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[Fwd: CFP: 2nd Workshop on High Availabilty of Distributed Systems.]
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: 2nd Workshop on High Availabilty of Distributed Systems. Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:33:01 +0100 Von: Francesc D. Munoz-Escoi <fmunyoz(a)iti.upv.es> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> C A L L F O R P A P E R S * * * HADIS 2006 * * * Second International Workshop on High Availability of Distributed Systems in conjunction with DEXA 2006 5 September 2006, Krakow, Poland http://www.iti.upv.es/madis/hadis06/cfp.html High availability (HA) and wide-area distribution of mission-critical IT services are becoming indispensable. HA is receiving rapidly increasing attention, since many web-based services need to be reachable and reliable at any place and any time. System downtimes resulting in a lack of availability are undesirable or even intolerable, due to ergonomic, economical and security reasons. HA has established itself as a benchmark for user acceptance, market viability, system dependability and trustworthiness of distributed systems. In general, HA refers to the continuous availability and seamless recovery of resources in a computer system, particularly in the wake of component failures. HA is concerned with avoiding single points of failure. This can be achieved ina variety of ways, ranging from vendor-specific support, redundant software and hardware, to solutions that provide distribution and consistent replication of data and processes, reliable group communication, membership management, quorum subsystems, concurrency control, and various other forms of middleware support. HADIS 2006 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing state-of-the-art, novel and on-going research and development in HA. We are calling for papers reporting original research results, work in progress, industrial experience, or case studies. Submitted contributions should highlight aspects of HA in topic areas including, but not limited to: * Distributed Databases and Information Systems * Protocols for Communication, Replication and Recovery * Failure Resilience, Fault Tolerance and Failover * Replicated Data and Processes * Dependability and Reliability * Local and Wide Area Clustering * Middleware Architectures * P2P and GRID Computing * Load Sharing and Load Balancing * Software and Hardware Redundancy * High Performance Computing * Transparency of Distribution * Distributed Storage Systems * HA and Aspect Orientation * HA and Formal Methods * HA and Integrity * HA and Security * HA and Standardisation * HA and Trust * HA and Ubiquity * HA in Wireless, Mobile and Nomadic Networks * HA for Service Architectures and Applications Authors are asked to submit an electronic version (preferably .pdf) of original unpublished work by 3/03/2006. Full papers must currently be neither revised nor published elsewhere, be written in English and not exceed 5000 words. An electronic submission site is operational at the URL shown below. Submissions can also be sent directly to the programme chair. We recommend to use the format of the final versions of accepted papers. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in a proceedings volume of the DEXA 2006 workshops. Important Dates * Paper Submission: 3 March 2006 * Notification: 14 April 2006 * Camera Ready: 15 May 2006 * Workshop: 5 Sept. 2006 Organisers * Stephane Bressan, National Univ. Singapore (co-chair) * Hendrik Decker, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Valencia, Spain (chair) * Francesc D. Munoz-Escoi, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain (programme chair) Programme Committee * Lorenzo Alvisi, Univ. Texas Austin, U.S.A. * Roberto Baldoni, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy * Maria del Carmen Banuls, Max Planck Inst. Quantenoptik, Germany * Stephane Bressan, National Univ. Singapore * Jesus Carretero, Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain * Vicent Cholvi, Univ. Jaume I, Castellon, Spain * Hendrik Decker, Inst. Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain * Pascal Felber, Univ. Neuchatel, Switzerland * Christof Fetzer, Tech. Univ. Dresden, Germany * Pablo Galdamez, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain * Karl Goeschka, Tech. Univ. Vienna, Austria * Hamidah Ibrahim, Univ. Putra Malaysia, Malaysia * Bettina Kemme, McGill Univ. Montreal, Canada * Marc-Olivier Killijian, CNRS Toulouse, France * Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Univ., Spain * Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain * Jose R. Gonzalez de Mendivil, Univ. Publica Navarra, Spain * Anirban Mondal, Univ. Tokyo, Japan * Francesc D. Munoz-Escoi, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain * Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoping Univ., Sweden * Rui Oliveira, Univ. Minho, Portugal * Marta Patino-Martinez, Univ. Politec. Madrid, Spain * Rasmus Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark * Fernando Pedone, Univ. Lugano, Switzerland * Luigi Romano, Univ. Napoli, Italy * Juan-Carlos Ruiz-Garcia, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain * David Taniar, Monash Univ., Clayton, Australia * Jesus Villadangos, Univ. Publica Navarra, Spain See http://www.iti.upv.es/madis/hadis06/index.html for more information. -- ============================================== Francesc D. Muñoz-Escoí Univ. Politécnica de Valencia Campus de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia Telf: +34 96 387 72 45 ============================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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A3H@AH'06 CFP: Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia Workshop: deadline 31st March
