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Call for Book Chapters (Springer): 「情報爆発時代の無線センサネットワーク技術」特集
by Takahiro HARA 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

日本データベース学会の皆様、阪大の原です。以前にもご案内差し上げましたが、以下の通り、「情報爆発時代の無線センサネットワーク技術」特集号を、Springerが出版するBookシリーズ（Studies in Computational Intelligence）として企画しております。是非、章のご提案をご検討ください。提案締切は *** 4月30日 *** となっております。原　隆浩 ---------------------------------------------------------- Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for Information Explosion Era http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/wsentie/ A volume in the book series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" Springer-Verlag http://www.springer.com/series/7092 Editors: Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Vladimir I. Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Erik Buchmann (Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany) Call for Book Chapters: The amount and value of information available due to rapid spread of computers and information technology is exploding. Typical large enterprises have approximately a petabyte of operational data stored in hundreds of data repositories supporting thousands of applications. Data storage volumes grow in excess of 50% annually. This growth is expected to continue due to vast proliferation of Web based systems and the introduction of new sources of data. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) represent one of the most notable examples of such new data sources. In recent few years, various types of WSNs have been deployed and the amount of information generated by wireless sensors increases rapidly. The information explosion requires establishing novel data processing and communication techniques for WSNs. This volume aims to cover both theoretical and practical aspects of related to this challenge, as well as to explore directions for future research enabling efficient utilization of WSNs in the information-explosion era. Topic Coverage (but not limited to) within Ad hoc and Sensor Network Architecture: - Data processing in WSNs - Data aggregation in WSNs - Query processing and routing in WSNs - Applications of data intensive sensor networks - Routing protocol in WSNs - Efficient deployment of large-scale WSNs - Managing intensive data streams over sensor networks - Handling inaccuracy, unreliability and data loss - Energy and time efficient data delivery - Mobile sensor networks - Cross layer approach in WSNs - Application-driven sensor data interrogation - Semantic descriptions of sensors and sensor data - Sharing, annotation, and (distributed) management of sensor data - Data mining and warehousing in WSNs Submission Procedure for Authors: Prospective authors are invited to submit their chapter proposals on or before April 30, 2009. A proposal should be 2-4 page manuscript (extended abstract) clearly describing the objectives, scope of contents, and organization of the proposed chapter. Send soft copies by email to hara(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 30, 2009, and will be provided with guidelines for writing their full chapters (7,000 - 10,000 words). The submission due of full chapters will be June 30, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by the editors of this volume. The volume is schedule to be published by Springger-Verlag in 2009/2010. Important Dates: - Chapter proposal (Extended abstract): April 30, 2009 - Notification of acceptance/rejection/revision: May 30, 2009 - Submission of (revised) full chapter: June 30, 2009 - Final version submission: July 15, 2009 - Publication: 2009/2010 ----------------------------------------------------------

