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[Fwd: [WI] Reminder - CfP SPattern 2009]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Reminder - CfP SPattern 2009 Datum: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:20:13 +0100 Von: Michael Netter <michael.netter(a)wiwi.uni-regensburg.de> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** 3rd International Workshop on Secure systems methodologies using patterns (SPattern'09) in conjunction with the 6 th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus'09) 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009) Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 04, 2009 http://www-ifs.uni-regensburg.de/spattern09/ *********************************************************************** **************************** GOALS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST **************************** Security patterns have arrived to a stage where there are a significant number of them, two books about them have been published, and industry is starting to accept and use them. Analysis and design patterns have been around for about ten years and have found practical use in many projects. They have been incorporated into several software development methodologies where less experienced developers can use them to receive the advice and knowledge of experts. The situation is not so clear for security patterns because no accepted methodology exists for their use. Catalogs of security patterns are a good step, but they are not enough. Building secure systems is a difficult process where security aspects are interlaced with the satisfaction of functional requirements. Developers are typically experts on a language or a development methodology but know little about security, which results in them not knowing what security mechanisms make sense at which moments. We need methodologies that guide a designer at each stage of the development cycle. A few of them have appeared, but none of them has been tested in production applications. This workshop focuses on secure software methodologies. We seek papers describing individual security patterns, new methodologies, new aspects of existing methodologies, pattern languages to use in the methodologies, reference architectures, blueprints, and related aspects. Experiences in applying the methodologies to real situations are especially welcome. ****************** SUBMISSION DETAILS ****************** Authors are invited to submit research contributions, practical experience reports and demos. Papers must be original not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. Submissions must be in pdf and consist of no more than 5 pages in IEEE double column format. Accepted papers will be included in the DEXA workshop proceedings, to be published by IEEE and available at the conference site. Final versions of the papers must comply with "Authors Instructions" which are accessible at: www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp You are invited to submit your paper via DEXA'09 ConfDriver at: http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/. For further inquiries, please contact either of the program committee chairs. The conference organization office can be reached at office(a)dexa.org. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Her/his registration fee must be paid before May 31, 2009. Important dates: Submission of abstract March, 13th Submission of full paper March, 20th Notification to authors May, 8th Final version due May, 29th ***************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***************** Workshop chairs Eduardo B. Fernandez Florida Atlantic University (USA) Günther Pernul University of Regensburg (Germany) Program Committee Fernandez-Medina, Eduardo Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) Heath, Craig Symbian (UK) Jürjens, Jan The Open University (UK) Lambrinoudakis, Kostas University of the Aegean (Greece) Maña, Antonio University of Malaga (Spain) Mouratidis, Haralambos University of East London (UK) Ray, Indrakshi Colorado State University (USA) Schumacher, Markus Virtual Forge GmbH & Fraunhofer SIT (Germany) Sommerlad, Peter HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil (Switzerland) Thomsen, Dan Cyber Defense Agency (USA) VanHilst, Michael Florida Atlantic University (USA) Washizaki, Hironori National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo (Japan) Yoder, Joe The Refactory, Inc. (USA) Yoshioka, Nobukazu National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo (Japan) ******* CONTACT ******* Questions concerning the Call for Papers or submissions should be send by E-Mail to: guenther.pernul(a)wiwi.uni-regensburg.de or ed(a)cse.fau.edu Questions concerning the organization of the conference should be send by E-Mail to: office(a)dexa.org Prof. Dr. Eduardo B. Fernandez Professor of Computer Science & Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431 - USA ed(a)cse.fau.edu Prof. Dr. Günther Pernul Department of Information Systems Universitätstr. 31 D-93053 Regensburg Germany guenther.pernul(a)wiwi.uni-regensburg.de -- 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] 4th Workshop on Software Engineering for Pervasive Services (SEPS)]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] 4th Workshop on Software Engineering for Pervasive Services (SEPS) Datum: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:55:06 +0000 Von: Johann Bourcier <Johann.Bourcier(a)imag.fr> Antwort an: Johann Bourcier <Johann.Bourcier(a)imag.fr> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ***** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call ***** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers 4th Workshop on Software Engineering for Pervasive Services (SEPS) co-located with The ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS) Imperial College London, 13-17 July 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The creation of pervasive services is one of the most challenging current research domains of computer science application. The aim of this workshop is to address the problems of software engineering for pervasive computing, in the context of both wireless and wired networks. The scope of the problems are related to all the phases of software engineering i.e., design, development, and testing. We greatly appreciate to take into account theoretical results in all directions of both computing and applied maths for what is traditionally considered in software engineering and extend it to wireless applications: computability, specifications, tests, and validation. In this spirit, we encourage both returns on experiments and theoretical results, for we consider workshops as a nice place for rich and diversified subjects of discussion. The technical program will consist of invited and contributed talks. Previous SEPS workshops were held in conjunction with IEEE ICPS'06 in France [1], IEEE ICPS'07 in Turkey [2] and ACM ICPS'08 in Italy [3]. Topics Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Software support for ad-hoc networks and manets - Software techniques for the simulation of services on ad-hoc networks and manets - Adaptive security - Frameworks, middlewares, and architectures for pervasive systems - Formal and semi-formal approaches for pervasive software/application development, and evolution - Software engineering techniques for multimodal interactive systems and high-level sensor network management - Methodology for ergonomic pervasive services and adaptive user interfaces - Context modeling and context-aware applications - Composition of pervasive services and adaptation Paper submission Potential attendants are expected to submit either a position paper (max 2 pages) or a full paper (max 6 pages) that presents a formal or experimental approach to software engineering for pervasive services. Papers can be either based on results already achieved or else describe future work or even just wish lists of features that future approaches should provide but are either currently hard to achieve. A good analysis of con icting forces is at least as useful for potential participants of this workshop as descriptions of original new approaches. Paper submission should be electronic in PS or PDF format and sent to nadjet(a)umcs.ca. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Please refer to ICPS 2009 web site for final manuscript submission guidelines: http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/mab/tmp/ICPS/cfp.php Important dates Submission of papers : March 2009. Notication of acceptance: April 2009. Camera ready manuscripts due by: April 17, 2009. Organizing Committee Nadjet Kamel, University of Moncton, Canada (Contact organizernadjet(a)umcs.ca) Ghita Kouadri-Mostefaoui, Oxford University, UK Pascal Cherrier, Orange, France Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany Johann Bourcier, Imperial College London, UK Sattanathan Subramanian, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, Greece Shiguo Lian, Orange Labs Beijing, China Program Committee Chakib Tadj, Quebec University, Canada Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, Greece Djamel Djenouri, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Ghita Kouadri-Mostefaoui, Oxford University, UK Holger Mugge, University of Bonn, Germany Johann Bourcier, Imperial College London, UK Marcello Cinque, University of Naples (Frederico II), Italy Nadjet Kamel, University of Moncton, Canada Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany Sattanathan Subramanian, NTNU, Norway Shiguo Lian, Orange Labs Beijing, China Sid-Ahmed Selouani, University of Moncton, Canada References [1] SEPS06 website, http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/seps2006/. [2] SEPS07 website, http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/seps2007/. [3] SEPS08 website, http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/seps2008/. [4] SEPS09 website, www.seps-icps.com. Johann Bourcier 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: 2nd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2009)]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2009) Datum: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:47:54 +0100 Von: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: Sabine Graf <sabine.graf(a)ieee.org> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> *************************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * 2nd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing * for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2009) * http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2009/ * * in conjunction with The 2009 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences * on Web Intelligence (WI'09) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09) * http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/ * * Milan, ITALY * 15-18 September 2009 *************************************************************************** Motivation ========== The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008 workshop (http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2008), held in conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference. The workshop combines research in the area of e-Learning, Social Networks and Social Intelligence, and Web Personalization and focuses this year on the application of Web Intelligence research paradigm to the next generation of e-learning systems. Web-based learning is moving from a centralized, institution-based system to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, and media-sharing services) has started to be used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs. This workshop deals with current research on e-learning as an intelligent e-technology, more specifically the challenges of social and personalization aspects in Web-supported learning communities. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent learning environments, where people can learn together in a personalized way. Topics of interest ================== The workshop welcomes submissions covering all aspects of Web Intelligence related to social and personal computing in web-based learning communities, including (but not limited to): - Web 2.0 and social computing for learning - Virtual spaces for learning communities - Web supported ubiquitous learning - Service-oriented computing for e-learning - Ontologies and semantic Web for e-learning - Mobile e-learning applications - Intelligent learner and group modeling - Adaptive and personalized learning environments - Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios - Cognitive aspects in intelligent web-based learning systems - Web mining in learning settings - Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners - Web-based cooperative learning - Intelligent agent technology in web-based education - Pervasive e-learning scenarios - Knowledge community formation and support - Lifelong learning networks - Social software for collaborative learning - Socially intelligent agents - Semantic social networks - Community discovering in social learning systems - Social structure exploitation in e-learning - Socially-inspired e-learning systems Paper subsmission and publication ================================= The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 4 pages, IEEE-CS format (extra payment is available for one more extra page). The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by IEEE Xplore, EI, INSPEC). Please follow the instructions on the WI 2009 website (http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/submission.htm), where you can find the Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. Important dates =============== April 30, 2009 Workshop paper submission June 10, 2009 Workshop paper notification June 30, 2009 Camera ready paper September 15, 2009 SPeL 2009 workshop Program Committee ================= Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK Michael Derntl, University of Vienna, Austria Adrian Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria Ian Kennedy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Tania Kerkiri, University of Macedonia, Greece Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada Vive Kumar, Athabasca University & Simon Fraser University, Canada Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong, HK Frederick Li, University of Durham, UK Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania, Italy Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy Constantinos Mourlas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Angela-M. Paleologou, University of Ioannina, Greece Timothy K. Shih, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan Jirarat Sitthiworachart, Walailak University, Thailand Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Organizers ========== Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania) Sabine Graf - National Central University (Taiwan) Please visit the workshop web site (http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2009/) for further details. 