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/40169 <pre> IEEE International Workshop on BigData in Bioinformatics and Health Care Informatics In a recent McKinsey &amp; Co. study, it is claimed that the healthcare industry in U.S. alone could potentially save $450 billion a year with the help of advanced analytics, but healthcare organizations continue to struggle with managing and leveraging the vast stores of data they are building up. By 2011, U.S. healthcare organizations had generated 150 exabytes -- that's 150 billion gigabytes -- of data. Leading providers such as Kaiser Permanente alone might have as much as 44 petabytes of patient data just from its electronic health record (EHR) system, or 4,400 times the amount of information held at the Library of Congress. Add to this the insurance sector, the independent laboratories and individual health records, and the number is increasingly astounding both in terms of volume and in terms of variety of data sources. There is a common theme emerging in the healthcare industry - big data enables unprecedented opportunity for aggregation and integration leading to cost effective and improved patient care. It is the aim of this workshop to bring together big data practitioners, researchers, students, clinicians, health IT experts, and data scientists to share ideas on how to improve the state of our healthcare systems by delivering on the promise of big data infrastructure investments. We observe the same theme of data driven science in biological and biomedical research also. For example a next-generation sequencing experiment may easily generate terra-bytes of raw data. In biological imaging and biomedical imaging, large volumes of data are generated. How to store, achieve, index, manage, learn, mine, and visualize those data is clearly a challenge to the research community. The first International Workshop on BigData in Bioinformatics and Health Care Informatics (BBH’13) offers a premier forum of presenting big data concepts, infrastructure, and analytics tools for integrating data from heterogeneous multimedia sources and expediting research in a wide range of areas including computer science, computational science, biological, biomedical, pharmaceutical, nursing, clinical care, dentistry, and public health. Topics Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics • Next generation sequencing data storage and analysis • Large scale biological network construction and learning • Population based bioinformatics • Genome structural change detection • Large-scale bio-image and medical-image analysis • Big data in molecular simulation and protein structure prediction • Big data in systems biology • Big data in drug discovery, development, and post-market surveillance • Big data in semantics and bio-text mining Healthcare System • Security and Privacy for clinical data in big data infrastructures • Health IT implementations and demonstrations • Case Studies for Hadoop based healthcare analytics • Benchmarking of big data infrastructure in healthcare • Real time aspects of healthcare data infrastructure • Novel data analysis algorithms that enable easy, rapid knowledge discovery from complex EMR • Analytics for Visualizing and summarizing large patient data in EMR • Novel algorithms and applications dealing with noisy, incomplete but large amounts of EMR data • Integrating genomic data for improving human health • Data science and modeling for health analytics • Advances in new storage models for data variety (records, images, MRI, scans) for hospitals • Big data challenges in Accountable Care settings • Extracting meaning from multi-structured big data in realtime to improve outcome • Combining information from Imaging (RIS, PACS), EHR, Labs, Genomics to give coherent diagnosis and treatment • Leveraging social networks for data aggregation • Smart visualizations for big data streams • Big data and analytics from home monitoring devices • Big data design patterns and anti-patterns Health Data Analysis • How to co-register patient data acquired over several time-points in their life? • What are the important metadata that need to be tracked over the longitudinal duration? • What software platforms need to be developed for enabling easy access to the patient’s medical and clinical history? • How to handle gaps in history-taking? • What is the current state-of-the-art in clinical decision support utilizing personalized longitudinal medical data and what is missing? Important Dates • Submission: July 26, 2013 • Notification of Acceptance: August 23, 2013 • Camera-ready: September 13, 2013 • Workshop:  October 6-9, 2013 Paper Submission Site https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2013/bigdata13/scripts/ws_submit.php, Following the link to the workshop 14 Big Data in Bioinformatics and Health Informatics. Preparation of Submissions. Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines with length no more than 9 pages. See the submission website for formatting instructions. Though different formats may be accepted, PDF submission is encouraged. All papers will be published at the workshop proceedings and at the IEEE digital library. Workshop Website: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jhuan/BBH/ Program co-Chairs: * Jun (Luke) Huan, the University of Kansas * Vinay Pai, NIH * Ankur Teredesai, University of Washington, Tacoma * Shipeng Yu, Siemens _______________________________________________ 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> Jun Huan 2013-05-25T15:10:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40168 <pre> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Last Call for Papers 7th International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2013) in conjunction with VLDB 2013, Riva del Garda, Italy Submissions due: June 2, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Keynote speakers: ------------------- Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark ------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Description ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 7th International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2013) will be held in Riva Del Garda, Italy, in conjunction with VLDB 2013. DBRank 2013 welcomes the submission of original and previously unpublished research papers with a length of up to 6 pages (including all references and figures). Research papers should clearly describe their contribution and report their completed research results. In addition, we welcome vision papers and work-in-progress descriptions as short paper submissions with a length of up to 3 pages. Topics of interest include -- but are not limited to -- the following: - Ranking in relational databases - Ranking in web and XML databases - Ranking in RDF and graph-oriented databases - Ranking in social networks - Ranking in distributed and peer-to-peer databases - Ranking multimedia data - Ranking and information extraction - Ranking as a data exploration tool - Ranking queries in data streams and continuous monitoring systems - Rank-aware query processing and optimization - New fundamental developments in top-k algorithms - Cost-models for top-k algorithms and operators - User preference specification and query languages - Applications of ranking and top-k retrieval in databases - Domain-specific ranking approaches - Multidimensional data analysis using ranking tools - Personalized ranking functions - Learning user preferences and ranking functions - Visualization and data exploration based on ranking See https://sites.google.com/site/dbrank2013/home for more details about paper submissions and the organization of DBRank 2013. ---------------------------------------------------------- Organization ---------------------------------------------------------- PC Chairs ------------------- Georgia Koutrika, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Martin Theobald, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Steering Committee ------------------- Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, USA Ihab F. Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada Web Chair ----------------- Sairam Gurajada, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Program Committee ------------------- Anastasios Arvanitis, University of California, Riverside, USA Srikanta Bedathur, IIIT Delhi, India Petko Bogdanov, University of Califorina, Santa Barbara, USA Tao Cheng, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Norbert Fuhr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Katja Hose, Aaalborg University, Denmark Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Davide Martinenghi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Guillaume Raschia, Polytech'Nantes - Site de la Chantrerie, France Thomas Roelleke, University of London, Queen Mary, UK Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs, USA Ambuj Singh, University of Califorina, Santa Barbara, USA Akrivi Vlachou, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Arjen de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde &amp; Informatica, Netherlands Peter Wood, University of London, Birkbeck, UK Nan Zhang, The George Washington University, USA _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Martin Theobald 2013-05-25T07:05:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40167 <pre> Call for Papers ICDM-2013 Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare December 8, 2013, Dallas, Texas USA Workshop Co-Chairs: Xiao-Li Li, See-Kiong Ng, Jason T.L. Wang http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM2013/BioDM.html 1. Introduction The biologists are stepping up their efforts to understand the biological processes that underlie disease pathways. This has resulted in a flood of biological and clinical data from genomic sequences, DNA microarrays, and protein interactions, to biomedical images, disease pathways, and electronic health records. We are