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[CFP] IUCS 2009
by Atsushi Fujii 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Call for Papers/Demos 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2009) http://www.i-uc-s.org/2009/ December 3 - 4, 2009 National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan In today's world, ICT infrastructure capable of distributing massive amounts of information anytime, anywhere is becoming more abundant. However, from the viewpoint of the potential to exchange "any kind of information with anyone" as we like, we have come to recognize various barriers such as those of language, mistrust and distance. In order to discuss how to overcome these barriers and create a more human-centered communication environment, we have held two International Symposia in Kyoto and Osaka in 2007 and 2008 respectively, under the basic concept of "Universal Communication". This year, we will have the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2009) in Tokyo, Japan, aiming to further promote productive discussion and research exchange. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Topics of interest are as follows, but not limited to: Track 1: <Speech and Language Processing> - Information retrieval and information analysis - Information credibility - Knowledge processing - Language resources - Speech recognition and synthesis - Machine translation and speech translation - Natural language processing - Spoken language processing - Multilingual information processing Track 2: <Ultra Realistic Communications> - Super high-resolution image technology - 3D visualization, imaging and display technologies - 3D sound processing - Virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality - Multisensory (visual, acoustic, haptic, olfactory, etc) interaction - Human factors Track 3: <Sensor and Human-interaction> - Human interface and interaction technologies - Real-world sensing technologies - Human behavior detection and analysis - User support technologies - Sensor data mining Submission Information All papers must be submitted through the IUCS 2009 homepage at http://www.i-uc-s.org/2009/ . Paper submission: The extended abstract must be written in English and is limited to 2 pages. This abstract should also indicate whether it is an oral paper or a poster, and be submitted as a PDF file. More detailed author guidelines will be available at http://www.i-uc-s.org/2009/. Demo submission: Please submit a one-page description of your demo as a PDF file. This description must be written in English and should include: an abstract of what you will show, space needed, facilities needed (including power supplies and Internet access). A specified submission format will be available on the IUCS 2009 homepage. Important Dates Papers: Extended abstract due June 18, 2009 Notification of acceptance August 13, 2009 Camera-ready papers due September 10, 2009 Demos: Submission of description due August 7, 2009 Notification of acceptance August 31, 2009 Website http://www.i-uc-s.org/2009/ Venue National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation 2-41, Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/ General Chair Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan General Vice Co-Chairs Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Satoshi Nakamura, NICT, Japan Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan Track Chairs: Track 1: <Speech and Language Processing>: Atsushi Fujii, University of Tsukuba, Japan Track 2: <Ultra Realistic Communications>: Naomi Inoue, NICT, Japan Track 3: <Sensor and Human-interaction>: Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan - Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan - Hiroshi Ando, NICT, Japan - Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, USA - Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France - Marcello Federico, FBK/IRST, Italy - Jukka Hakkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Munpyo Hong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea - Hitoshi Isahara, NICT, Japan - Yukio Iwaya, Tohoku University, Japan - Ken Kaneiwa, NICT, Japan - Takashi Kawai, Waseda University, Japan - Kentaro Kayama, NICT, Japan - Junichi Kazama, NICT, Japan - Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan - Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK - Yongjin Kwon, Korea AeroSpace University, Korea - Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan - Yohei Murakami, NICT, Japan - Masaki Murata, NICT, Japan - Makoto Okui, NICT, Japan - Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Mahdad N. Shirazi, NICT, Japan - Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan - Eiichiro Sumita, NICT, Japan - Yoiti Suzuki, Tohoku University, Japan - Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan - Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan - Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan - Chiu-yu Tseng, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Kiyotaka Uchimoto, NICT, Japan - Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Andy Way, Dublin City University, Ireland - Andrew Woods, Curtin University of Technology, Australia - Wieslaw Woszczyk, McGill University, Canada - Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China - Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France - Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jung-Young Son, Daegu University, Korea Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Makoto Okui, NICT, Japan Finance Co-Chairs Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan Publication Co-Chairs Hiroyuki Morikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan Demo Chair Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan Technical Advisors Michitaka Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University, Japan Steering Committee Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hiroyuki Morikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Satoshi Nakamura, NICT, Japan Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan Makoto Okui, NICT, Japan Jung-Young Son, Daegu University, Korea Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and University of Karlsruhe, Germany Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China

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FW: [Tmra-newsletter] TMRA 2009 - Call for Contributions
by Motomu Naito 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

