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[Fwd: [computational.science] CFP: The First IEEE International Workshop on Autonomous & Autonomic Software-based Systems (ASBS'2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: The First IEEE International Workshop on Autonomous & Autonomic Software-based Systems (ASBS'2008) Datum: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:27:03 +0100 Von: S.Kouadri <S.Kouadri(a)open.ac.uk> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> The First IEEE International Workshop on Autonomous & Autonomic Software-based Systems (ASBS'2008) Workshop website: http://ocm.ensm-douai.fr/conf/ASBS2008 <https://oufe.open.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ocm.ensm-douai.fr/…> In conjunction with The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology. CSTST'08 http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/index.php <https://oufe.open.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://sigappfr.acm.org/c…> Cergy Pontoise, Paris, France. 26th 30th October 2008 AIMS and SCOPE Nowadays, autonomous and autonomic software-based systems are merging as a hot research topic. Autonomous software are self-contained and capable of making independent decisions, and taking actions to satisfy internal goals based upon their perceived environment. To be autonomic, a system must know itself as well as its boundaries and environment, configure and reconfigure itself, continually optimize itself, recover or heal from malfunction, protect itself, and functions in a heterogeneous world-while keeping its complexity hidden from the user. Therefore, the inherent properties and complexity of autonomous software pose new challenges throughout software lifecycle. For examples, architects and designers need new or specific architectural and design models and languages supporting design and implementation of autonomous software. Middleware and languages must integrate adequate properties facilitating autonomous software implementation. In addition, as autonomous software operate always in critical environment, it is necessary to be able to evaluate effects generated by software actions. ASBS'2008 is an IEEE Computer Society sponsored workshop covering a wide range of topics in Autonomous & Autonomic Software-based systems. ASBS'2008 in conjunction with CSTST'2008 provides an excellent opportunity for researchers to exchange leading-edge research in the dynamic field of Autonomous & Autonomic systems in general. The proceedings of the Workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society and fully index by IEEE Xplore. Extended version of selected papers will be considered for publication in journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (http://www.dirf.org/jdim/publisher.htm). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Autonomous & Autonomic system design and development; · Engineering of autonomous & autonomic systems; · Autonomous & Autonomic system management, paradigms and methodologies; · Theoretical and simulation frameworks; · Knowledge management for autonomic & autonomous systems; · Communication protocols and networking; · Interoperability with legacy & heterogeneous systems. · Decision making, techniques and models; · Injecting self-* properties into legacy systems; · Formal notations for modelling and analysis of autonomous and autonomic software; · Bio-inspired control models for autonomous and autonomic systems; · Cognitive-based models for autonomous and autonomic computing; · Resource & Service discovery and management; · Context-aware computing in autonomous and autonomic systems; · Performance enhancement approaches; · Experiences with autonomic & autonomous systems; · Applications of autonomic systems; · Surveys and case studies concerning all forms of embedded software, pervasive computing, operating systems and middleware, image and signal processing, etc. · Security challenges in autonomic & autonomous systems; Paper submission: We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the workshop themes. Researchers are invited to submit technical papers (approx. 5000 words- 10 pages), position or work-in-progress papers (approx. 2000 words - 4 pages). All submissions should use the standard IEEE double-column format. Papers should be submitted using the workshop electronic submission system available at http://ocm.ensm-douai.fr/conf/ASBS2008/submission.html <https://oufe.open.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ocm.ensm-douai.fr/…> . For more details on how to submit and the workshop, consult the workshop website http://ocm.ensm-douai.fr/conf/ASBS2008 <https://oufe.open.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ocm.ensm-douai.fr/…> IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: September 20, 2008 Workshop co-Chair: Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, The British Open University, United Kingdom. Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, Ecole des Mines de Douai, France. Salim Ferraz, Alcatel-Lucent, France. Program Committee: · P. Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy · M. Berger, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany · J. Berri, Etisalat University College, UAE · S. Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria · José Fortes University of Florida, USA · B. König-Ries, TU München, Germany · G. Kouadri Mostefaoui, Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK · A. Kouadri Mostefaoui, INPG, Grenoble, France · B. Medjahed, CIS Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA · J. Misic University of Manitoba, Canada · M. Salaun, France Telecom Orange, France · A. Savidis, University of Crete, Greece · M. Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia · M. 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[Fwd: [computational.science] Call for Paper - HPDataGrid08 Workshop]
