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Extended Deadline: "AGENTS for BUSINESS AUTOMATION"
by HP 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 12, 2002 *************************************************** * " AGENTS for BUSINESS AUTOMATION " * *************************************************** http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA-02/

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International Conference on E-Technologies in Engineering Education
by Bernd Simon 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

>From: Auer Michael <m.auer(a)fh-kaernten.ac.at> >To: icl(a)icl-workshop.org >X-Sender: auer(a)192.168.6.29 >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:38:57 +0100 >Subject: International Conference on E-Technologies in Engineering > Education >Sender: owner-icl(a)icl-workshop.org > >We would like to bring to your attention an upcoming international conference on the use of electronic technologies in engineering education to be held August 11-16, 2002 in Davos, Switzerland. Below is a general announcement for the conference. Among the issues to be addressed is professional continuing engineering education. We invite those interested to visit the conference website at http://www.engfnd.org/2bb.html for application information. Please feel free to forward the announcement to those who you feel may have an interest in the conference. > >Thank you! > >Jack R. Lohmann >Conference Co-Chair >and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, >College of Engineering, and >Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering >Georgia Institute of Technology >Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0360 >USA >Telephone (+1) 404-894-3350 >Fax (+1) 404-894-0168 > > > >UNITED ENGINEERING FOUNDATION >THREE PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10016-5902 >Tel.: +1-212-591-7836 Fax: +1-212-591-7441 > >General Announcement >Call for Abstracts >Planning Deadline: March 1, 2002 > > >E-Technologies in Engineering Education: >Learning Outcomes Providing Future Possibilities > >August 11-16, 2002 >Davos, Switzerland > >Focus of the Conference >Electronic technologies (e-technologies) are being infused rapidly into the learning process and infrastructure of engineering education as a result of the spectacular improvements in their computing power, communications capability, ease of use, and declining cost. They also offer unique pedagogical opportunities to enhance student learning: they promote exploratory and interactive modes of inquiry, support and facilitate team-oriented collaborations, and expand the ease of access to engineering education across institutional, geographical, and cultural boundaries, among others. However, the infusion of these powerful technologies into engineering education has led to an active debate as to their benefits and limitations. Some of the unresolved challenges include questions such as: > > What new skills and experiences are students expected to bring to this learning environment? > How should both learners and e-technologies be measured, evaluated, and assessed? > What are effective ways to use e-technologies to enable laboratory work? > What kinds of collaboration tools enhance team-oriented or project-based learning? > What personnel and technical infrastructures work best in support of users of e-technologies? > What are the critical enhancers and barriers for the creation and deployment of new e-technologies? > How will e-technologies impact certification and accreditation of engineering education programs? > What are effective ways to leverage interactions within the international engineering education community to produce better electronic technology-based environments and materials? > >Central to the use of e-technologies is the belief that they can be used to improve student learning. Thus, the focus of this conference is to examine and discuss: How are electronic technologies used now to improve engineering student learning and performance, and how should they be used in the future? > >Conference Objectives, Activities, and Format >The conference is organized to achieve three objectives: 1) promote an interchange among the participants of the international perspectives and current practices involving e-technologies to improve engineering student learning; 2) exhibit current and emerging e-technologies used in engineering education, and 3) develop a vision of the future and a taxonomy of performance objectives (learning outcomes) for improved engineering student learning through e-technologies, and a road map to achieve it. > >The principal activities of the conference include keynote speakers, invited and contributed presentations, exhibits of e-technologies, and facilitated breakout sessions. Each day will focus on a major theme and address all three objectives through keynote speakers and invited and contributed presentations in the mornings, exhibits of current and emerging e-technologies in the late afternoon, and facilitated breakout sessions in the early evening. In the final half-day, using the information and ideas shared during the conference, the results will be pulled together into an overall integrated vision. Thus, the conference can be viewed as the combination of three meetings: a colloquium involving presentations on the international developments and directions of e-technologies in engineering education, a workshop exhibiting current and emerging e-technologies, and a retreat of thought-provoking discussions focused on the role of e-technologies in the future to improve engineering student learning and performance. > >The conference registration fee includes room and board, conference proceedings and related materials, brief morning and afternoon coffee/tea breaks, extended afternoon breaks (with at least one organized excursion), evening receptions, and conference banquet. The format employed by the United Engineering Foundation conferences allows abundant interaction, discussion, and networking among the conference participants. It is hoped that relationships initiated at the conference will lead to collaborative efforts to further develop and deploy effective e-technologies in the international engineering education community. > >Participation in the Conference >The conference structure assures that each attendee has an opportunity for a participatory role. There are four principal ways to participate in the conference. > > Participants may present a paper in a morning plenary session of the conference during the first three days. Papers are expected to be about 2,500 to 4,000 words (approximately three to six single-spaced pages), and they will be published in both the pre-conference and post-conference proceedings. > > Participants may publish an educational brief of about 1,500 to 2,500 words in both the pre-conference and post-conference proceedings. While educational briefs will not be presented at plenary sessions of the conference, they provide an opportunity for participants to share their thoughts and experiences with all of the attendees and contribute formally to the conference dialogue. > > Participants may exhibit an e-technology at an afternoon plenary session. Abstracts of up to 300 words describing the exhibits will be published in both the pre-conference and post-conference proceedings. (Exhibits linked to papers and educational briefs are encouraged.) > > Participants may contribute to the conference discussions as an attendee drawing upon their interests, experiences, or expertise with e-technologies in engineering education. Abstracts of up to 300 words describing participant interests, experiences, or expertise will be published in the pre-conference proceedings to raise awareness of these participants interests, experiences, or expertise, and to facilitate networking among other attendees at the conference. > >Participation in the conference is extended to all individuals who are developers, publishers, users, evaluators, and supporters of e-technology in engineering education from the international community in academia, industry, accreditation bodies, and government organizations. More specifically, this includes the