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DBSJ Letters Vol.4, No.4自由投稿受付中
by dbsj-office 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

日本データベース学会会員の皆様 DBSJ Lettersでは、Vol.4, No.4（2006年3月刊行予定）においても、自由投稿論文を受け付けております。詳細は下記の通りです。締め切りまで１カ月ほどございますので、皆様ふるってご投稿ください。どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 自由投稿締切り：　2005年12月26日（月）夕方5時著者への採否通知：　2006年1月26日（木）最終稿提出期限：　2006年2月23日（木）夕方5時刊行予定日：　2006年3月23日(木) --- 日本データベース学会事務局西倉実季 TEL　03-5978-5706 FAX　03-5978-5707 E-mail:　dbsj-office(a)dbsj.org

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上林奨励賞推薦のお願い
by Masatoshi Yoshikawa 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

日本データベース学会員の皆様会員各位におかれましては，ますますご清祥のことと心よりお慶び申し上げます．さて，日本データベース学会上林奨励賞規程に基づき，会員の皆様から平成１７年度上林奨励賞の候補者をご推薦いただきたく何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます．上林奨励賞の目的は，規程により以下のように定められており，毎年，原則として１名に授与することになっております．上林奨励賞は，故上林弥彦日本データベース学会初代会長のご遺族からご寄贈頂いた資金を活用し，データベースに関する研究や技術に対して国際的に優れた貢献を行った若手会員を奨励するためのものである．本規程に基づき，会員の皆様から平成１７年度上林奨励賞の候補者をご推薦いただきたく何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます．ただし，受賞者は，受賞時 (DEWS2006)に40才未満である本会会員でなければならない点にご留意の程をお願い致します．推薦は自薦，他薦を問いません．添付の推薦書の書式によりまして，平成１７年１２月１２日（月）までに，小生まで，電子メールでご推薦の程をお願い申し上げます．メールアドレスは，次の通りです． yosikawa(a)is.nagoya-u.ac.jp 以上，何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます．日本データベース学会平成１７年度上林奨励賞選考委員会委員長吉川正俊 8><---------------------------------------------------------------- 日本データベース学会上林奨励賞推薦書推薦者氏名：所属：候補者氏名：所属： Tel.: Fax.: e-mail: 推薦理由（200字以内．候補者が行なった研究や開発した技術が国際的に優れていることを可能な限り客観的な事実に基づき説明したもの．） 8><-----------------------------------------------------------------

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功労賞推薦のお願い
by Masatoshi Yoshikawa 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

日本データベース学会会員の皆様会員各位におかれましては，ますますご清祥のことと心よりお慶び申し上げます．さて，日本データベース学会功労賞規程に基づき，会員の皆様から平成１７年度功労賞の候補者をご推薦いただきたく何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます．この功労賞の目的は，規程により以下のように定められており，毎年１あるいは２名に授与することになっております．功労賞は，我が国のデータベースに関する科学・技術の振興をはかり，もって学術，文化，ならびに産業の発展に大いに寄与された日本データベース学会の会員の功労を賞するためのものである．添付の推薦書の書式によりまして，平成１７年１２月１２日（月）までに，小生まで，電子メールでご推薦の程をお願い申し上げます．メールアドレスは，次の通りです． yosikawa(a)is.nagoya-u.ac.jp 以上，何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます．日本データベース学会平成１７年度功労賞選考委員会委員長吉川正俊 8><---------------------------------------------------------------- 日本データベース学会功労賞推薦書推薦者氏名：所属：候補者氏名：所属： Tel.: Fax.: e-mail: 推薦理由（200字以内）： 8><-----------------------------------------------------------------

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教員公募：高知大学
by Tokio Kikuchi 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

