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[CFP] Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management (WDDDM'2008)
by Haruo Yokota 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様、東工大の横田です。ディペンダビリティとデータベースに関する国際ワークショップ WDDDM'2008 の論文募集の案内です。スケジュールは、論文締切り： 2/1 採択通知：2/25 カメラレディ： 3/15 ワークショップ： 3/31 です。会議録は、ACM Digital Library に載る予定です。奮って投稿をご検討下さい。よろしくお願い致します。 −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− 横田治夫〒152-8552 東京都目黒区大岡山 2-12-1 東京工業大学学術国際情報センター情報基盤部門 (兼) 大学院情報理工学研究科計算工学専攻 TEL: (03) 5734-3505 (直通)、 FAX: (03) 5734-3504 email: yokota(a)cs.titech.ac.jp −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− ----- Second Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management (WDDDM'2008) affiliated with EuroSys 2008 Conference March 31, 2008, Glasgow, Scotland http://gorda.di.uminho.pt/wdddm08/ ABOUT The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from systems, database and dependability communities to discuss the current state of the art, pending challenges and trends, and novel solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of distributed and dependable data management systems. SCOPE Relational databases have been for a long time the keystone of information systems' dependability. Database management systems (DBMS) offer a uniform approach to data integrity, durability, and availability, using tried and tested techniques based on a set of unanimously accepted and well understood assumptions. However, the expectations on the DBMS itself are changing and there is an unprecedented call for a complete rewrite: The general purpose relational DBMS architecture dating back from the 70's is being convincingly challenged by a number of specialized systems for text indexing, data warehousing, stream processing, and array storage. Most strikingly, the winds of change are felt even within the common enterprise data center, where the widespread need for practical scale-out and near zero downtime translates to an increased appetite for cheap and efficient consistent replication and for shared-nothing clusters built on commodity hardware and software. Novel peer-to-peer applications, grid computing, and the emergence of cloud computing further push the envelope for radically different data management solutions. A major trend in all such emerging proposals, with a profound impact in dependability, is that large scale distribution is a core assumption in their design. This translates in very large number of nodes, wide area geographical distribution, diverse administrative domains, and pervasive heterogeneity. CFP: Ws. Dependable Distributed Data Management (with EuroSys 2008) It is thus desirable to reevaluate time tested assumptions that underly the dependability mechanisms in database management systems and explore different performance and functionality tradeoffs. And explore the consequences on complex information systems built on them. TOPICS Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to: * System assumptions for dependability and performance * Novel application scenarios and consistency requirements * Scaling-out to very large number of nodes: peer-to-peer databases and the data grid * Autonomic versus orchestrated central control * Diversity and software reliability FORMAT The workshop welcomes two kinds of contributions: * Short position papers with early and/or controversial ideas that foster discussion but are not (yet) fully developed. The maximum size is 4 pages in the ACM Conference Proceedings style. * Research papers which present mature original work. The maximum size is 10 pages in the ACM Conference Proceedings style. Since submissions must strictly adhere to ACM Conference Proceedings style, submitters are strongly encouraged to use the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. In order to get included in the EuroSys 2008 proceedings CD, accepted contributions must be presented at the workshop and comply with the ACM Copyright Policy. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: February 1, 2008 * Author notification: February 25, 2008 * Camera-ready due: March 15, 2008 * Workshop date: March 31, 2008 ORGANIZATION Program Chairs: * Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) * Martin Kersten (CWI, Netherlands) * Rui Oliveira (U. Minho, Portugal) Organizing Chair: * José Pereira (U. Minho, Portugal) Programme Committee: * Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ, Switzerland) * Enrique Armendariz (U. P. Navarra, Spain) * Ken Birman (U. Cornell, USA) * Andrea Bondavalli (U. Firenzi, Italy) * Emmanuel Cecchet (EPFL, Switzerland) * Alan Fekete (U. Sidney, Australia) * Roy Friedman (Technion, Israel) * Karl Goeschka (Vienna Institute of Technology, Austria) * Ricardo Jiménez-Peris (U. P. Madrid, Spain) * Flávio Junqueira (Yahoo!, Spain) * Raimundo Macêdo (U. F. Bahia, Brazil) * Henrique Madeira (U. Coimbra, Portugal) * Fernando Pedone (U. Lugano, Switzerland) * Luís Rodrigues (IST, Portugal) * Antony Rowstron (Microsoft, UK) * Doug Terry (Microsoft, USA) * Patrick Valduriez (U. Nantes, France) * Maarten Van Steen (Vrije U., Netherlands) * Haruo Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information visit the workshop web site or contact the organizers at wdddm(a)lsd.di.uminho.pt.