by Fridolin Wild 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear participant to earlier editions of the A3EH workshop, A3EH is here again, now in a combination, as below! We are looking forward to seeing you again at it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are happy to announce and invite you to submit a paper to the: A3H: 1st International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia in conjunction with A3EH: 4th International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia At the Adaptive Hypermedia 2006 conference (AH'2006, http://www.ah2006.org) August 23, 2004 Eindhoven (The Netherlands) (Submission deadline: March 31, 2006) WORKSHOP SITE: http://www.win.tue.nl/~acristea/A3H/ =================================================== Suggested themes that the papers should be addressing include, but are not limited to: THEMES: ============ * Design patterns for adaptive hypermedia * Authoring rich user models for adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Authoring pedagogic models for adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia * Authoring for mobile adaptive hypermedia * Generic authoring for adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Authoring patterns for rich user models in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Authoring Tools for rich user models in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Generic authoring tools in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Reusable user models and adaptation models * Authoring personas (roles: e.g., domain author, adaptation author, etc.) for adaptive hypermedia * Authoring adaptation languages for adaptive hypermedia * Evaluation of authoring tools for adaptive hypermedia * Evaluation of adaptive hypermedia design patterns * Evaluation of adaptive hypermedia authoring patterns MOTIVATION OF THE WORKSHOP: ========================== This workshop follows a successful series of workshops on the same topic: A3EH@AIED’05; A3EH@AH’04; and A3EH@WBE’04. The current workshop focuses on the issues of design, implementation and evaluation of general Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia, with applications in e-learning, e-government, corporate systems and e-commerce. Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia has been long considered as secondary to adaptive hypermedia delivery. This task is not trivial at all. There exist some approaches to help authors to build adaptive-hypermedia-based systems, yet there is a strong need of high-level approaches, formalisms and tools that support and facilitate the description of reusable adaptive websites. Only recently have we noticed a shift in interest, as it became clearer that the implementation-oriented approach would forever keep adaptive hypermedia away from the ‘layman’ author. The creator of adaptive hypermedia cannot be expected to know all facets of this process, but can be reasonably trusted to be an expert in one of them. It is therefore necessary to research and establish the components of an adaptive hypermedia system from an authoring perspective, catering for the different author personas that are required. This type of research has proven to lead to a modular view on the adaptive hypermedia. One of these modules, which is most frequently used, is the User Model, also called Learner Model in the Educational field (or Student Model in ITS). Less frequent, but also emerging as an important module is the Pedagogical Model (this model has also different names in different implementations, too various to name here). Other component models appearing can be: domain model, goal and constraints model, adaptation model. This workshop looks at how adaptive hypermedia can be created in an easier, more systematic way, based on reuse, automatization, flexible models and on emerging standards. Therefore, important issues to discuss are, among others: * Are richer user models more efficient for users, and how can they be authored? * How to support adaptation scenarios? * How can we consider user cognitive styles in adaptive hypermedia (from an authoring perspective)? * Are there any recurring patterns that can be detected in the authoring process generally speaking? The workshop will also lead to a better understanding and cross-dissemination of user-specific patterns extracted from existing design and authoring processes in AH. The workshop aims to attract the interest of the related research communities to the important issues of design and authoring; to discuss the current state of the art in this field; and to identify new challenges in the field. Moreover, the workshop should be seen as a platform that enables the cooperation and exchange of information between European and non-European projects, as well as feeding back in the PROLEARN network of excellence. The workshop continues the series opened with the: * 1st International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia” (A3EH), at the: International Conference on Web-based Education, WBE 2004, February 16-18, 2004, Innsbruck, Austria, http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2004/Innsbruck/wbe-specsess-cristea.htm * 2nd A3EH workshop at the AH'04 conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~acristea/AH04/workshopAH.htm * 3rd A3EH workshop at the AI-ED'05 conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~acristea/AAAEH05/AIED2005.htm TARGET AUDIENCE: ================ The workshop is targeted at all people working towards the discovery and use of patterns, formalisms, and mechanisms that can help them to develop and author adaptive hypermedia, in the domain of education and beyond. The richer the adaptation of a hypermedia-based system is, the more complex its specification uses to be. Therefore, there is a clear need of discovering patterns and developing formalisms, mechanisms or tools to facilitate and support the task of authoring adaptive hypermedia, by performing it, in some cases, semi-automatically. The necessity of these patterns can be as a result of authoring push or AH system interfacing or ultimately open (adaptive) hypermedia or pull. This means that patterns can emerge from repetitive structures used by AH authors; alternatively, patterns can emerge from interface programs or