following groups: > > university faculty, staff, and administrators involved with developing, deploying, and using e-technologies in engineering education; > industry leaders, developers, and users involved with and concerned about distance learning and life-long education; > experts in the technical development of e-technologies, and experts in the assessment of the effectiveness of e-technologies; > members of government agencies that fund or facilitate the development and use of e-technologies; and > representatives of accreditation bodies with interests in the impact of e-technologies on the quality of engineering education. > >Submission of Abstracts >In order to ensure meaningful interaction and networking among all the participants, attendance at the conference will be limited. Persons wishing to participate in the conference need to register their interest by completing the online application form at <http://www.engfnd.org/2bb.html> and submit separately on the same site an abstract of up to 300 words for either a paper, an educational brief, an exhibit of an e-technology, or a participant statement of interests, experiences, or expertise in e-technologies in engineering education. > >The planning deadline for the submission of biographical sketches and abstracts is March 1, 2002. Notification of the acceptance of abstracts will begin about March 15, 2002. Submissions after the planning deadline will be considered as received, but acceptance to participate in the conference will depend on the availability of openings. Authors of an abstract accepted for a paper or an educational brief will be provided detailed guidelines for the submission of their manuscripts. The deadline for receipt of all manuscripts is May 31, 2002. > >Conference Presentations and Proceedings >All presentations require a paper published in the pre-conference proceedings; similarly, all e-technology exhibits require a description of the demonstration published in the pre-conference proceedings. All presentations and e-technology exhibits must be made by at least one of the authors. Further, participants must register for the conference no later than June 28, 2002 to guarantee the publication of their biographical sketches, papers, educational briefs, abstracts of e-technology exhibits, or abstracts of participant statements in the pre-conference proceedings. Participants must also attend the conference for their materials to appear in the post-conference proceedings. > >Both pre-conference and post-conference proceedings will be provided to all participants. The pre-conference proceedings will be made available no later than the beginning of the conference and it will include the manuscripts submitted (and their abstracts), abstracts of e-technology exhibits, abstracts of participant statements of interests, experiences, and expertise, and all participant biographical sketches. The post-conference proceedings is expected to be made available within four months after the conference and it will include the material from the pre-conference proceedings, the speakers presentation materials, and a report of the shared vision, taxonomy, and road map developed. The report on the future of e-technologies in engineering education will be developed by the conference organizers and other interested attendees and shared with the participants for comments and suggestions before publication in the post-conference proceedings. > >Overhead projection and computer projection will be provided for presentations at the plenary sessions. Participants exhibiting e-technologies should anticipate bringing all the necessary equipment for their exhibit, especially computer equipment. If some non-computing equipment is desired at the conference site (e.g., VCR), those needs must be made known and worked out with the conference co-chairs before the presentation or exhibit will be accepted for inclusion in the conference. Internet connections are available, but they are limited. > >Conference Organizers >Co-Chairs: >Jack R. Lohmann, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA >Michael L. Corradini, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA > >Organizing Committee: >Neal E. Armstrong, University of Texas-Austin, USA; Chris C. Bissell, Open University, United Kingdom; John E. Berndt, Sprint (Retired), USA; Ivan Gibson, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland; Randy J. Hinrichs, Microsoft Research, USA; Wayne C. Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, USA; Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand; Piet Kommers, Twente University, Netherlands; Itsuo Ohnaka, Osaka University, Japan; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA > >Persons interested in helping to develop the conference or serve on the Organizing Committee should contact one of the conference co-chairs at either <jack.lohmann(a)coe.gatech.edu> or <corradini(a)engr.wisc.edu>. > >Current Conference Co-Sponsors >Educational Research and Methods Division, American Society for Engineering Education; Learning Technologies Task Force, IEEE Computer Society; Working Group on Information and Communications Technologies, Société Européene pour la Formation des Ingénieurs > >United Engineering Foundation Conferences >United Engineering Foundation Conferences were established in 1962 to provide an opportunity for the exploration of problems and issues of concern to engineers from many disciplines. The format of the Conference provides morning and evening sessions in which major presentations are made. Time is available during the afternoons for ad hoc meetings and informal discussions and is designed to enhance rapport among participants and prompt dialogue on the developments of the meeting. We believe the Conferences have been instrumental in generating ideas and disseminating information to a greater extent than is possible through more conventional forums. All participants are expected to contribute actively to the discussions. > >United Engineering Foundation Conference Fellowship Program >The United Engineering Foundation sponsors a Conferences Fellowship Program. Applicants are limited to those currently active in engineering or related professions with a direct interest in the conference topic. They must be within ten years of their first professional degree at the time their application is submitted. The stipend is sufficient to cover the conference registration fee and on-site room and board. Transportation expenses are not included. Application information may be obtained by fax from UEF or at <http://www.engfnd.org>. The deadline for the fellowship application is May 31, 2002. > >Davos Conference Center and Cresta Sun Hotel >The conference will be held at the Davos Conference Center (Kongress-zentrum). The Conference Center has complete conference facilities and ample room for exhibits and posters. Conference participants will be housed at two or three hotels (Cresta Sun, Cresta and Kongress) close to each other. All are only a two-minute walk to the technical session and Congress Center. All participants will enjoy meals together at the Cresta Sun Hotel. > >Davos >Davos, the highest town (1560 m) in Europe, is a well-known ski resort and summer hiking and climbing center in the eastern Swiss province of GraubOnden. It is not far from the Austrian border, southeast of Zurich, and north of St. Moritz. All hiking trails should be open. Three mountain passes are located within approximately one hour of Davos -Fluela Pass, Bernina Pass, and Julier Pass. Historic Chur, originally a Roman town, is full of excellent museums and Davos boasts a renowned art gallery housing many of the works of Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner. > >More information on Switzerland and the Davos area in particular can be obtained from the Swiss National Tourist Office (NY: +1-212-757-5944; fax: +1-212-262-6116) or the Davos Tourist Office: +41-81-415-2121; fax: +41-81-415-2100; <www.davos.ch>). The Tourist office prints a list of current events weekly and inserts their brochure "Davos Information" which can be obtained both at the hotels and Tourist Office. There are a wide variety of activities in the area including