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Fwd: [WI] CfP: SWESE 2013
by Gustaf Neumann 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP: SWESE 2013 Datum: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:53:15 +0200 Von: Gerd Gröner <groener(a)uni-koblenz.de> An: wi(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de We apologize if you receive this message more than once. ----------------------------------------------------------- The 9th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE) Held in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) Berlin, Germany, December 2-5, 2013 http://swese.odsd.eu/swese2013 ----------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for Paper Submission: 30 August 2013 Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 October 2013 Camera Ready Paper & Copyright: 31 October 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------- About SWESE ----------------------------------------------------------- There has been more and more evidence that the usage of Semantic Web technologies leads to improvements in both the process and product of software and service development and management activities. The goal of the SWESE workshop is to advance research on this this important area. We believe that the informal nature of the workshop, located at one of the major events in service-oriented computing, will lead to further exchange between practitioners and researchers working on issues related to Semantic Web Enabled Software and Service Engineering by providing a forum for discussing the major challenges of the area and the different approaches being taken to resolve them. ----------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Scope ----------------------------------------------------------- During the last five years, a number of successful attempts showed the advantages of Semantic Web technologies in software and service engineering including reusability and extensibility of data models, improvements in data quality and data integration, and discovery and automated execution of workflows. The scope of the SWESE workshop is to investigate any potential benefits of using Semantic Web knowledge representations (ontologies) and reasoning technologies in service engineering, management, organization and implementation. Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not restricted to): * Visions for Semantic Web driven software and service engineering * Tools developed or being developed for software and service engineering using SW languages * Integration or application development projects combining software engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages * Shortcomings with the Semantic Web with respect to software and service engineering * Visions for SW driven software modernization * Integration of model-driven architectures, programming languages and Semantic Web languages * Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages * Software specification and Semantic Web languages * Software versioning control and Semantic Web * Software debugging and Semantic Web * Ontologies for software engineering * Ontologies for service engineering and service specifications * Ontologies for requirement engineering * Ontologies for software guidance, traceability and maintenance * Ontologies for service composition * Component discovery and ontologies * Feature modelling and ontologies * Metamodel engineering * Ontology reasoning for service engineering and management * Semantic annotations in service engineering * Transitioning legacy applications to ontologies * Semantic-based intelligent assistance tools for software developers * Lessons learnt and outstanding challenges for the usage of semantic technologies in service engineering and management * Ontology-Driven Architecture: How to introduce Semantic Web technology into mainstream development processes * Ontologies for supporting collaboration/coordination between developers * Semantic-based information push for service engineering and management process * Methods and tools for semantic-based event-driven interaction in service development * Semantic Web based service marketplaces ----------------------------------------------------------- Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------- Papers must be in English and may be submitted by Easychair Conference Management System https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swese2013 as * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) * Short Papers (5-8 pages in the proceedings) * Position Statements (2 pages in the proceedings) * Posters (to be presented during the workshop, with 2 page descriptions submitted via the conference site for review) Papers must be submitted using the “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” (LNCS) style (Word or LaTex). See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. Submissions will be peer- reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. ----------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee ----------------------------------------------------------- Uwe Assman (DE), Technical University of Dresden Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim Kenneth Baclawski (US), VIStology, Inc. Bernhard Bauer (DE), University of Augsburg Marco Brambilla (IT), Politecnico di Milano Philippe Charland (CA), Defence R&D Canada Val-Bélair Emanuele Della Valle (IT), DEI, Politecnico di Milano Jürgen Ebert (DE), University of Koblenz Dragan Gasevic, (CA), Athabasca University Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen Michael K. Smith (US), Hewlett-Packard Mieczyslaw Kokar (US), Northeastern University Harald Kühn (AT), BOC Inc. Hareton Leung (HK), Hong Kong Polytechnic University Maria Maleshkova (UK), KMI, The Open University Krzysztof Miksa (PL), Comarch, Inc. Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (GR), Democritus University of Thrace Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research Yuan Ren (UK), University of Aberdeen Dave Reynolds (UK), Epimorphics Ltd Juergen Rilling (CA), Concordia University Fernando Silva Parreiras (BR), FUMEC University Jin Song Dong (NZ), National University of Singapore Steffen Staab (DE), University of Koblenz-Landau Jing Sun (NZ), The University of Auckland Hai Wang (UK), Aston University ----------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Organization Chairs ----------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact) Elisa F. Kendall, Thematix Partners LLC , USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK Gerd Groener, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: CFP ICEIS 2014 - Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (Lisbon/Portugal)
by Gustaf Neumann 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP ICEIS 2014 - Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (Lisbon/Portugal) Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:05:17 -0500 Von: ICEIS Secretariat <postmaster13(a)303media.net> Antwort an: iceis.secretariat(a)insticc.org <iceis.secretariat(a)insticc.org> An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS website: http://www.iceis.org April 27 - 30, 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Sponsored by: INSTICC In Cooperation with: AAAI INSTICC is Member of: OMG and WfMC Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: October 22, 2013 Authors Notification (regular papers): January 22, 2014 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 19, 2014 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Gustaf Neumann, Let me kindly inform you that the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2014 - http://www.iceis.org) steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the ICEIS 2014 Conference, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. The deadline for paper submission is scheduled for October 22, 2013. The purpose of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Six simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including Enterprise Database Technology, Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Internet Computing, Electronic Commerce, Human Factors and Enterprise Architecture. The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). INSTICC is Member of the Object Management Group (OMG) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). The Science and Technology Events (SCITEVENTS) will be the Logistics Partner. We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers: - Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom - Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (more to be announced soon) ICEIS is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 307 submissions, 8% were presented as full papers. Additionally, 24% were short oral presentations and 27% presented as posters. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a LNBIP Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.iceis.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. ICEIS 2014 will be held in conjunction with ENASE 2014 (http://www.enase.org) in Lisbon, Portugal. Registration to ICEIS will enable free attendance to any sessions of ENASE 2014 conference as a non-speaker. We hope to welcome you in Lisbon, Portugal next April, 2014! Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, Vitor Pedrosa ICEIS Secretariat Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 Email: iceis.secretariat(a)insticc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal Olivier Camp, IFI, Vietnam PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Slimane Hammoudi, ESEO, MODESTE, France Leszek Maciaszek, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Please check the program committee members at http://www.iceis.