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1st CFP: SNPD2008
by siena＠cc.tuat.ac.jp 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

東京農工大学の品川です。下記の国際会議の論文募集を案内させていただきます。投稿締切は 2月13日となっております。奮ってご投稿ください。 # 重複してお受取りの場合はご容赦ください ----- First Call for Papers 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2008), August 6 - 8, 2008, Phuket, Thailand. (http://snpd2008.cp.eng.chula.ac.th) SNPD2008 brings together researchers, scientists, engineers, industry practitioners, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of computer and information science. SNPD2008 aims to facilitate cross-fertilizations among, and is soliciting papers in, the key technology enabling areas, including but not limited to : Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Audio and Video Encoder/Decoder Technology Collaborative Computing Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms Communication Systems and Networks Component-Based Software Engineering Cryptography and Network Security Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery E-Commerce and its Applications Embedded Systems Image, Speech, and Signal Processing Information Assurance Internet Technology and Applications Mobile/Wireless/Ad-hoc Networks Natural Language Processing Operating Systems Parallel and Distributed Computing Service-Oriented Computing Software Specification and Architecture Software Testing Visual and Multimedia computing Voice-over-IP and Security User-Centered Design Methods Web-Based Applications Important Dates: Paper submission Feb 13, 2008 Notification of acceptance April 2, 2008 Camera ready copy due April 25, 2008 Paper Submissions: Paper submissions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality, and relevance to software concepts and technologies. As in previous years, it is expected that the accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All submissions must be in English; must be prepared in IEEE format (instructions at: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) and must not exceed 6 pages in length, including figures and references. Submission of papers will be carried out electronically via the Web and be in pdf or postscript format. Hosted by: Department of Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand 10330 email: snpd2008(a)cp.eng.chula.ac.th http://snpd2008.cp.eng.chula.ac.th Co-sponsored with: International Association for Computer and Information Science (ACIS) and (pending) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) In Cooperation with: National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand Commission on Higher Education (CHE), Ministry of Education, Thailand Inter University Network (UniNet), Thailand Thai National Grid Center (TNGC) --=*=----=*=----=*=----=*=----=*=----=*=-- 品川徳秀 (Siena.) <siena(a)cc.tuat.ac.jp> 東京農工大学大学院工学府情報工学専攻ユビキタス&ユニバーサル情報環境専修 --=*=----=*=----=*=----=*=----=*=----=*=--

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[CFP] 第11回WI2研究会 (北九州)
by Yoshinori Hijikata 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

日本データベース学会の皆様，大阪大学の土方です．3月22,23日に北九州学術研究都市　産学連携センターで予定されております第11回ウェブインテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会の，発表募集の案内です．招待講演は，「ライトウェイトセマンティックWebと次世代検索（仮）」を取り上げる予定です．積極的なご参加，お待ちしております． ===================================================================== 　第 11 回 Web インテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会　電子情報通信学会 HCG 第 2 種研究会 (SIG-WI2) 　発表募集のご案内 ===================================================================== 近年，Web 関連の研究は，Web ページ自体の検索にとどまらず，Web を利用する人々のコミュニケーションや各種データの融合など，非常に多岐に渡るようになりました．このような比較的新しい研究をベースに，評判検索など Web 上における新しいサービスも開始されるなど，Web に関連する新しい研究テーマはまだまだ登場してくるに違いありません．本研究会では，これらの流れを受け，Web 上の情報リソースに効率的にアクセスするためのデータベース技術，Web からの知識獲得を行うための自然言語処理技術，Web 上のコミュニケーションを支えるヒューマンインタフェース技術などについて議論する機会を設け，広く Web に関連する研究テーマに関する論文を募集いたします．なお，今回はHCGシンポジウムの一環として開催されます．【特別講演】テーマ：ライトウェイトセマンティックWebと次世代検索(仮) 講演者：中村聡史(京都大学)「タイトル未定」大向一輝(国立情報学研究所)「タイトル未定」【講演募集分野】　(A) テキスト処理関連技術　　　・情報検索，情報抽出，自動要約，質問応答，テキストマイニング　(B) 知的 Web 基盤技術　　　・XML・半構造データ処理，メタデータ構築支援，リンク解析，　　　　アノテーション作成支援，セマンティックWeb環境支援，　　　　マルチメディア検索　(C) Web インタラクション技術　　　・意思決定支援，パーソナライゼーション，ユーザ行動分析，　　　　情報可視化，ソーシャルネットワーク分析，コミュニティ構築支援　(D) その他　　　・Web インテリジェンスとインタラクションに関するテーマ全般【発表種別】　(1) ロング発表原稿 6 ページ，持ち時間 30 分 (20 分発表，10 分質疑応答) となります．実験結果などが出揃った分量の多い研究発表は，こちらでお申し込み　　ください．　(2) ショート発表　　原稿 2 ページ，持ち時間 15 分 (10 分発表，5 分質疑応答) となります．　　これからどのような研究をするかを説明するポジションペーパーの発表や，　　前回の発表からの進捗分の発表，サーベイ報告や，市場調査報告，ユーザアンケートの結果報告，システム開発報告，サービス提案などにご利用ください．　(注意点) 　　それぞれ，会場の都合などにより，持ち時間を短くさせていただくことも　　ありますので，ご了承ください．また，申込み件数が上限に達しましたら，　　その時点で申込み受付を終了させていただきますので，ご了承ください．【開催要領】　期日　平成 20 年 3 月 22 日(土)，23 日(日) 　会場　北九州学術研究都市　産学連携センター(予定) 　参加資格　特になし　発表申込の締切日　平成 20 年 1 月 21 日(月) 　原稿提出の締切日　平成 20 年 2 月 22 日(金) 　申込方法　発表題目，著者，所属，代表者連絡先(氏名，住所，TEL，　　　　　　　　E-mail)，発表種別(ロング発表かショート発表か)を　　　　　　　　下記の発表申込・問合先へE-mailでお知らせください．【発表申込・問合先】　櫻井茂明(東芝研究開発センター) 　〒212-8582 神奈川県川崎市幸区小向東芝町1 　E-mail：shigeaki.sakurai(a)toshiba.co.jp 主催　Web インテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会　　　　http://www.ieice.org/~wi2/ ------------- --- Yoshinori Hijikata, Ph.D. Division of Systems Science and Applied Informatics Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University Tel: +81-6-6850-6381 Fax: +81-6-6850-6341 E-mail: hijikata(a)sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