hiking, windsurfing, mountain biking, horseback riding, golf, tennis and sailing, and visiting the art museum, art galleries, cheese factory, microbrewery, and medicinal herb garden. The brochure also includes information on excursions by post bus and coach (e.g., to Wiesen-Lenzerheide, Scuol, Via Mala, Chur, St. Moritz) and Rhaetian Railway. Guests may be particularly interested in these excursions. An optional conference excursion is planned one afternoon. Three mountain passes are located within approximately one hour of Davos: Fluela Pass, Bernina Pass, and Julier Pass. > >Transportation to Davos >The nearest airport is Zurich-Kloten. There is also an efficient and picturesque train service from the airport to Davos that takes less than three hours. The hotel will provide pick-up service at the train station. Once in Davos, each participant will receive a transit pass that will allow free transportation within Davos and three stops in either direction. This is ideal for visiting the local area. > >Conference Fees >The conference fee is all-inclusive. It includes registration, conference publication, accommodation, meals, taxes and gratuities from dinner on Sunday through breakfast on Friday. The fees are tentatively set at: > >Participant (single occupancy) $US 1365.00 >Participant (sharing a room with another participant) $US 1245.00 >Bona fide graduate student (sharing a room with another participant) $US 810.00 >Guest (sharing a room with participant, all meals included) $US 450.00 > > > >For further information, please contact: >Engineering Foundation Conferences >3 Park Avenue, 21 Floor, New York, NY 10016-5902 >engfnd(a)aol.com - <www.engfnd.org> > >13/2/02

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Fwd: FW: M-BUSINESS 2002 - Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: FW: M-BUSINESS 2002 - Call for Papers Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:08:28 -0800 From: "Prof. Georgios I. Doukidis" <gjd(a)aueb.gr> To: <gjd(a)aueb.gr> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call. Please feel free to distribute a copy to those who might be interested. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Announcement and Call for Papers / Submissions M-BUSINESS 2002 The First International Conference on Mobile Business 8-9 July 2002, Athens, Greece http://www.mobiforum.org/mBusiness-2002 -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: SEAL'02-ICONIP'02-FSKD'02 Call For Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: SEAL'02-ICONIP'02-FSKD'02 Call For Papers Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:51:46 +0800 From: nef(a)ntu.edu.sg To: <neumann(a)computer.org> [Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announce- ment or if you are not interested in it. We would greatly appreciate it if you could forward this CFP to your colleagues.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02) 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- November 18 - 22, 2002, Orchid Country Club, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef Organized by: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sponsored by: Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees In Co-Operation with: IEEE Neural Network Society International Neural Network Society European Neural Network Society SPIE Supported by: Lee Foundation Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS, SPONSORSHIPS, AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SEAL'02, ICONIP'02, and FSKD'02 will be jointly held in Orchid Country Club, Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not only feature the most up-to-date research results in evolutionary computation, neural information processing, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to any one of the conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to two of the major attractions in Singapore, i.e., Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island. Many well- known researchers will present keynote speeches, panel discussions, invited lectures, and tutorials. About Singapore --------------- Located at one of the most important crossroads of the world, Singapore is truly a place where East and West come together. Here you will find Chinese, Indian, and Malay communities living together, their long established cultures forming a unique backdrop to a clean and modern garden city. English is spoken everywhere and is the common business language of all. Few places on earth promise such a delight for the palate, with gourmet cuisine from over 30 countries. Exotic resorts in neighboring countries are only a short bus/ferry ride away. Orchid Country Club (OCC) ------------------------- The venue for this year's conferences is at one of Singapore's premier country clubs, a 25-minute bus ride from the city. Away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Singapore, the tranquil setting of the resort is ideal for serious technical discussions with an accommodating space and ambience for relaxation. Not to miss out on the splendor of downtown Singapore, the organizer has also secured good quality and affordable accommodation in the heart of the city with pre-arranged transport to/from the OCC. For golf enthusiasts, OCC is equipped with the largest computerized driving range in South East Asia and boasts of a 27-hole golf course with facilities for night golfing, ideal for relaxation after each day of technical discussions. Visit the OCC website at http://www.orchidclub.com Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island -------------------------------------- It is said that a visit to Singapore is not complete without making a trip to two of the Republic's famous attractions. The only one of its kind in the world, the Night Safari provides a setting for visitors to experience what it is like to observe animals in their nocturnal habitat. The island of Sentosa offers some unique attractions and a visit there will also provide a glimpse and imagery of Singapore's past and present. Visits to these two attractions will be included as recreation for the joint conference. (Websites: http://www.zoo.com.sg/safari/, http://www.sentosa.com.sg) Topics of Interest ------------------ The joint conferences welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide in but not limited to the following areas. SEAL'02: ~~~~~~~ THEORY - Co-evolution, Coding methods, Collective behavior METHODOLOGY - Evolution strategies, Genetic algorithms, Genetic programming, Molecular and quantum computing, Evolvable hardware, Multi-objective optimization, Ant colony, Artificial ecology EVOLUTIONARY LEARNING - Artificial life, Bayesian evolutionary algorithms HYBRID SYSTEMS - Evolutionary neuro-fuzzy systems, Soft computing APPLICATIONS - Scheduling, Operations research, Design, etc ICONIP'02: ~~~~~~~~~ NATURAL NEURAL SYSTEMS - Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Neuro- physiology, Brain imaging, Learning and memory ARTIFICIAL NEURAL MODELS - Learning algorithms, Neural modeling and architectures, Neurodynamics COGNITIVE SCIENCE - Perception, emotion, and cognition, Selective attention, Vision and auditory models HARDWARD IMPLEMENTATION - Artificial retina & cochlear chips HYBRID SYSTEMS - Neuro-fuzzy systems, Evolutionary neural nets, etc APPLICATIONS - Bioinformatics, Finance, Manufacturing, etc. FSKD'02: ~~~~~~~ THEORY AND FOUNDATIONS - Fuzzy theory and models, Uncertainty management, Statistical & probabilistic data mining, Computing with words, Rough sets, Intelligent agents METHODS AND ALGORITHMS - Classification, Clustering, Information retrieval & fusion, Data warehousing & OLAP, Fuzzy hardware, Visualization, Decision trees, Data preprocessing HYBRID SYSTEMS - Evolutionary neuro-fuzzy systems, Soft computing APPLICATIONS - Control, Optimization, Natural language processing, Forecasting, Human-computer interaction, etc. Special Sessions ---------------- The conferences will feature special sessions on specialized topics to encourage in-depth discussions. To propose a special session, email the session title, name of the conference under which the special session will be organized, contact information of the organizer(s), and a short description on the theme and topics