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CONFERENCE TRACKS: Area 1: Databases and Information Systems Integration - Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources - Legacy Systems - Organisational Issues on Systems Integration - Mobile Database Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning - Enterprise Application Integration - Data Mining - Data Warehouses and OLAP - Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking - Non-relational Databases - Query Languages and Query Processing - Distributed Database Systems - In-memory Databases Area 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems - Evolutionary Programming - Group Decision Support Systems - Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Strategic Decision Support Systems - Advanced Applications of Neural Network - Applications of Expert Systems - Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic - Intelligent Agents - Case-Based Reasoning Systems - Multi-Agent Systems - Scheduling and Planning - Operational Research - Problem Solving - Game Theory Applications - Intelligent Transportation System - Natural Language Interfaces and Systems Area 3: Information Systems Analysis and Specification - Software Engineering - Knowledge Management - Modelling of Distributed Systems - Ontology Engineering - Security - Simulation - Requirements Analysis and Management - Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development - Model Driven Architectures and Engineering - Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (e.g. UML, ER variants) - Organisational Learning - Project Management - Semiotics in Information Systems - Software Metrics and Measurement Area 4: Software Agents and Internet Computing - Wireless and Mobile Computing - E-Learning and E-Teaching - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Enterprises - Interoperability - Web Services - Web 2.0 and Social Networking - Internet Agents - Collaborative Computing - Electronic Commerce - Internet Portals - Profiling and Recommendation Systems - Internet of Things - Internet Systems Performance - Semantic Web Technologies and Applications Area 5: Human-Computer Interaction - HCI on Enterprise Information Systems - Human Factors - Multimedia Systems - Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality - Geographical Information Systems - Guidelines, Principles, Patterns and Standards - Adaptive and Adaptable User Interfaces - Interaction Techniques and Devices - Interface Design - Ergonomics - Emotional and Affective Computing - Haptic Interfaces - Accessibility and Usability - Collaborative and Social Interaction - Multiple Sensory Devices Area 6: Enterprise Architecture - Enterprise Engineering - Models and Frameworks - Enterprise Knowledge Engineering and Management - Business Modelling and Business Process Management - Business-IT Allignment - EA Adoption and Governance - EA and Organizational Theory and System Development - EA and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Methods, Processes and Patterns for EA Development - Measurements, Metrics and Evaluation of EA Artefacts and Processes - Architectures and Design Principles for Enterprise Repositories - Maturity Models for EA Artefacts and Processes - Evolution of EA - Objective Control in EA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To SUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/reg.Asp?a=47WEMBP7RQHZL9L9JBMMYCP&b=YYKN97… ----------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/us.asp?a=47WEMBP7RQHZL9L9JBMMYCP&b=YYKN978… ---------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: SASO2013: Call for Participation
by Gustaf Neumann 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SASO2013: Call for Participation Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:07:21 +0200 (CEST) Von: SASO 2013 Publicity Chair <SASO-publicity(a)iiia.csic.es> An: gustaf.neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at Kopie (CC): SASO 2013 Publicity Chair <SASO-publicity(a)iiia.csic.es> ************************************************************************************************************ Call for Participation Seventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013) Philadelphia (PA), USA; 9-13 September 2013 --- https://www.cs.drexel.edu/saso2013/ ************************************************************************************************************ ---------- NEWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Registration for SASO 2013 is now open (https://www.cs.drexel.edu/saso2013/registration.html ) - special rate for SASO participants accommodation is active until August 8 (https://www.cs.drexel.edu/saso2013/accommodations.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Aims and Scope ------------------- The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the foundations of a principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software and services, especially in dealing with dynamics in the environment and problem domain, has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems. In this endeavour, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. Many significant research problems exist related to self-adaptive or self-organizing systems. A challenge in self-adaptation is often to identify how to change specific behavior to achieve the desired improvement. Another major challenge is to predict and control the global system behavior resulting from self-organization. Yet more challenges arise from the confluence of self-adaptation with self-organization. For instance, how do self-* mechanisms that work well independently operate in combination? How are meso-level structures formed which leverage micro-level behavior to achieve desirable macro-level outcomes, and avoid undesirable ones? The seventh edition of the SASO conference embraces the inter-disciplinarity and the scientific, empirical and application dimensions of self-* systems; it thus aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications. SASO welcomes novel results on both self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. It seeks to emphasize the interconnection of basic research between and within fields, and the increasing protrusion of self-* systems into the human sphere, evaluating their impact on society, environmental sustainability, commerce, living/working spaces and critical infrastructure. Therefore contributions are welcomed that: apply self-* principles to solve real-world problems; unpick the entanglement of self-* systems and human users in socio-technical systems; present advances in self-* mechanisms or analyses with potentially broad application; investigate the combination and interconnection of self-* mechanisms; and/or identify and evaluate new self-* principles or mechanisms from the study of natural or engineered systems. Contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results, or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems, applications, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to submit accompanying papers for the Demo or Poster Sessions. ----------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------- The topics of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to: - Self-* systems theory: theoretical frameworks and models; biologically- and socially-inspired paradigms; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; - Self-* systems engineering: hardware, software and middleware development frameworks and methods, platforms and toolkits; self-* materials; - Self-* system properties: robustness, resilience and stability; emergence; computational awareness and self-awareness; reflection; - Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems: human factors and visualization; self-* social computers; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; - Applications and experiences of self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, big data and creative commons, power systems. ---------------------- Tutorials ---------------------- - T1: Formal Models of Social Processes: The Pursuit of Computational Justice in Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems - T2: From Self-Organizing Mechnanisms to Design Patterns to Engineering Self-Organizing Applications - T3: Adaptivity via Situation Awareness and Self-Modeling - T4: Complex Structures and Collective Dynamics in Networked Systems: Foundations for Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization See https://www.cs.drexel.edu/saso2013/tutorials.php for more information. ---------------------- Workshops ---------------------- - WS1: Adaptive Host and Network Security (AHAN 2013) - WS2: Second International Workshop on Socially Adaptive and Socio-Aware Information and Communication Systems (SocioAware 2013) - WS3: 4th edition of the Workshop and Symposium on Trustworthy Self-Organising and Autonomous Systems (TSOAS 2013) - WS4: 3rd AWARE workshop on Challenges for Achieving Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (AWARE 2013) - WS5: Computationally Adapted {laws | policies | norms} for Self-Organising Systems (CA*OS 2013) See https://www.cs.drexel.edu/saso2013/workshops.php for more information. -------------------------- Invited speeches -------------------------- ** No equations, no