in a situation where our ability to generate biomedical data has greatly surpassed our ability to mine and analyze the data. We can expect data mining to play an increasingly crucial role in furthering biological research, since data mining is designed to handle challenging data analysis problems. In fact, it is our hope that data mining will be the next technical innovation employed by biologists to enable them to make insightful observations and groundbreaking discoveries from their wide array of heterogeneous data from molecular biology to pharmaceutical and clinical domains. There are still many fundamental data analysis challenges to be overcome in order to discover new knowledge from the biomedical data to translate into clinical applications. These include practical issues such as handling noisy and incomplete data (e.g. protein interactions have high false positive and false negative rates), processing compute-intensive tasks (e.g. large scale graph mining), and integrating heterogeneous data sources (e.g. linking genomic data, proteomics data with clinical databases). This is an unprecedented opportunity for data mining researchers from the computer science domain to contribute to the meaningful scientific pursuit together with the biologists and clinical scientists. This workshop’s mission is to disseminate the research results and best practices of data mining approaches to the cross-disciplinary researchers and practitioners from both the data mining disciplines and the life sciences domains. We encourage submission of papers describing the design and use of data mining techniques to address the various challenging issues in biological data analysis. We particularly welcome paper submissions that report the development of data mining techniques in healthcare-related applications that integrate the use of biological data in a clinical context for translational research. 2. The topics of interest The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: •Biological and medical data collection, cleansing, and integration •Big biomedical data management, analysis, and prediction •Biological and medical data visualization •Bioimage analysis •Data pre-processing to handle noisy, missing biological and medical data •Knowledge representation and annotation of biological and medical data •Machine learning algorithms for biological and healthcare applications •Disease bioinformatics •Computational methods for drug discovery •Biological markers detection •Pharmacogenomics data mining and personalized medicine •Big data mining with high-throughput and next-generation sequencing technologies (DNA-seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, etc.) •Analysis of complex disorders •Integration of biological and clinical data for translational research •Bioinformatics databases and resources •Text mining algorithms for biological and healthcare applications •Biological network analysis (protein interaction network, metabolic network, transcription factor network, signalling network, etc.) •Pattern analysis in computational genetics, genomics and proteomics •Semantic web and knowledge acquisition in biology and healthcare •Electronic health records and biomedical repositories 3. Important Dates Aug 3, 2013: Due date for paper submission Oct 1, 2013: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Dec 8, 2013: Workshop date 4. Submissions Paper submissions are limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (Please refer to http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/dates). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. A double blind reviewing process will be adopted. Authors should therefore avoid using identifying information in the text of the paper. All papers should be submitted through the ICDM Workshop Submission Site. All accepted workshop papers will be published in a separate ICDM workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. In addition, authors with accepted papers to the workshop will have the opportunity to be invited to publish their extended versions in the following two venues: a) as book chapters in an edited book which will be published by World Scientific and b) as journal papers in International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB). 5. Confirmed PC members Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), USA Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Gianluca Bontempi, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Vincent S. Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Yang Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Aryya Gangopadhyay, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Vladimir Bajic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia David Hansen, Australian e-Health Research Centre, Australia Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan Mark A. Ragan, The University of Queensland, Australia George Perry, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India Zeyar Aung, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, China Xin Gao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Xiaoxu Han, Eastern Michigan University, USA Raphael Isokpehi, Jackson State University, USA Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Chee Keong Kwoh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Haiquan Li, University of Chicago, USA Yongjin Li, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA Raul Rabadan, Columbia University, USA Honnian Chua, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jianhua Ruan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Saeed Salem, North Dakota State University Zeeshan Syed, University of Michigan, USA Sungroh Yoon, Seoul National University, Korea Erliang Zeng, University of Notre Dame, USA Xiaoling (Shirley) Zhang, Boston University, Boston, MA _______________________________________________ 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> XIAOLI LI 2013-05-25T06:48:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40166 <pre>Preliminary Call for Papers - ICDE Industry and Application Track The Industrial and Applications Track of ICDE 2014 would like to invite high quality submissions describing ideas or implementations in all areas of data management and engineering solutions relevant to industrial applications, including commercial and government sector. The primary emphasis is on submissions that describe innovative industrial advancements in relevant areas including (but not limited to) database systems, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, real-time business intelligence, information integration, cloud based systems, big data, NoSQL technologies, mobile data management, advanced analytics and data management on new hardware. Submissions that do not highlight some innovative aspect of industrial projects (including relevant open source software), or industrial app lications having the potential to inspire research in new areas, or that do not constitute case studies demonstrating the results of recent advances in commercial products, are discouraged. Submitters must clearly identify which of the following three categories their paper belongs to as distinct evaluation criteria will be used for each category. -Deployed systems that demonstrate how an industrial application of a research idea provides real value. -Discoveries where the value to the industry can be clearly demonstrated and the underlying work can be validated to substantially improve upon existing approaches. -Disruptive and emerging applications that highlight in clear terms how they distinguish themselves from the related work and what aspect of their technology makes it more likely than not to disrupt the status-quo. The Industry and Applications Track will accept short (6 pages) and long (12 pages) submissions. Information on submission and formatting requirements are available in the Authors Instructions at the ICDE 2014 webpage. Important Dates for Research and Industry Papers Abstract due: 17:00 PDT July 15, 2013 Full paper submissions due: 17:00 PDT July 22, 2013 Notification to authors: October 15, 2013 Final versions due: November 29, 2013 Industry and Application Track Chairs Rafae Bhatti (Accenture Technology Labs, USA) Malu Castellanos (HP Labs, USA) Yu Zheng (Microsoft, China) _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Goce Trajcevski 2013-05-25T05:58:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40165 <pre>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on In-Memory Data Management and Analytics (IMDM 2013) http://www-db.in.tum.de/other/imdm2013/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with VLDB 2013 Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy ---------------------- Call For Papers ---------------------- Over the last 30 years, memory prices have been dropping by a factor of 10 every 5 years. Main memory is the “new disk” for data storage. The number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) in DRAM is far greater than other storage media such as hard disks and SSDs. DRAM is readily available in the market at better price point in comparison to DRAM-alternatives. These trends make DRAM a better storage media for latency-sensitive database applications, large-scale web applications, and future applications such as wearable devices. Most vendors have “in-memory” database products today and large-scale web-based enterprises already run their significant applications completely in memory. While such solutions exist, main-memory data management is still in a nascent stage, and research opportunities are plentiful. The first international workshop on In-memory Memory Data Management and Analytics (IMDM 2013) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the proliferation of in-memory data management and analytics infrastructures. The workshop invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers covering research challenges, novel ideas and