日本データベース学会の皆様、高知大学の菊地と申します。以下のように教員（教授：データベース関連）の公募を行っておりますので、お知らせいたします。なお、この公募情報は多方面に転送していただいて結構です。 -- 菊地時夫 tkikuchi(a)is.kochi-u.ac.jp Tel:088-844-8336 〒780-8520 高知大学理学部情報科学教室 http://www.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/ 参考:高知大学教員採用情報サイト http://www.kochi-u.ac.jp/JA/gakubu/kyokanbo.html ============================================================ 記高知大学理学部教員公募 1. 募集人員　　教授1名 2. 所属　　理学部数理情報科学科　情報科学講座 3. 専門分野　　ソフトウェア科学分野（大規模データベース関連を含む） 4. 応募資格　　博士の学位を有すること　ソフトウェア科学（大規模データベース関連など）を専門とする広い視野をもった研究者が望ましい。また，研究活動に意欲的で共通教育から学部・大学院の教育まで熱意をもち，学科の運営にも積極的な方を希望します（共通教育，専門教育，博士前期・後期課程を担当していただきます）。 5. 着任時期　　平成18 年4 月 1 日またはそれ以降のできるだけ早い時期 6. 任期　　な　し 7. 提出書類　　　　○履歴書（写真付き）　　　　○研究業績リスト（査読付，査読なし，特許，外部資金獲得実績など）　　　　○主要論文別刷（5編以内）各2部（コピー可）　　　　○これまでの研究概要（A4判3枚程度）　　　　○着任後の教育・研究の抱負（それぞれA4判2枚程度）　　　　○研究業績について照会できる方2名の氏名と連絡先　　　　　（採用時に推薦状を依頼します） 8. 公募締切　　平成18 年1月15日（必着） 9. 書類送付先および問合せ先　　　　〒780-8520　高知市曙町2-5-1　高知大学理学部数理情報科学科　　　　　　教員採用選考委員会委員長　豊永昌彦　　　　Tel：088−844−8342　　Fax:088−844−8342 　　　　Email：toyonaga(a)is.kochi-u.ac.jp 10. その他 ○ 封筒に「数理情報科学科(情報)教員応募書類在中」と朱書し，簡易書留で送付すること（応募書類は返却いたしません）。 ○ 選考の最終段階で研究発表(模擬授業に相当するプレゼンテーションを含む) および面接を実施します。 =============================================================

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CFP: Workshop on Privacy and Security in Agent-based Collaborative Environments
by Sozo INOUE 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