interface languages between different adaptive hypermedia systems, or from trying to interface to the open adaptive hypermedia. This includes researchers that are active in all these fields, as well as representatives of larger projects or networks dealing with these issues. We encourage these researchers to submit papers to the workshop on their latest results and ideas. Moreover, the workshop is also targeted at people who are interested to hear and discuss the state of the art and the future of this important domain of adaptive hypermedia patterns and pattern-based authoring. We encourage these researchers to participate actively in the discussions for which time will be especially allocated, as well as in the other interactive parts, such as questionnaires and, if time allows it, demos. The workshop’s main aim is to bring together researchers working or interested in the emerging fields of adaptive patterns for adaptive hypermedia authoring. We expect to extract and discuss these emerging patterns, as well as see their implementations and evaluations, smoothening the transition towards standard proposals in the field. Participants are expected to leave with a better knowledge of the state of the art of the field, as well as to have a fruitful brain-storming session generating new ideas and opening new paths. As this is a new field, we do not expect final results, but pointers towards some existing solutions and better approaches. Results of the discussions and questionnaire processing will be posted after the workshop on-line on the workshop site, as is the case with the first three editions of this workshop. ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP: ============================= There will be paper presentation and panel discussions. These discussions will be open to all; not only those who have papers accepted at the workshop but also any other interested parties are welcome. After the paper presentations, the discussion based on these questions will begin. Both the presenters and the audience will be asked to contribute to the answering of these questions. EXPECTED RESULTS: ================ The workshop’s main aim is to bring together researchers working or interested in the emerging fields of adaptive patterns for adaptive hypermedia authoring. We expect to extract and discuss these emerging patterns, as well as see their implementations and evaluations, smoothening the transition towards standard proposals in the field. Participants are expected to leave with a better knowledge of the state of the art of the field, as well as to have a fruitful brain-storming session generating new ideas and opening new paths. As this is a new field, we do not expect final results, but pointers towards some existing solutions and better approaches. Results of the discussions and questionnaire processing will be posted after the workshop on-line on the workshop site, as is the case with the first two editions of this workshop. PAPERS AT THE WORKSHOP: ====================== We welcome discussion proposals as well as research papers. Papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings of the AH’06 conference (online, as well as on paper). SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: ===================== Full papers: 8-10 pages original mature research results Short papers: 4-6 pages original ongoing research All submissions must be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines and submitted as informed by the A3EH workshop website. This site will contain all further instructions when ready. All submissions will undergo a thorough reviewing and refereeing process in order to decide on acceptance. The submissions should be in the format of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please check http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for instructions on how to prepare submissions. IMPORTANT: Selected papers will also be invited for a Special Issue in a selected journal! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Send your submissions to all following three emails, with subject ‘A3H submission’: a.i.cristea(a)tue.nl, rosa.carro(a)uam.es, garzotto(a)elet.polimi.it . IMPORTANT DATES: =============== Submission deadline: March 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance or rejection: May 5, 2006 Final versions due: May 19, 2006 Workshop: June 20, 2006 Main conference: June 21-23, 2006 Earlier submission is encouraged. Please send an intention e-mail with a title and a short intentional abstract as soon as you decide to submit. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: =================== Alexandra Cristea, Einhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) Rosa Carro, University Autonoma of Madrid (Spain) Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: =================================== Sarabjot Singh Anand, Warwick University (UK) Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham (UK) Tim Brailsford, University of Nottingham (UK) Licia Calvi, University of Pavia (Italy) Cristina Conati, University of British Colombia (Canada) Declan Dagger, Trinity College Dublin (Irland) Hugh Davis, Southampton University (UK) Serge Garlatti, GET-ENST Bretagne (France) Nicola Henze, University of Hannover (Germany) Mike Joy, Warwick University (UK) Judy Kay, University of Sydney (Australia) Kinshuk, Massey University (New Zealand) Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications (Japan) Alvaro Ortigosa, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus (Greece) Pilar Rodríguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) Daniel Schwabe, PUC - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Craig Stewart, Queen Mary University of London (UK) Carlo Strapparava, IRST (Italy) Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University (UK) Vincent Wade, Trinity College (Ireland) Gerhard Weber, Freiburg University of Education (Germany) ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Alexandra Cristea, assistant professor Information Systems Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Technische Universiteit Eindhoven PO 513 5600MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Ph.:+31-40-247-4350 (direct) Ph.:+31-40-247-2733 (secretary) http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/