　日本データベース学会の皆様　(重複して受け取られた場合はご容赦ください) 　ナレッジ・シナジーの内藤です。　TMRA (Topic Maps Research and Applications) 2009 - Call for Contributions 　を転送させていただきます。　よろしくお願い致します。 > -----Original Message----- > From: tmra-newsletter-bounces(a)lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de > [mailto:tmra-newsletter-bounces@lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de] On > Behalf Of TMRA (Lutz Maicher) > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:32 PM > To: TMRA NEWSLETTER > Subject: [Tmra-newsletter] TMRA 2009 - Call for Contributions > > **************************** > * TMRA 2009 > * "Linked Topic Maps" > **************************** > * 11-13 November 2009 > * Villa Ida, Leipzig, Germany > **************************** > * http://www.tmra.de/2009/ > **************************** > * Submission: 15 July 2009 > **************************** > > Call for Contributions > =============== > TMRA 2009 will be the fifth event in the annual series of international > conferences on Topic Maps Research and Applications. TMRA is the > advanced scientific and industrial forum whose main object is connecting > the key players in the Topic Maps community. Here you will find > researchers and users in government and industry, as well as the > vendors, the luminaries, and the standards creators gathered for an > exchange of ideas in a stimulating setting. TMRA 2009 will take place in > the Media Campus Villa Ida, Leipzig, Germany and will be hosted by the > Topic Maps Lab. > > Besides the keynotes, presented by leading heads of the Topic Maps > community, the conference schedule covers parallel science- and > industry-oriented tracks, poster and demonstration sessions. The latest > ideas from the community are discussed in the open-space sessions. > > “Linked Topic Maps” – The Motto of TMRA 2009 > =================================== > A web of globally linked topic maps is behind the Vision of a Topic Maps > World that Graham Moore presented at the Topic Maps Norway 2009 > conference in Oslo this spring. Linked Topic Maps is the first step on > the way to global federated knowledge exchange. It’s about PSIs > connecting different topics in different topic maps together. It’s about > using protocols like SDShare, and the exchange of Topic Maps fragments. > Linked Topic Maps will enable crawlers to walk through a globally > interlinked web of topic maps. > > The social graph and geo-spatial information globally link topic maps > across all domains. And why not linking topic maps with real world > objects, stepping into the web of things? And what about walking through > topic maps in augmented realities, to link the real life experience with > the web of data? > > But Linked Topic Maps is also about the semantic integration of > heterogeneous sources of structured and unstructured data, based on the > integration model provided by Topic Maps. To meet the challenge of > exploiting the merging facilities at global scale advanced approaches > are needed. > > The goal of the TMRA 2009 conference is bringing together all the ideas, > concepts and implementations which will help to make true the vision of > a web of linked topic maps for global knowledge federation. > > Contribute a paper, presentation or poster to TMRA 2009 > ======================================== > You are invited to contribute a full or short paper, a presentation, a > demonstration, or a poster to TMRA 2009 under the following main topics: > > * Linked Topic Maps > * Standards related Topic Maps research > * Theoretic Topic Maps research > * Applied Topic Maps research > * Topic Maps applications domains > > Contribute to the Open-Space Sessions > =========================== > In addition to the presentation track, TMRA 2009 provides slots and > locations for open-space sessions. You are highly encouraged to > contribute to the open-space sessions! > Contribute to the Tutorials@TMRA 2009 > > Tutorials@TMRA 2009 will take place on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 prior > to the regular TMRA 2009 program. The purpose of the tutorial program is > to provide participants with lectures and instructions, on either well > established or new cutting-edge topics, relevant to the topic mapping > field. Tutorials@TMRA is the opportunity to teach your advanced > technology to an interested audience. If you are interested in teaching > your cutting edge technology to an interested audience, please submit > your tutorial proposal. > > Your submission > =========== > We invite original, high quality submissions with substantial > contributions to the objectives of TMRA 2008, published here. In 2008 > the TMRA proceedings will appear in the LIV series, published by the > University of Leipzig. The conference language is English. All > submission details are given in the Submission Guidelines at the > conference website. > > Submission Deadline > ============== > The submission deadline is 15 July 2009. > _______________________________________________ > Tmra-newsletter mailing list > Tmra-newsletter(a)lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de > http://lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/mailman/listinfo/tmra-newslette > r -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motomu Naito <motom(a)green.ocn.ne.jp> PSI: http://psi.ontopedia.net/Motomu_Naito CEO, Knowledge Synergy Inc. (http://www.knowledge-synergy.com/) 3-747-4-203, Kusunokidai, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-0037 Japan phone: +81-4-2993-0519 IP phone: +81-50-3341-5502 Delegate to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 (Topic Maps WG) from Japan

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「Webインテリジェンスとインタラクション」論文特集CFP
by Yoshinori Hijikata 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

