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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34524 <pre>********************* Deadline Extension: 4th June 2012 ********************* ** Apologies for cross-posting ** =============================================================================== Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society (Meta4eS) - part of the OnTheMove Conferences &amp; Workshops - Rome, Italy, 10-14 September 2012 Website: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/meta4es-2012 =============================================================================== Supported by: - Open Semantic Cloud for Brussels (OSCB, http://www.oscb.be/) Project - IFIP TC 12 WG 12.7 – Social Networking Semantics and Collective Intelligence With a special keynote session (tba). =============================================================================== SCOPE The future e-Society - renamed “OnTheMoveSociety” in the context of OTM 2012 - is a society created by extensive use of digital technologies at all levels of interaction between its members. It is a society that evolves based on knowledge and that empowers individuals by creating virtual communities that benefit from social inclusion, access to information, enhanced interaction and freedom of expression, among other. This leads to radical changes in the dynamics and the interaction between its members, determining new economic scenarios. The e-Society benefits from the ability to compress both space and time, which allows sharing large amounts of data in real time anywhere in the world. In this context, the role of the World Wide Web and the telecommunication technologies in the way people and organisations exchange information and interact in the social cyberspace is crucial. Large amounts of structured data are being published and shared and a growing number of services and applications emerge from it. The applications must be designed in such a way to help people use their knowledge at best and generate new knowledge in return, while keeping intact their privacy and confidentiality, whether it is in e-Health, e-Government, e-Democracy or in any other area of the e-Society. A current popular initiative adopted by a growing number of actors from transversal domains (e.g. governments, city municipalities, etc.) encourage publishing structured data (e.g. RDF) on the Web of Data. Managing such data in order to make sense of it by producing services and applications for end-user consumption from government and public bodies data is presently a huge challenge for the research community. This initiative takes into account methods for the creation and consumption of structured data and tools that make possible their application by end-users to real-life situations, as well as their evaluation. The final aim is to lower the barrier between end-users and information and communication technologies through contributions to the e-Society such as multilingual information, information visualisation, privacy and trust, rich multimedia retrieval, etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, professionals and experts interested to discuss, demonstrate and share best practices, ideas and results around the creation and particularly the consumption of structured data for the e-Society. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics related to methods, tools and applications for the creation and consumption of Structured Data (SD) for e-Society and their evaluation are of interest. These include (but are not limited to) best practices, case studies and tendencies related to: * Ontology Evolution from Social Processes * Exploitation of Natural Language Resources in the Creation and Consumption of SD * Automatic Multimedia Annotation * Semantic-driven Multimedia Retrieval * Mining Structured Data of Natural Language Resources from Unstructured Data * Exploiting Multilingual Terminology for SD Consumption * Database Atomisation * Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Data applied to e-Society * Scientific Visualisation of SD * SD Contribution to e-Society * Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing in e-Society * Best Practices in Consuming SD for e-Society * Lightweight Ontology Creation Methodologies for e-Society * Ontology in Use for e-Society Applications * Security, Privacy and Trust in Consuming SD * Evaluation (of above-mentioned Methodologies, Tools and Applications) * Usability and Socio-Technical Systems Theory applied to SD in e-Society * Research Projects and Live Demos regarding Applications of SD for e-Society IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract Submission: 31 May 2012 * Paper Submission: 4 June 2012 * Demo &amp; Poster Abstract Submission: 4 June 2012 * Acceptance Notification: 2 July 2012 * Camera Ready Due: 16 July 2012 * Registration Due: 16 July 2012 * OTM Conferences and Workshops: 10-14 September 2012 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three members of the workshop Program Committee, based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English and are of two types: full papers and demo and poster abstracts. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding references and appendices), and should not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Demo and poster abstracts should be 2 pages long. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style and submitted in PDF format. Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper Papers, demos and posters presenting ongoing studies around the workshop’s topics are encouraged for submission. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by Springer Verlag LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the workshop automatically excludes a paper from the Conference Proceedings. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Ioana Ciuciu Vrije Universiteit Brussel E-mail: iciuciu-t4LwSHXjkAOzQB+pC5nmwQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org * Anna Fensel STI Innsbruck E-mail: anna.fensel-gOJVKLtyGk4&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Adrian M. P. Brasoveanu, MODUL Vienna University, Austria * Alberto Messina, Multimedia Information Engineering Area RAI - Centro Ricerche e Innovazione Tecnologica, Italy * Alejandro Vaisman, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium * Alina Dia Miron, Recognos, Romania * AndreaKo, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary * Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Andres Dominguez Burgos, Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium * Andriy Nikolov, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, United Kingdom * Bart Jansen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Christophe Debruyne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Christophe Roche, University Savoie, France * Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom * Cristian Vasquez, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom * Davor Meersman, Curtin University, Australia * Delia David, Facebook, California, US * Doina Tatar, University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway * Efstratios Kontopoulos, School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University, Greece * Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Erik Mannens, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium * Esteban Zimanyi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium * Fouad Zablith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon * Frederik Temmermans, Universum Digitalis, Belgium * Georgios Meditskos, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece * Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * John Domingue, Open University, United Kingdom * Koen Kerremans, Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium * Liliana Ibanescu, AgroParisTech &amp; I.N.R.A. Mét&lt; at &gt;risk, France * Magali Séguran, SAP Research, France * Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela * Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext, Bulgaria * Marta Sabou, MODUL Vienna University, Austria * NMike Matton, VlaamseRadio en Televisieomroep, Belgium * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine * Ozelín Lopez,Playence, Austria * Peter Spyns, EWI Flamish Government, Belgium * Pieter de Leenheer, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands * Roger Roberts, Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Belgium * Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece * Yan Tang, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Yuri Katkov, Wikivote! ltd, St. Petersburg National University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia _______________________________________________ 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> Anna Fensel 2012-05-26T11:22:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34523 <pre>CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012 Design, Development, and Use of Secure Electronic Voting Systems A book edited by Dr. Dimitrios Zissis (University of the Aegean, Greece) and Dr. Dimitrios Lekkas (University of the Aegean, Greece) We would like to invite you to contribute manuscripts for consideration and publication in ?Design, Development, and Use of Secure Electronic Voting Systems?, a forthcoming edited book which is scheduled for publication by IGI Global in 2013. This publication shall attempt to evaluate whether or not the field of electronic voting has reached a stage of relative maturity due to the intense research and scrutiny that has occurred in the field over recent years. For almost two decades now, countries across the globe, have been conducting trials and holding pilots to evaluate the benefits and detriments of electronic voting in an asynchronous and decentralized manner. In some countries, electronic voting has been successfully deployed while others have decided to completely abandon these projects. This publication shall attempt to shed light on the field and provide a concise analysis on the successes, but most critically, the failures encountered during these years. A methodological analysis of experiences shall lead to the development of a design framework, with recommendations of considerations that can assist in decisions regarding deployment choices, but also system features, prerequisites and requirements. We are currently inviting prospective authors to submit their manuscript proposals for peer review. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30 2012, a 1-2 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Proposals should be sent as doc or pdf files to ?dzissis-LtZK4EuW0GpQFI55V6+gNQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org?. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 30, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2012. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Accordingly, this call for book chapters will assemble an edited collection of chapters covering various aspects of electronic voting, but with emphasis on design and development in respect to security. For additional information regarding this publication, please visit http://www.syros.aegean.gr/users/dzissis/evoting/ . The Editors, Dimitrios Zissis &amp; Dimitrios Lekkas _______________________________________________ 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> Dimitris Zissis 2012-05-26T08:28:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34522 <pre> ********** Apologies for cross-postings ********** ********** Deadline extension ********** 8th Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 12) September 3, 2012 to be held in conjunction with BPM 2012 Tallin, Estland September 3rd - September 6th 2012 http://www.win.tue.nl/bpi2012 CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Business Process Intelligence (BPI) is an area that is quickly gaining interest and importance in industry and research. BPI refers to the application of various measurement and analysis techniques in the area of business process management. In practice, BPI is embodied in tools for managing process execution quality by offering several features such as analysis, prediction, monitoring, control, and optimization. The goal of this workshop is to provide a better understanding and a more appropriate support of a company's processes at design time and the way they are handled at runtime. We aim to bring together practitioners and researchers from different communities such as business process management, information systems research, business administration, software engineering, artificial intelligence, process mining, and data mining who share an interest in the analysis of business processes and process-aware information systems. The workshop aims at discussing the current state of ongoing research and sharing practical experiences. The list of topics that are relevant to the BPI workshop includes the following, but is not limited to: Analysis Techniques at design time and/or runtime: -Mining of business processes -Statistical analysis in the business process management lifecycle -Reasoning related to business process -Business process visualization -Machine-learning and business processes -Measurement of business process models and business process modelling -Retrieval related to business process management -Similarity related to processes and cases -Integration of processes and process models -Mathematical optimization -Simulation of business processes Applications of such analysis techniques and case studies in: -Performance Measurement of business processes -Business Process Reengineering -Business Process Quality -Emergent workflows -Process discovery -Conformance and risk management for business processes -Operations Management and Six Sigma -Data warehousing -Static and dynamic optimization -Self-management -Monitoring of business processes -Resource Allocation in business processes -Prediction -Dynamic composition of business processes Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality and technical quality. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution and the relation to previous research. The submission should clearly emphasize the discussion aspects relevant to the workshop. During the workshop, the winners of the second international Business Process Intelligence Challenge will be announced. Submission guide: ================ The length of a paper must not exceed 12 pages, and there is no possibility to buy additional pages. Authors are requested to prepare submissions according to the LNCS/LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0) specified by Springer. The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. Papers should be submitted electronically through easychair (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=bpi2012). Members of an international and solid program committee will review all submissions. Each paper will be reviewed by 3 PC members guaranteeing that only papers presenting high quality and innovative research and practice issues in areas relevant to the workshop theme will be accepted. Important Dates: =============== Paper submission deadline: Friday, June 4, 2012 (new deadline) Notification of acceptance: Monday, July 2, 2012 Camera ready: Monday, July 30, 2012 Workshop day: Monday, September 3, 2012 Organizers: ========== - Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria (corresponding organizer) - Boudewijn van Dongen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Diogo R. Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal The workshop is co-organized by the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining. The goal of this Task Force is to promote the research, development, education and understanding of process mining. For more information about the activities of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining and its members see http://www.win.tue.nl/ieeetfpm/ Program Committee: ================= - Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros, Capgemini Consulting, The Netherlands - Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia - Jagadeesh Chandra Bose, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany - Walid Gaaloul, Insitut Telecom, France - Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria, Italy - Daniela Grigori, University of Versailles St-Quentin an Yvelines, France - Antonella Guzzo, University of Calabria, Italy - Jan Mendling, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany - Oscar Pastor, University of Valencia, Spain - ViaraPopova, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn - Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia - Anne Rozinat, Fluxicon, The Netherlands - Phina Soffer, University of Haita, Israel - Alessandro Sperduti, Padua University, Italy - Hans Weigand, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands - Ton Weijters, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute at University of Potsdam, Germany Steering Committee: ====================== - Malu Castellanos (HP, United States) - Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros (Capgemini, The Netherlands) - Jan Mendling (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) - Michael Zur Muehlen (Stevens Institute of Technology, United States) _______________________________________________ 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> Barbara Weber 2012-05-26T06:44:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34521 <pre>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers =============== 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM12) http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm12/ October 4-7, 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA, The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) has established itself as the premier research conference in bioinformatics and biomedicine. IEEE BIBM 2012 provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in bioinformatics and health informatics. It brings together academic and industrial scientists from computer science, biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics and statistics. We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) in any aspect of bioinformatics and biomedicine. New computational techniques and methods in machine learning; data mining; text analysis; pattern recognition; knowledge representation; databases; data modeling; combinatorics; stochastic modeling; string and graph algorithms; linguistic methods; robotics; constraint satisfaction; data visualization; parallel computation; data integration; modeling and simulation and heir application in life science domain are especially encouraged Relevant topics include but are not limited to: 1.Genomics and Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution a. Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics b. Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative Genomics c. SNPs and haplotype analysis, GWAS d. Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions 2. Computational Systems Biology a. Transcriptomics - Microarray Data Analysis b. Gene Regulation, Alternative Splicing, Network/Pathway Analysis c. Proteomics, PTMs, Metabolomics d. Epigenomics, non-coding RNA analysis, DNA methylation analysis 3. Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics a.Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and Electronic Health Record b.Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis c.Genome-Phenome Analysis d.Biomarker Discovery 4.Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure a.Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies b.Biological Data Mining and Visualization c.Computational Modeling and Data Integration d.High Performance Computing 5.Healthcare Informatics a.Healthcare knowledge representation &amp; reasoning b.Health data acquisition, analysis and mining c.Healthcare information systems d.Clinical Decision Support and Informatics INDUSTRIAL Track The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Bioinformatics and Biomedicine solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of bioinformatics and biomedicine technologies in industry. We accept full papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstracts (2-4 pages), as well as short abstracts (1 page, 500 words). * Journal special issues: IEEE BIBM has a tradition to publish selected papers as special issues in highly respected journals. So far we have confirmed the special issues publications with 7 journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions onÊ System, Men and Cybernetics, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Proteomics Science,Ê Proteomics, Journal of Network Modeling and Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (In the past BIBM conference, the number of special issues is: BIBM 2011-8 special issues, BIBM 2010-7 special issues, BIBM 2009-4 special issues; BIBM 2008-4 special issues) * Student Travel Award: BIBM 2012 will offer as many as possible student travel awards to student authors (including post-doc) (BIBM 2011-28 student travel awards, BIBM 2010-22 student travel awards, BIBM 2009-16 student travel awards ) * Panel on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Research Challenges and Opportunities led by top researchers and program managers from NSF and NIH Conference Co-Chairs: Prof. Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA, ungar-bBguPyWdlyqyum0STUha2w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Prof. Cathy Wu, University of Delaware, USA, wuc-WXpzE+ht4YP2fBVCVOL8/A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Program Co-Chairs: Prof. Reda Alhaij, University of Calgary, Canada, rsalhajj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Prof. Jean Gao, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, gao-T8Ko1YDMqag&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Prof. Dubitzky Werner, University of Ulster, UK, W.Dubitzky-X0TtZdlT4kGFxr2TtlUqVg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Industry Program Committee Chair: Dr. Anastasia Christianson, AstraZeneca, USA, anastasia.christianson-pDEbSsVD8g2XhpQ5CvzBxw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org BIBM Steering Committee Chair: Prof. Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA, thu-qoZ3OA7KXKrDmsx6X+MebQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Paper Submission: Please submit a full-length paper (upto 8 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system (you can download the format instruction here http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/bibm12/cbc_index.html for Latex or word). Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required. Selected participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format to be specified at the time of acceptance. Online Submission: http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/bibm12/cbc_index.html Important Dates: Electronic submission of full papers : May 31, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance : July 20, 2012 Camera-ready of accepted papers : August 15, 2012 Conference : October 4-7, 2012 _______________________________________________ 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> Tansel Özyer 2012-05-26T04:01:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34520 <pre> Call for Papers --------------- Special Session “Warehousing and OLAPing Complex, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data” (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/WOCD2012/) of the 20th International Symposium on Methodologies on for Intelligence Systems (ISMIS 2012)(http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/ISMIS/), December 4-7, 2012, Macau, China. Selected papers from the session will be invited for submission to a special issue of Intelligent Data Analysis (http://iospress.metapress.com/content/103462/), IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl/). Aim and Scope ------------- Complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data arise in a plethora of modern database and data mining applications and complex information systems. Complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data require more and more for effective and efficient models, algorithms and techniques for representing, managing, querying, indexing and discovering useful knowledge beyond such kind of data. A successful solution to issues above consists in applying well-consolidated methodologies coming from the Data Warehousing and OLAP research area. This allows us to take advantages from several nice amenities supported by Data Warehousing and OLAP, such as multidimensional and multi-resolution representation and analysis, multidimensional aggregations, hierarchy-based data representation and mining, complex query answering tools, and so forth. Application fields where Data Warehousing and OLAP over complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data have already demonstrated their success are many-fold. Among these! , an unrestricted list is the following one: Warehousing and OLAPing Complex Database Objects; Warehousing and OLAPing Objects derived from Software Systems; Warehousing and OLAPing Data Streams; Warehousing and OLAPing Sensor Network Data; Warehousing and OLAPing RFID Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Sequence Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Graph Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Sample Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Text Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Spatial Data; Warehousing and OLAPing GIS Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Temporal Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Multi-Granularity Temporal Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Time Series Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Real-Time Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Trajectory Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Spatio-Temporal Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Multi-Resolution Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Web Data; Warehousing and OLAPing XML Data; Warehousing and OLAPing RDF Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Unstructured Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Semi-Structured Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Ontological! Datasets; Warehousing and OLAPing Hierarchical Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Heterogenous-In-Nature Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Scientific Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Microarray Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Biological Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Medical/Clinical Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Statistical Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Financial Data; Warehousing and OLAPing E-Commerce Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Business Process Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Workflow Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Mining Results; Warehousing and OLAPing Probabilistic Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Uncertain and Imprecise Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Distributed Data; Warehousing and OLAPing P2P Data; Warehousing and OLAPing Grid Datasets; Warehousing and OLAPing Cloud Datasets; Warehousing and OLAPing Mobile Data. As orthogonal to these emerging research contexts, a number of research challenges are capturing the attention of a large community of researchers. Among these, we recall: models, algorithms and techniques for warehousing and OLAPing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data; ETL approaches for warehousing and OLAPing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data; data integration approaches for warehousing and OLAPing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data; data cleaning approaches for warehousing and OLAPing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data; storage issues of warehousing and OLAPing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data; privacy-preserving issues of warehousing and OLAPing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data; models and techniques for representing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data in warehouse and OLAP environments; models, algorithms and techniques for managing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data in warehouse and OLAP environments; models, ! algorithms and techniques for querying complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data in warehouse and OLAP environments; models, algorithms and techniques for indexing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data in warehouse and OLAP environments; models, algorithms and techniques for mining complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data in warehouse and OLAP environments. Following the success of the track "Warehousing and OLAPing Complex, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data" of the 14th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2010) (http://perun.im.ns.ac.yu/adbis2010/index.php), held in Novi Sad, Serbia during September 20-24, 2010, the special session “Warehousing and OLAPing Complex, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data” (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/ISMIS2012/) of the LNCS 20th International Symposium on Methodologies on for Intelligence Systems (ISMIS 2012)(http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/ISMIS/), to be held in Macau, China, during December 4-7, 2012, focuses on these aspects, by posing the emphasis on a theoretical as well as a practical point of view, and provides a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in Warehousing and OLAPing complex, spatial and spatio-temporal data to meet and exchange preliminary ideas and mature results. Conference Location ------------------- Macau Fisherman’s Wharf - Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre (http://www.fishermanswharf.com.mo/eng/convention/meeting.html), Macau, China. Submission Guidelines and Instructions -------------------------------------- Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the indicated session topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Submitted papers should strictly follow the instructions to LNCS authors (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-2-72376-0&amp;SHORTCUT=www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html). Maximum regular camera-ready paper length allowed is 5,000 words. Submitted papers will be thoroughly reviewed by members of the Track Program Committee for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Submitted papers may be accepted as communications in additional local proceedings. Notification and reviews will be communicated via e-mail. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register. Abstracts (deadline May 25, 2012) should be sent by e-mail (preferably in an enclosed MS Word file) to the Program Chair Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea-NDmdch++Lh/uGSXGGgAgNEQJLXQMEiss&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Abstracts must include paper title, abstract, list of keywords, and list of authors with full names and affiliations. One of the authors must be designated as the primary contact point to receive notification and reviews. Papers (deadline June 1, 2012) should be submitted in PDF format via the ISMIS 2012 Online Submission System (http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/ismis12/cbc_index.html) by marking the following session: Special Session 5: Warehousing and OLAPing Complex, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data. Paper Publication ----------------- Accepted papers will appear in the ISMIS 2012 (http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/ISMIS/) proceedings, published by Springer (http://www.springer.com/) in the LNCS (http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=1-164-2-73659-0&amp;SHORTCUT=www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-164-2-73659-0,00.html) series. Authors of selected papers from the track will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of Intelligent Data Analysis (http://iospress.metapress.com/content/103462/), IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl/). Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: May 25, 2012 Paper submission: June 1, 2012 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2012 Camera-ready paper due: August 31, 2012 Conference: December 4-7, 2012 Program Committee Chair ----------------------- Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR &amp; University of Calabria, Italy (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) Program Committee ----------------- TBA For more information and any inquire, please contact Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea-NDmdch++Lh/uGSXGGgAgNF6hYfS7NtTn&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> Alfredo Cuzzocrea 2012-05-25T17:32:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34519 <pre>**** Apologies for cross-posting **** **** Please, acknowledge this message to your colleagues **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- new research paper deadline:June 4, 2012 - Full paper submission deadline CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence meets the Web of Data (AImWD-2012) co-located with European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2012) ( http://sites.google.com/site/aimwd12/ ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linked Data initiative aims at improving data publication on the Web, thereby creating a Web of Data: an interconnected, distributed, global data space. The Web of Data enables people to share structured data on the Web as easily as they can currently share documents on the Web of Documents (WWW). The basic assumption behind the Web of Data is that the value and usefulness of data increases with the amount of interlinking with other data. The emerging Web of Data includes datasets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Flickr, and DBLP. A tip of the iceberg representation of its content is behind maintained at http://lodcloud.net The availability of this global data space creates new opportunities for the exploitation of Artificial Intelligence techniques in relation with knowledge representation, information extraction, information integration, and intelligent agents. Two approaches can emerge: (i) using AI techniques to address the problems the Web of Data faces or, (ii) using the design principles of the Web of Data to improve knowledge representation within AI techniques. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on the Web of Data and/or Artificial Intelligence to discuss the union of these two research areas. Several core challenges, such as the interconnection of heterogeneous datasets, the provenance of the information and trust issues will be at the centre of the discussion. With this workshop, our goal is to contribute to the birth of a community having a shared interest around publishing data on the Web and exploring it using AI technologies â or the inverse, developing and improving AI technologies which use tools from the Web of Data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + Christophe Gueret (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) E-mail: c.d.m.gueret-Ka36YuUsYvQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org + Dino Ienco (IRSTEA) E-mail: dino.ienco-T1mfq5yVXxwVOD8scdeZLA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org + Francois Scharffe (LIRMM) E-mail: francois.scharffe-BUuzT83VEWE&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org + Serena Villata (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) E-mail: serena.villata-MZpvjPyXg2s&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of this field. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Use of machine learning algorithms for linking in the Web of Data * Inference techniques for answering questions using the Web of Data * Exploiting rich knowledge bases in the Web of Data * Intelligent agents exploiting the Web of Data * Use data mining techniques to schemas alignment in the Web of Data * Privacy and access control in the Web of Data * Licensing and provenance issues in the Web of Data * User interaction and usability issues in the Web of Data * Crawling, caching and querying the Web of Data * Web of Data search engines * Web of Data and Artificial General Intelligence * Case-Based Reasoning in the Web of Data * Natural language processing applied to the Web of Data ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are thrilled to have Jerome Euzenat (Research Director at INRIA Lab. of Grenoble) and Philippe CudrŽ-Mauroux (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as our confirmed invited speakers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - June 4, 2012 - Full paper submission deadline - June 28, 2012 - Notification of acceptance - July 10, 2012 - Camera-ready paper due - August 27-31, 2012 - ECAI Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The guidelines for paper submission are the following: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 12 A4-sized pages in LNCS format (format download: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please submit via the online paper submission system ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimwd2012 ) - A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of a relevant journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- According to the quality of the contributions, a portion of the papers will be selected for a special issue of the "Journal of Web Engineering". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Antonis Bikakis (University College London) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA &amp; LIG) Fabien Gandon (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Guido Govenatori (NICTA) Gianluca Demartini (University of Fribourg) Bettina Berendt (K.U Leuven) Roberto Naviglia (University of Romaâ La Sapienza) Peter Edwards (University of Aberdeen) Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari) Domenico Redavid (University of Bari) Ben Goertzel (Novamente) Harry Halpin (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) Dominik Benz (Kassel University) Martin Atzmueller (Kassel University) Dan Brickley (VU University Amsterdam) Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International) Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh) Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Axel Polleres (Siemens) Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southhampton) Michael Witbrock (Cycorp) Jun Zhao (Oxford University) Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento) Richard Cyganiak (DERI, Ireland) Michel Leclere (LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France) Madalina Croiturou (LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France) _______________________________________________ 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> Dino Ienco 2012-05-25T16:46:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34518 <pre>(Apologies for cross-postings) This short note to remind you that the paper submission deadline for the ECAI workshop on "Standards for Smart Applications" (S4SA) is May 28: that is, next Monday [1]. If you intend to submit a paper, but you are not sure if you can make the deadline, please contact me directly (see contact info on the workshop Web site). Also, the submission deadline is right after the notification of acceptance for RuleML (May 27), and one week after the notification of acceptance for ECAI (today 21 May): if your paper was rejected and you think that it is relevant to S4SA but you do not have the time to adapt it to the specific focus of the workshop, just add an explanation in front why it is relevant and how you will refocus it if accepted, and submit it. In most cases, we expect that it will be enough to help the PC decide about its value for S4SA. For the S4SA programme committee, Christian de Sainte Marie [1] http://sites.google.com/site/s4sa2012/ _______________________________________________ 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> Christian de Sainte Marie 2012-05-25T16:26:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34517 <pre>Deadline Extension!!!!!!!!! Due to numerous requests we are extending the deadline for the 4th TPC Technology Conference (TPCTC12) by two weeks. The new deadlines are: Abstract due June 8, 2012 Papers due June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2012 Camera-ready copies July 15, 2012 Workshop session August 27, 2012 Thanks, Raghu Nambiar Meikel Poess TPCTC Chairs ============================================================================================= Fourth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking August 27, 2012 Istanbul, Turkey collocated with VLDB12 Keynote Speaker Michael J. Carey University of California, Irvine, USA http://www.tpc.org/tpctc2012 ============================================================================================= The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization established in August 1988. Over two decades, it has shaped the landscape of modern transaction processing and database benchmarks. Over the last couple of years many new areas of very large database applications has emerged stressing the ability of today's hardware and software infrastructures e.g. cloud computing, social media etc. Yet the industry is lacking standard ways to evaluate different infrastructures. As a result, the TPC is conducting a third conference in conjunction with VLDB11 to encourage researchers and industry experts to submit novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization in the following areas: * Big Data analytics and infrastructure * Database Appliances * Cloud Computing * In-memory databases * Social media infrastructure * Business intelligence * Complex event processing * Database optimizations * Green computing * Disaster tolerance and recovery * Energy and space efficiency * Hardware innovations * Data Integration * Hybrid workloads * Virtualization * Lessons learned in practice using TPC workloads * Enhancements to TPC workloads Accepted papers will be published on the TPC website, ACM DL and DBLP, and considered for future TPC benchmark developments. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due June 8, 2012 Papers due June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2012 Camera-ready copies July 15, 2012 Workshop session August 27, 2012 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. We also encourage the submission of extended abstracts, position statement papers and lessons learned in practice. The length of a paper should not exceed 16 pages. All papers must comply with the Springer's LNCS format, described at http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Springer+CS+Proceedings+Author+Guidelines+19APR2011.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1121537-0 All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to the review website at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/TPCTC2012 GENERAL CHAIRS Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco, USA Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA ABOUT THE TPC The TPC currently has 18 full members: AMD, Bull, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, Huawai, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, redhat, Sybase an SAP Company, Teradata, Unisys and VMware; and three associate members: Ideas International, ITOM International Co and TTA. Further information is available at http://www.tpc.org. Special invitation for academic and government institutions can be found at http://www.tpc.org/information/specialinvitation.asp. ABOUT VLDB Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc. (VLDB Endowment) is a non-profit organization incorporated in the United States for the sole purpose of promoting and exchanging scholarly work in databases and related fields throughout the world. One of its vehicles for achieving its objectives is the sponsorship and support of the annual VLDB conference, a premier annual international forum for database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. VLDB 2012, the 38th conference in the series, will be held in Lyon, France. The conference will feature research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops. It will cover current issues in database and information systems research. Databases remain one of the technological cornerstones of emerging applications of the twenty-first century. Further information is available at http://www.vldb2012.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> Meikel Poess 2012-05-25T16:04:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34516 <pre> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students </pre> Natália Reis 2012-05-25T15:27:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34515 <pre>Dear colleague, we are happy to present our Genealogy of Relational Database Systems as a poster free for download: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/naumann/projekte/rdbms_genealogy.html The poster shows the timelines of around 40 relational DBMS, which can be used in lectures or to decorate office walls and impress colleagues with the long and strong history of the relational model. We very much welcome feedback, be it praise, corrections, or additions. Felix Naumann _______________________________________________ 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> Felix Naumann 2012-05-25T15:16:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34514 <pre>Are you looking for academic work experience or a way to contribute to the database research community? Then become a peer-reviewer for our new online journal! This is volunteer work! All peer-reviewers will be mentioned on a special acknowledgement-area of our website and in the issues of the journals. Only if desired we will also provide a link to the personal homepage or email address to the peer-reviewer on the homepage of the journal. Peer review is commonly accepted as an essential part of scientific publication and involvement in the peer review process is often necessary for career advancement. It would benefit graduate students to obtain some experience with the peer review process to further their professional development or assist a potential employer in selecting among many otherwise similarly qualified candidates. The job of a peer-reviewer is to evaluate the content and format of an article submission, and to provide feedback to the author(s) and editor of the article. Turn-around time for peer-reviews is expected to be between 1 to 14 days. Because we only need two (sometimes three) peer-reviewers per submission, you will only be asked to peer-review articles from time-to-time. If you are interested in becoming a peer-reviewer for the International Journal of Databases please contact us at apply-cA0Z6oOLJMZhl2p70BpVqQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org . Please send us your CV or a short resume and let us know what areas of interest you would be able to review. For more information check out our website: http://www.ijdb.info/ We are looking forward to hearing from you! _______________________________________________ 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> Martin Eshaghian 2012-05-25T14:53:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34513 <pre>[Apologies for cross-posting] ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS: EvoDyn 2012 2nd Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics Collocated with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) November 11/12th, 2012 Boston, US http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/evodyn2012 DESCRIPTION =========== Over the course of the last decade, the Semantic Web research has engaged in capturing and representing global knowledge in the form of the Linked Data cloud and expressive distributed ontologies of various levels of granularity. Usually, emphasis is put on representing as up-to-date and accurate a state of knowledge as possible. However, an important aspect