covered by the session to Xin Yao, Special Sessions Chair (x.yao(a)cs.bham.ac.uk), with a copy to Lipo Wang, General Chair (Cc: elpwang(a)ntu.edu.sg). Sponsorship ----------- The conferences will offer product vendors a sponsorship package and/or an opportunity to interact with conference participants. Product demonstration and exhibition can also be arranged. For more information, please visit the conference website or contact Tong Seng Quah, Sponsorship/Exhibition Chair (itsquah(a)ntu.edu.sg), with a copy to Lipo Wang, General Chair (Cc: elpwang(a)ntu.edu.sg). Keynote Speakers ---------------- Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan David Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA Mitsuo Kawato, ATR, Japan Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham, UK Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Registration Fee ---------------- The registration fee for regular participants before August 15, 2002 is S$680 (approximately US$370 as at February 6, 2002), which includes the proceedings, lunches, banquet, and tours. Submission of Papers -------------------- Authors are invited to submit electronic files (postscript, pdf or Word format) through the conference home page. Papers should be double-column and use 10 pt Times Roman or similar fonts. The final version of a paper should not exceed 5 pages in length. A selected number of accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in edited books and peer-reviewed journals, such as "Soft Computing" and "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag. Important Dates --------------- Paper/Summary Deadline : April 30, 2002 Notification of Acceptance : July 15, 2002 Final Paper/ Registration : August 15, 2002 Honorary Conference Chairs -------------------------- Shun-ichi Amari, Japan Hans-Paul Schwefel, Germany Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA International Advisory Board ---------------------------- Sung-Yang Bang, Korea Meng Hwa Er, Singapore David B. Fogel, USA Toshio Fukuda, Japan A. Galushkin, Russia Tom Gedeon, Australia Zhenya He, China Mo Jamshidi, USA Nikola Kasabov, New Zealand Sun-Yuan Kung, USA Tong Heng Lee, Singapore Erkki Oja, Finland Nikhil R. Pal, India Enrique H. Ruspini,USA Harcharan Singh, Singapore Ah Chung Tsoi, Australia Shiro Usui, Toyohashi, Japan Lei Xu, China Benjamin W. Wah, USA Donald C. Wunsch II, USA Xindong Wu, USA Youshou Wu, China Yixin Zhong, China Jacek M. Zurada, USA Advisor ------- Alex C. Kot, Singapore General Chair ------------- Lipo Wang, Singapore Program Co-Chairs ----------------- ICONIP'02: Kunihiko Fukushima, Japan Soo-Young Lee, Korea Jagath C. Rajapakse, Singapore SEAL'02: Takeshi Furuhashi, Japan Jong-Hwan Kim, Korea Kay Chen Tan, Singapore FSKD'02: Saman Halgamuge, Australia Special Sessions: Xin Yao, UK Finance Chair ------------- Charoensak Charayaphan, Singapore Local Arrangement Chair ----------------------- Meng Hiot Lim, Singapore Proceedings Chair ----------------- Farook Sattar, Singapore Publicity Chair --------------- Chunru Wan, Singapore Sponsorship/Exhibition Chair ---------------------------- Tong Seng Quah, Singapore Tutorial Chair -------------- P. N. Suganthan, Singapore For More Information -------------------- Please visit the conference home page or contact: Lipo Wang, ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 General Chair School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Block S2, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: elpwang(a)ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65 6790 6372 Conference Secretariat ---------------------- ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 Secretariat Conference Management Center/CCE, NTU Administration Annex Building #04-06 42 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815 Email: nef(a)ntu.edu.sg Fax: +65 6793 0997 -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: CFP: IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking (CFP deadline: April 10th)
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking (CFP deadline: April 10th) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:37:41 +0900 From: "B. Brachlow" <bbrachlow(a)gmx.de> To: ISWORLD(a)LISTSERV.HEANET.IE CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- IEEE International Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking (KMN'02) July 10-12, 2002 Kyoto, Japan http://lttf.ieee.org/kmn2002/ ** Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society ** Post-conference Proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press ** Deadlines Submission Deadline: April 10, 2002 Acceptance Notification: June 3, 2002 Final Paper Due: July 10, 2002 ** Topics of interests include (but not limited): . Interconnection of heterogeneous communities, resource sharing, Quality of Service . Sensors, mobile devices networking, ad-hoc networking applications, active networking applications . How can people socially augment knowledge bandwidth, through gathering, discussing, annotating and rating? . What types of agents should be offered and what roles should they have (distributed cognition, dynamic adaptation, focus of attention, social awareness..)? . What kind of rules, artifacts, conventions and infrastructure must be provided to help community members self organize and manage their affairs, increase knowledge bandwidth, develop a feeling of social awareness? . Architectural aspects of designing knowledge media spaces (3D virtual presence, Internet, Agents, Mobility, VRML, MPEG4, MPEG7, TV) ** Co-Chairs: Prof. Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Dr. Bokuji Komiyama, ATR Labs, Japan Mr. Tatsuya Yamazaki, CRL, Japan ** Program Chair: Dr. Tadahiko Kumamoto, CRL, Japan ** Steering Committee Co-chairs: Dr. Fawzi Daoud, CRL, Japan Asso. Prof. Kinshuk, Massey University, NZ ** Steering Committee Members: Mike Freeman, Computer Sciences Corporation, USA Katherine M. Sinitsa, IRTCITS, Ukraine Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland Takahiko Nomura, Fujixerox, Japan Local Arrangements Chair: Dr. Bing Zhang, ATR, Japan ** Submissions Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be electronically submitted as PDF or PostScript files to kmn02(a)khn.crl.go.jp. Position papers of two to three pages in length can also be submitted. Papers should be formatted according to IEEE Computer Society guidelines available at: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm All submisson should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. Authors are also required to provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting electronic address. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers should be electronically submitted to kmn02(a)khn.crl.go.jp. Further details are available at: http://lttf.ieee.org/kmn2002/ ___________________________________________________________________ |The Sender assumes responsibility that this message conforms to the |ISWorld list policy and conditions of use available at: |http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist |----------------------- ISWorld Net Footer ------------------------ | Need help with ISWorld? -> http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist | If you can't find an answer contact isworld_manager(a)cornell.edu |___________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: SIGCHI_NZ Symposium Call for papers