日本データベース学会の皆様，大阪大学の土方です．締め切り一週間前になりましたので，再度アナウンスさせていただきます．たくさんのご投稿，お待ちしております． --- 論文特集「Webインテリジェンスとインタラクション」論文募集　近年，Web環境は大きく変革しようとしています．商用の検索エンジンで検索可能な静的なWebページ数は，200億を越えると言われ，ある調査では2000年の時点でDeepWeb中のWebページ数は5000億を越えたと報告されております．また，データ量の観点だけでなく，近年blogやSNS（ソーシャルネットワーキングサービス）に代表されるような，人間関係を伴った活動も活発化しております．さらに，これらのデータやコミュニケーションは，実世界上の人間関係や物理オブジェクト，地図データなどとも融合を始めております．　この様な状況において，Webをより高度に活用するためには，人工知能に代表される知的情報処理技術，Web上の情報リソースに効率的にアクセスするためのデータベース技術，Webからの知識獲得を行うための自然言語処理技術，Web上のコミュニケーションを支えるヒューマンインタフェース技術，およびこれらを融合したシステム設計技術が重要となります．人工知能学会誌においても，「ソーシャルネットワーク時代のWebインタラクション」（2006年7月号）などの特集や解説記事により，関連技術・研究事例が数多く紹介されてきており，多くの読者の方から反響をいただいております．また，人工知能学会全国大会を初めとする国内会議および関連国際会議においても， Web環境の変化に伴う新しい研究のトレンドが生まれつつあります．　以上の背景から本特集では，Webの高度活用につながる基礎理論，要素技術，システム開発等の論文を広く募集いたします．現状ではWebに適用していなくとも，今後Webへの適用が見込まれる理論，要素技術，システム開発なども含みます． * 募集分野・テキスト処理関連技術：情報検索，情報抽出，自動要約，質問応答，テキストマイニング・知的Web基盤技術：XML・半構造データ処理，メタデータ構築支援，リンク解析，　アノテーション作成支援，セマンティックWeb環境支援，マルチメディア検索・Webインタラクション技術：意思決定支援，パーソナライゼーション，ユーザ行動分析，　情報可視化，ソーシャルネットワーク分析，コミュニティ構築支援・その他，Webインテリジェンスとインタラクションに関するテーマ全般本特集号のスケジュール投稿締切：2009年4月30日論文掲載最終決定：2009年9月30日最終原稿提出：2009年10月30日掲載予定：2010年1月号論文送付／照会先：首都大学東京システムデザイン学部　高間　康史 ytakama(a)sd.tmu.ac.jp （メールの件名に[Webインテリジェンスとインタラクション論文特集]と必ず明記してください．）投稿論文の形式論文執筆，投稿に当たっては，http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai/journal/　の人工知能学会学会誌・論文誌への投稿に関する案内を熟読ください．原則，人工知能学会TeXスタイルファイルでの投稿になりますが，wordをご希望の方は別途問い合わせてください．本特集号の採録期日に間に合わない論文は，一般投稿として扱われることがあります．情報関係英文論文合同アーカイブInformation and Media Technologies(IMT)への転載について人工知能学会論文誌に採択された英文論文は編集委員会の選定によりIMTへ転載することがあります．著者に費用の負担はありません．IMTについての詳細は下記URLをご参照ください． http://www.ipsj.or.jp/08editt/imt/index-j.htm 編集委員会構成編集委員長（ゲストエディタ）: 高間康史（首都大学東京）編集幹事: 大塚真吾（独立行政法人物質・材料研究機構），難波英嗣（広島市立大学），土方嘉徳（大阪大学）編集委員：井口誠（シンクロア），大向一輝（国立情報学研究所），加藤文彦（慶應義塾大学），河合由起子（京都産業大学），熊本忠彦（千葉工業大学），小林一郎（お茶の水女子大学），齋藤ひとみ（愛知教育大学），坂本比呂志（九州工業大学），櫻井茂明（東芝），笹島宗彦（大阪大学），庄司裕子（中央大学），杉原太郎（北陸先端科学技術大学院大学），是津耕司（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構），立石健二（NEC），波多野賢治（同志社大学），松下光範（関西大学），村上晴美（大阪市立大学），山田和明（東洋大学），山本健一（ヤフー） --- Yoshinori Hijikata, Ph.D. Division of Systems Science and Applied Informatics Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University Tel: +81-6-6850-6381 Fax: +81-6-6850-6341 E-mail: hijikata(a)sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

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DEIM2009優秀・最優秀論文賞について
by Yoshiharu Ishikawa 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