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] Reminder: eHealth Theme Deadline at 2009 World Congress]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Reminder: eHealth Theme Deadline at 2009 World Congress Datum: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:57:31 -0500 Von: Norman P. Archer <archer(a)mcmaster.ca> Antwort an: Norman P. Archer <archer(a)mcmaster.ca> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> This is a reminder that April 3, 2009 is the deadline for eHealth papers to be submitted to the 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust, and the Management of eBusiness. For more information, please visit the conference site http://unb.ca/pstnet/congress2009/eHealth.htm for more information. We welcome submissions on a variety of topics in eHealth. For a presentation on the venue and the Congress, check out the following on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJbFzToRstc Norm Archer, eHealth Theme Chair Norm Archer, Ph.D. DeGroote School of Business McMaster University Hamilton, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140 Ext. 23944 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: [computational.science] 2nd Call for Papers to IEEE trans. on Learning Technologies: special issue on "The many faces of Remote Labs"]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 2nd Call for Papers to IEEE trans. on Learning Technologies: special issue on "The many faces of Remote Labs" Datum: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:07:09 +0100 Von: Christophe GRAVIER <christophe.gravier(a)telecom-st-etienne.fr> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.OptimaNumerics.com> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a second call for papers for a Special Issue to be published in IEEE transactions on Learning Technologies (http://www.computer.org/tlt ). Deadline 31st March. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, TELECOM Saint-Etienne and the Carinthia University of Applied Science are organizing a special issue in the "IEEE transactions on Learning Technologies" International Journal. The issue is focused on Remote Laboratories, and is entitled "The Many Faces of Remote Laboratories in Engineering Education". Enclosed is the detailed call in PDF file format. Please feel free to distribute it to interested colleagues and students. The Web site of the IEEE trans. on Learning Technologies is http://www.computer.org/tlt (and the associated Manuscript Central is located at : https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tlt-cs) . Best Regards, The IEEE TLT Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Remote Labs. Christophe Gravier, christophe.gravier@telecom-st- etienne.fr TELECOM Saint-Etienne, Université de Saint-Etienne, Université de Lyon, France. Michael E. Auer, M.Auer(a)IEEE.org Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, School of Systems Engineering, Austria. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “IEEE TLT Special Issues: The Many Faces of Remote Laboratories in Engineering Education” Over the last decade, changes in demography have lead universities to envision new geographical and temporal patterns to deliver Higher Education. The “anytime, anywhere” paradigm in the field of Distance Learning, developed in the 90’s, has contributed to bringing part of the University right to the student’s door, through the Internet. Labs have always played an important role in education, and so do Online Labs for distance Education. Online Laboratories can be of different kind, mainly, Virtual Laboratories (model-based Web simulations as hands-on exercises), Remote Laboratories (real remote control of devices for distance learning hands-on sessions), or Hybrid Laboratories (a mixed approach as part is simulation, and part is real remote control). Meanwhile, modern learning theories, including constructivism, have emerged and been more greatly employed in Higher Education teaching practices. This trend has significantly modified the traditional learning process model, in that students are more and more expected to build their knowledge by themselves and their interactions with learning experiences, as well as materials and different actors they have to interact with as they complete their curriculum. In the field of Engineering Education, this suggests a stronger contribution of hands-on approaches in the process of quality of learning. During these last years, many Remote Laboratory platforms have been developed and used in Distance Learning situations. The primary focus of research was to tackle issues related to software development for Remote Laboratories. Because of the important of software development issues, many other significant areas of study, including distributed architectures, reusability, performance, platform and middleware, among others, were somewhat secondary. While these subjects are still highly important for Distance Learning, new challenges of Remote Laboratories have emerged due to student lifestyle changes. Students now have different expectations for their learning activities, as well as new technologies to live and personalize their learning experiences. In other words, the issues in Remote Laboratories are no longer restricted to bringing a device to the student's room, but the new challenges Remote Laboratories must meet, including: - Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) - Mobile Learning (m-Learning) - Personalized and Adaptive Learning At the same time, the tutors also use these learning/practice platforms. They therefore have their own perspectives and expectations about how future Online Laboratories platforms, should perform, such as: - closing the gap between Remote Laboratories and other learning activities hosted in other systems to better provide follow-up and feedback of student progress. - creating of authoring tools that can easily edit and create personalized Online Laboratories, based on their own personalized input (with the intuitive support of a software architecture). - evaluating objective student assessments: Many evaluations today are somewhat subjective because a tutor cannot follow all the students groups simultaneously, - guaranteeing of the reliability and safety of the devices involved in the Online Laboratory platform. Using remote laboratories has the potential to significantly reduce obstacles related of cost, time-inefficient use of facilities, inadequate technical support and limited access. This kind of development leads to the seamless integration of work and learning through obtaining practical knowledge that reinforces theoretical knowledge by actually resolving physical or mechanical problems (embedded learning). Submissions are expected to present original research that illustrates the application of the described Online Laboratories approach with real-world cases, including an evaluation of the proposed ideas. The scope of this issue is the following: - State of the art in Remote Laboratories. - Mobile Learning and Remote Laboratories, - Personalized and Adaptive Learning for Remote Laboratories, - Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Remote Laboratories, - Assessment of students in Remote Laboratories, - Safety of devices in Remote Laboratories, - Authoring tools for Remote Laboratories, - Online Laboratories architectures and use cases, - Networking and grid technologies, - Mixed Reality environments, - Assessment of Remote Laboratories performance, - Standards and standardization proposals, - Reusability in Remote Laboratories, - Issues in Hybrid Laboratories. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/transactions/tlt/mc/author.html . The journal is now accepting submissions for this special issue through Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tlt-cs, which provides instructions about formatting and length. If you have any questions, please contact the guest editors at the addresses listed below. Important dates: o 31st March 2009: Deadline to submit a full paper. o 7th May 2009: Authors notified of acceptance, rejection, or needed revisions. o 5th June 2009: Revisions due. o 30th June 2009 : Notification of final acceptance. o 24th July 2009: Final versions due. If you have any questions, please contact the editors of this special issue: Christophe Gravier, christophe.gravier@telecom-st- etienne.fr TELECOM Saint-Etienne, Université de Saint-Etienne, Université de Lyon, France. Michael E. Auer, M.Auer(a)IEEE.org Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, School of Systems Engineering, Austria.

