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IEEE PerCom 2013 - Ph.D. Forum
by Chiara Boldrini 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Extended Abstracts Ph.D. Forum on Pervasive Computing and Communications IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'13) San Diego California March 18-22, 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PerCom 2013 will host the Sixth Annual Ph.D. Forum on Pervasive Computing and Communications. The Ph.D. Forum will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, including work in progress, to the pervasive computing and communication community. In addition, the Forum will provide a platform for participants to meet with reputed International researchers in pervasive computing and communications. The Forum will be organized as a combined one-day workshop prior to the PerCom conference and a poster session during the main conference to encourage interaction between Ph.D. students and researchers from academia, industry, and government. We are working with IBM Research to continue to sponsor the Ph.D. Forum. Current Ph.D. students and researchers who have completed their Ph.D. dissertations since May 2012 are encouraged to submit extended abstracts. Submissions that are substantially similar to presentations a previous Ph.D. Forum are not allowed. The Ph.D. student should be the sole author, although contributions of the advisor and others should be acknowledged. Submissions will be reviewed by the Ph.D. Forum Committee to ensure quality and relevance. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to travel to PerCom 2013 to be held in San Diego during March 18-22, 2013 to participate in the Ph.D. Forum Workshop and to present a poster at the PerCom'13 conference. Standard PerCom 2013 registration fees apply. Participants who are current full-time students are eligible for the student registration fee. The Ph.D. Forum Committee will evaluate all of the submitted extended abstracts. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings and will be indexed by DBLP and the IEEE digital library. A second evaluation phase will occur at the conference based on the poster and the participants' discussions during the poster session. Special recognition will be given to the most innovative and/or most promising research project(s) presented at the Ph.D. Forum. As in previous years, we expect to receive sponsorship for this event from a leading organization. The Ph.D. forum is likely to be sponsored by a reputed Industry. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Ph.D. students are invited to submit two-page extended abstracts that describe current research and potential contributions to theory and innovation in pervasive computing and communications. The extended abstract needs to be registered by November 30, 2012 and the two-page submission must be received by no later than December 15, 2012. Extended abstracts should include the author's name, affiliation, and email address. Submissions must be PDF files and be written in English. Submissions should be no more than two pages in length (all inclusive) and adhere to the IEEE two-column conference format (the same format as shown for paper submission to PerCom'13). All manuscripts must be registered and submitted electronically through EDAS (https://edas.info/N13413) IMPORTANT DATES: Registration of extended abstracts: November 30, 2012 Extended abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2013 Camera-ready paper due: January 25, 2013 Ph.D. FORUM CHAIR: Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA International Technical Program Committee: TBD

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CFP: The Sixth International Symposium on Mining and Web
by Hayato YAMANA 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

日本データベース学会の皆様：今年も以下のようにAINA2013併設として、６回目となる International Symposium on Mining and Webを開催いたします。特に学生さんを含め、国際会議発表経験のない方にとってもよい発表の場（議論がきちんとできます）だと思っております。投稿締切は、11/4となっておりますので、ぜひご投稿いただければ幸いです。山名＠早稲田 ======== MAW13 Call for Papers ======== The Sixth International Symposium on Mining and Web (MAW13: http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~kinli/MAW13) Barcelona, Spain --- March 25-28, 2013 In conjunction with the 27th IEEE AINA Conference (http://www.aina-conference.org/2013) ================================================================= As the Web has become a major source of information, techniques and methodologies to extract quality information is of paramount importance for many Web applications and users. Data mining and knowledge discovery play key roles in many of today's prominent Web applications such as e-commerce and computer security. This symposium aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to discuss, exchange ideas, and present their research on mining the Web. Topics of interest that MAW13 covers include general mining techniques and methodologies, as well as their application to the Web (but are not limited to): * Text, Data, and Media Mining * Natural Language Processing * Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery * Social Networks and On-Line Communities * Information Categorisation, Clustering, and Fusion * Web Search, Ranking and Optimisation * Collaborative Filtering, Personalisation and Recommender Systems * Semantic Web and Ontology * Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust * e-Technology, e-Government, and e-Learning * Wikis and Blogs Mining * Web and Business Intelligence * Web Evolution and Analytics Submission Deadline (Extended): November 4, 2012 (23:59 PST) Author Notification: November 25, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: December 28, 2012 Author Registration Deadline: January 11, 2013 Original full papers of at most 6 (six) pages including figures and references in PDF (Proceedings Style: two columns, single-spaced, 10 font) are solicited. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CSP) and archived in the Digital Library. Extended version of selected papers will be considered for publication in international journals. ==