methodologies that can advance the state-of-the-art in main memory data management and analytics. The proceedings of IMDM 2013 are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Best paper awards will be provided to encourage the quality of the workshop. </pre> Arun Jagatheesan 2013-05-24T22:42:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40164 <pre>Last Call For Papers (with extended deadline) Second International Workshop on Data and Artifact-Centric BPM (DAB'2013) Held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'2013), Beijing, China. http://sites.google.com/site/dabworkshop2013/ Updates: - New submission deadline: 2 June 2013. - Authors of selected papers accepted at DAB'2013 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of Springer's Computing Journal: http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607 Traditionally, researchers in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) have focused on studying control-flow aspects of business processes independently of data aspects. This separation of concerns has enabled the development of various foundational theories and methods for BPM. However, the limits of theories and methods built on this separation of concerns are now becoming evident, particularly with the increasing pressure to support flexible business processes, where control-flow is often intermingled with data. In recent years, various approaches have emerged that emphasize the integration of data and control as key pillars to support the specification, analysis and enactment of flexible and rich business processes. From the scientific as well as the practical viewpoint, it is critical to study the fundamental relationships, characteristics and properties of these emerging integrated perspectives, where data and processes are considered together. The DAB workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners whose common interests and experience are in the study and development of data- and artifact- centric approaches to Business Processes Management. We solicit papers that investigate the tight interplay between data and control flow in business processes, for example on the following topics: - Integrated data and process modeling - Artifact-centric process modeling - Declarative and constraint-based process modeling - Data-centric flexible process management - Case management - Data-centric collaborative business processes - Mining data-enriched process models - Data-centric conformance and compliance management - Integrated data and process management on the Cloud - Composition and discovery of data-centric processes - Analysis of data-centric/artifact-centric processes - Data-centric process monitoring and performance management - Case studies and empirical studies on Data- &amp; Artifact- centric BPM All workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). In addition, authors of selected papers accepted at DAB'2013 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue in Springer's Computing Journal, http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607 Submission information is available at the workshop's web page: http://sites.google.com/site/dabworkshop2013/ Key Dates Paper submission deadline: 2 June 2013 (extended) Notification deadline: 25 June 2013 Camera-ready papers deadline: 23 July 2013 Workshop: 26 August 2013 _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Marlon Dumas 2013-05-24T17:47:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40163 <pre>IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Mining for Geoinformatics and Environmental Hazards (DMG-EH) 2013 in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining December 8, 2013 Dallas, TX http://cervone.gmu.edu/research/ICDM-DMG-EH-13/ CALL FOR PAPERS Never in the history we have known so much about our planet. Never in history we had such access to Earth Science data. Never in history, our society has been so much at risk. Environmental Hazards pose a constant threat to the development and sustainment of our civilization. A single catastrophic event can claim thousands of lives, cause damages for billions of dollars, trigger an economic depression that might affect directly or indirectly the entire world, destroy natural landmarks, cause tsunamis, floods, landslides, render a large territory uninhabitable and destabilize the military and political balance in a region. Such potential catastrophic consequences are due to the emergence of megacities, the proliferation of nuclear power plants and nuclear waste storage facilities, high dams, and other facilities whose destruction pose an unacceptable risk of global reach. Thus the study of environmental hazards and of the processes that govern their occurrence ha s become a fundamental challenge for the survival of our civilization. In recent years, the advances in our ability to observe the Earth and its environment through the use of air, space and ground based sensors has led to the generation of large dynamic, and geographically distributed spatiotemporal data. The rate at which geospatial data are being generated exceeds our ability to organize and analyze them to extract patterns critical for understanding our dynamically changing world. New challenges arise from an unprecedented access to massive amounts of Earth science data that can be used to study the complementary nature of different parameters. These developments are quickly leading towards a data-rich but knowledge-poor environment. Data Mining algorithms are needed to address these scientific and computational challenges and provide innovative and effective solutions to analyze these large, often multi-modal, spatiotemporal datasets. Traditional data mining techniques are ineffective as they do not incorporate the idiosyncrasies of the spatial domain, which include spatial autocorrelation, spatial context, and spatial constraints. The scope of this workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and the establishment of synergistic activities among scientists working in fields such as geographic information science (GIS), data mining, machine learning, natural hazards, geoinformatics, remote sensing, as well as earth and atmospheric sciences. During this one-day event we aim to bring together these scientific communities, which are overlapping but not always interacting. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Geoinformatics - Environmental Hazards - Data Mining and Machine Learning - Social Media Analysis - Atmospheric Data Analysis - Remote Sensing - Hyperspectral Image Analysis - Geo-spatial Analysis - Big Data Analytics - Geographic Information Systems - Natural Hazards - Risk Assessment - Climate Change - Numerical Simulations PAPER FORMAT Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Preliminary results are welcome. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. Please see the ICDM website for more information on the format requirements: http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/author-instructions Submission length is limited to *8* pages. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Program Committee. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: August 3, 2013 Notification: September 24, 2013 Day of Workshop: December 8, 2013 ORGANIZERS General Chairs Guido Cervone, George Mason University Jessica Lin, George Mason University Nigel Waters, George Mason 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> Jessica Lin 2013-05-24T15:07:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40162 <pre>CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION FOR THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCES +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ All accepted papers will be included in organization's Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference. TITLE: The Fourth International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL2013) EVENT VENUE: VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic CONFERENCE DATES: July 8-10, 2013 EVENT URL: http://goo.gl/q70jV OBJECTIVE: To provide a medium for professionals, engineers, academicians, scientists, and researchers from over the world to present the result of their research activities in the field of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. ICEL2013 provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference. KEYWORDS: Online Learning System Development, Instructional Design, e-Learning Models, Delivery Issues, Research Methods and Approaches, Technology, Pedagogy, Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and many more... 