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Final CFP: Virtual Communities in Travel and Tourism
by Arno Scharl 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Final Call for Papers VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM Special Issue, Journal on Information Technology & Tourism (IT&T) http://itt.ec3.at/ Submission Deadline: 30 September 2007 Guest Editors: Prof. Dieter Merkl (dieter.merkl(a)ec.tuwien.ac.at), Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology; and Prof. Arno Scharl (scharl(a)ecoresearch.net), Department of New Media Technology, MODUL University Vienna. We are currently witnessing a fundamental transition in the role of Internet users from mere consumers of information towards active providers of electronic content. The set of interactive Web technologies often referred to as the "Web 2.0" accelerates this transition by bringing together users of similar interests, browsing behavior, or geographic location. User-generated content and social networks are of particular interest to the travel and tourism community. User-generated content engages tourists and enriches their online experience. For the analyst, it yields important information to support decision making, and helps improve the accuracy of targeted marketing campaigns. By effectively using social software, tourism organizations can attract a critical mass of participants to their virtual communities and ensure rich, self-sustaining community interaction. Theoretical and applied papers are invited from academics and practitioners that investigate the role of virtual communities and user-generated content in the travel and tourism industry. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Classifications of user-generated content and low-overhead forms of individual publishing (tourism blogs, Wiki articles on destinations, etc.) * Credibility, relevance and trustworthiness of user-generated content * Impact of user-generated content on the decision making process * Recommendation systems based on user-generated content * User-generated travel and tourism taxonomies (folksonomies) * Travellers' willingness to share information * Virtual communities based on common interests * Destination marketing through virtual communities * Analyzing virtual communities by means of semantic technologies * Community-building through geospatial technology * Mobile and location-based services for travel and tourism communities * Three-dimensional Internet applications in travel and tourism * Related legal and privacy issues Time Schedule Submission: 30 September 2007 Notification: 30 November 2007 Publication: Summer 2008 Evaluation IT&T is a refereed journal. All manuscripts are evaluated by at least three referees from different disciplines. The evaluation of the paper is a double-blind and anonymous process; neither referees nor the authors are aware of each other's identities. Electronic Manuscript Submissions Please follow the formatting and style guidelines at http://itt.ec3.at/subm.htm, e-mail the cover page with author details to both guest editors (dieter.merkl(a)ec.tuwien.ac.at, scharl(a)ecoresearch.net), and upload the ANONYMOUS manuscript in either MS Word or PDF format at: http://www.know-center.at/chairhelper/jitt/submission Best regards, Dieter Merkl and Arno Scharl (Guest Editors of Special Issue) ---------------------------------------------- Prof. Arno Scharl Department of New Media Technology MODUL University Vienna Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria (e) scharl(a)ecoresearch.net (w) http://www.modul.ac.at/media (w) http://www.ecoresearch.net/ (w) http://www.geospatialweb.com/ ----------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Pro-it] ICDSC-07 call for participation]
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Pro-it] ICDSC-07 call for participation Datum: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:31:12 +0200 Von: Bernhard Rinner <Bernhard.Rinner(a)uni-klu.ac.at> An: <pro-it(a)ocg.at> ------------------------------------------- Call for Participation First ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-07) September 25-28, 2007 Vienna, Austria Early Registration Deadline: Aug. 1, 2007 www.icdsc.org ------------------------------------------ Scope: Distributed smart cameras combine techniques from computer vision, distributed processing, and embedded computing. Technological advances in the design of sensors and processors have facilitated the development of efficient embedded vision-based techniques. Design of scalable, network-based applications based on high-bandwidth data such as images requires a change of paradigm in the processing methodologies, thus creating opportunities for designing distributed and collaborative techniques. As a result, novel smart environment applications can be enabled that are interpretive, context aware, and user centric in nature. The conference aims to provide an opportunity for researchers working in the areas of smart camera architectures, algorithm design, embedded vision-based processing, and smart environments to exchange their most recent results. Offering insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and an outlook of research opportunities ahead are also the objectives of the conference. The conference program features lecture and poster presentations, demonstrations, invited talks, and tutorials. ------------------------------------------------------- Plenary Speakers: * Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA, “Sensing Platforms for World-wide Sensor Web” * Mubarak Shah, Central Florida University, USA, “Video Surveillance