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for Paper - HPDataGrid08 Workshop Datum: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:50:40 +0200 Von: Sandro Fiore <sandro.fiore(a)unile.it> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> --- Apology for multiple posting --- *******Call for Papers - Submission deadline 25 July 2008 ********** 1st International Workshop on High Performance Data Grid (HPDataGrid'08) held in conjunction with 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'08) 1-4 December 2008 - Dunedin, New Zealand Workshop website: http://grelc.unile.it/HPDataGrid08 Call for Papers Grids encourage and promote the publication, analysis, processing, sharing, integration of scientific data, distributed across Virtual Organizations. Scientists and researchers (climatologists, bioinformatics, astrophysics, financial experts, etc.) work on huge, complex, heterogeneous and continuosly growing datasets. The complexity of data management within a grid environment comes from the distribution, heterogeneity and number of data sources. Grids are characterized with high heterogeneity, high autonomy and large-scale distribution of computing and data resources. Accessing and managing efficiently a large number of heterogeneous and widespread data resources (concerning both files and databases) in a grid environment is an open problem. Grids may have different requirements with respect to autonomy, query management, efficient delivery mechanisms, quality of service, scalability, flexibility, security, etc. Important issues must be faced, ranging from distributed grid database management, extensions of distributed and parallel computing techniques to more decentralized, self-adaptive techniques such as Peer-to-peer (P2P), data grid for e-Science applications, high performance data delivery/replication/access, etc. The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and scientists from the high-performance data management, scientific computing, storage systems, distributed systems, database communities, e-Science domains (data-oriented), etc. to discuss and share the challenges concerning the high-performance data management in a Grid environments. In particular, this workshop aims at offering a high level forum for exchanging information, ideas, techniques and software on how to progress in this rapidly evolving field, in order to support the advance in scientific research education as well as industrial applications. Topics of Interest They include, but are not limited to; * Data Grid Architectures / Infrastructures * Data Grids for e-Science * Data-intensive Grid Applications * Data Grid, Web Services and P2P * WSRF-based Data Grid Services * Grid Database Access, Management and Integration Services * Parallel Database Management in Grid * Data Security and Privacy * Data Grid Portals * Data Grids and Metadata Management * Grid Data Warehousing and Data Mining * Grid Data Streaming * Grid Storage & High Performance Data Transfer Protocols * Query Processing and Information Retrieval in Grids * Workflow/Dataflow Management in Grids * High Performance Data Movement, Replication and Fault- Tolerance in Grids * Indexing, caching and load balancing in Grids * Grid multimedia data management Important Dates Paper submission deadline July 25, 2008 Author notification August 10, 2008 Camera ready version due August 30, 2008 Conference December 1-4, 2008 Workshop Chairs * Sandro Fiore – CMCC & Univ. of Salento - Italy * Giovanni Aloisio - CMCC, Univ. of Salento & SPACI Consortium - Italy Program Committee * David Abramson - Monash Univ. - Australia * Victor Alessandrini - IDRIS/CNRS - France * Rosa M. Badia - Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain * Massimo Cafaro - Univ. of Salento & SPACI Consortium - Italy * Henri Casanova - Univ. of Hawaii - USA * Jack Dongarra - Univ. of Tennessee - USA * Ian Foster - Argonne National Laboratory & Univ. of Chicago - USA * Geoffrey Fox - Indiana Univ. - USA * Peter Fox - NCAR - USA * Peter Kacsuk - MTA SZTAKI - Hungary * Al Kellie - NCAR - USA * Peter Kunszt - CSCS - Switzerland * Erwin Laure - CERN - Switzerland * Craig Lee - AeroSpace - USA * Laurent Lefevre - INRIA - France * David Martin - IBM - USA * Satoshi Matsuoka - Tokjo Institute of Tech. - Japan * Paul Messina - SPACI Consortium - USA * Maria Mirto - Univ. of Salento - Italy * Reagan Moore - SDSC - USA * Almerico Murli - Univ. of Napoli Federico II & SPACI Consortium - Italy * Antonio Navarra - CMCC - Italy * Alessandro Negro - Univ. of Salento - Italy * Thierry Priol - IRISA/INRIA - France * Omer F. Rana - Cardiff Univ. - UK * Edward Seidel - Louisiana State Univ. - USA * Rick Stevens - Argonne National Laboratory & Univ. of Chicago - USA * Osamu Tatebe - Univ. of Tsukuba - Japan * Salvatore Vadacca - CMCC - Italy * David W. Walker - Cardiff Univ. - UK * Roy Williams - Caltech - USA Submission procedure Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages of single column, including tables and figures. Submissions imply the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the conference, and present the paper. Workshop participants must pay the PDCAT'08 conference registration fee. Each paper will be refereed by at least three independent reviewers. Paper submission indicates the intention of the author to present the paper at the HPDataGrid'08 workshop at PDCAT'08. PDCAT'08 is using the IEEE Conference Publishing Service, so your final version must be in IEEE’s required format (maximum of 6 pages in length). Information can be found on the Information for Authors section on the Conference Publishing Service site. Please submit your paper by e-mail to hpdatagrid08(a)sara.unile.it (make sure that the subject of the e-mail says "HPDataGrid08 Submission").

