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論文募集: DMWPC 2012 （3月26日〜29日＠福岡）
by Akimitsu Kanzaki 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

日本データベース学会の皆様大阪大学の神崎です。来年3月に福岡にて開催されます国際ワークショップDMWPC2012 (International Workshop on Data Management for Wireless and Pervasive Communications) の論文募集についてご案内させていただきます。本ワークショップは、国際会議AINA2012に併設される形での開催となります。無線ネットワーク環境におけるデータ管理技術を中心に、幅広い分野からの論文を募集しておりますので、皆様是非ご投稿をご検討ください。よろしくお願いいたします。 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th. International Workshop on Data Management for Wireless and Pervasive Communications (DMWPC 2012) http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/dmwpc/2012/ Fukuoka, Japan, March, 2012 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [AIM and SCOPE] The tremendous advances in wireless communication and mobile computing technologies have created a new computing and communication environment that provides services anytime and anywhere for everyone. Such an environment enables users to access a wide range of services and applications using a large variety of mobile and ubiquitous devices (e.g., cell phones, handheld computers, and so on). In order to accelerate this trend in the future, further progresses of the researches on wireless and pervasive computing, especially on data management, are necessary. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the current researches and future research directions related to this hot research area. [TOPICS of INTEREST] Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Data mining for mobile applications - Data management for pervasive computing - Data aggregation in sensor networks - Data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility - Metadata management and exchanges for mobile and ubiquitous applications - Middleware support for mobile and ubiquitous computing - Operating system and network support for mobile devices - Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks - Security issues of data management in wireless networks - QoS issues for data-intensive services in wireless networks - Query processing for mobile users - Query processing for sensor networks - Transactions and workflows in mobile computing - Context aware computing and location-based services - Resource advertising and discovery in mobile and ubiquitous networks - User interfaces and interaction models for mobile applications - Mobile and ubiquitous applications - Sensor network applications [SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION] The manuscript should follow IEEE Computer Society's two-column format. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including tables, figures, and references. For more detailed formatting instruction, please visit the following page: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting [IMPORTANT DATES] - Submission Deadline: October 1, 2011 - Author Notification: December 1, 2011 - Author Registration: December 23, 2011 - Final Manuscript Due: January 6, 2012 [ORGANIZING COMMITTEE] General Co-Chairs - Takahiro Hara: Osaka University, Japan - Sanjay Kumar Madria: University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Program Chair - Akimitsu Kanzaki: Osaka University, Japan Program Committee Members - Eduard Babulak: CORDIS FP7 European Commission, Belgium - Erik Buchmann: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - Susumu Ishihara: Shizuoka University, Japan - Dongwon Jeong: Kunsan National University, Korea - Hideyuki Kawashima: University of Tsukuba, Japan - Young-Kuk Kim: Chungnam National University, Korea - Lei Shu: Osaka University, Japan - Kriengsak Treeprapin: Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand - Arno Wacker: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Yunlan Wang: Northwestern Polytechnical University, China - Vladimir Zadorozhny: University of Pittsburgh, USA - Jun Zheng: New Mexico Tech, USA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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CfP: eTELEMED 2012 || January 30 - February 4, 2012 - Valencia, Spain
by Cristina Pascual Gonzalez 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to eTELEMED 2012. The submission deadline is set to September 5, 2011. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== eTELEMED 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS eTELEMED 2012: The Fourth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine January 30 - February 4, 2012 - Valencia, Spain General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/eTELEMED12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPeTELEMED12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SubmiteTELEMED12.html Submission deadline: September 5, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html eTELEMED 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) eHealth technology and devices Telemedicine software and devices; Diagnostic/monitoring systems and devices; Electronic health cards; Home monitoring services and equipment; Telemedicine equipments; Online instruments supporting independent living; eHealth