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[Fwd: Invitation for the Doctoral Consortium at the Conference for Group Decision and Negotiation 2006 (GDN2006)]
by Gustaf Neumann 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Invitation for the Doctoral Consortium at the Conference for Group Decision and Negotiation 2006 (GDN2006) Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:10:22 +0100 Von: Weinhardt, Christof <Christof.Weinhardt(a)iw.uni-karlsruhe.de> An: info(a)gdn2006.org <info(a)gdn200g.org> CC: Seifert, Stefan <Stefan.Seifert(a)iw.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Block, Carsten <Carsten.Block(a)iw.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Jim Spohrer <spohrer(a)almaden.ibm.com> Dear Colleague, from June 24 to June 25, a Doctoral Consortium will be held prior to "GDN 2006 - Group Decision and Negotiation 2006" in Karlsruhe (http://www.gdn2006.org). The doctoral consortium will give Ph.D. candidates the opportunity to present and to discuss their work in a small group of peer Ph.D. students as well as senior researchers from all over the world. The Event is co-organised by the Interdisciplinary Graduate School "Information Management and Market Engineering(IME)" (http://www.ime.uni-karlsruhe.de/) of Karlsruhe University. Topics include but are not limited to Group Decision, Negotiation, Market Engineering, and Service Engineering as well as related disciplines from Computer Science and Economics. The consortium will focus on the methodological foundations such as software design principles, architectures, modelling, game theory, experiments, simulations, statistics/econometrics, and operations research. An attractive social program will enrich the doctoral consortium and will give many opportunities to create long-lasting peer-networks. On behalf of the Committee of the GDN 2006 and the Doctoral Consortium, I kindly ask you to forward the attached invitation to your Ph.D. students and to encourage them to apply for the consortium. Please find more information in the attached Call-for-Participation as well as on the conference web page http://www.gdn2006.org. Looking forward to meeting you in Karlsruhe! Best regards Christof Weinhardt -- Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt Institut für Informationswirtschaft und -management Informationsbetriebswirtschaftslehre Chair for Information Management and Systems Department of Economics and Business Engineering Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Englerstraße 14 76131 Karlsruhe Germany Tel: +49 721 608-8370 Fax: +49 721 608-8399 mailto:christof.weinhardtd@iw.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de

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[Fwd: Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Information Systems - DCEIS 2006]
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Information Systems - DCEIS 2006 Datum: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:28:14 -0500 Von: ICEIS Secretariat <postmaster4(a)303media.net> Antwort an: secretariat(a)iceis.org <secretariat(a)iceis.org> An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Apologies for multiple copies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Url: http://www.iceis.org/doctoral_consortium.htm The Doctoral Consortium will take place in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS, http://www.iceis.org/), to be held May 23-27 in Paphos, Cyprus. The ICEIS'06 doctoral consortium will provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field. The Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Systems Engineering is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the enterprise systems engineering field to discuss their research in an international forum. The Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to: . Present their research work in a relaxed and supportive environment . Receive feedback and suggestions from peers and experienced faculty . Gain an overview of the breadth and depth of enterprise systems research . Obtain insight into directions for enterprise systems research taken by other doctoral candidates . Discuss concerns about research, supervision, the job market, and other issues . Network with peers and future colleagues In addition the faculty panel will give some talks helping students to deal with topics such as how to write a Ph.D. thesis and how to make good presentations. Thus, the symposium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at enterprise systems, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will expose these promising young researchers to the larger global community. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM REQUIREMENTS AND RULES ------------------------------------------ The Doctoral Consortium is based on the following requirements and rules: - Doctoral Consortium is open only to Doctoral Students who have started their research; - Each student with an accepted paper for the Doctoral Consortium must register and attend the ICEIS Conference; - The Doctoral Consortium Proceedings may be included in the conference proceedings; (this depends on the date we receive the final versions of the papers) - Each paper must be presented by the Doctoral Student; - Submissions will be judged on originality, significance and clarity. - Paper length: 4 to 12 pages - Papers must be written in MS-Word or Latex including the following information: - stage of the research, - outline of objectives, - research problem, - state of the art, - methodology and - expected outcome. HOW TO APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM --------------------------------------- To apply for participation at Doctoral Consortium, please submit the following materials by e-mail (to the Doctoral Consortium Chair): - Cover page with your name, title of your thesis, institution, full postal address, phone number and e-mail address; - The paper (formatted as described in the previous section) IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Doctoral Consortium Submission: 20th March 2006 Author Notification: 27th March 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 5th April 2006 Doctoral Consortium date: 23rd of May 2006 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS -------------------------- George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy) Joaquim Filipe, INSTICC/EST-Setúbal, Portugal DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PANEL ------------------------- Dr. J. K. Aggarwal, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Dr. Georges Gardarin, Université de Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, PRiSM, France Dr. Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA Dr. Matthias Jarke, Rwth Aachen University, Germany Dr. Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Dr. John B. Oommen, Carleton University, Canada Best regards Vitor Pedrosa ICEIS Secretariat Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2º esq 2910-595 Setúbal Portugal ----------------------------------------------------------------- To FORWARD: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/fwd.asp?a=47E8MBP73C4ZQ9L9JBMMV8P&b=FYKN97… ----------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/us.asp?a=47WMMBP7RJYE99L9JBMMVUY&b=FYKN978… ---------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: Special session at NM&A'06, Aug.20-24, 2006, Borovets, Bulgaria]
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Special session at NM&A'06, Aug.20-24, 2006, Borovets, Bulgaria Datum: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:30:07 +0200 Von: Svetoslav Markov <smarkov(a)bio.bas.bg> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> Dear colleagues, We invite late submissions for the special session: UNCERTAIN/CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RELIABLE NUMERICS organized within the 6-th Intern. Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications - NM&A'06, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Borovets, Bulgaria. Special session topics (not resticted to): Numerical approaches for problems involving uncertainty: system estimation, problems with incomplete/inexact information; Theory, algorithms and arithmetics for reliable numerics, interval arithmetic; Linear algebra with verification; Numerical methods for control problems: optimal control, viability, stability, reachability, etc; Hardware and software support for numerical methods with result verification; Applications in biology, biotechnology, ecology, medicine, economics, engineering, social sciences etc. Organizers: Rene Alt <Rene.Alt(a)lip6.fr> and Svetoslav Markov <smarkov(a)bio.bas.bg> Abstracts should be sent directly to the session organizers. For other details, please refer to the web sites of NM&A'06: nma06(a)fmi.uni-sofia.bg or nma06(a)math.bas.bg Best regards, Prof. Dr. Svetoslav Markov Section "Biomathematics", phone: +3592-979-3704 Inst. of Mathematics and Informatics, fax: +3592-971-3649 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, e-mail: smarkov(a)bio.bas.bg "Acad. G. Bonchev" st., block 8, BG-1113 Sofia, BULGARIA URL: http://www.math.bas.bg/~bio/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: IASTED 1-Week Reminder - WTAS 2006]
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IASTED 1-Week Reminder - WTAS 2006 Datum: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:07:53 -0700 Von: IASTED - Upcoming Conferences <info(a)iasted.org> An: Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at If you are having trouble seeing this page or if you would like to view it as a web page click here <http://www.iasted.org/newsletter/2006/wtas1.htm> */IASTED/ One Week Reminder* /Last chance to submit!/ *The IASTED International Conference on *Web Technologies, Applications, and Services /~WTAS 2006~/ ** *July 17-19, 2006 Calgary, Alberta, Canada * * * *SPONSORS * The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on the Web, the Internet, and Multimedia *CONFERENCE CHAIR* Dr. JingTao Yao - University of Regina, Canada *IMPORTANT DEADLINES* *Submissions Due* * March 1, 2006* *Notification of Acceptance* * April 15, 2006* *Final Manuscripts Due * * May 15, 2006* *Registration Deadline* *June 1, 2006* To view the call for papers, scope of this conference and the International Program Committee visit our website at: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/Calgary/wtas.htm?imsa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *The 10th IASTED International Conference on *Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications /~IMSA 2006~/ * August 14-16, 2006 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA * *SPONSORS * The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on the Web, Internet, and Multimedia World Modelling Simulation Forum (WMSF) *CONFERENCE CHAIR * Prof. Jenq-Neng Hwang - University of Washington, USA *IMPORTANT DEADLINES* *Submissions Due* *April 1, 2006* *Notification of Acceptance* *May 15, 2006* *Final Manuscripts Due * *June 1, 2006* *Registration Deadline* *June 15, 2006* To view the call for papers, scope of this conference and the International Program Committee visit our website at: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/hawaii/imsa.htm?imsa <http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/hawaii/imsa.htm?imsa> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Please forward this newsletter to colleagues who may be interested in participating in these conferences.