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[Fwd: [isworld] CfP: 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP: 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2008) Datum: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:13:35 -0600 Von: Dragan Gasevic <dgasevic(a)acm.org> Antwort an: Dragan Gasevic <dgasevic(a)acm.org> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Referenzen: <c73fb4880803270949s395b0d0es30d449611870b5f7(a)mail.gmail.com> ___________________________________________________________________ 2nd Call for Papers - SLE 2008 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering http://planet-sl.org/sle2008/ Toulouse, France, September 29-30, 2008 ___________________________________________________________________ Co-located with 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2008) Conference proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS series. The 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is devoted to topics related to artificial languages in software engineering. SLE is an international research forum that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to expand the frontiers of software language engineering. Historically, SLE emerged from two established workshop series: LDTA, Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications, which has been a satellite event at ETAPS for the last 8 years, and ATEM which has been co-located with MODELS and WCRE for the last 5 years. These, as well as several other conferences and workshops, have investigated various aspects of language design, implementation, and evolution but from different perspectives. SLE's foremost mission is to encourage and organize communication between communities that have traditionally looked at software languages from different, more specialized, and yet complementary perspectives. SLE emphasizes the fundamental notion of languages as opposed to any realization in specific "technical spaces". Scope ----- The term "software language" comprises all sorts of artificial languages used in software development including general purpose programming languages, domain-specific languages, modeling and metamodeling languages, data models, and ontologies. We use this term in its broadest sense. Thus, for example, modeling languages include UML and UML-based languages, synchronous languages used in safety critical applications, business process modeling languages, and web application modeling languages, to name a few. Perhaps less obviously, the term "software language" also comprises APIs and collections of design patterns that are indeed implicitly defined languages. Software language engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, use, and maintenance of these languages. Thus, the SLE conference is concerned with all phases of the lifecycle of software languages; these include the design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, evolution, recovery, and retirement of languages. Of special interest are tools, techniques, methods and formalisms that support these activities. In particular, tools are often based on or even automatically generated from a formal description of the language. Hence, of special interest is the treatment of language descriptions as software artifacts, akin to programs - while paying attention to the special status of language descriptions, subject to tailored engineering principles and methods for modularization, refactoring, refinement, composition, versioning, co-evolution, and analysis. Topics of interest ------------------ We solicit high-quality contributions in the area of SLE ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques and frameworks that support the aforementioned lifecycle activities. Some examples of tools, techniques, applications, and problems are listed below in order to clarify the types of contributions sought by SLE. * Formalisms used in designing and specifying languages and tools that analyze such language descriptions: For example, of interest are formalisms such as grammars, schemas, ontologies, and metamodels; innovative tools that detect inconsistencies in a metamodel or analyze grammars in building a parser; and formal logics and proof assistants that verify properties of language specifications. * Language implementation techniques: This includes advances in traditional compiler generator tools such as parser/scanner generators, attribute grammar systems, term-rewriting systems, functional-programming-based combinator libraries, among many others; also of interest are metamodel-based and ontology tools such as constraint, rule, view, transformation, and query formalisms and engines. * Program and model transformation tools: Examples include tools that support program refinement and refactoring, model-based development, aspect and model weaving, model extraction, metamodeling, model transformations, round-trip engineering, and runtime system transformation. * Composition, integration, and mapping tools for managing different aspects of software languages or different manifestations of a given language: For example, SLE is interested in tools for mapping between the concrete and abstract syntax of a language, for managing textual and graphical concrete syntax for the same or closely related languages; also, mapping descriptions and tools for XML/object/relational mappings. * Language evolution: Included are extensible languages and type systems and their supporting tools, as well as language conversion tools. APIs, when considered as languages, are subject to evolution; thus tools and techniques that assist developers in using a new version of an API or a competing implementation in a program are also of interest. * Approaches to the elicitation, specification, and verification of requirements for software languages: Examples include the use of requirements engineering techniques in the development of domain-specific languages and the application of logic-based formalisms for verifying language requirements. * Language development frameworks, methodologies, techniques, best practices, and tools for the broader language lifecycle covering phases such as analysis, testing, and documentation. For example, frameworks for advanced type or error checking systems, constraint mechanisms, tools for metrics measurement and language usage analysis, documentation generators, visualization backends, knowledge and process management approaches, as well as IDE support for many of these activities are of interest. * Design challenges in SLE: Example challenges include finding a balance between specificity and generality in designing domain-specific languages, between strong static typing and weaker yet more flexible type systems, or between deep and shallow embedding approaches, as, for example, in the context of adding type-safe XML and database programming support to general-purpose programming languages. * Applications of languages including innovative domain-specific languages or "little" languages: Examples include policy languages for security or service oriented architectures, web-engineering with schema-based generators or ontology-based annotations. Of specific interest are the engineering aspects of domain-specific language support in all of these cases. Do note that this list is not exclusive and many examples of tools, techniques, approaches have not been listed. The program committee chairs encourage potential contributors to contact them with questions about the scope and topics of interest of SLE. Paper Submission ---------------- We solicit the following types of papers: * Research papers. These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE and/or successful application of SLE techniques. Full paper submissions must not exceed 20 pages. * Short papers. These may describe interesting or thought-provoking concepts that are not yet fully developed or evaluated, make an initial contribution to challenging research issues in SLE, or discuss and analyze controversial issues in the field. These papers must not exceed 10 pages. * Tool demonstration papers. Because of SLE's ample interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. These papers will accompany a tool demonstration to be given at the conference. These papers must not exceed 10 pages. The selection criteria include the originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, the relevance of the tool to SLE, and the maturity of the tool. Submissions may also include an appendix (that will not be published) containing additional screen-shots and discussion of the proposed demonstration. * Panel proposals. Panels that discuss controversial and challenging issues in the area of SLE, perhaps based on looking at SLE related problems from the different perspectives of different communities are also sought. The panels should have at least three panelists and a moderator, and the proposal must not exceed three pages. One panel is planned for the end of each of the two days of the conference program. The panel moderators will be invited to contribute a summary of the panel discussion compiling different positions presented on the panel to the final proceedings. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently be submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be closely reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will be made available at the conference in the pre-proceedings and published in the post-proceedings of the conference, which will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors will have the opportunity to revise their accepted paper for the pre and post-proceedings. All papers must be formatted by following Springer's LNCS style and will be submitted using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2008. Further details regarding submission can be found on the SLE web page: http://planet-sl.org/sle2008/. Special Issue ------------- Negotiations are underway to compile a special issue in an appropriate journal based on extended versions of selected SLE 2008 papers. Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission: July 14, 2008 * Author notification: August 25, 2008 * Paper submission for pre-proceedings: September 8, 2008 * Conference: September 29 - 30, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission for post-proceedings: November 1, 2008 * LNCS post-proceedings mailed to authors (approx.): February 1, 2009 Keynote Speakers ---------------- * Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands * Anneke Kleppe, Capgemini, The Netherlands Organization ------------ Steering Committee * Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands * James Cordy, Queen's University, Canada * Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada * Gorel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden * Ralf Laemmel, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA * Andreas Winter, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany General Chair * Ralf Laemmel, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany Program Committee Co-Chairs * Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada * Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Organization Committee * Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France * Jean-Sebastien Sottet, Web Chair, University of Grenoble, France * Andreas Winter, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany * Steffen Zschaler, Publicity Chair, TU Dresden, Germany Program Committee * Uwe Aßmann, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Colin Atkinson, Universität Mannheim, Germany * Jean Bezivin, Uinversité de Nantes, France * Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa * Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Martin Bravenboer, Unversity of Oregon, USA * Charles Consel, Uinversity of Paris VI, France * Torbjörn Ekman, Oxford University, England * Gregor Engels, Universität Paderborn, Germany * Robert Fuhrer, IBM, USA * Dragan Gasevic, co-chair, Athabasca University, Canada * Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany * Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA * Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, USA * Reiko Heckel, Uinversity of Leicester, England * Nigel Horspool, Univeristy of Victoria, Canada * Joe Kiniry, University College Dublin, Ireland * Paul Klint, CWI, The Netherlands * Mitch Kokar, Northeaster Univeristy, USA * Thomas Kuehne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand * Julia Lawall, DIKU, Denmark * Oege de Moor, Oxford University, England * Pirre-Etienne Moreau, INRIA & LORIA, France * Pierre-Alain Muller, University of Haute-Alsace, France * Richard Paige, University of York, England * Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, Scotland * João Saraiva, Universidad do Minho, Portugal * Micael Schwartzbach, University of Aarhus, Denmark * Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Laurence Tratt, Bournemouth University, England * Walid Taha, Rice University, USA * Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA * Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland * Eric Van Wyk, co-chair, University of Minnesota, USA * Jurgen Vinju, CWI, The Netherlands * Mike Whalen, Rockwell Collins, USA * Steffen Zschaler, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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Fwd: (SEWORLD) CfP - QoCSOA'08
by Michael Alexander 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Liam O'Brien" <Liam.O'Brien(a)nicta.com.au> > Date: 17. Juni 2008 14:20:56 GMT+02:00 > To: SEWORLD(a)cs.colorado.edu > Subject: (SEWORLD) CfP - QoCSOA'08 > > Call for Papers > > 1st International Workshop on > > Quality-of-Service Concerns in Service Oriented Architectures > (QoSCSOA'08) > > http://www.nicta.com.au/research/projects/egov/qoscsoa08 > > > > to be held at: > > 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'08) > > Sydney, Australia, December 1-5, 2008 > > http://www.icsoc.org/ > > About the Workshop: > > Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is having a substantial impact on > the way software systems are developed. Today many systems are being > designed and developed using an SOA style. Although some progress has > been made > on several fronts on addressing QoS concerns in SOAs much research is > still > needed in addressing QoS issues in the design, development and > operation > of SOA-based systems. This workshop will focus on techniques and > approaches for managing QoS concerns through the entire lifecycle of > SOA-based systems. We invite papers that address one or more of the > following topics: > > - Techniques for determining quality requirements for SOA-based > systems > > - Techniques, patterns and approaches for handling specific quality > > attribute requirements in the design of SOA-based systems > > - Techniques, patterns and approaches for handling specific quality > > attribute requirements in the implementation of SOA-based systems > > - Deployment and Monitoring of SOA-based systems > > - Resourcing models to guarantee specific QoS requirements > > (virtualisation, grid, etc) > > - QoS aspects of virtualised SOA-based systems > > - Assessment techniques and approaches for specific qualities of > > SOA-based systems including modelling and simulation of specific > > qualities > > - Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in an SOA context including > development > > and negotiation > > - Validation of properties/service qualities in SOA-based systems > > - Economics of handling specific QoS requirements in SOA-based systems > > - Managing QoS concerns for SOA-based systems throughout the entire > > software life cycle > > - Autonomic QoS management in SOA-based systems > > - Relationship of QoS of SOA-based systems to the underlying business > > processes > > Submissions: > > Papers should be no more than 10 pages and prepared in accordance with > > the Springer/LNCS format. Detailed instructions for authors are > available > > on the LNCS website at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. > > > Papers to be submitted at URL: > > http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=qoscsoa08 > > Proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer. > > Workshop Format: > > Workshop duration: Half day (15 - 20 min. presentations by authors of > > accepted papers with time for discussion of specific topics). > > Important Dates: > > Paper Submission: October 7, 2008 > > Notification of Acceptance: November 7, 2008 > > Camera ready Copy: November 21, 2008 > > Workshop: December 1, 