variables: a computer-assisted approach to modeling complex systems ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton University) In current modeling practice for complex systems, including agent-based and network-based simulations, the best available descriptions of a system often come at a fine level (atomistic, stochastic, individual-based) while the questions asked and the tasks required by the modeler (parametric analysis, optimization, control) are at a much coarser, averaged, macroscopic level. Traditional modeling approaches start by deriving macroscopic evolution equations from the microscopic models. I will review a mathematically inspired, systems-based computational enabling technology that allows the modeler to perform macroscopic tasks acting on the microscopic models directly in an input-output mode. This "equation-free" approach circumvents the step of obtaining accurate macroscopic descriptions. I will discuss applications of this approach and its linking with recent developments in data mining algorithms, exploring large complex data sets to find good "reduction coordinates". Yannis Kevrekidis studied Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University in Athens. He then followed the steps of many alumni of that department to the University of Minnesota, where he studied under Rutherford Aris and Lanny Schmidt (also Dick McGehee and Don Aronson in Mathematics) on computational studies of dynamical systems, which still remains the main theme of his research. He was a Director's Fellow at Los Alamos in 1985-86. He has been at Princeton since 1986, where he teaches Chemical Engineering and also Applied and Computational Mathematics. His research interests are centered around the dynamics of physical and chemical processes, types of instabilities, pattern formation, and their computational study. In more recent years he has developed an interest in multiscale computations. He has been a Packard Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow and the Ulam Scholar at LANL. He holds the Colburn and Wilhelm Awards of the AIChE, and a Humboldt Prize. Last year he was the Gutzwiller Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. ** Architectured Self-Organized Systems: Toward the Best of Both Worlds by "Morphogenetic Engineering" ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Rene Doursat (Complex Systems Institute, Paris CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique) Engineering is torn between an attitude of strong design and dreams of autonomous devices. It wants full mastery of its artifacts, but also wishes these artifacts were much more adaptive or "intelligent". Meanwhile, the escalation in system size and complexity has rendered the tradition of rigid top-down planning and implementation in every detail unsustainable. In this context, natural complex systems, large sets of elements interacting locally and behaving collectively, can constitute a powerful source of inspiration and help create a new generation of artificial systems with the desired "self-x" properties absent from classical engineering. Historically, along these lines, the observation of neurons and genes has given rise to machine learning and evolutionary algorithms. Yet, these domains have also shifted their focus toward classical optimization and search problems, away from emergent computation. In this talk, I want to show other avenues of bio-inspired design stressing the importance and benefits of a genuine self-organization in architectured systems-as exemplified by the growth of multicellular organisms or the nests of social insects. I will present a new field of research, "morphogenetic engineering" (ME; http://doursat.free.fr/morpheng.html ), which explores the artificial design of complex morphologies that can reproducibly arise without central or external control. Potential applications range from swarm robotics to distributed software, techno-social networks and synthetic biology. What they have in common is a myriad of hardware/software/bioware agents that can be programmed to dynamically build structures on the sole basis of peer-to-peer communication. Four main groups of ME methodologies will be reviewed: constructing, coalescing, developing and generating. Then, I will describe two of my studies: the evolutionary development of animated organisms in a 3D virtual world ( http://doursat.free.fr/mapdevo.html ) and the self-assembly of abstract graph topologies ( http://doursat.free.fr/nets.html ). In all cases, the challenge is not to build a system directly but to find and/or evolve the proper rules that its components should follow to build it for you. Rene Doursat is a Research Scientist and former Director of the Complex Systems Institute, Paris, under the French research council CNRS. He also co-founded the European Complex Systems Master's at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, where he is an Adjunct Lecturer. Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in computer science at the University of Nevada, Reno, after an engineering period in the San Francisco Bay Area's software industry. An alumnus of Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, he completed his PhD in 1991 and a postdoc in computational neuroscience at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany. The main theme of Rene Doursat's research is bio-inspired models and simulations of "morphogenetic engineering" systems (book with Springer-Verlag), i.e. how complex architectures (e.g. software, robotic, network, neural) can self-organize from a swarm of heterogeneous agents via dynamical, developmental, and evolutionary processes. He was the General Chair of ECAL 2011, the European Conference on Artificial Life, and organized or created a dozen other conferences and workshops. He wrote over 100 publications, among which 40 full papers and chapters, and 10 edited books, proceedings and journal issues. In 2013, he moved to Washington DC, and received formal affiliations with Drexel University and George Mason University. He also holds a teaching appointment at the School of Engineering of The Catholic University of America in DC. ** Meeting the Challenge of Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems Development in the Age of Complexity ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jeffrey Wilcox (Vice President, Engineering Corporate Engineering and Technology Lockheed Martin Corporation) Organizations like Lockheed Martin have evolved over the past half-century to solve highly-complex problems for a highly-complex set of stakeholders. During this time, the systems engineering discipline has been at the core of how our industry approached and met these challenges. It has served us well for decades. In recent years, however, the increasing complexity of these challenges has stressed our ability to sense and adapt to a terrain that is rapidly changing in multiple dimensions. This talk will explore those changes, identify where traditional approaches are being stressed, and provide suggestions for how the research community can advance and support the creation of effective complex systems and enterprises. Jeffrey J. Wilcox is the Vice President for Engineering at the Lockheed Martin Corporation. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading the development and execution of engineering strategy for the Lockheed Martin Engineering Enterprise and its 60,000 engineers, scientists, and technologists. Previously, Mr. Wilcox was the Vice President for Systems and Software Engineering at Lockheed Martin. In that role, he was responsible for directing the development and implementation of enterprise-wide systems and software engineering processes, tools, technology, and training with special emphasis on complex, software-intensive systems development. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Mr. Wilcox served in a variety of increasingly responsible positions at the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), including Senior Vice President, where he led business planning and analysis for the Technology and Advanced Systems business unit. Mr. Wilcox graduated from Drexel University with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Case Western Reserve University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. Mr. Wilcox holds an honorary doctorate of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. Mr. Wilcox is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). ------------------------- Accommodations ------------------------- A block of rooms has been reserved for SASO 2013 participants and accompanying guests at a special rate at the Sheraton Hotel near Drexel University. The block reservation will be held until August 8, 2013, so please make reservations before then. Contact the hotel directly at +1-888-627-7071 and mention "SAS0 2013" to get the reserved rooms and special rates. Or you may reserve rooms online at https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/IEEESASO Other Philadelphia hotels may be found at http://www.visitphilly.com/hotels Note that Drexel University is in the University City District, which is near Center City. ---------------- Program ---------------- Information about the program is available at https://www.cs.drexel.edu/saso2013/program.php ------------------- Program Chairs ------------------- Tom Holvoet KU Leuven, Belgium Jeremy Pitt Imperial College London, England Ichiro Satoh National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia.