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LKR2008 Call for Participation
by Haruo Yokota 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

日本データベース学会の皆様、東京工業大学21世紀COE「大規模知識資源の体系化と活用基盤構築」主催の国際シンポジウム LKR2008 の参加募集を流させて頂きます。日本データベース学会他多くの学会に協賛頂いており、興味深い招待講演も多数企画されております。是非、多数ご参加頂けますようお願い致します。 −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− 横田治夫〒152-8552 東京都目黒区大岡山 2-12-1 東京工業大学学術国際情報センター情報基盤部門 (兼) 大学院情報理工学研究科計算工学専攻 TEL: (03) 5734-3505 (直通)、 FAX: (03) 5734-3504 email: yokota(a)cs.titech.ac.jp −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LKR2008 Call for Participation The 3rd International Conference on Large-scale Knowledge Resources Conference Hall, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan 3-5 March, 2008 http://www.coe21-lkr.titech.ac.jp/lkr2008 Registration is now open: https://act.jtbgmt.com/gmt/ssl/LKR2008.asp In the 21st century, we are now on the way to the knowledge-intensive society in which knowledge plays ever more important roles. Research interest should inevitably shift from information to knowledge, namely how to build, organize, maintain and utilize knowledge are the central issues in a wide variety of fields. The 21st Century COE program, "Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale Knowledge Resources (COE-LKR)" conducted by Tokyo Institute of Technology is one of the attempts to challenge these important issues. Inspired by this project, LKR2008 aims at bringing together diverse contribution in cognitive science, computer science, education and linguistics to explore design, construction, extension, maintenance, validation, and application of knowledge. Invited Talks: Nicoletta Calzolari (Director, ILC-CNR, Itary) "A European Research Infrastructure of Language Resources and Language Technologies" Donna Harman (Guest Researcher, NIST, USA) "Towards Better Evaluation Methodologies" Biing-Hwang Juang (Professor, Georgia Tech. USA) "From Information to Intelligence - the Role of Relative Significance in Decision Making and Inference -" Koji Shibano (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan) "Large Scale e-language Laboratory based on Web 2.0" Henry Thompson (Reader, The University of Edinburgh, UK) "Web Architecture and Naming for Knowledge Resources" Yuji Matsumoto (Professor, NAIST, Japan) "Corpus Annotation/Management Tools for the Project: Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese" Organizing committee: General conference chair: Furui, Sadaoki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Program co-chairs: Ortega, Antonio (University of Southern California) Tokunaga, Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Publication chair: Yonezaki, Naoki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Publicity chair: Yokota, Haruo (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Local organizing chair: Shinoda, Koichi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Sponsored by: 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program "Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale Knowledge Resources", Tokyo Institute of Technology (http://www.coe21-lkr.titech.ac.jp) In corporation with: IEEE Japan Council ACM Japan Chapter Japan Society for Software Science and Technology Information Processing Society of Japan The Database Society of Japan The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers National Institute of Multimedia Education Japan Society for Educational Technology Acoustical Society of Japan International Speech Communication Association Program: March 3rd 10:00-10:20 Opening Sadaoki Furui 10:20-11:10 Invited Talk 1: From Information to Intelligence: The Role of Relative Significance in Decision Making and Inference Biing-Hwang Juang 11:10-11:30 <Break> [Session: Mining Knowledge] 11:30-11:55 Comparing LDA with pLSI as a Dimensionality Reduction Method in Document Clustering Tomonari Masada, Senya Kiyasu and Sueharu Miyahara 11:55-12:20 Identification of MCMC Samples for Clustering Kenichi Kurihara, Tsuyoshi Murata and Taisuke Sato 12:20-12:45 TGC-Tree: An Online Algorithm Tracing Closed Itemset and Transaction Set Simultaneously Junbo Chen and Bo Zhou 12:45-14:15 <Lunch> [Session: Building Resources] 14:15-15:05 Invited Talk 2: Initiatives, Tendencies and Driving Forces for a "Lexical Web" as Part of a "Language Infrastructure" Nicoletta Calzolari 15:05-15:55 Invited Talk 3: Corpus Annotation/Management Tools for the Project: Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese Yuji Matsumoto 15:55-16:15 <Break> 16:15-16:40 Capturing the Structures in Association Knowledge: Application of Network Analyses to Large-scale Databases of Japanese Word Associations Terry Joyce and Maki Miyake 16:40-17:05 Construction of a Probabilistic Hierarchical Structure based on a Japanese Corpus and a Japanese Thesaurus Asuka Terai, Bin Liu and Masanori Nakagawa 17:05-17:30 CHISE: Character Processing based on Character Ontology Tomohiko Morioka March 4th [Session: Image and Video] 10:00-10:25 Soccer Formation Classification Based on Fisher Weight Map and Gaussian Mixture Models Toshie Misu, Masahide Naemura, Mahito Fujii and Nobuyuki Yagi 10:25-10:50 Supervised Learning of Similarity Measures for Content-based 3D Model Retrieval Hamid Laga and Masayuki Nakajima 10:50-11:15 Automatic Score Scene Detection for Baseball Video Koichi Shinoda, Kazuki Ishihara, Sadaoki Furui and Takahiro Mochizuki 11:15-11:35 <Break> 11:35-13:05 Poster 13:05-14:25 <Lunch> [Session: Using Resources] 14:25-15:15 Invited Talk 4: Large Scale e-Language Laboratory based on Web 2.0 Koji Shibano 15:15-15:40 Distant Collocations between Suppositional Adverbs and Clause-Final Modality Forms in Japanese Language Corpora Irena Srdanovic Erjavec, Andrej Bekes and Kikuko Nishina 15:40-16:00 <Break> 16:00-16:25 Using Singular Value Decomposition to Compute Answer Similarity in a Language Independent Approach to Question Answering Edward Whittaker, Josef Novak, Matthias Heie, Shuichiro Imai and Sadaoki Furui 16:25-16:50 On the representation of perceptual knowledge for understanding reference expressions Philipp Spanger and Takenobu Tokunaga 16:50-17:15 A Computational Model of Risk-Context-Dependent Inductive Reasoning Based on a Support Vector Machine Kayo Sakamoto and Masanori Nakagawa March 5th [Session: Infrastructure] 9:30-10:20 Invited Talk 5: Web Architecture and Naming for Knowledge Resources Henry Thompson 10:20-11:10 Invited Talk 6: Towards Better Evaluation for Human Language Technology Donna Harman 11:10-11:35 An Effective Scheduling Scheme for Information Searching with Computational Resources Scattered over a Large-Scale Network Shota Kondo, Shinji Sugawara and Yutaka Ishibasi Contact: International Conference Committee The 21st COE-LKR, Tokyo Institute of Technology 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552 JAPAN E-mail : lkr2008[at]coe21-lkr.titech.ac.jp ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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★　スイカとパスモ講演会のご案内　新年１月１７日　★
by Masaru Kitsuregawa 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