telecommunication services; eHealth wireless data communications; IPTV and/or phone portal clients; Standardised biomarker analysis for intrinsic linkage to disease outcomes eHealth data records eHealth medical records; Reengineering of care plans in electronic format; Digital imagery and films; Internet imaging localization and archiving; Personal, adaptive, and content-based image retrieval imaging; Privacy and accuracy communications of patient records; Secure patient data storage; Secure communications of patient data; Authenticated access to patient records; Patient privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs); Robust approaches to algorithmic modeling of outcomes; Dynamic graphing of individual�s data trends; Data aggregation technologies; Delivery of information governance policies; Tools/systems for automatic document metadata tagging; Dataset harmonization across multiple sites; Standard/symbolic representations of multiple physiological trends and clinical/life events eHealth information processing Web technology in medicine and eHealth; Web-enabled consumer-driven eHealth; Electronic imagery and visualization frameworks; Color imaging and multidimensional projections; Imaging interfaces and navigation; Medical image processing; Video techniques for medical images; Computer vision and resolution; Rapid evaluation of patient's status; Anticipative processing of patient's status; Videoconferencing; Telepresence eHealth systems and communications Hospital information systems; Internet/intranet services; Surgical systems; Sensor-based systems; Satellite eHealth communications; Secure data transmissions; Body-sensor networks; Separation of concerns between domain problems and technological choices; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches to maximize translation of clinical evidence; Cross-border eHealth systems; HealthGrid; Wireless 'flooding' technology providing cheap e-health platform support to whole towns/cities eHealth systems and emergency situations Medical emergencies and communications; Detection emergencies situations; Medical resource allocation, optimization, and simulation; Real-time emergency situations management; Security and accuracy of emergency communications; Geolocalisation and optimization technology services for emergency fleet vehicles Telemedicine/eHealth applications Virtual telemedicine; Mobile eHealth services; Home monitoring and homecare applications; Wireless homecare; User-generated eHealth care; Personalized medicine; Wireless telemedicine ; Telehomecare technologies for the elderly; Automatic detection of infectious diseases Telemedicine/eHealth services Clinical telemedicine; Distributed surgery; Telemedicine and telehealth; Telepathology; Telecardiology; Telerehabilitation; Elderly and impaired patient services; Remote operational medicine; Remote consulting services; Telemedicare monitoring; Vital signs monitoring; Computer generated self care advice; Telemedicine handbag; Workflow approaches to improve healthcare intervention outcomes; Workflow to improve patient safety, decision support, and objective measurement of service quality; Support for evidence-driven integrated care pathways (ICP�s) Social and financial aspects Safety in telemedicine; Business models; Cost-benefit studies; Legal and ethical aspects; On-line payment and reimbursement issues; Ambient Assisted Living; Shared-care systems for eHealth; Privacy in the eHealth systems; Multi-lingual eHealth systems; Continuity in eHealth care; System simulations for business case development and risk reduction; Problem-independent (generic application) eHealth architecture; 'Lean' e-health workflows; �Relative risk' dashboards - how the patient's condition 'sits' within population risk Classical medicine and eHealth integration Wide-area integration of eHealth systems; Current eHealth realizations and projects; Innovation in eHealth; Telemedicine portals; Standardization and interconnectivity of eHealth systems; Implementation of cross-border eHealth services; eHealth integration into routine medical practice; Affordable approaches to e-Health; eHealth acceptance with medical professionals and patients; Developing countries and eHealth; Distance education for eHealth; xHR standardization; Impact of �global� integration standards and interoperability projects (e.g. CDA, IHE/XDS, SNOMED-CT, Continua Healthcare Alliance, IEEE11073, Common User Interface (CUI) Preventive eHealth systems Systematic risk analysis technologies for disease early detection and prevention; 'Patient path' hubs, mobile devices and/or dedicated home-based network computers; Information models for evaluation of disease progression risk/disease processes; Systems supporting quantitative healthcare (predictive outcomes) modeling; Health risk factor data collation and multiple longitudinal trend analyses; Support for disease prevention aimed at healthy individuals; Data aggregation and visualisation technologies for population-based reporting; 'Risk signature� discovery to indicate optimal preventative or screening actions; Mapping SNOMED-CT terminologies to disease model archetypes; Quantitative individualized outcome risk analysis; Services for longitudinal data analysis/visualisation; Continuous workflow management across clinic, home and mobile locations Challenges of large-scale, cost-effective eHealth systems Integrated technology, social/behavioral and business modelling research for large-scale deployments; Total operational cost-effectiveness modelling; Lessons from large-scale telehealth/telecare demonstrators in different parts of the world; Standardised data collation infrastructures (data service layers); Impact of grid and service-oriented computing; Roles of global/international interoperability organisations (e.g. IHE and Continua); Scaleable multi-data trend management; Robust data collection along the �patient path� for improved decision support; Delivery of �composite� process functions (e.g. contributed by multiple vendor systems); Paths to semantically-harmonised eHealth systems; Semantic interoperability and openEHR archetypes; Applications of harmonised (standardised) datasets across multiple sites; Keeping technology simple and affordable Nurse team applications ePatient and eNurse tools that are simple to adopt and use; Public eHealth education & information; Life time health records; Primary care centers and home monitoring; Monitoring for signs and progression of complications; eHealth awareness, education and adoption; Mapping to individualized care plans; Continuous �closed loop� outcomes analysis; Intervention measurement technologies; Personal target setting Personalized eHealth eHealth Systems in Mental Health; Preventive Systems and mobile activity monitoring; eHealth and life; Fundamentals in eHealth personalization; Wearable and implantable systems; Micro and nano eHealth sensors; Diagnostics using biosensors and textiles; Interacting with organic semiconductors; Personalized eHealth market; Personalized eHealth business models; Ubiquitous monitoring; Personalized eHealth and classical health networks; Trends in personalized eHealth; ICT solutions for patient self-management Clinical telemedicine Stroke (Acute stroke; Thrombolytic therapy; Transient ischemic attacks; Telestroke); Eplilepsy (Acute management of seizures, Follow-up strategies, management of complications); ICU (remote intubation, Management of acute respiratory distress); Cardiaology (EKG interpretation, Tele-Echo, Management of acute coronary syndromes); Pediatrics (Epilepsy, Cardiology-echo interpretation, Pediatrics emergencies) Rural and wilderness eHealth Rural health and eHealth programs; Rural medical practice; Healthcare challenges in rural areas; Provincial standards of emergency care; Diagnosing in rural areas; Wilderness emergency medicine; Developing and nurturing online communities for health; Rural self-health care Environmental and travel telemedicine Disease control and prevention; Geo-medical surveillance; Travel health-related products, drugs and vaccines; Altitude medicine; Oceanic medicine; Continuous monitoring of travelers' health; Self-health care Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComeTELEMED12.html ====================

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[CFP] 2011 The International Workshop on Cloud Management and Security (CMS2011)
by Jian Cao 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Cloud Management and Security (CMS2011) Cloud computing is getting increasingly popular and is viewed as the essential infrastructure for next-generation computing. But there are still many open and unresolved issues including Management (including system performance optimization, large-scale storage, efficient resource virtualization techniques), Security and Privacy challenges, and the lack of uniform standards. This workshop aims to provide a discussion platform for both researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas on cloud management and security & privacy issues, which will be held jointly with The 9thInternational Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2011), December 12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Topics of Interest The workshop solicits manuscript with original, unpublished and submitted work. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, are: * ・ Performance evaluation & modeling Cloud computing environments * ・ Cloud service orchestration * ・ Cloud scalable monitoring * ・ Cloud load balancing and scheduling * ・ Policy driven service/resource lifecycle management * ・ Management as a service * ・ Managing cloud services, or the Internet of services * ・ Management of virtualized hardware resources * ・ practical cryptographic protocols for cloud security * ・ secure cloud resource virtualization mechanisms * ・ secure data management outsourcing * ・ practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for outsourcing * ・ foundations of cloud-centric threat models * ・ secure computation outsourcing * ・ trust and policy management in clouds * ・ secure identity management mechanisms * ・ cloud-centric regulatory compliance issues and mechanisms * ・ security for emerging cloud programming models * ・ energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. 