by Gustaf Neumann 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:52:37 +1000 Von: Sean Zhang <xuyun.zhangcs(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: August 25, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: September 22, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2013 Registration Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguished papers will be recommended to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developping, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performace Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. General Chairs Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com <mailto:xyzhanggz@gmail.com>) Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia (suraj.pandey(a)au.ibm.com <mailto:suraj.pandey@au.ibm.com>) Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia (surya.nepal(a)csiro.au)

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Fwd: [computational.science] MoMM2013 Final Deadline Extension (15 August 2013)
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] MoMM2013 Final Deadline Extension (15 August 2013) Datum: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:36:31 +0200 Von: Ismail Khalil <ismail.khalil(a)jku.at> Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> ********** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ********* We have extended the submission deadline to August 15, 2013 (SHARP) ****************************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2013) in Conjunction with The 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2013) 2 - 4 December 2013 Vienna, Austria http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2013/ email: momm2013(a)iiwas.org **** IMPORTANT DATES ***** 15 August 2013 (SHARP): Full Papers (10 pages), Short papers, Demos and work in progress (4 pages) 22 September 2013: Acceptance Notification 10 October 2013: Camera-Ready Papers and Authors Registration 02–04 December 2013: Conference Dates ***** Publication ***** ALL accepted MoMM2013 papers will be published by ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and the supplemental proceedings and indexed appropriately in all major indexes. Selected high-quality papers will be invited to be published, after revision and extension, in special issues of international journals and in a book in the Book Series: Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence published by Springer. **** Scope ***** A vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, instant messaging, social networks, mobile payment and transactions, mobile video conferencing, or video and audio streaming has already shaped the expectations towards current mobile devices, infrastructure, and services. Within the last five years, mobile multimedia has become the accepted standard, driven by developments in end-user devices, radio networks, and backend services. However, many open research questions remain, from limited battery life to heterogeneous data types, increases in quality of service, context-aware adaptation to the environment, or the ever-present security and privacy issues. MoMM2013 is the 11th in the series of the highly successful International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia. Recently, MoMM has been held in Bali (2012), Ho Chi Minh City (2011), Paris (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2009), and Linz (2008). This year, Vienna will host MoMM2013. The MoMM conference series has provided opportunities to researchers, graduate students, and industry practitioners to address recent research results and current industry practices in the area of mobile computing and multimedia. We invite three types of submissions: Full Technical Papers, Short Position Papers, and Demonstrations. A Full Paper should provide solid conceptual and theoretical foundation and substantial support for its results and conclusions as a significant contribution to the field. A Position Paper is not expected to be theoretically or empirically thorough, but represents an earlier stage of work. Examples are demonstration or prototype work, preliminary user studies, or work in progress, i.e. a report on the latest emerging ideas, approaches, methodologies, systems and application scenarios. A demonstration is intended to showcase novel concepts and innovative technologies which are at advanced stage and have already been implemented in working prototype systems. The informal setting of the demonstration session encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about presented work, while the accompanying short paper should describe the scientific aspects, concepts,! or methods driving the hands-on demonstration. Accepted papers and demonstrations from the three categories will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. ***** Topics ***** Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Mobile Platforms Track - Mobile software architectures, systems, and platforms - Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing - Mobile network traffic engineering, performance, and optimization - Wireless and mobile network management and service infrastructure - Wireless communication technologies (GSM/UMTS, WiMAX, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) - Mobility and location management - Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks - Distributed systems aspects of mobile computing - Localization and tracking - Transaction processing in mobile environments - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless protocols - Security of mobile end-user devices - Energy efficiency in mobile systems - Approaches, and technologies for dealing with big data in mobile computing - Integration of cloud computing and mobile computing - Mobile services usage data analysis and pattern recognition - Regulatory, societal, legal, and ethical issues of mobile computing 2. Mobile Interaction Track - Mobile applications and services - Mobile computing markets and business models - Provisioning of mobile services - Personalization and context awareness in mobile computing - Location based services - Security and privacy of social network services - Mobile visualization for big data - Rapid prototyping of mobile applications - Mobile user interfaces and interaction techniques - Evaluation and usability of mobile devices and services - Mobile services for older adults with diverse capabilities 3. Mobile Multimedia Track - Mobile multimedia streaming and services - Mobile multimedia coding and encryption - Mobile multimedia for learning - Interfaces for multimedia creation - Media fusion for communication and presentation - Distributed mobile multimedia systems - Audio and video analysis, modeling, processing and transformation - Image analysis, modeling, and recognition - Augmented reality on mobile devices - Communication and cooperation through mobile multimedia - Enabling infrastructures for mobile multimedia - Scalable multimedia big data management **** Submission Guidelines **** Papers and demonstration descriptions must be submitted electronically in PDF through the conference website. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings. Submitted demonstrations should convey a scientific result and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. Submitted papers and demonstrations will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers and demonstration descriptions will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM. Format requirements for submissions of papers and demonstrations are: - Maximum 10 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Full Technical papers. - Maximum 4 pages, including the abstract (no more than 150 words), all figures and references for Short Position Papers. - A video clip (for review purpose only) and a description of maximum 4 pages for the demonstration. The description should outline the underlying novel concepts, methods and/or approaches, and details about implementation, deployment, testing, and evaluation and user uptake. - All submissions should be formatted according to ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) - Submissions must be entered into the Submission System (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=momm2013) **** Awards **** MoMM2013 best paper awards and best student paper awards will be selected based on novelty, significance, and the presentation at the conference. Best student paper awards can only be awarded to papers on which students are first authors. **** Past Conferences **** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences.htm ACM Digital library: http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE130 DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/momm/ **** PC Members ***** http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2013/ *** Contact: PC Chairs ***** Rene Mayrhofer University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, AT Email: rene.mayrhofer(a)fh-hagenberg.at Liming (Luke) Chen University of Ulster, UK Email: l.chen(a)ulster.ac.uk ***********************************************************************