データベースな皆様　スイカは現在、１６００万トランザクション/dayという超巨大なシステムとなっております。『スイカとパスモ』に関しまして、ACM SIGMOD 日本支部が協賛、電子情報通信学会東京支部が主催で講演会が開催されますので、ご参加をご検討頂けますと幸いです。学生さんにとりましても、どのようにしてスイカが動作しているのかというシステムの根幹を知ることは、大変ワクワクする内容かと存じますので　関係者にフォアード頂けますと幸甚です。以下に講演会案内を添付いたします。　よろしくお願い申し上げます。（通信学会非会員でも参加費は無料です）喜連川優 dqîñÊMwï x uï ú@F@œ¬20N125úiàj@13F30`16F30 ï@êF@@BU»ïÙ@nº2K@z[ @@@is`æÅöR|T|W nºSúäJü_J¬wºÔkàWªj @@@@http://www.ieice.org/jpn/about/syozai.html è@ÚFwXCJÆpXF»ÌJÌðjÆÅOüx @iï@cmiåj @Jï@x·@ìAìD@@ @u@ÅŽÍviú{·qS¹ ITESuicaÆ{j13:30`14:45 @iQOªxej @u@Íº@åinºS S¹{j@ @@@@@15:05`16:20 @ T@vFüDûÅæÔðèúüêâJo©ço·±ÆÈA^b`·é Ÿ¯ÅÊé±ÆÌÅ«éJRú{ÌICJ[hðp¢œT[rXuSuicavÍA 2001NÉT[rXªnÜèÜµœªA»ÌÖ³©çåD]ðµA±êÜ ÅÌJ[hÌsÍ2,000ðŽŠÄ¢Ü·B2004N©çÍæÔÆ µÄŸ¯ÅÈAwÌXâXÌRrjÌx¥¢ÉàpÅ«éæ€ ÉÈèÜµœBÜœA2006N©çÍuoCSuicavÆµÄAgÑdb[ ðSuicaÆµÄp¢é±ÆÌÅ«éT[rXànÜèAT[rXj[ ªLªÁÄ«Ä¢Ü·BêûAÖnûÌSAöcðÊAoXÌÁ¿·é PASMOÍ¯lÌT[rXð2007N318úÉJnµA¯ÉSuicaÆÌÝ pðJnµÜµœªAÅÌ4úÔÅ100A23úÔÅ300èã°é óOÌåqbgÆÈèAÝÉs«ÌO©çŒNßÉíœÁÄð§À ·éÔÆÈèÜµœB @¡ñÌuïÅÍA±Ìæ€ÉÚðÑÄ¢éSuicaÆPASMOÉÖµÄA ²uðèÜ·BXCJÌJÉÍ16NÌÎªü³êAV²ü¯lA ú{ðã\·éæiVXeÆŸŠÜ·BXCJÍêúñ1600gU NVðµÄšèA»Ìæ[IÈZpð²ÐîžÆ€ÉAÁŠÄA ¶É§µœICJ[hÉš¯é±ê©çÌVµ¢T[rXíªÉÖµÄ àšbµ¢œŸ¯é\èÅ·B è@õF200Œi\÷ØÜÅÌæj \÷ØFœ¬20N117úiàj QÁïF³¿ \û@FE-mailÜœÍFaxÅADJÃúADuïèÚADŒA DïõíÊADïõÔADÎ±æADÎ±æZADÎ±æTEL šæÑFAXÔðLüÌãAºLxÜÅš\º³¢B š\ãÉe|mailÜœÍFAXÅuQÁÔvðšmç¹µÜ·B Ša`d,fÍK{üÍÚÆÈèÜ·B \æFE-mailF kouen(a)tokyo.ieice.org @@@FAXF (03)3433-6659 »ÌŒFuèÚAutÈÇÍsÉæèÏXÉÈéêª èÜ·B å@ÃFiÐjdqîñÊMwï x @ TELF (03)3433-6691 Š@^FIEEE x Š@^FACM@SIGMOD@ú{x Š@^F¶ÈwÈÁèÌæ€@îñITîÕ