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IASTED MEMBERSHIP* As an IASTED member, you receive discounts on journals and proceedings volumes purchased during your membership year. All members attending our international conferences pay a reduced conference fee, and also receive a free subscription to one of the following six journals: Control and Intelligent Systems International Journal of Computers and Applications International Journal of Power and Energy Systems International Journal of Modelling and Simulation International Journal of Robotics and Automation Advanced Technology for Learning Renew or become a member today! http://www.iasted.org/member/membership.htm *CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE* ACTA Press publishes over forty proceedings annually for international engineering and computer science conferences. Past conference proceedings in the area of /Internet/ are available for purchase from ACTA Press. Individual papers may be purchased separately from the conference proceedings. http://www.actapress.com/Proceedings.aspx For more information, please contact: IASTED #80 4500 - 16th Avenue N.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T3B 0M6 Tel: 403-288-1195 Fax: 403-247-6851 E-mail: calgary(a)iasted.org <mailto:calgary@iasted.org> Web site: http://www.iasted.org To unsubscribe from the email list please visit the following link and click on the Unsubscribe button: http://www.iasted.org/unsubscribe/unsubscribe.asp?email=Gustaf.Neumann@wu-w… Or email to unsubscribe(a)iasted.org <mailto:unsubscribe@iasted.org> from your email account (Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at) and copy and paste the following lines into the body of the email: ***************************************************** IASTED Newsletter Unsubscribe Gustaf.Neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at ***************************************************** powered by phplist <http://www.phplist.com> v 2.8.12, © tincan ltd <http://tincan.co.uk/powered>

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[Fwd: [Euros] FYI: Semantics of People and Culture]
by Gustaf Neumann 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Euros] FYI: Semantics of People and Culture Datum: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:00:08 +0200 Von: Miltiadis Lytras <mdl(a)eltrun.gr> An: <euros(a)alice.wu-wien.ac.at> CC: kmr-group(a)nada.kth.se **** Submission Deadline is 15 October 2006**** CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Semantics of People and Culture http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/publications/ijswis-culturalsemantics-cfp.txt International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) (ISSN 1552-6283, Idea Group Publishing) BACKGROUND The preferences and social patterns of people --as they exist outside of being 'users' of overly narrow application domains-- constitutes a more versatile 'people semantics'-- affording us deeper personalization, match-making, and search. With over 50 million people on social networks, a mature blog culture, and the emergence of tag-based communities such as del.icio.us, last.fm and flickr, there is today an ample cultural corpus for mining and modeling the semantics of people and culture. Semantic desiderata for modeling include aesthetic factors (psychographics, tastes, dispositions, personal attitudes), social factors (connectedness, reputation, influence), and cultural factors (ideology, collective attitudes, epidemics). CALL FOR PAPERS For this IJSWIS special issue on the Semantics of People and Culture, we welcome original contributions which present new techniques, formalisms, empirical studies, and implemented applications relevant to the semantic modeling of people, cultures, and communities. Of particular interest are papers which add new perspectives to semantic web research, including but certainly not limited to the following topics: * modeling the 'implicit semantics' of people and culture * affective and aesthetic factors in semantic processing * community-based knowledge and preference acquisition * emergent semantics of culture and communities * analyses of blogs, social networks, and web communities * knowledge-based recommender systems * semantics of tags and merging of tags with ontologies * merging of social media with semantic web * social agent simulation * common sense reasoning for the semantic web * trend tracking, fashion, and forecasting * computational semiotics of people and culture SUBMISSION PROCESS Submissions to this special issue should follow the Style and Author Guidelines for regular IJSWIS papers available at http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis Electronic submissions are preferred. We recommend that manuscripts not exceed 35 pages (including figures and references). Potential authors are asked to notify the guest editors of their interest by email (hugo(a)media.mit.edu; pattie(a)media.mit.edu), as soon as possible, for initial feedback on the submission proposal. Submissions will be reviewed by three established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers to be formed for the special issue. We will do our best to offer a speedy editorial decision within 5 weeks of submission. Accepted papers have an opportunity for further revision and an additional round of reviewer feedback. Information on the Journal with online submission lives at: http://www.ijswis.org. Please submit manuscripts through that online system. IMPORTANT DATES Email Interest in Submitting: As soon as possible Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2006 Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007) Please feel free to contact the guest editors: Hugo Liu The Media Laboratory, MIT, http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo hugo(a)media.mit.edu Pattie Maes, The Media Laboratory, MIT http://web.media.mit.edu/~pattie pattie(a)media.mit.edu _______________________________________________ Euros mailing list Euros(a)alice.wu-wien.ac.at http://alice.wu-wien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/euros

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[Fwd: CFP-PDMST'06]