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 libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Selected (extended) papers will be invited to a journal special issue (pending). Paper Submission The Workshop Cloud Management invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 8 pages IEEE style (single-spaced 2-column of text using 10-point size type on A4 paper). Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. ・ Electronic submission only via email to iwcms2011(a)gmail.com Deadlines Paper Submission: September 1, 2011 Paper Notification: September 15, 2011 Camera-ready due: October 3, 2011 Organization Workshop Co-Chairs Bo Jin, Key Laboratory of Information Network Security, China Xinhua Ji, Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd, China Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Publicity Co-Chairs Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Huafeng Kong, Key Laboratory of Information Network Security, China Program Committee Jie Wang, Stanford University, U.S.A Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University Kui (Quinn) Ren， Illinois Institute of Technology Xiaodong Lin， University of Ontario Institute of Technology Thanos Vasilakos， University of Western Macedonia, Greece

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MSRA Summer School (9/12-16 武漢) 参加募集
by Yoshiharu Ishikawa 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

日本データベース学会の皆様名古屋大学の石川です． 9月中旬に，WAIM2011が中国武漢（Wuhan）にて開催されます．これに併設する形で9/12〜16の日程でMSRA Summer Schoolが開催されるとのことで，参加者を募集しているとのことです．8/31まで締切を延長して再度募集しているということで，研究室の学生さんに参加呼びかけをお願いします．なお，9/15には東大喜連川先生のWAIM Keynoteもございます．概要は以下のURLをご覧ください． http://totemdb.whu.edu.cn/summerschool/index.php?content=APPLICATION おおまかには次のようになっています．・対象：大学院生，学部生（修士進学予定）　- 要申込み：詳細は上記URL参照・特典：Summer School参加者は，参加登録費なしでWAIM聴講可能・講演者：　- Prof. Carlo Zaniolo (UCSB) 9/12, 9/13 　- Prof. Amr El Abbadi (UCLA) 9/13, 9/14 　- Dr. Haixun Wang (MSRA) 9/14 　- 喜連川優教授 (東大) 9/15 ※ 　- Prof. Divyakant Agrawal (UCSB) 9/15 ※ 　- Dr. Surajit Chaudhuri（Microsoft Research）9/16 ※ 　- Prof. Werner Winiwarter (U. Vienna) 9/16 ※ 　　※はWAIM 2011 Keynotes ・交通費・宿泊費は自己負担・応募締切：8月31日（通知：9月1日）

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2nd CfP: ICONS 2012 || February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island
by Cristina Pascual Gonzalez 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results. The submission deadline is set to October 5, 2011. A video of the 2011 event is available on the conference front page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICONS12.html In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICONS 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICONS 2012: The Seventh International Conference on Systems February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICONS12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICONS12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICONS12.html Submission deadline: October 5, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICONS 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Systems' Theory and Practice Systems design methodologies and techniques; Formal methods to specify systems? behavior; Online and offline systems; Open and closed systems; Centralized and distributed systems; Proactive and reactive systems; System robustness; Systems scalability; Fault-tolerant systems; Feedback systems; High-speed systems; Delay tolerant systems; Real-time systems Systems engineering Systems requirements; Systems modeling; Systems development lifecycle; System-of-systems; Systems ergonomics; Subsystem interactions; Systems decomposition; Systems integration System Instrumentation Metering embedded sensors; Composing multi-scale measurements; Monitoring instrumentation; Smart sensor-based systems; Calibration and self-calibration systems; Instrumentation for prediction systems Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip Real-time embedded systems Programming embedded systems; Controlling embedded systems; High speed embedded systems; Designing methodologies for embedded systems; Performance on embedded systems; Updating embedded systems; Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip; Testing embedded systems; Technologies for systems processors; Migration to single-chip systems; Micro/nano structures and systems Target-oriented systems [emulation, simulation, prediction, etc.] Information systems; Real-time systems; Software systems; Hardware systems; Emulation systems; Simulation systems Prediction systems Specialized systems [sensor-based, mobile, multimedia, biometrics, etc.] Sensor-based systems; Biometrics systems; Mobile and fixed systems; Ubiquitous systems; Nano-technology-based systems; Multimedia systems Validation systems Diagnosis assistance systems; Test systems; Validation systems; Performance measurement systems; Maintenance systems Security and protection systems Security systems; Vulnerability detecting