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ISAS2008論文募集のご案内
by Takashi Nanya 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

皆様：メーリングリストをお借りして、来年5月19-21日に東京大学・駒場リサーチキャンパスで開催される「サービス・アベイラビリティ国際シンポジウム (ISAS2008)」の論文募集のご案内を再度させていただきます。論文投稿締め切りは、新年早々の、１月１５日です。南谷　崇東京大学 .................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2008) Komaba Convention Hall, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan May 19-21, 2008 http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/ IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 15, 2008 Notification: Feb. 20, 2008 Sponsored by RCAST, University of Tokyo (http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/) Service Availability Forum (http://www.saforum.org) In Cooperation with IEICE TC on Dependable Computing GI TC on Dependability and Fault Tolerance Who should attend? What are the issues? The objective of this Symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different "service" related areas within both industry and academia. We specially encourage original papers addressing problems of service availability at all layers, including experience on: * Dependability in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA): What dependability requirements are imposed by users and law? How are these requirements addressed in the SOA ? * Dependability in heterogeneous integrated systems: what is the state of the art in dependable heterogeneous systems? Do we need new standards? * Development and design tools for dependability: how can we support the day to day design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of dependable systems? Can we automatically "create" dependable solutions? How can we integrate dependability properties in common development environments? * Certified dependability: How can we certify service-level agreements (SLA) and dependability properties in ongoing development work? Topics: All areas of service availability are solicited, including but not limited to: * Robust services and infrastructure design/modeling/evaluation * Dependability and security requirements, design and test ofservices and SLA's * Availability/reliability models for composable systems * Service development, analysis, testing - models, environments, tools * Dependable solutions based on Java * Availability standards for service implementation, certification, support * Service management - certification, rating, service agreements, support * Interfaces for service implementers - usability, security and availability * Modeling, measuring and implementing dependability and security of integrated information and communication services * Virtualization technologies and dependable services * User aspects of service availability - dependability, performance, security, privacy * Dependability tools integrated in Eclipse environment * Service discovery * Service improvement and enhancement * Highly available service system INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Manuscripts should be submitted (and clearly indicated) as either Regular Papers or Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original, unpublished work on current research and novel ideas. Practical Experience Reports should describe an experience or a case study. Submissions whose contributions are supported by experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. The title page should include the title of the paper, author name(s), affiliations, mailing address, e-mail address, a maximum of 150- word abstract, five keywords and the submission category. The format of submissions for review should be single-column, 11-point font size and double-spaced: Not more than 20 pages for Regular Papers and not more than 12 pages for Practical Experience Reports including figures, tables and references. Papers should be submitted electronically through the symposium web page. Accepted papers are planned to be published in the Symposium Proceedings in a Special Volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (please refer to the Authors Section "Information for LNCS Authors" at www.springer. com/lncs/ ). For further information, please visit our symposium web page: http:/ /www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac. jp/isas2008/ or contact M. Reitenspiess, the Steering Committee Chair of ISAS: Manfred. Reitenspiess@fujitsu- siemens.com . General Chair Takashi Nanya (U.Tokyo, Japan) Program Co-Chairs Andras Pataricza (Budapest U. Technology & Economics, Hungary) Fumihiro Maruyama (Fujitsu Lab., Japan) Finance Chair H. Nakamura (U.Tokyo, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair M. Imai (U.Tokyo, Japan) Registration Chair M. Kondo (U.Tokyo, Japan) Publicity Chair M. Reitenspiess (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Germany) Publication Chair M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany) Web Master H.Okamura (Hiroshima U., Japan) Steering Committee M. Reitenspiess (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Germany) S. Benlarbi (Alcatel, Canada) T. Dohi (Hiroshima U., Japan) M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany) D. Penkler (HP, France) F. Tam (Nokia, Finland) Program Committee A. Avritzer (Siemens, USA) D. Bakken (Washington S., USA) R. Baldoni (U. Roma, Italy) G. Chockler (IBM, Israel) C. Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany) F. Fraikin (SDM, Germany) R. Fricks (Motorola, USA) M. Funabashi (Hitachi, Japan) A. Gokhale (Vanderbilt, USA) K. Hidaka (IBM, Japan) M. Hiller (Volvo, Sweden) H. Ichikawa (UEC, Japan) K. Iwasaki (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan) Z. Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) T. Kikuno (Osaka Univ. Japan) A. Kovi (BME+OptXware, Hungary) S. Kuo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) V. Loll (Nokia, Denmark) M. R. Lyu (Chinese Univ., Hong Kong) V. Mendiratta (Lucent, USA) N. Milanovic (TU Berlin, Germany) A. Moorsel (U Newcastle, UK) A. Naseem (GoAhead, USA) A. Pasic (Atos Origin, Spain) H. Ramasamy (IBM Zurich, Switzerland) A. Romanovsky (U Newcastle, UK) S. Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan) P. Sinha (Philips India) H. Sun (Sun Microsystems, USA) N. Suri (TU Darmstadt, Germany) H. Szczerbicka (U Hannover, Germany) M. Toeroe (Ericsson, Canada) K. Trivedi (Duke U, USA) T. Katsuyama (Fujitsu Labs, Japan) K. Ueda (U. Tokyo, Japan) P. Urban (Google, Switzerland) S. Valcourt (U New Hampshire, USA) A. Wolski (Solid Tech., Finland) S. Yajnik (Avaya, USA) T. Yamanouchi (NEC, Japan) TBE For complete information on ISAS2008, please visit our website at <http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/> .....................................................................