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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for Chapter Proposal: Object-Oriented Data Modeling and Conceptual Design: Instance-Level Approaches]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Chapter Proposal: Object-Oriented Data Modeling and Conceptual Design: Instance-Level Approaches Datum: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:12:02 -0500 Von: Joseph Barjis <jbarjis(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Joseph Barjis <jbarjis(a)gmail.com> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Call For Book Chapter Proposal ====================================== Object-Oriented Data Modeling and Conceptual Design: Instance-Level Approaches Proposal Submission Deadline: March 29, 2009 (extended) Full Chapter Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009 Editors: - Vojtech Merunka, PhD., Associate Professor, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic - Joseph Barjis, PhD., Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - Roger P.Knott, PhD., Lecturer, Loughborough University, United Kingdom To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=590 INTRODUCTION ====================================== Instance-level modeling and testing is a new approach in the area of object-oriented data modeling and conceptual design. This approach is based on working with individual object instances containing real data in a similar way to how queries are submitted to databases. During the development of information systems, it is important to be able to validate, verify, simulate and refine the conceptual model before the final software implementation, by using real data values. This new approach is very significant as it provides a mechanism by which this can be achieved. Outcomes of this exciting and innovative methodology are not only related to application programming, but also to pure object database technology together with business engineering, where instance-level models can constitute a refinement of the business process design. Experience in using instance-level approaches is essential for prototyping, information systems analysis verification, business and workflow process design, and database development as well as for special information systems like GIS, MIS and knowledge-based systems. This crucial development in the area of object-oriented data modeling and conceptual design builds upon and adapts a number of existing prominent methods, essential tools and techniques from the areas of modern computer programming, system analysis, modeling, simulation, verification, validation and testing. This approach could also well be developed to form the education basis for an "objects-first" approach in software engineering courses, where students would model the system as a set of interconnected data objects and immediately be able to see the results of their work without the need to build any final software application for these objects. The instance-level approach differs from �more classical� class diagram first approaches. Instance-level data modeling is based on certain theoretical backgrounds of computer science and the object-oriented paradigm together with the industrial standards of UML, object-oriented programming languages and databases. Objective of the Book The aim of this book is to improve the process of requirement analysis in information systems development. Readers will find methods and techniques for model verification and validation before the whole system is built. This area is important since domain experts have essential knowledge of the data structures and their behavior used in the systems developed but don�t have sufficient programming knowledge to build systems themselves. Readers of this book will not need to be skilled programmers to benefit from it. The book will also introduce the data modeling capabilities of modern object-oriented programming languages and modeling tools. Target Audience The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the fields of information systems development and object-oriented data modeling. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support practitioners concerned with the development of programs using the object-oriented data modeling approach. Suggested Topics ====================================== We encourage potential authors to suggest topics that fall under the scope of this book as described above. Purposefully, we leave this list short to motivate innovative topics proposed by potential contributors. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Object-oriented Data modeling - Conceptual Modeling - Instance-level approaches in data modeling - Object-oriented paradigm - UML application in data modeling - UML potential and challenges of data modeling - Data-driven simulation - Business process modeling using object-oriented paradigm - Business process simulation using object-oriented paradigm - Requirement engineering - Prototyping, object-oriented development environments - Object-oriented languages, databases, etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ====================================== Authors are invited to submit a 1-2 page (approx 500-800 words) chapter proposal on or before February 28, 2009. The proposal should contain: the chapter title, 3-5 keywords, and a detailed description of the proposed chapter. Since only a selected number of authors will be invited to submit their full chapter, it is important that your chapter proposal provide sufficient content for the reviewers to favorably judge your chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 5, 2009 about the stats of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Important Dates Chapter Proposal Submission: March 29, 2009 (extended) Proposal Acceptance: April 5, 2009 Full chapter Submission: May 15, 2009 Review Results Returned: June 30, 2009 Revised Chapter Submission: July 30, 2009 (if applicable) Final Acceptance Notifications: August 15, 2009 (if applicable) Submission of Final Chapters: August 30, 2009 (if applicable) Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to all three authors in one email: Merunka(a)pef.czu.cz J.Barjis(a)TUDelft.NL R.P.Knott(a)lboro.ac.uk PUBLISHER ====================================== This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the �Information Science Reference� (formerly Idea Group Reference), �Medical Information Science Reference,� and �IGI Publishing� imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2010. SPONSOR ====================================== This book is sponsored and supported by the Special Interest Group on Modeling And Simulation. SIGMAS is a formal entity of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.AIS-SIGMAS.org/). It is an International community of researchers, educators, and professionals from a broad spectrum of disciplines who want to share the benefits of their knowledge and expertise regarding application of Modeling and Simulation in addressing complex phenomena. By its essence, Modeling & Simulation is a multi-disciplinary study, where knowledge of the application domain (healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, etc), art of design, and psychology of the users are interwoven. 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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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Personalization in Grid and Service Computing]