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Deadline Approaching - IEEE CollaborateCom 2013: 9th International Conference on Collaborative Computing
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Deadline Approaching - IEEE CollaborateCom 2013: 9th International Conference on Collaborative Computing Datum: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:51:47 -0400 Von: Amirreza Masoumzadeh <amirreza(a)sis.pitt.edu> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers [Extended Deadlines] ==================================================================== CollaborateCom 2013: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing 20-23 October 2013 Austin, Texas, United States http://www.collaboratecom.org/ ==================================================================== Extended Deadlines: Abstracts due August 2, Full Papers due August 9 ==================================================================== ### Scope ### Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and inter operation with application-specific components and tools. The Ninth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2013) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications. ### Topics ### Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems - Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications - Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments - Collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery - Collaboration in social networks - Big data and spatio-temporal data in collaborative environments/systems - Collaboration in health-care environments - Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries - Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures - Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services - Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications - Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing - Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications - Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure - Collaborative social networks & web-based collaboration - Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems - Distributed collaborative workflows - Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems - Energy management for collaborative networks - Group-driven composition of systems from components - Human-robot collaboration - Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration - Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications - Models & mechanisms for real-time collaboration - Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications - Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications - P2P platforms for supporting collaboration - Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications - Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications - Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications - Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing - Tools for collaborative decision making processes - Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations - Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications - Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications - Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems ### Paper Submission ### We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications are solicited. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. Submitted papers should be 10 pages in two-column IEEE proceeding format. The papers can be submitted in regular track or Industry/Application track. ### Workshops Proposals ### Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on CollaborateCom 2013 related themes are solicited. Workshop proposals should be at most five pages, including a biographical sketch of each instructor, and submitted to the Workshop Chairs. Proposals will be evaluated based on the expertise and experience of the organizers and the relevance and importance of the subject matter. Please refer to call for workshop proposals for details. ### Panels Proposals ### Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for collaborative networking, applications, and work sharing are preferred. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most five pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panelists to the Panel Chairs. ### Tutorials Proposals ### Proposals for full and half-day tutorials are solicited. Tutorials are intended to enhance the technical program, and as such they should be relevant to collaborative computing, networking, worksharing, and applications. Potential tutorial presenters should submit a tutorial proposal of at most three pages, including: description of potential audience and background knowledge expected from the audience, if any; tutorial description; biographical sketch of presenter(s). ### Submission Instructions ### All paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website www.CollaborateCom.org <http://www.CollaborateCom.org> for detailed submission requirements and procedures. ### Publication ### All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and other external indexing services (DBLP database, ZB1Math/CompuServe, IO-Port, EI, Scopus, INSPEC, ISI proceeding - pending approval). Special Issues of CollaborateCom 2013 has been confirmed for the following journals - International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems - Springer MONET Journal ### Important Dates ### Workshop and tutorial proposal: March 15th, 2013 Posters and panel proposal: March 15th, 2013 Workshop CFP announced: March 29th, 2013 Abstract submission (Extended): August 2nd, 2013 Full Paper submission (Extended): August 9th, 2013 Acceptance Notification: Sept. 6th, 2013 === Program Committee === - Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA - Bhuvan Bamba, Oracle, USA - Shankar Banik, The Citadel, USA - Claudio Bartolini, HP Laboratories, USA - Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA - Sanat Kumar Bista, CSIRO, Australia - Ladislau Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA - Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT, Australia - David Buttler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy - James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA - Shiping Chen, Sybase, Inc., USA - Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA - Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA - Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy - Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolonia, USA - Hans Peter Dommel, Novalos Consulting, USA - Vina Ermagan, Cisco Systems, USA - Bugra Gedik, IBM Research, USA - Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Lei Guo, Microsoft, USA - Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan - Osamaal-Haj Hassan, Isra University, Pakistan - Julian Jang, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Vana Kalogeraki, AUEB, Greece - Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA - Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey - Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA - Wenjia Li, Georgia Southern University, USA - Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida, USA - Dan Lin, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA - Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA - Ying Liu, KAIST, South Korea - Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA - Sanjay Madria, Missouri S & T, USA - Fabio Maino, Cisco Systems, USA - Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA - Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia - Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria - Federica Paci, University of Trento, Italy - Suraj Pandey, IBM Research, Australia - Patrizio Pelliccione, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy - Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA - Sangeetha Seshadri, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA - Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University, USA - Mei-Ling Shyu, Miami University, USA - Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA - Anna Squicciarini, Penn State, USA - Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM, USA - Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK - Qihua Wang, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA - Ting Wang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA - Jinpeng Wei,Florida International University, USA - Ouri Wolfson, University of illinois, USA - Kun-Lung Wu, IBM, USA - Yuni Xia, IUPUI, USA - Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA - Yi Yang, Catholic University of America, USA - Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA - Gong Zhang, Oracle Corporation, USA === Organizing Committee === General Chairs: - Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA - Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Technical Program Chairs: - Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK - Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM Research, USA - Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Panel Chairs: - Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA & Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Japan Workshop Chairs: - Anne Hee Hiong Ngu, Texas State University, USA - James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA Sponsorship Chairs: - Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Publication Chair: - Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, USA Industrial Chairs: - Rafae Bhatti, Accenture, USA Publicity Chair: - Amirreza Masoumzadeh, University of Pittsburgh, USA Local Arrangements Chair: - Yijuan (Lucy) Lu, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA Conference Coordinator: - Erica Polini, EAI, Italy contact: erica.polini[at]eai.eu <http://eai.eu> === Steering Committee === - Imrich Chlamtac (co-chair), Create-Net, Italy - James Joshi (co-chair), University of Pittsburgh, USA - Calton Pu. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA - Arun Iyengar, IBM, USA - Tao Zhang, Cisco, USA

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Fwd: [WI] CFP: Special issue on "Games for Learning" - Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal
by Gustaf Neumann 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP: Special issue on "Games for Learning" - Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal Datum: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:38:16 +0200 Von: Carlo Giovannella <mifav(a)roma2.infn.it> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de ========================================================= Special Issue on "GAMES FOR LEARNING" to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745) ========================================================= Guest Editors: --------------------------------------------------------- • Kostas Karpouzis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens, Greece • Ginevra Castellano, School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK • Rilla Khaled, Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta • Evangelia Dimaraki, University of the Aegean, Ellinogermaniki Agogi ========================================================== Important dates: ---------------------------------------------------------- *** Deadline: 22 November 2013 *** ---------------------------------------------------------- Other important dates: - Notification to the authors: 20 December, 2013 - Deadline for submission of the final camera ready version of accepted papers: 10 January 2014 - Publication of the special issue: January 2014 =========================================================== Overview ----------------------------------------------------------- So we know that people of all ages like to play. There are even attempts to formulate the concept of play theoretically and to identify why it’s so important to our lives. We can even recall that play is one of the first things we do after we are born, constituting our first man-machine interface (with toys) and one of the first social activities we engage in. Even though playful learning is a recurrent vision in pedagogical thought, the educational system in most countries treats play as something antagonistic to learning: young students are allowed to play only during pre-defined sessions between classes and learning usually relies on formal teaching methods. This distinction was carried over, until recently, to the respective research fields in digital technologies: CS people working on games concentrated on the AI-side (how to make successful computer agents and non-player characters that play games in an unsupervised manner), while research on technology-enhanced learning looked for theoretical foundations in the most traditional learning research, missing out almost completely on concepts of engagement, playful learning and related concepts which recently emerged, such as ‘gamification’. As a result, most of the games produced for explicitly educational purposes from the collaboration of CS and TEL researchers, may have been effective with respect to their learning objectives, but they were not in the end adopted by their prospective users. In addition, game-based learning research has yet to tap into the potential of using games to cultivate creativity. While traditional media such as arts and crafts are essential to the enhancement of certain creative skills, games can be used to explore approaches to enhancing creativity that draw upon the broader digitally mediated culture: playing games requires creative skills that many students are now familiar with in terms of learning and then optimising the mechanics of a game. This special issue of the IxD&A journal intends to expand the results of the Games for learning workshops at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2012 (http://www.image.ece.ntua.gr/events/its-emotion-in-games/) and Foundations of Digital Games 2013 (http://sirenproject.eu/content/fdg-2013-workshop-games-for-learning) conferences, by bringing together researchers from the fields of games research, game AI, intelligent systems, affective computing, design, human-computer interaction and user experience with people from the fields of education, technology-enhanced learning, cognitive sciences, psychology and ergonomics in order to foster the exchange of ideas and experiences from designing, developing and evaluating learning games in terms of usability and learning effect. The special issue welcomes original research papers from topics including, but not restricted to: - Game design -- User and group modelling for game-based learning -- From educational methodologies to game mechanics -- Mapping graphics and design to learning objectives -- Designing for tangible, mobile and location-based games for learning -- Gamification, reward systems, transfer to real life - Game AI for learning -- User experience and affect-based adaptation -- Group-based adaptation -- Selecting proper content for players and player types -- Adapting to learning performance and objectives -- Non-player characters as tutors - Technology-enhanced learning -- Learning and motivational theories for game-based learning -- Game-based ‘fun’, ‘flow’ and ‘engagement’ in learning -- Defining and promoting creativity and ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking -- UX evaluation of game-based learning -- Outcome evaluation of game-based learning -- Instruction via narrative/storytelling -- Collaboration, conflict and social behaviour in games - Higher-level concepts -- playful learning and creative learning -- maximising user engagement -- social context awareness and adaptation -- alternate reality, augmented reality and news games -- psychology and ethics of gaming -- game-based learning in the school curriculum KEYWORDS: serious games, educational game design, learning objectives, playful learning, evaluation, user-centred design, emotion in games ========================================================== Submission procedure ---------------------------------------------------------- The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit a 8-14 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines -> http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php ========================================================== Authors' guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php (when submitting the paper please choose as first Domain Subject: "IxD&A special issue: 'Games for learning') More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors are also published. For scientific advices and for any query please contact the guest-editors: • kkarpou[at]cs.ntua.gr • g.castellano[at]bham.ac.uk • rilla.khaled[at]um.edu.mt • dimaraki[at]ea.gr marking the subject as: "IxD&A, special issue on: 'Games for learning'" -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [WI] CFP: ICST'14