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NLPIX2008 CFP
by Atsushi Fujii 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

筑波大学の藤井と申します．（重複して受け取られた方はご容赦下さい）来年4月に北京で開催されるWWW2008の併設ワークショップ NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008) の論文募集をお送りします．投稿締切は2008年1月26日です．多数の投稿をお待ちしております． ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WWW2008 Workshop NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------- Under the umbrella of Workshops on Language-centric Web Applications Beijing, China, April 22, 2008 http://www-tori.jaist.ac.jp:8000/NLPIX2008/index.html ================================================================== Submission deadline: January 26, 2008 ================================================================== [Workshop Abstract] The amount of information available on the Web has increased rapidly, reaching levels that few would ever have imagined possible. We live in what could be called the "information-explosion era," and this situation poses new problems for computer scientists. Users demand useful and reliable information from the Web in the shortest time possible, but the obstacles to fulfilling this demand are many including language barriers and the so-called "long tail." Even worse, users may provide only vague specifications of the information that they actually want, so that a more concrete specification must somehow be inferred by Web access tools. Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the key technologies for solving the above Web usability problems. Almost all information on the Web is provided in the form of natural language texts, and so in order to offer solutions to these problems we must perform searching and extracting information from the Web texts using NLP technologies. The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together in order to discuss our most pressing needs with respect to accessing information on the Web, and to discuss new ideas in NLP technologies that might offer viable solutions for those issues. [Workshop Theme and Topics] As users' demands for the Web diversify, it is often the case that existing commercial search engines cannot provide useful information. This workshop focuses on diversified users' needs that have not been sufficiently satisfied by the existing search engines and other technologies, and discusses new ideas in NLP techniques that might offer viable solutions. Therefore, we welcome submissions of original papers describing a wide range of applications of the NLP technologies to Web access. Possible topics of the submissions include, but are not limited to: * Cross-lingual and cross-cultural Web access using machine translation * Information extraction/fact retrieval from the Web * Disambiguation of entities/facts on the Web * Dialogue/Interactive/Exploratory systems for Web access using natural languages * Automatic summarization of Web documents * Combination/Discrimination of multiple document resources on the Web * Trust/credibility evaluation of Web documents using NLP * Opinion extraction/Sentiment analysis on the Web * Long tail/minority/serendipity search using NLP * Entity identification on the Web e.g. people name search * Knowledge Acquisition from the Web documents/query logs for effective Web access * Effective search methods for mobile devices using NLP * NLP-based blog analysis * Other advanced NLP-based Web access technologies In particular, we solicit the papers that aim at fulfilling a NOVEL type of needs in Web access and that can provide a new insight into future directions of Web access research. [Workshop Schedule/Important Dates] * Submission deadline: January 26, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: February 19, 2008 * Final version submission date: February 27, 2008 [Submission Detail] Submit your paper as a PDF file via our online submission system which is linked from our workshop web page. Submissions should follow the main conference of WWW2008 and should not exceed 10 pages. Middle-sized papers (e.g., 6-8 pages) are also welcome. The style files are available at the following URL: http://www2008.org/submissions/index.html Reviewing will be blind, so do not include any information which could reveal the authors' identity. The title section of your manuscript should not contain any author names, email addresses, or affiliation information. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. If the same paper is accepted for another conference before February 19, 2008, the author must notify the program chairs which meeting they choose to present their work by February 19, 2008. Once the paper is accepted for this workshop, the author is expected to present their work at this workshop. Each paper is reviewed by at least two PC members. [Workshop Organizers] * Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan, * Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan, [Program Committee] * Dr. Andrew Borthwick, Spock, USA * Dr. Lee-Feng Chien, Google, Taiwan * Dr. Silviu Cucerzan, Microsoft Research, USA * Prof. Oren Etzioni, University of Washington, USA * Prof. Atsushi Fujii, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Prof. Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain * Prof. Kentaro Inui, NAIST, Japan * Prof. Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science * Prof. Noriko Kando, NII, Japan * Dr. Reiner Kraft, Yahoo!, USA * Prof. Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, Japan * Prof. Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea * Dr. Mun-Kew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore * Dr. Hang Li, Microsoft, China * Dr. Dekang Lin, Google, USA * Dr. Bernardo Magnini, ITC-irst, Italy * Prof. Tatsunori Mori, Yokohama National University, Japan * Prof. Takashi Ninomiya, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Prof. Massimo Poesio, University of Trento/University of Essex, Italy/UK * Prof. Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA * Dr. Ralf Steinberger, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy * Prof. Le Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Dr. Junichi Tatemura, NEC Laboratories America, USA * Prof. Kentaro Torisawa, JAIST, Japan * Prof. Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Prof. Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China [Note] Participants registered for this workshop will also be allowed to attend sessions of the other half-day workshop "Question Answering on the Web" since the two with be treated as one workshop under the title "Workshops on Language-centric Web Applications" in the registration form.