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Personalization in Grid and Service Computing Datum: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 23:43:28 -0500 Von: Jian Yu <yujiana(a)yahoo.com.cn> Antwort an: Jian Yu <yujiana(a)yahoo.com.cn> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS PGSC2009: 3rd International Workshop on Personalization in Grid and Service Computing http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~pgsc2009/index.htm August 27-29, 2009 Lanzhou China Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009 ************************************************************ We are pleased to invite you once again to participate in the premier annual event of The International Workshop on Personalization in Grid and Service Computing (PGSC2009). The 3rd workshop follows last year?ˉs inaugural event in Shenzhen. It will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2009). ************************************************************ Call for Papers Research on personalization in combination with semantic technologies has become a hot topic in Grid, SOA and Pervasive Computing. The Grid and Service Computing paradigm tries to enable all kinds of resources or services being shared or composed across the Internet. Under such paradigm, information and service supply faces new challenges, i.e. how to deal with large amounts of services, how to handle service composition in dynamic environments or how to customize processes to individual needs. Personalization for processes and services in such dynamic environments is one of the most exciting trends in Grid/Pervasive Computing today that holds the potential to enrich user experiences and make our daily life more productive, convenient, and enjoyable. The topics of this workshop focus on all the aspects around personalized processes and services in the Grid/Pervasive Computing field, ranging from its theoretical foundations, supporting infrastructures, engineering approaches, to its applications and case studies. Following the success of PGSC2007 and PGSC2008 in conjunction with GCC2007 and GCC2008, PGSC2009 intends to continue providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas, developments, and experiences on the personalization issues of processes and services in the Gird/Pervasive Computing field. ************************************************************ TOPICS OF INTEREST PGSC 2009 welcomes papers that focus on novel solutions on the recent developments in the general areas of Grid/Web services, Semantic Web, and Pervasive Computing. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - Models and languages for formal specification of personalization - Personalization in Grid/Cloud Computing and Pervasive Computing - Service Personalization, Resource & Service Modeling, Service Matching - Context & Situation-Aware Processes and Service Adaptation - Personalization and Web services standards - Personalization Using Semantic Technologies - Semantic Platforms/Infrastructures for Grid/Cloud & SOA Applications - Requirement Engineering for Personalized and Evolvable Applications - User Modeling - Personalized User Interfaces and Interaction Patterns - Case Studies from Different Application Domains ************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline of paper submission: April 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2009 Workshop registration due: May 20, 2009 Final manuscript due: May 30, 2009 Workshop: One day of August 27-29, 2009 ************************************************************ PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION Unpublished original papers are solicited. Papers are not to exceed 8 pages at maximum in IEEE double-column format. Formatting instructions are available in IEEE�s Author Digital Tool Box at http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/journmag…. Paper submissions must be made anonymous to facilitate double blind review. In order to make double blind reviewing possible, authors should omit their names and affiliations from the paper. Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, it should not include unpublished works. When referring to one's own work, use the third person rather than the first person. For example, say "Previously, Smith [7] has shown that...", rather than "In our previous work [7] we have shown that....". Try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically to: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=pgsc2009 in PDF format according to pdf specifications for IEEE Xplore (http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confstandards/pdfs/IEEE-PDF-SpecV4…). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society if at least one of the authors registers to GCC2009 to present the work. ************************************************************ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Bernhard Holtkamp, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Yanbo Han, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Bing Li, Wuhan University, China Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jian Yu, The University of Adelaide, Australia Guisheng Chen, Institute of Electronic System Engineering, China Manfred Wojciechowski, Fraunhofer ISST, 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. 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[Fwd: [isworld] Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education: Special Issue call-for-papers]
by Gustaf Neumann 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education: Special Issue call-for-papers Datum: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:21:52 -0500 Von: David C. Chou <david.chou(a)emich.edu> Antwort an: David C. Chou <david.chou(a)emich.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education Announces Call for Papers for Special Topic Forum "Leveraging Enterprise System Technology for Curricular Innovation and Redesign" Special Issue Guest Editors John R. Grandzol, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania David Chou, Eastern Michigan University Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education seeks papers for a theme specific issue, �Leveraging Enterprise System Technology for Curricular Innovation and Redesign� (submission period August 1, 2009 �January 31, 2010). Whether discipline- or pedagogy-focused, the articles must meet Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education�s high standards of research rigor and originality, while simultaneously offering new insights to its readership of practicing educators. Many (if not most) pedagogical researchers in the field are also practicing educators � as are most of the readers of education-focused journals such as Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. Effective communication of results is critical to achieving our desired influence on teaching best practices. Managing today�s business processes requires systematic understanding and integration of relevant knowledge resources, discipline-based activities, information flows across organizational gatekeepers and their respective supply chains, and appropriate transparency for employees, customers, and suppliers. Enterprise systems or Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) software, foster integration of business activities so that allocation of resources