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SWDMNSS 2008
by Hideyuki Kawashima 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

日本データベース学会会員の皆様筑波大の川島英之と申します。 7月末にフィンランドで開催されます下記のワークショップについて御案内致します。同ワークショップはSAINT2008に併設されます。センサデータ処理、センサネットワークに関して幅広い分野の論文を募集しております。投稿締切は *** 3月1日 *** となっております。ご検討頂けましたら幸いです。 *********************************************************************** Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2008) http://www.osoite.jp/SWDMNSS08/ in conjunction with SAINT 2008 July 28 - August 1, 2008 Turku, Finland *********************************************************************** The development and deployment of sensor networking technologies brought the emergence of Internet-wide infrastructure for networked sensing systems and a collection of heterogeneous sensor networks. In this situation, a sensor network or a collection of distributed sensor networks is one of tremendous information resources on the Internet. This SensorWeb can provide real-time and historical information representing situations, contexts and changes in the real world. It is essential to tap this information resource in order to make networked sensing systems accessible and useable in a large variety of applications. Sensor networks may be virtually regarded as an enormous database that can provide dynamic real-world information. There are great potentials in all areas of life, if people are able to query and search such information resources as they do it nowadays on the world-wide-web. In addition, the searched results should be provided in an understandable and potentially machine re-usable form. For instance, aggregated, summarized or symbolized sensor information is more useful for understanding complex phenomena than raw sensor information. Such information integration will be brought by novel methods for data mining and information extraction specifically tailored to networked sensing systems. In addition, information integration utilizing the world-wide-web may allow to combine sensor-specific querying techniques, e.g. according to geographic location, and web search engines, e.g. focusing on content, in order to approach an integrated real world search engine. In order to realize such real-world searching on networked sensing systems, some technologies from different research fields are required: a) network technologies to integrate and overlay heterogeneous sensor networks, b) database technologies to manage and search spatial and temporal information, c) mining technologies to extract useful information from sensor databases and other related resources. This workshop aims to bring together technical papers about networks, databases and data mining for spatial and temporal information and discuss technical issues on integrating sensor networks, databases and Internet technologies. This workshop will open-up a novel and interdisciplinary research area for networked sensing systems covering different research fields such as networks and SensorWebs, databases, information integration and web engineering. It provides the opportunity to discuss key technologies for searching the real-world information provided by networked sensing systems. Our workshop will focus on data-driven and data-centric aspects of networked sensing systems rather than sensor devices and hardware architecture for networked sensing systems. Original papers on database and network technologies for spatial and temporal information (e.g. sensor data, stream data, time-series data, geographic information and web information) are welcome. Topics of this workshop are the following (but are not limited): * Sensor databases: managing, archiving and searching sensing data * Spatial and temporal databases for networked sensing system * Query processing architecture for spatial and temporal data * Mining, aggregation and integration of spatial and temporal data * Stream data processing and mining * Data representation and query description language for networked sensing system * Overlay network and P2P technologies for networked sensing system * Integration of heterogeneous sensor networks * Software architectures for sensor networks and databases * Networked sensing system for mobile and ubiquitous computing * Text mining, language processing, information extraction on the Web * Sensor data integration, mapping and visualization * Sensor web enablement and standardization * Location-based services and geographic information systems (SensorGIS) * Experiences on the deployment and experiments of sensor networks Important Dates for Authors : Paper submission due: March 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2008 Camera-ready copies due: May 1, 2008 Author registration due: TBD Workshop: July 28 - August 1, 2008 (exact date is TBD) Paper Submission: Workshop papers should be within 4 pages, no extra page is allowed. The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published, in separated volumes, by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please mail your submission to <swdmnss2008(a)osoite.jp>. Program Chair: Yoh Shiraishi, University of Tokyo Organizers: Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe Susanna Pirttikangas, University of Oulu Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University Publicity Chair: Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba Program Committee: Michael Beigl, Technical University of Braunschweig Tapio Frantti, VTT Mike Hazas, Lancaster University Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn University Takeshi Iwamoto, KDDI Labs Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba Markus Koskela, Helsinki University of Technology Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich Perttu Laurinen, University of Oulu Silvia Nittel, University of Maine Joe Paradiso, MIT Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Prague Hiroki Saito, Tokyo Denki University Akio Sashima, AIST Kazunori Takashio, Keio University Yosuke Tamura, Fixstars Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University -- Hideyuki Kawashima (kawasima(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, +81-29-853-5322/5678/5051 http://www.kde.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~kawasima

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NLPIX2008 CFP
by Atsushi Fujii 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

