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CFP: 4th International Conf. on Ubiquitious Intelligence and Computing (UIC-07) - Hongkong, July 2007
by Evi Syukur 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Apologies for multiple copies received. Please, distribute it to interested colleagues and students. Lots of thanks for your help! ********************* UIC-07 Call For Papers ************************* The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-07) - Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces - http://www.uic-conference.org/2007/ http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~uic07/ Organized by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007 ********************************************************** Ubiquitous computers, networks and information are paving a road towards a smart world (SW) in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide trustworthy and relevant services to people. This ubiquitous intelligence (UI) will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed; the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By embedding digital intelligence in everyday objects, our workplaces, our homes and even ourselves, many tasks and processes could be simplified, made more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous computing, or pervasive computing, composes these many "smart things/u-things" to create the environments that underpin the smart world. 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 world of ubiquitous computing with universal services of any means/place/time to the smart world of trustworthy services with the right means/place/time. UIC-07 is a successor of the 1st Int'l Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW-05, Taipei, Mar. 2005), the 2nd Int'l Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence, Smart Worlds (UISW-05, Japan, Dec. 2005) and the 3rd Int'l Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06, Three Gorges, China, Sept. 2006). 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 smart worlds. Topics include but are not limited to the following: 1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects * Electronic Labels, Cards, E-Tags and RFID * Embedded Chips, Sensors & Actuators * MEMS, NEMS, Micro & Biometric Devices * Everyday Goods, Artifacts, Robots, etc. * Smart Appliances and Wearable Devices * 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 Platforms * Intelligent Service Association and Architecture * Massive Agents, Swarm/Amorphous Systems * Context-aware, Sentient and Proactive 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, Safety 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: January 15, 2007 Authors Notification: March 15, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: April 15, 2007 = ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION = Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the UIC-07 submission site: http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~uic07/sub/ = PAPER PUBLICATION = Accepted papers will be published by Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), and the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC). A set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions, also will be published in an edited book published by Springer, Germany, and in an edited book published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA, respectively. = Organizing Committees = General Chairs Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Emile Aarts, Philips, Netherlands Program Chairs Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Vice Chairs Daqing Zhang, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia Steering Committee Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany International Advisory Committee Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Christian Muller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China Publicity Chairs Jiang (Linda) Xie, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan International Liaison Chairs* Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C, Korea Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan Publication Chairs Hua Yu, Huazhong University of Sci.&Tech., China Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Award Chairs* Vipin Chaudhary, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA David Simplot-Ryl, University Lille 1, France Panel Chairs* Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK Financial Chair TBA Web Administration Chair Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chairs Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Kang Ying Allan Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HK Program Committee See UIC-07 web site: www.uic-conference.org/2007/ Further questions, please contact with UIC07 Secretariat uic07(a)googlegroups.com ====== End of UIC-07 CFP ========

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CFP: WICOW@JSAI2007 (Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web)
by Yoshikiyo Kato 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