皆様 5月に函館でありますAAMASに併設されます，プライバシーとセキュリティのワークショップです．論文〆切は1月15日です． --------------------------- 九州大学システムLSI研究センター・大学院システム情報科学研究院助手井上創造 TEL: 092-583-7622(内線93-7622) FAX: 092-583-1338 *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ***Our apologies for multiple postings*** ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ **************** * The First International Workshop on * Privacy and Security in Agent-based Collaborative Environments * (PSACE 2006) * May, 9 2006 * http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/ * * To be held at AAMAS 2006 * Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and * MultiAgent Systems * Future University-Hakodate, Japan May 8-12, 2006 * http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ **************** [Workshop Description] PSACE (http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/) aims to provide a forum to discuss privacy and legal issues raised by multi-agent systems as well as to describe research results regarding privacy technology in distributed collaborative environments. Collaboration is conducted on the basis of autonomous interactions and information exchange between agents. When multi-agent systems are deployed in open environments, privacy becomes a fundamental issue, because agents interact on behalf of their owners or representatives. Since information exchange in the form of agent interactions are handled on behalf of the owners, these owners should know: - who holds their private information, - who can access it and for which purpose and, - how this information is handled (in order to avoid unauthorized changes or unauthorized transfers). With agent-oriented technologies playing an increasingly important role in new distributed computing activities (E-Commerce, Grid Computing, Pervasive Computing, Semantic Web, etc.), there are increasing risks that the privacy and integrity of users' information will not be maintained. In light of these developments, a thorough analysis of threats to privacy and their causes is needed. Issues with respect to the degree of privacy loss, the release of constraints in terms of protection, and how they might be assessed need to be addressed. The workshop will attempt to examine and compare new and different approaches, along with their technical solutions and practical designs, in open distributed environments. In addition, the workshop will also attempt to examine the degree to which legal and organizational compliance for privacy in multi-agent collaborative environments can or should be achieved. [Workshop Objectives] The objectives and technical issues of the workshop are as follows: 1. Identification of the essential weaknesses/risks of multi-agent-based/distributed applications with respect to user's privacy including legal aspects - specifically in the new emergent field of Multi-Agent System (MAS) applications. This analysis will help to have a better understanding of security requirements that arise from existing agent-based applications by identifying the main problems, the primary factors, and the principal actors with respect to various contexts and business cases. The workshop will also focus on specialist security concerns that arise in agent systems and do not exist in other systems such as Web Services or Grid Computing, etc. 2. Identification of the limitations and restrictions imposed by security, privacy including legal and corporate compliance in highly distributed open MASs. 3. Identification of both malicious and accidental (hidden, indirect) attempts to exploit private information exchange and storage. 4. Specification of solutions and technical approaches for acceptable privacy protection (demonstrations of functionalities and implementation trade-offs with respect to security, privacy level, performance, cost, etc.). For instance, security implementations and privacy protection that can be associated with toolkits such as Java Agent DEvelopment (JADE) framework will be considered. 5. Examination and review of privacy compliance with respect to laws and corporate requirements as well as proposed solutions for the MAS context. 6. Clarifying how security protocols could be included within the new IEEE Foundations of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) specifications. [Topics of Interest] The workshop will include multi-disciplinary (for example, technical and legal) papers from attendees as well as a holistic discussion of issues related to the key objectives outlined above. The main topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Privacy and security for collaboration in distributed environments - Privacy and security in wireless and ad hoc environments - Privacy in location-aware and context-aware services - Security protocols for agent-based collaboration systems - Assessing impact of distributed collaboration on privacy - Effect of environment on collaborative strategies - Effect of negotiation strategies on privacy - Confidentiality and privacy in critical applications (healthcare application, business-to-business, etc.) - Applications of privacy in distributed collaborative environments - Individual privacy retention during collaboration and individual privacy among agent societies and institutions - Infrastructural support for privacy in distributed collaborative environments: architectures, mechanisms, models/frameworks and implementation - Privacy issues for agent societies and institutions considered as a group - Impact of security on the openness and usability of the agent architecture - Privacy and other socio-legal aspects of collaborative MAS - Integration of security and privacy mechanisms across multiple agent platforms - Multi-agent systems and rights management systems for tracking of intellectual property and workflow - Privacy in pervasive computing - Privacy and provenance and dissemination - Privacy in relation to varying degrees of trust and reliability - Operational schemes and workflows for managing rights and intellectual property - Agent coalition and privacy preserving - Privacy preserving distributed data mining [Target Audience] The workshop invites submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of privacy issues related to agent-based collaborative environments. We also encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities' perspectives on technological issues. [Important Dates] Paper submission: January 15, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: February 19, 2006 Camera-Ready Version: March 12, 2006 Date of workshop: May 9, 2006 [Paper Submission] We call for two types of paper submission: - Long papers for innovative technical contributions in any of the workshop topic areas: limited to 10 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS Proceedings Author Guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) - Short papers describing implementation experiences, requirements or giving position statements relevant to the workshop topics: from 2 to 4 pages. Authors of short papers will be given 5 minutes presentation to introduce their work. [Submission Instructions] Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel to any other publication for conference, workshop or journal. Papers should be limited to 10 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS Proceedings Author Guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for detail) for long papers and 4 pages for short papers, including title page, figures and bibliography. Each contribution must be formatted in PostScript or PDF. [Review Procedure] Paper evaluation will be through electronic submission followed by peer review by three reviewers and final decision by workshop chair. The selection criteria will be relevance to the workshop themes, technical merit, originality and significance of research and quality of presentation. Papers will also be selected by the likelihood that they will lead to interesting and fruitful discussions at the discussion session of the workshop. [Publication] Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and will also be made available in electronic format before the day of the workshop. Proceedings of the workshop should also be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. [Registration] Workshop registration will be handled by AAMAS 2006 conference organization along with the main conference registration. Workshop participants must register for the workshop by following the instructions at: http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/ [Workshop Organization] General Workshop Chair: - Noria Foukia, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Program Co-Chairs: - Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Martin Purvis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand [Program Committee] - Martin Purvis, Otago University, New Zealand - Stephen Cranefield, Otago University, New Zealand - Maryam Purvis, Otago University, New Zealand - Ali Ghorbani, Faculty of Computer Science, (UNB), Canada - Jaco Aizenman, The University of Costa Rica, (UCR), Costa Rica - Omer Rana, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK - Luc Moreau, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK - Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary College, London, UK - Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu, Otago University, New Zealand - Herve Debar, France Telecom R&D, France - Larry Korba, National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Information Technology, Canada - Stephen Marsh, National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Information Technology, Canada - Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Ciaran Bryce, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Informatics & Mathematical Modelling Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Tobias Mahler, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law at the University of Oslo, Norway - Karvalics Laszlo, Information Society Research Institute (ITTK), AgentLab, Hungary - Patricia Charlton, Motorola Labs, Espace Technologique St Aubin, France - Steven Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain - Arkady Zaslavsky, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia - Gianluca Moro, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy - Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbruecken, Germany - Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Zuerich, Switzerland - John J. Borking, Borking Consultancy (Wassenaar), The Netherlands - Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna a Cesena, Italy - Noria Foukia, Otago University, New Zealand See the workshop web site (http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/) for any updates.

