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論文募集：IEEE SRDS 2014 in 奈良（4月7日概要締切）
by Takahiro HARA 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

日本データベース学会会員の皆様、阪大の原です。 10月6〜9日の日程で奈良のいて開催されます国際会議、 33rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (IEEE SRDS 2014) の論文募集のご案内です。 SRDSは、IEEE CSが主催する33回目の由緒ある会議で、分散システムの信頼性に関する幅広い分野（セキュリティ・プライバシ、障害耐性、リアルタイム性、省電力性など）を対象としています。 ※※※※※※※※※ SRDS 2014は、IEEEの主催、日本データベース学会の共催となっております。喜連川優先生、横田治夫先生、宮崎純先生など、データベース分野の先生方が多く、主要オーガナイザとして参画しております。 ※※※※※※※※※ 概要締切4月7日、論文締切4月13日です。皆様のご研究に関連が深い会議の一つですので、ご投稿をご検討頂けましたら幸いです。原　隆浩 =================================================== | 原隆浩 (Takahiro HARA), 工学博士 | | 大阪大学大学院情報科学研究科　　　　　　 | | マルチメディア工学専攻准教授 | | 〒565-0871 大阪府吹田市山田丘1-5 | | E-mail: hara(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp | | URL: http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hara/ | | Tel: 06-6879-4511, Fax: 06-6879-4514 | =================================================== [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 33rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE SRDS 2014 October 6 - 9, 2014. Nara, Japan http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/srds2014 The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development and evaluation, particularly with emphasis on reliability, availability, safety, security, trust and real-time. We welcome original research papers as well as practical experience reports that deal with design, development and experimental results of operational systems. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 7, 2014 (23:00 ETC) Full paper submission: April 13, 2014 (23:00 ETC; NO EXTENSIONS) Authors notification: June 27, 2014 Camera-ready: July 20, 2014 Conference: October 6-9, 2014 SCOPE Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Cloud computing and virtualization: X-as-a-Service * Dependability of distributed databases and transaction processing * Dependability of distributed multimedia systems * Dependable communication networks, QoS control and assessment * Dependable cooperative mobile systems (ad hoc networks, sensor networks, robot networks, ...) * Distributed algorithms * Distributed objects and middleware systems * Experimental or analytical evaluations of dependable distributed systems * Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability in distributed systems * Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing * High-assurance and safety-critical distributed system design and evaluation * Internet-based systems and applications * Parallel and distributed operating systems * Privacy-assuring large scale data management systems * Resilience of distributed infrastructures (intelligent transport, smart grids, vehicular networks, ...) * Secure and trusted distributed systems BEST PAPER AWARD The symposium will highlight the best paper. All papers accepted for presentation at the symposium will be evaluated by the Best Paper Award Co-Chairs for the award. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please see the submission page for information. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. IMPORTANT: There will be no deadline extension! WORKSHOPS Workshops will be held in conjunction with SRDS 2014 on October 6, 2014. Workshop topics will be announced on the symposium website. SPONSORS Technical Sponsors IEEE Computer Society (pending) DBSJ The Database Society of Japan Corporate Sponsors Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. [Platinum sponsor] COMMITTEES Symposium Chair: Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Program Chairs: Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky, USA Antonio Casimiro, Univ. of Lisboa, Portugal Finance Chairs: Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan Susumu Ishihara, Shizuoka University, Japan Local Arrangement Committee: Akimitsu Kanzaki, Osaka University, Japan (Chair) Haruhiko Kaneko, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan Publication Chair: Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Award Committee Chairs: Takashi Nanya, Canon Inc., Japan Michel Raynal, IRISA, France Workshops Chair: Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan PhD Forum Chair: Jun Miyazaki, NAIST, Japan Publicity Chairs: Masumi Shirakawa, Osaka University, Japan Sanjay Madria, Missouri University S&T, USA Advisory Committee Chair: Masaru Kitsuregawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Advisory Committee Members: Tohru Kikuno, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Tsukuba University, Japan Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan Takashi Nanya, Canon Inc., Japan Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan Executive Committee Chair: Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan Steering Committee Liaison: Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy Technical Program Committee: Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, USA Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble 1, France Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Miguel Correia, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples Federico Secondo, Italy Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA Patrick Eugster, Purdue University, USA Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Christof Fetzer, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Arobinda Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India Naohiro Hayashibara, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs Research, USA Chunming Hu, Beihang University, China Yennun Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Cisco, USA Mizuho Iwaihara, Waseda University, Japan Taisuke Izumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Joerg Kaiser, University of Magdeburg, Germany Johan Karlsson, Chalmers University, Sweden Betina Kemme, McGill University, Canada Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan Philip Koopman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ajay Kshemkalyani, University of Illinois Chicago, USA Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Raimundo Macedo, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA Istvan Majzik, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Marta Patino, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland Jose Pereira, University of Minho, Portugal Ravi Prakash, University of Texas Dallas, USA Francesco Quaglia, Universite di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Italy Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland Hans-Peter Schwefel, FTW, Austria Francois Taiani, University of Rennes 1 / IRISA, France Sebastien Tixeuil, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan S. Felix Wu, University of California Davis, USA Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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BoFセッションの公募
by Yasuhiro Fujiwara 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

日本データベース学会の皆様 DEIM2014 にてイベント担当をさせて頂いているＮＴＴ研究所の藤原です．いつもお世話になっております．日本データベース学会様のメーリングリストをお借りして，DEIM 2014 の BoF セッションの公募の案内をさせて頂きます．来る3月3日〜5日まで開催される第6回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIM2014）が開催されますが，その 2日目の夜に BoF セッションを数件，大学・企業・研究機関を問わず広く公募いたします． BoF (Birds of Feather) セッションとは関心のあるテーマ毎に集まって議論するミーティングのことで，各個人の組織を超えて人脈の形成や聞きたいことが聞けることなどが特徴となります． BoF セッションにご応募頂ければ，その機会を利用して例えば　・博士進学と就職のどちらがメリット大きい？　・大学の研究と企業の研究所の違いは？　・留学のイロハはどんなもの？など，この場でしか聞けないことを知るチャンスが広がります．非常によい機会ですので皆様奮ってご応募下さい． -------- 応募フォームここから ------------ 〆切: 1月31日(金) 宛先: fujiwara.yasuhiro(a)lab.ntt.co.jp 件名：BoFセッション申込(DEIM2014) ・代表者氏名: ・代表者連絡先(メールアドレス): ・BoFの予定コアメンバー氏名(3,4名): ・BoFのテーマ(3-4行): -------- 応募フォームここまで ------------ また応募までは行かないまでも個別に詳しく話が聞きたいなどがあれば，私宛に個別にご相談ください．すでに何名の方からは個別にご相談を頂いております．よろしくお願いします． -- Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Ph.D. NTT Software Innovation Center Mail: fujiwara.yasuhiro(a)lab.ntt.co.jp Tel: +81 422 59 2824

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ADHOC-NOW 2014 (Abstract Subm.: Jan.31, 2014): Benidorm, Spain
by Sandra Sendra 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************** News: Abstract Submission: January 31th, 2014 ************************************************************** ADHOC-NOW 2014 : Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks June 22 - 27, 2014, Benidorm, Spain Link: www.adhocnow.net/ Link for Submissions Guidelines and Electronic Submissions: http://www.adhocnow.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Ite… ===================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstract Submission: January 31, 2014 - Submission Deadline: Februay 7, 2014 - Author Notification: March 7, 2014 - Camera ready: March 28, 2014 ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Since its creation in 2002, the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW) has become a well-established and well known event dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. It serves as a forum for interesting discussions on ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer. The thirteenth edition of ADHOC-NOW will for the first time be organized in Benidorm, Spain, from the 22nd to the 27th of June, 2014. We seek original contributions as work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Submissions must not be published or under review for another conference or journal. We are interested, but not limited to, research papers in any of the following areas: -Access Control -Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems -Algorithmic Issues -Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation -Ad Hoc Network Applications and Architectures -Delay-Tolerant Networking -Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks -Energy Efficiency -Geometric Graphs -Location Discovery and Management -Mobility Handling and Utilization -Wireless Mesh Networks -Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms -Systems and Testbeds -Mobile Social Networking -Quality-of-Service -Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) -Secure Services and Protocols -Sensor Networks -Self-Configuration -Service Discovery -Timing Synchronization -Vehicular Networks -Wireless Internet. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors are invited to submit either regular papers or short papers. Regular papers should not exceed 14 pages in LNCS format. Short papers must be limited to up to 4 pages in LNCS format. The paper should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance. Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference. High-quality articles will be invited for submission to a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks and the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. ===================================================================== GENERAL CHAIRS -Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain -Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE -Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada -Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada -Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada -Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada -S. S. Ravi, SUNY University, Albany, USA -Violet Sirotiuk, Arizona State University, Temple, USA -Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS -Song Guo, University of Aizu, Japan -Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS -Paul Yongli, Deakin University, Australia -Gongjun Yan, Indiana University, USA -Sandra Sendra, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain PROCEEDINGS CHAIR -Stefan Ruehrup, FTW - Viena, Austria SUBMISSIONS CHAIRS -Miguel Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain -Zhen Huang, University of Ottawa, Canada WEB CHAIR -Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia =====================================================================

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研究員公募：NICTユニバーサルコミュニケーション研究所（けいはんな）
by Koji Zettsu 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

日本データベース学会の皆様情報通信研究機構の是津です。下記の通り、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（けいはんな）におきまして、研究員を公募しております。本MLをお借りいたしましてご案内させていただきます。ご関心をお持ちの方は是非とも応募をご検討ください。また，身近で関心をお持ちいただけそうな方にもご案内頂けますと幸いです。よろしくお願い申し上げます。 ---------------------------- 記 --------------------------------------- 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構　有期雇用職員公募（平成26年度）（日）http://www.nict.go.jp/employment/copy_of_20120801.html （英）http://www.nict.go.jp/en/general_affairs/employment/index-e-top2013-9. html 募集職種：有期研究員・博士号取得者または同等と認められる者により実施する研究業務に従事する方（着任時までに博士号取得見込の方の応募可）公募No.： (2014R-48) ソーシャルビッグデータの情報可視化技術に関する研究開発《要旨》センサーデータからSNSに至るまで、実世界を反映した多種多様なデータに基づき分野横断的な相関性を視覚的に分析することを目的に、複合的かつスケーラブルな情報可視化技術、およびインタラクティブな情報検索技術や情報抽出技術の研究開発を行う。 (2014R-50) 異種・異分野情報資産の横断的利活用基盤技術の研究開発《要旨》センサーデータ、科学データからSNS、Webアーカイブに至るまで、実世界を反映した多種多様なオープンデータの中から、データの種類や分野、テキスト・非テキストデータの壁を越えた相関関係を発見し、横断検索や情報推薦、可視化等によって情報資産の横断的な利活用を促進する基盤技術の研究開発を行う。【募集人員】 (2014R-48) １名 (2014R-50) １名【専門分野・応募要件】 (2014R-48) データ工学、情報可視化、データマイニング、情報検索もしくは機械学習分野の研究開発の経験(博士課程後期課程を含む３年以上) (2014R-50) データ工学、情報検索、もしくはデータベース分野における研究開発の経験(博士課程後期課程を含む３年以上) 勤務地（予定）：NICTユニバーサルコミュニケーション研究所（けいはんな）雇用期間：平成26年4月1日　〜　平成27年3月31日（※最大平成28年3月31日まで更新の可能性有）処遇：・週37時間30分勤務の有期研究員はフレックスタイム制・当機構規程により有給休暇制度有選考方法：書類選考及び面接提出書類（書式Ａ４縦・自由形式　＊履歴書は当機構指定様式を使用すること）：・当機構指定履歴書・業績リスト（誌上発表、口頭発表、知的財産権、その他）・研究課題に対する研究提案書・推薦状１通以上（あて先は情報通信研究機構理事長宛とする。また推薦者は情報通信研究機構関係者以外とする。）応募締切り：平成26年2月4日(火)必着(厳守のこと) 応募書類送付先・問合せ先：〒184-8795　東京都小金井市貫井北町４−２−１情報通信研究機構　総務部人事室人事グループ　採用担当　宛 TEL　042-327-7304　e-mail　 jinjig(a)ml.nict.go.jp 備考：応募書類は、封筒表面に公募NO.および採用日(平成26年○月分）を朱書きで明記のうえ、応募宛先まで郵送でお送りください。なお、応募課題とは関係のない研究提案書による応募、およびメール送付による応募はご遠慮ください。（必ずいずれかの募集課題に郵送にて応募いただく形となります） --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Kind Reminder:: CFP:: DINWC2014:: Czech Republic