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP-PDMST'06 Datum: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:04:17 -0600 Von: Madria, Sanjay <madrias(a)umr.edu> Firma: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on "P2P Data Management, Security and Trust (PDMST'06) " in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2006) http://www.dexa.org/ Krakow, Poland 4 - 8 September 2006 (Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press) (Selected Papers will be considered for a Special Issue of an International Journal) AIMS & SCOPE Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has emerged as a new paradigm for distributed computing due to its potential to harness the computing power of the heterogeneous hosts in the P2P network and efficiently making use of their under-utilized resources by sharing with others. P2P technologies require flexible, autonomous, secure and trusted resource sharing among dynamic peers. In this environment, research issues include large scale data management, resource discovery, replica allocation and consistency, data authentication, authorization, resource access, data security and trust. These issues have generated a lot of interest in academia as well as in industry. The aim of this workshop is to invite researchers from academia/industry working in the area of databases, distributed computing, security, trust, mobile agent systems to discuss the new significant potential problems which arise in P2P data management and are different from the similar concepts studied earlier in different domains. The workshop will focus on high quality contributions on general theme of P2P Computing in addition to the following list of topics: - Scalable P2P Computing Architectures - Replication, Caching and Consistency Management in P2P Computing - Transaction Management and Recovery in P2P Systems - Indexing, Searching and Querying in P2P - Data Streaming and Aggregation in P2P Computing - Mobile Agents in P2P computing - Semantic Web and P2P Computing - Trusted Resource Discovery in P2P Networks - Trust and Reputation Models for P2P Computing - Data Authentication and Peer Authorization in P2P Computing - Data Security in P2P Computing - Mobile P2P and Ad-hoc Wireless Computing IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 10th, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 25th, 2006 Camera-ready copies: May 15th, 2006 Workshop: Sept. 5/7/8, 2006 SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be in English, no more than 5 pages (10 font) conform to IEEE guidelines (two column single space format). Submit papers from North America and Europe in PDF format by email to madrias(a)umr.edu, and from other regions to anirban(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE One of the authors of accepted papers must register for DEXA'06 conference and present the paper in the workshop. The accepted paper will be included in the workshop proceedings by IEEE only after paying the registration fees fixed by DEXA. Details about the DEXA'2006 conference can be found at http://www.dexa.org/ WORKSHOP Organization Chair Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Workshop Co-Chair Anirban Mondal, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gabriel Antoniu, IRISA-INRIA, France Peter Boncz, CWI, The Netherlands Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL-DSC, Lausanne, Switzerland Gruenwald Le, University of Oklahoma, USA Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA Murali Mani, WPI, USA Evi Pitoura, U. of Ioannina, Greece Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Can Türker, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy PInar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)lists.optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)lists.optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: Workshop on Machine Self-Replication/ALife X Conference]
by Gustaf Neumann 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Workshop on Machine Self-Replication/ALife X Conference Datum: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:13:23 -0800 Von: William R. Buckley <bill.buckley(a)gmail.com> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> Dear Reader: This email is sent to you in announcement of the Call for Participation respecting the recently accepted Workshop on Machine Self-Replication, to be held in association with the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife X). The workshop will be held on June 3, 2006 at the venue of Indiana University, in the city of Bloomington, Indiana, USA. It is my request that you each take opportunity to post a printed copy of the Call for Participation (found just below this statement) in the halls of your respective institutions, and to forward a copy of this email both to colleagues of other institutions in your same field of study, and to such other departments within your institution as may find the subject of the workshop to be of interest. Examples of other departments include mathematics, biology, and engineering. With your help, news of this workshop can achieve total world-wide distribution, and the input of every interested researcher can be heard. Recipients of forwarded copies of this email are also requested to assist in the distribution of the attached Call for Participation. Thank you very much for your kind attention to this matter. Sincerely, William R. Buckley Member of the Organising Committee Workshop on Machine Self-Replication =================================================== Call For Participation - Workshop on Machine Self-Replication =================================================== ALife X Indiana University June 3, 2006 Workshop on Machine Self-Replication to all biologists, systems and molecular; and chemists, bio or not; to computer scientists, and mathematicians; to handlers of systems complex; to philosophers, and those in work artificial A Call to Participate An age of self-replicating machines will soon be upon us, diverse in form and scale; a new state in the existence of man, made possible by biotechnology, electro-mechanical robotics, nanotechnology, and other applied sciences. The act of self-replication may