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KSEM'2006 CFP
by Yanhui Zhou 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Dear Sir/Madam, [Apologies if you received multiple copies of the following message.] Call For Papers First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'2006) August 5-8, 2006 Guilin City, China http://www.cs.ust.hk/ksem06 Co-located with PRICAI'2006 (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/pricai06) The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge engineering, and knowledge management to exchange ideas and to report state of the art research results. We invite submissions that are original and not yet published. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Knowledge Science - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Logics of knowledge; formal analysis of knowledge; reasoning about knowledge - Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics - Commonsense knowledge; nonmonotonic reasoning - Uncertainty in knowledge (randomness, fuzziness, roughness, vagueness, etc.) - Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency, etc. - Belief revision and update - Cognitive foundations of knowledge - Knowledge in complex systems (e.g. economical and quantum systems) - Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge; knowledge in multiagent systems - Formal ontology * Knowledge Engineering - Knowledge and information extraction from databases and Web - Knowledge discovery from very large databases - Knowledge integration - Knowledge-based software engineering - Knowledge-based systems in life sciences - Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems - Semantic database systems - Semantic Web - Content engineering - Ontological engineering - Implementation issues in KBS * Knowledge Management - Knowledge creation and acquisition - Knowledge verification and validation - Knowledge dissemination - Knowledge management systems - Organizational ontology - Data mining and knowledge discovery - Organizational memory - Organizational learning - Knowledge management strategies and practices - Knowledge management applications Important Dates Paper submission deadline March 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance April 28, 2006 Camera-ready paper due date May 15, 2006 Conference August 5-8, 2006 Paper Submission Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the conference web site http://www.cs.ust.hk/ksem06 Paper Length and Format Submissions must not exceed thirteen (13) pages including title page, references, and figures. They must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNAI instructions (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Conference Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as an LNAI. Conference Co-Chairs Joerg Siekmann (German Research Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) Organizing Chair Ju Wang (Guangxi Normal University, China) Publicity Co-Chairs Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China) Zili Zhang (Deakin University, Australia) Sponsorship Chair: Ke Liu (National Natural Science Foundation of China) Tutorial Chair: Cungen Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Advisory Committee Andreas Dengel, Chair, German Research Center for AI, Germany David Bell, Queen's University, UK Didier Dubois, IRIT/UPS, Toulouse, France Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Hector Levesque, University of Toronto, Canada Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yoav Shoham, Stanford University, USA Bo Zhang, Qinghua University, China Program Committee Program Chairs Jerome Lang (IRIT/UPS, Toulouse, France) Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Area Chairs Mingsheng Ying (Knowledge Science), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Shan Wang (Knowledge Engineering), Renmin University of China, China Huaiqing Wang (Knowledge Management), City University of Hong Kong, China Members Eugene Agichtein, Microsoft Research, USA Klaus Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Greece Nathalie Aussenac, IRIT-CNRS, France Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,China Yin Chen, South China Normal University, China John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xiaotie Deng, City University of Hong Kong, China Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France Chabane Djeraba, University of Science and Technology of Lille, France Patrick Doherty, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiaoying Dong, Peking University, China Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China Martin Dzbor, Open University, UK Thomas Eiter, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Giangiacomo Gerla, University of Salerno, Italy Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, SSR, Spain Nicola Guarino, LOA-CNR, Trento, Italy Andreas Herzig, IRIT, CNRS / Universite Paul Sabatier, France Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK David Israel, SRI International, USA Zhi Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Universitat Dortmund, Germany Ron Kowk, City University of Hong Kong Andre Kushniruk, University of Victoria, Canada James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Stephen Liao, City University of Hong Kong, China Paolo Liberatore, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Zuoquan Lin, Peking University, China Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China Dayou Liu, Jilin University, China Weiru Liu, Queen's University Belfast,UK Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China Chris Manning, University of Queensland, Australia Jiye Mao, Renmin University of China, China Pierre Marquis, Universite d'Artois, France John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Vibhu Mittal, Google, Inc., USA Kenneth S Murray, SRI International, USA Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Sydney ,Australia Ewa Orlowska, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia Fiora Pirri, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland Marie-Christine Rousset, Universite de Grenoble, France Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Torsten Schaub, Universitat Potsdam, Germany Choon Ling Sia, City University of Hong Kong, China H. Stuckenschmidt, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Kaile Su, Zhongshan University, China Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Leon van der Torre, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Laure Vieu, IRIT-CNRS (France) and LOA-CNR (Italy) Guoren Wang, Northeasten University, China Ju Wang, Guangxi Normal University, China Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK Dongming Xu, University of Queensland, Australia Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Chunxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia Mingyi Zhang, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, China Shichao Zhang, Guangxi Normal University, China Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queesland, Australia Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Zhaohui Zhu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Meiyun Zuo, Renmin University of China, China