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: SIGCHI_NZ Symposium Call for papers Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:09:38 +1300 From: Kinshuk <kinshuk_admin(a)INSPIRE.NET.NZ> To: ISWORLD(a)LISTSERV.HEANET.IE CALL FOR PAPERS SIGCHI-NZ Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/chinz2002 University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ July 11th - July 12th 2002 Human-Computer Interaction is the noble face of Computer Science. It's the part that can bring hope to an increasingly push-button world that often seems frustrating and confusing to users. The 3rd Annual ACM SIGCHI NZ symposium on Computer-Human Interaction will bring together New Zealand's growing community of interactive system researchers and industry practitioners. The two-day event will encourage, inspire and motivate us all to make our users' lives, our communities and society better. Harold Thimbleby, the internationally renowned and innovative HCI researcher who is Director of the University College London Interaction Centre UK, will give the opening Keynote. The programme will also provide many opportunities for us to share new interactive techniques, technologies and methods and to pursue collaborative opportunities. And, of course, with a good social programme, there will be times to relax, catch-up and enjoy the visit to Waikato. We encourage submission of detailed research findings, work-in-progress, case-studies, industrial perspectives, student work and system demonstrations. IMPORTANT DATES 10th May 2002 all submissions due 10th June 2002 response to authors 24th June 2002 final submissions due PAPERS Full paper submissions are invited in all areas of Computer-Human Interaction. We also welcome proposals for posters and system demonstrations. Papers should be no more than 6 pages in length. Details of the required format and the submission process can be accessed at www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/chinz2002/authors.html SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME The symposium will take place over two days. The proposed schedule comprises: four research paper sessions, two keynote speakers, an industry session, posters and a panel discussion. A draft schedule can be accessed at www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/chinz2002/programme.html REGISTRATION The conference fee is $200 ($110 for presenters who are full-time students). This will cover all symposium sessions, morning and afternoon refreshments, 2 lunches, the conference dinner (on Thursday night) and a printed copy of the proceedings. Participants will also be given a year's membership to the NZ Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction (www.acm.org/chapters/sigchi_nz). Full registration details will be available shortly at www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/chinz2002/registration.html CONTACT General enquiries enquiries_chinz2002(a)list.scms.waikato.ac.nz Submission enquiries submissions_chinz2002(a)list.scms.waikato.ac.nz Postal address CHI NZ Symposium Chair Department of Computer Science University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 Hamilton, New Zealand Tel: +64 7 838 4021 Fax: +64 7 858 5095 SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Matt Jones Mark Apperley Laurie McLeod Masood Masoodian Bill Rogers Kirsten Thomson Sally Jo Cunningham Chris Knowles Beryl Plimmer Amos Jeffries Anette Steel Steve Jones ___________________________________________________________________ |The Sender assumes responsibility that this message conforms to the |ISWorld list policy and conditions of use available at: |http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist |----------------------- ISWorld Net Footer ------------------------ | Need help with ISWorld? -> http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist | If you can't find an answer contact isworld_manager(a)cornell.edu |___________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: CFP: CoopIS 2002
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: CoopIS 2002 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:00:06 -0500 From: Ugur Cetintemel <ugur(a)CS.BROWN.EDU> To: ISWORLD(a)LISTSERV.HEANET.IE C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2002) October 30 - November 1, Irvine, California http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis/2002 Proceedings to be published by IEEE Press The Cooperative Information System (CIS) paradigm has been growing and gaining substantial importance in technological infrastructure (e.g., middleware and Web technologies) and application areas (e.g., e-Commerce, e-Government, virtual enterprises). CoopIS is the leading conference for researchers and practitioners in CIS. CoopIS brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines such as collaborative work, Internet data management, electronic commerce, human-computer interaction, agent technologies, and software architectures. We encourage papers that emphasize cooperation across multiple areas. CoopIS 2002 is a joint event with two other conferences organized within the global theme "On the Move to meaningful Internet Systems 2002: Distributed Object and Applications (DOA) and Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE). All three events will be hosted in Irvine during the week October 28 - November 1, 2002. More details about the federated event can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf. The CoopIS 2002 has the theme Cooperation in Ubiquitous Computing. We see an increasing number of computing systems and devices connected everywhere. The central issue in this vision is the need for these computing systems and devices to cooperate. We are particularly interested in contributions that relate to the issue of cooperation everywhere. Of course, submissions on all topics related to cooperative information systems are encouraged, including (but not limited to) the following: * Software and information services for CIS Web information systems and services Middleware technologies, mediators, and wrappers Interoperability, XML, semantic interoperability Multi-databases and workflow Mobile and wireless systems and protocols Ubiquitous computing environments and tools Human-Computer Interactions Security, privacy, trust, and quality of information * Agent technologies, systems and architectures for CIS Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions Negotiation protocols, matchmaking, and brokering Multi-agents and agent societies Self-organizing systems, service description Learning, perception, and actions in agents Distributed problem solving, peer-to-peer cooperation * CIS applications and modeling E-commerce, e-government, supply chain Use of information in organizations Computer-supported cooperative work Enterprise knowledge management Data and knowledge modeling PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not exceed 8,000 words. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or Pdf format and should be done through the following URL http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/submit.html The final proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2002 Final Version Due: August 20, 2002 Conference: October 30 - November 1, 2002 ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Robert Meersman Zahir Tari Mike Papazoglou STARLab RMIT University Tilburg University Free University of Department of Infolab Brussels Computer Science PO Box 90153 Building F-G 10, City Campus, GPO Box NL-5000 LE TILBURG Pleinlaan 2 2476V The Netherlands B-1050 Brussels Melbourne, VIC 3001 mikep(a)kub.nl Belgium Australia meersman(a)vub.ac.be zahirt(a)cs.rmit.edu.au Program Committee Co-Chairs Calton Pu Stefano Spaccapietra Georgia Tech EPFL USA Switzerland calton(a)cc.gatech.edu stefano.spaccapietra(a)epfl.ch Tutorial Chair Vipul Kashyap Telcordia, USA Panel Chair Amit Sheth University of Georgia, USA Organization Chair Douglas Schmidt DARPA and U. Irvine, USA Publicity Chair Ugur Cetintemel Department of Computer Science Brown University, USA ugur(a)cs.brown.edu Program Committee Dave Abel (CSIRO, Australia) Carlo Batini (U. Roma La Sapienza, Italy) Karin Becker (PUCRGS, Brazil) Mic Bowman (Intel, USA) Omran Bukhres (Purdue U. School of Science, USA) Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan U., Taiwan) Phil Cohen (OGI, USA) Panos Constantopoulos (U. of Crete and Forth, Greece) Umesh Dayal (HP Labs, USA) Antonio Di Leva (U. of Torino, Italy) Anne Doucet (U. Paris VI, France) Marie-Christine Fauvet (U. of Grenoble-France & UNSW Sydney-Australia) Timothy Finin (U. Maryland, USA) Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) Li Gong (SUN, China) Jean-Luc Hainaut (FUNDP, Belgium) Arthur ter Hofstede (QUT, Australia) Chun-Nan Hsu (Acad. Sinica, China) Michael Huhns (U. South Carolina, USA) Richard Hull (Lucent Bell Labs, USA) Yahiko Kambayashi (U. Kyoto, Japan) Larry Kerschberg (GMU, USA) Masaru Kitsuregawa (U. Tokyo, Japan) David Kotz (Dartmouth. USA) Steven