and Monitoring Using Distributed Cameras” * Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium, “Challenges for Single- and Multi-Camera Video Processing” Tutorials: * Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK, “Smart cameras: algorithms, evaluation and applications” * Björn Gottfried, University of Bremen, Germany, “Ambient intelligence and the role of spatial reasoning: Smart environments with smart cameras” * Richard Radke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, “Multiview Geometry for Camera Networks” * Wilfried Elmenreich, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, “Real-time Sensor Networks for Smart Cameras: Communication, Data Processing and Applications” Technical Session Topics: * Smart camera architectures * Image sensing techniques for smart cameras * Embedded vision programming * Fusion of vision and other sensors * Distributed vision processing algorithms * Distributed appearance modeling * Collaborative feature extraction, data and decision fusion * Architectures and protocols for camera networks * Wireless and mobile image sensor networks * Position discovery and middleware applications * Vision-based smart environments * Surveillance and tracking applications * Multi-view vision for human-computer interaction * 3D scene analysis * Distributed multimedia and gaming applications Demo Session: A dedicated session to academic and industry-based demos Panel Discussion: Panel consisting of academic and industry-based members will discuss upcoming application trends PhD Forum: * Students present their PhD research in spot posters and short talks * Panel will discuss potential research topics with students ---------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: * Bernhard Rinner (Klagenfurt University, Austria) * Wayne Wolf (Princeton University, USA) Program Chairs: * Hamid Aghajan (Stanford University, USA) * Richard Kleihorst (NXP Research, Netherlands) Technical Program Committee: * Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) * Rick Baer (Micron Technology, USA) * Alex Berestov (SONY Electronics, USA) * Fran*ois Berry (Université Blaise Pascal, France) * Horst Bischof (TU Graz, Austria) * Andrea Cavallaro (Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK) * Guanling Chen (UMASS Lowell, USA) * Alexander Danilin (NXP Research, Netherlands) * Liyanage De Silva (Massey University, New Zealand) * Wilfried Elmenreich (TU Wien, Austria) * Gene Frantz (Texas Instruments, USA) * Rachel Goshorn (Naval Postgraduate School, USA) * Pieter Jonker (TU Delft, Netherlands) * Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research, USA) * Sam Kavusi (Bosch RTC, USA) * Mathias Kolsch (Naval Postgraduate School, USA) * Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt University, USA) * Suk Hwan Lim (HP Labs, USA) * Jacky Mallett (MIT Media Labs, USA) * Johnny Park (Purdue University, USA) * Andrea Prati (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) * Richard Radke (RPI, USA) * Mohammad Rahimi (UCLA, USA) * Jim Reich (PARC, USA) * Senem Velipasalar (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) * Yuan-Fang Wang (UC Santa Barbara, USA) * Scott Wills (Georgia Tech, USA) Publicity Chair: * Johnny Park (Purdue University, USA) Demos Chair: * Ben Schueler (NXP Research, Netherlands) Local Arrangements Chairs: * Wilfried Elmenreich (TU Wien, Austria) * Roman Pflugfelder (Austrian Research Centers) -- Bernhard Rinner, Professor Klagenfurt University, Pervasive Computing Group Lakeside B02, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria P: +43-463-2700-3671 F:+43-463-2700-3679 E: bernhard.rinner(a)uni-klu.ac.at W: pervasive.uni-klu.ac.at _______________________________________________ Pro-it mailing list Pro-it(a)ocg.at http://www.ocg.at/mailman/listinfo/pro-it

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[Fwd: [computational.science] CFP - Special Issue on *Pervasive Services: Concepts, Paradigms and Applications*]
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP - Special Issue on *Pervasive Services: Concepts, Paradigms and Applications* Datum: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:28:09 +0400 Von: Zakaria Maamar <Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> The Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal (http://www.ubicc.org/) Special Issue on 'Pervasive Services: Concepts, Paradigms and Applications' CALL FOR PAPERS The term 'pervasive era' as a characterization of the 21st century can hardly be considered as an exaggeration. In times where mobile phone penetration is well above the 50% mark in some countries, and has even surpassed fixed line penetration in a few cases, it is not surprising that pervasive applications and services are claiming much of the industrial, academic, and even popular media attention. However, there is still some progress to be made before pervasive applications fully shift from the research mode to the commercial and intensive use modes. The support technologies, however, are improving at an impressive pace. Most of the research and development activities are currently aimed at improving the devices themselves and the technologies these devices will use to communicate. At present, the main use of mobile devices is still voice-oriented, but several indicators show that this is changing. 