日本データベース学会の皆様 3月に開催いたしました第1回データ工学と情報マネジメントに関するフォーラム（DEIMフォーラム2009）の最優秀・優秀論文賞が決定いたしましたので報告いたします．ご発表いただいた一般論文について，DEIMコメンテータによる評価スコアを参考にプログラム委員会にて査読を行い，内容の新規性・有用性・完成度などについて評価をいたしました．その結果，以下のとおり最優秀論文を2件，優秀論文を2 件選定いたしました．後日，表彰式を執り行いたいと考えておりますが，追って該当者に連絡いたします．なお，DEIM論文集の公開がまだですが，近日中に公開したいと考えておりますので，何卒よろしくお願いいたします．石川佳治 DEIMフォーラム2009 実行委員長 =============================================== ■ 最優秀論文賞（2件）■ A9-5（論文番号237） Rank Optimization of Personalized Search Lin Li，Zhenglu Yang，Masaru Kitsuregawa（東大） E8-5（論文番号39）データストリームのための部分シーケンスマッチング豊田真智子，櫻井保志，市川俊一（NTT） ■優秀論文賞（2件）■ C4-1（論文番号37） 2次元クラスタリングに基づく高頻度語の検索手法楠村幸貴，水口弘紀，久寿居大（NEC） E1-3（論文番号40）暗号化データの複製を利用した権限失効処理手法の評価高山一樹，横田治夫（東工大） =============================================== 以上

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AIRS 2009 CFP: Deadline extension
by Atsushi Fujii 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

筑波大学の藤井と申します．重複して受け取られた方はご容赦下さい．情報検索に関するシンポジウム AIRS 2009 の投稿締切が 4/26 まで延長されました．多数の投稿をお待ちしております． ##################################################################### PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 26: The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009) http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/ October 21-23, 2009 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. In cooperation with ACM SIGIR ##################################################################### The Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the symposium covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data. The Fifth AIRS (AIRS 2009) welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to: IR Theory and Formal Models; IR Evaluation, Test collections, Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Data collection and analysis; Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory; Web IR, Intranet/enterprise search, Citation and link analysis, Adversarial IR; Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination, Digital libraries; Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR; Video and image retrieval, Audio and speech retrieval, Music retrieval; Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering; Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical acquisition, NLP for IR; Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR. Accepted papers will be published as part of the LNCS series from Springer, and will be EI-indexed. The AIRS 2009 organisers are also planning on a post-conference special issue in a renowned international journal, and the authors of the best papers at AIRS 2009 will be encouraged to contribute to this issue. IMPORTANT DATES April 26, 2009 Submissions due (NEW DEADLINE) June 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 16, 2009 Camera-ready due September 1, 2009 Registration deadline October 21-23 2009 AIRS 2009 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The AIRS 2009 proceedings will be published as LNCS, so please follow the default author instructions available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 In addition, please "anonymise" your paper to facilitate blind reviewing, and make sure your paper is no longer than 12 pages in the LNCS format. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected unconditionally. Duplicate submissions (the same paper being submitted to AIRS 2009 and to another conference at the same time), if detected, will also be rejected. Please upload your paper to the START submission system at https://www.softconf.com/s08/AIRS2009/ by April 19, 2009. The Program Committee will carefully review it and decide whether it should be accepted (either as a 12-page paper or as a 6-page poster) or not. Once your paper gets accepted, you will be asked to send us a signed copyright form available at the above Springer website. At least one author per paper must present the work at the conference. For updates, please visit the AIRS 2009 website. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Please visit http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/sponsorship.html . ORGANIZATION Honorary Conference Chair: Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University) Conference Co-Chairs: Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University) and Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia) Publication Co-Chairs: Akiko Aizawa (NII) and Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College) Publicity Co-Chairs: Atsushi Fujii (University of Tsukuba), Ian Soboroff (NIST), Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University) and William Webber (University of Melbourne) Finance Chair: Takuya Kida (Hokkaido University) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia), Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH) and Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University) Area Chairs: Information Retrieval Models and Theories - Tien-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia) - David Losada (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) Interactive Information Retrieval -Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde) Search - Andrew Turpin (RMIT) - Min Zhang (Tsinghua University) QA, Summarization and IE - Teruko Mitamura (CMU) Multimedia Retrieval - Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) If you have any questions, please contact the conference co-chairs: yoshioka(a)ist.hokudai.ac.jp and tetsuyasakai(a)acm.org

