UK) Fred Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Caixa Postal, Brazil) Silvio Ghilardi (Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy) John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK) Peter Haase (fluid Operations GmbH, Germany) Heinrich Herre (Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Vasant Honovar (Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Carsten Lutz (Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany) Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Lab Bremen, Germany) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Anne Schlicht (KR &amp; KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Thomas Schneider (Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) Luciano Serafini (Centro Per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy) Stefano Spaccapietra (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (KR &amp; KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany) Andrei Tamilin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy) Dirk Walther (Department of Computer Science, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Frank Wolter (Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Zakharyaschev (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Jie Bao 2009-10-11T17:44:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/131 <pre> 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2009 This year AOW 2009 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. Workshop Chairs: Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyer&lt; at &gt;meraka.org.za Kerry Taylor CSIRO ICT Centre Kerry.Taylor&lt; at &gt;csiro.au Program Committee: Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Michael Compton (CSIRO, Australia) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Deshendran Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University, Australia) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia) Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (Thammasat University, Thailand) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, Ireland) _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Kerry.Taylor< at >csiro.au 2009-09-18T00:46:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/129 <pre>( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) Call for Tutorials Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) 6-9 December, 2009 Shanghai, China http://www.aswc2009.org/ The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. In addition to the regular research track, ASWC 2009 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest. A tutorial should present the state of the art of a Semantic Web area and address the interests of a broad audience that includes (but not limited to) Semantic Web beginners, representatives of funding agencies, practitioners form the industrial community, and Semantic Web researchers. It may provide an introduction to technologies in Semantic Web or highly relevant areas (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Database and Information Retrieval), the application of Semantic Web in a specific domain, or other current issues and trends in appropriate depth. ==Submission== Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format and contain the following information * Type: full day or half day. * Abstract: 200 words maximum, which will be published at the ASWC website. * Justification: Relevance to the conference and relations to similar tutorials presented at other events. * Description: goals, targeted audience with prerequisite knowledge, presentation method, software will be used, and hands-on session planning (if there will be one; such a session is encouraged). * Outline and schedule * Equipment requirements * Information of the presenters: names, affiliation, contact, homepage, expertise and teaching experiences. The proposal should be submitted as a pdf file using the ASWC 2009 submission system on easychair (Please select the Tutorial Track): https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=aswc2009 Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the ASWC 2009 organizing committee based on its relevance to the conference, content and presentation method, and presenters’ expertise. ==Tutorial Organizer's Responsibilities== For accepted tutorials, the organizers should * Maintain a website that describes the tutorial, and provides relevant resources, e.g., slides, software and additional references. The website URL should be ready to review by the ASWC Tutorial Chair by 5th Nov 2009. * At the conference, handle the distribution of tutorial materials, except for the hard copies of the tutorial handouts which will be printed by ASWC. If software is required for participants for hands-on sessions, please make sure to have accessible media (e.g., CDs or USB sticks) for participants to install. ==Important Dates== * 15 Sept 2009: Proposal submission due (Extended) * 22 Sept 2009: Notification of proposal acceptance * 5 Nov 2009: Website URL and tutorial handouts, PDF preferred) to tutorial chair ==Tutorial Chair== Jie Bao - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, baojie AT cs.rpi.edu _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Jie Bao 2009-09-09T16:43:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.loom/127 <pre>( WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE ) Call for Workshops, Tutorials, Posters, and Demos Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) 6-9 December, 2009 Shanghai, China http://www.aswc2009.org/ The Asian Semantic Web Conference is the yearly conference on theoretical foundations, technological building blocks and practical applications of semantic technologies on the Asian continent. Targeted at both academia and industry, the conference will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will bring together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. Besides presenting papers including latest research in the Semantic Web area, this year the conference will also include workshops, tutorials and a poster and demo session. For these three events, we welcome submissions that are aligned with the topics of the conference (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track). Further details about the calls for workshops, tutorials, posters, and demos can be found in the conference web page: * ASWC2009 Call for Workshops (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callworkshops) * ASWC2009 Call for Tutorials (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/calltutorials) * ASWC2009 Call for Posters and Demos (http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callpostersdemos) ===Important dates=== 'Workshop Track * Proposal due: 27 Aug 2009 * Notification : 3 Sept 2009 * The important dates for accepted workshops are: ** Paper Submissions: 3 Oct 2009 ** Paper Notification: 15 Oct 2009 ** Paper Camera-ready: 22 Oct 2009 ** Workshop days: 6-7 Dec 2009 Tutorial Track * 10 Sept 2009: Proposal submission * 17 Sept 2009: Notification * 5 Nov 2009: Tutorial notes (handouts) to tutorial chair * Tutorial days: 6-7 Dec 2009 Poster and Demo Track * Poster and demo submission: 17 Sept 2009 * Notification of acceptance: 1 Oct 2009 * Camera-ready version: 15 Oct 2009 ** Poster and Demo days: 8-9 Dec 2009 ===Contacts=== * ASWC2009 Workshop Chair: Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea (hgkim&lt; at &gt;snu.ac.kr) * ASWC2009 Tutorial Chair: Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (baojie&lt; at &gt;cs.rpi.edu) * ASWC2009 Poster and Demo Chair: Raúl García-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (rgarcia&lt; at &gt;fi.upm.es) _______________________________________________ Loom Knowledge Representation Language Forum loom-forum&lt; at &gt;isi.edu Change subscription: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/loom-forum </pre> Jie Bao 2009-08-17T09:18:22 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.ai.loom