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）投稿締切が来週に迫っております．来年4月に北京で開催されるWWW2008の併設ワークショップ NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008) の論文募集をお送りします．投稿締切は2008年1月26日です．多数の投稿をお待ちしております． ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WWW2008 Workshop NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------- Under the umbrella of Workshops on Language-centric Web Applications Beijing, China, April 22, 2008 http://www-tori.jaist.ac.jp:8000/NLPIX2008/index.html ================================================================== Submission deadline: January 26, 2008 ================================================================== [Workshop Abstract] The amount of information available on the Web has increased rapidly, reaching levels that few would ever have imagined possible. We live in what could be called the "information-explosion era," and this situation poses new problems for computer scientists. Users demand useful and reliable information from the Web in the shortest time possible, but the obstacles to fulfilling this demand are many including language barriers and the so-called "long tail." Even worse, users may provide only vague specifications of the information that they actually want, so that a more concrete specification must somehow be inferred by Web access tools. Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the key technologies for solving the above Web usability problems. Almost all information on the Web is provided in the form of natural language texts, and so in order to offer solutions to these problems we must perform searching and extracting information from the Web texts using NLP technologies. The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together in order to discuss our most pressing needs with respect to accessing information on the Web, and to discuss new ideas in NLP technologies that might offer viable solutions for those issues. [Workshop Theme and Topics] As users' demands for the Web diversify, it is often the case that existing commercial search engines cannot provide useful information. This workshop focuses on diversified users' needs that have not been sufficiently satisfied by the existing search engines and other technologies, and discusses new ideas in NLP techniques that might offer viable solutions. Therefore, we welcome submissions of original papers describing a wide range of applications of the NLP technologies to Web access. Possible topics of the submissions include, but are not limited to: * Cross-lingual and cross-cultural Web access using machine translation * Information extraction/fact retrieval from the Web * Disambiguation of entities/facts on the Web * Dialogue/Interactive/Exploratory systems for Web access using natural languages * Automatic summarization of Web documents * Combination/Discrimination of multiple document resources on the Web * Trust/credibility evaluation of Web documents using NLP * Opinion extraction/Sentiment analysis on the Web * Long tail/minority/serendipity search using NLP * Entity identification on the Web e.g. people name search * Knowledge Acquisition from the Web documents/query logs for effective Web access * Effective search methods for mobile devices using NLP * NLP-based blog analysis * Other advanced NLP-based Web access technologies In particular, we solicit the papers that aim at fulfilling a NOVEL type of needs in Web access and that can provide a new insight into future directions of Web access research. [Workshop Schedule/Important Dates] * Submission deadline: January 26, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: February 19, 2008 * Final version submission date: February 27, 2008 [Submission Detail] Submit your paper as a PDF file via our online submission system which is linked from our workshop web page. Submissions should follow the main conference of WWW2008 and should not exceed 10 pages. Middle-sized papers (e.g., 6-8 pages) are also welcome. The style files are available at the following URL: http://www2008.org/submissions/index.html Reviewing will be blind, so do not include any information which could reveal the authors' identity. The title section of your manuscript should not contain any author names, email addresses, or affiliation information. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. If the same paper is accepted for another conference before February 19, 2008, the author must notify the program chairs which meeting they choose to present their work by February 19, 2008. Once the paper is accepted for this workshop, the author is expected to present their work at this workshop. Each paper is reviewed by at least two PC members. [Workshop Organizers] * Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan, * Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan, [Program Committee] * Dr. Andrew Borthwick, Spock, USA * Dr. Lee-Feng Chien, Google, Taiwan * Dr. Silviu Cucerzan, Microsoft Research, USA * Prof. Oren Etzioni, University of Washington, USA * Prof. Atsushi Fujii, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Prof. Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain * Prof. Kentaro Inui, NAIST, Japan * Prof. Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science * Prof. Noriko Kando, NII, Japan * Dr. Reiner Kraft, Yahoo!, USA * Prof. Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, Japan * Prof. Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea * Dr. Mun-Kew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore * Dr. Hang Li, Microsoft, China * Dr. Dekang Lin, Google, USA * Dr. Bernardo Magnini, ITC-irst, Italy * Prof. Tatsunori Mori, Yokohama National University, Japan * Prof. Takashi Ninomiya, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Prof. Massimo Poesio, University of Trento/University of Essex, Italy/UK * Prof. Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA * Dr. Ralf Steinberger, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy * Prof. Le Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Dr. Junichi Tatemura, NEC Laboratories America, USA * Prof. Kentaro Torisawa, JAIST, Japan * Prof. Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Prof. Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China [Note] Participants registered for this workshop will also be allowed to attend sessions of the other half-day workshop "Question Answering on the Web" since the two with be treated as one workshop under the title "Workshops on Language-centric Web Applications" in the registration form.