maximizes process efficiency and customer satisfaction. Real-time managerial decisions typically require continuous multi-directional flow of accurate, relevant, and timely data and their conversion to valid, reliable information; enterprise systems can enable this transformation. Joseph and George (2002) presented an interesting perspective on integrating ERP in business school curricula. They argued that a systems approach to business is basically incongruent with typical functional alignments (departmental structure); hence, ERP implementation requires restructuring curricula toward the experiential end of the learning continuum. ERP facilitates students� recognition that a change or decision in one area of an organization does, in fact, ripple through the entire organization and manifest itself, positively or negatively, elsewhere in the organization. Failure to recognize and understand the links and transactions that cause such reactions undermines potential for improvement and represents a naïve approach to the complexity of business processes. Taking advantage of potential pedagogy-technology synergies by incorporating enterprise systems in multi-disciplinary programs can facilitate a business process approach to business education and improve faculty and student technology skills. Several enterprise system software providers, notably SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft, recognize the strategic value of introducing students to their respective Business One�, E-Business�, and Dynamics� platforms (all aimed at small-to-medium enterprises or SMEs) in their business curricula. The challenge to educators goes well beyond course content and/or course activities. Enhancing an academic experience by means of leading-edge technology is useful from a pragmatic business perspective. A risk inherent in this approach is dilution of theory-based content and research-based results in favor of technical �training� about software; e.g., navigation, retrieval, and transaction processing. The academic literature provides further evidence of ERP�s potential in business curricula. Unique, innovative, and creative course-specific applications have been reported, primarily as case studies. One institution sought to prepare students for management by learning to model, measure, and improve organizational performance throughout integrated business processes using enterprise software (Becerra-Fernandez, Murphy, & Simon, 2000). Another reported successful efforts to enhance students� understanding of how business works and provide them with high-demand market skills, to create an infrastructure to integrate curricula to meet AACSB standards, and to increase visibility with business and industry leaders (Corbitt & Mensching, 2000). Other efforts were recently collected by Targowski and Tarn (2007); among them are course-related applications in information systems, human resource management, operations management, and supply chain management. Strong et al. (2006) highlighted outcomes and challenges from integrative efforts at five institutions that confirm the most likely disciplines to participate are accounting, information systems, operations management, and to a lesser degree, marketing, management, and human resource management. These case studies further document the benefits and obstacles to success. ERP vendor websites provide additional case studies of course applications and developments. This Call for Paper intends a more deliberative exploration of this ERP-stimulated challenge to the discipline-based approach to business education. Identifying and replicating best practices in an accounting information systems course, an ERP information systems course, or an operations management course does not address, investigate, or explore the opportunities for inter- and intra-disciplinary curricular innovation. Hence the foci of this special topic include rigorous empirical investigation of ERP-related student learning outcomes and qualitative research that explore truly multi-disciplinary curricular innovations stimulated by integration of ERP software. Relevant disciplines include accounting, finance, information systems (business and/or management), operations management, logistics, supply chain management, engineering, and marketing � disciplines that can leverage enterprise systems software for curricular innovation and redesign just as it occurs in typical business processes. These questions collectively help identify the content of manuscripts potentially responsive to this Call for Papers: 1. What environmental factors stimulated/enabled intra- and inter-disciplinary integration of enterprise system technology at your institution? How did you recognize them? How did you leverage them to innovate different curricular approaches and designs? 2. How did you utilize ERP software to integrate an applied business process approach to business curricula? To what extent were disciplines cooperative? Integrated? Sustained? 3. How did you develop your ERP-integrated curriculum research objectives? What research design did you execute? Did results confirm your expectations? What is the potential for follow-on research? The goal of this DSJIE special topic section is to share experiences leveraging enterprise system technology to innovate new opportunities to redesign, refine, and better align business curricula with modern business environments and processes, resulting in better qualified applied business faculty and enhanced opportunities for students� career development. Manuscripts can be submitted under the categories of empirical research articles, case study research articles, conceptual/ theoretical articles, and teaching briefs. Please check the journal�s website for definition of these categories. Manuscripts will be evaluated on the same criteria as regular manuscripts, except greater emphasis will be placed on the potential of the research to positively impact curriculum development. All submissions must adhere to the format and style guidelines of Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. Manuscript preparation and submission instructions can be found on the journal�s web site at www.dsjie.org and all submissions must be made through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dsjie. In the submission form, please specify that you are submitting to the theme-specific issue. Letters to the editor should also indicate that they are intended for the theme-specific issue. Submission Period: Manuscripts for this theme-specific issue may be submitted between August 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010. Early submission is encouraged, but not prior to the starting date of August 1st. Please contact the special issue guest editors Dr. John R. Grandzol at jgrandzo(a)bloomu.edu and/or Dr. David Chou at dchou(a)emich.edu with any questions. References Becerra-Fernandez, I., Murphy, K., & Simon, S. (2000). Integrating ERP in the business school curriculum. Communications of the ACM 43(4) , 39-41. Corbitt, G., & Mensching, J. (2000). Integrating SAP R/3 into a college of business curriculum: Lessons learned. Information Technology and Management 1(4) , 247-258. Joseph, G., & George, A. (2002). ERP, learning communities, and curriculum integration. Journal of Information Systems Education , 51-58. Strong, D., Fedorowicz, J., Sager, J., Stewart, G., & Watson, E. (2006). Teaching with enterprise systems. Communications of AIS 17 (33) , 2-49. Targowski, Andrew S., & Tarn, J Michael (eds.). (2007). Enterprise systems education in the 21st century. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. 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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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for papers BPMS2'09 in conjunction with BPM'09]