日本データベース学会の皆様 NICTの加藤と申します．先日より幾度か案内させて頂いておりますWorkshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW)につきまして，投稿締切の延長の要望が多数ございましたので，下記の通り延長することになりました．　投稿締切：　2007年4月8日(日) 多数の投稿をお待ちしております． ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 先日，人工知能学会全国大会併設の国際ワークショップWorkshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW)の論文募集について案内させて頂きましたが，期日が近づいて参りましたので，再び案内させて頂きます．ブログやSNSの普及による情報発信コストの低下に伴い，User Generated Contentと呼ばれる情報が大量に流通するようになるなかで，Webで得られる情報の信頼性の問題はますます重要になってきています．本ワークショップでは，「情報の信頼性」の問題について様々なアプローチで取り組んでいる内外の研究者が一堂に会して，議論を深める場に出来ればと考えております．招待講演として，Microsoft Research AsiaのYunbo Cao博士を招いて，特定のトピックの専門家を検索するというExpert Searchの研究について講演して頂く予定にしております．皆様の投稿をお待ちしております． ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Apologies if you have already received a copy of this announcement ** ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** CALL FOR PAPERS for The 1st Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW) in conjunction with The 21st Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence June 18 and/or 19, 2007, Miyazaki, Japan http://kc.nict.go.jp/wicow/ Cohosted by The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology <Description> As computers and computer networks become more sophisticated, a huge amount of text-based information, such as that found in web documents, emails, and business related documents has been accumulated and circulated. Such information gives people a framework for organizing their daily life. Moreover, this information is starting to have a strong influence on governmental policy, and how businesses are managed. A well-functioning society needs technology that can be used to manage this wealth of text-based information. This technology would be able to handle a wide range of tasks: extracting credible information related to a given topic (particularly when the query has returned answers from large documents); organizing this information; clarifying the background, the facts, and the various opinions and the distribution of them, and so on. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to information credibility criteria. <Areas of Interest> The workshop will focus on how to evaluate the credibility of information. In particular, contributions will be solicited which address, but are not limited to, the following areas of interest: * Information content analysis for credibility evaluation (topic extraction, opinion analysis, etc.). * Identification and characterization of the sender to enable the user to evaluate their credibility. * Information credibility evaluation based on superficial characteristics of information. * Information credibility evaluation based on reputation. * Information credibility evaluation for user-generated content (blogs, SNSs, etc.). * The relationship between information credibility evaluation and the concepts of trust and credibility. * Sociological aspects of information credibility. * Psychological aspects of information credibility. * Utilization of social networks for information credibility evaluation. * Issues concerning credibility of grassroots/citizen journalism. * Establishing information dissemination processes that promote the dissemination of credible information. <Important Dates> * April 8, 2007 Deadline for paper submissions (Extended!) * April 22, 2007 Notification * April 29, 2007 Deadline for camera-ready versions <Workshop Chairs> Sadao Kurohashi Department of Intelligence Science and Technology Kyoto University Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan kuro (at) i.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://nlp.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kuro/ Kentaro Inui Graduate School of Information Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology Keihanna, Nara, 630-0192, Japan inui (at) is.aist-nara.ac.jp http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/~inui/ Yoshikiyo Kato Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 3-5 Hikaridai, Seika, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0289, Japan ykato (at) nict.go.jp http://kc.nict.go.jp/ykato/ <Program Committee> * Kentaro Inui (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) * Yoshikiyo Kato (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) * Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan) * Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia) * Yutaka Matsuo (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) * Hisashi Miyamori (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) * Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) * Noboru Sonehara (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) * Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) * Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) (List not yet complete)

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オープンソースデータベース Firebird カンファレンス開催のお知らせ(4 月 14 日午後)
by KIMURA, Meiji 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