Laufmann (Qwest, USA) Dik-Lun Lee (HKUST, Hong Kong) Michael Luck (University of Southampton, UK) Stuart Madnick (MIT, USA) Toshiyuki Masui (Sony CSL, Japan) Dennis McLeod (USC, USA) Claudia Medeiros (Unicamp, Brazil) JohnMylopolous (U. Toronto, Canada) Clifford Neuman (ISI-USC, USA) Shojiro Nishio (Osaka U., Japan) Moira Norrie (ETHZ, Switzerland) Maria E. Orlowska (University of Queensland, Australia) Maurizio Panti (U. Ancona, Italy) Christine Parent (U. Lausanne, Switzerland) Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Louiqa Raschid (U. Maryland, USA) Tore Risch (Uppsala U., Sweden) Marek Rusinkiewicz (Telcordia, USA) Felix Saltor (U. Poli. Catalunya, Spain) Jean Scholtz (NIST, USA) Thad Starner (Georgia Tech, USA) Norbert Streitz (GMD/Fraunhofer, Germany) Bhavani Thuraisingham (NSF, USA) Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio U., Japan) W.M.P. van der (Eindhoven U. T., The Netherlands) Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, South Korea) Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK) Jian Yang (Tilburg U., The Netherlands) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nara AIST, Japan) Philip Yu (IBM Watson, USA) ___________________________________________________________________ |The Sender assumes responsibility that this message conforms to the |ISWorld list policy and conditions of use available at: |http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist |----------------------- ISWorld Net Footer ------------------------ | Need help with ISWorld? -> http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist | If you can't find an answer contact isworld_manager(a)cornell.edu |___________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: CFP: ODBASE 2002
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: ODBASE 2002 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:58:47 -0500 From: Ugur Cetintemel <ugur(a)CS.BROWN.EDU> To: ISWORLD(a)LISTSERV.HEANET.IE C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE) October 29 - November 1, Irvine, California http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2002 Proceedings to be published by IEEE Press A key challenge in making the Internet and the Web a more friendly and productive place is to fill more meaning to the vast and continuously growing amount of data on the Net. This is a vision that is shared both by the Worl Wide Web community, incarnated by the notion of the Semantic Web coined by Tim Berners Lee, and researchers from a number of areas including data and knowledge engineering, databases, intelligent agent systems, information retrieval, information sciences and linguistics. The claim is that the emergence of meaning that is associated with data and documents found on the Internet will boost diverse applications such as e-commerce, enterprise and information integration, knowledge engineering, geographic information systems, digital libraries, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent information access. Data semantics and ontologies for large-scale information systems have become an important topic in research communities across several displines, research funding agencies, as well as various industries. The international conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics intends to create a forum to exchange views, ideas and experiences on ontologies and data semantics from different disciplines. A goal of the ODBASE conference is to bring researchers from databases, Semantic Web, and knowledge management together to discuss specific problems and promising approaches to providing more meaning for the growing amount of data on the Internet and in ubiquitous computing. A unique character of the ODBASE conferences is its specialization on data semantic issues for very large ontology and Internet systems, and its strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity and practical applicability of systems, tools and methods for supporting semantics in large-scale information systems. The program committee of ODBASE 2002 consists of leading experts from diverse discplines including formal ontology, databases, geographic information systems, library science, logic, and knowledge management. We have special interest in papers that bridge traditionally separated areas such as databases, intelligent systems, and knowledge engineering, and papers that address issues of scalability in data semantics on the Internet and ubiquitous computing systems. ODBASE'02 is part of the Federated Symposium Event that is organized within the global theme "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing 2002". This federated event co-locates three related and complementary successful conferences in the areas of Intelligent Networked Information Systems, covering key issues in Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'02), Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'02), and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'02), as required for the deployment of Internet- and Intranet-based systems in organizations and for e-business. More details about this federated event can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf. Areas of interest of ODBASE'02 include but are not limited to: * Representation and Storage: Information, Data and Knowledge Modeling Ontology Languages Hypertext and Hypermedia Semi-Structured Data Multimedia Data and Metadata Semantics of E-Services Management of Large Knowledge Repositories Management and Integration of Large Ontology Bases Metadata Repositories Semantic Middleware * Construction and Methodologies: Database Integration E-Service Integration Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents Data and Web Mining Intelligent Information Agents Information Retrieval Filtering and Summarization Multimedia Metadata Annotation Ontology Extraction and Learning Self-organization in Information Systems * Applications and Evaluation: Semantic Web Domain/Application Ontology Ontology of Information Processing Electronic Commerce Digital Libraries Media Archives Enterprise-wide Information Systems Web-based Information Systems Location-dependent information services Web Services and Service Interoperability Information Dissemination Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2002 Final Version Due: August 20, 2002 Conference: October 30 - November 1, 2002 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Papers that bridge two or more areas should be marked as BRIDGE papers. They will be reviewed jointly by the appropriate PC sub-areas. All submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not exceed 8,000 words. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or Pdf format and should be done through the following URL http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/submit.html The final proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Robert Meersman Zahir Tari Mike Papazoglou STARLab RMIT University Tilburg University Free University of Department of Infolab Brussels Computer Science PO Box 90153 Building F-G 10, City Campus, GPO Box NL-5000 LE TILBURG Pleinlaan 2 2476V The Netherlands B-1050 Brussels Melbourne, VIC 3001 mikep(a)kub.nl Belgium Australia meersman(a)vub.ac.be zahirt(a)cs.rmit.edu.au Program Committee Co-Chairs Karl Aberer Ling Liu Robert A. Meersman LSIR (Distributed College of VUB (Vrije Information Systems Computing, Universiteit Laboratory) Georgia Tech Brussel) EPFL, CH-1015 801 Atlantic Dr. Department of Lausanne, Atlanta, GA Computer Science Switzerland 30332-0280, USA STARlab, Building karl.aberer(a)epfl.ch lingliu(a)cc.gatech.edu F-G/10 Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels Belgium meersman(a)vub.ac.be Tutorial Chair Vipul Kashyap Telcordia, USA Organising Chair Douglas Schmit University of California, Irvine Publicity Chair Ugur Cetintemel Department of Computer Science Brown University, USA ugur(a)cs.brown.edu Program Committee Members Christoph Bussler Oracle, USA Tiziana Catarci University of Rome, Italy Arbee Chen National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Vassilis Christophides FORTH, Greece Terence Critchlow LLNL, USA Stefan Decker Stanford University, USA Tharam