3G networks (e.g., GPRS, UMTS) and recent development of communication and presentation protocols (e.g., XML, WAP) are being combined to give users a high-quality experience of data-centric services. Besides the central role that hardware infrastructure plays in the expansion and penetration of pervasive applications and services, other issues still need to be tackled to better assist developers. Indeed, developers are put on the front line of satisfying the promise of businesses and service providers for delivering Internet content to mobile devices. The fact that an application for mobile or pervasive users has different requirements, calls for new techniques to identify and specify these requirements. With regard to users, it is expected that they will be frequently engaged in complex operations such as searching the net for better business opportunities. Therefore, their association with intelligent components, to act as proxies, is deemed appropriate. Papers are invited for a special edition of the Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal (UBICC) on'Pervasive Services and Applications'. The aim is to publish high quality original work identifying and studying pervasive services research challenges. Theoretical and empirical research papers are welcome, including case studies and pilot implementations. Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to: * Research into the design, development, implementation, and management of pervasive applications and services. These may include localized, personalized, contextualized and pervasive applications and services. * Research into methods for the proactive design of emerging applications and services ahead of the market. Methods may address the assessment of emerging pervasive technologies, the formulation of entrepreneurial strategies for commercial exploitation of services and markets, ways of eliciting the future demand for pervasive applications and services (for example, through empirical tests with potential customer groups), and others. * Research into technology and infrastructure advances (for example, third generation mobile technologies, innovative positioning technologies and systems, and others). The emphasis should not be on technology development per se, but rather on how these advances can be put in place towards the provision and management of value added pervasive applications and services. * Research into regulatory and policy issues surrounding pervasive services and applications. * Real-life applications (case studies, pilot implementations, experiments with users, and so on) demonstrating the above issues in a practical setting. Full papersshould be 4000-5000 words in length following the UBICC manuscript format and should be submitted electronically (MS-Word or PDF format) via the UBICC system by30 September 2007. Papers should contain a title page giving the name(s) and full address (es) of the author(s), the title of the paper, its word count, 5 keywords, an abstract and the body of the paper. All contributions will be subjected to a rigorous blind review by at least two expert reviewers. Guest Editor for the Special Issue: Dr. Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Dr. Zakaria Maamar and Dr. George M. Giaglis Contact: kouadris(a)open.ac.uk

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[Fwd: [wkwi] Call for Papers: AAMAS'2008 Konferenz]
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] Call for Papers: AAMAS'2008 Konferenz Datum: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:01:42 +0200 (CEST) Von: joerg mueller <joerg.mueller(a)tu-clausthal.de> Antwort an: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de An: undisclosed-recipients:; ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-08) ======================================================= May 12-16, 2008 Estoril, Portugal www.aamas2008.org www.aamas-conference.org AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International Conference in Autonomous Agents, the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, and the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems. The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for research in all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The conference will be held from Monday May 12th until Friday May 16th, 2008 in Estoril, Portugal. Tutorials and workshops will be held on Monday May 12th and Tuesday May 13th, 2008. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be presented from Wednesday May 14th through Friday May 16th, 2008. ================ PAPER SUBMISSION ================ This year the conference is soliciting full papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages). Accepted full length papers will be receive a slot for oral presentation in the conference. In addition, both full and short papers will be presented in poster sessions and appear in the conference proceedings. Short papers are encouraged as a mechanism for both important results that can be succinctly presented, as well as the timely reporting of interesting but preliminary work, that may not as yet have the level of evaluation or detail that would be expected for a full paper. The program chairs may, at their discretion, accept papers submitted as full papers into the short paper track. Both full and short papers will be peer reviewed rigorously and evaluated on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of the contribution. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format, using ACM style guides. Detailed submission instructions will be available on the AAMAS-08 website. Submissions must not have appeared before (or be pending to appear) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the AAMAS-08 review process. ========= KEY DATES ========= All deadlines are midnight, Eastern Standard Time (New York time). Tuesday, October 23, 2007: Electronic abstract due Friday, October 26, 2007: Full electronic paper submissions due November 27 - 28, 2007: Author feedback opportunity Wednesday, December 19, 2007: Accept/reject notifications ================================= SPECIAL TRACKS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ================================= AAMAS-08 will feature two special tracks: one on Multi-Robotics and the other on Virtual Agents. Papers for these tracks will be reviewed by specially recruited reviewers within these sub-communities. Authors will be asked to indicate special track relevance at paper submission time. More information on these special tracks is provided below. AAMAS-08 will include an Industry and Applications track for descriptions of emerging and already deployed agent applications. The submission and the reviewing process for the industry and applications track is separate from the main conference process. A separate "call for papers" will be issued at a later stage, but the planned submission deadline is a couple of weeks after the main conference submission date. AAMAS-08 will include a demonstration session. Demonstration submissions will be invited for three different categories: industrial software, academic software, and robotics. We plan to choose the winner of each demo category by public vote. A separate "call for demos" will be issued at a later stage, but planned submission deadline is 18th of January 2008. ======================= TOPIC AREAS: MAIN TRACK ======================= AAMAS-08 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological, engineering and application papers across a broad range of agent topics. All papers should: * make clear their contribution to the AAMAS field, * place their work in the context of relevant related work, * evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their approach. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Agent-based system development - agent-oriented software engineering - agent development environments - agent languages - case studies and implemented systems - P2P, web services, grid computing Learning - learning (single and multi-agent) - computational architectures for learning - evolution, adaptation Agent Reasoning - reasoning (single and multi-agent) - planning (single and mult-agent) - cognitive models - ontological reasoning Agent cooperation - teamwork, coalition formation, coordination - distributed problem solving - biologically-inspired methods Agent theories, models and architectures - formal models of agency - modeling other agents and self - BDI, speech act theory - reactive vs deliberative - logic-based methods - bounded rationality Agent societies and Societal issues - artificial social systems - trust and reputation - social and organizational structure - privacy, safety and security - ethical and legal issues Agent communication - communication languages - communication protocols - agent commitments Economic paradigms - electronic markets and institutions - economically-motivated agents - game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative) - social choice theory, voting protocols - auction and mechanism design - argumentation, negotiation and bargaining Agent-based simulations - emergent behaviour - simulation-specific issues The conference also welcomes relevant papers from related fields such as P2P computing, web services, autonomic and grid computing, as long as the link is made to relevance and work within the agents community. =============================== SPECIAL TRACKS: INFO and TOPICS =============================== *Special track on Multi-Robotics: Papers on theory and applications concerning teams of multiple robots are welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between researchers on multi-agent and multi-robot systems, so as to provide a cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - cooperative perception - cooperative localization - middleware for multi-robot systems - multi-robot mapping and localization - networked robots - formal models of multi-robot plans *Special track on Virtual agents: Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments that emulate human-like behavior. Papers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents are welcome, as well as papers about challenging applications of virtual agents. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - verbal and non-verbal expressiveness - models of personality, emotions and social behavior - multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction - advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies - applications, experience reports and user studies ==================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== General Chairs: Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA Joerg P. Mueller, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Program Chairs: Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia David C. Parkes, Harvard University, USA Local Organization Chairs: Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Luis Antunes, ISR & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Multi-Robotics Special Track Chair: Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Virtual Agents Special Track Chair: Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany Workshop Chair: Juan Antonio Rodriguez, AI Research Institute (IIIA), Spain Tutorials Chair: Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey Industrial Track Chairs: Michael Berger, Siemens AG, Germany Satoshi Nishiyama, KDDI Labs, Japan Bernard Burg, Panasonic, USA Exhibits/Demo Chairs: Joelle Pineau, McGill University, Canada Rafael Bordini, University of Durham, UK