日本データベース学会の皆様
石川＠名大です．香港で開催のDASFAA 2011の併設ワークショップDaMENへの
投稿を募集します．ネットワーク関連のデータベース技術に関するワークショッ
プです．12/15締切です．論文集はLNCSで出ることになりました．
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The First International Workshop on
Data Management for Emerging Network Infrastructures (DaMEN)
(in conjunction with DASFAA 2011, April 22-25, Hong Kong, China)
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/damen
The emerging network infrastructures such as P2P, mobile and sensor
networks, and cloud computing were once lab toys. Nonetheless, they
show strong potential to become mainstreams in the foreseeable
future. While most network-side issues have been addressed or
resolved, the data management issues that arise from the real
deployment of these infrastructures are ever increasing. In
particular, challenges associated with acquiring, storing, processing,
and analyzing large-scale data from these heterogeneous networks call
for novel data management techniques. The inherently dynamic nature of
these networks further poses new research issues, such as privacy and
security. This workshop aims to facilitate the collaboration between
researchers in database and networking areas by presenting cutting
edge research topics and methodologies.
Topics:
We encourage papers that propose novel data management techniques for
tasks such as:
- distributed data storage and indexing techniques
- query processing and optimization on new networks
- data integration for heterogeneous networks
- security and privacy issues in emerging networks
- networking support for data management
- data management in mobile and sensor networks
- data management in P2P and cloud computing
- data management benchmarking for new network infrastructures
- challenges and visions for new services and applications
- experience with real-world applications on emerging networks
Submission:
Authors are invited to submit electronically original,
English-language research contributions not concurrently submitted
elsewhere. Your submissions should be formatted in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) format, and not exceeding 12 pages. The style
files are available from Springer LNCS site. Please submit your
manuscripts in PDF formats to the workshop submission site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DAMEN2011/
Accepted papers will be published in a combined volume of Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer.
Important Dates:
Paper submission: December 15, 2010, 7PM (Pacific Time)
Notification: January 15, 2011
Camera-Ready: January 22, 2011, 7PM (Pacific Time)
Organizers:
General Co-Chair:
Prof. Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University, China)
Prof. Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Program Co-Chairs:
Dr. Haibo Hu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Dr. Weining Qian (East China Normal University, China)
Program Committee Members
Jidong Chen (EMC Research China Lab, China)
Yueguo Chen (Renmin University of China, China)
Reynold C.K. Cheng (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Byron Koon-Kau Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Chi-Yin Chow (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Haibo Hu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Hideyuki Kawashima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Ken C. K. Lee (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
Weining Qian (East China Normal University, China)
Lidan Shou (Zhejiang University, China)
Hongzhi Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Linhao Xu (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Wenwei Xue (Nokia Research China)
Ying Yan (Microsoft Search Technology Center)
Man Lung Yiu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Tomoki Yoshihisa (Osaka University, Japan)
Rong Zhang (East China Normal University, China)
Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
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参加をご検討いただければ幸いです。どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。
********** FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **********
NTCIR-9 1CLICK (ONE CLICK ACCESS) - A subtask of the INTENT task
http://www.thuir.org/1click/ntcir9/
Task participants registration due: December 20, 2010
Final workshop meeting at NTCIR-9: December 6-9, 2010 [NII, Tokyo]
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TASK OUTLINE:
"1CLICK" is a brand new information access challenge for NTCIR-9.
The goal of this task is to realize the following scenario:
the user enters a query and clicks on the search button -
and his/her information need is immediately satisfied with the
first system output that's displayed. No need to click any further -
hence "once click access".
Thus we step out of the "ranked list" and "document relevance" paradigm,
and enable IR, QA and summarization communities to solve a common and
important problem.
As this is Round 1 of Once Click Access (“1CLICK”),
only Japanese textual output of length up to X characters will be considered.
The textual output may represent a Search Engine Result Page
(i.e. titles and snippets for a list of retrieved documents),
part of a single document, or any fragments of text.
Participating systems are allowed to use any existing web pages
as the knowledge source for producing the system output.
INPUT TO THE SYSTEM:
We will release 60 Japanese queries covering four query types
(15 CELEBRITY, 15 LOCAL, 15 DEFINITION and 15 Question Answering)
as input to the system. These queries have been manually
selected from a Japanese mobile query log and the
Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanse Yahoo! Answers) data.
For each query type, we assume that the user is looking for certain types
of factual information.
OUTPUT FROM THE SYSTEM:
We accept two types of "runs" (system output files):
DESKTOP runs (“D-runs”) which use up to X=500 characters (not bytes) for
each query; and
MOBILE runs (“M-runs”) which use up to X=140 characters (not bytes) for
each query.
EVALUATION METHOD:
We plan to design a nugget-based evaluation method.
We will provide a web-based tool for comparing a system output with a list of
nuggets. Thus nugget matches will be identified manually.
Unlike traditional summarization and question answering evaluation,
we plan to utilize the position of each matched nugget for computing evaluation
metrics. That is, a nugget match found near the end of the system output will
be discounted compared to one found near the beginning of another
output. Redundancy will be penalized. The goal is to cover the most relevant
nuggets within an X-character window, AND order them so as to minimize the
amount of text the user has to read. We assume that the user reads from top
to bottom, left to right.
FOR MORE DETAILS:
Please visit
http://www.thuir.org/1click/ntcir9/
A link to the NTCIR-9 task particpants registration page
is now available from this page.
Please note that the registration deadline is December 20, 2010 (for all
NTCIR-9 tasks).
ORGANIZERS:
Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia)
Makoto Kato (Kyoto University)
Youngin Song (Microsoft Research Asia)
Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia)
Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft)
QUESTIONS?
Please contact Tetsuya Sakai
tesakai(a)microsoft.com