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Call For DASFAA 2013 Workshop Proposals
by Satoshi Oyama 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

日本データベース学会の皆様北海道大学の小山です。 DASFAA 2013のWorkshop Proposalsの募集案内をお送りさせて頂きます。また、本会議の方もアブストラクトの締切が10月21日、論文投稿締切が 10月28日と近づいて来ておりますので、こちらも併せてよろしくお願い申し上げます。 http://totemdb.whu.edu.cn/dasfaa2013/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Workshop DASFAA 2013 Proposals DASFAA 2013 invites proposals for workshops to be held together with DASFAA 2013. Proposals should include the following information: * Workshop title and acronym * Brief description about the workshop, including a list of topics * Name and contact information of the organizer(s) * Proposed duration of the workshop (half or full day) * Potential PC members for the workshop * Important dates of the workshop * Expected number of attendees * Brief introduction of the organizer(s) and their credentials All papers accepted by DASFAA 2013 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer. All workshops will benefit from the registration process of DASFAA 2013 (we will have a single registration for conferences, workshops and tutorials). The workshop organizer(s) will be responsible for advertising the workshop, reviewing and selecting the papers. Proposals and enquiries should be sent to dasfaa2013workshops(a)gmail.com <mailto:dasfaa2012workshops@gmail.com?subject=DASFAA%202012%20Workshop%20Pro posal> with the subject: DASFAA 2013 Workshop Proposal. About DASFAA DASFAA is an annual international database conference, located in the Asia-Pacific region, which showcases state-of-the-art R & D activities in database systems and their applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry. DASFAA 2013 is the 18th in the series will be held in Wuhan, China, in Apirl 2013.

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cfp:Special Issue on : "Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" @ IJCNC-ERA Indxed
by Steve Price 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Call for papers Special Issue on : "Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) http://airccse.org/journal/ijcnc.html Guest Editors : Annamalai A, Prairie View A & M University, USA Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan Theme and Scope Ad hoc and Sensor Networks received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life.The purpose of this special issue is to publish high-quality papers on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks in theoretical and practical aspects. This special issue aims to promote state-of-the-art research in the area of Ad Hoc computing, Sensor Networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Authors are solicited to contribute to this special Issue by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to Ad Hoc Computing Sensor Networks * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Addressing and location management * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms * Data management issues * Distributed technology * Mobile ad hoc learning * Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks * Mobile agents for ad hoc networking * Network design and planning * Novel Architectures for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks * Performance Analysis and Simulation of Protocols * Power-aware and energy-efficient designs * Quality of service * Resource allocation * Security and privacy * Self-configuring and self-healing schemes * Services and applications * Wireless & Mobile network Security * Wireless sensor network * Architectures, protocols and algorithms * Compressive sensing * Cooperative spectrum sensing and wireless communications * Cross-layer design for scalable multimedia transmission * Data allocation and information * Deployments and implementations * Embedded, network-oriented operating systems * Energy optimization * Hardware aspects of sensor design * Location management and placement * MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks * Middleware and software tools * Modeling and Performance evaluation * Radio Issues with other wireless/mobile systems * Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance * Scalability of wireless sensor networks * Security and dependability issues * Sensor circuits and devices * Software, applications and programming * Under water sensors and systems * Visualization of sensor data * Work models Notes for Prospective Authors Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Issue. Manuscripts should be written in English and strictly follow the guideline of the journal IJCNC. The manuscripts should be submitted to one of the guest editors by November 06, 2012, through email adhocsens(a)airccj.org Important Dates Submission deadline :November 06, 2012 Authors Notification : December 11, 2012 Final manuscript due : December 17, 2012 For more details please visit : http://airccse.org/journal/ijcnc.html