by The International Conference on Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communications (DINWC2014) 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Please accept our apology for multiple posting. THANK YOU Deadline Submission:: May 04, 2014 ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communications DINWC2014 June 24-26, 2014 VSB-Technical University of Ostrava Ostrava, Czech Republic http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library - All registered papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference. - The published proceedings will be indexed in ResearchBib, in addition, they will be reviewed for possible inclusion within the INSPEC, EI, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Research, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar Databases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: ================ Submission Deadline : May 04, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: June 04, 2014 Camera Ready : June 14, 2014 Registration : June 14, 2014 Conference Dates : June 24-26, 2014

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CFP: Workshop on Cross-media Analysis for Social Multimedia (CASM2014) with ICME2014
by Akisato Kimura 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

日本データベース学会の皆様， NTT　CS研　木村です．下記の通り，ICME2014併設のワークショップを企画致しております．投稿をご検討いただければ幸いです．よろしくお願い致します． -- Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Cross-media Analysis from Social Multimedia (CASM), in conjunction with ICME2014, July 14, 2014, Chengdu, China. http://sites.google.com/site/casm2014ws/ http://twitter.com/casm2014/ Submission deadline: March 23, 2014 Author notification: April 9, 2014 Camera-ready submission deadline: April 16 We are entering the age of ubiquitous social multimedia. User-generated multimedia contents such as blogs, short messages, photos and location check-ins become so pervasive that it is now feasible to exploit them as sensors for real-world and web-world objects, events and memes. As such, new algorithms for analyzing unorganized user-generated contents have become one of the most active research areas in several research communities. Also, a recent phenomenon called content curation, such as Storify and Pinterest is now becoming an emerging trend in social media, which helps us to discover, analyze and retrieve underlying contexts of user-generated multimedia contents. However, the ability to deeply analyze and understand those unorganized contents on a single platform still remains inadequate, even with state-of-the-art multimedia processing and machine learning techniques. >From the above background, this workshop focuses on one of emerging but challenging researches topics, cross-media analysis of user-generated and unorganized social multimedia contents on multiple platforms. Those social media contents include rich privileged information such as geo locations, descriptions, user profiles, network and content diffusion that enable us to view and investigate one specific object, event or meme from various aspects. This workshop also serves for recent advances in harvesting and mining multimedia contents along with various types of privileged information. This workshop is devoted to the publications of high quality papers on innovative technical developments and practical applications related to cross-media analysis from social media, such as: - Real-world event detection, localization, tracking and understanding from social multimedia - Trend detection, diffusion modeling and anomaly detection of social multimedia - Context representation, modeling and understanding of multimedia contents with multiple privileged information from social media - Sentiment analysis, preference analysis, and user profiling from social multimedia - Content analysis, indexing, retrieval and harvesting of social multimedia - Multimedia content browsing, visualization and mining over multiple social media platforms - Mobile cross-media analysis, summarization, visualization and browsing - Transfer learning, semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation across multiple social media resources Authors are invited to submit a paper (two columns, 6 pages maximum) according to the guidelines available on the ICME2014 website. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. This workshop uses double-blind review process for all the regular submissions. Any papers violating double-blind regulations will be immediately rejected without reviews. Simultaneous submission to other conferences in the area of multimedia and related areas is not permitted. Simultaneous submission to journal publications of significantly extended versions of the paper is permitted, as long as the publication date of the journal is after the workshop date. Workshop organizers: Akisato Kimura, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Contact organizers at casm2014-org at googlegroups com -- ----- Akisato Kimura, Ph.D Recognition Research Group Media Information Laboratory NTT Communication Science Laboratories E-mail: akisato(a)ieee.org URL: http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/akisato/ The effort may not be rewarded. But nothing great was ever achieved without effort.

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参加者募集: NTCiR-11 Temporal Information Access (Temporalia) task
by Adam Jatowt 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

日本データベース学会の皆様京都大学のアダムヤトフトです。NTCIR-11 Temporaliaタスクのご案内です。ご興味の方は参加をご検討下さい。 ========================= CALL FOR TASK PARTICIPATION NTCIR-11 Temporal Information Access (Temporalia) Task https://sites.google.com/site/ntcirtemporalia/home http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/Temporalia/NTCIR-11-Temporalia/ (Mirror) Registration: http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/NTCIR11Regist/ Jan 20, 2014: registration due Mar 30, 2014: testing data for formal run released Jun 30, 2014: formal run submissions due Aug 1, 2014: evaluation results released Sep 1, 2014: participant draft papers due Nov 1, 2014: camera ready papers due Dec 9-12, 2014: NTCIR-11 conference @ NII, Tokyo, Japan ========================= === OVERVIEW === The objective of Temporalia is to foster research in temporal information access. Given the fact that time plays crucial role in estimating information relevance and validity we believe that successful search engines must consider temporal aspects of information in greater detail. We propose a challenge that establishes common grounds for designing and analyzing temporally-aware information access systems. We plan to focus on Information Retrieval first at NTCIR-11 with potential extension to other applications at NTCIR-12 (hence the task name). Temporal Information Retrieval has been gaining a lot of interest in IR and related research communities. It can be defined as a subset of document retrieval in which time plays crucial role in estimating document relevance. The objective of this task is to systematize various requirements in Temporal IR and offer a standardized challenge based on which competing systems can be compared and analyzed. Although many of temporal information needs seek for recent (fresh) information, a good proportion of them also search for information about past incidents as well as future incidents. Although there are several evaluation tasks that involve search and filtering over time (e.g., TDT, NTCIR GeoTime, TREC Temporal Summarization), there is no test collection to measure the performance of search applications across temporal information needs categories such as Past, Recent, and Future in a systematic way. === TASKS === Temporalia at NTCIR-11 will offer two subtasks to address temporal information access technologies as follows. Interested researchers and research groups can participate in either or both of the subtasks. - Temporal Query Intent Classification (TQIC) subtask TQIC subtask asks participants to classify a given query string to one of temporal classes: Past, Recency, Future, or Atemporal. Participants will receive a set of query strings and query submitting date, and develop a system to classify each of the query strings to one of temporal classes. Participants were allowed to use any external resources to complete the TQIC subtask as long as the detail of external resource usage is described in their report. This subtask does not require to index our document collection. You can see the example queries for each class here: https://sites.google.com/site/ntcirtemporalia/task-description - Temporal Information Retrieval (TIR) subtask TIR subtask asks participants to retrieve a set of documents from a provided document collection in response to a search topic that incorporates time factor. In addition to a typical search topic description (i.e., title, description, and sub topics), TIR search topic description will contain a query submitting date information to indicate the relationship between the query and searcher. This subtask requires to index the document collection. You can see the example search topics here: https://sites.google.com/site/ntcirtemporalia/task-description Training data for dry runs for both the tasks is expected to be released by Jan 30, 2014. Please note: Task participants must submit a paper for the NTCIR-11 meeting (unrefereed) and at least one member of participated groups must attend the meeting at NII, Tokyo in December 2014. Please visit Temporalia website for more information about the task: https://sites.google.com/site/ntcirtemporalia/home http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/Temporalia/NTCIR-11-Temporalia/ (Mirror) === ORGANIZERS === Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan) Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) === CONTACT === tc4fia at googlegroups dot com

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Last Mile, January 27 || CONTENT 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy
by Cristina Pascual 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to CONTENT 2014. The submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== CONTENT 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS CONTENT 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CONTENT14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCONTENT14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCONTENT14.html Submission deadline: January 27, 2014 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 CONTENT 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) BASICS: Content producers/distributors Product-innovation and creative content platforms; Creative processes; Product and content innovation; Knowledge representation for content creativity; Content injection, cashing, storage, and distribution; Producing and transmitting streaming content; Content localization services; Content and customers profiles; Documenting and content authoring; Authorizing topic-based content; Content customization and metadata; On-demand content; Content retrieval from archives (alarm-based, time stamp-based); Content management solutions and systems; Unstructured content environment; Multi-channel content delivery/publishing strategies; Content reuse WEBCONTENT: Web content Architectures and frameworks for Web content ; Web content mining; Content retrieval on multimedia Web; XML and non-XML Web content; Ontology and semantic for processing Web content; Recommenders for Web content; Content-driven workflow design and management; Web content performance, accuracy, security, and reliability; Web content modeling; Web content-based applications SOCIAL: Tools for producing and handling social content On-line content; Games technologies; Multi-user and mono-user games; For-kids contents and programs; Social content and tools (YouTube, FaceBook, etc.); Open portals (e-Democracy, e-Health, etc.); Email lists challenges (membership, spamming, etc.); Virtual social communities; Hybrid real and virtual reality technologies GRAPHICS: 3D Graphics Interactive 3D graphics; High-performance 3D graphics; Mixed and augmented reality; Interactive on-line gaming; Animated humanoids and complex reactive characters; 3D documents and web/multimedia; User-interface for real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments; Innovative 3D web applications /industry, science, medicine, technology, culture/; 3D content creation technologies and tools; Interactive 3D graphics for mobile devices ANIMA: Animation/cinematography Computer animation; Computational cinematography; Virtual videography; Autonomous interactive characters; Traditional animation and 3D computer animation; Re-cinematography; Casual video; Cinematography; Image stabilization; Virtual Cinematography; Relighting through computation MEDIMA: Medical image producing, transmission and management Medical image devices, mechanisms and procedures; Medical imaging systems; Medical image capture and processing; Feature extraction and pattern recognition; Matching and computing anatomical atlases; Surface and volume registration; Medical image analysis (static and motion analysis); Medical image analysis (functional, metabolic); Multi-modal image analysis; Image segmentation; Multidimensional data visualization; Statistical methods (population-based analysis); Image guided diagnosis, surgery and therapy; Medical image transmission and storage (protocols, databases) AUDIO: Audio producing, transmission and management Audio transmission and reception systems and devices; Digital audio transmission signal processing; Audio transmission over Internet; Audio Multiplexing Transmission Systems; Stereo audio transmission signal; Digital infrared audio transmission; Multi-stream and multi-path audio transmission; Wireless-compressed digital audio transmission; Perceptual coding for audio; Transmission and storage; Laser audio transmission; Synchronizing video and audio transmission; Wide-band audio transmission; Index-frame audio transmission; Digital audio transmission rights; Noise in wireless audio transmission; Audio tools and products; Standards DATA: Data transmission and management Data transmission and reception mechanisms and techniques; Enhanced tools for video data integrity; Data mining, filtering, and reporting; Secure data transmission; Transmission media and data encoding; Text reading devices (super-pen, pen-elite, reading-pen); Scanned and generated lossy (progressive) multi-page text; (Visually) lossless mechanisms; Pricing data transmission; Differential data transmission systems; Data transmission equipments and transmission rates; Delay-constrained data transmission; Undersea and satellite data transmission techniques; Performance evaluation of data transmission; Multicast data transmission; High