by Gustaf Neumann 27 Jul '13

27 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CFP: ICST'14 Datum: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:02:42 -0500 Von: Miroslav Velev <mvelev(a)gmail.com> An: researchers(a)pascal-network.org, ai-sges(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, allstat(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, bioforum(a)magpie.bio.indiana.edu, cfp(a)eventseer.org, clp(a)comp.nus.edu.sg, comic(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk, comp-bio(a)magpie.bio.indiana.edu, compulognet-parimp(a)dia.fi.upm.es, "concurrency(a)cwi.nl" <concurrency(a)cwi.nl>, csec-adm(a)sdl.hitachi.co.jp, confer-ann(a)iro.umontreal.ca, datamine-l(a)nautilus-sys.com, demetri(a)dcs.shef.ac.uk, eccai-individuals(a)uni-koblenz.de, "elsnet-list(a)let.uu.nl" <elsnet-list(a)let.uu.nl>, emo-list(a)ualg.pt, fg-db(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de, iceimt(a)tools.org, icml2002(a)cse.unsw.edu.au, intranet-km(a)egroups.com, isca(a)ipass.net, isg(a)ee.ed.ac.uk, isworld(a)listserv.heanet.ie, isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org, it-announce(a)cs.usyd.edu.au, "kr(a)kr.org" <kr(a)kr.org>, linguist(a)listserv.linguistlist.org, medenif(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk, ml(a)isle.org, news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net, risc(a)idf.ext.jussieu.fr, sb.all(a)ieee.org, smbnet(a)smb.org, support-vector-machines(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, turkstat(a)bilkent.edu.tr, vavtalk(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk, vavtalk(a)pigeon.csd.abdn.ac.uk, vki-list(a)dfki.de, vki-list(a)dfki.uni-sb.de, webir(a)egroups.com, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, www-rdf-interest(a)w3c.org, ai-grid(a)mailman.isi.edu, ak-kd-list(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca, fca-list(a)cs.uni-kassel.de, Lprolog(a)cs.umn.edu, artificialintelligencegroup(a)yahoogroups.com, dba_gurus(a)yahoogroups.com, Information_Systems_Forum(a)yahoogroups.com, machine-learning(a)yahoogroups.com, Statisticians_group(a)yahoogroups.co.in Call for Papers Seventh IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST’14) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., March 31 - April 4, 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/icst2014/home Submission of abstracts: September 23, 2013 Paper submission: September 30, 2013 The IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) is the premier conference for research in all areas related to software testing. The ever-increasing complexity, ubiquity, and dynamism of modern software systems is making software quality assurance activities, and in particular software testing more challenging. ICST provides an ideal forum where academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners can present their latest approaches for ensuring the quality of today’s complex software systems, exchange and discuss ideas, and compare experiences. In this spirit, ICST welcomes both research papers that present high quality original work and industry reports from practitioners that present real world experiences from which others can benefit. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Testing theory and practice - Testing in globally-distributed organizations - Model-based testing - Domain specific testing, such as: = Web-service testing = Database testing = Embedded software testing - Testing concurrent software - Testing large-scale distribute systems - Testing in multi-core environments - Validation testing - Security testing - Quality assurance - Model checking - Testing metrics - Fuzzing - Inspections - Testing tools - Design for testability - Testing education - Technology transfer in testing - Unit test-driven development - Acceptance test-driven development and behavior driven development - Testing of open source and third-party software - Software reliability - Performance and QoS testing - Standards - Formal verification - Empirical studies of testing techniques - Experience reports Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the ICST Program Committee. Authors of the best research papers presented at ICST 2013 will be invited to extend their work for possible inclusion in a special issue of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, a Wiley journal. Format -------------------------------- Research Track: We invite submission of research and technical papers that describe original and significant work in the research and practice of software testing, verification and validation. Case studies and empirical research are welcome. Papers must neither have been previously accepted for publication nor submitted in another conference or journal. The ICST 2013 research track accepts only full research papers. Short papers are not accepted to the research track. Research papers must conform to the two-column IEEE conference publication format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting), must be submitted in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages (incl. references and appendix). Industry Track: There are two paper formats: full length (ten pages) and short (four pages). Full length papers should present significant achievements and advances in industrial software testing, verification, or validation. Papers with metrics that quantify effects on time, cost, and quality are preferred. Short papers should concentrate on experience reports or discuss open problems or challenges. The program committee will review all submission. Accepted and presented contributions will be part of the published conference proceedings. The evaluation criteria for industry papers are based less on the originality of the technical contribution, and more on its relevance for practice soundness of the presented results, and implications for research. Practitioners can alternatively submit to the Industrial Presentations track that does not require a paper. Industry papers must conform to the two-column IEEE conference publication format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting), must be submitted in pdf format and must not exceed 10 or 4 pages, respectively to full-length papers or short papers (incl. references and appendix). How to submit? -------------------------------- Submissions will be handled via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icst2014. Important Dates -------------------------------- Submission of abstracts: September 23, 2013 Paper submission: September 30, 2013 Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2013 Camera ready paper: TBA Conference date: March 31 - April 4, 2014 Program Committee -------------------------------- Program Committee Chairs: - Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, USA - Claes Wohlin, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Committee Members: - Paul Ammann, George Mason University, USA - Anneliese Andrews, University of Denver, USA - Giuliano Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada - Thomas Ball, Microsoft Research, USA - Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany - Tomas Berling, Saab AB, EDS, Sweden - Kirill Bogdanov, University of Sheffield, UK - Fabrice Bouquet, Université de Franche Comté, France - Tevfik Bultan, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA - Cristian Cadar, Imperial College London, UK - Ana Cavalli, Institut National des Telecommunications, France - James Clause, University of Delaware, USA - Ian Craggs, IBM United Kingdom, UK - Christoph Csallner, University of Texas at Arlington, USA - Marcio Eduardo Delamaro, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil - Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy - Rachida Dssouli, Concordia University, Canada - Lydie Du Bousquet, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), France - Stephen Edwards, Virginia Tech, USA - Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson and Karlstad University, Sweden - Robert Feldt, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden - Franck Fleurey, SINTEF, Norway - Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK - Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA - Arnaud Gotlieb, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway - Jens Grabowski, Gottingen University, Germany - Mark Harman, University College London, UK - Robert Hierons, Brunel University, UK - Florentin Ipate, University of Bucharest, Romania - Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain - Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA - Aditya