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cfp:Special Issue on : "Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" @ IJCNC-ERA Indxed
by Steve Price 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Call for papers Special Issue on : "Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) http://airccse.org/journal/ijcnc.html Guest Editors : Annamalai A, Prairie View A & M University, USA Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan Theme and Scope Ad hoc and Sensor Networks received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life.The purpose of this special issue is to publish high-quality papers on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks in theoretical and practical aspects. This special issue aims to promote state-of-the-art research in the area of Ad Hoc computing, Sensor Networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Authors are solicited to contribute to this special Issue by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to Ad Hoc Computing Sensor Networks * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Addressing and location management * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms * Data management issues * Distributed technology * Mobile ad hoc learning * Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks * Mobile agents for ad hoc networking * Network design and planning * Novel Architectures for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks * Performance Analysis and Simulation of Protocols * Power-aware and energy-efficient designs * Quality of service * Resource allocation * Security and privacy * Self-configuring and self-healing schemes * Services and applications * Wireless & Mobile network Security * Wireless sensor network * Architectures, protocols and algorithms * Compressive sensing * Cooperative spectrum sensing and wireless communications * Cross-layer design for scalable multimedia transmission * Data allocation and information * Deployments and implementations * Embedded, network-oriented operating systems * Energy optimization * Hardware aspects of sensor design * Location management and placement * MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks * Middleware and software tools * Modeling and Performance evaluation * Radio Issues with other wireless/mobile systems * Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance * Scalability of wireless sensor networks * Security and dependability issues * Sensor circuits and devices * Software, applications and programming * Under water sensors and systems * Visualization of sensor data * Work models Notes for Prospective Authors Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Issue. Manuscripts should be written in English and strictly follow the guideline of the journal IJCNC. The manuscripts should be submitted to one of the guest editors by November 06, 2012, through email adhocsens(a)airccj.org Important Dates Submission deadline :November 06, 2012 Authors Notification : December 11, 2012 Final manuscript due : December 17, 2012 For more details please visit : http://airccse.org/journal/ijcnc.html

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○第14回先端的データベースと Web 技術動向講演会のお知らせ○
by Kyoji Kawagoe 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