speed data transmission; Data transmission control; Integrity and privacy in data transmission; Data transmission standards VOICE: Voice producing, transmission and management Planning and implementing voice networks and systems; Voice transmission systems; Voice transmission performance; Quality real-time voice transmission; Metrics for quality of voice transmission; Stereophonic voice transmission systems; Header compression for VoIP over WLAN; Voice over IP solution for mobile radio interoperability; VoIP over cable TV networks; VoIP over Wi-Max; WiFi and cellular dual mode phones and services; Voice over WLANs and Wi-Fi to cellular roaming; Voice transmission via the Internet; Wi-Fi voice transmission; Bluetooth-based Ad-Hoc networks for voice transmission; Standards for voice processing and transmission VIDEO: Coding/Transmission/Processing Video coding standards (H.264, SMPTE 421M, AVS-China); Video coders and decoders; Video surveillance and privacy; Network video recorders; Video streaming; Video data integrity (error detection, error resilience, error concealment, tamper resistance); Motion detection, object tracking; Distributed video coding; Video quality assessment; Omnidirectional video; 3D video IMAGE: Image producing, transmission and management Model-based progressive image transmission; Wireless image transmission; Computer generated images; Image security, scrambling, and regions of interest; Timing requirements for image transmission; Transmission of still and moving images; Protocols for low bit rate; Error-prone image transmission; Energy efficient image transmission; Multi-technology image formation; Devices for image capturing and processing (cams, web-cams, etc.); Scanning and sampling, quantization and halftoning, color reproduction; Image representation and rendering, display and printing systems; Image quality assessment; Image search and sorting, video indexing and editing; Integration of images and video with other media; Image authentication and watermarking; Image storage, retrieval and multimedia; Image and video databases; Generic coding of moving pictures; Media stream packetization; Modes for archival playback; Image-based applications; Standard for image processing; Image analysis and segmentati! on; Image filtering, restoration an d enhancement; Image representation and modeling; Pattern recognition SPEECH: Speech producing, transmission and management Tooling, architectures, components and standards; Voice modulation, frequencies; Linguistics, phonology and phonetics; Discourse and dialogue; Speech analysis, synthesis, coding, and recognition; Speech enhancement and noise reduction; Speech features, production, and perception; Speech coding and transmission; Speech signal processing; Spoken language generation and synthesis; Speech QoS enhancement; Speaker characterization and recognition; Spoken language resources and annotation; Spoken/Multi-modal dialogue technology and systems; Spoken language information extraction/retrieval; Speech transmission technology for the aged and disabled; Audio-visual speech processing; Biomedical applications of speech analysis; Spoken document retrieval; Speech processing in a packet network environment; Automatic speech recognition in the context of mobile communications; Human factors in speech and communication systems; Automatic speech recognition and understanding technology; Speech! to text systems; Spoken dialog systems; Multilingual language processing; New applications of spoken language technology and systems ------------------------ Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCONTENT14.html CONTENT Advisory Chairs Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University - Leicester, UK Jalel Ben-Othman, Universit� de Versailles, France Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Wolfgang Fohl, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Zhou Su, Waseda University, Japan CONTENT Industry/Research Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Hans-Werner Sehring, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Germany Ren� Berndt, Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Austria CONTENT Publicity Chairs Lorena Parra, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Spain Samuel Kosolapov, Braude Academic College of Engineering, Israel Wilawan Inchamnan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Javier Quevedo-Fernandez, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands ================================================

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Deadline is Approaching:: CFP:: ICGCTI2014- Malaysia
