KUPA'07 - Call for Papers First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications Regensburg, Germany, 3-7 September 2007 Website - http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~kupa07 ** Abstract due: 5 March 2007 ** KUPA'07 is the First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications, which is organized in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'07) in Regensburg, Germany, on 3-7 September 2007. Description ----------- Due to recent advancements in communication technology, computing, and storage resources, ubiquitous and pervasive applications are becoming increasingly popular. However, the large scale integration and examination of heterogeneous and independent data and knowledge sources has created new issues and challenges for knowledge management and acquisition. The objective of this workshop is to bring together academics and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and heterogeneous environments. Topics ------ Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and/or heterogeneous environments * Data mining in sensor networks, mobile and embedded systems * Mining temporal and spatial data * Data stream mining * Sequential pattern mining * Link analysis and community discovery * Visual data mining * Mining from data warehouses * Machine learning techniques for distributed environments and applications * Agent-based architectures for knowledge management and discovery * Knowledge integration and data fusion * Security, privacy, and trust issues * Applications in communication, internet, industry automation, medicine, multimedia, etc. Important Dates --------------- Abstract due March 5, 2007 Full paper due March 12, 2007 Authors notification April 30, 2007 Camera-ready copy May 22, 2007 Author registration May 22, 2007 Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to IEEE Computer Society format (two columns, letter size 8.5"x11") and should not exceed 5 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Check the DEXA website (http://www.dexa.org/guidelines) for more details on formatting guidelines. All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will be handled electronically through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Workshop Organizers ------------------- HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRS: T. Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada PROGRAM CHAIRS (CONTACT: kupa07 [AT] cs.umanitoba.ca): Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Christel Kemke, University of Manitoba, Canada Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PARTIAL LIST): Darcy Benoit, Acadia University, Canada Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107, Lyon, France Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK Imran Khan, University of Manitoba, Canada Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Andreas Wichert, Universidade Technica de Lisboa, Portugal Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA Zhiwen Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA