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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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国際ワークショップ SeNTIE2008の論文募集：概要登録1/31，論文投稿2/6
by Takahiro HARA 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

日本データベース学会会員の皆様、阪大の原です。 4月末に北京にて開催されるMDM2008の併設ワークショップSeNTIEの論文募集を再送いたします。分野はセンサネットワーク一般となっております。是非、投稿をご検討ください。 ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ ※※※※※※※ 　アブスト登録は明日締切（1月31日）！！　※※※※※※※ ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ SeNTIEでは、国際ジャーナル（センサ系特集号）への推薦制度も設けております。【SeNTIE2008の特徴】・文部科学省科研費特定領域研究「情報爆発プロジェクト」（領域代表：東大・　喜連川優先生）が協賛しています。・モバイルデータ管理に関する世界トップクラスの国際会議MDMの併設ワーク　ショップです。ワークショップの参加は通常の会議参加費に含まれているた　め、追加費用は不要です。・論文集はIEEEから出版予定です。デジタルライブラリにも含まれる予定です。・Web系の国際会議WWW2008と連続した日程となっています。・優秀ないくつかの論文は、国際ジャーナル(IJCNDS)の特集号へと推薦されま　す。原　隆浩 --------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Sensor Networks Technologies for Information Explosion Era (SeNTIE2008) April 27, 2008 (Beijing China) in conjunction with International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2008) URL: http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/ --------------------------------------------------------------- What's new - Paper submission is now open!! http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/submit/ - Some distinguished papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS). http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/ijcnds/ --------------------------------------------------------------- In recent few years, various types of sensor networks have been deployed at many places and information generated by sensors has increased rapidly. Thus, we are in a time which we could call the "information-explosion era." In the information-explosion era, establishing new techniques for both data processing and communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a crucial and challenging issue. This workshop (SeNTIE'08) aims to provide a platform for discussing open issues, current challenges and solutions, as well as directions for future research on data processing and communication techniques of WSNs in the information-explosion era. The workshop intends to bring together researches and practitioners in a broad range of topics related to WSNs in both theoretical and practical experience aspects. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS: - Data processing in WSNs - Data aggregation in WSNs - Query processing and routing in WSNs - Routing protocol in WSNs - Mobile sensor networks - Cross layer approach in WSNs - Efficient deployment of large-scale WSNs - Handling inaccuracy, unreliability and data loss - Energy and time efficient data delivery - Applications of data intensive sensor networks - Application-driven sensor data interrogation - Managing intensive data streams over sensor networks - Semantic descriptions of sensors and sensor data - Sharing, annotation, and (distributed) management of sensor data - Data mining and warehousing in WSNs --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstract submission: January 31(Thu), 2008 - Paper submission: February 6(Wed), 2008 - Notification of acceptance: March 21(Fri), 2008 - Camera-ready due: April 5(Fri), 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their papers via the SeNTIE2008 web site (http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/) by Feb. 6, 2008. An electronic, PDF based submission of papers is mandatory. The paper length should not exceed 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Proceedings will be printed in hardcopy with IEEE Press and will be included in IEEE Explore. The registration fee will be one flat fee that includes all the main conference + workshops + seminars (No extra charge for attending workshops). --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: -Workshop Chairs: Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Vladimir I. Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland) -Program Committee Members: Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland) Klemens Boehm (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Germany) Bharat K Bhargava (Purdue University, USA) Erik Buchmann (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Germany) Sergio Ilarri (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Antonis Deligiannakis (University of Athens, Greece) Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Alvaro Fernandes (University of Manchester, UK) Dimitrios Gunopulos (UC Riverside, USA) Himanshu Gupta (Stony Brook University, USA) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) Akimitsu Kanzaki (Osaka University, Japan) Nobuo Kawaguchi (Nagoya University, Japan) Hideyuki Kawashima (Keio University, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yannis Kotidis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Prashant Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Vijay Kumar (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA) Alex Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Jerry Lynch (University of Michigan, USA) Sanjay Kumar Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Bonn, Germany) Masateru Minami (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan) Mario A. Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada) Vladimir Oleshchuk (Agder University College, Norway) George Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark) Mohamed Sharaf (University of Toronto, Canada) Anthony Stefanidis (George Mason University, USA) Duc Tran (University of Massachusetts, USA) Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan) Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tomoki Yoshihisa (Kyoto University, Japan) Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia) Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) --------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop will be partially organized and supported by Japan MEXT grant-in-aid for Priority area Research called Cyber Infrastructure for the Information-explosion Era. (Principal Researcher: Prof. M. Kitsuregawa) ---------------------------------------------------------------

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東京大学博士研究員（情報システム系）の募集について
by Taro L. Saito 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

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INSS 2008, Call for Demos/Posters
by Hideyuki Kawashima 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様こんにちは．筑波大の川島英之と申します． INSSというセンサとネットワークの専門家が集う国際会議の Call for Demo/Posters をお送りいたします． One-page descriptionsの締切は3月14日です．投稿をご検討頂けましたら幸いです． ***************************************************** * CALL FOR DEMO/POSTERS * * * * INSS 2008 * * * * June 17 - 19, 2008 * * Kanazawa, Japan * * http://www.inss-conf.org/ * * * ***************************************************** [CALL FOR DEMOS/POSTERS] Demonstrations and posters showing innovative ideas and applications are solicited. INSS2008 is interested in a wide range of sensor network related research. Topics include but are not limited to: sensor technology, hardware platforms, networking, security, middleware, applications, programming, and architecture. Abstracts of accepted demos and posters will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions from both industries and universities are encouraged. [DEMO AND POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS] Please send a one-page description of your demo in PDF to Christian Decker <cdecker(a)teco.edu>. Please send a one-page description of your poster in PDF to Hidekata Hontani <hontani(a)nitech.ac.jp> with the subject line reading "INSS Poster Submission" or "INSS Demo Submission". Please be as specific as possible in describing what you will show. As for the demo submission, please provide separated text description on the space, equipment, power supply requirements. Once accepted, at least one author of posters and demos are expected to be available during the session. All submission should be formatted according to the "IEEE transactions" format. [IMPORTANT DATES] One-page descriptions: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2008 Camera-ready abstract: April 14, 2008 Conference dates: June 17 - 19, 2008 INSS 2008 Demo/Poster Co-Chairs Christian Decker, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan -- Hideyuki Kawashima (kawasima(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, +81-29-853-5322/5678/5051 http://www.kde.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~kawasima

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国際ワークショップ SeNTIE2008の論文募集：概要登録1/31，論文投稿2/6
by Takahiro HARA 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

日本データベース学会会員の皆様、阪大の原です。 4月末に北京にて開催されるMDM2008の併設ワークショップSeNTIEの論文募集を再送いたします。分野はセンサネットワーク一般となっております。是非、投稿をご検討ください。なお、アブスト登録締切は、*** 1月31日 *** となっております。 SeNTIEでは、国際ジャーナル（センサ系特集号）への推薦制度も設けております。【SeNTIE2008の特徴】・文部科学省科研費特定領域研究「情報爆発プロジェクト」（領域代表：東大・　喜連川優先生）が協賛しています。・モバイルデータ管理に関する世界トップクラスの国際会議MDMの併設ワーク　ショップです。ワークショップの参加は通常の会議参加費に含まれているた　め、追加費用は不要です。・論文集はIEEEから出版予定です。デジタルライブラリにも含まれる予定です。・Web系の国際会議WWW2008と連続した日程となっています。・優秀ないくつかの論文は、国際ジャーナル(IJCNDS)の特集号へと推薦されま　す。原　隆浩 --------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Sensor Networks Technologies for Information Explosion Era (SeNTIE2008) April 27, 2008 (Beijing China) in conjunction with International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2008) URL: http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/ --------------------------------------------------------------- What's new - Paper submission is now open!! http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/submit/ - Some distinguished papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS). http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/ijcnds/ --------------------------------------------------------------- In recent few years, various types of sensor networks have been deployed at many places and information generated by sensors has increased rapidly. Thus, we are in a time which we could call the "information-explosion era." In the information-explosion era, establishing new techniques for both data processing and communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a crucial and challenging issue. This workshop (SeNTIE'08) aims to provide a platform for discussing open issues, current challenges and solutions, as well as directions for future research on data processing and communication techniques of WSNs in the information-explosion era. The workshop intends to bring together researches and practitioners in a broad range of topics related to WSNs in both theoretical and practical experience aspects. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS: - Data processing in WSNs - Data aggregation in WSNs - Query processing and routing in WSNs - Routing protocol in WSNs - Mobile sensor networks - Cross layer approach in WSNs - Efficient deployment of large-scale WSNs - Handling inaccuracy, unreliability and data loss - Energy and time efficient data delivery - Applications of data intensive sensor networks - Application-driven sensor data interrogation - Managing intensive data streams over sensor networks - Semantic descriptions of sensors and sensor data - Sharing, annotation, and (distributed) management of sensor data - Data mining and warehousing in WSNs --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstract submission: January 31(Thu), 2008 - Paper submission: February 6(Wed), 2008 - Notification of acceptance: March 21(Fri), 2008 - Camera-ready due: April 5(Fri), 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their papers via the SeNTIE2008 web site (http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/) by Feb. 6, 2008. An electronic, PDF based submission of papers is mandatory. The paper length should not exceed 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Proceedings will be printed in hardcopy with IEEE Press and will be included in IEEE Explore. The registration fee will be one flat fee that includes all the main conference + workshops + seminars (No extra charge for attending workshops). --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: -Workshop Chairs: Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Vladimir I. Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland) -Program Committee Members: Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland) Klemens Boehm (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Germany) Bharat K Bhargava (Purdue University, USA) Erik Buchmann (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Germany) Sergio Ilarri (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Antonis Deligiannakis (University of Athens, Greece) Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Alvaro Fernandes (University of Manchester, UK) Dimitrios Gunopulos (UC Riverside, USA) Himanshu Gupta (Stony Brook University, USA) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) Akimitsu Kanzaki (Osaka University, Japan) Nobuo Kawaguchi (Nagoya University, Japan) Hideyuki Kawashima (Keio University, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yannis Kotidis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Prashant Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Vijay Kumar (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA) Alex Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Jerry Lynch (University of Michigan, USA) Sanjay Kumar Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Bonn, Germany) Masateru Minami (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan) Mario A. Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada) Vladimir Oleshchuk (Agder University College, Norway) George Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark) Mohamed Sharaf (University of Toronto, Canada) Anthony Stefanidis (George Mason University, USA) Duc Tran (University of Massachusetts, USA) Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan) Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tomoki Yoshihisa (Kyoto University, Japan) Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia) Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) --------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop will be partially organized and supported by Japan MEXT grant-in-aid for Priority area Research called Cyber Infrastructure for the Information-explosion Era. (Principal Researcher: Prof. M. Kitsuregawa) ---------------------------------------------------------------

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（締め切り延長）CFP:　INGS2008
by NADAMOTO AKIYO 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

日本データベース学会会員の皆様 NICTの灘本と申します。 (重複して受け取られた場合はご容赦ください) (興味のありそうな方に転送していただけるとありがたいです。) 来年4月26日に中国にてAPWebの併設ワークショップとして開催される国際ワークショップINGS2008の論文投稿締め切りが再度大幅に延長されましたことをご案内させていただきます。論文投稿締め切りは：2008年3月10日です．これが最終の延長で，再延長はございません． http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ings2008/ をご覧ください．情報爆発，次世代サーチの幅広い分野での皆様の論文のご投稿をお待ちしております． ** Submission deadline has been extended to March 10, 2008 ** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Information-explosion and Next Generation search(INGS2008) April 26, 2008 (Shenyang, China) in conjunction with The 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2008) URL: http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ings2008/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized in conjunction with the 10th. Asia Pacific Web Conference (APweb 2008), the purpose of INGS’08 is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among researchers with interests in the cutting edge issues of next generation search. Information created by people has increased rapidly since the year 2000, and now we are in a time which we could call the "information-explosion era." This workshop aims to establish novel technologies for next generation search: efficient and trustable information retrieval from explosively growing and heterogeneous information resources in this information-explosion era. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS: Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ・ object-level search ・ knowledge search ・ ontology mining ・ reputation/sentiment search and mining ・ natural-language based search ・ query free search/recommendation ・ search for Web2.0 information ・ social bookmark/social search ・ trust-oriented search, information credibility ・ multimedia search ・ ambient search ・ life-log data search ・ desktop and non-web content search ・ search for comparison/complementation ・ personalized search ・ advanced ranking mechanisms ・ data management for next-generation search ・ human interaction and search ・ reconfigurable environments for search engine ・ advertisement and search --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008 (Extended: HARD Deadline!!) Notification of Acceptance: March 25, 2008(Extended) Author Registration: April 2, 2008(Extended) Camera-ready paper due: April 11, 2008(Extended) Workshop Days: April 26, 2008 Post-proceedings Papers: May 23, 2008(Tentative) --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: -Workshop Chair: Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) -Publicity/Publication Chair: Akiyo Nadamoto (NICT,Japan) -Web Co-chairs Takashi Sagara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Yusuke Yanbe (Kyoto University, Japan) -Program Committee: Masaru Kitsuregawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Xuemin Lin (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Jeffrey Xu Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Wei-Ying Ma (MSRA, China) Hang Li (MSRA, China) Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua University, China) Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China) Xiaofang Zhou （The University of Queensland, Australia) --------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop is organized and supported by Japan MEXT Grant-in-aid for Priority-area Research called Cyber Infrastructure for the Information-explosion Era (Principal Researcher: Prof. M.Kitsuregawa) --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 灘本　明代 NADAMOTO AKIYO <nadamoto(a)nict.go.jp> NICT　独立行政法人　情報通信研究機構　自然言語G　言語グリッドプロジェクト

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[CFP] Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management (WDDDM'2008)
by Haruo Yokota 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様、東工大の横田です。ディペンダビリティとデータベースに関する国際ワークショップ WDDDM'2008 の論文募集の案内です。スケジュールは、論文締切り： 2/1 採択通知：2/25 カメラレディ： 3/15 ワークショップ： 3/31 です。会議録は、ACM Digital Library に載る予定です。奮って投稿をご検討下さい。よろしくお願い致します。 −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− 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 −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− ----- Second Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management (WDDDM'2008) affiliated with EuroSys 2008 Conference March 31, 2008, Glasgow, Scotland http://gorda.di.uminho.pt/wdddm08/ ABOUT The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from systems, database and dependability communities to discuss the current state of the art, pending challenges and trends, and novel solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of distributed and dependable data management systems. SCOPE Relational databases have been for a long time the keystone of information systems' dependability. Database management systems (DBMS) offer a uniform approach to data integrity, durability, and availability, using tried and tested techniques based on a set of unanimously accepted and well understood assumptions. However, the expectations on the DBMS itself are changing and there is an unprecedented call for a complete rewrite: The general purpose relational DBMS architecture dating back from the 70's is being convincingly challenged by a number of specialized systems for text indexing, data warehousing, stream processing, and array storage. Most strikingly, the winds of change are felt even within the common enterprise data center, where the widespread need for practical scale-out and near zero downtime translates to an increased appetite for cheap and efficient consistent replication and for shared-nothing clusters built on commodity hardware and software. Novel peer-to-peer applications, grid computing, and the emergence of cloud computing further push the envelope for radically different data management solutions. A major trend in all such emerging proposals, with a profound impact in dependability, is that large scale distribution is a core assumption in their design. This translates in very large number of nodes, wide area geographical distribution, diverse administrative domains, and pervasive heterogeneity. CFP: Ws. Dependable Distributed Data Management (with EuroSys 2008) It is thus desirable to reevaluate time tested assumptions that underly the dependability mechanisms in database management systems and explore different performance and functionality tradeoffs. And explore the consequences on complex information systems built on them. TOPICS Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to: * System assumptions for dependability and performance * Novel application scenarios and consistency requirements * Scaling-out to very large number of nodes: peer-to-peer databases and the data grid * Autonomic versus orchestrated central control * Diversity and software reliability FORMAT The workshop welcomes two kinds of contributions: * Short position papers with early and/or controversial ideas that foster discussion but are not (yet) fully developed. The maximum size is 4 pages in the ACM Conference Proceedings style. * Research papers which present mature original work. The maximum size is 10 pages in the ACM Conference Proceedings style. Since submissions must strictly adhere to ACM Conference Proceedings style, submitters are strongly encouraged to use the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. In order to get included in the EuroSys 2008 proceedings CD, accepted contributions must be presented at the workshop and comply with the ACM Copyright Policy. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: February 1, 2008 * Author notification: February 25, 2008 * Camera-ready due: March 15, 2008 * Workshop date: March 31, 2008 ORGANIZATION Program Chairs: * Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) * Martin Kersten (CWI, Netherlands) * Rui Oliveira (U. Minho, Portugal) Organizing Chair: * José Pereira (U. Minho, Portugal) Programme Committee: * Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ, Switzerland) * Enrique Armendariz (U. P. Navarra, Spain) * Ken Birman (U. Cornell, USA) * Andrea Bondavalli (U. Firenzi, Italy) * Emmanuel Cecchet (EPFL, Switzerland) * Alan Fekete (U. Sidney, Australia) * Roy Friedman (Technion, Israel) * Karl Goeschka (Vienna Institute of Technology, Austria) * Ricardo Jiménez-Peris (U. P. Madrid, Spain) * Flávio Junqueira (Yahoo!, Spain) * Raimundo Macêdo (U. F. Bahia, Brazil) * Henrique Madeira (U. Coimbra, Portugal) * Fernando Pedone (U. Lugano, Switzerland) * Luís Rodrigues (IST, Portugal) * Antony Rowstron (Microsoft, UK) * Doug Terry (Microsoft, USA) * Patrick Valduriez (U. Nantes, France) * Maarten Van Steen (Vrije U., Netherlands) * Haruo Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information visit the workshop web site or contact the organizers at wdddm(a)lsd.di.uminho.pt.

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SWDMNSS 2008
by Hideyuki Kawashima 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

日本データベース学会会員の皆様筑波大の川島英之と申します。 7月末にフィンランドで開催されます下記のワークショップについて御案内致します。同ワークショップはSAINT2008に併設されます。センサデータ処理、センサネットワークに関して幅広い分野の論文を募集しております。投稿締切は *** 3月1日 *** となっております。ご検討頂けましたら幸いです。 *********************************************************************** Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2008) http://www.osoite.jp/SWDMNSS08/ in conjunction with SAINT 2008 July 28 - August 1, 2008 Turku, Finland *********************************************************************** The development and deployment of sensor networking technologies brought the emergence of Internet-wide infrastructure for networked sensing systems and a collection of heterogeneous sensor networks. In this situation, a sensor network or a collection of distributed sensor networks is one of tremendous information resources on the Internet. This SensorWeb can provide real-time and historical information representing situations, contexts and changes in the real world. It is essential to tap this information resource in order to make networked sensing systems accessible and useable in a large variety of applications. Sensor networks may be virtually regarded as an enormous database that can provide dynamic real-world information. There are great potentials in all areas of life, if people are able to query and search such information resources as they do it nowadays on the world-wide-web. In addition, the searched results should be provided in an understandable and potentially machine re-usable form. For instance, aggregated, summarized or symbolized sensor information is more useful for understanding complex phenomena than raw sensor information. Such information integration will be brought by novel methods for data mining and information extraction specifically tailored to networked sensing systems. In addition, information integration utilizing the world-wide-web may allow to combine sensor-specific querying techniques, e.g. according to geographic location, and web search engines, e.g. focusing on content, in order to approach an integrated real world search engine. In order to realize such real-world searching on networked sensing systems, some technologies from different research fields are required: a) network technologies to integrate and overlay heterogeneous sensor networks, b) database technologies to manage and search spatial and temporal information, c) mining technologies to extract useful information from sensor databases and other related resources. This workshop aims to bring together technical papers about networks, databases and data mining for spatial and temporal information and discuss technical issues on integrating sensor networks, databases and Internet technologies. This workshop will open-up a novel and interdisciplinary research area for networked sensing systems covering different research fields such as networks and SensorWebs, databases, information integration and web engineering. It provides the opportunity to discuss key technologies for searching the real-world information provided by networked sensing systems. Our workshop will focus on data-driven and data-centric aspects of networked sensing systems rather than sensor devices and hardware architecture for networked sensing systems. Original papers on database and network technologies for spatial and temporal information (e.g. sensor data, stream data, time-series data, geographic information and web information) are welcome. Topics of this workshop are the following (but are not limited): * Sensor databases: managing, archiving and searching sensing data * Spatial and temporal databases for networked sensing system * Query processing architecture for spatial and temporal data * Mining, aggregation and integration of spatial and temporal data * Stream data processing and mining * Data representation and query description language for networked sensing system * Overlay network and P2P technologies for networked sensing system * Integration of heterogeneous sensor networks * Software architectures for sensor networks and databases * Networked sensing system for mobile and ubiquitous computing * Text mining, language processing, information extraction on the Web * Sensor data integration, mapping and visualization * Sensor web enablement and standardization * Location-based services and geographic information systems (SensorGIS) * Experiences on the deployment and experiments of sensor networks Important Dates for Authors : Paper submission due: March 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2008 Camera-ready copies due: May 1, 2008 Author registration due: TBD Workshop: July 28 - August 1, 2008 (exact date is TBD) Paper Submission: Workshop papers should be within 4 pages, no extra page is allowed. The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published, in separated volumes, by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please mail your submission to <swdmnss2008(a)osoite.jp>. Program Chair: Yoh Shiraishi, University of Tokyo Organizers: Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe Susanna Pirttikangas, University of Oulu Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University Publicity Chair: Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba Program Committee: Michael Beigl, Technical University of Braunschweig Tapio Frantti, VTT Mike Hazas, Lancaster University Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn University Takeshi Iwamoto, KDDI Labs Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba Markus Koskela, Helsinki University of Technology Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich Perttu Laurinen, University of Oulu Silvia Nittel, University of Maine Joe Paradiso, MIT Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Prague Hiroki Saito, Tokyo Denki University Akio Sashima, AIST Kazunori Takashio, Keio University Yosuke Tamura, Fixstars Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University -- Hideyuki Kawashima (kawasima(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, +81-29-853-5322/5678/5051 http://www.kde.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~kawasima

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NLPIX2008 CFP
by Atsushi Fujii 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

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）投稿締切が来週に迫っております．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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[CFP] 第11回WI2研究会（締切３日前）
by Yoshinori Hijikata 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様，大阪大学の土方です．発表申込締切の3日前になりましたので，再度案内させていただきます．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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