systems; Intrusion detection systems Intrusion avoidance systems; Presence detection systems; Monitoring systems; Management systems; Alert systems; Defense systems; Emergency systems Advanced systems [expert, tutoring, self-adapting, interactive, etc.] Expert systems; Tutoring systems; Highly interactive systems; Anticipative systems; On-demand systems; GRID systems; Autonomic systems; Autonomous systems; Self-adapting systems; Adjustable autonomic systems; High performance computing systems; Mission critical systems Application-oriented systems [content, eHealth, radar, financial, vehicular, etc.] Web-cashing systems; Content-distributed systems; Accounting and billing systems; E-Health systems; E-Commerce systems; Radar systems; Navigation systems; Systems for measuring physical quantities; Earthquake detection and ranking systems; Financial systems; Robotics systems; Vehicular systems; Entertainment systems; Gaming systems; Speech recognition system Safety in industrial systems Fundamentals on system safety; Safety of software systems and software engineering; Safety requirements; Safety for critical systems; Engineering for system robustness and reliability; Control of mission critical systems; Safety-oriented system design; Human tasks and error models; Hazard analysis; Cost and effectiveness of system safety; Verification and validation of safety; Safety tools; Evaluation of safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Safety control and management; System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards; Transferring safety knowledge; Metrics for Risk Assessment; Contingency Planning and Occurrence Reporting; Preparedness Activities; Industry specific safety systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry, Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety) Complex systems Theory of complex systems; Ontologies for complex systems; Chaos and complexity; Design and integrate complex systems; Complexity and simulation; Simulation and datamining; Artificial intelligence and soft computing in complex systems; Multi-agent based simulation; Systems of systems; Intelligent agent architectures; Evolutionary programming; Uncertainty reduction and classification; Monitoring and managing complex systems; Case studies of complex systems [vehicular, avionic, health, emergency, sensing, etc.]; Industrial systems [robotics, production, accounting and billing, e-commerce, etc.] Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComICONS12.html ====================

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2nd CfP: DBKDA 2012 || February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island
by Cristina Pascual Gonzalez 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results. The submission deadline is set to October 5, 2011. A video of the 2011 event is available on the conference front page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/DBKDA12.html In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== DBKDA 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS DBKDA 2012: The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/DBKDA12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPDBKDA12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitDBKDA12.html Submission deadline: October 5, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html DBKDA 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Advances in fundamentals on databases Foundations and architectures; Design features (data quality, performance, robustness, scalability, security, privacy, parallel and distributed approaches, mobility, etc.); Data quality, data structures, and data modeling; Advanced indexing methods; Advanced ranking algorithms and uncertainty; Physical organization and performance; Federated choreographies; Temporal conformance; Evolutionary clustering and dynamic hierarchical clustering Databases and other domains Leading-edge database technology and applications; Heterogeneous databases interoperability and mediation; Databases and Web services; Databases and artificial intelligence; Databases and agents; Advances in database management systems; Advanced transaction and workflow management; Advances on XML and databases Databases technologies Self-managing databases; Mobile databases; Database access; Embedded databases; Very large scale databases; Spatial and spatio-temporal databases; Data warehousing; Multimedia databases; Semantic databases; Data integration resources on the Internet; Object-oriented databases; Web-based databases; Deductive and active databases Databases content processing Mining for complex data; Mining for text, video, and pictures; Knowledge discovery and classification; Process mining; Scalable data extraction; Query processing and optimization; Query rewrite rules; Navigational path expressions; Load-balancing in accessing distributed databases; Incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty; Storage and replication; Patterns and similarities in data streams; Fast matching; Multiple views Knowledge and decision bases Knowledge representation