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ICIA2013 provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference. KEYWORDS: Informatics, computing, computer networks, information security, wireless communications, E-Technology, Cryptography and Data Protection and many more... SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 5, 2013 For further inquiries: ---------------------- Liezelle Ann Canadilla Conference Manager liezelleann.canadilla-6h2KDRQ2W4wJvtFkdXX2HixXY32XiHfO&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://goo.gl/q70jV http://goo.gl/9XDQa _______________________________________________ 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> Rizza Mendez 2013-05-24T14:59:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40161 <pre>BPM 2013 11th International Conference on Business Process Management The 6th Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2’13) August 26th, 2013 Beijing, China Call for Papers Deadline for workshop paper submissions: May 31, 2013 Workshop Theme Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. It enables social business that has created a multitude of success stories. More and more enterprises use social software to improve their business processes and create new business models. Social software is used both in internal and external business processes. Using social software, the communication with the customer is increasingly bi-directional. E.g. companies integrate customers into product development to capture ideas for new products and features. Social software also creates new possibilities to enhance internal business processes by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up decisions, etc. Social software is based on four principles: weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning. Weak ties Weak-ties are spontaneously established contacts between individuals that create new views and allow combining competencies. Social software supports the creation of weak ties by supporting to create contacts in impulse between non-predetermined individuals. Social Production Social Production is the creation of artefacts, by combining the input from independent contributors without predetermining the way to do this. By this means it is possible to integrate new and innovative contributions not identified or planned in advance. Reputation based mechanisms assure quality following an a posteriori approach. Egalitarianism Egalitarianism is the attitude of handling individuals equally. Social software highly relies on egalitarianism and therefore strives for giving all participants the same rights to contribute. This is done with the intention to encourage a maximum of contributors and to get the best solution fusioning a high number of contributions, thus enabling the wisdom of the crowds. Social software realizes egalitarianism by abolishing hierarchical structures, merging the roles of contributors and consumers and introducing a culture of trust. Mutual Service Provisioning Social software abolishes the separation of service provider and consumer by introducing the idea, that service provisioning is a mutual process of service exchange. Thus both service provider and consumer (or better prosumer) provide services to one another in order co-create value. This mutual service provisioning contrasts to the idea of industrial service provisioning, where services are produced in separation from the customer to achieve scaling effects. Up to now, the interaction of social software and its underlying paradigms with business processes have not been investigated in depth. Therefore, the objective of the workshop is to explore how social software interacts with business process management, how business process management has to change to comply with weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service, and how business processes may profit from these principles. The workshop will discuss three topics. Social Business Process Management, Social Business and Big Data in Social Business. Social Business Process Management is the use of social software to support one or multiple phases of the business process life cycle. Social Business Process Management (SBPM) Which phases of the BPM lifecycle (Design, Deployment, Operation, and Evaluation) can profit the most by social software? Do we need new BPM methods and/or paradigms to cope with social software? Is there an influence of weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning on BPM methods themselves? How are trust and reputation established in business processes using social software? How do weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning influence the design of business processes? How does social software interact with WFMS or other business process support systems? What is the impact on conceptual models for those categories of business processes which are not well-defined ? Social Business: Social software supporting business processes Which new possibilities for the support of business processes are created by social software? Are there business processes which require sociality, especially when they are not predictable (as production workflows) but collaborative or ad hoc? How can we use Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes? Which types of social software can be used in which phases of the BPM lifecycle? What new kinds of business knowledge representation are offered by social production? Big Data in Social Business Which data created with social software can be used to support business processes? Which categories of business processes can profit from big data ? Are there any similarities or relationships with process mining techniques and also with workflow control and role patterns? Goal Based on the five previous successful BPMS2’08, BPMS2’09, BPMS2’10, BPMS2’11, BPMS2’12 workshops, the goal of the BPMS2’13 workshop is to promote the integration of business process management with social software and to enlarge the community pursuing the theme. Workshop paper format Position papers of up to 2500 words are sought. Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be welcome. Position papers will be assigned a 20 minute presentation. Short papers of up to 1000 words can also be submitted, and will be assigned a 10 minutes presentation. Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (There is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report). Please use Easychair for submitting your paper: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpms213 The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. _______________________________________________ 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> Rainer Schmidt 2013-05-24T14:43:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40160 <pre>Extended Deadline: Abstract Submission Deadline: June 5, 2013 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second International Workshop on SOcial and MObile COmputing for collaborative environments (SOMOCO'13) http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/somoco2013 Graz, Austria, 9-13 September 2013 Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag The rapid progress of the Internet as new platform for social and collaborative interactions and the widespread usage of social online applications in mobile contexts have led the research areas of social and mobile computing to receive a widespread interest from academic and research institutions as well as from private and public companies. Social Computing consider relationships between the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the pervasiveness of new devices and embedded sensors, which enable a wide access of data and information by people, and an effective use of new services. Social computing deals with the design and application of information and communication technologies in social contexts. In this scenario the emerging technologies are stimulated and stimulate social evolution, considering that they will be used by very heterogeneous people according to their social, cultural and technological features. Social computing addresses many challenges, such as increasing interactive collaboration, understanding social dynamics of people, socially constructing and sharing knowledge, helping people to find relevant information more quickly. That is why in recent years this topic has attracted significant interest from researchers in computing and social sciences, as well as web en! trepreneurs, software and online game vendors. Social networking is one of the most important topic of social computing. Social networking technologies bring friends, co-workers and other social communities together. These technologies are convergent, emerging from a variety of applications, such as search engines and employee evaluation routines, while running on equally diverse platforms, from server clusters to wireless phone networks. Social networking and its connection with the use of mobile devices represents one of the most relevant phenomena of the recent years. Challenging problems of social networking are robustness, vulnerability, privacy, security access, content management in large scale collections, context awareness, multimedia search and retrieval, social graph modelling, etc. Mobile computing plays an important role in many social and collaborative activities, predominantly in those activities where having the right data at the right time is a mission critical issue. Mobile services and technologies serve groups of people “on the move”, sharing activities and/or interests; in particular, mobile technologies enable geographically distributed users to access information and services anytime and everywhere. Challenging activities that have been conducted in mobile computing include wireless mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, smart user devices, mobile computing platforms, and location-based and context-aware mobile services. By their real nature, mobile technologies can be considered multidisciplinary technologies involving social aspects; indeed, they often involve personal, group and ubiquitous issues, supporting inter-personal connections and involving human technology interaction in different, and dispersed, contexts. Moreover, mobile technologie! s are the base for collaborative distributed virtual environments, enabling geographically distant users to exchange information, communicate and collaborate. OBJECTIVES The aim of the proposed workshop is to gather researchers, from academia and industry, and practitioners to discuss about artificial social systems, and in particular adaptive open socio-technical systems, and mobile computing, to identify challenging problems that appear in these research fields and to show results and experiences realized by researchers. The workshop will be organized in a way to stimulate interaction among the participants. We invite research or position papers from researchers and practitioners of all backgrounds, in particular social computing, mobile computing, networking technologies, human-computer interaction, and collaborative environments. The best papers of the workshop, opportunely extended, will be selected for a special issue on an international journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: •Social computing theories, models and applications •Creative social computing •Social Informatics theories, models and applications •Social simulation •Social interaction and collaboration •Social intelligence and cognition •Social interaction modeling and analysis •Social Media Analytics and Social Media Intelligence •Machine Learning for Social intelligence applications •Social networking •Social network analysis •Novel social interaction paradigms •Collaborative technologies •Human-computer interaction and interface design •User interfaces and interaction for mobile devices •Multimodal mobile applications •Mobile social networking •Mobile computing •Mobile security and privacy •Mobile accessibility •Mobile social services •Future mobile applications •Mobile collaborative applications IMPORTANT DATES Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: June 5, 2013 Extended Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013 Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2013 Camera Ready Due: July 16, 2013 Author Registration Due: July 16, 2013 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. Paper submission site: http://submissions.onthemove-conferences.org/2013/somoco ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Fernando Ferri Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS) National Research Council Via Palestro 32, 00185 Rome, Italy Phone: +39 06 492724216 Fax: +39 06 49383724 Email: fernando.ferri-mQJHz7MvStmRIi+8W+d3eg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Patrizia Grifoni Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS) National Research Council Via Palestro 32, 00185 Rome, Italy Phone: +39 06 492724215 Fax: +39 06 49383724 Email: patrizia.grifoni-mQJHz7MvStmRIi+8W+d3eg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Arianna D’Ulizia Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS) National Research Council Via Palestro 32, 00185 Rome, Italy Phone: +39 06 492724297 Fax: +39 06 49383724 Email: arianna.dulizia-mQJHz7MvStmRIi+8W+d3eg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Maria Chiara Caschera Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS) National Research Council Via Palestro 32, 00185 Rome, Italy Phone: +39 06 492724298 Fax: +39 06 49383724 Email: mc.caschera-mQJHz7MvStmRIi+8W+d3eg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Irina Kondratova Institute for Information Technology People-Centred Technologies NRC 46 Dineen Drive Fredericton, NB E3B 9W4 Phone: +1 (506) 444-0489 Fax: +1 (506) 444-6114 Email: Irina.knodratova-GPT7cTdnlGT+SYiAP49vUg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Program Committee Members Kevin C. Almeroth – University of California, USA Frederic Andres - University of Aizu, Japan Richard Chbeir - Bourgogne University , France Karin Coninx - Hasselt University, Belgium Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Anna Formica - Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica-CNR, Italy Rajkumar Kannan - Bishop Heber College, India Nikos Komninos - Dept. of Informatics, University of Pireaus, Greece Stephen Marsh - NRC Institute for Information Technology of Moncton, Canada Rebecca Montanari - Dipartimento di elettronica, Informatica, Sistemistica, University of Bologna, Italy Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India Tommo Reti - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland Nicola Santoro – Carleton University, Canada Thanassis Tiropanis - School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK Riccardo Torlone - University of Rome RomaTre, Italy Adam Wojciechowski - Poznan University of Technology, Poland _______________________________________________ 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> Maria Chiara Caschera 2013-05-24T14:17:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40159 <pre> 4th International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis - BASNA 2013 Colocated with ASONAM 2013 25 August 2013, Niagara Falls, Canada http://www.basna.in basna.workshop-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org The aim of this workshop is to encourage multidisciplinary discussions related to novel ideas and application geared towards analyzing social network data. By bringing together researchers in the fields of Social Network Analysis (SNA), data mining, and management studies, the workshop will focus on identifying the “grey” areas of collaboration among their respective disciplines: - The role of data mining techniques in identifying scalable methods for the extraction and organization of social relations for management research and business practice - The role of management research in guiding data mining efforts and SNA metrics development towards theoretically-grounded discoveries about social network emergence. - The role of Social Network Analysis in developing and applying metrics and tools for the mapping, evaluation, visualization, and design of social relations in organizations. Keynote Address: Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Director of Research, Yahoo! Topics: The workshop's topics of interest include (but are not limited to the following): Algorithms for data mining social networks, graphs, links Applications of social network data mining to address a real world business scenario Anomaly detection in network based applications like intrusion detection in telecommunication Fraud detection in telecommunication network Community discovery in social networks Contextual applications for social networks Data mining applications for micro-blogging (real time mining) Data mining on large graphs Mining Wikipedia like graph/network structure Data mining applications for viral marketing Behavioral analysis in social networks Social semantic web Privacy issues in social networks Recommendations in social networks Social Network Analysis (SNA) -based: Knowledge Management (identifying experts, fostering knowledge exchange and integration, creating and developing communities of practice) Marketing (identifying new customers, customer relationship management) Innovation Support (enhancing innovation capacity, supporting new product development teams) Change Management (managing change, post-merger integration, identifying key enablers) Talent Management (hiring and career development) Leadership Development (decision-making, identifying leaders) Intra-Organizational Coordination (supporting coordination and information flows among organizational members and units) Inter-Organizational Coordination (supporting collaboration in consortia, industrial districts, inter-organizational alliances) Selected authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper, with a fast reviewing process, to the following Journals: - Journal of Information Science and Technology - International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations - International Journal of Social Network Mining IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: 31 May 2013 (EST, USA) Paper review notification: 15 Jun 2013 (EST, USA) Paper camera ready: 30 June 2013 (EST, USA) Organizing Committee: * Mohan Saravanan, Ericsson R&amp;D, India * Roberto Dandi, Luiss Business School, Italy * Avik Sarkar, IBM India * Eirini Ntoutsi, LMU, Munich, Germany Technical Program Committee: * Eirini Ntoutsi, LMU, Munich, Germany * Fan Wang, Microsoft, USA _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Eirini Ntoutsi 2013-05-24T12:44:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40158 <pre>The Data Mining and Machine Learning group (DM2L) at LIRIS laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS) invites applications for a PhD position in Machine Learning. Context This is a European project entitled "Integrated Solutions for Agile Manufacturing in High-mix Semiconductor Fabs" (INTEGRATE) with 28 European partners in which one PhD student will be funded for 3 years. The INTEGRATE project aims to enhance European semiconductor fabs efficiency by providing methods and tools to better control the process variability, reduce the cycle time and enhance the effectiveness of the production equipment. The PhD student will develop powerful machine learning algorithms for analyzing large unbalanced data sets including sensor data streams (at varying temporal resolution), selecting and extracting features, assessing their relevance and performing both fault detection and fault classification in a supervised or semi-supervised context. Work environment Lyon is France’s second largest city and capital of the Rhône-Alpes region. Combining an exceptional historical heritage with a natural liking for good food, Lyon is an ideal city for discovering all the charm of the French way of life. A stage for more than 2000 years of history, the city has a remarkable architectural heritage. Expanding towards the east throughout the centuries, without destroying the existing areas, 500 hectares of its city centre became a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1998. University Lyon 1 is one of the leading academic communities in France. Renowned for its leafy campus (443,000 m2), and state-of-the-art equipment, it enrols over 35, 000 students in approximately hundreds of study programs. University Lyon 1 employs 2630 researchers and teachers. The Data Mining and Machine Learning group (DM2L) at LIRIS laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS), focuses on the development of principled approaches to machine learning and data mining, and their applications to diverse areas including bioinformatics, anomaly detection, forecasting, process monitoring, medical diagnosis etc. DM2L currently consists of 12 researchers and 5 PhD students. Project description State-of-the-art semiconductor processes are often pushed to the limits of the current technology, resulting in processes that have little or no margin for error. Increasingly there is a need for fast, accurate, and sensitive detection and classification