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論文募集：WISE2009（5/1投稿締切）
by Yoshiharu Ishikawa 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

日本データベース学会の皆様名古屋大学の石川です．アナウンスの依頼を受けましたので案内させていただきます WISE国際会議が，10月上旬にポーランドで開催予定です．5月1日が論文投稿締切となっておりますので，ぜひとも投稿をご検討ください．故上林先生にちなんだ Yahiko Kambayashi Best Paper Awardという賞がございます． ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS =========================================================== WISE 2009 The 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2009 http://wise2009.ue.poznan.pl/ =========================================================== Paper submission deadline: May 1st, 2009 ===================================================================== The aim of this conference is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge and experience in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), and Auckland, New Zealand (2008). RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY TRACKS ============================ There will be two independent tracks for Research and Industrial papers with a different set of evaluation criteria. The authors must clearly indicate the track to which the paper is being submitted. Research Papers: ---------------- The conference is soliciting original research papers on all aspects of Web information systems engineering. Submitted papers will be judged according to their scientific merits and evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Industrial and Application Papers: ---------------------------------- WISE 2009 encourages submissions covering the application of Web information systems engineering in practice, including papers describing innovative implementations, novel applications, and major improvements to the state-of-practice. The papers submitted to this track can range from a few page extended abstract to a full paper. The track will also include a small number of invited visionary papers. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ======================= WISE 2009 solicits the submissions of proposals for Workshops and Tutorials: Workshop Proposal Submissions: ------------------------------ WISE 2009 solicits the submission of workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Workshop Chairs. Workshop proceedings will be made available to the participants attending the workshops. Tutorial Proposal Submissions: ------------------------------ WISE 2009 solicits the submission of high quality tutorial proposals on any of the conference topics. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Tutorial Chairs. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== * Data quality and probabilistic/uncertain data processing * Deep/Hidden Web * e-Commerce and e-Government * Event-driven Systems * Cloud/Grid Computing and P2P Systems * Innovative Web-based Applications * Location-based Services * Mobile Web Information Systems * Rich Web UI * Semantic Web * Social Networks * Web Agents and Web Intelligence * Web Data Integration * Web Data Mashup * Web Data Models * Web Information Retrieval * Web IS Design * Web Metric/Performance * Web Mining and Web Warehousing * Web Monitoring and Management * Web Security and Trust Management * Web Services and SOA * Web Tools and Languages * Web Transactions * Web Visualization * Web-based Business Systems * Web-based Learning * Web-based Software-as-a-Service * XML and Semi-structured Data IMPORTANT DATES =============== Feb 28, 2009 Workshop proposals May 1, 2009 Paper Submission May 31, 2009 Tutorial/Panel Proposals Jun 15, 2009 Author Notification Jun 28, 2009 Camera-ready Papers Jun 28, 2009 Author registration Oct 5-7, 2009 Conference and Workshops WISE 2009 COMMITTEES ==================== General Chairs -------------- Wojciech Cellary, Poland Chia-Hsiang Chang, Taiwan Program Chairs -------------- Darrell Long, USA Gottfried Vossen, Germany Jeffrey Xu Yu, Hong Kong Local Organization Chair ------------------------ Willy Picard, Poland Jarogniew Rykowski, Poland Industrial Program Chairs ------------------------- Witold Staniszkis, Poland Henry Tirri, Finland Workshops Chairs ---------------- Bruno Defude, France Bernhard Thalheim, Germany Tutorial Chairs --------------- Tiziana Catarci, Italy Susan Urban, USA Panel Chairs ------------ Ahmed Elmagarmid, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, Japan Publicity Chair --------------- Jacek Chmielewski, Poland Publication Chair ----------------- Markus Kirchberg, Singapore Wise Society Representatives ---------------------------- Marek Rusinkiewicz, USA Yanchun Zhang, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= http://wise2009.ue.poznan.pl/ PUBLICATION =========== The proceedings of WISE 2009 will be published in two separate volumes by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, one volume for all papers accepted by the main conference, and one volume for all papers accepted by all WISE workshops. Paper length is 14 pages (LNCS format). A special issue of the World Wide Web Journal is scheduled in 2010 for publishing extended versions of selected WISE 2009 papers. Yahiko Kambayashi Best Paper Award ---------------------------------- The WISE Program Committee will select the best paper from all submissions for this prestigious award. ENQUIRIES ========= Wojciech Cellary cellary(a)ue.poznan.pl phone: +48 61 8480549 fax: +48 61 8480549