日本データベース学会（DBSJ）の皆様 Firebird日本ユーザー会2006年度理事長の木村明治です。現在、Firebird日本ユーザー会は日本データベース学会の維持会員となっています。オープンソースデータベース御三家(Firebird, MySQL, PostgreSQL)のひとつとして、 Firebirdユーザーという立場から、データベース活動のビジビリティを日本国内外で向上させるための活動を行っています。今回は活動の一環として、日本で初めてとなるFirebirdのカンファレンスを行います。 DEWS2007に参加させていただいて、DB自体に関する各種発表も多くありましたが、単純にDBはストレージとしてとどめ、アプリケーション層に注力した発表も多く見受けられました。Firebirdはマルチプラットフォームで動作して、フットプリントも軽く、インストールも数分で終わります。ライセンスもMPLのバリエーションでどのような形態で使用しても無料なので簡単なストレージとして使うDBとして最適です。今回のカンファレンスでは、アプリケーション作成方法紹介のセッションや自由に質問できるセッションもあります。カンファレンス自体無料ですので、ご興味のある方は登録のうえ、ご参加頂ければ幸いです。 # なお会場はサン・マイクロシステムズ株式会社殿のオープンコミュニティ # 支援活動の一環としてご提供いただいています。 http://jp.sun.com/communities/open/ →以下、告知です。 ============= 1st Firebird Japan Conference ================== Firebird日本ユーザー会では、昨年11月にリリースされたFirebird 2.0を記念し、『1st Firebird Japan Conference』を開始いたします。またこのカンファレンスの開催にあたり、参加者のみなさまにFirebird 2.0.1 for Windows日本語版およびマルチプラットフォームの管理ツールであるFlameRobin日本語版が含まれた『Firebird 2.0日本語CD-ROM』を提供いたします。数多くの参加者をお待ちしております。日時：2007/04/14(Sat)　13:00〜17:30 定　　員：70名（事前登録制）費　　用：無料申し込み方法：　　　宴会くん（http://utage.org/enkai/）で宴会コード"FB_CON"を入力して申し込んでください。 ※懇親会の宴会コードは別に設定されていますので注意してください。場　所：サン・マイクロシステムズ（株）27Fセミナールーム　　　　東京都世田谷区用賀4-10-1　ＳＢＳビル　27F　　　　　http://suned.sun.co.jp/JPN/locations/sun_yoga.html 　　　　東急田園都市線　用賀駅　改札を出てすぐ右側がＳＢＳビルの入り口です。　　　　*　ビルと駅は地下でつながっております。　　　　*　急行列車は用賀に停車しませんので各駅列車にてお越しください。　　　　*　ツタヤ側のエレベータにて、27Fセミナールームに直接お越しください。問い合わせ：Firebird日本ユーザー会(e-mail: info(a)firebird.gr.jp) プログラム：　13:00〜13:10　理事長挨拶　13:10〜14:10　Firebird　2.0新機能　　　講師：加藤大受　　　講師略歴：　　　ボーランド株式会社にてQAエンジニアとして勤務後、InterBaseのプロダクト　　　マネージャとしてInterBase関連の多数の著書を執筆。ボーランド株式会社　　　退社後、Firebird日本ユーザー会初代理事長としてFirebirdユーザー会の　　　立ち上げに参加。　　　現在はインストーラやミドルウェアの日本語化を担当。　14:10〜14:50　事例紹介（1社10分×4) 　　　講師：林　務　　　講師略歴：　　　Firebird日本ユーザー会理事、Firebird Foundation Voting Member 　　　株式会社アペックス専務取締役として、Firebirdを利用したシステムの　　　開発・提供を行っている。　　　Firebird関連の書籍・雑誌記事を執筆。　　　主にFirebird関連ドキュメントの日本語化を担当。　14:50〜15:10　休憩　15:10〜16:10　Firebirdミドルウエア大全。組み込みアプリを作ってみよう！　　　講師：木村明治　　　講師略歴：　　　Firebird日本ユーザー会2006年度理事長。メーカーや独立系ソフトウエア　　　ハウスでDB本体やDB関連の開発を行い、各種パッケージソフトのPMを担当。　　　現在は自営業「キムラデービー」代表として「DBを使った開発の　　　心理的・物理的負担を下げる」を合い言葉に活動中。　16:10〜17:00　FirebirdとTrueCrypt 　　　講師：山田健一　　　講師略歴：　　　Firebird日本ユーザー会　理事、株式会社マースエンジニアリング所属。　　　「Firebirdで学ぶSQL超入門」メディア・テック出版　の著者。　　　コンピュータを「電子計算機」と呼んでいた頃からコンピュータと付き合っ　　　ている。良いものを人に勧めるのを好む性格。　　　土日は地元の小学校でミニバスケットボールを教えている体育会系。　17:00〜17:30　Firebird　質問一本勝負　　　会場からの質問に答えます。　　　講師：Firebird日本ユーザー会　理事会　18:00〜20:30　懇親会　会費：４０００円　場所：升屋用賀店　住所東京都世田谷区用賀2-38-7サンパーナビルB1F 　http://gourmet.yahoo.co.jp/0000902203/0002880023/ 　申し込み方法：　　　宴会くん（http://utage.org/enkai/）で宴会コード"FB_PARTY"を入力して申し込んでください。　# なお懇親会は予約の都合上、4/11(Wed)を締め切りとします。 −以上−

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アカデミック支援プログラム　東芝ソリューションTX1募集開始の事前案内
by Shuji Harashima 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

日本データベース学会会員の皆様　東芝の原嶋と申します。この度、DBSJ理事会にて東芝ソリューションXML データベース TX1のアカデミック支援プログラムが正式に認められました。正式応募は4月よりDBSJホームページにて公開予定ですが、事前のご案内をさせていただきます。　アカデミック支援プログラムはDBSJの産学連携活動の中心で、データベース関連製品の教育機関学会員への無償により、研究に役立てていただこうというものです。　TX1は東芝ソリューション株式会社が開発したXMLデータベースで、テラバイト級のデータを格納、高速検索を可能とするものです(詳細については、東芝ソリューションのTX1紹介ページをご参照ください)。文書データの管理の他、分散管理されたデータの横断的検索などへの利用で効果を発揮します（DEWS2007の技術報告セッションにおいて報告させていただきました）。多くの研究テーマでの活用が可能かと思います。募集期間は４月〜６月ですので、ぜひともご利用ください。 2007.3.28. ====================== 原嶋秀次（株）東芝ソフトウェア技術センターイノベーション推進担当〒212-8582　神奈川県川崎市幸区小向東芝町1　 phone: 044-549-2460, facsimile: 044-549-2443 e-mail:shuji.harashima@toshiba.co.jp ======================

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NeTRA 2007 (Deadline extended)
by NeTRA2007 Workshop Account 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Dear Colleagues, Please find the following CFP for the First International Workshop on Networking Technology for Robotics and Applications (NeTRA 2007) organized in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2007) in Turtle Bay Resort Honolulu Hawaii USA on August 16 2007. The deadline for paper submission is now April 10, 2007. Submission instructions are provided on the workshop web site (http://www.me.uvic.ca/~danielac/NeTRA.html) Kind regards, Yan Bai and Daniela Constantinescu, NeTRA 2007 workshop co-chairs NeTRA 2007 Call for Papers Web site: hhtp://www.me.uvic.ca/~danielac/NeTRA.html Important Dates: Manuscript submission: April 10, 2007 Acceptance notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-ready papers due: June 1, 2007 Workshop date: August 16, 2007 What provisions are required at the control, sensing, planning and action levels to ensure reliable task execution by robots connected via unreliable networks? This is the key question explored in the First International Workshop on Networking Technology for Robotics and Applications (NeTRA 2007) organized in conjunction with ICCCN 2007 http://www.me.uvic.ca/~danielac/NeTRA.html Networked robotics use wired and wireless network communication channels such as the Internet and wireless LAN to enable humans to remotely control robots and to support inter-robot interactions. They can provide dexterity, power and intelligence far beyond the capabilities of a single robot, but pose major scientific challenges related to communications, control, distributed perception, information fusion, and cooperative manipulation. These challenges take on additional complexity when considered in conjunction with quality of service (QoS) support and network security issues. Yet, as networked robots become more pervasive, they increasingly use commercial wired and wireless networks and become more likely targets of network security attacks, therefore requiring QoS and security support for guaranteed performance. NeTRA 2007 will provide a forum for researchers to present state-of-the- art results in robotics and computer networks, and to discover synergisms between the two areas that can contribute to the successful deployment of interconnected robots. Of great interest are advances in new networked robotics applications, including home automation, security, exploration of harsh environments, medical applications, and service robotics. We invite original contributions which include, but are not limited to, the following topics of interest: - Network technologies for service robotics - Security provisions for internet robots - Communication in multiple-user/multiple-robot systems - Ad-hoc robot networks - Network support for cooperative manipulation - QoS in networked haptics and teleoperation - Security and privacy in medical robot networks - Cooperation among inhomogeneous robots - Networked robotics applications Submission Details: All contributions should be submitted using EDAS (http://edas.info/) When login EDAS, please click the "Submit Paper" tab, and then select "ICCCN 2007" and click the associated "Submit Paper" icon. In the tracks page, please select "NeTRA 2007" to submit your paper. Papers representing original research, not published or under review elsewhere, are invited. Submitted papers should follow the standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font), and should be limited to 6 pages including figures and references. Up to two extra pages are allowed at an additional cost of US$150 per page. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Digital Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Co-chairs contact: Yan Bai TSYS Department of Computer Science Columbus State University Columbus, GA 31907 Phone: (706) 568-5376 Fax: (706) 565-3529 E-mail: bai_yan(a)colstate.edu Daniela Constantinescu Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Victoria Victoria BC V8W 3P6 Canada Tel: (250) 721-6040 Fax: (250) 721-6051 E-mail: danielac(a)me.uvic.ca

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SensorFusion'07 Call For Paper
by Zhiwen Yu 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