not constitute sufficient basis upon which to judge a machine as living. Yet, by reductionist conception, biological organisms are self-replicating machines. Whether self-replication represents to life a ceiling, or a floor, is an open question. Is self-replication sufficient grist for the natural selection mill that life necessarily emerges? If not, there must be some character missing from our machine model. This is the purpose of this workshop, a debate of the role of information, and of self-entailment, and development of the reductionist view since the expression of self-replication given by von Neumann. It will be by well developed knowledge that the difference between very complex machines and living organisms can be judged. Is the appeal of robotic life limited to anthropomorphism? There is no topic more timely, nor more broadly appealing, than is self-replication in machines. The reader is invited to submit an abstract of from three to five pages, exclusive of references, treating any aspect of machine self-replication, machine being broadly construed to include abstract automata, electro-mechanical devices, molecular structures, etc. Abstracts may address, but are not limited to such topics and questions as: - Implementations in logical or physical (especially chemical) systems. - In what ways are the definitions of machine self- replication given by von Neumann, Turing and others inadequate? - How are these definitions similar to, or different from, biological self-replication? - By what criteria shall we differentiate trivial versus non-trivial self-replication? - Mathematical analysis of machine self-replication. - What insights for machine self-replication can be drawn from the field of evolutionary development (evo-devo)? - What characteristics of a substrate are critical for the emergence of living systems? - The role of information and self-entailment. - Are there other features of biological self-replication that are important for understanding life? If so, what are they? - Could these features also be built into a more robust self-replicating machine? How? - How should we understand the "development of form" in biological organisms? - The requirements for machine epigenesis; for an "embryo machine." Any aspect of machine self-replication is of interest. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format, and conform with the ALifeX conference specified formatting instructions for authors; see the website: http://www.alifex.org/submissions/instructions.pdf Important Dates Abstract submission: March 18, 2006 Notification of abstract acceptance: April 1, 2006 Camera-ready abstracts: April 15, 2006 See the conference website for registration deadline dates: http://www.alifex.org/registration/ Abstracts should be submitted by email to the address: wrb(a)calevinst.org Requests for additional information about the workshop should also be directed to the above email address. Workshop participants shall have the opportunity to publish a paper in a special issue of the Journal of Cellular Automata, or in the International Journal of Unconventional Computing. A paper will also be published in a suitable journal that summarises the results of the workshop. Organising Committee Andrew Adamatzky University of the West of England, Bristol William R. Buckley California Evolution Institute, San Francisco Cliff Joslyn Los Alamos National Laboratory Hod Lipson Mechanical Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University Robert T. Pennock Lyman Briggs School of Science, and Department of Philosophy, and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Michigan State University Tom Ray Zoology/University of Oklahoma Science Committee Adrian Bowyer Mechanical Engineering/University of Bath Gregory S. Chirikian Mechanical Engineering/Johns Hopkins University Terrence Deacon Anthropology/University of California, Berkeley John R. Koza Consulting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University George Khushf Department of Philosophy/University of South Carolina Barry McMullin Electronic Engineering/Dublin City University Tom Ray Zoology/University of Oklahoma Jim Reggia Computer Science/University of Maryland Hiroki Sayama Bioengineering/Binghamton University Wei-Min Shen University of Southern California Jacqueline Signorini Computer Science/University of Paris 8 Tihamer Toth-Fejer General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Michigan Research Center Robert E. 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[Fwd: EC-Web06: CFP -Paper submission deadline extended]
by Gustaf Neumann 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: EC-Web06: CFP -Paper submission deadline extended Datum: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:20:41 +0100 Von: Birgit Pröll <bproell(a)faw.uni-linz.ac.at> An: bproell(a)faw.uni-linz.ac.at Sorry for multiple postings. ======================================================== = Call for Papers - Paper Submission Deadline Extended = ======================================================== 7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies E C - W e b 2006 September 5 - September 8, 2006 Krakow, Poland http://www.dexa.org ==================================================== Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline for EC-Web 2006 has been extended. Note that this is a hard deadline. NEW Dates: * Submission of abstracts: February 28, 2006 * Submission of full papers: March 7, 2006 * Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2006 * Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2006 Online Paper Registration via: http://www.dexa.org -> Paper Registration/Submission -> EC-Web For details on suggested topics and program committee, please, refer to http://www.dexa.org -> Call for Papers -> EC-Web Best regards, Birgit Proell, FAW, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Hannes Werthner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria (EC-Web 2006 Program-Chairs)

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