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1st CFP: データベース，Web，情報マネジメントに関する若手研究者国際ワークショップ(iDB Workshop 2009)
by Chiemi Watanabe 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

日本データベース学会会員の皆様：お茶の水女子大学の渡辺知恵美と申します。本年度より開催する新しいワークショップiDB Workshopをご案内させていただきます。国内外のトップクラスの研究者がメンターとして参加し、高度な議論ができる絶好の機会です。皆様ぜひご投稿ください。投稿締切等の詳細は未定ですが、決まり次第追ってご連絡いたします。 ====================================================================== 第1回データベース，Web，情報マネジメントに関する若手研究者国際ワークショップ The 1st International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web and Information Management for Young Researchers (iDB Workshop) http://db-event.jpn.org/idb2009/ 日程：2009年7月26日(日)〜7月28日(火) 場所：神戸ファッションマート (http://www.kfm.or.jp/) 主催：日本データベース学会 (DBSJ) 情報処理学会データベースシステム研究会 (IPSJ SIGDBS) 電子情報通信学会データ工学研究会 (IEICE DE) ====================================================================== データベース，Web，情報マネジメント関連する分野の若手研究者を対象とした新しいワークショップを神戸ファッションマートで開催することになりました．以下のような特徴の新しいタイプのワークショップです．積極的な論文投稿をお待ちしております． ■特徴・国内外のトップクラスの研究者がメンターとして直接コメントしてくれます．研究内容のブラッシュアップを図る絶好の機会です．現在決定しているメンターは以下の通りです． Prof. Sang Kyun Cha (Seoul National University, Korea) Prof. Won Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Prof. Hiroyuki Kitagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Prof. Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio University, Japan) Prof. Ray Larson (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Prof. Yoshifumi Masunaga (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) Prof. Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) Dr. Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Prof. Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Prof. Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Prof. Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) ・ワークショップは完全にクローズドです．秘密保持契約(NDA) を締結する予定ですので，今後トップクラスの国際会議，雑誌論文に投稿を予定している未公表の研究成果を論文そのまま投稿しても問題ありません．メンターからの内容の濃いコメントで論文や研究内容をブラッシュアップして，難関の国際会議突破をめざしましょう． ■スケジュール (予定) 論文締切り 6月上旬採択通知 6月下旬最終原稿締切 7月中旬ワークショップ 7月26日〜28日 ■運営組織横田治夫 (東工大) 天笠俊之 (筑波大) 江口浩二 (神戸大) 渡辺知恵美 (お茶大) 中村聡史 (京大) 渡辺陽介 (東工大) アダムヤトフト（京大）スジットプラダン（倉敷芸科大）詳細は，今後 DBJapan や http://db-event.jpn.org/idb2009/ を通じてお知らせします．

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2009年度春季「日立 HiRDB アカデミック支援プログラム」参加募集中（6月末まで）
by masashi.tsuchida.ax＠hitachi.com 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