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会員情報のクリーニング
by Kazumasa Yokota 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

日本データベース学会会員の皆様日本データベース学会電子化委員会の横田です。日本データベース学会では、本年７月１４日の総会で、 ACM SIGMOD日本支部との一体運営が了承されたことに伴い、会員情報のクリーニングを行ってきました。とくに、学生会員の中に卒業した方が多く含まれており、メールの不達が多く見られました。そこで調査の結果、学生会員３８１人中在学中２００人卒業済１８１人研究室で確認１３３人ＨＰ等で確認　４２人正会員に移行　　６人となりました。そこでまだ正会員に移行されていない１７５人（大部分はメールの不達状態）について学生会員から削除することが１１月１７日の日本データベース学会理事会で承認されました。この中で、学生会員としてサービスを受けられている方は早急に正会員への移行をお願いします。上記１７５人の削除は１１月末に行い、１２月より新会員リストに移行する予定です。卒業された方が学生会員としてこれほど残っていることは当初の想定外でした。今後は、学生会員については、卒業予定年の入力の必須化、卒業予定年を過ぎた学生会員の方への警告メールの自動送信等、正会員についてもデータの更新依頼、会費の請求メールの自動送信等の新しい運営規則・運営システムを検討中です。これについては後日本ＭＬで連絡させていただきますが、移行期間中は皆様に会員情報の修正等の依頼をさせていただくことがあるかもしれません。よろしく御協力のほどお願いします。最後になりましたが、学生会員の調査にご協力いただいた多くの方々に感謝いたします。 --------- 横田一正岡山県立大学情報工学部 phone&fax: 0866-94-2001 〒719-1197 総社市窪木 111 fax(大量): 0866-94-2199 e-mail: yokota(a)c.oka-pu.ac.jp