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[CFP] 第11回WI2研究会（締切３日前）
by Yoshinori Hijikata 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様，大阪大学の土方です．発表申込締切の3日前になりましたので，再度案内させていただきます．3月22,23日に北九州学術研究都市　産学連携センターで予定されております第11回ウェブインテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会の，発表募集の案内です．招待講演は，「ライトウェイトセマンティックWebと次世代検索（仮）」を取り上げる予定です．積極的なご参加，お待ちしております． ===================================================================== 　第 11 回 Web インテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会　電子情報通信学会 HCG 第 2 種研究会 (SIG-WI2) 　発表募集のご案内 ===================================================================== 近年，Web 関連の研究は，Web ページ自体の検索にとどまらず，Web を利用する人々のコミュニケーションや各種データの融合など，非常に多岐に渡るようになりました．このような比較的新しい研究をベースに，評判検索など Web 上における新しいサービスも開始されるなど，Web に関連する新しい研究テーマはまだまだ登場してくるに違いありません．本研究会では，これらの流れを受け，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などについて議論する機会を設け，広く Web に関連する研究テーマに関する論文を募集いたします．なお，今回はHCGシンポジウムの一環として開催されます．【特別講演】テーマ：ライトウェイトセマンティックWebと次世代検索(仮) 講演者：中村聡史(京都大学)「タイトル未定」大向一輝(国立情報学研究所)「タイトル未定」【講演募集分野】　(A) 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　(B) 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　(C) 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　(D) 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【発表種別】　(1) ロング発表原稿 6 ページ，持ち時間 30 分 (20 分発表，10 分質疑応答) となります．実験結果などが出揃った分量の多い研究発表は，こちらでお申し込み　　ください．　(2) ショート発表　　原稿 2 ページ，持ち時間 15 分 (10 分発表，5 分質疑応答) となります．　　これからどのような研究をするかを説明するポジションペーパーの発表や，　　前回の発表からの進捗分の発表，サーベイ報告や，市場調査報告，ユーザアンケートの結果報告，システム開発報告，サービス提案などにご利用ください．　(注意点) 　　それぞれ，会場の都合などにより，持ち時間を短くさせていただくことも　　ありますので，ご了承ください．また，申込み件数が上限に達しましたら，　　その時点で申込み受付を終了させていただきますので，ご了承ください．【開催要領】　期日　平成 20 年 3 月 22 日(土)，23 日(日) 　会場　北九州学術研究都市　産学連携センター(予定) 　参加資格　特になし　発表申込の締切日　平成 20 年 1 月 21 日(月) 　原稿提出の締切日　平成 20 年 2 月 22 日(金) 　申込方法　発表題目，著者，所属，代表者連絡先(氏名，住所，TEL，　　　　　　　　E-mail)，発表種別(ロング発表かショート発表か)を　　　　　　　　下記の発表申込・問合先へE-mailでお知らせください．【発表申込・問合先】　櫻井茂明(東芝研究開発センター) 　〒212-8582 神奈川県川崎市幸区小向東芝町1 　E-mail：shigeaki.sakurai(a)toshiba.co.jp 主催　Web インテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会　　　　http://www.ieice.org/~wi2/ ------------- --- 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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【再送】情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」
by Kazutoshi SUMIYA 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様：情報処理学会DBS研主査の角谷でございます．以前にご案内いたしました，情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」の推薦締切りが今週末18日(金)17:00となっております．よろしくお願い申し上げます． ----------------------- Original Message ----------------------- From: Kazutoshi SUMIYA <sumiya(a)shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp> To: dbjapan(a)gms.dbsj.org Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:58:11 +0900 Subject: [dbjapan] 情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」 ---- 日本データベース学会の皆様：以下のような情報処理学会誌の特集が予定されております．該当する博士論文がございましたら，是非ともご推薦いただきますようお願い致します．なお，DBS研運営委員会で検討し，ご推薦いただいた中から１〜３件程度を研究会推薦として学会へ報告する予定です．よろしくお願い申し上げます． --------------------------------------------------------------- 兵庫県立大学環境人間学部環境人間学科社会システム環境学大講座環境情報コース(情報メディア研究室) 角谷和俊〒670-0092 姫路市新在家本町 1-1-12 A棟305号室 URL: http://www.shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp/sumiya/sumiya.html Tel/Fax: 079-292-9339 E-mail: sumiy(at)shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 情報処理学会誌特集「研究会推薦博士論文速報」企画　博士論文は、新しい理論を開拓し優れた実現法を与えることにより情報処理研究の発展に大きく寄与しています。このような博士論文の研究成果を、専門家だけではなく情報処理学会誌の読者にいち早く紹介することは大きな意義があります。学会全体で学位取得者を歓迎する雰囲気を作ることで、新博士に学会への親近感を持たせ今後の研究会等での活躍を期待できます。また、会員企業にとっては人材調査、新博士にとっては就職等の機会にもなると思われます。さらに、若い学生会員に対してもよい刺激を与えることになります。　情報処理学会誌では、各研究分野をカバーする約40研究会の主査の推薦により、その年度に新規に授与された優れた博士論文を情報処理学会誌の「研究会推薦博士論文速報」特集を通して読者に紹介する企画がスタートしました。研究会主査推薦の制度により、情報処理の各分野から優れた論文を定期的に読者に紹介することが可能になり、研究会の特徴と活性を主張することもできます。また、研究会推薦の博士論文の研究内容を紹介することで、各研究分野の最新研究動向を読者に知らせることができ、次年度以降に博士取得を志望する研究者の目標設定を容易にするなどの効果が期待されます。 ■ 対象 2006年4月-2007年3月までの博士論文 ■ 各博士論文に関する掲載形式と内容（予定）博士論文1件あたり学会誌の1／2ページ程度とし、次の内容を含む。・著者情報氏名、学位論文タイトル、取得年月、学位種別、大学、掲載時の所属、会員・非会員の別・内容の要約（一般向けにわかりやすく書く。読者の理解を助ける為のポンチ絵があることが望ましい。）・研究背景 - 対象問題 - 学術的な貢献または応用・推薦研究会（一言、簡単なコメント） (第一回目として2008年7月号の特集として掲載する予定) ■ 締め切り 2008年1月18日(金) 17:00 ■ 宛先 DBS研幹事 dbs-kanji(a)shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp ----------------------------- 推薦フォーマット -------------------------- 被推薦博士論文：題目: 著者: 所属： (現)所属: e-mail: tel: 推薦理由： (1) 本研究会の研究を宣伝できる面白い論文として推薦する。 (2) 国際的に高く評価されている研究として推薦する。 (3) 斬新なアイデアで高く評価される論文として推薦する。 (4) 大きな将来性を持つ研究として推薦する。 (5) 大きな実用性を持つ論文として推薦する。 (6) 新人賞として表彰できる研究として推薦する。 (7) その他（　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　）推薦文（一言、100文字以内）：推薦者：所属: 氏名: e-mail: tel: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 以上 --------------------- Original Message Ends --------------------