日本本データベース学会の皆様へ立命館大学の川越です恒例のACM SIGMODJ支部大会（講演会）の案内です。皆様の積極的なご参加を期待しています。 --------------------------------------------- 第14回先端的データベースと Web 技術動向講演会 (ACM SIGMOD 日本支部第51回支部大会) 2012-9-8 支部長川越恭二 10月13日（土）に第51回支部大会を同志社大学東京オフィス(大手町)にて開催いたします．ACM SIGMOD2012の国際会議参加報告に加えて，DBaaS (DB as a Service)やデータベースに関わるクラウドサービス関連技術の特集といたしました。・Publickeyブロガー／ジャーナリストの新野淳一氏からクラウドでのDBサービス (DBaaS)の動向についてご紹介いただきます。新野氏はIT分野のジャーナリストとして、精力的に執筆、講演等の活動されており、Publickeyというブログを運営されブログメディアのビジネスを自ら展開されています。クラウドにおけるDBサービスに関わる動向や将来像についてジャーナリストの視点から語っていただきます・クラウドサービスを運営する際に重要なコストや省電力化について、クラウドのストレージ管理に関する技術を中心に、この分野で活発に研究されている東京工業大学の横田治夫先生にご講演をいただきます。このように、今回の講演会では、SIGMOD2012国際会議に参加しないとわからないようなDB最新動向と同時に、最新のデータベースクラウドの動向を聞くことができる非常に充実したプログラムです。是非多数のご参加をお待ちしております．申し込み締め切りは 10/6 までとなっておりますが，会場の広さの都合上，参加者が 70名に達した時点で申込みを締め切らせて頂きます．以下のページから参加登録可能です． http://www.sigmodj.org/regist/conference_informations/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 第14回先端的データベースとWeb技術動向講演会（ACM SIGMOD 日本支部第51回支部大会）講演内容： SIGMOD2012国際会議報告とDBクラウドの最新動向日時：2012年10月13日(土曜) 9:55〜16:10 会場: 同志社大学東京オフィス大セミナールーム (東京都千代田区大手町2丁目6番2号日本ビルヂング5階566区) 地図：http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/information/facility/tokyo_o/image/map_tokyo.jpg 主催: ACM SIGMOD日本支部(支部長：川越恭二 (立命館大学)) (http://www.sigmodj.org/) 日本データベース学会（現会長：西尾章治郎 (大阪大学)) (http://www.dbsj.org/) プログラム 9:30 受付開始 9:55-10:00 開会挨拶 10:00-11:30「SIGMOD2012国際会議報告 (1)」藤原靖宏 (ＮＴＴソフトウェアイノベーションセンタ) 11:30-11:45 休憩 11:45-12:45「SIGMOD2012国際会議報告(2)」藤原靖宏 (ＮＴＴソフトウェアイノベーションセンタ) 12:45-14:15 昼休み 14:15-15:15 クラウドにおけるデータベースサービスの動向 Publickeyブロガー／ジャーナリスト新野淳一氏概要：クラウドで提供されるデータベースサービスは、利用者にとって性能やスケーラビリティが保証され、安全性も保証されて運用の手間がかからない非常に魅力的なサービスである。この分野の動向と技術的背景、将来像などを概観する。 15:15-15:30 休憩 15:30-16:10クラウドサービスのコストと省電力東京工業大学教授横田治夫氏概要：クラウドサービスの利用料は、クラウドセンタの初期費用とランニングコストに依存する。信頼性や品質保証、セキュリティといったディペンダビリティを保ちながらランニングコストを下げるためには使用電力削減は重要な課題である。クラウドのストレージ管理を中心に、関連する動向やヒントとなる技術にについて紹介する。 16:10 閉会 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 参加申込:Webにてお申し込み下さい。 http://www.sigmodj.org/regist/users から登録のリンクをたどってお申し込みください。参加登録には確認のメールをお返しします。確認メールが来ない場合には、 helpdesk(a)sigmodj.org までお問合せください。 * 参加申込み締め切り：10月5日会場の収容人数に限りがございますので、収容人数を越えましたらそこで申込みは締め切らせて頂きますので、ご了承下さい。 * 参加費: 5,000円　日本データベース学会　正会員（フルアクセス権無） 3,000円　日本データベース学会　正会員（フルアクセス権有） 1,000円　日本データベース学会　学生会員・当日受付にてお支払い下さい．支部長名の領収書を発行致します。その時に講演資料集をお渡しいたします。・日本データベース学会のフルアクセス権については、 http://www.dbsj.org/Japanese/entry/kaihi-kitei-20020521.pdf をご参照下さい。・日本データベース学会維持会員は3名まで無料枠があります。・日本データベース学会とACM SIGMOD日本支部の一体運営により， ACM SIGMOD日本支部会員の皆様は同時に日本データベース学会会員となっています．以上 ------------------------------------- 川越恭二　立命館大学情報理工学部教授 kawagoe(a)is.ritsumei.ac.jp