2008 > > > > Workshop Organisers: > > Liam O'Brien NICTA, Australia > > Paul Brebner NICTA, Australia > > > > > > Program Committee: > > Rick Kazman University of Hawaii, USA > > Mark Klein Software Engineering Institute, USA > > James Skene University College London, UK > > Alexander Totok IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA > > Carol Woody Software Engineering Institute, USA > > Liming Zhu NICTA, Australia > > Anna Liu Microsoft, Australia > > Siobhan Clarke Trinity College Dublin & Lero, Ireland > > Massimiliano Di Penta RCOST, Italy > > Phil Bianco Software Engineering Institute, USA > > Grace Lewis Software Engineering Institute, USA > > Thong Nguyen DSTO, Australia > > > > > > Further Information: > > Liam O'Brien NICTA > > Canberra ACT 2601, Australia > > +61 (0)2 6267 6276 > > liam.obrien(a)nicta.com.au > > > > ============================================================ > To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to > <seworld(a)cs.colorado.edu>. > > http://www.cs.colorado.edu/serl/seworld provides more > information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of > messages posted to the list. > > To subscribe to SEWORLD, send the following (as the body of > a message) to <seworld-subscribe(a)cs.colorado.edu>: > > subscribe seworld <desired e-mail address> > end > > To unsubscribe from SEWORLD, send the following (as the body > of a message) to <seworld-unsubscribe(a)cs.colorado.edu>: > > unsubscribe seworld <registered e-mail address> > end > ============================================================ > > Best Regards, Dr. Michael Alexander WU Wien Dept. of Information Systems malexand(a)wu-wien.ac.at / +43.1.31336.4467

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[Fwd: [WI] REMINDER: Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, Special Issue on Service-oriented Computing]
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] REMINDER: Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, Special Issue on Service-oriented Computing Datum: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:31:49 +0200 Von: Sebastian Hudert <Hudert(a)btw6na.bwl7.uni-bayreuth.de> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested colleagues and students. ==================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Service-oriented Computing Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation Fachzeitschrift für den Einsatz von Informationssystemen http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/en/events/conferences/2008/cfp-pik-special-i… IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 2008-06-27 * Notification of acceptance: 2008-08-01 * Submission of camera-ready version: 2008-09-05 SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE A recent trend in software and enterprise engineering is Service-oriented Computing (SOC), which can be used to design and develop complex and distributed systems. The core concept of SOC is a "service", a self-describing encapsulation of domain-specific functionalities. Business processes and applications supporting SOC can be built based on compositions of distributed and loosely coupled services. SOC relies heavily on existing open Internet standards and protocols like HTTP and XML (e.g., Web services), which allow easy integration and cost-effective adoption of SOC using an existing infrastructure. Currently, it can be observed that SOC-related technologies and approaches become more and more mature and widespread, both in research and in real-life projects. Therefore, this special issue of the PIK magazine covers ongoing research as well as reports from SOC projects in the industry. AREAS OF INTEREST Topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Service management ** Service lifecycle management ** QoS and SLA management ** Service monitoring ** Service rating ** Business protocols * Semantic support for SOC ** Service specifications and enhancements ** Service modeling ** Semantic services and service ontologies ** Autonomous & intelligent agents for SOC ** Interoperability and integration of external services * Service composition and workflows ** Service discovery and delivery ** Matchmaking and resource allocation ** Orchestration and choreography * Service integration ** Enterprise Service Bus ** Service repositories ** SOC and virtualization * SOC security, privacy & trust * Service engineering ** Models, methodologies, and tools ** Dynamic adaptation and reconfiguration ** Evaluation, validation and testing ** Implementation and deployment technologies ** Governance of service-based systems ** Formal methods for SOC * Standardization for SOC * Service-based applications (e.g., Grid and utility computing, software as a service) IMPORTANT INFORMATION The submission should cover about 6 pages (one page of the PIK equals 6000 characters excluding figures). Both German and English language submissions will be accepted for review. All papers will be reviewed double-blind. Please use the EasyChair Conference Management System to submit your papers: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=piksoc2008 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS Nicolas Repp, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM), repp(at)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de Sebastian Hudert, Universität Bayreuth, Wirtschaftsinformatik (BWL VII), sebastian.hudert(at)uni-bayreuth.de Steffen Bleul, Universität Kassel, Distributed Systems Group, bleul(at)vs.uni-kassel.de Best Regards, Sebastian Hudert --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Hudert Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf. Department of Information Systems Management University of Bayreuth Universitaetsstr. 30 95447 Bayreuth Building Applied Informatics Tel: +49 921 557665 Fax: +49 921 557662 -- Mailing-Liste: WI(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: WI-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/wi

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[Fwd: [isworld] OAEI-2008: 1st Call for ontology matching systems participation]
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] OAEI-2008: 1st Call for ontology matching systems participation Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:39:31 +0200 Von: pavel <pavel(a)dit.unitn.it> Antwort an: pavel <pavel(a)dit.unitn.it> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for ontology matching systems participation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OAEI-2008 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop October 26 or 27, 2008 - Karlsruhe, Germany http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ontology matching is an important task for semantic system interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the respective qualities of available matching systems. The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated international initiative set up for evaluating ontology matching systems. OAEI campaigns consist of applying matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their results. OAEI-2008 is the fifth OAEI campaign. It will consist of four tracks gathering eight data sets and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (i) comparison track (systematic benchmark series); (ii) expressive ontologies (e.g., from the anatomy domain); (iii) directories and thesauri (e.g., Google, Yahoo); (iv) consensus workshop. Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by evaluating their systems and sending the results to the organizers. Tools for evaluating results and preliminary test bench tuning are available. Final results of the campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop and published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES May 19th, 2008: First publication of test cases June 15th, 2008: Comments on test cases (any time before that date) July 1st, 2008: Final publication of test cases Sept. 1st, 2008: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking) Sept. 26th, 2008: Participants send final results and supporting papers Oct. 10th, 2008: Organizers publish results for comments Oct. 26th-27th, 2008: OM-2008 workshop, Karlsruhe, DE + OAEI-2008 final results ready. More about OAEI-2008: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More about OM-2008: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/ More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2008 flyer: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Web: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] FINAL DEADLINE [June 23th]: 3rd CaCoA Workshop on CBR & Context-Awareness @ ECCBR'08]