and management; Knowledge discovery (business intelligence); Semantic information; Ontology and advanced knowledge search; Heuristics and meta-heuristics; Intelligent knowledge querying; Feature sampling and feature selection; Context-aware knowledge base; Blogs and social relationship search; Deductive reasoning; Reasoning databases; Ontology-based reasoning Specifics on application domains databases Database applications in Life Sciences; Advanced database applications; Bioinformatics databases; Healthcare databases; Finance and marketing databases; Telecom databases; Geospatial databases; Census databases; Meteorological databases; Business intelligence databases; e-Business databases XML-driven data, knowledge, databases Data /dissemination, distributed, processing, management/; XML-data /storage, exchange, compress, metadata/; XML-data and metadata management; XML repositories; Knowledge discovery from XML repositories; XML-data processing /queries, indexing, management, retrieval, mining/; XML data and knowledge /representation, discovery, mining, orchestration/; XML-data in advances environments /clouds, P2P, multimedia, mobile, finance, biotechnologies, geospatial, space/; XML-data and process /data warehouse, workflow, web, learning, control/; Data privacy Privacy models; Privacy metrics; Privacy preservation; Watermarking; Data Hiding; Background knowledge; Privacy /data streams, social networks, databases, semantic web/; Privacy mechanisms /cryptography, privacy-aware access control, generalization-based algoritm, perturbation-based algorithm, preservation, sequental releases/; Practical studies /privacy leaking, privacy breach, threats to privacy, privacy in outsourcing/ Data quality and uncertainty Models, frameworks, methodologies and metrics for data quality; Quality of complex data /documents, semi-structured data, XMLs, multimedia data, graphs, bio-sequences/; Uncertain and noisy data; Uncertain data representation; Processing uncertain data /querying, indexing, mining/; Mining uncertain data/probabilistic, spatially- and temporally- uncertain, uncertain streams/ Data lineage and provenance; Data profiling and measurement; Data integration, linkage and fusion; D uplicate detection and consistency checking; D ata mining and data quality assessment; Quality methods and algorithms / data transformation, reconciliation, consolidation, extraction, cleansing/; User perception on data quality and cleansing; Data query, access, mining, and correlation Data access technologies, Query optimisation, Discovering multi-modal correlations; Mining structural data from non-structural mixed-media documents; Data stream mining /frequent patterns, bursty event detection/; Profile mining; Corelation and anomaly in multi-modal-data /social networks, web traffic logs, sale transactions/; Information retrieval on a mixed collections; Multimedia data mining; Data mining system for medical multimedia data; Contents-based image/video retrieval systems Data and process provenance Provenance architectures and algorithms; Provenance modelling; Information management for provenance data; Provenance ontology and semantic; Provenance querying; Provenance annotation; Security, trust, and privacy for provenance information; Case studies and practice; Reasoning over provenance; Provenance analytics, mining and visualization Data management Distributed Query Languages; Query processing and optimization; Adaptive query processing; Management of mobile data; Managing data privacy and security; Data storage and management; Data stream systems; Data locating; Data warehouse management; Management of dynamic data; Workload adaptability; Transaction management; Performance evaluation and benchmarking or data management Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComDBKDA12.html ===================

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CfP: 情報アクセスシンポジウム2011 【締切延長 8/23まで】
by Hiroyuki Toda 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

日本データベース学会の皆様 (重複して受け取られた場合はご容赦ください) NTTコミュニケーションズの戸田です．先日案内させて頂きました「情報アクセスシンポジウム」の論文締切りが ***8/23***まで延長となりましたので，再度の案内をさせて頂きます．皆様からの多数の投稿を心よりお待ちしております． ◆本シンポジウムの特徴 (1) 学生著者へのメンタリングサービス国際会議に投稿できる水準の研究の促進，および適切な評価方法を用いた研究の促進を目指し，希望される学生著者に対してメンタリングサービスを実施します． (2) 招待講演　「災害情報を共有するための情報アクセス技術　〜何ができるのか，日本復興に向けて〜」　・小松健作氏（NTTコミュニケーションズ主査）　・佐々木博氏（株式会社創庵代表取締役）　・乾健太郎氏（東北大学教授） (3) 国際会議参加報告　・ACM SIGIR2011／JCDL2011 詳細は以下をご参照ください． ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 【投稿のご案内: 情報処理学会情報基礎とアクセス技術研究会(IFAT)主催　情報アクセスシンポジウム2011 (2011年9月14日@国立情報学研究所12階)】 http://www.ipsj-ifat.org/cfp/IAS2011/ NII: http://www.nii.ac.jp/access/ ●論文投稿のご案内デジタル情報の増大，Web・モバイル検索の普及により，膨大な情報の中の必要な情報にアクセスする技術の重要性は増すばかりです．さらに，東日本大震災からの復興に向けて，SNSやマイクロブログを利用した情報アクセス技術の重要性も再認識されつつあります。クエリ入力・文書リスト出力といった古典的な情報検索にとらわれず，広義の情報アクセスについて学際的な視点から議論するオープンなコミュニティ形成のため，情報基礎とアクセス技術研究会(旧・情報学基礎研究会)は「情報アクセスシンポジウム」を主催しています．第三回情報アクセスシンポジウム(情報アクセスシンポジウム2011)では，過去2回のシンポジウムで好評であった招待講演，査読つき論文発表に加えて，若手研究者の成長の糧となることを期待して，メンタリングサービスの場を提供いたします．【募集分野】情報・ユーザのモデル化，情報の組織化・構造化・管理，情報アクセス・マイニング（情報検索，質問応答，要約，分類，抽出，推薦，意見・動向分析，可視化など），多言語・ウェブ・モバイル情報処理，メタデータ／コンテンツの構築・検索・分類・管理，電子図書館，知識発見・表現・組織化・活用，ユーザインタフェース，およびその他．