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CFP: 5th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW 2006)
by Mieso Denko 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS - AD HOC NOW 2006 5th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Ottawa, August 17-19, 2006 http://kunz-pc.sce.carleton.ca/AdHocNow2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract Submission: February 24, 2006 Paper Submission : March 3, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 3, 2006 Camera-ready versions due: June 7, 2006 Demo proposals due: May 1, 2006 SCOPE ------ We are interested in work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Of interest, but not limited to, are research papers in any of the following areas: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Application for Ad Hoc Networks * Architectures of Ad-Hoc Networks * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Location Discovery and Management * Low Power and Energy-Efficient Designs * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Wireless Internet PROCEEDINGS ----------- As in the past years, we plan to have the proceedings of Adhoc Now 2006 published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------ Authors are strongly encouraged to (but not required to) submit a 150 word abstract of their paper along with three keywords by the abstract submission deadline (February 24, 2006). Acceptable formats for the abstracts are plain text, postscript (PS) and portable document format (PDF). Submissions should not exceed 14 pages (including a 150 word abstract, all figures, tables and references) in Springer Verlag LNCS format. Acceptable formats for papers are PS and PDF. Submissions which are not in the appropriate format will be rejected without review. All papers will be reviewed for technical merit. Each accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference. All abstract and paper submissions will be handled electronically at the conference website. SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS --------------------- Proposals for system demonstrations related to wireless networks are also solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages in LNCS format and should include a description of the demo and the equipment to be used. Potential demonstrators are requested to submit a proposal in PS or PDF format to one of the Co-Chairs of the Technical Program Committee (Thomas Kunz -- tkunz(a)sce.carleton.ca or S. S. Ravi -- ravi(a)cs.albany.edu) by May 1, 2006. Please include contact information (postal address, email address, phone and fax numbers) in the submission. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be allotted three pages in the proceedings, provided at least one author registers to present the demo at the conference. TECHNICAL COMMITTEES -------------------- Program Committee Co-Chairs: Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Steering Committee: Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Publicity Committee: Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Technical Program Committee: Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY Binghamton, USA Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Rida Bazzi, Arizona State Univ., USA Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University, Canada Torsten Brown, Univ. Berne, Switzerland Gruia Calinescu, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA Edgar Chavez, Univ. Michoacana, Mexico Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Pilu Crescenzi, Univ. Florence, Italy Mieso Denko, Univ. of Guelph, Canada Stefan Dobrev, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Mischa Dohler, King's College, London, UK Andras Farago, UT Dallas, USA Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Stefan Fischer, Univ. Luebeck, Germany Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Alex Hall, ETH, Zurich Admela Jukan, Georgia Tech, USA Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University, USA Sven Krumke, Univ. Kaiseslautern, Germany Thomas Kunz, Carleton Univ., Canada Louise Lamont, Communications Research Center, Canada Errol Lloyd, Univ. Delaware, USA Angela Mielke, Los Alamos National Labs, USA Jelena Misic, Univ. Manitoba, Canada Pat Morin, Carleton University, Canada Lata Narayanan, Concordia Univ, Canada Ioanis Nikolaidis, U. Alberta, Canada J. Opatrny, Concordia Univ., Canada Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers Univ., Sweden Paolo Penna, Univ. Salerno, Italy Cristina Pinotti, Univ. Perugia, Italy Guy Pujolle, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France Ravi Prakash, Univ. Texas at Dallas, USA Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, Mexico S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Jean-Marc Robert, Alcatel, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Christian Schindelhauer, Univ. Paderborn, Germany Andrew Scott, Lancaster Univ., UK Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research LLC and Clemson Univ., USA Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. Ottawa, Canada Ravi Sundaram, Northeastern University, USA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Damla Turgut, Univ. of Florida, USA Anil Kumar Vullikanti, Virginia Tech., USA Paul Ward, Univ. Waterloo, Canada Gergely Zaruba, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Jerry Zhao, ICSI-Berkeley, USA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------- For questions regarding obtaining visas, accommodation, etc, please contact Thomas Kunz (mailto:tkunz@sce.carleton.ca). Questions regarding paper submissions should be addressed to S. S. Ravi (mailto:ravi@cs.albany.edu).

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UIC2006CFP
by Qun Jin 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

[Apologies if you receive this CFP more than once] ********************* UIC-06 ************************* The 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06) - Building Smart Worlds on Real and Cyber Spaces - http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/ Organized by Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. (HUST) Co-Sponsored by HUST, NSFC, 863, ChinaGrid, IFIP In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (Applying) Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006 ****************************************************** Following ubiquitous computers, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both real and cyber spaces. A SW is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or computational intelligence pervasive in the physical world, filled with ubiquitous intelligent or smart things, that are capable of computing, communicating, and behaving smartly with some intelligence. One of the profound implications of such ubiquitous smart things is that various kinds and levels of intelligence will exist ubiquitously in everyday objects, environments, systems and even ourselves, and possibly be extended from man-made to natural things. "Ubicomp" or "percomp" can be regarded as the computing of all these intelligent/smart things/u-things, that are essential elements and components of the SW. A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Intelligent/smart things is an emerging research field covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the ubiquitous world with universal services of any means/place/time to the SW of trustworthy services with the right means/place/time. UIC-06 is a successor of the 2nd Int'l Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005, Japan, Dec. 2005) which succeeds the 1st Int'l Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW2005,Taipei, Mar. 2005). It offers a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments, and systems as well as discuss various personal/social/physical issues faced by UI and SWs. Topics include but are not limited to the following: 1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects * Electronic Label, Card, E-Tag and RFID * Embedded Chips, Sensor & Actuator * MEMS, NEMS, Mote & Biometric Device * Everyday Good, Artifact, Robot, etc. * Smart Appliance and Wearable Device * Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc. * Emerging Intelligent/Smart Objects * Embedded Software and Agents 2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments * Room, Home, Office, Laboratory, etc. * Building, Library, School, Campus, etc. * Shop, Clinic, Hospital and Health Care * Street, Yard, Park, Ground, City, etc. * Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation * Land, Pool, Space and Hyperspace * Learning, Sport, Entertainment, etc. * Novel Intelligent/Smart Applications 3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems * Sensor, Ad Hoc & Intelligent Networks * Knowledge Representation and Ontology * Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems * OS, Middleware and Intelligent Association * Intelligent Service Architecture, Grid & Mesh * Massive Agents, Swarm/Amorphous Systems * Proactive, Autonomic and Organic Systems * Novel Intelligent/Smart Systems 4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects * Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics * End-User Interface, Control & Programming * Social/Natural/Physical Model of UI & SW * User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition * Security, Privacy, Trust and Legal/Policy Issues * Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors * Implication and Impact of UI and SW * Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds ==IMPORTANT DATES== Submission Deadline: March 10, 2006 Authors Notification: May 10, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: June 10, 2006 ==ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION== Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the UIC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06 ==PAPER PUBLICATION== Accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Proceedings to be indexed by SCI and EI. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the international Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), and the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC). ==Organizing Committees== Honorary Chairs Horio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China General Chairs Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Program Committee Chairs Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada International Advisory Committee Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT Network Innovation Lab., Japan Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Steering Committee Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Publicity Chairs Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Hani A. K. Hagras, University of Essex, UK Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan International Liaison Chairs Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University, USA Ismail K. Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Publication Chairs Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Thomas Noel, University Louis Pasteur, France Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Award Chairs Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Panel Chair Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Financial Chair Xin Li, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Web Administration Chair Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Local Arrangement Chair Xia Xie, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Program Committee See UIC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/uic06/ Further questions, please contact with UIC06 Secretariat: <uic06(a)hust.edu.cn> Or PC Chairs Prof. Hai Jin <hjin(a)hust.edu.cn> Prof. Laurence T. Yang <lyang(a)stfx.ca> Prof. Victor Callaghan <vic(a)essex.ac.uk> ============ End of UIC-06 CFP =============== Qun Jin, Ph.D. Professor Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama 359-1192, Japan Phone/Fax: +81-4-2947-6906 E-mail: jin(a)waseda.jp http://www.f.waseda.jp/jin/ http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/