+-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers SensorFusion?7 October 12, 2007, Pisa, Italy Website - http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/sensorfusion+-------------------------------…'07 is the Second International Workshop on Information Fusion and Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, which is organized in conjunction with the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems,http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/. ------------- Description-------------The convergence of the Internet, wireless communications, and information processing technologies with techniques for miniaturization has opened up new vistas of research for sensor networks. Emerging technologies for sensing and pervasive computing haveplaced sensor networks at the threshold of a period of major growth. It has extended information fusion and dissemination in sensor networks from data aggregation, association and monitoring of interactions among hardware and software entities in ubiquitous computing environments to intelligent information processing for the next generation wireless internet. For the emerging hybrid sensor networks, information fusion can help in the seamless integration of smart sensors and actuators, devices and capabilities, software and hardware agents, sensor network applications and sensor nodes, distributed and collaborative algorithms, different communication technologies, different networking architectures, etc., all over wireless or wire-line backbones. The aim of this workshop is to provide a focal point for recent advances in this foundational area of information fusion and dissemination for sensor networks across different paradigms, disciplines and technologies. ---------- Topics----------Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Programmable architectures and infrastructures - Scalable, adaptive, self-organizing and self-healing architectures - Multi-sensor, multi-source information networking architectures - Intelligent, autonomous, seamless, pervasive, multi-sensor information processing - Information fusion and dissemination in mesh networks - Data collection, compression/decompression and mining - Distributed database processing in sensor networks - In-network processing, aggregation and data association - Protocol development for information fusion - Cross Layer Protocol design using Information Fusion - Energy and mobility management algorithms - Node localization in sensor networks - Information Fusion for Resource Allocation - Quality of Service in sensor networks - Integration of fusion and learning in sensor networks - Integration of software and hardware agents - Service discovery, creation and provisioning - Authentication and secure communication and data fusion - Integrated test-beds, experiments, algorithms and measurements - Real-world sensor applications addressing information fusion ----------------- Important Dates -----------------May 6, 2007 Abstract Registration May 13, 2007 Submission deadline Jul 15, 2007 Authors Notification August 10, 2007 Final Manuscript October 12, 2007 Workshop Day -------------------- Paper Submission-------------------All papers accepted for SensorFusion'07 will be included in the main IEEE MASS'07 proceedings, and published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to IEEE Computer Society format (two columns, letter size 8.5"x11") and should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will be handled electronically through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info) --------- JOURNAL---------The extended version of selective papers could be submitted for potential inclusion in a special issue of a Journal (TBA). --------------- Organization---------------** General Chairs **Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, lyang [at] stfx.ca Pratik K. Biswas, Avaya Labs, NJ, USA, pbiswas [at] optonline.net Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada, sajid.hussain [at] acadiau.ca ** Steering Committee **Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, buyurman [at] metu.edu.tr Pratik K. Biswas, Avaya Labs, NJ, USA, pbiswas [at] optonline.net ** Program Chairs **Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada, sajid.hussain [at] acadiau.ca Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan, yu [at] ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp ** Program Committee (partial list) **Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Suprakash Datta, York University, Canada Hakan Duman, University of Essex, UK Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France Javier Garcia-Villalba, University of Madrid, Spain Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Uni. of Science and Tech., China Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, FranceZhigang Li, Northwestern Polytechnic. Uni., China Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK, Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung Uni., Taiwan Hairong Qi, University of Tennessee, USALimin Sun, Chinese Academy of Science, ChinaHaipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnic. Uni., China Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA Naixue Xiong, JAIST, Japan --------------------------- 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.ulan.jp/~zhiwen/ ---------------------------