Finance Chair: Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA Doctoral Mentoring Chairs: Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University, Israel Yohei Murakami, National Inst. of I&C Tech., Japan Publicity Chair: Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA Publications Chair: Franziska Kluegl, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Registration and Local Finance Chair: Joo Balsa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Student Scholarship Chairs: Sascha Ossowski, U Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Von Wun Soo, U Hsinchu, Taiwan Sponsoring Chairs: John Yen, Penn State University, USA Alex Rogers, University of Southhampton, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Senior Program Committee: Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil Rafael Bordini, University of Durham, UK Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, Canada Felix Brandt, University of Munich, Germany Jonathan Bredin, Colorado College, USA Brahim Chaib-draa, Laval University, Canada Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Barbara Dunin-Keplicz,Warsaw Univ. and Polish Acad of Sciences, Poland Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan, USA Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK Shaheen Fatima, University of Liverpool, UK Claudia Goldman, Samsung Telecom Research Israel, Israel Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, USA Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Nick Jennings, Southampton University, UK Catholijn M. Jonker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Kamalakar Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Ryszard Kowalczyk, University of Swinburne, Australia Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Univ. Maryland, USA Han La Poutre, CWI, The Netherlands Jerome Lang, IRIT, France Kate Larson, University of Waterloo, Canada Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Dayou Liu, Jilin University, China Michael Luck, King's College London, UK Rajiv Maheswaran, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, USA Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tecnico Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa, USA Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Carles Sierra, AI Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spain Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Kagan Tumer, Oregon State University, USA Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Nikos Vlassis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steven Willmott, 3Scale Networks S. L., Spain Michael Winikoff, RMIT University, Australia Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia SPC: Multi-Robotics Special Track Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania, USA Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, USA Daniele Nardi, Universita di Roma, Italy Lynne Parker, University of Tennessee, USA Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Nikos Vlassis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia SPC: Virtual Agents Special Track Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tcnico, Portugal Catherine Pelachaud, Universite de Paris 8, France Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland R. Michael Young, North Carolina State University, USA

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[Fwd: [wkwi] CfP MKWI08 - Betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungen des Grid Computing]
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] CfP MKWI08 - Betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungen des Grid Computing Datum: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:47:51 +0200 (CEST) Von: torsten eymann <torsten.eymann(a)uni-bayreuth.de> Antwort an: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de An: undisclosed-recipients:; Call for Papers Teilkonferenz "Betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungen des Grid Computing" (Grid Computing in and for Business Applications) http://srvmatthes6.in.tum.de/grid_computing_in_and_for_business_application… im Rahmen der Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2008 http://www.mkwi2008.de/ München, 26. 02. 2008 - 28. 02. 2008 ------------------- Termine ------------------- 30.09.2007: Einreichung der Beiträge 05.11.2007: Bekanntgabe der Reviewergebnisse 03.12.2007: Einreichung der Finalfassungen der Beiträge ------------------- Beschreibung ------------------- Das Paradigma des Grid Computing, bisher fast ausschließlich als Methode zur Berechnung hochkomplexer Aufgabenstellungen eingesetzt, gewinnt seit kurzem auch für betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungen an Bedeutung. Dies spiegelt sich nicht nur in einer rasch wachsenden Zahl von Förderprojekten auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene, sondern auch in ersten realisierten Business-Anwendungen wider. Entwickung und Einsatz Grid-basierter betriebswirtschaftlicher Softwarelösungen werfen zahlreiche, bisher nur unzureichend untersuchte Fragen auf. Wann sollten Unternehmen den Einsatz von Gridtechnologien und -werkzeugen erwägen? Welche Vor- und Nachteile, welche Chancen und Risiken sind mit einer solchen Entscheidung verbunden? Wie lassen sich grid-basierte Systeme in bestehende Softwarelandschaften integrieren und dort erfolgreich betreiben? Reichen die bestehenden Standards aus, um der Grid-Technologie nicht nur im Höchstleistungsrechnen, sondern auch im betriebswirtschaftlichen Umfeld zum Erfolg zu verhelfen? Lassen sich mit Grid-Technologie Wettbewerbsvorteile erzielen, und welche Innovationsbarrieren