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Deadline extension: October 19 || ICDS 2013 || February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France
by Cristina Pascual 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICDS 2013. The submission deadline is October 19, 2012. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICDS 2013 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICDS 2013, The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ICDS13.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPICDS13.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitICDS13.html Submission deadline: October 19, 2012 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.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 ICDS 2013 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Citizen-centric disruptive and enabling technologies Wireless and user mobility; Ubiquitous systems; On-line interactions; User-centric services, applications, eLearning; High speed electronics, storage, networking eHealth and nano medicine; Biological informatics and computing Internet and Web services IP-based networking and applications; Best effort and QoS/SLA; WWW, Web Services, Semantic Web; eLearning and mobile learning; Service-oriented platforms; Peer-to-Peer Systems and applications; Web-advertising and Web-publishing Multimedia and Webcasting eGovernment services in the context of digital society e-Government strategies; Citizen-Government eModels; Special applications and services of eGovernment; ePayment, eTax administration; eVoting, eCitizen identity cards; Social e-financial projects; Educating eHealth; Homeland security and public records; eGarbage collection of private records; Metrics for eGovernment projects and services; Benefits of eGovernment; On-line social networking; Financing e-Government e-Governance; From e-Government to m-Government (mobile-Government); e-Environment eCommerce and eBusiness On-line shopping frameworks; Trust, privacy, security; Internet macro and micro payment systems; On-line banking; Agent-based e-commerce; eBusiness models and costs; eBusiness applications; Infrastructure for e-Commerce; Mobile commerce Citizen-oriented digital evidence Processing citizen-oriented electronic evidence (acquisition, preservation, analysis); Multimedia documents ( X-rays, radiology, biometrics, and surveillance data); Medical digital forensics; Classic and 3D medical documents; DNA profiling; Genetic and biocomputing; Forensic and data mining; Predictive data modeling; Biological data and privacy; Digital forensics tools Consumer-oriented devices and services Mobile TV and IPTV; Consumer-oriented e-commerce; Smart and digital homes; Wearable devices; Smart consumer appliances; Speech enable appliances; Consumer accessibility appliances and services Intelligent computation Theories of agency and autonomy; Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems; Evolutionary computation; Autonomic and autonomous systems; Autonomic computing and autonomic networking; Ubiquitous and ambient computing; Computational economics; Protecting and preventing computing; High performance computing; Service-oriented computing; Multi-agent based computing; Cluster computing and performance; Artificial intelligence Networking and telecommunications Networking and telecommunications technologies; Wireless, mobility and multimedia systems; Internet and Web Services technologies; Systems performance, security, and high availability; Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor); Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand); Advanced paradigms (SOA/WS/on-demand) eDefense for security and protection Knowledge for global defense; Security in network, systems, and applications; Trust, privacy, and safeness; Business continuity and availability; Cryptography and algorithms encryption; Rapid Internet attacks and network; Applications and network vulnerabilities Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems Reducing false positives and improving true positives; Automating IPDS responses; Innovative signature writing and processing; Improving IPDS usability; Successful approaches to Anomaly IPDS (Statistical; Fuzzy logic; Bayesian; Neural networks, etc.); Inventive behavioural based IPDS methods; Inventive host based IPDS methods; Improving the performance of IPDS; Multiple sensor IPDS; Tuning IPDS; The business cases supporting IPDS; Network traffic normalization techniques; Cost/Benefit of IPDS; Combining IPDS with other hardware e.g. firewalls, routers etc.; Inventive methods of using IPDS to counter specific attack types (Web attacks; Buffer overflow attacks; Brute force attacks, etc.); Comparisons of different IPDS mechanisms; Combining multiple IPDS approaches Enforced citizen-centric paradigms Data-centered information systems; User-centric information systems; Pervasive and ubiquitous systems; Mobile learning and communications; Open and distance education systems Computational advertising Computational linguistics; Linguistic signal processing; Statistical properties of community structures; Semantic contextual advertising; Relevance and click feedback; Searching dense and isolated submarkets; Latent factor models; Semantic relatedness; Personalized ad delivery; Processing over query-dependent functions; Inverse document frequency; Query-biased summarization; Pseudo-relevance feedback; Classification of rare queries; Page ranking Management and control Digital telecommunications management; Control and monitoring systems; Measurement and management systems; Human/Machine interface and man-in-the-loop control; Energy and power systems control; Self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, self-management systems Digital analysis and processing Digital information processing (Voice/Data/Video); Computer graphics and animation; Virtual reality/3D graphics/Games; Computer modeling/simulation; Graphic/Image/Photo/Hand-writing analysis and processing; Pattern recognition / Computer vision; Natural language processing / robust processing; Speech recognition and processing Mobile devices and biotechnologies Robotics/Mobile devices/ Mobile networks; Handled and wearable computing and devices; Vehicular navigation and control; Nanotechnologies/Systems-on-the-chip/Networks-on-the-chip/ Haptic phenomena; Biotechnologies/Bioinformatics/Biometrics/Biomedical systems; Computational biochemistry; Biological data management Software and system robustness for digital society Portals and user-oriented systems; Software as a service; Software specification and design methodologies; Software development and deployment; Programming languages and supporting tools; Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming; Neuronal networks/Fuzzy logic/Temporal logic/ Genetic Algorithms; Reasoning models/Model checking/Modular reasoning/; Program verification/validation/correctness ; Embedded and real-time systems; Consumer-oriented digital design Online consumer decision support & advertising; Semiotic engineering of online services; Human factors in computer systems; Personal information management; Consumer trust in digital society; Interaction in smart environments; Mobile consumers and interactive spaces; Hedonic and perceived digital quality; Usability, aesthetics, and accessibility; Multimodal and interactive interfaces; Intelligent user interfaces Social networking Social networking technologies (Web 2.0, faceBook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.); Enterprise social networking; General informative webcast; Government information webcast; State-of-the-art for chat, blogs, wikis, etc.; Text-audio-video blogs; Virtual tradeshows; Social profiling; Contextual social network analysis; Personalization for search and for social interaction; Dynamics, evolution, and trend prediction patterns; Social interactions; Medical assistance in social networking; Data protection inside communities; Misbehavior detection in communities; Pattern presentation for end-users and experts; Evolution of communities in the Web; Online and offline social networks; Information acquisition and establishment of social relations ICT support and applications for eCollaboration Touch screen voting; Local e-Participation; Portals and eGovernment websites; eGovernment platforms and benchmarks; Business process management; Interoperable frameworks (national and cross-countries); Private-public eCollaboration; Regional and cross-nation competitiveness ------------------------- Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComICDS13.html ================================================