Dillon Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China JÊr me Euzenat INRIA, France Dieter Fensel Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands Avigdor Gal Technion, Israel James Geller NJIT, USA Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Telcordia, USA Nicola Guarino CNR, Italy Terry Halpin Microsoft, USA Kamal Karlapalem IIIT, India Vipul Kashyap Telcordia, USA Manolis Koubarakis University of Crete, Greece Maurizio Lenzerini University of Rome, Italy Tok Wang Ling Ling Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Alexander Maedche FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Leo Mark Georgia Tech, USA Luigi Mazzucchelli University of Rome, Italy Alberto Mendelzon University of Toronto, Canada Michele Missikoff CNR, Italy John Mylopoulos University of Toronto, Canada Sham Navathe Georgia Tech, USA Erich Neuhold FHG-IPSI, Germany Maria Orlowska University of Queensland, Australia Aris Ouksel University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mike Papazoglou Tilburg University, Netherlands Qing Li City University of Hong Kong, China Michel Scholl CNAM Paris, France Amit Sheth University of Georgia, USA Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA John Sowa USA Rudi Studer University Karlsruhe, Germany Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University, USA Changjie Tang Tang Sichaun University, China Hans Weigand Tilburg University, Netherlands John Zeleznikow University of Edinburgh, UK ___________________________________________________________________ |The Sender assumes responsibility that this message conforms to the |ISWorld list policy and conditions of use available at: |http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist |----------------------- ISWorld Net Footer ------------------------ | Need help with ISWorld? -> http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist | If you can't find an answer contact isworld_manager(a)cornell.edu |___________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: CFP: DOA 2002
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: DOA 2002 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:57:01 -0500 From: Ugur Cetintemel <ugur(a)CS.BROWN.EDU> To: ISWORLD(a)LISTSERV.HEANET.IE C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= ____ __ __ __ __ | | | | | | / | | | International Symposium on | | | | | | | | | |--| | | -- DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS AND APPLICATIONS _|__| |__| | | |__||__ October 28 - November 1, University of California, Irvine http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/doa/2002/ Proceedings to be published by IEEE Press Are you building applications using distributed object computing (DOC)? Are you doing research in fundamental technology, methodology or new tools for DOC? Are you using existing distributed object systems? Consider contributing a practice report or a research paper to this innovative event to present, discuss and obtain feedback for your ideas among other practitioners and researchers active in the same area. There is increasing agreement among IT researchers and practitioners about the importance and potential of distributed object systems and the advances in this area made in recent years. These systems offer many promises for use in various applications, including telecommunications, banking applications, embedded systems, and many other domains. DOC systems offer practical, real-life production solutions to technical problems, including interoperability across different hardware, software and database platforms. There are several widely used and emerging distributed object computing paradigms, including CORBA, COM, SOAP, .NET, and Java Beans. The future success of DOC systems will not only be dependent on how the basic requirements (to develop open, reliable and scalable distributed and heterogeneous applications and platforms) are met but also how the underlying distributed object technology can be integrated with existing complementary technologies and applications, such as WWW, multimedia and databases. The reengineering of legacy systems may substantially benefit from the use of DOC, e.g., when turning them into data warehouses. Further standardization of distributed object concepts will very likely unlock many new areas of application still. TWO DIMENSIONS: Research & Practice As research in DOC establishes new principles, enhancing our understanding of the fundamental issues involved, and opening the way to new tools and methodologies for DOC, so conversely practical experience in real-life DOC projects drives the avenues of this same research by exposing new ideas and posing new types of problems to be solved. With the DOA Symposium we explicitly intend to provide a forum to help this mutual interaction occur, and to trigger and foster it. Submissions can be entered along both these dimensions: research (theory, fundamentals, principles of DOC) and practice (applications, experience, pragmatics of DOC). Contributions attempting to cross over the gap between these two dimensions will, of course, be especially welcome. As we are fully aware of the differences in environment for research and development that exist in academia and industry, submissions from each will be treated accordingly and judged by a peer review not only for scientific rigor (in the case of "academic research" papers) but for originality and generality of application (in the case of "case studies" papers). Papers of each type will be presented in parallel tracks at the Symposium, but with maximal opportunity for interaction for researchers and developers working on related topics. To summarize, during the DOA'2002 Symposium we therefore want attendees to be able to evaluate existing ORB middleware products; to analyze, and propose solutions to major limitations of existing products; and to indicate promising future research directions for distributed objects. We are particularly interested in the evaluation of existing DOC systems and how they are used to design and to implement large scale industrial distributed applications. We are seeking theoretical as well as practical papers addressing innovative issues related to distributed objects. DOA'2002 Symposium is a joint event with two other conferences organized within the global theme "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing 2002". This federated event co-locates three related and complementary successful conferences in the areas of Intelligent Networked Information Systems, covering key issues in Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'02), Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'02), and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'02), as required for the deployment of Internet- and Intranet-based systems in organizations and for e-business. All three events will be hosted in Irvine during the week October 28 - November 1, 2002. More details about this federated event can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to: o Critique of the distributed object paradigm o Distributed business objects o Distributed and mobile agents o Design patterns for distributed object design o Database services, in particular persistency, transaction query and replication services o Integration of distributed object and Web technologies o Interoperability-supporting environments o Design of CORBA, DCOM, .Net, and Java-based broker applications o Security, including authorisation and authentication o Specification and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) o Component-based software development an enterprise based component architectures o Management of distributed object systems o Applications of distributed middleware technolgies to collaborative commerce o Reliable and fault tolerant middlewares o Real-time/Reflective middlewares o Middlewares for peer-to-peer platforms o Middleware support for mobility o Distributed objects in pervasive applications o Web Services and distributed objects, including SOAP interoperability and service discovery o Reports on Best Practice IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2002 Final Version Due: August 20, 2002 Symposium: October 28 - November 1, 2002 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions should be clearly labeled "Research", "Practice" or "PC discretion". All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not exceed 8,000 words. Practice reports must not exceed 5,000 words. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or Pdf format and should be done through the following URL http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/submit.html The final proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Robert Meersman Zahir Tari Mike Papazoglou STARLab RMIT University Tilburg University Free University of Department of Infolab Brussels Computer Science PO Box 90153 Building F-G 10, City Campus, GPO Box NL-5000 LE TILBURG Pleinlaan 2 2476V The Netherlands B-1050 Brussels Melbourne, VIC 3001 mikep(a)kub.nl Belgium Australia meersman(a)vub.ac.be zahirt(a)cs.rmit.edu.au Program Committee Co-Chairs Rachid Guerraoui Joe Loyall Douglas Schmidt Swiss Federal Institute of BBN Technologies U. California Technology 10 Moulton Street Irvine Operating Systems Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Laboratory jloyall(a)bbn.com schmidt(a)uci.ed CH-1015 Lausanne rachid.guerraoui(a)epfl.ch Tutorial Chair Vipul Kashyap Telcordia, USA Organising Chair Angelo Corsaro University of California, Irvine Publicity Chair Ugur Cetintemel Department of Computer Science Brown University, USA ugur(a)cs.brown.edu Program Committee Members Sean Baker IONA, Ireland David E. Bakken Washington State U., USA Roberto Baldoni U. of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Zohra Bellahsene U. of Montpellier, France Gordon Blair Lancaster U., UK Anthony Bloesch Microsoft, USA Joe Cross Lockheed Martin, USA Patrick Eugster EPFL, Switzerland Chris Gokey NASA, USA Aniruddha Gokhale Vanderbilt University, USA Daniel Hagimont INRIA, France Arno Jacobsen U. of Toronto, Canada Jorg Kienzle EPFL, Switzerland Roger King U. of Colorado, USA Ray Klefstad University of California at Irvine, USA Bernd Kramer FernUniversitat Hagen, Germany Doug Lea State U. of New York, USA Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation, USA Karim Mazouni Sun Microsystems, USA Teo Yong Meng National University of Singapoore Priya Narasimhan Carnegie Mellon U., USA Francois Pacull Xerox, USA David Sharp Boeing, USA Richard Soley OMG, USA Rick Schantz BBN Technologies, USA Eltefaat Shokri Sun, USA Maarten van Steen VUA, The Netherlands Jean-Bernard Stefani INRIA Rhone Alpes, France Gautam Thaker Lockheed Martin, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian U. of California at Irvine, USA Shalini Yajnik PreCache Inc, USA Steve Vinoski IONA, Ireland Andrew Watson OMG, USA Doug Wells The Open Group, USA Albert Zamoya U. of Western Australia, Australia Arkady Zaslavsky Monash U., Australia George Mou Zhijing Boeing, USA ___________________________________________________________________ |The Sender assumes responsibility that this message conforms to the |ISWorld list policy and conditions of use available at: |http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist |----------------------- ISWorld Net Footer ------------------------ | Need help with ISWorld? -> http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist | If you can't find an answer contact isworld_manager(a)cornell.edu |___________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: CFP: E-Technologies in Engineering Education, Davos, Switzerland
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: E-Technologies in Engineering Education, Davos, Switzerland Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:42:20 +1300 From: Kinshuk <kinshuk_admin(a)INSPIRE.NET.NZ> To: ISWORLD(a)LISTSERV.HEANET.IE E-Technologies in Engineering Education: Learning Outcomes Providing Future Possibilities August 11-16, 2002 Davos, Switzerland http://www.engfnd.org/2bb.html * Current Conference Co-Sponsors Educational Research and Methods Division, American Society for Engineering Education; Learning Technologies Task Force, IEEE Computer Society; Working Group on Information and Communications Technologies, SociÊtÊ EuropÊene pour la Formation des IngÊnieurs * Focus of the Conference Electronic technologies ("e-technologies") are being infused rapidly into the learning process and infrastructure of engineering education as a result of the spectacular improvements in their computing power, communications capability, ease of use, and declining cost. They also offer unique pedagogical opportunities to enhance student learning: they promote exploratory and interactive modes of inquiry, support and facilitate team-oriented collaborations, and expand the ease of access to engineering education across institutional, geographical, and cultural boundaries, among others. However, the infusion of these powerful technologies into engineering education has led to an active debate as to their benefits and limitations. Some of the unresolved challenges include questions such as: - What new skills and experiences are students expected to bring to this learning environment? - How should both learners and e-technologies be measured, evaluated, and assessed? - What are effective ways to use e-technologies to enable laboratory work? - What kinds of collaboration tools enhance team-oriented or project-based learning? - What personnel and technical infrastructures work best in support of users of e-technologies? - What are the critical enhancers and barriers for the creation and deployment of new e-technologies? - How will e-technologies impact certification and accreditation of engineering education programs? - What are effective ways to leverage interactions within the international engineering education community to produce better electronic technology-based environments and materials? Central to the use of e-technologies is the belief that they can be used to improve student learning. Thus, the focus of this conference is to examine and discuss: How are electronic technologies used now to improve engineering student learning and performance, and how should they be used in the future? * Submission of Abstracts In order to ensure meaningful interaction and networking among all the participants, attendance at the conference will be limited. Persons wishing to participate in the conference need to register their interest by completing the online application form at <http://www.engfnd.org/2bb.html> and submit separately on the same site an abstract of up to 300 words for either a paper, an educational brief, an exhibit of an e-technology, or a participant statement of interests, experiences, or expertise in e-technologies in engineering education. The planning deadline for the submission of biographical sketches and abstracts is March 1, 2002. Notification of the acceptance of abstracts will begin about March 15, 2002. Submissions after the planning deadline will be considered as received, but acceptance to participate in the conference will depend on the availability of openings. Authors of an abstract accepted for a paper or an educational brief will be provided detailed guidelines for the submission of their manuscripts. The deadline for receipt of all manuscripts is May 31, 2002. * Further information Further information about the conference is available at: http://www.engfnd.org/2bb.html Regards. Kinshuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Associate Professor Kinshuk kinshuk(a)massey.ac.nz kinshuk(a)inspire.net.nz Information Systems Dept., Massey Univ., Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand Tel: +64 6 3505799 ext. 2090 Fax: +64 6 3505725 http://fims-www.massey.ac.nz/~kinshuk ___________________________________________________________________ |The Sender assumes responsibility that this message conforms to the |ISWorld list policy and conditions of use available at: |http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist |----------------------- ISWorld Net Footer ------------------------ | Need help with ISWorld? -> http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist | If you can't find an answer contact isworld_manager(a)cornell.edu |___________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------

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