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[FYI] 2008 年 1 月勉強会「 Linux でデータベースを使ってみよう！」
by KIMURA, Meiji 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様木村明治＠Firebird日本ユーザー会です。首記の件、日本UNIXユーザー会(http://www.jus.or.jp/)の主催で、木村が講師を担当し、下記のように行われます。日時:2008年1月31日(木曜) 18:30〜20:30 (受付開始 18:10) 会場:東京体育館第一会議室内容: データベースの概略を紹介して、実際にLinuxで使えるデータベースとして、オープンソースデータベース御三家(Firebird, MySQL, PostgreSQL) のひとつFirebirdについてご紹介します。詳細URL: http://www.jus.or.jp/benkyokai/08-01.html 通常、非会員での参加となりますが、今回に限り、Firebird日本ユーザー会及び、日本データベース学会の方は「協力団体会員」扱いで参加できますので、上記の詳細URLを参照のうえ、興味がある方は是非ご参加ください。ご参考まで。 -- キムラデービー代表　木村明治(KIMURA, Meiji) http://kimuradb.com [News]「オープンソースDBの成熟度を計る[前編]」がWebで読めます。 http://opentechpress.jp/enterprise/article.pl?sid=07/09/20/023210

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第１回　大阪大学・京都大学・神戸大学連携シンポジウム
by Shojiro NISHIO 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

日本データベース学会の皆様冠省高度なソフトウェア技術者育成に関します以下のようなシンポジウムを開催しますのでご案内申し上げます。ご多用とは存じますが、お一人でも多くの方にご参加頂けますように何卒ご高配賜りたく、よろしくお願い申し上げます。西尾章治郎 8><================================================================ 第１回　大阪大学・京都大学・神戸大学連携シンポジウム　　　　　 −ソフトウェア技術者教育：期待と国際的な潮流− このたび、関西から世界に通用する人材を育成し、世界に向けて「知」を創出し、発信していくために、京都大学、大阪大学及び神戸大学の三大学が連携して、国際シンポジウムを開催することになりました。第１回目の本年度は大阪大学が幹事となり、「情報科学」分野を対象とし、特に高度なソフトウェア技術者育成に関するテーマを設定しました。インターネットやWeb技術の急速な発展は、システム開発技術に大きな変遷をもたらし、それらに対応できる技術者の育成は急務となりつつあります。世界的にも高度で先端的な技術をもつソフトウェア技術者は不足しており、各国では競ってその育成に力を注いでいます。本シンポジウムでは、国内外からソフトウェアに関する著名な研究者や実務家に集まっていただき、ソフトウェア技術者教育の現状やその課題について議論しますので、奮って御参加ください（参加費無料、同時通訳有）。申込は、Webページからお願いします（先着順約200名）。第１回　大阪大学・京都大学・神戸大学連携シンポジウム　　　　　　−ソフトウェア技術者教育：期待と国際的な潮流− http://www.3univ.jp/ 日時：平成20年2月27日（水）場所：大阪国際会議場12階特別会議室大阪市北区中之島5-3-51 主催：第１回三大学連携シンポジウム実行委員会委員長：鷲田　清一大阪大学総長副委員長：丸山　正樹京都大学理事・副学長西尾章治郎大阪大学理事・副学長太田　博史神戸大学理事・副学長問合せ先：三大学連携シンポジウム事務局 3univ(a)secretariat.ne.jp プログラム 10:00 オープニング ○「関西におけるソフトウェア技術者教育に対する期待」大竹　伸一西日本電信電話株式会社副社長・組込みソフト産業推進会議理事 ○「欧州におけるソフトウェア工学教育の現状」 Dieter Rombach Software Engineering Chair, University of Kaiserslautern Executive Director, The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering Director, ICT Group of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany 休憩 ○「米国のソフトウェア技術者教育の現状」 Paul Nielsen Director and CEO, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University ○「韓国でのソフトウェア技術者教育の現状 −情報通信大学ICUの例を中心に−」 Dan Hyung Lee Director of Software Technology Institute, Information and Communication University, Korea ○「インドのソフトウェア産業と人材育成の現状」 Gargi Keeni Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India 休憩 ○ パネル討論「日本におけるＩＴ教育の実践と今後の展開」司会　西尾章治郎大阪大学理事・副学長 * 文部科学省「先導的ITスペシャリスト育成推進プログラム」の紹介筑波大学グループ：北川博之　筑波大学教授東京大学グループ：竹内郁雄　東京大学教授慶應義塾大学グループ：山本喜一　慶應義塾大学教授名古屋大学グループ：野呂昌満　南山大学教授大阪大学グループ：井上克郎　大阪大学教授九州大学グループ：福田　晃　九州大学教授 * パネル上記6グループの講演者をパネリストとし、海外からの招待講演者を交えた討論を行う。 17:45 クロージング以上

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ISAS2008論文募集期限延期のご案内
by Takashi Nanya 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