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Deadline Extension: DEXA workshop - KUPA'07 (Mar 30)
by KUPA'07 Conference Account 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Due to several requests, the submission deadline is extended to 30 Mar. '07 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- KUPA'07 - Call for Papers First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications Regensburg, Germany, 3-7 September 2007 Website- http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~kupa07 *************************************************** ** Paper deadline (30 March 2007) is approaching ** *************************************************** KUPA'07 is the First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications, which is organized in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'07) in Regensburg, Germany, on 3-7 September 2007. Description ----------- Due to recent advancements in communication technology, computing, and storage resources, ubiquitous and pervasive applications are becoming increasingly popular. However, the large scale integration and examination of heterogeneous and independent data and knowledge sources has created new issues and challenges for knowledge management and acquisition. The objective of this workshop is to bring together academics and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and heterogeneous environments. Topics ------ Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and/or heterogeneous environments * Data mining in sensor networks, mobile and embedded systems * Mining temporal and spatial data * Data stream mining * Sequential pattern mining * Link analysis and community discovery * Visual data mining * Mining from data warehouses * Machine learning techniques for distributed environments and applications * Agent-based architectures for knowledge management and discovery * Knowledge integration and data fusion * Security, privacy, and trust issues * Applications in communication, internet, industry automation, medicine, multimedia, etc. Important Dates --------------- Full paper due March 30, 2007 Authors notification April 30, 2007 Camera-ready copy May 22, 2007 Author registration May 22, 2007 Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to IEEE Computer Society format (two columns, letter size 8.5"x11") and should not exceed 5 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Check the DEXA website (http://www.dexa.org/guidelines) for more details on formatting guidelines. All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will be handled electronically through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info) Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Workshop Organizers ------------------- HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRS: T. Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada PROGRAM CHAIRS (CONTACT: kupa07 [AT] cs.umanitoba.ca): Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Christel Kemke, University of Manitoba, Canada Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PARTIAL LIST): Darcy Benoit, Acadia University, Canada Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK Imran Khan, University of Manitoba, Canada Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Andreas Wichert, Universidade Technica de Lisboa, Portugal Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Contact ------- For further enquiries, please contact Program Chairs (Sajid Hussain, Christel Kemke, & Carson K. Leung) at kupa07 [AT] cs.umanitoba.ca

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情報処理学会データベースシステム研究会サーバーの停止
by Kaoru Katayama 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

皆様首都大学の片山です。学内のネットワークが新システムに移行するため、以下の期間、情報処理学会データベースシステム研究会サーバーへの接続ができなくなります。その関係で同じサーバーを利用する「情報処理学会論文誌：データベース(TOD)」のシステムにも接続できなくなります。ご不便をおかけ致しますが、どうぞよろしく御願い致します。第一回：3月23日（金）午後6時　〜　3月26日（月）午前8時第二回：3月30日（金）午後6時　〜　3月31日（土）午前6時 -------------- 片山　薫首都大学東京システムデザイン学部

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WIT2007- CFP
by Hayato YAMANA 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