müssen gegebenenfalls überwunden werden? Diese und verwandte Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt der MKWI2008-Teilkonferenz "Betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungen des Grid Computing". ------------------- Themenbereiche ------------------- Zu den folgenden und verwandten Themenbereichen werden Beiträge erbeten: - Vorgehensweisen und Engineering-Methoden für die Entwicklung grid-basierter betrieblicher Anwendungssysteme - Erfahrungsberichte aus Entwicklung, Einführung und Einsatz gridbasierter betrieblicher Anwendungssysteme - Gridbasierte betriebliche Anwendungsarchitekturen - Grid-getriebene betriebswirtschaftliche und organisatorische Innovationen - anwendungsspezifische Weiterentwicklungen von Gridtechnologien, -werkzeugen und -Middleware - Bepreisung und Geschäftsmodelle für Grid-Computing - rechtliche Aspekte des Grid Computing - Safety, Security und Vertrauen im Grid-Computing ------------------------- Adressaten ------------------------- Dieser Workshop richtet sich an Wissenschaftler, die sich mit den unterschiedlichen betriebswirtschaftlichen Fragestellungen im Kontext von Grid Computing beschäftigen sowie an Vertreter aus der Praxis, die im Bereich Grid Computing aktiv sind. ------------------- Einreichung von Beiträgen ------------------- Für den Tagungsband müssen zwei Dokumente eingereicht werden: Eine Kurzfassung des Beitrags von 1 - 2 Seiten und eine Vollversion des Beitrags von 12 Seiten inkl. Literaturverzeichnis. Die Kurzfassung angenommener Beiträge wird im Tagungsband abgedruckt, deren Vollversion in elektronischer Form auf einer dem Tagungsband beigelegten CD-ROM gespeichert. Die formalen Anforderungen bezüglich der einzureichenden Beiträge finden Sie unter http://srvmatthes6.in.tum.de/tagungsband.html. Der Beitrag kann in Deutsch oder Englisch eingereicht werden unter http://conf.wi.uni-bayreuth.de/MKWI08Grid/ ------------------------------ Organisation / Ansprechpartner ------------------------------ - Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirn, Universtität Hohenheim - Prof. Dr. Torsten Eymann, Universität Bayreuth Email: wi2office(a)uni-hohenheim.de --------------- Programmkomitee --------------- - Jun.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Barth, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Siegen - Prof. Dr. Torsten Eymann, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Bayreuth - Prof. Dr. Bogdan Francyk, Universität Leipzig - Dr. Alfred Geiger, T-Systems - Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid - Prof. Dr. Manfred Grauer, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Siegen - Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirn, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II, Universität Hohenheim - Prof. Dr. Frank Leymann, Universität Stuttgart - Prof. Dr. Günter Müller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Dr. Dirk Neumann, Institut IISM, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) - Prof. Dr. Daniel Veit, Stiftungslehrstuhl für ABWL und Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Mannheim - Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt, Institut IISM, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) - Stefan Wesner, Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart

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[Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: ACM SAC 2008 - Semantic Web and Applications Track]
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: ACM SAC 2008 - Semantic Web and Applications Track Datum: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:48:04 -0400 Von: Han, Hyoil <hhan(a)ischool.drexel.edu> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> Referenzen: <736f122e0708130851u7b5bf157ie27946374183a2f9(a)mail.gmail.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once.] A Technical Track of the 23rd Annual ACM SAC: The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/hhan/swa2008/ The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, March 16 - 20, 2008 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/ CALL FOR PAPERS The technical track ¡°The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA)¡± focuses on the topics related to Semantic Web Technologies and their Applications. The Semantic Web is a next generation web. The current web content is not easy to be processed by machines. On the other hand, the web content in the Semantic Web can be processed easily by machines. The techniques to realize and/or utilize the Semantic Web are discussed in this track. The focus of this track is to present research concerning issues such as: 1) learning/constructing ontologies for Semantic Web applications; 2) utilizing ontologies for data management, integration and interoperability in Semantic web applications; 3) building architectures for achieving Semantic Web goals for specific application domains; and 4) improving search techniques (or engines) with Semantic Web and text mining technologies. This track aims to tackle research problems and practical applications for the Semantic Web. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers on the theoretical, technical and practical issues of Semantic Web and its Applications. We are particularly interested in applying Semantic Web technologies to specific application domains (e.g., the e-business, medical informatics and bioinformatics). Topics include, but are not limited to: - Semantic interoperability - Ontology-enabled interoperability among e-sources - Emergent semantics - Ontology, Taxonomy, and Folksonomy - Schema mapping/matching and integration - Learning structures from the Web for Semantic Web-enabled applications - Ontology generation/learning - Building/utilizing ontologies and knowledge bases - Semantics and ontologies in data integration - Ontology-enabled search (engines) - Semantic Web-enabled search (engines) - Semantic web-enabled question answering system - Ontology-enabled information retrieval - Semantic Web-enabled information retrieval - Full-text search in XML and/or Semantic Web documents - Data management and integration for Semantic Web-enabled applications - Semantic annotation - Semantic Web personalization - Semantic Web-enabled user modelling - Semantic Web services - Reasoning - Querying the Semantic Web - Semantic Web mining - Question Answering over the Semantic Web - Text mining for Semantic Web-enabled application - Natural language processing for Semantic Web-enabled application - Applying Semantic Web techniques to e-business, medical informatics, bioinformatics, and legal domains SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Authors are invited to submit original papers via submission systems (see below) as a PDF file. Since the track papers will be published by ACM proceedings, authors must submit manuscripts using the ACM format. See ACM SAC 2008's announcement for template files and details. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/downloads08.htm The standard extension of a paper at SAC is 5 pages in ACM format (approximately 4000 words). Longer papers (up to 8 pages maximum) will imply an additional charge. For submitting abstracts and papers, please click http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2008/SubmitAbstract.aspx The use of this web site will be mandatory for this (SWA) track. This is the ONLY URL that will allow authors to submit a paper to the SWA track. Please contact Jeff Allen (jallen AT cs.iupui.edu) for any problems with the system. A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track. IMPORTANT DUE DATES: Sep. 8, 2007 Paper & Abstract submission (Firm deadline) Oct. 16, 2007 Author notification Oct. 30, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers PROGRAM CHAIRS: Hyoil Han (hhan AT ischool.drexel.edu) Drexel University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Yuan An, University of Toronto, Canada Sofia J. Athenikos, Drexel University, USA Huajun Chen Zhejiang University, China Namyoun Choi, Drexel University, USA Stefania Costache, L3S Research Center, Germany Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Raul Garcia-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Peter Haase, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan Ralf Heese, Humboldt-Universit¨at zu Berlin, Germany Stijn Heymans Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Istvan Jonyer, Oklahoma State University, USA Christoph Kiefer, University of Zurich, Switzerland Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Lab., India Steffen Lamparter, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA SeungJin Lim, Utah State University, USA Yuxin Mao, Zhejiang University, China Jun Miyazaki, Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan JungHwan Oh, University of North Texas, USA Feng Pan, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI), USA Xiaojun Qi, Utah State University, USA Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Seong-Joon Yoo, Sejong University, Korea Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener University, USA For further information on this track, please contact hhan AT ischool.drexel.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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TRIPLE-I: Call for Participation (Graz, Austria: Sep 5-7)
by Arno Scharl 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Call for Participation TRIPLE-I International Conference on Knowledge Management, New Media Technology and Semantic Systems 5-7 September 2007 Graz, Austria http://www.triple-i.info/ The TRIPLE-I Conference series is a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS. TRIPLE-I reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic systems. This unique concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields. Building upon the reputation of the conference series I-KNOW and SEMANTICS, the upcoming event addresses representatives from academia, industry and public administrations. TRIPLE-I will offer its participants a unique platform to present state-of-the-art research & development, and to get an overview of the most innovative IT technologies, content applications, knowledge management trends and emerging market opportunities. The program includes more than 80 scientific presentations from all over the world. A German-speaking industry track offers further 40 presentations, as well as an exhibition for all conference participants. Three internationally renowned experts will give keynote presentations. Please visit the website at www.triple-i.info for the detailed program including the schedule and the keynoters' short biographies: * Peter H. Reiser, SUN Principal Engineer at SUN Microsystems * Marc Smith, Microsoft Research Head of Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research * Martin Eppler Professor at University of Lugano More than 300 participants have already registered by the end of July 2007. We look forward to welcoming you to Graz in September 2007! Best regards, Klaus Tochtermann Know-Center, Graz University of Technology Werner Haas JOANNEUM Research Frank Kappe, Hermann Maurer Graz University of Technology Arno Scharl MODUL University Vienna

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