皆様：メーリングリストをお借りして、来年5月19-21日に東京大学・駒場リサーチキャンパスで開催される「サービス・アベイラビリティ国際シンポジウム (ISAS2008)」の論文募集のご案内を再度させていただきます。論文投稿締め切りは、１月27日に延期されました。南谷　崇東京大学 .................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2008) Komaba Convention Hall, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan May 19-21, 2008 http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/ IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 27, 2008 Notification: Feb. 20, 2008 Sponsored by RCAST, University of Tokyo (http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/) Service Availability Forum (http://www.saforum.org) In Cooperation with IEICE TC on Dependable Computing GI TC on Dependability and Fault Tolerance Who should attend? What are the issues? The objective of this Symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different "service" related areas within both industry and academia. We specially encourage original papers addressing problems of service availability at all layers, including experience on: * Dependability in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA): What dependability requirements are imposed by users and law? How are these requirements addressed in the SOA ? * Dependability in heterogeneous integrated systems: what is the state of the art in dependable heterogeneous systems? Do we need new standards? * Development and design tools for dependability: how can we support the day to day design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of dependable systems? Can we automatically "create" dependable solutions? How can we integrate dependability properties in common development environments? * Certified dependability: How can we certify service-level agreements (SLA) and dependability properties in ongoing development work? Topics: All areas of service availability are solicited, including but not limited to: * Robust services and infrastructure design/modeling/evaluation * Dependability and security requirements, design and test ofservices and SLA's * Availability/reliability models for composable systems * Service development, analysis, testing - models, environments, tools * Dependable solutions based on Java * Availability standards for service implementation, certification, support * Service management - certification, rating, service agreements, support * Interfaces for service implementers - usability, security and availability * Modeling, measuring and implementing dependability and security of integrated information and communication services * Virtualization technologies and dependable services * User aspects of service availability - dependability, performance, security, privacy * Dependability tools integrated in Eclipse environment * Service discovery * Service improvement and enhancement * Highly available service system INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Manuscripts should be submitted (and clearly indicated) as either Regular Papers or Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original, unpublished work on current research and novel ideas. Practical Experience Reports should describe an experience or a case study. Submissions whose contributions are supported by experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. The title page should include the title of the paper, author name(s), affiliations, mailing address, e-mail address, a maximum of 150- word abstract, five keywords and the submission category. The format of submissions for review should be single-column, 11-point font size and double-spaced: Not more than 20 pages for Regular Papers and not more than 12 pages for Practical Experience Reports including figures, tables and references. Papers should be submitted electronically through the symposium web page. Accepted papers are planned to be published in the Symposium Proceedings in a Special Volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (please refer to the Authors Section "Information for LNCS Authors" at www.springer. com/lncs/ ). For further information, please visit our symposium web page: http:/ /www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac. jp/isas2008/ or contact M. Reitenspiess, the Steering Committee Chair of ISAS: Manfred. Reitenspiess@fujitsu- siemens.com . General Chair Takashi Nanya (U.Tokyo, Japan) Program Co-Chairs Andras Pataricza (Budapest U. Technology & Economics, Hungary) Fumihiro Maruyama (Fujitsu Lab., Japan) Finance Chair H. Nakamura (U.Tokyo, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair M. Imai (U.Tokyo, Japan) Registration Chair M. Kondo (U.Tokyo, Japan) Publicity Chair M. Reitenspiess (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Germany) Publication Chair M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany) Web Master H.Okamura (Hiroshima U., Japan) Steering Committee M. Reitenspiess (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Germany) S. Benlarbi (Alcatel, Canada) T. Dohi (Hiroshima U., Japan) M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany) D. Penkler (HP, France) F. Tam (Nokia, Finland) Program Committee A. Avritzer (Siemens, USA) D. Bakken (Washington S., USA) R. Baldoni (U. Roma, Italy) G. Chockler (IBM, Israel) C. Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany) F. Fraikin (SDM, Germany) R. Fricks (Motorola, USA) M. Funabashi (Hitachi, Japan) A. Gokhale (Vanderbilt, USA) K. Hidaka (IBM, Japan) M. Hiller (Volvo, Sweden) H. Ichikawa (UEC, Japan) K. Iwasaki (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan) Z. Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) T. Kikuno (Osaka Univ. Japan) A. Kovi (BME+OptXware, Hungary) S. Kuo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) V. Loll (Nokia, Denmark) M. R. Lyu (Chinese Univ., Hong Kong) V. Mendiratta (Lucent, USA) N. Milanovic (TU Berlin, Germany) A. Moorsel (U Newcastle, UK) A. Naseem (GoAhead, USA) A. Pasic (Atos Origin, Spain) H. Ramasamy (IBM Zurich, Switzerland) A. Romanovsky (U Newcastle, UK) S. Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan) P. Sinha (Philips India) H. Sun (Sun Microsystems, USA) N. Suri (TU Darmstadt, Germany) H. Szczerbicka (U Hannover, Germany) M. Toeroe (Ericsson, Canada) K. Trivedi (Duke U, USA) T. Katsuyama (Fujitsu Labs, Japan) K. Ueda (U. Tokyo, Japan) P. Urban (Google, Switzerland) S. Valcourt (U New Hampshire, USA) A. Wolski (Solid Tech., Finland) S. Yajnik (Avaya, USA) T. Yamanouchi (NEC, Japan) TBE For complete information on ISAS2008, please visit our website at <http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/> .....................................................................