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Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan 講演会のご案内
by Miyuki Nakano 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

日本データベース学会の皆様、 ACM 　SIGMODJ　の皆様、東大生研の中野です。 Dr. Prabhakar Rghavan　（Yahoo! Research)の講演会を再度ご案内いたします。 WWW上の情報検索の新しいアプローチについてお話しいただける予定です。奮ってご参加ください。 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 　☆☆☆　　Dr. Prabhakar Rghavan　講演会のご案内　　　☆☆☆ 共催　日本データベース学会　　　ACM SIGMOD日本支部東京大学　COE　情報科学技術戦略コア　大域ディペンダブル情報基盤特定領域研究　「情報爆発IT基盤」日時　１２月５日（月）　午後２時４５分〜午後３時４５分場所　東京大学生産技術研究所　総合研究実験棟(An-301) 総合研究実験棟　３階　エレベータをあがってすぐ http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/map/index.html Title: Incentive Networks Speaker: Dr.Prabhakar Raghavan ( Yahoo! Research ) 参加費　無料参加ご希望の方は、　１．日本データベース学会のホームページにて　　　( http://www.dbsj.org/ ) 　２．ＳＩＧＭＯＤホームページにて（ http://www.sigmodj.org/ ）　　　のいずれかより、　　　会員登録の後（会費無料、すでに登録されている方は結構です）、 sigmodj_lecture(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.xn--jp-sb4a 　　　添付の参加申込書をお送り下さい。皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。 ACM　SIGMOD日本支部　支部長　北川博之　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　担当幹事　中野　美由紀連絡(問合せ)先　ACM SIGMOD日本支部 sigmodj_lecture(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　http://www.sigmodj.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: sigmodj_lecture(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp ACM SIGMOD日本支部　講演会　参加申し込み１２月５日（月）の講演会に参加・名前　　　・ご所属 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 　 Title: Incentive Networks Speaker: Dr.Prabhakar Raghavan ( Yahoo! Research ) We propose a notion of incentive networks, modeling online settings in which multiple participants in a network help each other find information. Within this general setting, we study query incentive networks, a natural abstraction of question-answering systems with rewards for finding answers. We analyze strategic behavior in such networks and under a simple model of networks, show that the Nash equilibrium for participants' strategies exhibits an unexpected threshold phenomenon. -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 中野　美由紀東京大学　生産技術研究所　喜連川研究室 Miyuki NAKANO Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo miyuki(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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