by Gustaf Neumann 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for papers BPMS2'09 in conjunction with BPM'09 Datum: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:10:18 -0500 Von: Selmin NURCAN <nurcan(a)univ-paris1.fr> Antwort an: Selmin NURCAN <nurcan(a)univ-paris1.fr> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Dear Colleague, I will be grateful to you for advertising BPMS2'09 in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Process Management and for inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their work. The Call for Papers and the Poster can be downloaded from the BPMS2'09 Web site : http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/BPMS2_2009/ Best regards, Selmin Nurcan BPMS2'09 co-organiser *********************************************************************************************** Call for Papers Second International Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2) in conjunction with BPM 2009 September 7th, 2009, Ulm, Germany http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/BPMS2_2009/ Organizers: Selmin Nurcan � University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt � Aalen University , Germany Papers submission deadline: May 7th, 2009 Detailed Call for Papers is below. *********************************************************************************************** -------------8 <-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- BPMS2 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2) in conjunction with BPM 2009 September 7th, 2009, Ulm, Germany Papers submission deadline: May 7th, 2009 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/BPMS2_2009/ Organizers: Selmin Nurcan � University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Rainer Schmidt � Aalen University , Germany SCOPE: Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. It supports social interaction and social production. Social interaction is the interaction of non-predetermined individuals. Social production is the creation of artefacts, by combining the input from independent contributors without predetermining the way to do this. Users are supported in creating new contacts, presenting themselves and collaborating with other users. As a result, content, knowledge and software is not created by a hierarchy of experts, but by combining a multitude of contributions of independent authors/actors. Examples for such a social production are wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and tagging, etc. Social software follows a more egalitarian and meritocratic approach compared to traditional approaches where the role of the software user is determined by the enterprise senior management and its representatives. Thus, trust and reputation play a crucial role in the use of social software instead of authority granted by the top management. The paradigm of social software and social production has created a multitude of success stories such as wikipedia.org and the development of the Linux operating system. Therefore, more and more enterprises see social software and social production as a means for further improvement of their business processes and business models. For example, they integrate their customers into product development by using blogs to capture ideas for new products and features. Thus, business processes have to be adapted to new communication patterns between customers and the enterprise: for example, the communication with the customer is increasingly a bi-directional communication with the customer and among the customers. Social software also offers new possibilities to enhance business processes by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up decisions, etc. Up to now, the interaction of social software and the underlying paradigm of social production with business processes have not been investigated in depth. Therefore, the objective of the workshop is to explore how social software and social production interact with business process management, how business process management has to change to comply with social production, and how business processes may profit from social techniques. TOPICS OF INTEREST: 1. New opportunities provided by social software for BPM - How can business processes fit to business models based on the paradigm of social production? - Which new possibilities for the design of business processes are created by social software? - How are trust and reputation established in business processes using social software? - Are there business processes which require sociality, especially when they are not well defined (as production workflows) but collaborative or ad hoc? - How does social production influence the design of business processes? - What is the impact on conceptual models for those categories of business processes which are not well-defined or that we do not wish to freeze using classical business process enactment systems for instance? 2. Engineering next generation of business processes: BPM 2.0 ? - Do we need new BPM methods and/or paradigms to cope with social software? - Is there an influence of social production and social software on BPM methods themselves? - Are there any similarities or relationships with process mining techniques and also with workflow control and role patterns? - Which phases of the BPM lifecycle (Design, Deployment, Performance, and Evaluation) are affected the most by social software? - How can BPM profit from using social software? - Which types of social software can be used in which phases of the BPM lifecycle? 3. Business process implementation support by social software - Which kinds of social software can be used to implement business processes? - Which categories of business processes can profit from social software? - How does social software interact with WFMS or other business process support systems? - How can we use Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes? - What new kinds of business knowledge representation are offered by social production? SUBMISSION: Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (There is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report). Papers (preferably in PDF format) should be emailed to Rainer.Schmidt(a)htw-aalen.de. The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. EXPECTED RESULTS: All papers will be published on workshop wiki before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. A blog will be used to encourage and support discussions. The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. The workshop report will be created collaboratively using a wiki. A special issue over all workshops will be published in a journal (decision in progress). IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: May 7, 2009 Author notification: June 2, 2009 Camera-ready: June 17, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE : Ilia Bider - IbisSoft, Sweden Jan Bosch - Intuit, Mountain View, California, USA Tad Hogg - HP Information Dynamics Laboratory, Palo Alto, USA Ralf Klamma - Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen, Germany Dragan Gasevic - School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada Werner Geyer - IBM T.J. Watson Research, Collaborative User Experience Group, Cambridge, USA Gustav Neumann - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Anne Persson - School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Sweden Gil Regev - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Itecor, Switzerland Michael Rosemann - Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology, Australia Nick Russell - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Rainer Schmidt - Aalen University, Aalen, Germany Miguel-Ángel Sicilia - University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain Pnina Soffer - Department Of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, Israel -------------8 <-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<------------------- The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [computational.science] SISAP Submission Site Open]