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WiMob 2008
by Ronald Beaubrun 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CFP +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | WiMob'2008 | | | | 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on | | Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication | | | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Avignon, FRANCE October 12-14, 2008 http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 SCOPE: ------ The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread dr ive towards mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc networks tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of the high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. WiMob'08 addresses three main areas: Wireless Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications This conference aims to stimulate interactions among participants and enable them to exchange new ideas and practical experience. WiMob'08 is the fourth in a series of annual conferences: two times in Montréal (QC), Canada in 2005 and 2006 and the last one in New York, USA in 2007. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Abstract submission due: May 6, 2008 Paper submission due: May 16, 2008 Notification of accept ance: August 1, 2008 Final manuscripts due: August 20, 2008 This conference will be comprised of the following three symposia: Wireless Communications ----------------------- Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Wireless Personal Communications Advances in Satellite Communication Broadband Wireless Communications Modulation and Coding Channel Measurement and Characterization OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems MIMO Channels Multiuser Detection Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Multimedia Communications over Wireless DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Multiple Access Techniques Location Estimation and Tracking Resource Allocation and Interference Management Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ------------------------------------------ Mobile IP Networks Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Multimedi a over Wireless Mobility and Location Management Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Designing and Modeling High Availability Mobile Networks Mobile Network Modeling and Simulation Architectures and Protocols for Mobile Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Mobile Internet Home and Ubiquitous Networks Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications ----------------------------------------------- Distributed Computing and Distributed Databases Location-based Services Virtual Home Environments (VHE) M-Commerce M-Learning Streaming Applications Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Web Services Home and Office Appliances Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services (e.g. Mobile satellites, WLANs) Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing Home and Ubiquitous Networks Mobile Ad-Hoc Computing Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Full papers must be submitted for review. Only original papers, unpublished nor submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted. Please visit http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 for details and submission information. Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://edas.info will be accepted. WiMob'08 solicits workshops in all areas and t opics related to wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile and wireless communications, pervasive computing and networking, and its services and applications. Please see the CALL FOR WIMOB 2008 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS below. -------------------------------------- CALL FOR WIMOB 2008 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008) will be held in Avignon, France, 12-14 October 2008. As an important part of the program at WiMob 2008, a limited number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for researchers to present their early research results and share experiences with focus on more specific research areas than the main conference. We solicit workshops in all areas and topics related to wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile and wireless co mmunications, pervasive computing and networking, and its services and applications. All papers accepted in WiMob 2008 workshops will be published in the WiMob 2008 Proceedings published by IEEE. The workshops will be held on 12 October 2008. The workshop proposal should contain the following information: 1. The title of the workshop. 2. The names, addresses, and affiliation of Workshop organizers. 3. A brief description of the workshop (eg. the goals and its relevance, etc.). 4. The names of potential program committee members, 5. Expected number of submissions. 6. A description of the publicity plan. 7. A draft call for papers Workshop organizers should send their workshop proposals to the workshop co-chairs at the email addresses given below by 4 February 2008. The proposals can be submitted in PDF or plain text. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent to workshop organizers by 4 March 2008. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca ----------------------------- WiMoB'08 CONFERENCE COMMITEES ----------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR Abderrahim BENSLIMANE University of Avignon, France STEERING COMMITTEE Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France Pierre Boucher, Ericsson Research Canada Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Samuel Pierre, A(?cole Polytechnique de MontrA(S(al, Canada Do Van Thanh, Telenor & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Guy Pujolle, university of Paris 6, France FINANCE CO-CHAIRS Christine Nora, IEEE France Section, Christophe Pruvost, University of Avignon TPC CO-CHAIRS Chadi Assi, CIISE, University of Concordia, MontrA(S(al, Canada Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ronald Beaubrun, UniversitA(S( Laval, Canada Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Congduc Pham, University of Pau, France EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada CONTACT INFORMATION Abderrezak Rachedi, University of Avignon abderrezak.rachedi(at)univ-avignon.fr