that has largely been overlooked, and has been treated only in a very rudimentary fashion so far, is the evolution of knowledge itself. Ontology dynamics and versioning is one aspect of this field that has been well studied, but only for the purposes of change-management. This is only one of many facets of knowledge evolution and we propose to create and foster a research community concerned with all aspects of how knowledge evolves and changes over time in the context of the Semantic Web. This includes analysis of trends and change in formal descriptions (i.e., ontologies), but also in associated raw sources of knowledge (scientific publications, unstructured or semi-structured web content, traditional data stores, e-mail or on-line discussion threads, etc.). EvoDyn 2012 builds on the success of the 2011 edition and on the previous workshops aggregated under the IWOD workshop series. EvoDyn continues in the tradition of IWOD in being the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. As ontologies are formal representations of knowledge, the study of their dynamics is an inherent part of investigating the knowledge evolution phenomena, yet it is only one of many relevant aspects this workshop aims to cover in an integral manner. In particular, the workshop focuses on analysis of trends and change in formal descriptions (i.e., ontologies), but also in associated raw sources of knowledge (scientific publications, unstructured or semi-structured web content, traditional data stores, e-mail or on-line discussion threads, etc.). We are especially interested in research targeted on various states of knowledge evolution, such as (a) conflicts, (b) consolidation, (c) discovery, (d) paradigm shifts, and (e) breakthroughs. One crucial objective of better understanding these different states may be to study directly the underlying causes and dynamics needed to generate discoveries and breakthroughs. We will only be able to facilitate and possibly also generate such desirable situations if we can understand the process of how knowledge evolves. The process of how knowledge in a field grows and changes, crystallizes, and fractures are all areas of interest of this workshop. The same holds for related novel applied technologies, such as: * Tools for tracking the progress of knowledge from latent ideas, through hypotheses to well-supported facts and/or claims; * Methods for identifying what are the crucial fulcrum-points where a particular field may blossom or fail; * Methodologies and supporting tools for identification and reinforcement of emerging promising trends in various academic and/or industrial domains; * Platforms facilitating interconnection and cross-fertilization of related endeavors in isolated disciplines. TOPICS ====== The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following categories and their sub-domains. Foundations of Knowledge Evolution: * Philosophical and epistemological aspects of evolving knowledge * Evolving knowledge as a complex system * Models and ontologies for knowledge evolution * Models and ontologies for change management Temporal Aspects of Knowledge Capture: * Dynamic ontology learning * Ontology-based data mining * Hypothesis and claim extraction * Information retrieval and extraction for detecting paradigm shifts * Evolution of ontologies from a general purpose design to a usable application-oriented form The Representation and Reasoning of Evolving Knowledge: * Time representation * Semantic evolution and discovery * Temporal reasoning * Provenance * Reasoning for trend analysis * Reasoning for knowledge shift detection Knowledge Integration and Analysis Over Time: * Time-aware ontology alignment * Time-aware data integration * Similarity metrics for evolving knowledge * Detecting, managing and reconciling conflicting knowledge The Visualization and Presentation of Evolving Knowledge: * Querying for evolving knowledge * Browsing evolving knowledge * Visualizing trends, changes and paradigm shifts * Visual summarization of knowledge sub-domains * User interfaces for evolving knowledge presentation Possible Application Domains: * Genetics / Molecular Biology * Clinical Science * Biomedical informatics * Neuroscience / Neuroinformatics * Business analytics * Legal studies * Discourse analysis * Digital humanities We especially encourage submissions that integrally cover multiple above-mentioned topics. SUBMISSIONS =========== We accept two types of submissions: * Full papers - up to 12 pages * Position papers - up to 4 pages All submissions should be submitted in PDF format, via EasyChair at: * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evodyn2012 Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). The workshop proceedings will both be uploaded to CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/) and placed on electronic media for distribution at the conference. DATES ===== July 31, 2012: Submission of papers August 21, 2012: Notification of acceptance/rejection September 10, 2012: Camera ready paper submissions COMMITTEES ========== Organising Committee * Tudor Groza, School of ITEE, The University of Queensland * Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece * Vit Novacek, DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute), National University of Ireland Galway Steering Committee * Grigoris Antoniou, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH * Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University * Gully Burns, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California * Giorgos Flouris, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH * Carole Goble, Information Management Group, Manchester University * Zhisheng Huang, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam * Jeff Z. Pan, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen * Guilin Qi, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China * Fouad Zablith, Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Program Committee * Paul Buitelaar, DERI Galway, Ireland * Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, US * Tim Clark, MGH, Harvard University, US * Yolanda Gil, ISI, University of Southern California, US * Jerome Euzenat, INRIA &amp; LIG, France * Lawrence Hunter, University of Colorado, US * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, US * Thomas Meyer, Meraka Institute, South Africa * Enrico Motta, Open University, UK * Livia Predoiu, University of Magdeburg, Germany * Cartic Ramakrishnan, ISI, University of Southern California, US * Vladislav Ryzhikov, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Agnes Sandor, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, US * Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, US * Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia * Renata Wasserman, Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brazil _______________________________________________ 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> Dimitris Plexousakis 2012-05-25T13:34:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34512 <pre> CALL FOR PAPERS ICTAI 2012 24th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence November 7-9, 2012, Athens, Greece http://ictai12.unipi.gr/ The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) is a premier international research forum which stimulates and fosters the exchange of ideas for artificial intelligence-related applications in academia, industry, and government agencies. ICTAI seeks to advance all technical, theoretical, and practical aspects of Artificial Intelligence-based components of tools, including algorithms, applications, software, systems, and services. This year’s conference solicits original research findings, innovative designs, practical development experiences, and real-world case study materials. Topics ====== Representative issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence Foundations ----------------------------------- Evolutionary Computing, Bayesian Networks, and Neural Networks Decision/Utility Theory and Sequential Decision Making Search, SAT, CSP: Evaluation and Analysis Description Logics and Ontologies Artificial Intelligence in Domain Specific Applications ------------------------------------------------------- AI in Robotics, Computer Vision, and Sensor Networks AI in Multimedia Computing and Multimedia Systems AI in Software Engineering and Computer Security Natural Language Processing/Understanding and Information Retrieval AI in E-commerce, Games, and Information Assurance AI in Real-time and Embedded Applications AI in Computational Biology, Biomedicine, and Biomedical Applications AI in Online/Streaming Systems AI in Web, Communication, Social Networking, and Recommendation Systems AI in Cloud Computing and Data Intensive Applications AI in Data Privacy, Security, and Risk Management Artificial Intelligence and Agent Systems ----------------------------------------- Intelligent Virtual Agents Affective Agents Éntelligent Internet Agents Intelligent Interface Agents Çybrid Intelligent Systems Collaborative Software Agents Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Cognitive Modeling ----------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Knowledge-based Systems Knowledge Extraction, Management, and Sharing Case-Based Reasoning Cognitive Modeling and Constraint Programming Semantic Web Machine Learning and Data Mining -------------------------------- Data Pre-processing, Data Reduction, Feature Selection Learning Graphical Models and Complex Networks Active, Cost-Sensitive, Semi-Supervised, Multi-Instance, Multi-Label and Multi-Task Learning Transfer/Adaptive, Rational and Structured Learning, Learning Preferences/Rankings Ensemble Learning, Reinforcement Learning Data Fusion Techniques and Technologies Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence -------------------------------------- Representation and Reasoning Under Fuzziness or Uncertainty Approximate/Exact Probabilistic Inference Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Uncertain Data Affective Computing ------------------- Emotion Recognition, Categorisation and Synthesis of Human Affect Affective Databases, Evaluation and Annotation Tools Affective Multimodal Interfaces and Applications Paper Submission and Presentation ================================= Each submission should contain original, high quality work which has not been previously submitted or published elsewhere. Papers should be submitted electronically, through the ICTAI 2012 submission system, in PDF format. All submissions should conform to the IEEE proceedings specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8 pages). For detailed instructions, please refer to the IEEE website. Each accepted paper should be presented at the conference by one of the authors and accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of ICTAI 2012, which will be published by the IEEE. Special Issue Publication ========================= Extended versions of the best papers at the conference will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed). The organizing committee is also working to fianlize a special issue with a second journal. ICTAI 2012 will organize workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives relevant to artificial intelligence and related areas. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected workshop papers will also be invited for publications in a journal special issue. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Date: June 11, 2012 Paper Notification Date: August 6, 2012 Camera Ready Submission: August 27, 2012 Points of Contact ================= Themis Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece themis.panayiotopoulos3-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece geoatsi-nkQuQWkuRJ8&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> Nick Bassiliades 2012-05-25T12:55:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34511 <pre>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS 9th European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications (EuroPKI 2012) in conjunction with ESORICS 2012 Pisa, Italy - September 13-14, 2012 The 9th European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications (EuroPKI 2012) will be held in Pisa, Italy. The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all aspects of Public Key Services, Applications, and Infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Anonymity - Architecture and modeling - Attribute-based access control - Authentication - Authorization and delegation - Certificates management - Cross certification - Directories - eCommerce/eGovernment - Fault-tolerance and reliability - Federations - Group signatures - ID-based schemes - Identity management - Implementations - Interoperability - Key management - Legal issues - Long-time archiving - Mobile PKI - Multi-signatures - PKI in the Cloud - Policies and regulations - Privacy - Privilege management - Protocols - Repositories - Risk attacks - Scalability and performance - Security of PKI systems - Standards - Timestamping - Trust management - Trusted computing - Ubiquitous scenarios - Web services security SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that have been simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should follow the LNCS style. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at easychair.org. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of June 16, 2012 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Pre-proceedings will be made available at the workshop. As for all previous EuroPKI events, it is planned to have post-proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: June 16, 2012 Notification to authors: July 15, 2012 Camera ready due: August 1, 2012 ESORICS GENERAL CHAIR Fabio Martinelli CNR, Italy PROGRAM CHAIRS Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Chris Mitchell Royal Holloway, University of London, UK PUBLICITY CHAIR Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lejla Batina, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, University of Waterloo, Canada Paolo D'Arco, University of Salerno, Italy Bao Feng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Eduardo Fernandez-Medina, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain Simone Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand Ravi Jhawar, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Dogan Kesdogan, University of Siegen, Germany Elisavet Konstantinou, University of the Aegean, Greece Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Herbert Leitold, A-SIT, Austria Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Stig Mjolsnes, NTNU, Norway Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia Svetla Nikova, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Massimiliano Pala, Polytechnic Institute, USA Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Andreas Pashalidis, K.U.Leuven, Belgium OlivierPereira, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium GuntherPernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Sasa Radomirovic, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sean Smith, Dartmouth College, USA CONFERENCE WEB PAGE: http://europki2012.dti.unimi.it PC CHAIRS EMAIL: europki2012-Jwo7OjyBeCI&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> EuroPKI 2012 2012-05-25T10:32:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34510 <pre>DOME project - Research Scientist - Access Patterns Job ID S_D-0472276 Job type Full-time Complementary Work country Netherlands Posted 19-Apr-2012 Work city - Any Job area Research Travel 10% travel annually Job category Research Business unit Exec Staff Job role Research Scientist Job role skillset Computer Science Commissionable/Sales-Incentive jobs only No Job description Last year IBM celebrated its Centennial, proudly looking back at a history of achievement, leadership, and commitment to innovation and progress. Looking forward, we see a century full of opportunities as we maintain our focus to help make the world work smarter, by using technology to deliver the things people care about most – from energy production to climate change, traffic congestion to health care, streamlined government processes to citizen collaboration and everything in between. We are the world's largest IT and consulting company with unmatched opportunities. But we’re much more than that. We also have unmatched capabilities – an unparalleled ability to bring together deep business insight, advanced research, analytics, and technology, combined with proven roadmaps and frameworks developed across 17 industries and a unique blend of skills and experiences of our teams in over 170 countries. Are you ready for IBM? This is more than just a job. It’s an opportunity to help build a smarter planet and create the technologies of the future. Here, you’ll create IT products for a global market. You’ll be inspired, challenged and stimulated. And rewarded for outstanding performance too. At one of the world’s largest IT and consulting companies, you’ll bring innovation to life and take development to a totally new level. The project Dome is the unique research collaboration between IBM Netherlands and ASTRON. In this project fundamental research is performed in the field of Radio Astronomy and will concentrate on three domains: 1. Green supercomputing (extreme performance at minor energy costs) 2. Extreme Streaming (real time processing on a permanent basis of massive data amounts) 3. Nano Photonics. Do you want to make the most of your skills? For the area of "Access Patterns" we are looking for a enthusiastic, accurate researcher for our team. Our ideal candidate has: - A minimum of two years experience as a Post-doctoral candidate (i.e. PhD completed at major university) or significant skills and experience gained in a pre-doc period. - A Computer Science (possibly EE) background - Background in the fields of machine learning and pattern recognition - Usual programming Language experience: Unix/Linux, C/C++ willing/able to learn others like e.g. Python/Java. - Experience with high-performance storage systems for large scale and high throughput data storage and retrieval is desired - Experience with data placement optimization, e.g., caching and data tiering methods is desired Work focus for the occupant of this position would be on: - Designing and developing algorithms and tools for learning file access patterns in a large-scale high-performance storage system that is part of a high-profile long-term scientific project - Designing and developing algorithms and tools for predicting future file access requests based on current file access activity and/or additional information about scheduled applications and data sets those applications aim to process - Collaboration with the storage team in order to incorporate the developed file access prediction algorithms and tools into the storage system for file caching and pre-fetching to optimize the application's access performance to the data Please note that the position is currently only available for the duration of the Astron/IBM collaboration. We will offer a fixed term contract. Required * Doctorate Degree * English: Fluent How to apply Please visit http://ibm-research.jobs/virtual-nld/dome-project-research-scientist-access-patterns/27243839/job/ IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. _______________________________________________ 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> Ioannis Koltsidas 2012-05-25T10:11:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34509 <pre>*** Submission deadline extended to May 30, 2012. *** Call for Paper: The Twelfth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDMKDD 2012) August 12, 2012 Beijing, China Workshop website: http://sites.google.com/site/mdmkdd2012/ Mirrored site: http://mdmkdd2012.idm.pku.edu.cn/ * * * The MDMKDD 2012 workshop will be held in conjunction with the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2012). Important Dates: * Submission Due: May 30, 2012 (Wednesday) * Acceptance Notification: June 8, 2012 (Friday) * Camera-ready Due: June 13, 2012 (Wednesday) * Workshop Date: August 12, 2012 (Sunday) Papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings and at the ACM digital library. Paper submission and reviewing will be handled electronically. Authors should consult the workshop Web site for full details regarding paper preparation and submission guidelines: https://sites.google.com/site/mdmkdd2012/submission-instructions The paper submission site for the MDM/KDD 2012 workshop is: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDMKDD2012/ * * * Workshop Topics: MDM/KDD 2012 will bring together experts in the analysis of digital media content, multimedia databases, knowledge engineers, and domain experts from different applied disciplines with potential in multimedia data mining. A new focus in this edition of the workshop is the emerging multimedia applications on mobile devices. Other major topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Emerging technology of data mining for mobile applications. * Emerging technology of data mining on media rich platforms and location enhanced environments (location based services like Foursquare, mobile maps, navigation systems, GIS applications). * Multimedia data mining across platforms, including web and mobile devices. * Mining large datasets of user generated content with a geographical dimension. * Anomaly and outlier detection in multimedia databases. * Merging and integration of mining results from different sources (e.g, ensembles, fusion techniques, etc.). * Scalable mobile multimedia computing. * Scalable mobile visual search. * Predictive and prescriptive multimedia data modeling. * Privacy preserving data mining. * Mining multimedia time series. * Multi-objective multimedia data mining. * Scalable data mining techniques for large-scale multimedia databases. * Human-computer interfaces for multimedia data mining. * Topic and event discovery in large multimedia repositories. * * * Formatting Requirements for Submitted Papers All submissions must be in PDF format and must not exceed 10MB in size. Papers should be no more than 9 pages total in length. The format is the standard double-column ACM Proceedings Style. Additional information about formatting and style files are available online at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Papers that do not meet the formatting requirements will be rejected. For accepted papers, authors will have the opportunity to revise their papers in response to the reviewers before final submission for publication in the proceedings. The paper submission site for MDMKDD 2012 is: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDMKDD2012/ Software demonstrations are welcome. We encourage submissions of 'greenhouse' work, which present early stages of cutting-edge research and development. Papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings and at the ACM digital library. For more information regarding submissions, please visit the following page: https://sites.google.com/site/mdmkdd2012/submission-instructions * * * Workshop Co-Chairs: * Aaron Baughman (aaron.baughman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org), IBM SME/Research Department * Jiang (John) Gao (gao.new-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org), Nokia USA * Jia-Yu (Tim) Pan (jiayu.pan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org), Google USA * Fang Chu (gammachu-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org), Google China * Yizhou Wang (wangyz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org), Peking University _______________________________________________ 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> Tim Pan 2012-05-25T10:11:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34508 <pre>======================================================================== The 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012) http://www.wise2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy November 28th-30th, 2012, Paphos, Cyprus ======================================================================== *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: 22nd June 2012 *** *** CALL FOR PAPERS AND RESEARCH DEMOS *** The aim of this thirteenth edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong, China (2010), and Sydney, Australia (2011). The proceedings of WISE 2012 will be published in 2 separate volumes by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, with best papers to be recommended for publication in special issues of international journals (including World Wide Web). Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Cloud Computing * Discovering Social Web structures and models * Deep/Hidden Web; * Event Processing and Event-driven Systems; * Evolution and temporal analysis of the Social Web; * Integration of the Web and Internet-connected Objects / IoT; * Linked Open Data; * Peer-Computing; * Rich Web UI; * Search, Text and media extraction, clustering and classification of the Social Web * Semantic Web; * Social web and Applications; * Web Agents and Web Intelligence; * Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning, etc.); * Web-based Business Processes and Web Services; * Web-based Enterprise Systems and Transactions; * Web Data Integration; * Web Data Mashup; * Web Data Models; * Web Information Retrieval; * Web Metrics and Performance; * Web Mining and Web Warehousing; * Web Monitoring and Management; * Web Security and Trust Management; * Web Tools and Languages; * Web Visualisation; and * XML and Semi-structured Data. Important Dates --------------- * Research Paper Abstract Submission: 15th June 2012 * Research Paper Submission: 22nd June 2012 * Demonstration Paper Submission: 22nd June 2012 * Paper Notification of Acceptance: 3rd August 2012 * Accepted Paper Camera-ready: 31st August 2012 * Workshop Proposal Submission: 18th May 2012 * Workshop Proposal Notification: 25th May 2012 Publication ----------- Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. Participants submitting demos are required to submit a 2-page short paper describing the demo content, research, relevance and importance to the web information system community. For demos, participants will be able to showcase the demo during the conference. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT exceed 14 pages for research papers and 2 pages for demo papers. Submissions must be done via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=wise2012 A special issue of WWWJ is scheduled for extended versions of some selected papers from the WISE2012 conference. Organizing Committee -------------------- * General Co-Chairs: Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * PC Co-Chairs: Xiaoyang (Sean) Wang, Fudan University, China Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece * WISE Challenge Program/Track Co-Chairs: Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China * Workshop Co-Chairs: Armin Haller, CSIRO, Australia Zhisheng Huan, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Demonstration Papers Vo-Chairs: Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Gustavo Rossi, La Plata National University, Argentina * Publication Chair: Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia * Publicity Co-Chairs: Demetris Zeinalipour-Yatzi, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Jing Yang, Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Local Arrangement Chair: Petros Stratis, Easyconferences Ltd. _______________________________________________ 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> George Papadopoulos 2012-05-25T09:56:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34507 <pre> [ Apologies for multiple postings ] SUBMISSION DEADLINE **EXTENDED**: * TODAY * ---------------------------------------------------------- 9th Int. Conference on http://www.mdai.cat/mdai2012 Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2012) Girona, Catalonia, Spain November 21 - 23, 2012 AIMS AND GOALS: The aim of the MDAI conference series is to provide a forum for researchers to discuss models for decision and information fusion and their applications to AI. In MDAI 2012, we encourage the submission of papers on decision making, information fusion, social networks, data mining, and related topics. Applications to privacy technologies as well as real world problems are welcome. MDAI 2012 is the 9th MDAI conference. Previous conferences were celebrated in Barcelona (2004), Tsukuba (2005), Tarragona (2006), Kitakyushu (2007), Sabadell (2008), Awaji Island (2009), Perpinyà (2010), and Changsha (2011). *MDAI is rated as a CORE B conference by the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia - CORE*. PUBLICATION: Original technical contributions are sought. Contributions will be selected on the basis of their quality. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in total (using LNCS/LNAI style). Proceedings with accepted papers will be published in the LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag) and distributed at the conference, as done in previous conferences. See LNAI volumes 3131, 3558, 3885, 4617, 5285, 5861, and 6408 (with acceptance rates of 26/53, 40/118, 31/97, 42/193, 19/43, 28/61, and 25/43 respectively). Besides, papers, that according to the evaluation of the referees, are not suitable for the LNAI but that have some merits will be published in a CD-ROM proceedings (with ISBN) and scheduled in the MDAI program. VENUE: Girona is 90 km away from Barcelona. Trains connect both cities every hour. Girona can be accessed from airplane, through the Girona airport. DEADLINES: * Submission deadline EXTENDED: May 25th, 2012 * Acceptance notification: July, 10th, 2012 * Final version of LNAI accepted papers: July 31st, 2012 * Final version of CD-ROM accepted papers: July 31st, 2012 * Early registration: July 31st, 2012 * Conference: November 21 - 23, 2012 TOPICS OF INTEREST: (include, but not limited to) Papers are sought in topics related with decision, information fusion and their applications are welcomed. A) Methods and Tools: 1. Information fusion 2. Aggregation operators 3. Utility and decision theory 4. Model and operator selection 5. Learning methods for parameter determination 6. Machine learning and statistical learning 7. Soft computing 8. Optimization methods in AI and decision modeling B) Applications: 1. Information privacy and security 2. Multiagent systems 3. Social networks 4. Data mining 5. Autonomous robots 6. Entertainment computing 7. Subjective evaluation 8. Bioinformatics 9. Information access General chair: Beatriz López and Mateu Villaret (U. Girona, Catalonia, Spain) Program co-chairs: Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain) Yasuo Narukawa (Toho Gakuen, Japan) Advisory Board: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Didier Dubois, Lluis Godo, Kaoru Hirota, Janusz Kacprzyk, Sadaaki Miyamoto, Michio Sugeno, Ronald R. Yager Program Committee: Gleb Beliakov, Gloria Bordogna, Tomasa Calvo, Marc Daumas, Susana Díaz, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Jozo Dujmovic, Michel Grabisch, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Masahiro Inuiguchi, Ivan Kojadinovic,Xinwang Liu, Jun Long, Jean-Luc Marichal, Rosa Meo, Radko Mesiar, Tetsuya Murai, Toshiaki Murofushi, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Michael Ng, Gabriella Pasi, Susanne Saminger-Platz, László Szilágyi, Aida Valls, Zeshui Xu, Yuji Yoshida, Gexiang Zhang. _______________________________________________ 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> vicenc torra 2012-05-25T08:11:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34506 <pre>BPD2012 - 8th International Workshop on Business Process Design http://www.bpd-workshops.com/ In conjunction with: 10th International Conference on Business Process Management (http://bpm2012.ut.ee/) 3-6 September, 2012  Tallinn, Estonia Paper submission deadline: 4th June 2012 Business Process Design is at the core of Business Process Management. As the most value-adding stage of the process lifecycle, it is dedicated to the development of improved and compliant business processes. Designing a process that improves corporate performance is a challenging task that requires multi-disciplinary expertise and a plethora of inputs (for example, organizational strategies, goals, constraints, and IT capabilities, to name a few). However, unlike other well-defined and theory-grounded stages of the process lifecycle (e.g., process modeling), Process Design is still only poorly understood and lacks a widely accepted and theoretical sound foundation. Existing scientific approaches have focused often on only small, well-understood business domains and are either centered around atomic improvement proposals or general reference models. Overall, much more attention is devoted to process modeling techniques and standards than actual value-adding Process Design. BPD2012 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who have an interest in advancing the state of the art in Process Design. We seek contributions by authors who wish to share their innovative ideas and insightful observations on the subject. Two main categories of submissions will be considered: regular papers and industry papers. The workshop focuses exclusively on aspects related to process improvement within the process lifecycle. This specialization excludes the well-researched process modeling and process execution. Within this specialized scope, topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Process improvement methods, tools and techniques * Process improvement objectives * Process improvement patterns * Process improvement measures and evaluation * Process improvement in the cloud * Process reference models * Process innovation * Constraints in process improvement (e.g. legislative requirements, compliance) * Process design governance * Process improvement for emerging challenges (e.g. greening of processes) * Collaborative process improvement * Human aspects (involvement, participation, acceptance) in process improvement * Linking process improvement to organizational strategy and goals * Success factors in process improvement * Case studies and experiments Paper Submission: Only papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper must not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpd2012. For formatting instructions and further details please refer to the BPD2012 website: http://www.bpd-workshops.com/submission-instructions/ Co-Chairs: Marta Indulska The University of Queensland, Australia Dr Michael zur Muehlen Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
 Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, Australia _______________________________________________ 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> Marta Indulska 2012-05-25T07:26:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34505 <pre>[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ************************************************************************ IEEE Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing（MobiCC 2012） Call for Paper http://network.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/mobicc/call.html Submission Date: 28 May 2012. ************************************************************************ In the past few years, mobile devices and wireless communication technologies have developed rapidly. With the explosion of mobile applications and user demands, some characteristics of mobile devices such as limited resources (e.g., computation and storage capacity, battery power, etc.) significantly impede the improvement of QoS. Mobile Cloud Computing (MobiCC) is born to tackle these limitations by integrating cloud computing into the mobile environment. It enables users to elastically utilize resources in an on-demand fashion, takes full advantages of cloud computing, and brings new types of services and facilities to users by providing ubiquitous service access. Several organizations have predicted that cloud computing will completely transform the way in which mobile applications and services are acquired, developed and used. However, there are still many obstacles for MobiCC, including service availability, mobility management, security, privacy, energy efficiency, etc. These problems must be carefully addressed before mobile could become the next big thing. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of mobile cloud computing, including but not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -New architecture of middleware and applications in mobile cloud computing -Distribution of resources and computation between mobile devices and the cloud -Measurement and modeling for mobile cloud computing -Task or resource out-sourcing -Transmission protocols and scheduling algorithms for mobile cloud computing -Availability and reliability of mobile cloud services -Fairness and isolation of mobile devices in the cloud -Collaborative operations in mobile cloud computing -Data sharing and collaboration -Mobile multimedia content delivery with cloud computing -Software structure for mobile cloud application -Cloud-based mobile media system -Mobile social network in cloud computing -Location based services in mobile cloud environment -Context-aware services and computing -Energy-aware wireless communication technologies for mobile cloud computing -Security and privacy protection in mobile cloud computing -Novel mobile cloud computing applications and systems --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** MobiCC 2012 Organizations General Chair Ivan Stojmenovic University of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Chairs Yong Cui Tsinghua University, China Jiangchuan Liu Simon Fraser University, Canada Publicity Chairs Cheng Wang University of Ottawa, Canada Chengchen Hu Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Technical Progam Committee Yan Chen Northwestern University, USA Xiuzhen Cheng George Washington University, USA Sajal Das NSF/University Texas at Arlington, USA Turgay Korkmaz The University of Texas at San Antonio, UAS Houda Labiod école Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France Wing Cheong Lau Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Jie Li University of Tsukuba, Japan Minming Li City University of Hong Kong, China Mo Li Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xiao Li Michigan State University Zongpeng Li University of Calgary, Canada Qilian Liang University of Texas at Arlington, USA Benyuan Liu University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Songwu Lu University of California, Los Angeles, USA Qin Lv University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Siekkinen Matti Aalto University, Finland Edith Ngai Uppsala University, Sweden Thomas Peter Plagemann University of Oslo, Norway Kui Ren Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sushmita Ruj University of Ottawa, Canada Alonso Silva University of California, Berkeley, USA Charalabos Skianis University of the Aegean in Samos, Greece Sasu Tarkoma University of Helsinki, Finland Dan Wang Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Xin Wang State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, USA Xinbing Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Yu Wang University of North Caarolina at Charlotte, USA Chuan Wu University of Hong Kong, China Junfeng Yang Columbia University, USA David K. Y. Yau Purdue University, USA Antti Ylä-Jääski Aalto University, Finland ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ 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> CP. Liao 2012-05-25T07:01:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/34504 <pre> SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC SEARCH OVER THE WEB (SSW 2012) Workshop held in conjunction with VLDB 2012 Istanbul, Turkey - August 27, 2012 Workshop Website: http://pamir.dia.uniroma3.it:8080/SSW2012/ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Short/Full Paper EXTENDED submission deadline: May 25, 2012 - 15:00 (3:00 pm) EDT Author notification: June 12, 2012 Camera-ready paper submission: June 19, 2012 Workshop date: August 27, 2012 INVITED SPEAKER ----------------------------- We are delighted to announce that the workshop will open with a keynote presentation from Ioana Manolescu -- Senior INRIA researcher (DR2) - about Database techniques for the Semantic Web. WORKSHOP AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------------------------- We are witnessing a smooth evolution of the Web from a worldwide information space of linked documents to a global knowledge base, composed of semantically interconnected resources. To date, the correlated and semantically annotated data available on the Web amounts to 25 billion RDF triples, interlinked by around 395 million RDF links. The continuous publishing and the integration of the plethora of semantic datasets from companies, government and public sector projects is leading to the creation of the so-called Web of Knowledge. Each semantic dataset contributes to extending the global knowledge and increases its reasoning capabilities. As a matter of fact, researchers are now looking with growing interest to semantic issues in this huge amount of correlated data available on the Web. Much progress has been made in the field of semantic technologies, from formal models to repositories and reasoning engines. While the focus of many practitioners is on exploiting such seman! tic information to contribute to IR problems from a document-centric point of view, we believe that such a vast, and constantly growing, amount of semantic data raises data management issues that must be faced in a dynamic, highly distributed and heterogeneous environment such as the Web. The second edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Search over the Web (SSW 2012) will discuss data management issues related to search over the Web and the relationships with Semantic Web technologies, proposing new models, languages and applications. The research issues can be summarized by the following problems: - How can we model and efficiently access large amounts of Semantic Web data? - How can we effectively retrieve information exploiting Semantic Web technologies? - How can we employ semantic search in real world scenarios? The SSW 2012 Workshop invites researchers, engineers, service developers to present their research and work in the field of data management for semantic search. Papers may deal with methods, models, case studies, practical experiences and technologies. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------------- Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Data storage for Semantic Search - Database technologies for the Semantic Search (SQL and noSQL) - Semantic data storage and indexing - Models, languages, and methodologies for representing and managing semantic data - Native DBMS for the Linked Web of Data - Semantic data exchange and integration - Map/Reduce paradigms for Linked Data storage - Semantic Data Search - Keyword-based search over semantic data - Graph matching of RDF documents - Information extraction for the Semantic Web - Semantic Data Search and ranking - Semantic matchmaking - Semantic Web Services - Engineering Semantic Search - Evaluation methodologies for Semantic Search - Mobile and streaming Semantic Web content creation and annotation - Standard datasets and benchmarks for Semantic Search - Wrapping of well-known data repositories (e.g. IMDB) into RDF - Injecting Social Networks (e.g. Facebook) into the Semantic Data Web - Visualization of Semantic Data and Expressive Document Representation on the Web TARGET AUDIENCE ------------------------------ The SSW 2012 Workshop invites researchers, engineers, service developers to present their research and work in the field of Semantic Information Management. PAPER SUBMISSION -------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, neither submitted nor accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. They must be written in English, and formatted using the ACM double-column format. We will accept two kinds of papers: Research Papers: We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and vision papers from both researchers and practitioners. The suggested number of pages is 8, and the maximum number of pages is 10. Manuscripts not submitted in the ACM style or having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. The final, camera-ready version must not exceed 8 pages to avoid page charges. Short Papers: The Short Paper session is an exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate feasibility of research and to stimulate the discussion of future trends in the application of data management solutions in the context of the Web of Data. Proposals should be focused on new modeling developments, advances in their application or innovative use of modeling techniques in such context. The session is not intended for the demonstration of commercial products. The number of pages of the contribution must be no more than 4 pages. This page limit includes all parts of the paper (i.e. title, abstract, body, and bibliography). Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The review system is single-blind (the authors have to declare names and affiliations in the paper) and reviews will be returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. Reviewers are not required to read any appendices and the paper should be intelligible without them. Authors are invited to send their manuscripts as an attachment (PDF/PS format) through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=ssw2012). In case of any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the program committee chairs: dvr-EXAQajasbhSeJC7mGy95cQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org PROCEEDINGS ------------------------ The Workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. Submission to the Workshop implies the that one author will register and participate in the event for presenting the submitted work (i.e. attendance of at least one of the authors of accepted papers will be mandatory). Final versions of accepted papers must strictly adhere to the ACM guidelines and must include a printable file of the camera-ready version, as well as all source files thereof. No changes to such formatting rules are permitted. Authors of accepted papers also need to download and sign a copyright form that will be made available on the Web site of the conference. Depending on the quality of the submissions, authors of selected papers may be invited to submit extended versions for publication in prestigious international journals. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------- Roberto De Virgilio, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA Paolo Cappellari, Dublin City University, Ireland Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------- Roberto De Virgilio, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA Paolo Cappellari, Dublin City University, Ireland Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ - Denilson Barbosa, University of Alberta, Canada - Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Devis Bianchini, Universita' di Brescia, Italy - Paolo Cappellari, Dublin City University, Ireland - Soon Ae Chun, CUNY/College of Staten Island, New York, USA - Simona Colucci, Technical University of Bari, Italy - Roberto De Virgilio, Universita’ Roma Tre, Rome, Italy - Bettina Fazzinga, DEIS – Universita’ della Calabria, Italy - Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Tim Furcke, University of Munich, Germany - James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA - Clemens Ley, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK - Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK - Paolo Merialdo, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy - Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece - Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia, Canada - Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland - Michael Schmidt, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany - Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Antonius Weinzierl, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. 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