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AToMS's presentation documents
by Motomu Naito 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

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・シナジーの内藤と申します。お蔭様で、AToMS (Asian Topic Maps Summit) 2007 は、無事終了致しました。ありがとうございました。発表資料を以下のサイトでご覧いただけます。 http://www.knowledge-synergy.com/news/atoms2007-presentations-en.html ご参考にしていただければと思います。 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Motomu Naito <motom(a)green.ocn.ne.jp> CEO, Knowledge Synergy Inc. 3-747-4-203, Kusunokidai, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-0037 Japan http://www.knowledge-synergy.com/ phone: +81-4-2993-0519 cell phone: +81-90-4926-1306 Delegate to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 (Topic Maps WG) from Japan

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情報爆発プロジェクト共催：国際ワークショップ SeNTIE2008の論文募集
by Takahiro HARA 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

日本データベース学会会員の皆様、阪大の原です。 4月末に北京にて開催されるMDM2008の併設ワークショップSeNTIEの論文募集を再送いたします。分野はセンサネットワーク一般となっております。是非、投稿をご検討ください。なお、アブスト登録締切は、*** 1月31日 *** となっております。 SeNTIEでは、国際ジャーナル（センサ系特集号）への推薦制度も設けております。【SeNTIE2008の特徴】・文部科学省科研費特定領域研究「情報爆発プロジェクト」（領域代表：東大・　喜連川優先生）が協賛しています。・モバイルデータ管理に関する世界トップクラスの国際会議MDMの併設ワーク　ショップです。ワークショップの参加は通常の会議参加費に含まれているた　め、追加費用は不要です。・論文集はIEEEから出版予定です。デジタルライブラリにも含まれる予定です。・Web系の国際会議WWW2008と連続した日程となっています。・優秀ないくつかの論文は、国際ジャーナル(IJCNDS)の特集号へと推薦されま　す。原　隆浩 --------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Sensor Networks Technologies for Information Explosion Era (SeNTIE2008) April 27, 2008 (Beijing China) in conjunction with International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2008) URL: http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/ --------------------------------------------------------------- What's new - Paper submission is now open!! http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/submit/ - Some distinguished papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS). http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/ijcnds/ --------------------------------------------------------------- In recent few years, various types of sensor networks have been deployed at many places and information generated by sensors has increased rapidly. Thus, we are in a time which we could call the "information-explosion era." In the information-explosion era, establishing new techniques for both data processing and communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a crucial and challenging issue. This workshop (SeNTIE'08) aims to provide a platform for discussing open issues, current challenges and solutions, as well as directions for future research on data processing and communication techniques of WSNs in the information-explosion era. The workshop intends to bring together researches and practitioners in a broad range of topics related to WSNs in both theoretical and practical experience aspects. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS: - Data processing in WSNs - Data aggregation in WSNs - Query processing and routing in WSNs - Routing protocol in WSNs - Mobile sensor networks - Cross layer approach in WSNs - Efficient deployment of large-scale WSNs - Handling inaccuracy, unreliability and data loss - Energy and time efficient data delivery - Applications of data intensive sensor networks - Application-driven sensor data interrogation - Managing intensive data streams over sensor networks - Semantic descriptions of sensors and sensor data - Sharing, annotation, and (distributed) management of sensor data - Data mining and warehousing in WSNs --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstract submission: January 31(Thu), 2008 - Paper submission: February 6(Wed), 2008 - Notification of acceptance: March 21(Fri), 2008 - Camera-ready due: April 5(Fri), 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their papers via the SeNTIE2008 web site (http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sentie2008/) by Feb. 6, 2008. An electronic, PDF based submission of papers is mandatory. The paper length should not exceed 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Proceedings will be printed in hardcopy with IEEE Press and will be included in IEEE Explore. The registration fee will be one flat fee that includes all the main conference + workshops + seminars (No extra charge for attending workshops). --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: -Workshop Chairs: Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Vladimir I. Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland) -Program Committee Members: Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland) Klemens Boehm (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Germany) Bharat K Bhargava (Purdue University, USA) Erik Buchmann (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Germany) Sergio Ilarri (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Antonis Deligiannakis (University of Athens, Greece) Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Alvaro Fernandes (University of Manchester, UK) Dimitrios Gunopulos (UC Riverside, USA) Himanshu Gupta (Stony Brook University, USA) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan) Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) Akimitsu Kanzaki (Osaka University, Japan) Nobuo Kawaguchi (Nagoya University, Japan) Hideyuki Kawashima (Keio University, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yannis Kotidis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Prashant Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Vijay Kumar (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA) Alex Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Jerry Lynch (University of Michigan, USA) Sanjay Kumar Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Bonn, Germany) Masateru Minami (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan) Mario A. Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada) Vladimir Oleshchuk (Agder University College, Norway) George Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark) Mohamed Sharaf (University of Toronto, Canada) Anthony Stefanidis (George Mason University, USA) Duc Tran (University of Massachusetts, USA) Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan) Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tomoki Yoshihisa (Kyoto University, Japan) Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia) Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) --------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop will be partially organized and supported by Japan MEXT grant-in-aid for Priority area Research called Cyber Infrastructure for the Information-explosion Era. (Principal Researcher: Prof. M. Kitsuregawa) ---------------------------------------------------------------

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