　土田＠日立です。　日本データベース学会との共催で2009年度春季「日立 HiRDB アカデミック支援プログラム」の参加募集を6月末まで受け付けております。より多くのアカデミアの方々に申込みして頂けると幸いです。　本募集では、大学などの教育機関におけるデータベース利用技術の研究・教育活動の支援を目的としており、研究用途としてデジタルコンテンツなど多様化する情報を扱うための各種手段(日本語文書全文検索機能/地図情報検索機能/画像情報検索機能/ バイオデータ情報検索機能/XML文書操作機能)を提供しております。　特に、SQL2008でも規定されているXMLへの問合せ言語XPath/XQueryを含み、SQL/XML (SQL規格の一部)の主要な機能に加え、XMLデータへの全文検索をサポートしております。研究・教育素材として一層幅広く活用できると期待しております。　　http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/hirdb/ 　申し込みは、日本データベース学会のHPの産学連携プログラムから、あるいは下記のURLでお願い致します。　日立HiRDBアカデミック支援プログラム　　http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/hirdb/academic.html 　実施要綱　　http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/hirdb/academic/HiRDB_academic_poin… 　また、ソフトウェア事業部の「HiRDB」開発部門の実務を体験できる併設のインターンシップにつきましては、2009年夏期に募集予定で、　・募集テーマ名称:データベース製品(HiRDB)のアプリケーションプログラム開発　・募集期間:2009/7月(予定) 　・実施期間:2009/8月(予定) となっております。こちらもご検討頂けると幸いです。　本プログラムを是非ご検討の程よろしくお願い致します。 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 土田正士(Masashi Tsuchida) E_mail:masashi.tsuchida.ax@hitachi.com 　（株）日立製作所ソフトウェア事業部先端情報システム研究開発部 Tel:044-549-1708(Ex 877-5754) Fax:044-549-1718(Ex 877-5719) -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Final Call for Papers: AIRS 2009
by Atsushi Fujii 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

筑波大学の藤井と申します．投稿締切が迫りましたので再度お送りします．重複して受け取られた方はご容赦下さい．情報検索に関する国際会議 AIRS 2009 の論文投稿募集案内を送付させていただきます．どうぞよろしくお願いいたします． ##################################################################### FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009) http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/ October 21-23, 2009 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. In cooperation with ACM SIGIR ##################################################################### The Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the symposium covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data. The Fifth AIRS (AIRS 2009) welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to: IR Theory and Formal Models; IR Evaluation, Test collections, Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Data collection and analysis; Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory; Web IR, Intranet/enterprise search, Citation and link analysis, Adversarial IR; Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination, Digital libraries; Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR; Video and image retrieval, Audio and speech retrieval, Music retrieval; Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering; Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical acquisition, NLP for IR; Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR. Accepted papers will be published as part of the LNCS series from Springer, and will be EI-indexed. The AIRS 2009 organisers are also planning on a post-conference special issue in a renowned international journal, and the authors of the best papers at AIRS 2009 will be encouraged to contribute to this issue. IMPORTANT DATES April 19, 2009 Submissions due June 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 16, 2009 Camera-ready due September 1, 2009 Registration deadline October 21-23 2009 AIRS 2009 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The AIRS 2009 proceedings will be published as LNCS, so please follow the default author instructions available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 In addition, please "anonymise" your paper to facilitate blind reviewing, and make sure your paper is no longer than 12 pages in the LNCS format. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected unconditionally. Duplicate submissions (the same paper being submitted to AIRS 2009 and to another conference at the same time), if detected, will also be rejected. Please upload your paper to the START submission system at https://www.softconf.com/s08/AIRS2009/ by April 19, 2009. The Program Committee will carefully review it and decide whether it should be accepted (either as a 12-page paper or as a 6-page poster) or not. Once your paper gets accepted, you will be asked to send us a signed copyright form available at the above Springer website. At least one author per paper must present the work at the conference. For updates, please visit the AIRS 2009 website. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Please visit http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/sponsorship.html . ORGANIZATION Honorary Conference Chair: Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University) Conference Co-Chairs: Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University) and Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia) Publication Co-Chairs: Akiko Aizawa (NII) and Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College) Publicity Co-Chairs: Atsushi Fujii (University of Tsukuba), Ian Soboroff (NIST), Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University) and William Webber (University of Melbourne) Finance Chair: Takuya Kida (Hokkaido University) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia), Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH) and Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University) Area Chairs: Information Retrieval Models and Theories - Tien-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia) - David Losada (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) Interactive Information Retrieval -Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde) Search - Andrew Turpin (RMIT) - Min Zhang (Tsinghua University) QA, Summarization and IE - Teruko Mitamura (CMU) Multimedia Retrieval - Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) If you have any questions, please contact the conference co-chairs: yoshioka(a)ist.hokudai.ac.jp and tetsuyasakai(a)acm.org

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