by Gustaf Neumann 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] SISAP Submission Site Open Datum: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:59:18 +0100 Von: Pavel Zezula <zezula(a)fi.muni.cz> Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.OptimaNumerics.com> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2nd International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2009) http://www.sisap.org/2009 August 29 - 30, 2009 Prague, Czech Republic SUBMISSION SITE OPEN: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SISAP2009/ BACKGROUND: The International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is a conference devoted to similarity searching, with emphasis on metric space searching. It aims to fill in the gap left by the various scientific venues devoted to similarity searching in spaces with coordinates, by providing a common forum for theoreticians and practitioners around the problem of similarity searching in general spaces (metric and non-metric) or using distance-based (as opposed to coordinate-based) techniques in general. SISAP aims to become an ideal forum to exchange real-world, challenging and exciting examples of applications, new indexing techniques, common testbeds and benchmarks, source code, and up-to-date literature through a Web page serving the similarity searching community. Authors are expected to use the testbeds and code from the SISAP Web site for comparing new applications, databases, indexes and algorithms. After the very successful first event in Cancun, Mexico in 2008, the second SISAP will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 29-30, 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers on their research in similarity search and applications. The proceedings of SISAP 2009 will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. A special issue with the extended versions of the best SISAP 2009 papers will appear in an internationally recognized journal (subject to additional reviewing). Contributions to the conference should fall into the following categories: Full papers: - Basic techniques: general methods that apply to arbitrary metric spaces, nonmetric or (dis)similarity spaces, or high-dimensional vector spaces. We strongly encourage that those be accompanied with an open-source implementation conforming the interface of the Web site and to be tested with a relevant subset of the spaces included in the Web site. This will favor uniform comparison and also permit comparing the technique with future developments. - Applied techniques: methods that apply to specific similarity search problems. Those papers are also encouraged to contribute with the code and, especially, with the similarity computation function and the datasets related to the specific problem they address (if they are new), for the Web site . Posters: - Domain-specific spaces and similarities: papers that challenge and motivate for searching in new spaces (i.e. domain-specific similarity search). This type of contribution is expected to provide a thorough study of the non/metric space properties (e.g., its intrinsic dimension) or the similarity measure, and must include code for the similarity computation and datasets for the Web site . For this kind of paper a real-world domain-specific application of similarity search is expected (e.g., multimedia databases, (bio)chemical & medical databases, biometric databases, scientific & sensory databases, etc.). Demos: Similarity retrieval engines: papers that present prototypical non-commercial engine entirely devoted to similarity search applications. The presentation should cover the domains of applicability (e.g., image retrieval system), the architecture, scalability, user interfaces, optional comparison with similar engines, etc. This type of contribution must include either an installation package of the demo application + database, or must be installed as a web application accessible to the SISAP PC. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Range search * knn search * Limited-range knn search * Reverse knn search * New complex similarity query types * Similarity joins * Clustering (applied to indexing) * Parallelism & distributed algorithms * Approximate searching * Computation of intrinsic dimension * Cost models * Embeddings * Languages for similarity databases SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: We remark that reviewing is double-blind, so please do not include author information nor any data that discloses authorship in an obvious way. Submissions must not exceed 8 pages (full paper), or 2 pages (poster or demo) and must adhere to the standard 8.5" X 11" IEEE camera-ready format. Formatting instructions and LaTeX macros are available on the IEEE Computer Society site. Additional appendixes can use more pages but they will be read at the discretion of the reviewer, so they should not be used for material that is essential to understand the relevance of the contribution. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: March 29, 2009 Paper submission: April 5, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2009 Final version: June 7, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Edgar Chávez, Universidad Michoacana, México Paolo Ciaccia, Universitá di Bologna, Italy Vlastislav Dohnal, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Alfredo Ferro, Universitá di Catania, Italy Daniel Keim, Universitat Konstanz, Germany Daniel Miranker, University of Texas at Austin, USA Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile Marco Patella, Universitá di Bologna, Italy Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA Tomas Skopal (co-chair), Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Pavel Zezula (co-chair), Masaryk University, Czech Republic NEAR-BY EVENTS: The term of SISAP workshop was planned to take place between two important database events - VLDB 2009 (Aug 24-28, Lyon, France) and DEXA 2009 (Aug 31-Sep 4, Linz, Austria) conferences. In particular, travelling from Prague to Linz takes a few hours by car or train (200 km). MORE INFORMATION & WEB OF THE WORKSHOP: http://www.sisap.org/2009 Pavel Zezula Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University of Brno Botanicka 68a 602 00 Brno Czech Republic E-mail: zezula(a)fi.muni.cz Fax: +420 5 49491820 Tel: +420 5 49497992

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