of equipment and process faults to maintain high process yields and high throughput in manufacturing. Detection of process and tool faults in the shortest time possible is critical to minimize scrap wafers and improve product yields for semiconductor manufacturing. Recently there has been a move towards fault detection directly on the manufacturing tool, through monitoring of tool-state data and in-situ process-state sensor data. Many manufacturing tools are beginning to have the ability to collect a large amount of data in real-time, which can be then accessed for tool fault detection. Unfortunately, with such an abundant amount of data available, it is often difficult to extract useful information such as when the tool is ! no longer operating properly (i.e. detecting a fault). Over the past years, a number of machine learning techniques have emerged to process large amounts of data and convert them to useful information. Several of these are starting to gain usage for tool fault detection. Once the fault is detected, the fault must be classified for some assignable cause, which ultimately must be corrected before the tool is returned to normal operation. Classification of the cause of the fault is equally critical to detecting the fault, because rapid classification and corrective action will lead to minimized tool downtime and increased throughput. The PhD candidate will focus on automating the fault classification with powerful machine supervised and semi-supervised learning approaches (e.g. graphical models, SVMs, neural nets, ensemble methods) for automatically classifying faults based on historical data and identifying some fault signature. The overall aim is to detect and classify faults faster and more accurately, resulting in improved process yields and higher throughput, while controlling the false alarm rate. What we expect from you You should meet the following requirements: •A Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Statistics with a strong interest in machine learning, pattern recognition and data analysis; •Strong programming skills in R or Matlab; •Good knowledge in probability and statistical inference; •Commitment and a cooperative attitude; •Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English. If you are interested in this position, please provide a detailed curriculum vitae, a short explanation of your interest in the proposed research topic, a list of courses (including grades) that you have successfully completed, a publication list, copy of your publication(s) in English and the names of two references, and all other information that might be relevant to your application Please send your application by mail not later than June 30th to: Prof. Alexandre AUSSEM, Email : aaussem-vVthMfXIA15Dq366JZ2NMA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Phone: +33 (0)4 26 23 44 66. _______________________________________________ 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> Alex Aussem 2013-05-24T11:51:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40157 <pre>Call for Chapters: Biometrics and Digital Identity Management Editors Dr. Abdullah Rashed (Algortimi Centre, University of Minho) Dr. Henrique Santos (Algortimi Centre, University of Minho) Proposals Submission Deadline: July 29, 2013 Full Chapters Due: April 14, 2014 INTRODUCTION: In a mobile era, users (or more generally, subjects) are represented by a set of data called digital identity, which are used, among other purposes, for authentication. Digital identity is defined as the digital representation of the known information about a specific subject (individual, organization or automatic delegated process). Within the digital world, security solutions are necessary to protect digital identity. Information security provides several identity management mechanisms to mitigate that threat. Identity management is a wide research and development area that rise authentication confidence in a system and defines restrictions on established identities. Efficient protection of digital identity encourages users to enter the digital world without hesitation. Users have a lot of user accounts (usually more then 20). Thus they frequently forget the full details, and consequently loose access, or use insecure ways to recall, selecting easy to guess or personal inf! ormation for their passwords or PINs, which imposes a serious identity theft threat. Biometrics presents a very promising alternative to protect against that threat. OBJECTIVE: Biometrics can change drastically the way people interact with computers, making it possible to overcome a major security limitation: authentication is always under user control and can be fuelled by malicious operators. Biometrics systems - that recognize physical or behavioral human characteristics - may facilitate and enrich social interactions and allow people to naturally interact with computer systems with minimal training, for domains such as communications, education, entertainment, and robotics. Among all possible applications, Identity Management emerges since we are pushing our dependency on Internet based services, for which identification and/or authentication is becoming crucial. However, to be effective biometric technologies need to fulfill several demanding requirements which are imposing serious restrictions to adaptation. From limited technical precision and scalability, to poor user adoption, we can find many arguments to drop it. With this book we intend! to address these issues and collect different proposals to overcome them. Target Audience The target audiences are professionals and researchers who work in the Biometrics and Identity Management fields. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support for several professionals and researches from different application domains which require strong authentication mechanisms based on biometrics and/or address several aspects of Identity Management, like privacy, authorization and auditing. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: •Biometrics in Health Care Systems •Identity Management for Hospital System •IDM Architectures (centralized, federated and distributed) •User Acceptance for Biometrics •Behavioral Biometrics •Performance Prediction for Multimodal Biometrics •Biometrics Theory Methods and Applications •IDM multimodal system: advantages and integration. Multimodal information architectures Multimodal Interaction Processing •Security, Privacy, &amp; access control •Multimodal interfaces and Multimodal interaction •User audit and accountability •Credential and access management •Digital identity management •Digital identity privacy issues •Identity-related scientific, business, industrial, legal and social implications •Federated identities management •Models for authentication and privacy management •Participating organizations •User-centric identities management Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 31, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 15, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Business Science Reference” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014. Important Dates July 29, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline November 18, 2012: Full Chapter Submission January 6, 2014: Notification of Acceptance April 14, 2014: Final Chapter Submission May 19, 2014: Review Results Returned Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document): Dr. Abdullah Rashed Algoritmi Centre, Universiry of Minho Tel.: 00351917410255 E-mail: abdullahrashed-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Dr. Henrique Santos Algoritmi Centre, Universiry of Minho E-mail: hsantos-PpiMaPxZK4TXx8rO31cKRw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Abdullah Rashed 2013-05-24T10:49:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40156 <pre>PhD research scholarships in Assistive Technology for mobile applications (Nearchos Paspallis) A scholarship is offered by UCLan Cyprus on the topic: "Quick Prototyping of Assistive Technology Applications for Mobile Devices" The suggested approach is to design and implement a middleware system that will facilitate the quick prototyping of Assistive Technology (AT) applications. This middleware will be deployed on mobile devices (notably, smart phones and tablet computers) and will facilitate the formation of complex AT applications by means of combining off-the-shelf components: both sensors (such as Brain Computer Interfaces or sip/puff switches) and actuators (such as the phone app, the email app or hardware such as the lights and the TV). Moreover, customisation of the applications will be facilitated via an End-user programming environment. UCLan Cyprus offers a tuition scholarship for PhD study (i.e. no fees required, but you are still expected to cover your accommodation and personal living expenses). The award will be delivered in partnership with UCLan in the UK, with the awards coming from UCLan (they are therefore UK PhD awards). The scholarships are for three years full time study. Students will not be charged fees for these three years of study, but will be asked to contribute towards the costs of a one week residential period of study and conference attendance each year, to be held at the University of Central Lancashire, in Preston, Lancashire (see below). Applicants must possess at least an upper second (2i) class award (or equivalent) in a Bachelors degree in a relevant subject, and fluency in the English language equivalent to IELTS 7.0. They must not be in full time employment during the full time PhD studies, and must be resident in Cyprus during the period of study. Students will be required to attend UCLan in the UK once per year for a week of training and attendance at a student conference, normally in June or July. They may be required to pay a fixed fee towards the costs of travel and accommodation. It is anticipated that this fee will be in the region of €500 per year. For application forms and instructions, please see: http://www.uclancyprus.ac.cy/en/research/phd-research-scholarships-at-uclan-cyprus. The closing date for applications is June 28th, 2013. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed and the successful applicants are expected to begin their studies on October 1st, 2013. For questions regarding the topic, please contact: Nearchos Paspallis, Lecturer in computing http://nearchos.aspectsense.com npaspallis-JwJgcejzh6v10XsdtD+oqA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld </pre> Nearchos Paspallis 2013-05-24T10:38:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40155 <pre>Call for Papers The Third International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2013) August 29-31, 2013 British Computer Society, London, UK Technically co-sponsored by IEEE UK &amp; RI Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore (Http://www.dirf.org/intech) The First international conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The third conference will be held at British Computer Society during August 29-31, 2013. The INTECH 2013 offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2013) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S &amp; T domains such as - Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages Submissions at http://www.dirf.org/intech/submission.asp The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore, and will be indexed in many global databases..In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the following special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. In addition, selected papers after complete modification and revision will be published in the following special issues of journals. 1. Information Journal (SCI/ISI index) 2. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 3. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus and EI Indexed) 4. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 5. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Students Poster Session Students are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 3 pages to be considered for a Poster session. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to prepare poster papers. Selected papers will be published as posters in the IEEE proceedings. Selected papers after modification, extension and review will be published in the DLINE journals (www.dline.info). Students can submit their full paper by email to intech at dirf.org Important Dates Paper submissionMay 31, 2013 Notification of acceptanceJune 30, 2013 Camera readyJuly 31, 2013 Registration August 01,, 2013 INTECH 2013August 29-31, 2013 Program Committee General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Program Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Aziz El Janati El Idrissi, Mohammed V Agdal University, Morocco Program Co-chairs Nik Bessis, University of Derby, United Kingdom Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Publication Chair Lei Li, Hosei University, Japan Tariq Shareef Yunis, Applied Science University, Bahrain Email: intech at dirf.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> Saba Sarasvady 2013-05-24T09:01:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40154 <pre>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call. Please redistribute within your own group and among colleagues, thank you!] [CALL FOR PAPERS] 2nd International Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing2013) October 21st/22nd, 2013 - Sydney, Australia Collocated with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) http://www.streamreasoning.org/events/ordring2013 IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline: 3 July 2013 Paper submission deadline: 10 July 2013 Notification of acceptance: 9 August 2013 GOALS AND TOPICS ---------------- More and more applications require real-time processing of massive, dynamically generated, ordered data; where order is often an essential factor reflecting recency, proximity or relevance. Stream and rank-aware data management techniques are progressively providing reactive and reliable query answering over such massive datasets, allowing integration of highly dynamic sources. Key to their success is the use of streaming algorithms that harness the natural or enforceable orders in the data. The expressive power of Semantic technologies is needed in those applications, but Semantic Technologies risk being unable to address the needs of those applications, because they do not consider ordering as an essential property. Ranking results is often seen as an “added task”, performed after inference, without affecting the inference process, which is order-agnostic. However, we perceive a trend towards order-aware semantic technologies: both researchers and practitioners understand that order matters in reasoning over massive and highly dynamic data. The idea of Stream Reasoning is gaining considerable momentum. Some top-k query answering techniques for Linked Data appeared. Several works are considering SPARQL query answering on RDF annotated with labels partially ordered. The Description Logic community is investigating top-k ontological query answering. This workshop aims at bringing together this growing and very active community interested in integrating ordering with reasoning by using methods inspired by stream and rank-aware data management. We see this workshop as a first step to stimulate and guide a paradigm shift in semantic technologies. Topics include, but not limited to: - Inferencing with streaming algorithms - Ontological query answering over highly dynamic data - Incremental maintenance of materialization of highly dynamic data - Ontological top-k query answering over massive ordered data - A top-k query answering for fuzzy logics - Continuous query answering for fuzzy logics - Knowledge Representation for ordered facts - Applications of stream reasoning and top-k ontological query answering - Role of parallelization and distribution in order-aware semantic technologies - Harvesting and combining orders in data - Approximation approaches to inference with orderings - Proposals for and applications of benchmarks - Implementation and evaluation experiences SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------- We will welcome submissions describing ideas, experiments, and application visions originating from requirements for, and efforts aimed at, interleaving ordering and reasoning. We will encourage demos and posters not exceeding 4 pages, short position papers not exceeding 6 pages as well as longer technical papers not exceeding 12 pages. They should follow the LNCS proceedings style files. Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the OrdRing2013 web submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ordring2013). The Workshop Proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (www.ceur-ws.org) ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano) Markus Krötzsch (University of Oxford) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Irene Celino (CEFRIEL) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) * David Carral (Wright State University) * Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) * Peter Haase (fluid Operations) * Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen) * Jeff Z. 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Sign-up today for notification on new books and related information in your subject areas: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1h5Pzt.C65EOY..T.Ipxu.45gg.bW89MQ%5f%5fDEYCFRS0 Springer-Verlag GmbH Heidelberg, Tiergartenstrasse 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany, phone: +49 6221 487 0, fax: +49 6221 487 8366 (c) Springer 2013, springer.com _______________________________________________ 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> Annette Hinze 2013-05-24T07:42:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40151 <pre> Preliminary Call for Research Papers - ICDE 2014 The annual ICDE conference addresses research issues in designing, building, managing, and evaluating advanced data-intensive systems and applications. It is a leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions. ICDE 2014 will be held in Chicago, IL, USA, March 31-April 4, 2014. Chicago, on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, telecommunications, and transportation. The city is also a home to 12 Fortune-500 companies, with O'Hare International Airport being the second-busiest airport in the world. Chicago is famous for its rich cultural life, celebrated live music, and world-class dining. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza Hotel, which offers exceptional views of the Chicago River and the Chicago skyline. The hotel is adjacent to Merchandise Mart and is minutes from Michigan Avenue, the Magnificent Mile shopping district, the Loop, and Millennium Park. IMPORTANT DATES (Research Papers) Abstract submission: 17:00 PDT July 15, 2013 Full paper submission: 17:00 PDT July 22, 2013 Notification: October 15, 2013 Final version: November 29, 2013 Conference: March 31-April 4, 2014 GENERAL CHAIRS Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA) Goce Trajcevski (Northwestern University, USA) PC CO-CHAIRS Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria, Italy) Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) AREA CHAIRS Cloud Computing, Parallel Databases, and Big Data Jignesh Patel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Crowdsourcing, Distributed and P2P Data Management Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) Data Warehousing, Statistics, and Aggregate Processing Mirek Riedewald (Northeastern University, USA) Privacy, Security, and Trust Ninghui Li (Purdue University, USA) Relational Indexing, Query Processing and Optimization Chee Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Semi-Structured and RDF Data Torsten Grust (University of Tübingen, Germany) Social Networks, Social Web, Graph Management, and Personal Information Management Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada) Streams and Sensor Networks Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Systems, Performance, and Transaction Management Alejandro Buchmann (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Spatial, Temporal, Mobile, and Multimedia Data Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong, China) Strings, Text, and Keyword Search Wei Wang (University of New South Wales, Australia) Web and Linked Data Min Wang (Google Research, USA) Uncertain and Probabilistic Data Feifei Li (University of Utah, USA) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa, Italy) Flash and Main Memory Data Stratis D. Viglas (University of Edinburgh, UK) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All submissions must be prepared in the IEEE camera-ready format and submitted to the CMT system. Only submissions in PDF format are accepted. Research paper submissions are limited to 12 pages. A paper submitted to ICDE 2014 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire time it is considered for ICDE 2014, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work (other than posters or short papers with a length of up to 4 pages when converted into the IEEE format). Submissions are reviewed in a single-blind manner. Authors of research papers will have an opportunity to give concise feedback on preliminary reviews within a one-week time. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings. The online proceedings may be published as early as February 1, 2014. Accepted papers will be 12 pages long. The best papers will be selected for extended versions to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if none of the authors attends the conference to present their paper. _______________________________________________ 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> Goce Trajcevski 2013-05-24T05:02:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40150 <pre>Extended paper submission deadline: : May 31, 2013 (11:59 p.m. PST) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st Symposium on Conceptual Modeling Education (SCME), to be held in conjunction with ER 2013 (11-13 November 2013, Hong Kong), provides a forum for discussing the education and teaching of theoretical or practical concepts related to conceptual modeling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations, and case studies of interesting projects. We solicit submission of papers that describe methods of teaching and educating conceptual modeling to both the research and industry communities. We are also interested in papers sharing experiences of applying conceptual modeling in industry. Topics of interest include all methods and approaches discussing the teaching and learning of any topic of conceptual modeling listed in the CFP of ER 2013 (http://www.hkws.org/conference/ER2013/index.php?CFP). The Symposium invites submissions from the communities of databases, information systems, software engineering, web information systems, business process modeling, enterprise content management systems, and related areas. Important Dates: - Extended Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2013 (11:59 p.m. PST) - Notification of acceptance: June 14, 2013 - Camera-ready version submission: July 15, 2013 Submission Guidelines: Accepted Papers will be published in the ER Workshop proceedings published by Springer. Authors should submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. The page limit for submitted papers (as well as for final, camera-ready papers) is 10 pages. A paper submitted to the 1st Symposium on ER Education should not be under review for any other workshop, conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the 1st Symposium on ER Education. Submission to the 1st Symposium on ER Education will be electronically managed via EasyChair. The submission page is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eres2013. Educational Symposium Chairs: - Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA - James Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR _______________________________________________ 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> James Cheng 2013-05-24T04:45:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.dbworld/40149 <pre>The 2013 ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems ( ACM SIGSPATIAL 2013) is now accepting paper submissions online. Instructions for submissions are at http://sigspatial2013.sigspatial.org/cfp/ and also below. We encourage you to submit your best work to this premiere research conference in geo-spatial data processing. Important Dates Abstracts Due: 17 June 2013 (midnight PDT) Papers Due: 24 June 2013 (midnight PDT) Acceptance Notifications: 26 August 2013 The paper submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmsigspatialgis2013. Peer Kroger, University of Munich Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich John Krumm, Microsoft Research USA 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013) Call for Research, Industrial, and Systems Papers, Demos, and PhD Showcases November 5-8, 2013, Orlando, Florida, USA http://sigspatial2013.sigspatial.org The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2013 ( ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013) is the twenty-first event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of geospatial data ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to data storage and query processing and indexing. The conference is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). Researchers, students, and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions to ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013. Paper Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmsigspatialgis2013 Abstracts Due: 17 June 2013 (midnight PDT) Papers Due: 24 June 2013 (midnight PDT) Acceptance Notifications: 26 August 2013 Topics of Interest Suggested geospatial-related topics include but are not limited to: . Cartography and Geodesy . Computational Geometry . Computer Graphics Applications . Computer Vision Applications . Distributed and Parallel Algorithms . Earth Observation . Geographic Information Retrieval . Geospatial Architectures and Middleware . GPU and Novel Hardware Solutions . Human Computer Interaction and Visualization . Image and Video Understanding . Location-Based Services . Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security . Mobile Systems and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks . Object Tracking and RFIDs . Performance Evaluation . Photogrammetry . Similarity Searching . Spatial Analysis and Integration . Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Acquisition . Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis . Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery . Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty . Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms . Spatial Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Decision Support . Spatial Information and Society . Spatial Modeling and Reasoning . Spatial Query Processing and Optimization . Spatio-Temporal Data Management . Spatio-Temporal Sensor Networks . Spatio-Temporal Stream Processing . Spatio-Textual Searching . Standardization and Interoperability . Storage and Indexing . Traffic Telematics . Transportation . Urban and Environmental Planning . Visual Languages and Querying . Web and Real-Time Applications Paper Format Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm. org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Submissions are limited to 10 pages. It is important that previous related work (especially appearing in prior editions of the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Conference and the ACMGIS workshops/symposia) be appropriately cited. In addition to the regular full-length papers, the Program Committee may accept some as poster or demo papers which will be requested to be shortened. All submissions will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be considered for "Best Paper Award." Ph.D. Dissertation Showcase Papers Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit their Ph.D. research contributions and work-in-progress, limited to 6 pages-append "(Ph.D. Showcase)" to the title. Student authors of accepted papers will be able to present a summary of their research at the conference. Successful Ph.D. showcase papers will appear in the ACM SIGSPATIAL Newsletter. Industrial Experience and Systems Papers Industrial Experience and Systems papers are invited that describe original industrial experiences, challenges, and applications, as well as systems to be presented during the conference . Industrial Experience and Systems paper submissions are limited to 10 pages-append "(Industrial Paper)" or "(Systems Paper)" to the title as is appropriate. Accepted Industrial Experience and Systems papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Demonstration Papers Authors are invited to submit demo papers describing original demonstrations to be presented at the conference. Submissions are limited to 4 pages-append "(Demo Paper)" to the title. Accepted demo papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Submission At least one author per accepted paper, poster, Ph.D. Dissertation showcase, industrial paper, or demo must register and attend the conference to present the accepted submission. Otherwise, the accepted submission will not appear in the published conference proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the conference proceedings. All questions should be addressed to the PC Chairs. _______________________________________________ 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> Hongrae Lee 2013-05-23T22:21:54 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.db.dbworld