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Pervasive 2008 Workshops Call for Papers
by Zhiwen Yu 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

+-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Workshop Papers Pervasive 2008 The Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing Sydney, Australia May 19-22, 2008 http://pervasive2008.org/ +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Workshops @ Pervasive 2008 Workshops provide a forum for people to discuss areas of special interest within pervasive computing with like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops afford the participants the opportunity to examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of views. The day-long workshops will be held prior to the main conference on Monday, May 19, 2008 or right after on Thursday, May 22, 2008. The following workshops have been planned: --------------------------------------------------------- CAPC2008: Workshop on Context-Aware Pervasive Communities --------------------------------------------------------- The pervasive computing vision calls for computation, sensing and networking to be ubiquitous, whether with users or embedded into everyday living environments. A result of ubiquitous networking and computational ability is to form digital boundaries around entities. As such, communities, whether geographically transcending or based at a place, formed with a priori agreements or ad hoc via simply a collocation of interacting devices members, transient or long-living, can form a digital matrix or space in which its participants interact, provide services or utilize services. http://hercules.infotech.monash.edu.au/EII-CAC/CAPC2008/ ------------- CASEMANS 2008 ------------- The CASEMANS 2008 workshop strives to investigate the role of past and present as well as future contextual information (where a contextual information describes the dynamic aspects of people, places, devices, platforms, networks, etc.) to develop self-managing devices, middleware, database, applications and networks as well as to enable dynamic cooperation and collaboration between devices to carry out a distributed, autonomous task. The workshop particularly solicits papers which demonstrate the modelling of a context along with other system components and workflows when self-managing applications, devices and networks are developed. http://z2.inf.tu-dresden.de/casemans/2008/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curious Places: Workshop on Self-Aware Systems for Intelligent Environments --------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the ubiquity of digital technology comes increasing expectations of the responsiveness of our environment to our actions. We look towards intelligent environments and systems that can not only respond and adapt to our actions, but pro-actively support and enhance our everyday activities. This workshop will investigate intelligent environments as pervasive, self-aware computing systems that may exhibit curiosity, creativity, competence or other aspects of natural systems. The workshop will be a forum for the discussion of novel models, tools, infrastructure, architectures and techniques that extend pervasive computing to self-aware, adaptive systems. http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/curious_places/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- IMUx 2008: Workshop on Improved Mobile User Interaction ------------------------------------------------------- Current interfaces of mobile devices are rather limited when adaptability, context-awareness and proactiveness are considered. For example, they do not utilize the context of the interaction, nor the environmental changes in the user's proximity or the capabilities of the device itself. To improve usability and to provide a better user experience, the interfaces of the devices should become more intelligent and require less intentional user inputs. To improve the dialogue between the different research areas and their practitioners, the workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the fields of user modeling, user interaction and user experience, with developers of mobile and ubiquitous applications. http://www.hiit.fi/events/imux2008/ ---------------- Pervasive Health ---------------- Pervasive technology is increasingly prevalent within the health sector. Clinicians are well known as early adopters of technologies that improves patient care and clinical practice. We are seeing increasing collaboration between health providers, high-tech ICT laboratories and research institutions. The aim of this workshop is to bring together health care professionals (pervasive technology early adopters), industry practitioners (pervasive technology real-world developers) and researchers (pervasive technology explorers) to interact and discuss issues and trends in relation to deployment and adoption of pervasive technologies in health care. http://www.nicta.com.au/research/projects/body_area_networks_of_embedded_sy… _for_humans/pervasive_health ------------------------------------------------- PERMID 2008: Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices ------------------------------------------------- Interaction research on the pervasive mobile devices is a rather young and rapidly developing field. So far mobile handheld devices have been mostly used for phone calls, messaging and organizer functionalities. However, mobile multimedia features, device-integrated sensors and improving data transfer capabilities are expanding their use to ever increasing application areas. Mobile devices offer great potential to develop new interaction methods and applications for pervasive computing. They can function as a mediator between the virtual and the physical world, as an accessible user interface for smart environments, and platforms for location or context-aware application, to mention a few. http://www.permid.org/2008/ -------------------------- Pervasive Computing @ Home -------------------------- The Pervasive Computing @ Home workshop will focus on Pervasive Technology as applied specifically to a home environment. We will discuss what distinguishes the home from other sites of technological innovation, approaches to studying behavior in a home setting including in-situ studies and living laboratories, and lessons learned from building and studying pervasive technologies intended for use in homes. We encourage participants who have previously placed technology in the home or living laboratory or who are planning on doing so in the future to apply to this workshop. http://research.microsoft.com/research/ubicomp/technologyforhome/pervasive2… --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive Expression: Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive display technology often experiments beyond the use of simple LCD or pixel-based displays, instead utilizing a wide set of alternative output technologies such as LED light arrays, e-textiles, electroluminescent wires, thermo-chromatic inks, shape-changing materials, inflatables, smell emitters, tangible feedback mechanisms or complex sound generators. Although recent advances in pervasive technology have advanced knowledge about sensor data interpretation, context recognition and their applications, still much more needs to be known about how information can be communicated back to the user in an expressive but pervasive way. The development, implementation and use of such technology inherently encounters important considerations, such as privacy, ethics, usability, control, comprehensibility, engagement and technical development, spanning a spectrum from informative representation to artistic experience. http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/pervasive_expression/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability ---------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental sustainability and climate change are issues which must no longer be ignored by anyone, any industry or any academic community. The pervasive technology, ubiquitous computing and HCI community is slowly waking up to these global concerns. The key theme of this workshop around environmental sustainability will be addressed threefold: (1) How to go beyond just informing and into motivating and encouraging action and change. (2) Pervasiveness can easily turn invasive. We want to start re-considering the impact of pervasive technology from an ecological perspective. (3) Digital divide between humans and the environment: Can the process of 'blogging sensor data' assist us in becoming more aware of the needs of nature? How can we avoid the downsides? http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/pervasive_expression/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SPMU'08 �C Workshop on Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Phone Use ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile phones present unique challenges not only in terms of user interface, battery life, and form factor, but also in terms of ensuring their users�� privacy and security. Applications such as mobile payment and ticketing solutions, electronic health records, and collaborative applications and games, will require novel means to protect and exchange both sensitive and public information about users. This is further complicated by the fact that there is hardly any a-priori information about potential communication partners. This workshops aims at bringing together researchers interested in exploring security and privacy issues in mobile phone usage��not only on a platform level, but on both the physical and social network level as well. http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/events/spmu08/ On behalf of the Pervasive 2008 conference, we look forward to your contribution. For more information, please visit http://www.pervasive2008.org/ Sincerely, Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich/AutoID-Labs, Switzerland Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan Pervasive 2008 Publicity Chairs --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen YU Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan TEL/FAX: (+81)075-753-7480 Email: yu(a)ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yu/ ---------------------------