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Deadline extension: October 19 || GEOProcessing 2013 || February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France
by Cristina Pascual 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to GEOProcessing 2013. The submission deadline is October 19, 2012. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== GEOProcessing 2013 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS GEOProcessing 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/GEOProcessing13.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPGEOProcessing13.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitGEOProcessing13.html Submission deadline: October 19, 2012 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.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 comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html GEOProcessing 2013 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Geo-spatial fundamentals Fundamentals of geo-information; New trends in GIS technologies and research; Techniques for geographical representation; Integrated architectures for geo-spatial information; Geo-spatial data in net-centric environment; Geo-spatial technology; Discovery, indexing and integration of geographical information systems; Geo-processing of distributed data; Geo-information processing; Use of computational geometry for GIS problems; Virtual globes and their application to scientific research; Spatial decision support systems Geo-spatial Web Services Geo-spatial Web Services and applications; Geo-spatial Web Services and simulation and modeling; Geo-spatial Web Services and sensors; Geo-spatial Web Services and interoperability; Geo-spatial Web Services and processing; Geo-spatial Web Servcies and spatial analysis; Geo-spatial Web Services and society; Geo-spatial Web Services and information retrieval; Geo-spatial Web Services and human computer interaction; Geo-spatial Web Services and mobility GIS Wireless and mobile GIS; Integration of remote sensing, GIS and GPS; Statistics and application models of spatial data; GIS for the environment and health; Satellite positioning technology and LBS; Urban GIS and its applications; Theories and algorithms in GIS; Government and public GIS Geo-spatial simulation and visualization 2D and 3D information visualization; Distributed simulations and sensor webs; Simulation modeling dynamic geo processes; Exploratory spatial data analysis; Fine-grained, terrestrial monitoring platforms; Geo-visualization and geo-visual analytics; Visualization of geospatial uncertainty; Representation and visualization of geospatial data Geo-modeling Standards and geo-spatial metadata; Novel geo-spatial data processing and management mechanisms; Spatio-temporal data modeling and reasoning; 3D modeling and GIS; Modeling and analysis of terrains; Modeling uncertainty in geo-spatial information; Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics; Geo-spatial and spatio-temporal data mining; Virtual modeling of large geographic areas; Time-geography modeling Digital cartography data Digital geographical libraries; Exploratory cartography and interfaces; Digital cartography; Automated mapping and map generalization; Cartographic theory and applications; Data models in cartography; Geographical search engines Earth Geo-observation Climate change and the global environment; Data systems for the future Earth observation satellites; Calibration and validation of remotely sensed data; Earth observation sensor networks and applications; Earth observation technology and systems Geo-sensing Acquisition and processing of remotely sensed data; Information extraction from remotely sensed data; Data mining across sensor; Intelligent sensors/sensor fusion; Co-operative sensing and organization; Sensor information management systems; Spatio-temporal sensor data mining; Sensor networks and interaction with actuators; Geo-sensor specialized networks (e.g. disaster management, early warning systems, environmental monitoring) Specific geo-data processing Seismic data processing (stacking, migration, post-processing, interpretation); Tomography (algorithms, methods); Electromagnetic sounding; Near surface methods (archaeology, urban and environmental planning); Combined geophysical methods (gravimetry, magnetics, borehole methods); Seismology and planetology; Geo-natural data on phenomena (hurricane, winds, flooding, etc.); Underground geo-reserves, natural resources, exploration (gas, oil, metals, etc.); Natural geo-evolution and morphology (glaciers, oceanic streams, etc.); Geo-marine life; Geology and earth system simulation and modelling Geo-spatial domain applications Geospatial Technologies for Disaster Management;Geology and hydrogeology geographical data; Standardization of geodata and geoservices; Environment and land surveying; Oceanographic geo-information; Natural resource information systems; Remote sensing geospatial data collection; Geo-spatial data and vehicular technologies; Geology and Hydrology applications; Location-based services; Environmental monitoring; Special applications: 3D cadastre, traffic management, etc. Managing geo-spatial data Managing uncertainty in spatial information; Automatic mapping (possibly web-based ...); Digital elevation/shape modeling; Web-based visualization of statistical data within a geographic framework; Tools and links between GIS and statistical software packages; Business mapping (spatial analysis for business processes as customer segmentation, churn analysis, etc.); Wireless sensor networks for spatial applications; Errors and their measurement in spatial data --------------------------------- Committees: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComGEOProcessing13.html =====================