Kanade, Indian Institute of Science, India - Johannes Kinder, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland - Yu Lei, University of Texas at Arlington, USA - Francesca Lonetti, ISTI CNR, Italy - Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy - Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy - Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Wes Masri, American University of Beirut, Lebanon - Phil McMinn, University of Sheffield, UK - Atif Memon, University of Maryland, USA - James Miller, University of Alberta, Canada - Tejeddine Mouelhi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Jürgen Münch, University of Helsinki, Finland - Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Corporation, USA - Brian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark - Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, USA - Marcel Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Thomas Ostrand, Rutgers University Center for Discrete Mathematics & Computer Science, USA - Alexander Pretschner, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany - Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde, UK - Gregg Rothermel, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA - Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Per Runeson, Lund University, Sweden - Saurabh Sinha, IBM Research, India - Paul Strooper, University of Queensland, Australia - Lin Tan, University of Waterloo, Canada - Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan - Richard Torkar, Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Jan Tretmans, TNO - Embedded Systems Innovation, The Netherlands - T.H. Tse, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Hasan Ural, University of Ottawa, Canada - Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA - Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France - Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan - Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA - Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Tao Xie, University of Illinois, USA - Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, USA - Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK - Peter Zimmerer, Siemens AG, Germany - Thomas Zimmerman, Microsoft Research, USA

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Fwd: [WI] IEEE ICDM 2013: Call for Demos, Tutorial proposals and workshop papers
by Gustaf Neumann 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] IEEE ICDM 2013: Call for Demos, Tutorial proposals and workshop papers Datum: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:15:56 +1000 Von: ICDM 2013 <icdmxw(a)gmail.com> An: researchers(a)pascal-network.org, ai-sges(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, allstat(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, bioforum(a)magpie.bio.indiana.edu, cfp(a)eventseer.org, clp(a)comp.nus.edu.sg, comic(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk, comp-bio(a)magpie.bio.indiana.edu, compulognet-parimp(a)dia.fi.upm.es, concurrency(a)cwi.nl, csec-adm(a)sdl.hitachi.co.jp, confer-ann(a)iro.umontreal.ca, datamine-l(a)nautilus-sys.com, demetri(a)dcs.shef.ac.uk, eccai-individuals(a)uni-koblenz.de, elsnet-list(a)let.uu.nl, emo-list(a)ualg.pt, fg-db(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de, iceimt(a)tools.org, icml2002(a)cse.unsw.edu.au, intranet-km(a)egroups.com, isca(a)ipass.net, isg(a)ee.ed.ac.uk, isworld(a)listserv.heanet.ie, isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org, it-announce(a)cs.usyd.edu.au, kr(a)kr.org, linguist(a)listserv.linguistlist.org, medenif(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk, ml(a)isle.org, news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net, risc(a)idf.ext.jussieu.fr, sb.all(a)ieee.org, smbnet(a)smb.org, support-vector-machines(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, turkstat(a)bilkent.edu.tr, vavtalk(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk, vavtalk(a)pigeon.csd.abdn.ac.uk, vki-list(a)dfki.de, vki-list(a)dfki.uni-sb.de, webir(a)egroups.com, wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, www-rdf-interest(a)w3c.org, ai-grid(a)mailman.isi.edu, ak-kd-list(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca, fca-list(a)cs.uni-kassel.de, Lprolog(a)cs.umn.edu, pvs(a)csl.sri.com, artificialintelligencegroup(a)yahoogroups.com, dba_gurus(a)yahoogroups.com, Information_Systems_Forum(a)yahoogroups.com, machine-learning(a)yahoogroups.com, Statisticians_group(a)yahoogroups.co.in =================================================================== ICDM '13: The 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Dallas, Texas, US 8-11 December 2013. http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/ =================================================================== The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining.The 13th ICDM conference (ICDM '13) provides a premier forum for the dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences as well as original research results in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems. The conference draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems and high performance computing. By promoting high quality and novel research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state of the art in data mining. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the tutorials program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the latest developments in data mining. For details of Call for tutorials, demo, and call for workshop papers, visit: http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu Deadlines: - Tutorial proposals: August 3 - Demo proposals due: August 9 - Workshop paper submissions: August 3 List of Workshops: --8th International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (SSTDM) --The 8th Workshop on Optimization Based Techniques for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM) --Ensemble Methods for clustering and co-clustering (EMClust) --Incremental clustering, concept drift and novelty detection (IclaNov) --The 1st International Workshop on High dimensional data mining (HDM) --The First IEEE ICDM Workshop on Causal Discovery 2013 (CD2013) --4th ICDM International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms (KD-Cloud) --First International Workshop on TeraScale In-Core Data Mining (TIDM) --Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare (BioDM) --The Third International Workshop on Data Mining in Networks (DaMNet) --Designing the Market of Data - for Synthesizing Data in Sciences and Businesses (MoDAT) --The First Workshop on Internet Advertising Using Sentiment Analysis (AdSent 2013) --4th IEEE Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM 2013) --Fifth Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize (DMCS-5) --The Fourth Workshop on Data Mining for Service (DMS) --The second international workshop on experimental economics and machine learning (EEML 2013) --Data Mining for Geoinformatics and Environmental Hazards (DMG-EH) --IEEE ICDM Workshop on Mining Performance Patterns in Elite Sports (IEEE ICDM MPPES) --2013 International Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM) --Mining and Understanding from Big Data (MUBD) --Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE) --Astroinformatics (AstroInfo) --Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare (DMBIH) --1st Workshop on Biological Data mining and Database Applications (BiDaDa) --Recommender Systems for Social Networks (RESSON) --The 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Data at Work (1st MSDW)

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Gustaf Neumann 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia Datum: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:47:03 +1000 Von: Sean Zhang <xuyun.zhangcs(a)gmail.com> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: August 25, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: September 22, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2013 Registration Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguished papers will be recommended to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developping, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performace Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/? conf=mrbdi2013. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. General Chairs Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com <mailto:xyzhanggz@gmail.com>) Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia (suraj.pandey(a)au.ibm.com <mailto:suraj.pandey@au.ibm.com>)

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