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Call For Papers: WORLDCOMP'08 - Computer Science and Engineering Conferences, USA, July 2008.
by hra＠pixel.cviog.uga.edu 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Dear Colleagues: Please disseminate the following announcement to those who may be interested. I would be grateful. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. Thank you, Hamid ----- CALL FOR PAPERS and Call For Workshop Proposals WORLDCOMP'08 The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA (composed of 25 Joint Conferences) ACADEMIC SPONSORS: Research labs at Harvard University, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, University of Iowa, and others (see below). You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize a session/workshop). All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) is composed of the following 25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA): o BIOCOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology o CDES'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design o CGVR'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality o CIC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing o CSC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing o DMIN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining o EEE'08: The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government o ERSA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms o ESA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications o FCS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science o FECS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering o GCA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications o GEM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods o ICAI'08: The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence o ICOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing o ICWN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks o IKE'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering o IPCV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition o ITSL'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and Statistical Learning o MLMTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications o MSV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods o PDPTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications o SAM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management o SERP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice o SWWS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org) General Co-Chair and Coordinator: H. R. Arabnia, PhD Professor, Computer Science Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra(a)cs.uga.edu PURPOSE / HISTORY: This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80 countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences. The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences. WORLCOMP'08 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers included: Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley); Prof. David Cheriton (Stanford U.), Prof. A. K. Dunker (Indiana U. and Purdue U.); Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (developer of X Window, ...); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and many other distinguished speakers. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008. email submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal submissions are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are independent of the conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS: Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). email your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given above). We would like to receive the proposals by January 16, 2008. IMPORTANT DATES: Jan. 16, 2008: Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops Feb. 25, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) March 25, 2008: Notification of acceptance April 25, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08 - 25 joint conferences) MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for individual conferences is currently being formed. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia (hra(a)cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short biography together with research interests and the name of the conference offering to help with. Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts. LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (recreational destinations, Golf courses, ...) SPONSORS: (this is a partial list) Academic Co-sponsors include: - Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/ - Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/ - BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://www.bio-miblab.org/ - Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/ - Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/ - Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/ - Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, Iowa, USA http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/ - The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA http://www.und.edu - International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine http://www.isibm.org/ - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Other Co-sponsors: - NIIT Technologies http://www.niit-tech.com/ - High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano) http://www.hpcnano.org - International Technology Institute (ITI) http://www.itiworld.org/ - GridToday http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html - HPCwire http://www.hpcwire.com/ - Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk Future Announcements: If you do not wish to receive future announcements about this event, please send an email to hra(a)cs.uga.edu.

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12月21日：DBSJ Letters 6-4自由投稿論文締め切り
by 増永良文（Yoshi Masunaga） 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

日本データベース学会の皆様 DBSJ Letters Vol.6, No.4には、先般開催されましたDBWeb2007からの座長推薦論文を掲載いたしますが、これまでどおり「自由投稿論文」を受け付けます。締切日関係等は下記の通りです。皆様、奮ってご投稿ください（論文のフォーマットなど、詳細は本会ホームページ http://www.dbsj.org をご覧ください）。記 * Vol.6, No.4　←　DBWeb2007からの座長推薦＋自由投稿 o 自由投稿〆切　　　　　　　 2007年12月21日(金)夕方5時 o 著者への採否通知の日　　2008年1月25日(金) o 最終稿提出期限　　　　　　 2008年2月22日(金)夕方5時 o 刊行予定日　　　　　　　　　 2008年3月21日(金) DBSJ Letters編集委員長増永良文

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