日本データベース学会の皆さんへ：以下の論文投稿の締切が４／１６となっております。多数のご投稿をお待ちしております。山名＠早稲田＝＝第8回インターネットテクノロジーワークショップ The Eighth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2007) 論文募集のお知らせ論文投稿締切： 2007年 4月16日(月) ワークショップ： 2007年 6月25日(月)〜26日(火) 日本ソフトウェア科学会インターネットテクノロジー研究会では、第8回インターネットテクノロジーワークショップ(The Eighth Workshop on Internet Technology - WIT2007)を開催いたします。本ワークショップは平成 10年(1998年)から7回開催され、活発な議論/意見交換がなされて好評を得ました。これに引続き、インターネットの先端的、学術的研究から、実装、運用経験など実際的な内容まで幅広く、相互の発表と自由で活発な情報交換の場を提供することを目的とするために、第8回目を開催いたします。本ワークショップを活発な研究発表/議論の場としてご利用ください。本ワークショップのトピックとしては、ルータ/ゲートウエイ、インターネット関連プロトコル、セキュリティ、ネットワークマネージメント、ネットワーク基本ソフトウェア、インターネットに関連する基盤ソフトウェア・ミドルウェア、 (Pervasive computing, Grid computingなど) アプリケーションソフトウェア、 Web情報検索・構造・進化、インターネットにおけるプライバシー保護、 WWW関連技術ネットワーク構築/運用経験、地域IX、などを予定していますが、インターネットに関連する内容であれば、これらに限らず広く受け付けます。 [開催日程] 2007年6月25日(月)〜26日(火) [発表会場] 鳥取環境大学(鳥取県鳥取市) [投稿要領] 4月16日までに4ページ以上8ページ以下の論文を投稿ください。論文原稿は、・日本語あるいは英語・日本語論文の場合には英語タイトル名も付ける・アブストラクト(日本語の場合200 - 500文字程度、英語の場合100-200word程度) ・ PostScript, PDF いずれかの形式・本文は2 columnで、10pt - 11ptのフォントを使用でお願いします。紙による投稿は受け付けません。議論を活発にするため、挑戦的ではあるが研究途上で中間報告的な発表、有意義なデータの紹介など、通常では論文になりにくいものでも、討論の話題を提供する性格のものは歓迎いたします。査読は行ないますが、より多くの方に発表の場を提供する方針です。発表者は、当日までにA4で8ページ程度の論文を参加人数分用意していただき、これを会場での受付のときに提出していただきます。その後、コメントなどを反映させたものを、研究会資料としてWWWにて公開いたします。また、最新の情報(参加費、参加申込方法など)は、本ワークショップHP http://wit2007.naist.jp/ http://spa.jssst.or.jp/WIT/2007/ からアクセス可能とする予定です。日本ソフトウェア科学会インターネットテクノロジー研究会HP http://www.jssst.or.jp/plan/sig.html からもアクセス可能とする予定です。適時更新しますのでご確認ください。なお、発表された論文も、ワークショップ後、上記Web pageからアクセス可能にする予定です。 [投稿申込と論文投稿] 論文の投稿は http://wit2007.naist.jp/ からアップロードしてください。原稿ファイルは、PDFもしくはPostScript形式でお願いします。なお、発表枠に限りがあることから、投稿申込多数の場合には、事前に締め切ることがございますので、ご了承ください。論文の差し替えは、投稿締め切りまでは可能としますので、早めの申し込みをお願いします。 [重要日程] 論文投稿締切： 2007年4月16日(月) 採否通知： 2007年5月28日(月) [発表論文リスト公開] ワークショップ： 2007年6月25日(月)〜26日(火) Web掲載用（図書館納付用）最終原稿： 2007年7月16日(月) [参加費と参加申し込み] http://wit2007.naist.jp/をご覧ください。 [主催] 日本ソフトウェア科学会インターネットテクノロジー研究会 [問い合わせ先] wit2007-staff(a)spa.jssst.or.jp [運営委員会] 運営委員長和泉順子 (奈良先端科学技術大学院大学) ローカルアレンジメント天嵜聡介 (鳥取環境大) [プログラム委員会] プログラム委員長寺岡文男 (慶應義塾大学) プログラム委員明石修 (NTT未来ねっと研究所) 浅見徹 (東京大学) 岡村耕二 (九州大学) 奥乃博 (京都大学) 小野康一 (日本アイ・ビー・エム株式会社東京基礎研究所) 門林雄基 (奈良先端科学技術大学院大学) 菅原俊治 (NTTコミュニケーション科学基礎研究所) 砂原秀樹 (奈良先端科学技術大学院大学) 高木浩光 (産業技術総合研究所) 友石正彦（東京工業大学) 中村素典 (京都大学) 西田佳史 (SONY CSL) 廣津登志夫 (豊橋技術科学大学) 廣海緑里 (インテック・ネットコア) 福田健介 (国立情報学研究所) 藤本衡 (東京電機大学) 村山優子 (岩手県立大学) 山名早人 (早稲田大学) 吉田健一 (筑波大学) 以上

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IPC-07 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Zhiwen Yu 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

The 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-07) will be held at Jeju Island, Korea, October 12th ~ 13th, 2007. Several workshops will be held in conjunction with IPC-07 with the aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on intelligent pervasive computing. Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome. It is expected that the proceedings of the workshop programs will be published by IEEE CS. In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-day and half-day workshops are welcome. Please send a workshop proposal by April 15, 2007 to Workshop chairs. The workshop proposal should include following information: 1. Title of the workshop: International Workshop on ... 2. Workshop chair(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail. 3. Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) 4. Expected number of papers to be submitted 5. Call for paper of the workshop (draft version) 6. Tentative list of program committee members (Name, affiliation, country, email address) Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Workshop Chairs Sajid Hussain Acadia University, Canada E-mail: Sajid.Hussain(a)acadiau.ca Agustinus Borgy Waluyo Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore E-mail: abwaluyo(a)gmail.com Zhiwen Yu Kyoto University, Japan E-mail: yu(a)ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Important Dates a.. Workshop Proposal Submission Due: April 15, 2007 b.. Workshop Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2007 c.. Camera Ready Due: August 3, 2007 d.. Workshop Date: October 11, 2007 --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen YU Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Mobile: (+81)090-9891-1552 Email: yu(a)ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.ulan.jp/~zhiwen/ ---------------------------

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