by The Second International Conference on Green Computing, Technology and Innovation (ICGCTI2014) 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC) have the following conference; please consider submitting a paper or more. Name : The Second International Conference on Green Computing, Technology and Innovation (ICGCTI2014) Location : The Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Dates : March 18-20, 2014 URL : http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icgcti2014 Deadline: Feb. 18, 2014 for paper submission Contact Email: icg2014(a)sdiwc.net

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Last Mile, January 27 || CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy
by Jaime Lloret Mauri 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to CLOUD COMPUTING 2014. The submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS CLOUD COMPUTING 2014, The Fifth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CLOUDCOMPUTING14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCLOUDCOMPUTING14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCLOUDCOMPUTING14.html Submission deadline: January 27, 2014 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 CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) CLOUD: Cloud computing Cloud economics; Core cloud services; Cloud technologies; Cloud computing; On-demand computing models; Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applications]; Platform-as-service; Storage as a service in cloud; Data-as-a-Service; Service-oriented architecture (SOA); Cloud computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Trust and clouds; Client-cloud computing challenges; Geographical constraints for deploying clouds CLOUD: Challenging features Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies; Cloud service subscription model; Cloud standardized SLA; Cloud-related privacy; Cloud-related control; Managing applications in the clouds; Mobile clouds; Roaming services in Clouds; Agent-based Cloud Computing CLOUD: Platforms, Infrastructures and Applications Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Data centers; Processes intra- and inter-clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance; Enterprise clouds; Enterprise-centric cloud computing; Interaction between vertical clouds; Public, Private, and Hybrid clouds; Cloud computing testbeds GRID: Grid networks, services and applications GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology; GRID infrastructure and technologies; GRID middleware; GRID protocols and networking; GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing; Programmable GRID; Data GRID; Context ontology and management in GRIDs; Distributed decisions in GRID networks; GRID services and applications; Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID; Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID; GRID monitoring, control, and management; Traffic and load balancing in GRID; User profiles and priorities in GRID; Performance and security in GRID systems; Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID; QoS/SLA in GRID networks; GRID fora, standards, development, evolution; GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned VIRTUALIZATION: Computing in virtualization-based environments Principles of virtualization; Virtualization platforms; Thick and thin clients; Data centers and nano-centers; Open virtualization format; Orchestration of virtualization across data centers; Dynamic federation of compute capacity; Dynamic geo-balancing; Instant workload migration; Virtualization-aware storage; Virtualization-aware networking; Virtualization embedded-software-based smart mobile phones; Trusted platforms and embedded supervisors for security; Virtualization management operations /discovery, configuration, provisioning, performance, etc.; Energy optimization and saving for green datacenters; Virtualization supporting cloud computing; Applications as pre-packaged virtual machines; Licensing and support policies ------------------------ Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCLOUDCOMPUTING14.html CLOUD COMPUTING Advisory Chairs Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Wolf Zimmermann, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Yong Woo Lee, University of Seoul, Korea Alain April, �cole de Technologie Sup�rieure - Montreal, Canada Aaron McConnell, University of Ulster, UK Christoph Reich, Furtwangen University, Germany CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 Industry/Research Chairs Wolfgang Gentzsch, The UberCloud, Germany Tony Shan, Keane Inc., USA Donglin Xia, Microsoft Corporation, USA Laura Moore, SAP, UK Anna Schwanengel, Siemens AG, Germany Atsuji Sekiguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan ================================================

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