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] FINAL DEADLINE [June 23th]: 3rd CaCoA Workshop on CBR & Context-Awareness @ ECCBR'08 Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:12 +0200 Von: Jan-Oliver Deutsch <deutsch(a)iis.uni-hildesheim.de> Antwort an: Jan-Oliver Deutsch <deutsch(a)iis.uni-hildesheim.de> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting ================================================================================ Final deadline for submissions: 23th of June 2008 ================================================================================ Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Context Awareness and CBR CaCoA'08 - Advanced Technologies for Ambient Intelligence In conjunction with the 9th European Conference on Case Based Reasoning September 1-4, 2008, Trier, Germany Workshop Website: http://www.iis.uni-hildesheim.de/cacoa08 Conference: http://www.wi2.uni-trier.de/eccbr08/index.php ================================================================================ Ambient Intelligence (AmI) solutions require context awareness (of both the environment and user) to anticipate the humans' goals and needs to behave proactively. Adaptivity and feedback learning are used to advance AmI in order to make it smart and intelligent, while context-sensitive processing takes more and more a key role in many modern intelligent IT applications including context awareness. Context reasoning is also essential for AmI, and can be supported adequately by CBR techniques representing and manipulating situated information. Moreover, demand-oriented and holistic solutions require taking into account relevant human aspects (e.g. social, economic or ethical) to avoid possible refusals of such systems. This workshop will bring together industry and academic researchers and scientists to study, understand, and explore the handling of context in intelligent applications, with a particular focus on ambient intelligence and human-directed aspects. Besides contributed papers and invited talks, this workshop will offer organized and open spaces for targeted discussions. The workshop will explore (but is not limited to) the following topics along the (pair wise) intersections of context awareness, case-based reasoning, and AmI: - Context-aware Smart Home solutions - Reasoning in dynamic device environments - Usability, usefulness, and reliability of AmI applications - Multi-modal user interfaces - Minimal-invasive sensing and human-computer interaction (HCI) - Ethical, social and economic impact of AmI (acceptance, perspectives, informational self determination, loss of control, privacy) - Smart human interaction with autonomous systems - Collecting and analysing histories of behaviour - Security and trust implications for AmI solutions - Service matchmaking (practicable) - Responsive and pro-active architectures - Adapting experiences and feedback learning (life cycles) - User-centric explanations (to advance smart behavior) - Communication strategies for AmI applications - Collaborative filtering techniques for context awareness - CBR methods for modeling of and reasoning about context - Philosophical, social, and psychological accounts of ambient intelligence and CBR - Advanced user modeling techniques - Traditional relevant areas of KM (KR, planning, decision-making, uncertainty) --------------------- Submissions --------------------- We invite paper submissions including descriptions of works in progress, research contributions, and position statements. Submissions should attempt to address issues relating to Context Awareness and CBR for Ambient Intelligence. The workshop aims to provide a forum for scientists and practitioners exploring ambient intelligence, from a broad range of disciplines, to share their problems and techniques across different research and application areas. Workshop papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 10 pages (tentative). Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submissions should be made through the workshop conference management system (see website for detail). For further information contact the workshop organizers. --------------------- Deadlines and Dates --------------------- - June 23, 2008: Deadline for workshop paper submission - July 07, 2008: Notification of acceptance for workshop papers - August 01, 2008: Final camera ready copies due - September 1-4, 2008: Workshops held at ECCBR 2008 (in parallel) --------------------- Workshop Organizers --------------------- Jan-Oliver Deutsch, University of Hildesheim, Germany Jens Mänz, University of Hildesheim, Germany Sven Schwarz, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany Jörg Cassens, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway --------------------- Workshop Committee --------------------- Anders Kofod-Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria Enric Plaza, AIRI, Barcelona, Spain Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany Lorcan Coyle, Systems Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland Marielba Silva Zacarias, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Markus Nick, empolis GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany Matthias Brucke, OFFIS Oldenburg, Germany Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany Thomas Sauer, rjm Business Solutions GmbH, Germany The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] CfP (extended): International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes (DDBP 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP (extended): International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes (DDBP 2008) Datum: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:38:46 -0600 Von: Dragan Gasevic <dgasevic(a)acm.org> Antwort an: Dragan Gasevic <dgasevic(a)acm.org> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> *********************************************************************** *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** *** First International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business *** Processes (DDBP 2008) *** *** In conjuction with the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference *** (EDOC 2008), September 2008, Muenchen, Germany *** *** www.leduotang.com/sylvain/ddbp2008 *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** *** Due to numerous demands, we granted an extension for the submission *** of papers to DDBP 2008. The extended deadline is JUNE 22, 2008. *********************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Enterprises face the challenge of rapidly adapting to dynamic business environments. The traditional approach to process management is only partially appropriate to this new context, and calls for the advent of new, dynamic business processes. This new approach attempts to address specific issues related to flexibility and adaptation: design of easily adaptable processes, dynamic handling of unexpected situations, optimality of adaptations. Central to the field of dynamic business processes is the notion of requirement, which make dynamic business process particularly suited to a declarative approach to their modelling and design. The declarative approach to dynamic business processes raises a number of challenges: extracting declarative specifications from domain experts, expressing these declarative specifications in an appropriate language or formalism, as well as designing, monitoring, checking compliance or dynamically adapting business processes according to a set of requirements. Dynamic and declarative business processes have proved their use in a wide number of domains, and are expected to impact existing and future technology choices, business practices and standardization efforts. This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to exchange opinions, advance ideas, and discuss preliminary results on current topics related to dynamic and declarative business processes. A particular interest will be taken in bridging theoretical research and practical issues. To this end, contributions stating open problems, case studies, tool presentations, or any other work assessing the practical significance of dynamic and declarative business processes by means of concrete examples and situations, will be particularly welcome. Work in progress, position papers stating broad avenues of research, and work on formal foundations of dynamic and declarative business processes are also sought-after. TOPICS Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Dynamic business process modelling - Implementation issues for dynamic processes - Tools for dynamic processes - Use cases of dynamic processes - Business and technical requirements for dynamic processes - Declarative model specification - Mathematical foundations of declarative business processes - Formal models of declarative business processes - Monitoring of declarative business processes - Validation of declarative business processes - Tools for declarative business processes SUBMISSION The workshop duration is one day. It will comprise presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and keynotes. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long and must use the two-column format of IEEE conference proceedings and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair. Authors will be notified about the decision by the program committee by the 18th of July 2008. At least one author of each accepted paper must participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2008 Workshops will be published after the workshop with their own ISBN in the IEEE Digital Library, which is accessible by IEEE Xplore. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper should register for the main conference in order to present their papers. The selected best research papers will be considered for special issues in top notch journals. Further details will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: ***EXTENDED TO June 22th, 2008*** Paper Notification: July 18th, 2008 Camera Ready Copy Due: July 28th, 2008 Workshop: September 17th, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) - Colin Atkinson, Universitat Mannheim, Germany - Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA - Thomas Bauer, Daimler AG Research and Advanced Engineering, Germany - Andrew Berry, Deontik, Australia - Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM Watson, USA - Domenico Bianculli, University of Lugano, Switzerland - Franck van Breugel, York University, Canada - Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA - Sanjay Chaudhary, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India - Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada - Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA - Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University, USA - Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia - Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK - Jana Koehler, IBM Zurich, Switzerland - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia - Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Leo Orbst, The MITRE Corporation, USA - Maja Pesic, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands - Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Stefanie Rinderle, Universitat Ulm, Germany - Florian Rosenberg, Technical University of Vienna, Austria - Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia - Jennifer Sampson, National ICT Australia - Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab - Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands WORKSHOP CHAIRS - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University and Simon Fraser University, Canada - Tobias Graml, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Sylvain Halle, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada *********************************************************************** *** Workshop website: *** www.leduotang.com/sylvain/ddbp2008 *********************************************************************** The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for papers: THEMIS2008]
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for papers: THEMIS2008 Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:32:45 +1000 Von: Liang Wang <lwwang(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au> Antwort an: Liang Wang <lwwang(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> First Announcement and Call for Contributions 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP THEMIS 2008 Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences September 5th, 2008 Leeds, UK http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/themis2008 ============================================================================== During the past three decades, important research efforts in computer vision have been focused on developing theories, methods and systems applied to the description of human movements in image sequences. Broadly speaking, in the past the main goal was the estimation of quantitative parameters describing where was motion. Nowadays, the focus is on the analysis of image sequences by incorporating cognitive processes which provides interpretation and understanding for detected human motion. That is, the true challenge is the generation of qualitative descriptions about the meaning of motion, therefore understanding not only where, but also why motion is being observed. This goal called Human Sequence Evaluation (HSE) has become a key task in many promising computer-vision applications, such as smart video surveillance or advanced human-computer interfaces. Towards this end, the advancement of novel cognitive capabilities does increase the relation between multiple research areas, using computer vision as the main tool: it is then of particular interest to organize a workshop which encourages links between Computer Vision research and other fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Computer Animation and Multimedia Semantics, which share common goals to understand and describe the human behaviour observed in image sequences. The aim is then to have representatives from all these research areas, and to promote discussion between the different research groups on topics of mutual interest. Thus, the First International Workshop on Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences (THEMIS’08) will take a step forward towards the interpretation of human behaviour in image sequences. The goal is to provide cross-disciplinary approach to addressing the aforementioned problems on the topic of computational models of human behaviour understanding using cognitive systems, with the purpose to advance understanding of the state-of-the-art on evaluation in the frame of cognitive processing. This will imply to discuss about possible research synergies and collaborations, and also about semantic enhancements which can be applied based on the numeric data obtained from tracking processes. As a result, THEMIS’08 will aim at promoting interaction and collaboration among researchers specialising in these related fields: - Cognitive visual surveillance; - Ambient intelligence; - High-level behaviour recognition and scene understanding; - Identification of semantic regions in human-populated scenarios; - Ontologies and semantic mapping on human motion; - Human behaviour analysis: articulated models and animation; - Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of behaviours in video; - Natural-language description of human behaviours from image sequences; - Learning human models for behaviour synthesis (body/face); - Learning human motion semantics from multimedia content. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANISING COMMITTEE Jordi Gonzàlez Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Thomas B. Moeslund University of Aalborg, Denmark Liang Wang University of Melbourne, Australia - In conjunction with BMVC 2008 (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/bmvc2008/) - Sponsored by EU Projects IST-027110 HERMES, IST-045547 VIDI-Video and IST-026408 euCognition: - Local organisation by: Research lab on Image Sequence Evaluation http://iselab.cvc.uab.es/ --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DATES Submission of full papers: July 7th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 30th, 2008 Camera Ready: August 6th, 2008 1st THEMIS Workshop 2008: September 5th, 2008 Please submit your paper using the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=themis2008 Papers should not be longer than 8 pages (use BMVC format). The paper should be kept anonymous during the review process. Any indications of name and affiliation should be removed from the paper. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Marco Bertini, University of Florence, Italy Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Stefan Carlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK GianLuca Foresti, University of Udine, Italy Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Erik Granum, University of Aalborg, Denmark Marcin Grzegorzek, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey, UK Vasek Hlavac, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Weiming Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Volker Krüger, University of Aalborg, Denmark Xiaohui Liu, University of Brunel, UK Jorge S. Marques, Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal Johannes Matiasek, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Steve Maybank, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Dietrich Paulus, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Francisco Perales, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ian Reid, University of Oxford, UK Paolo Remagnino, Digital University of Kingston, UK F. Xavier Roca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Alberto Sanfeliu, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Paul Schrater, University of Minnesota, USA Stan Sclaroff, University of Boston, USA Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nils T. Siebel, University of Kiel, Germany Arnold W. M. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cristian Sminchisescu, University of Toronto, Canada Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Monique Thonnat, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France John K. Tsotsos, University of Toronto, Canada Harald Trost, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Javier Varona, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain David Vernon, Etisalat University College, UAE Roberto Vezzani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Juan J. Villanueva, Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT Jordi Gonzàlez Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Phone: +34 93 581 1828 (direct line) Fax: +34 93 581 1670 E-MAIL: poal-at-cvc.uab.es http://www.cvc.uab.es/~poal --------------------------------------------------------------- The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] ICDM08 workshop on video mining]
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] ICDM08 workshop on video mining Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:06:43 +1000 Von: Liang Wang <lwwang(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au> Antwort an: Liang Wang <lwwang(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csdct/Conference/VM2008/VM2008.html First International Workshop on Video Mining (VM08) In association with ICDM 2008 Pisa, Italy 15 (or 19) December, 2008 Call for Papers With cameras become pervasive in our daily life, vast amounts of videos are generated in different aspects of our society every day. The popularity of YouTube-like websites is one of strong evidences for this. How to effectively analyze and use the already huge, rapidly growing video data is one of main challenges we are facing. Video processing and analysis techniques become more and more important in the field of computer vision and image understanding and other related areas. There are wide-rage potential video-based applications in many areas including multimedia, human computer interface, security and surveillance, copyright protection, personal entertainment, to name a few. Video mining is to discover and describe interesting patterns in video data, which has become one of the core problem areas of the data mining research community. Compared to the mining of other types of data (e.g., text), video mining is still in its infancy, and an under-explored field. There are many challenging research problems facing video mining. For example, how to discover knowledge from spatial-temporal data, how to infer high-level semantic concepts from low-level features extracted from videos, how to make use of unlabeled data. Applying general data mining techniques for video data will face a number of difficulties as well, because of the need to analyze large amount of high-dimensional data. To address these challenges, we have to adapt the existing data mining theory or algorithm for video data, or find new techniques and approaches suitable for video data. This one-day workshop seeks to present and highlight the latest developments in video data mining and video-based applications. It aims to bring together worldwide researchers from related disciplines, to provide a forum for the dissemination of significant research work and innovative practice, and to encourage exchanges, interactions and possible collaboration between participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, * Video clustering and categorization * Video based object recognition * Video segmentation and summarization * Video feature extraction and representation * Video indexing and retrieval * Video search engines * Video editing and browsing systems * Visual event and activity detection * Statistical techniques for video analysis * Semantic video content analysis * Video processing for HCI * Video surveillance (person identification, abnormal activity labeling …) * Consumer video applications (sports highlight detection, commercial message extraction …) Program Co-chairs * Prof Dan Schonfeld University of Illinois at Chicago, USA * Dr Caifeng Shan Philips Research, The Netherlands * Dr Dacheng Tao Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China * Dr Liang Wang The University of Melbourne, Australia PC Members * Rainer Lienhart Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg, Germany * Shaogang Gong Queen Mary University London, UK * Wolfgang Klas Institute for Distributed and Multimedia Systems, Austria * C.-C. Jay Kuo University of South California, USA * Greg Mori Simon Fraser University , Canada * Stan Li Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Zoran Dimitrijevic Google Inc, USA * Qi Li Western Kentucky University, USA * Kadir A. Peker Bilkent University, Turkey * Tao Mei Microsoft Research Asia, China * Dimitrios Makris Kingston University, UK * Tianhao Zhang Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China * Stephen J. Maybank Birkbeck, University of London, UK * Jiebo Luo Kodak Research Labs, USA * Ashfaq Khokhar University of Illinois at Chicago, USA * Qi Tian University of Texas, USA * Xiaozhe Wang University of Melbourne, Australia * David Doermann University of Maryland, USA Important dates Submission deadline: August 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2008 Camera-ready due: October 7, 2008 Workshop: December 15 (or 19), 2008 Paper Submission * In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference or workshop. * As tradition at ICDM, a "forward to workshops" mechanism will be adopted this year, where a paper not accepted for the main ICDM conference can be (at the author’s request) "fast-tracked" to this workshop, preserving reviews. * The format of the paper is the same as the ICDM main conference paper. Please follow the instructions on the website http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/. The review process will be double-blind. * For the paper submission, please follow the link (TBA). Review and publication Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from program committee members and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the workshop proceedings of ICDM 2008, and will be invited to submit in the extended form to a journal special issue after conference and/or an edited book by the organizers. Final Workshop Program TBA The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. 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