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CFP (Deadline Oct. 20): VTC2013-Spring - Ad-hoc, Mesh, Machine-to-Machine, and Sensor Networks - Track
by Jaime Lloret Mauri 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO October 20, 2012 Ad-hoc, Mesh, Machine-to-Machine, and Sensor Networks - Track (http://www.vtc2013spring.org/cfp.php) VTC2013-Spring - 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2-5 June 2013 Dresden, Germany http://www.vtc2013spring.org # Important Dates: **************************** - Paper Submission: EXTENDED TO 20 October 2012 - Acceptance Notification: 11 January 2013 - Camera-Ready Paper: 28 February 2013 The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society invites the world�s leading researchers and engineers from academia, industry and government to exchange their ideas at the 77th IEEE VTC2013-Spring conference in Dresden, Germany from 2-5 June 2013. # Ad-hoc, Mesh, Machine-to-Machine, and Sensor Networks - Track ****************************************************************** # Co-Chairs: Jaime Lloret Mauri, Carles Anton, Azzedine Boukerche We invite you to submit your original, unpublished technical papers in the areas of, but not limited to: - Medium access control - Routing and transport protocols - Cross-layer protocol design - Opportunistic and cooperative networking - Performance and quality-of-service - Energy management - Network security - Information - Processing and aggregation - Middleware and programming - Simulation and emulation - Gateways and inter-working - Test-bed deployment and experiences - Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) - Delay-tolerant networks (DTN) - Car-to-Car networks - Car-to-Infrastructure networks - IEEE 802.11p - In-car networks - LTE for Car-2-X communication - Energy efficienct M2M communication - M2M Applications and Services - M2M Integration in existing networks - M2M specific extensions on PHY and MAC - M2M scalable system architecture and components - Circuits, devices and embedded systems for vehicular technology - Optimization of radio access technologies and protocols for M2M communications - Data aggregation techniques and architectures for massive M2M networks - Self-organization, self-configuration and adaptation - Topology construction, reconfigurability and control - Fault Tolerance - Data storage and allocation - Energy-harvesting techniques for M2M devices Prospective authors are invited to submit a 5-page full paper through the conference website using the online-submission system http://vtc2013spring.trackchair.com. Papers must be submitted using the IEEE conference template. # Conference Organization: ************************** * General Chair: Gerhard P. Fettweis, TU Dresden * TPC Chairs: Peter Rost, NEC Labs Europe Sonia Aissa, INRS, Univ. of Qu�bec John Thompson, Univ. of Edinburgh * Panels Co-Chairs: Werner Mohr, Nokia Siemens Networks Ian Oppermann, CSIRO ICT Centre * Tutorials Co-Chairs: Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace Dong In Kim, Sungkyunkwan University * Workshop Co-Chairs: Mischa Dohler, Centre Tecnol�gic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya Andreas Festag, NEC Labs Europe * Demos Chair: Volker Aue, Intel Mobile Communications Visit: http://www.vtc2013spring.org

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Deadline extension: October 19 || eTELEMED 2013 || February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France
by Cristina Pascual 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

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 2013. The submission deadline is October 19, 2012. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== eTELEMED 2013 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS eTELEMED 2013, The Fifth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/eTELEMED13.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPeTELEMED13.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmiteTELEMED13.html Submission deadline: October 19, 2012 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.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 comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html eTELEMED 2013 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/conferences2013/ComeTELEMED13.html ===========================

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