【投稿フォーマット】以下の情報処理学会研究報告フォーマットに準じ，上限8ページとします． http://www.ipsj.or.jp/09sig/kenkyukai/genko.html 匿名にする必要はありません．【投稿方法】以下のメールアドレスまで，pdfファイルをご送付ください．投稿メイルアドレス： ias2011(a)ipsj-ifat.org 【査読方法】少なくとも2名のIFAT運営委員が各論文を新規性・有用性・信頼性・了解性・情報アクセス分野への適合性の観点から査読し，採否を決定します．なお，採録決定となった論文は，IFAT研究発表会の(査読なし)論文同様， IFATヤングリサーチャー優秀賞および奨励賞の選考対象となります． IFAT賞についてはこちらをご覧ください． http://ipsj-ifat.org/young-researcher.html 【出版フォーマット】シンポジウム当日より，情報学広場 https://ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp/ej/ にて，pdfファイルをオープンアクセスで公開します．【メンタリングサービス】今回の情報アクセスシンポジウムでは，学生さんの第一著者のうち希望者に対し，メンタリングを実施します．このメンタリングの目的は，国際会議に投稿できる水準の研究の促進，および適切な評価方法を用いた研究の促進です．このため，メンターとして国際会議で実績のある研究者および評価型ワークショップNTCIR等で実績のある研究者を起用します．メンタリングの手順は以下の通りです．１．メンタリングを希望する第一著者（学生に限る）は，論文投稿時に A. 国際会議に投稿できる水準の研究 B. 適切な評価方法を用いた研究 C. 上記両方のいずれかの「トラック」を選択する．２．論文が採録となった各メンタリング希望者（メンティー）に対し，上記トラックに応じてアサインされた2名のメンターが，最終原稿締切日までに簡単なフィードバックを行う．（これは査読結果とは別です．）３．以後，シンポジウム当日までに，必要に応じてメンターとメンティーの間でメイルによる事前ディスカッションを行う．４．シンポジウム当日，当該論文のQ&Aセッションにおいて，各メンターからコメントを提供する． ★重要な日程★ 2011年【延長されました】8/23(火) 投稿締切 9/1 (木) 採否通知 9/7 (水) 最終原稿pdf締切 9/14(水) 情報アクセスシンポジウム2011査読つき論文セッション ●参加のご案内情報アクセスシンポジウム2011では，査読つき論文発表セッション，メンタリングサービスの他に，以下の企画を予定しております．・招待講演次のテーマに関連した，3件の講演を予定しております。「災害情報を共有するための情報アクセス技術〜何ができるのか，日本復興に向けて〜」　・小松健作氏（NTTコミュニケーションズ主査）　・佐々木博氏（株式会社創庵代表取締役）　・乾健太郎氏（東北大学教授）詳細は，決まり次第， http://www.ipsj-ifat.org/cfp/IAS2011/ にてお知らせします．・ACM SIGIR2011参加報告・JCDL2011参加報告 ★参加費（予定）★ ・IFAT登録会員：無料・学生非会員： 1,000円・情報処理学会正会員： 5,000円・非会員： 6,000円詳細についてはIFATホームページやtwitterで順次アナウンスいたします． ●情報基礎とアクセス技術研究会について情報基礎とアクセス技術研究会(IFAT)ホームページ: http://www.ipsj-ifat.org/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sigifat [情報アクセスシンポジウム2011実行委員会] 稲垣陽一岸田和明酒井哲也中澤聡野本忠司山地一禎 (幹事) 吉岡真治関洋平（実行委員長）お問い合わせは上記実行委員会 ias2011(a)ipsj-ifat.org まで以上

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CFPaper : ADC2012 (submission deadline Aug.15)
by Miyuki Nakano 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

DBSJの皆様、締め切りが大変近くなってからの案内ですが、以下にございますように、メルボルンにてADC2012が開催されます。ふるってご投稿ください。 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call-for-Papers: The 22nd Australasian Database Conference (ADC2012) RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 30th January - 2nd February, 2012 http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/adc2012/ The Australasian Database Conference series is an annual forum for sharing the latest research and novel applications of database systems. The 23nd Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2012, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW12). As with previous years, registration to the Australasian Database Conference will enable delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/acsw2012/ ). ADC 2012 is featured by a collocated special ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter workshop: Geographical/Spatial Data Management and Analysis. This workshop will have exclusively invited talks given by experts in the area of geographical/spatial data management and analysis. A poster competition with a total price of $1000 will follow the invited talks. All ADC 2012 attendees can attend this workshop for free! Important Dates: Paper submission: Monday 15th August, 2011 Author notification: Monday 10th October, 2011 Final version: Monday 7th November, 2011 Author registration: Monday 14th November, 2011 Early bird registration: Monday 5th December, 2011 Conference dates: 30th January - 2nd February, 2012 Key Areas: * Databases for bioinformatics * Databases and ontologies * Data mining/knowledge discovery * Data warehousing * Database integration issues * Mobile Databases * Federated, distributed, parallel and grid databases * High dimensional and temporal data * Image/video retrieval and databases * Information retrieval, filtering and dissemination * Logic in databases * Performance issues of databases * Privacy and Security in Databases * Query processing and optimisation * Semi-structured data * Spatial data processing/management * Stream Data Management * Uncertain and probabilistic databases * Web databases * XML and graph databases * Data as "services" * Web service management * Cloud data and services * Social media data management Paper Submission: ADC 2012 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of database research and applications. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT). Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to ADC, and presentation. Submissions of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. Authors should make the submissions through the site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adc2012. The proceedings of this event will be published by the ACS in the CRPIT Series. The formatting requirements and resources for authors can be found on the CRPIT Authors Page together with a list of all upcoming volumes (http://crpit.com/Authors.html) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 中野　美由紀東京大学　生産技術研究所　戦略情報融合国際研究センタ Miyuki NAKANO Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo 　　　　　　　　Center for Information Fusion miyuki(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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2nd CfP: ICN 2012 || February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island
by Cristina Pascual Gonzalez 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results. The submission deadline is set to October 5, 2011. A video of the 2011 event is available on the conference front page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICN12.html In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICN 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICN 2012: The Eleventh International Conference on Networks February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICN12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICN12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICN12.html Submission deadline: October 5, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICN 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) 1. Communication theory 2. Communications switching and routing 3. Communications modeling 4. Communications security 5. Computer communications 6. Distributed communications 7. Signal processing in communications 8. Multimedia and multicast communications 9. Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks) 10. Next generation networks [NGN] principles 11. Storage area networks [SAN] 12. Access and home networks 13. High-speed networks 14. Optical networks 15. Peer-to-peer and overlay networking 16. Mobile networking and systems 17. MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks 18. GRID networks 19. Broadband networks 20. Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA] 21. Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS] 22. Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring 23. Voice over IP services 24. Performance evaluation, tools, simulation 25. Network, control and service architectures 26. Network signalling, pricing and billing 27. Network middleware 28. Telecommunication networks architectures 29. On-demand networks, utility computing architectures 30. Applications and case studies 31. NGN protocol design and evaluation 32. NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.] 33. NGN Device Instrumentation 34. Network Management, scheduling and policy 35. NGN policy-based control 36. Networks policy-based management 37. Management of autonomic networks and systems 38. Vehicular Networks Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComICN12.html ====================

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「ALAGINシンポジウム」開催のご案内
by Koji ZETTSU 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

日本データベース学会の皆様 (重複して受け取られた場合はご容赦ください) NICTの是津です．９月２６日に開催されます，ALAGINシンポジウムのご案内をさせて頂きます．奮ってご参加下さいますよう，よろしくお願い申し上げます． --------------------------------------------- 「ALAGINシンポジウム」開催のご案内 ALAGIN事務局拝啓　時下ますますご清栄のこととお喜び申し上げます。高度言語情報融合フォーラムでは、自然言語処理の第一線で活躍しておられるマイクロソフトリサーチアジアの辻井先生、東北大学の乾先生、震災後、通行実績・渋滞実績情報をいち早く公開し、メディアにも多数出演しておられる本田技研工業株式会社の今井様を招待講演者としてお招きし、下記の通りシンポジウムを開催させていただく運びとなりましたので、ご案内申し上げます。 3件の招待講演では、まず、辻井先生に、今後の自然言語処理分野を取り巻く世界的な情勢の予測やその中で日本の産業はどうあるべきか、日本の研究はどうあるべきかといったグランドデザイン等についてお話しいただきます。乾先生には、ALAGINで配信している言語資源等を活用した最先端の研究について、今井様には、震災後、メディア等でも数多く取り上げられました通行実績・渋滞実績情報の公開についてお話しいただきます。本田技研工業株式会社では、通行実績・渋滞実績情報を、震災時、複数の同業企業と連携して自動車の走行軌跡データを統合し、いち早く道路の通行状況、被災状況の目安として「Google Crisis Response」自動車・通行実績情報マップや「Yahoo!地図」道路通行確認マップ等で公開されました。今後のデータ共有、組織間連携、研究などのご参考にしていただければ、幸いに存じます。日本の置かれた状況、組織の垣根を越えた情報共有の成功例とその背景にあるノウハウや苦労等を本シンポジウムで共有することにより、音声・言語処理分野における今後の発展や震災からの復興促進に向けたヒントが得られればと考えております。デモ展示も、あわせて開催いたしますので、こちらへも是非ご参加いただきますよう、重ねてお願い申し上げます。敬具 ========================= 記 ============================== 【ALAGINシンポジウム(仮称)】 ※ ALAGIN会員だけでなく、一般の方もご参加いただけます。 ●日時：平成２３年９月２６日（月） 13:30 〜 17:00 ALAGINシンポジウム（仮称） 17:30 〜 18:30 交流会 ●会場：大手町サンケイプラザ　3階　301-303 〒100-0004　東京都千代田区大手町1-7-2 http://www.s-plaza.com/map/ ■丸ノ内線、半蔵門線、千代田線、東西線、都営三田線「大手町駅」下車　A4・E1出口直結 ■ＪＲ「東京駅」丸の内北口より徒歩7分 ※デモ展示会場は3階　304 ●主催：高度言語情報融合フォーラム(ALAGIN) 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構(NICT) ●参加費：無料 ●参加対象：ALAGIN会員および一般 ●プログラム(予定) 13:30 〜 13:45 新会長挨拶中村哲氏 (ALAGIN新会長、奈良先端科学技術大学院大学　教授) 13:45 〜 13:55 来賓挨拶　　(予定) 13:55 〜 14:20 進捗報告　　「ALAGIN平成23年度活動状況について」(仮題) 鳥澤健太郎氏 (ALAGIN企画推進委員会　委員長、 NICT情報分析研究室　室長) 14:20 〜 15:05 招待講演「多言語、多モーダルな情報環境での言語処理への展望」(仮題) 辻井潤一氏 (マイクロソフトリサーチアジア首席研究員) 15:05 〜 15:20 休憩 15:20 〜 16:05 招待講演「大規模言語資源に基づくWeb情報の組織化」 (仮題) 乾健太郎氏 (東北大学　教授) 16:05 〜 16:50 招待講演　「震災時における通行実績情報共有の取り組み」 (仮題) 今井武氏 (本田技研工業株式会社　参事インターナビ事業室　室長) 16:50 〜 17:00 閉会の挨拶　榎並和雅氏 (NICT理事) 《交流会》17:30〜18:30（会費：3,000円）（大手町サンケイプラザ　3階　311） ※ シンポジウム・交流会申込み専用Webページ　　　　http://alagin.jp/symposium/entry.html ※ 申込締切日：平成２３年９月１２日（月） ●本件問い合わせ先：info(a)alagin.jp -------------------- 以上、よろしくお願いいたします。 -- *--------------------------------------------* 高度言語情報融合フォーラム（ALAGIN)　事務局 http://www.alagin.jp/ （担当：内元清貴） --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 是津耕司　（Koji Zettsu) 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構ユニバーサルコミュニケーション研究所情報利活用基盤研究室　室長〒619-0289　京都府相楽郡精華町光台3-5 TEL: 0774-98-6921 FAX: 0774-98-6960 E-mail: zettsu(a)nict.go.jp

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